But there the ads are inserted by the provider of the media.. It's a bit different when someone hijacks your hardware and does as they please with it, and puts things in/over/etc that neither the media provider or the user actually wants.. if someone started splicing into my cable line and streaming commercials over top of my tv programs, and doing damage to my tv sets you better believe I would be pissed (as would the authorities I am guessing..)
Well, if who ever is getting Cindy her latest Britney fix is pissed at the RIAA instead of scared, they may download it because they refuse to pay the RIAA, whereas if this had not happened they may have been more then happy to drop the $20 to get the nice printed cd cover.. Depends how much they annoy the average consumer..
I can see it now.. anyone who gets the right dates for too many things related to a common idea (good accuracy predicting terrorist attacks for example) and they send someone over to your house to "talk"..
I don't think they will ever realize that.. mostly because for the most part I am pretty sure it's not true. And just look to the Linux distros for proof.. I don't see a lot of them that come as just an OS.. It's OS, X, gcc and friends, web browsers, pims, media players, etc etc etc. And all wrapped up in one nice little bundle that can be installed all at once.
I am guessing most normal (non-geek) users of windows do use IE, why spend the time to download when you have a browser already there.. And I think a lot of geek type may as well, since soo many web sites are designed to work with IE and look like crap in Moz. Why go out looking for a media player if you have one that works? People new to pcs would not know about winamp unless someone told them it rocked, so why would they go looking in the first place, not to mention winamp doesn't do video..
The long and short is, if they just sold windows without IE, Outlook Express, WMP, etc etc it would be harder to justify the cost, make microsoft apps less obvious, and make it so people had to CHOOSE to get their software instead of someone elses. Why would they want to do that??
If there had been a few more real stories posted.. It's hard to fool people if it's compleatly obvious from the rest of the stories that it's april fools day..
As mentioned a bunch of times, banners would be really easy to avoid, but if you set up a location specific website at a fixed address for each site (where ever you are http://localstuff resolved to a site specific to your access point) then you may be able to provide usefull location specific information that you may be able to get shops in the area to pay into. It could provide things like lists of bookstores/coffee shops etc, that are within a short distance, and where ever you are the information would be valid and likely usefull. Something like that could be usefull advertising for the businesses, and something the users may actually want to use (unlike banners..)
Except the difference here is that the code morphing software is not a driver really. You need a driver to use a video chip, and you need a different driver (or recompiled driver) for every os you want to run it on. But the code morphing software is PART of the hardware, not an emabler. The interface to the chip is out there, standard X86 instruction set, so you already have what you need to RUN the chip. Asking for the code morphing source is like asking the video chip manufacturers to release a working implimentation of all the algorithims use on chip that make them fast.. and I can't see that happning anytime soon...
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But there the ads are inserted by the provider of the media.. It's a bit different when someone hijacks your hardware and does as they please with it, and puts things in/over/etc that neither the media provider or the user actually wants.. if someone started splicing into my cable line and streaming commercials over top of my tv programs, and doing damage to my tv sets you better believe I would be pissed (as would the authorities I am guessing..)
Well, if who ever is getting Cindy her latest Britney fix is pissed at the RIAA instead of scared, they may download it because they refuse to pay the RIAA, whereas if this had not happened they may have been more then happy to drop the $20 to get the nice printed cd cover.. Depends how much they annoy the average consumer..
I can see it now.. anyone who gets the right dates for too many things related to a common idea (good accuracy predicting terrorist attacks for example) and they send someone over to your house to "talk"..
I don't think they will ever realize that.. mostly because for the most part I am pretty sure it's not true.
And just look to the Linux distros for proof.. I don't see a lot of them that come as just an OS.. It's OS, X, gcc and friends, web browsers, pims, media players, etc etc etc. And all wrapped up in one nice little bundle that can be installed all at once.
I am guessing most normal (non-geek) users of windows do use IE, why spend the time to download when you have a browser already there.. And I think a lot of geek type may as well, since soo many web sites are designed to work with IE and look like crap in Moz.
Why go out looking for a media player if you have one that works? People new to pcs would not know about winamp unless someone told them it rocked, so why would they go looking in the first place, not to mention winamp doesn't do video..
The long and short is, if they just sold windows without IE, Outlook Express, WMP, etc etc it would be harder to justify the cost, make microsoft apps less obvious, and make it so people had to CHOOSE to get their software instead of someone elses. Why would they want to do that??
If there had been a few more real stories posted.. It's hard to fool people if it's compleatly obvious from the rest of the stories that it's april fools day..
As mentioned a bunch of times, banners would be really easy to avoid, but if you set up a location specific website at a fixed address for each site (where ever you are http://localstuff resolved to a site specific to your access point) then you may be able to provide usefull location specific information that you may be able to get shops in the area to pay into. It could provide things like lists of bookstores/coffee shops etc, that are within a short distance, and where ever you are the information would be valid and likely usefull. Something like that could be usefull advertising for the businesses, and something the users may actually want to use (unlike banners..)
Except the difference here is that the code morphing software is not a driver really. You need a driver to use a video chip, and you need a different driver (or recompiled driver) for every os you want to run it on. But the code morphing software is PART of the hardware, not an emabler. The interface to the chip is out there, standard X86 instruction set, so you already have what you need to RUN the chip. Asking for the code morphing source is like asking the video chip manufacturers to release a working implimentation of all the algorithims use on chip that make them fast.. and I can't see that happning anytime soon...