"gee Jesus, Id love to be able to read your teachings in my free time, but Im illiterate. Cant I just pay someone to read it for me?"
We all know what a bad idea that is....
Why do we pass right over the phrase 'computer illiterate'with a laugh. But when we hear of someone who is just 'illeterate' as in being unable to read a language, a sense of sorrow for all they have missed out on comes to mind. A book is still technology, its just really really old technology, same goes for language.
I do feel sorry for those that say they are 'computer illiterate', but I dont think they are quite aware of what they are actually saying. Nobody 'knows' how to program a tivo, or VCR or whatever else electronic you would like to plug into this statement, but at a certain point a rational person sees that doing something a certain way has advantages over other ways. Its up to the individual to make the decision to adapt that new way of doing things into a routine of daily life.
Hopefully one day, the phrase 'computer illiterate' will instill the same feelings of sorrow that being unable to read does, instead of being used as an excuse to not learn something new.
Hey now heres something interesting, I used to work for computer renaissance up here in the Chicagoloand area....albeit before I went into work one day and saw all the GOING OUT OF BIZ signs...I aldo worked as a tech at a store in Indiana (Daves Computer World - DCWI.com) that had an in-house shrink wrap machine, although I didnt have much to do with that end of the operation..greetz pas
But back to the point. If the company opens said 'product' and it happens to be software, are they then able to be held liable under the EULA? After all, just by opening most software you are agreeing to that companies EULA.
What direction would this lead in...as I have put absolutly no thought into it since I dont 'buy' that crappy software in the first place.
I can almost read the words right out of Lawerence lessig's books. But Im afraid your dismal prophecy is not going to come true. If we(and by that I mean the general public) are abandoning the media of the prepackaged CD...then what makes you think anyone would sit idly by and have the music industry OWN their PC, even in an incremental way? It wont happen, and the VCR ended up not being the end of the world either. Perhaps you need to learn how the electronics of the whole thing works before you make such statements...or at least make someone elses statements...in the end its still PEOPLE who make the designs for these products, and PEOPLE will just make other 'devices' if they dont like the ones they are presented with
Im sure they will recover quite quickly, soon everything will be back to normal. The industry will soo go back and keep its head in the sand about digital music, and dragging whatever remaining artists are still signed to major labels to a slow and unheard of death.
"If history repeats itself, how come nobody was bailing out the carriage industry when the internal combustion engine was invented?"
"I think the reason they didn't is, they wanted to scare the rest of their customers into behaving."
I like how this is placed halfway down the article and mentioned as if its not important being the link for the story is on toledoblade.com...
"Buckeye Express is operated by Buckeye CableSystem, which is owned by Block Communications Inc., parent company of The Blade."
I think the reason they didn't is, they wanted to scare the rest of their customers into behaving.
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How is it that the world of the bottom line can truthfully show exactly what happened to Linux.
Perhaps the OS is better used as an OS than as a 401K padding.....
But fret not, Im sure another bandwagon will come along shortly for all you day-traders.
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"gee Jesus, Id love to be able to read your teachings in my free time, but Im illiterate. Cant I just pay someone to read it for me?"
We all know what a bad idea that is....
Why do we pass right over the phrase 'computer illiterate'with a laugh. But when we hear of someone who is just 'illeterate' as in being unable to read a language, a sense of sorrow for all they have missed out on comes to mind. A book is still technology, its just really really old technology, same goes for language.
I do feel sorry for those that say they are 'computer illiterate', but I dont think they are quite aware of what they are actually saying. Nobody 'knows' how to program a tivo, or VCR or whatever else electronic you would like to plug into this statement, but at a certain point a rational person sees that doing something a certain way has advantages over other ways. Its up to the individual to make the decision to adapt that new way of doing things into a routine of daily life.
Hopefully one day, the phrase 'computer illiterate' will instill the same feelings of sorrow that being unable to read does, instead of being used as an excuse to not learn something new.
Hey now heres something interesting, I used to work for computer renaissance up here in the Chicagoloand area....albeit before I went into work one day and saw all the GOING OUT OF BIZ signs...I aldo worked as a tech at a store in Indiana (Daves Computer World - DCWI.com) that had an in-house shrink wrap machine, although I didnt have much to do with that end of the operation..greetz pas
But back to the point. If the company opens said 'product' and it happens to be software, are they then able to be held liable under the EULA? After all, just by opening most software you are agreeing to that companies EULA.
What direction would this lead in...as I have put absolutly no thought into it since I dont 'buy' that crappy software in the first place.
I can almost read the words right out of Lawerence lessig's books. But Im afraid your dismal prophecy is not going to come true. If we(and by that I mean the general public) are abandoning the media of the prepackaged CD...then what makes you think anyone would sit idly by and have the music industry OWN their PC, even in an incremental way? It wont happen, and the VCR ended up not being the end of the world either. Perhaps you need to learn how the electronics of the whole thing works before you make such statements...or at least make someone elses statements...in the end its still PEOPLE who make the designs for these products, and PEOPLE will just make other 'devices' if they dont like the ones they are presented with
Im sure they will recover quite quickly, soon everything will be back to normal. The industry will soo go back and keep its head in the sand about digital music, and dragging whatever remaining artists are still signed to major labels to a slow and unheard of death. "If history repeats itself, how come nobody was bailing out the carriage industry when the internal combustion engine was invented?"
"I think the reason they didn't is, they wanted to scare the rest of their customers into behaving." I like how this is placed halfway down the article and mentioned as if its not important being the link for the story is on toledoblade.com... "Buckeye Express is operated by Buckeye CableSystem, which is owned by Block Communications Inc., parent company of The Blade."
I think the reason they didn't is, they wanted to scare the rest of their customers into behaving.
How is it that the world of the bottom line can truthfully show exactly what happened to Linux. Perhaps the OS is better used as an OS than as a 401K padding..... But fret not, Im sure another bandwagon will come along shortly for all you day-traders.