Most likely MS shop will have the same recordings available in broad terms as iTunes, this would mean, esteemed geeks, that the RIAA could play both comapnies against each other and laugh all the way to the bank.
Now, if each shop has exclusive deals that work with one player and not the other, we may have a debacle for the whole idea of digital music.
We are talking reality here, not wishful thinking.
The only players in the desktop market are Windows, Apple and Linux (in all its flavours, mostly Red Hat, SuSe and the latest fashion one,which last year was Gentoo, this year is Ubuntu). All the rest are fringe OSes on this area.
And of course an hypotetical GoogleOS makes sens only in a desktop, so don;t drag all the server share other OSes have.
The UK is the European country with more people incarcerated, by any measurement you care to take (relative terms, absolute terms, you name it).
So in synthesis, you are believing all the propagand thrown at you. Most crime is between gangs of bored youths or criminals, the enormous majority of the population that is not looking for trouble never finds it.
As for your definition of "justice" you clearly missed 2 or 3 hundred years of human development. Lets hope that while you are in Dubai nobody acuses you falsely of a robbery, then you will know how fair the justice system in those countries is and wyou would wish that sentences could some how be reversed (as thery are in civilized countries, because human falibility is acknowledged. In Muslim countris they chop hand, etc because they believe the justice is given from god, thus there can be no mistakes by defintion. If you are happy with that, all the power to you. I frankly prefer a system that recognizes it is not perfect).
.... if the UK or the US would have fared any better if they had been the neighbours of the Third Reicht.
France was overwhelmed, the USSR lost 20 million people. Poland, Austria absorbed almost without any resistence.
USians and UKians should count themselves lucky and stop the stupid jokes. They are insensitive (like if the French were waiting to surrender, specially after the horroros of WWI) and frankly in very bad taste.
The context will tell you if you have usability problems or not.
If an important group of users is grandmothers, trained or otherwise, and they can't use your product or service (call it F22 or a kettle) then you have got usability problems and you have got to address them.
Insulting the intelligence of your intended audience is a typical no-no for somebody knowledgeable with the rudiments of usability theory and practice.
I will refer to your chef example only, I have not enough enery to debunk so much nonsense.
What you are advocating is the law of the jungle.
If I go to eat somewhere I want to make sure what I am eating is eadible and will not harm me.
The typical anarchist answer is, well, let the market decide, but in this case, were harm may be major or final, I can't just go and take my bussiness elsewhere.
If you are happy with that, all the power to you, but if what it takes to stop that mad world you want for us is the state, then bring it on I say.
In countries where no state exists we have seen nothing but chaos, generalized mayhem and indiscrimante killings. Why people in modern countries insist on this fallacy about how we can make without an stat (i.e. without a commonly agreed arbeiter) just shows a tremendous lack of education.
India is a huge country. Honestly, go and check a flufyy map for bunnies sakes.
In spite of having many problems thay are an stablished democracy, they are able to deal with their problems by the voting ballot.
Not only that, outsourcing is hppening to many other countries, India is the "outsourcing poster by" so to speak, but it is not the only one by any means.
Outsourcing is not a race to the bottom, it is a race to the average.
The problem for USians and people in rich countries, is that they are above the average, and that is why it feels like a race to the bottom.
Simple economics dictates that at some point the incentive to outsource will be weaker because wages would be similar enough.
As for workers rights you'll have to review your assesment. Normally workers have more rights in third world countries than in developped ones (it is part of having flexible economies). In some countries it is so expensive to fire somebody that it is prefarable to keep him on board doing nothing, wages are cheaper than compensation. Social security, paid vacation, you name it, is often better and more generous in countries with inflexible economies (for goodness sakes, India has state governments ruled by the Communist Party).
As in regards of child labour this was a concern with manufacturing. But with the kind of jobs that are bieng outsourced to India and China this is a non issue (we are talking jobs that required some degree of education, English speaking skills and in general abilities that a child lacks anyway).
If organized labour is weakened that is not necessarily a bad thing. If you look at the unions in the UK before Margaret Thatcher then you realize that unions with too much power is not necessarily a good thing. Unions should be able to retain their bargaining power only in a climate of economic realism. What you seem to suggest is that economic development should be held hostage to union interests, and frankly, I don;t see how that may be a good thing.
You should start living amongst some Muslim people.
All your stupid black and white generalizations would be immediately challenged by the reality of the humanity of the Muslim people, either in England or elsewhere.
I am an atheist btw, before you accuse me of something else in that goodies and baddies nonsense world you seem to inhabit.
Who has killed between 20000 and 100000 Iraquis (you pick between the optimists and the pesimists, one innocent person killed is one too many) by random acts of violence? (unless you believe all the propaganda about how precise the bombs are. Tell that to realtives of people killes in such horrific acts of terrorism as celbraing weddings or funerals).
And who dropped Napalm in Vietnam like if it was talc?
I agree with you about something tough: " it is the responsibility of the good, law-abiding, and civilized peoples from the disfuctional lands to seperate the monsters from their own society when they arrive in the civilized world".
Unfortunately Bush and Blair were not voted out. People on their countries have failed miserably to fullfill their resposibilities.
If you are going to launch yourself in such righteous tirades you better cover all your corners, your logical fallacy is so easy to debunk that is not really funny or challenging (it has to be done tough).
So it is fine that political dissent is quashed, Filipino maids that are mistreated are executed because they defend themselves, and that small time croocks are executed for passing a bit of drugs?
In Windows? Well, at some point is not even news (MS just stopped support to an estimated 70 million of pre W2K users, talk about a mega insecurity incubator).
WIndows security is a joke that leaves a bad after taste in your mouth. Even their "most secure" rubish relies on putings bit and pieces on machines' registry where it can be easily harvested. And their security model has been broken for years.
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Most likely MS shop will have the same recordings available in broad terms as iTunes, this would mean, esteemed geeks, that the RIAA could play both comapnies against each other and laugh all the way to the bank.
Now, if each shop has exclusive deals that work with one player and not the other, we may have a debacle for the whole idea of digital music.
Most people have filled their players with ripped music from their CDs or downladed or shared it(legaly or otehrwise).
The amount of music sold is very small in comparison.
it deals with all the topics you are talking about, it broke records of audience in many countries.
If you present a topic properly (any topic) you can make it interesting for any person with the most basic curiosity.
We are talking reality here, not wishful thinking.
The only players in the desktop market are Windows, Apple and Linux (in all its flavours, mostly Red Hat, SuSe and the latest fashion one,which last year was Gentoo, this year is Ubuntu). All the rest are fringe OSes on this area.
And of course an hypotetical GoogleOS makes sens only in a desktop, so don;t drag all the server share other OSes have.
Gun related incidents are minimal in the UK. I come from Mexico, have been in the US and Southafrica.
Don't believe the propagand of the tabloid press. Their business is to scare you into buiying their drivel.
Ah! The smugness of the middleclass person!
It is always so refreshing to receive their wisdom.
Jails are at the fullest in all of UK's history.
The UK is the European country with more people incarcerated, by any measurement you care to take (relative terms, absolute terms, you name it).
So in synthesis, you are believing all the propagand thrown at you. Most crime is between gangs of bored youths or criminals, the enormous majority of the population that is not looking for trouble never finds it.
As for your definition of "justice" you clearly missed 2 or 3 hundred years of human development. Lets hope that while you are in Dubai nobody acuses you falsely of a robbery, then you will know how fair the justice system in those countries is and wyou would wish that sentences could some how be reversed (as thery are in civilized countries, because human falibility is acknowledged. In Muslim countris they chop hand, etc because they believe the justice is given from god, thus there can be no mistakes by defintion. If you are happy with that, all the power to you. I frankly prefer a system that recognizes it is not perfect).
.... if the UK or the US would have fared any better if they had been the neighbours of the Third Reicht.
France was overwhelmed, the USSR lost 20 million people. Poland, Austria absorbed almost without any resistence.
USians and UKians should count themselves lucky and stop the stupid jokes. They are insensitive (like if the French were waiting to surrender, specially after the horroros of WWI) and frankly in very bad taste.
The discussion is about security kid, we all know that MSV is going to be shinny, have new colorful icons and have a nice wallpaper.
In most sane countries you do violate copyright when you distribute a copy.
You payed for watching the movie, you made a copy, you may watch it later. Nobody hurt.
Laws that go against the most basic common sense of what is fair or not and are unenforceable should not be take seriously.
THat is exactly the problem, by trying to be clever you pretty much nailed down what the issue is.
YOu get it wrong, are given the correct explanation, but still are all smug about your own stuborness.
I have mantained Linux production systems for the las 10 years and not even once I pretended it was UNIX.
It is what the government in East Germany used to say. I think it is a similar motto in Fidel Castro's Cuba ot in North Korea.
Very good citizens there, I tell ya.
If your forum revolves around your package only, put a link or button in the same place where you put "Send" or "Reply" buttons.
The context will tell you if you have usability problems or not.
If an important group of users is grandmothers, trained or otherwise, and they can't use your product or service (call it F22 or a kettle) then you have got usability problems and you have got to address them.
Insulting the intelligence of your intended audience is a typical no-no for somebody knowledgeable with the rudiments of usability theory and practice.
Go and read the newspapers about how well they are doing...
I will refer to your chef example only, I have not enough enery to debunk so much nonsense.
What you are advocating is the law of the jungle.
If I go to eat somewhere I want to make sure what I am eating is eadible and will not harm me.
The typical anarchist answer is, well, let the market decide, but in this case, were harm may be major or final, I can't just go and take my bussiness elsewhere.
If you are happy with that, all the power to you, but if what it takes to stop that mad world you want for us is the state, then bring it on I say.
In countries where no state exists we have seen nothing but chaos, generalized mayhem and indiscrimante killings. Why people in modern countries insist on this fallacy about how we can make without an stat (i.e. without a commonly agreed arbeiter) just shows a tremendous lack of education.
In Somalia and Afghanistan there was no funtioning state for years.
What we got is the worst nutcases running the show.
That is what you want for all of us, but you and your ilk will not succeed.
India is a huge country. Honestly, go and check a flufyy map for bunnies sakes.
In spite of having many problems thay are an stablished democracy, they are able to deal with their problems by the voting ballot.
Not only that, outsourcing is hppening to many other countries, India is the "outsourcing poster by" so to speak, but it is not the only one by any means.
Outsourcing is not a race to the bottom, it is a race to the average.
The problem for USians and people in rich countries, is that they are above the average, and that is why it feels like a race to the bottom.
Simple economics dictates that at some point the incentive to outsource will be weaker because wages would be similar enough.
As for workers rights you'll have to review your assesment. Normally workers have more rights in third world countries than in developped ones (it is part of having flexible economies). In some countries it is so expensive to fire somebody that it is prefarable to keep him on board doing nothing, wages are cheaper than compensation. Social security, paid vacation, you name it, is often better and more generous in countries with inflexible economies (for goodness sakes, India has state governments ruled by the Communist Party).
As in regards of child labour this was a concern with manufacturing. But with the kind of jobs that are bieng outsourced to India and China this is a non issue (we are talking jobs that required some degree of education, English speaking skills and in general abilities that a child lacks anyway).
If organized labour is weakened that is not necessarily a bad thing. If you look at the unions in the UK before Margaret Thatcher then you realize that unions with too much power is not necessarily a good thing. Unions should be able to retain their bargaining power only in a climate of economic realism. What you seem to suggest is that economic development should be held hostage to union interests, and frankly, I don;t see how that may be a good thing.
You should start living amongst some Muslim people.
All your stupid black and white generalizations would be immediately challenged by the reality of the humanity of the Muslim people, either in England or elsewhere.
I am an atheist btw, before you accuse me of something else in that goodies and baddies nonsense world you seem to inhabit.
Who has killed between 20000 and 100000 Iraquis (you pick between the optimists and the pesimists, one innocent person killed is one too many) by random acts of violence? (unless you believe all the propaganda about how precise the bombs are. Tell that to realtives of people killes in such horrific acts of terrorism as celbraing weddings or funerals).
And who dropped Napalm in Vietnam like if it was talc?
I agree with you about something tough: " it is the responsibility of the good, law-abiding, and civilized peoples from the disfuctional lands to seperate the monsters from their own society when they arrive in the civilized world".
Unfortunately Bush and Blair were not voted out. People on their countries have failed miserably to fullfill their resposibilities.
If you are going to launch yourself in such righteous tirades you better cover all your corners, your logical fallacy is so easy to debunk that is not really funny or challenging (it has to be done tough).
So it is fine that political dissent is quashed, Filipino maids that are mistreated are executed because they defend themselves, and that small time croocks are executed for passing a bit of drugs?
You sir are an egotistic idiot.
Few and far between.
In Windows? Well, at some point is not even news (MS just stopped support to an estimated 70 million of pre W2K users, talk about a mega insecurity incubator).
WIndows security is a joke that leaves a bad after taste in your mouth. Even their "most secure" rubish relies on putings bit and pieces on machines' registry where it can be easily harvested. And their security model has been broken for years.
... causing harm is victimizing the user.
There has been very little thought about important aspects of ergonomics when designing most keyboards and mice.