Microsoft has done what they had to do to penetrate an uneducated market for their products. Open source has the luxury of listening to the power users for the simple reason that as more children grow up with everyday computing from an early age, this demand will increase dramatically. Bottom line, people that are over the age of 25 today, and this becomes more pronounced as you get to the age of 35 are either barely machine literate, or at worst do not know how to operate a mouse. It has become eerily similar to simple reading literacy rates, 30-50 years ago in this country. We take for granted the high literacy rate in the US because it has been a mainstay of our society for so long. In another 20 years, computer literacy will be the same way. Go ahead, ask any 18 year old today what life was like before the internet. Unless they grew up in the bottom 5% of the socio-economic spectrum, you'll hear quite a bit of, I don't know. The balances are just begining to tip. This is not to say that Open Source today is user friendly, but to say that computer users will only become more sophisticated as they start earlier.
i think this is another non-windoze business in which m$ is doomed to fail. unfortunately for them (and fortunately for us) the business world understands m$ intentions better today, than during the mac vs. pc format wars of the early 90s.
i'm sure most/.'ers understand the significance of Sendo's comments about being unable to look under the hood.
lastly, this is nothing new to m$, just see their privious failure in cable set top boxes. they want it all, they want it their way, and the rest of the world is now determined to deny that to the bloatware champs.
anyhow, who want's a mobile phone with a fan and a net nanny/big brotherware, that crashes?
lastly, (really) m$ never mentions this, but i have found it to be a marketing truth (and they are a marketing company above all else today, stock photos and all). people despise the windows desktop experience and wholly relate it to work. that will always hinder them from here on out.
i'm not talking about high-order networking with docs. i'm talkin about using explorer! or a machine based scheduling program. or getting those ct scan images over the web. most of the one's i have met are luddites outside of their profession, and its a shame. it isn't inteligence, or time, but stubbornness.
what can i say, my point is, that the docs are probably happy about the crash, and happy to have all paper. that disgusts me.
that's what u get when u sign onto monopolyware. fact is, with all the fancy toys that docs use like MRI and tomography, i haven't met one that knows anything about a computer. in fact they were probably glad their stuff crashed. in fact, it was probably a setup to get the old system back! lousy docs:(
funny post, but on athe serious side. my bet is that a nation-state unfriendly to the west is more interested in that sort of attack, than a some suped up script kiddie cracker.
here here! i have a friend who's as greedy a law student as i've ever known (we grew up on the same street). however, he is very interested in pro bono work as well. mainly cuz there are some interesting cases that come up with folks who can't afford paid representation.
anyway, when it comes to this type of suit, if the person can convince an attorney that he can prove damages, ANY PI attorney worth his salt (personal injury, smile when you say that) WILL take the case.
this type of thing would be even better if there were a group of plaintiffs, class action suits pay them better = more likely to get represented.
that said, i hate game hackers even more. there is nothing that spoils an online game like hacks. i'm a starcraft diehard. everytime someone uses a hack, the game slows to a crawl, someone drops, and the game is lame.
anyway, who really thought the same people that make IIS and Outlook Virus spreader could make an online service that doesn't have bugs for regular users on the first shot???
I know the crashes are mainly due to the older games that the kids play which are not totally compatible with XP, but hey, they USED to run just fine under Windows98."
try running them in winblowsME and you'll know why they lock up. seems to me that they used the ME engine for backwards compatibility. part of the "get everyone on big brotherware" push by m$. i have a couple of old 98 licenses lying around, u email me, i'll mail em to ya for the cost of the stamps (just the book w/ the numbers) so your kids can play games. have had awful problems with pre-xp appz on 98. have u thought of going mac???/
FYI: Apple's Quicktime player doesn't phone home. AND the quicktime streaming server is FREE! quit complaining and use technology that minds its own business (not to mention has a higher quality image). nuff sed.
yes, the suspicion that a known offender is getting ready to commit a crime. all they are doing is applying the american doctrine of pre-emtive strike to a business target. is there something wrong with that?
fact is, by reading your post, i can only come to two conclusions.
1. you make your living as an M$ geek
2. big brother has you.
an m$ world would have every last user stick their credit card into a slot to boot up, and charge by the second for licensing. don't matter if its a mobile phone, a PC or a game box. if you're in favor of M$ taxes, go right ahead, walk down that road.
the typical mobile phone has only the most important personal information stored on it. letting a company that has a history of invading the privacy of users has little place in that equasion.
since u probably don't know, the EU has these things called PRIVACY LAWS.
besides, i'm not particularly worried by M$ just yet myself, nobody really wants a cellphone with a fan that crashes everytime you get a phone call while you surf the web. . . . .
considering M$'s track record, would anyone be surprised if an M$ phone phoned home to redmond and told who you've called, for how long and when?
they already do this with Media Player, a flagship software piece. Internet ready cellphones use a very small percentage of the available bandwidth over the course of a day.
now do you wonder why the privacy obsessed EU (nothing wrong with that, mind you) has a bug up their ass on this one???
the thought of that happening makes me sick, but it's not unthinkable. big brother redmond likes these sort of things.
it's bad enough that that sort of personal information could be purchased by a government or business, but what if they did something worse to wring a buck out of the world????
M$ Girlfriend-ware, find out who your man's been calling this whole time . . . . a sure-fire moneymaker.
when the web was new, we all thought that email accounts, access to magazines and all that stuff would mostly be by subscription, with universities, governments and non-profits supplying the majority of free services. i signed up to hotmail when it was new and the promotion was the first 50,000 signups would get free email for life. what a bargain!
that said, there is nothing wrong with pay services on the net. without money, the free ones who thought if they come we will advertise have bit it. the people who pay also support the restricted freebie people. this is what the mature web will look like more and more. $30 a year is alot cheaper than my hosting for two months, a good buy for cheap people.
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absolutely right. i have a network engineer friend, we always joke that if you want to completely secure a machine, hit the button! the net was made for information dissemination, not information protection
i had an old apartment that i moved into, not suspecting the truth. the ants lived under the shoddy foundation of the place. infested the whole damn bedroom, found my liquor. but they stayed away from my mac!
Did anyone notice the innoucious statement at the bottom of the article that they are down $10bn over the last year? Sure, they can sustain that kind of loss for a while, but every non-monopoly division hasn't woken up and smelled the 21st century. Sure, u gotta spend money to make money, but, they can't do it forever?!?!?
worst thing is backwards compatibility, its, well . . . backwards! ever try running photoshop 6 on XP? its like they used WinME to power it. once anything in compatibility mode runs, the machine stops functioning (windows won't open, explorer crashes, etc.), and needs to be rebooted. serious downgrade
don't the states have any sense? can't they see what happened when the cost of labor went up, the rust F##$ing belt happened, and Mexico became our factory!
all this will do is force american E-tailers to move facilities off-shore, or out of business. i cheer the GOP for a change, with George Allen proposing a bill to kill the nonesense.
an outstanding article about proprietary software in our midst. using djb/tinydns would be a life threatening proposition for any web host or business with more than one domain.
my bad. my point being that they held them as self evident, while the Brittish saw them as baloney. in other words, they decided this idea first. good post, you a lawyer or something?
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Microsoft has done what they had to do to penetrate an uneducated market for their products. Open source has the luxury of listening to the power users for the simple reason that as more children grow up with everyday computing from an early age, this demand will increase dramatically. Bottom line, people that are over the age of 25 today, and this becomes more pronounced as you get to the age of 35 are either barely machine literate, or at worst do not know how to operate a mouse. It has become eerily similar to simple reading literacy rates, 30-50 years ago in this country. We take for granted the high literacy rate in the US because it has been a mainstay of our society for so long. In another 20 years, computer literacy will be the same way. Go ahead, ask any 18 year old today what life was like before the internet. Unless they grew up in the bottom 5% of the socio-economic spectrum, you'll hear quite a bit of, I don't know. The balances are just begining to tip. This is not to say that Open Source today is user friendly, but to say that computer users will only become more sophisticated as they start earlier.
wtf! its not like you're buying a car or something?!!??! its a damn OS and office suite!
guess we'll just have to start offering 0% financing on linux too. doh! too late.
i'm sure most /.'ers understand the significance of Sendo's comments about being unable to look under the hood.
lastly, this is nothing new to m$, just see their privious failure in cable set top boxes. they want it all, they want it their way, and the rest of the world is now determined to deny that to the bloatware champs.
anyhow, who want's a mobile phone with a fan and a net nanny/big brotherware, that crashes?
lastly, (really) m$ never mentions this, but i have found it to be a marketing truth (and they are a marketing company above all else today, stock photos and all). people despise the windows desktop experience and wholly relate it to work. that will always hinder them from here on out.
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what can i say, my point is, that the docs are probably happy about the crash, and happy to have all paper. that disgusts me.
that's what u get when u sign onto monopolyware. fact is, with all the fancy toys that docs use like MRI and tomography, i haven't met one that knows anything about a computer. in fact they were probably glad their stuff crashed. in fact, it was probably a setup to get the old system back! lousy docs :(
funny post, but on athe serious side. my bet is that a nation-state unfriendly to the west is more interested in that sort of attack, than a some suped up script kiddie cracker.
if you are seriously interested in lowering your traffic, get the anti-leech. what bullcrap.
ahh yes, another flaw in the ointment that every day users will never hear about, bring on tcpa, then you can wipe machines even easier.
as shitty as paladium would be, do you even think it will be programmed??? M$ is starting to look like IBM of days gone bye.
bring on the blackcomb warp server.
first post, hahahah!
anyway, when it comes to this type of suit, if the person can convince an attorney that he can prove damages, ANY PI attorney worth his salt (personal injury, smile when you say that) WILL take the case.
this type of thing would be even better if there were a group of plaintiffs, class action suits pay them better = more likely to get represented.
that said, i hate game hackers even more. there is nothing that spoils an online game like hacks. i'm a starcraft diehard. everytime someone uses a hack, the game slows to a crawl, someone drops, and the game is lame.
anyway, who really thought the same people that make IIS and Outlook Virus spreader could make an online service that doesn't have bugs for regular users on the first shot???
i'm gettin a PS2 anyway.
try running them in winblowsME and you'll know why they lock up. seems to me that they used the ME engine for backwards compatibility. part of the "get everyone on big brotherware" push by m$. i have a couple of old 98 licenses lying around, u email me, i'll mail em to ya for the cost of the stamps (just the book w/ the numbers) so your kids can play games. have had awful problems with pre-xp appz on 98. have u thought of going mac???/
FYI: Apple's Quicktime player doesn't phone home. AND the quicktime streaming server is FREE! quit complaining and use technology that minds its own business (not to mention has a higher quality image). nuff sed.
fact is, by reading your post, i can only come to two conclusions.
1. you make your living as an M$ geek
2. big brother has you.
an m$ world would have every last user stick their credit card into a slot to boot up, and charge by the second for licensing. don't matter if its a mobile phone, a PC or a game box. if you're in favor of M$ taxes, go right ahead, walk down that road.
the typical mobile phone has only the most important personal information stored on it. letting a company that has a history of invading the privacy of users has little place in that equasion.
since u probably don't know, the EU has these things called PRIVACY LAWS.
besides, i'm not particularly worried by M$ just yet myself, nobody really wants a cellphone with a fan that crashes everytime you get a phone call while you surf the web. . . . .
they already do this with Media Player, a flagship software piece. Internet ready cellphones use a very small percentage of the available bandwidth over the course of a day.
now do you wonder why the privacy obsessed EU (nothing wrong with that, mind you) has a bug up their ass on this one???
the thought of that happening makes me sick, but it's not unthinkable. big brother redmond likes these sort of things.
it's bad enough that that sort of personal information could be purchased by a government or business, but what if they did something worse to wring a buck out of the world????
M$ Girlfriend-ware, find out who your man's been calling this whole time . . . . a sure-fire moneymaker.
that said, there is nothing wrong with pay services on the net. without money, the free ones who thought if they come we will advertise have bit it. the people who pay also support the restricted freebie people. this is what the mature web will look like more and more. $30 a year is alot cheaper than my hosting for two months, a good buy for cheap people.
absolutely right. i have a network engineer friend, we always joke that if you want to completely secure a machine, hit the button! the net was made for information dissemination, not information protection
i had an old apartment that i moved into, not suspecting the truth. the ants lived under the shoddy foundation of the place. infested the whole damn bedroom, found my liquor. but they stayed away from my mac!
Did anyone notice the innoucious statement at the bottom of the article that they are down $10bn over the last year? Sure, they can sustain that kind of loss for a while, but every non-monopoly division hasn't woken up and smelled the 21st century. Sure, u gotta spend money to make money, but, they can't do it forever?!?!?
with your fingers, what else?
(place tongue in cheek before trying)
sorry dude, photoshop 5.5 is a dog anywhere. and i agree, kazaa is nasty.
worst thing is backwards compatibility, its, well . . . backwards! ever try running photoshop 6 on XP? its like they used WinME to power it. once anything in compatibility mode runs, the machine stops functioning (windows won't open, explorer crashes, etc.), and needs to be rebooted. serious downgrade
all this will do is force american E-tailers to move facilities off-shore, or out of business. i cheer the GOP for a change, with George Allen proposing a bill to kill the nonesense.
crack smokaz do it better!
my bad. my point being that they held them as self evident, while the Brittish saw them as baloney. in other words, they decided this idea first. good post, you a lawyer or something?