I'd recommend you avoid taking Philosophy courses- Logic will kick your ass.
I see 800 rumour-generated posts on Slashdot. I see 178,000 downloads of IE7Beta3 at Download.com. I conclude, logically enough, that WGA is not a problem for most users. Satisfied?
The Roman Empire grew so large that ultimately it collapsed because they couldn't control such a large and disparate entity. I think we may be seeing signs of that collapse in Microsoft as well.
Just don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen.
The empire had a very long run and in many ways still defines what is distinctly Western.
The eastern empire, while always more Greek than Roman, survived well into the modern era---which more or less begins with an awareness of Rome's fall.
I never understood why a few monopoly-prone corporations were put in charge of those last few miles anyway.
Bell Telephone began wiring our village around 1880-1885.
The "backbone" then and now is about sixty-five miles to the south, following the route of the Erie Canal and the road and rail corridor between New York and Chicago.
The more of a pain in the ass it is to register and keep track and pay and pay and pay will give more and more people the motivation to move to Linux or other free alternative.
There isn't much pain when one click validates the OS and the second downloads the software. I went through this routine with IE7beta3 and never gave it a thought.
I haven't had to re-activate Windows XP. Not once. Not ever. There are issues which mean everything to the Geek but no one else gives a damn about.
I'm willing to bet that although laws specifically haven't changed, this sort of icon pre-Columbine probably wouldn't have resulted in suspension
It more likely would have ended in expulsion. But that is an argument for another time.
"In 2002, the U.S. Secret Service completed the Safe School Initiative... The study examined school shootings in the United States as far back as 1974...analyzing a total of 37 incidents involving 41 student attackers...school shootings are rarely impulsive acts. Rather, they are typically thought out and planned out in advance...prior to most shootings other kids knew the shooting was to occur - but did not alert an adult. Very few of the attackers, however, ever directed threats to their targets before the attack...there is no "profile" of a school shooter; instead, the students who carried out the attacks differed from one another in numerous ways. However, almost every attacker had engaged in behavior before the shooting that seriously concerned at least one adult - and for many had concerned three or more different adults.National Threat Assessment Center"
The kid's classmate was afraid, the kid's teacher was afraid, and reasonably so, I would think. That is all the law requires before you can take again.
Basically, are the administrators punishing only what they can see, what they know about?
How come it is "released to the public" when it requires Windows Genuine Validation?
Because no one but a Geek gives a damn about WGA. Everyone else simply validates the OS with one click, and downloads the app with the next. Life goes on.
I've helped dozens of people, young and old, experienced and inexperienced switch to Linux
What do you tell users whose software and services can't be ported to Linux?
How many free and open source programs of interest to non-technical end users have been ported to Windows or began as native Windows apps? Pretty much all, I've come to think.
you can resell your connection and also sell your neighbours all-new connections, using a plan they have in place.
I suggest taking a very close look at the fine print. It's your account and your responsibility. You have all the work of managing a neighborhood ISP but none of the legal protection.
NetShare FAQ
Speakeasy. They'll also subsidize your gorram bill if you share your network connection.
Which is to say, sharing the bandwidth you get through them = smaller bill.
Until you max out your own connection:
Because signing up as a NetShare Admin means you will be sharing your existing broadband connection, you will need to expect some decrease in your own service levels the more NetShare Customers you sign up. If you experience a serious decrease in speed levels as you add more customers, you may want to upgrade your broadband connection. If you do not wish to upgrade, we recommend communicating to your NetShare Customers what you expect their usage patterns to be.Netshare FAQ
Congratulations, you are now minimum-wage tech support and full-time System Nazi,...err, Network Administrator. Never forget that you take the hit, not Speakeasy, when anything goes wrong:
Speakeasy believes that shared wireless networks are in keeping with our core values of disseminating knowledge, access to information and fostering community, provided this usage does not have an adverse impact on the services of other customers, does not involve any illegal activity and is not otherwise in violation of any aspect of our existing Terms Of Service. Please remember that the Speakeasy account-holder is responsible for all activity originating from their DSL line, even if it is the result of other users on a shared wireless connection.
People who view child pornography are NOT IDIOTS. Stop treating them like it. I'm sick of this mentality that criminals (esp terrorists) are not as smart as you or I.
What we have seen is recklessness and obsession. No sense of danger, no self-control.
A local middle school teacher will be caught downloading child pornography through his school's network and forwarding it home. Thousands or more likely tens of thousands of photographs will be found on his hard drive.
Is this all that much better to Joe Sixpack than what he had before?
HDTV is in 20% of american households. In one leap, Joe has moved on to large-screen, wide-screen, high-definition projection and multichannel theater sound.
If he buys the Playstation 3 he gets a universal player for HD console games, CD/SACD audio and Blu-Ray HD video.
Joe has moved on, but the Geek is still living in 1995.
Somehow, I think that the moment yahoo joins (msn eats it up) with microsoft, mysteriously half the 41% will move to google or another different engine.
The Geek who thinks he represents 20% of Yahoo's core market is living in Fantasyland.
Right, but piracy doesn't accurately refer to copyright infringement
This argument gets replayed endlessly on Slashdot.
It accomplishes nothing when piracy, in the sense of copyright infringement, is deeped embedded in popular usage.
It accomplishes nothing when the Geek reinforces the stereotypes that do him the most damage.
When you sail under the Black Flag, the american middle class simply taks you as a thief. Your legal and philosophiical arguments discarded as self-serving rubbish without a second thought.
If someone likes your house, and replicates it on their own property (the method is unimportant to this discussion), does that diminish the value of your home?
The estate homes here are designed and sited to make replication damn near impossible. That is a privilege of wealth that has been exercised here for close on to two hundred years. But I've seen the same inpulse at work in the slow customization of homes in even the mundane and regimented of suburban developments.
"What's mine is mine and what is your's is mine, too." The whole phenomenon of The Pirate Bay sounds incurably adolescent. This is where the American middle class parts company with the Slashdot Geek.
If you think that because you use Rhapsody, so does everyone else, then you are very much mistaken - there is a whole world of people out there (the majority) who dont use any form of online mechanism for purchasing their music.
The point is that you don't have to buy anything. I took a look at the time I was spending on BT and the P2P nets. It didn't make any sense when the all-you-can-eat buffet from Netfix is $20-$30 a month.
...and they will be called "Ice Age," "Finding Nemo," "The Incredibles" and "Cars."
I'll wager that the EFF campaign will have less public visibility than any single Disney title added to the rental shelves this weekend. Which is the minimal requirement for political effectiveness.
Recording TV shows and making a favorites CD out of your music collection are more accessble principles to the mass market, and these are what should be highlighted.
I could spent hours or days producing a compilation CD.
Or I could simply type out a playlist for use with Rhapsody or Y! Unlimited.
Drawing on a library of professional rips 100-500 times the size of my personal collection and offered to friends as a one click download for their home networks and portable players, and, of course, my own.
Wasn't a free market and capitalism supposed to drive innovation and technology? Oh wait, yeah, Microsoft, never mind
How many american households owned a computer before MSDOS and Windows? How many after?
The commodity PC running Windows has had an extraordinary impact on technology.
The buyer at entry level expects to see networking, a 3 GHz CPU, DX9 level graphics, multichannel HD audio, 100 GB of hard disk storage, and read-write optical drives at $500 or less.
In system bundle complete with monitor, ink-jet color printing, and free home delivery.
Im predicting that around 2008, we're gonna see a hugh surge in interest of alternative OS's like linux and *nixs
OEM Linux has all but disappeared from Walmart.com.
When Walmart began sales to up-market retailers like Target, Linux was put on the back burner and Windows MCE moved up front, with HDTV and the X-Box 360.
The home user in the U.S. is not a system builder. He does not migrate to an alternative OS. He does expect DRM'd media and subscription services to work out of the box.
Netflix. 60,000 videos. iTunes. Rhapsody. Y! Unlimited. 250,000 alblums. XM. Sirius. Live365. 1200 HD radio stations.
Steam. World of War. XBox Live.
Slashdot Mirror
Click to validate the OS, click to download the software. Done.
Click to validate the OS on installation. Done.
That is sum total of time and thought the average user will give to WGA.
Downloads through Download.com: 213,000 (June 29th-3PM ET July 1st) Internet Explorer Beta 3 (SP2)
I see 800 rumour-generated posts on Slashdot. I see 178,000 downloads of IE7Beta3 at Download.com. I conclude, logically enough, that WGA is not a problem for most users. Satisfied?
Just don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen.
The empire had a very long run and in many ways still defines what is distinctly Western.
The eastern empire, while always more Greek than Roman, survived well into the modern era---which more or less begins with an awareness of Rome's fall.
Bell Telephone began wiring our village around 1880-1885.
The "backbone" then and now is about sixty-five miles to the south, following the route of the Erie Canal and the road and rail corridor between New York and Chicago.
There isn't much pain when one click validates the OS and the second downloads the software. I went through this routine with IE7beta3 and never gave it a thought.
I haven't had to re-activate Windows XP. Not once. Not ever. There are issues which mean everything to the Geek but no one else gives a damn about.
It more likely would have ended in expulsion. But that is an argument for another time.
"In 2002, the U.S. Secret Service completed the Safe School Initiative... The study examined school shootings in the United States as far back as 1974...analyzing a total of 37 incidents involving 41 student attackers...school shootings are rarely impulsive acts. Rather, they are typically thought out and planned out in advance...prior to most shootings other kids knew the shooting was to occur - but did not alert an adult. Very few of the attackers, however, ever directed threats to their targets before the attack...there is no "profile" of a school shooter; instead, the students who carried out the attacks differed from one another in numerous ways. However, almost every attacker had engaged in behavior before the shooting that seriously concerned at least one adult - and for many had concerned three or more different adults. National Threat Assessment Center"
The kid's classmate was afraid, the kid's teacher was afraid, and reasonably so, I would think. That is all the law requires before you can take again.
Basically, are the administrators punishing only what they can see, what they know about?
Well, yeah. That's all anyone can do, really.
I suppose it is safe to assume your clients don't mind losing 85-95% of potential hits to their competitor's IE-friendly web site.
Because no one but a Geek gives a damn about WGA. Everyone else simply validates the OS with one click, and downloads the app with the next. Life goes on.
What do you tell users whose software and services can't be ported to Linux?
How many free and open source programs of interest to non-technical end users have been ported to Windows or began as native Windows apps? Pretty much all, I've come to think.
Indeed it is.
Especilally to a user with a ten to fifteen years investment in Windows software and hardware to protect.
To him migration to Linux has all the appeal of root canal.
I suggest taking a very close look at the fine print. It's your account and your responsibility. You have all the work of managing a neighborhood ISP but none of the legal protection. NetShare FAQ
Until you max out your own connection:
Because signing up as a NetShare Admin means you will be sharing your existing broadband connection, you will need to expect some decrease in your own service levels the more NetShare Customers you sign up. If you experience a serious decrease in speed levels as you add more customers, you may want to upgrade your broadband connection. If you do not wish to upgrade, we recommend communicating to your NetShare Customers what you expect their usage patterns to be. Netshare FAQ
Congratulations, you are now minimum-wage tech support and full-time System Nazi,...err, Network Administrator.
Never forget that you take the hit, not Speakeasy, when anything goes wrong:
Speakeasy believes that shared wireless networks are in keeping with our core values of disseminating knowledge, access to information and fostering community, provided this usage does not have an adverse impact on the services of other customers, does not involve any illegal activity and is not otherwise in violation of any aspect of our existing Terms Of Service. Please remember that the Speakeasy account-holder is responsible for all activity originating from their DSL line, even if it is the result of other users on a shared wireless connection.
What we have seen is recklessness and obsession. No sense of danger, no self-control.
A local middle school teacher will be caught downloading child pornography through his school's network and forwarding it home. Thousands or more likely tens of thousands of photographs will be found on his hard drive.
No encryption, no disguise of any sort.
How effective was the Firefox add, really? Is there any solid proof it had any influence at all?
HDTV is in 20% of american households. In one leap, Joe has moved on to large-screen, wide-screen, high-definition projection and multichannel theater sound.
If he buys the Playstation 3 he gets a universal player for HD console games, CD/SACD audio and Blu-Ray HD video.
Joe has moved on, but the Geek is still living in 1995.
The Geek who thinks he represents 20% of Yahoo's core market is living in Fantasyland.
They are sold on-line, through outlets like Amazon.com and Music Direct. You may not have noticed, but SACD is part of the Official PS3 Specs
Buy Sony's next-gen console, get HD audio and HD video play as a bonus. Works for me.
This argument gets replayed endlessly on Slashdot.
It accomplishes nothing when piracy, in the sense of copyright infringement, is deeped embedded in popular usage.
It accomplishes nothing when the Geek reinforces the stereotypes that do him the most damage.
When you sail under the Black Flag, the american middle class simply taks you as a thief. Your legal and philosophiical arguments discarded as self-serving rubbish without a second thought.
The estate homes here are designed and sited to make replication damn near impossible. That is a privilege of wealth that has been exercised here for close on to two hundred years. But I've seen the same inpulse at work in the slow customization of homes in even the mundane and regimented of suburban developments.
"What's mine is mine and what is your's is mine, too." The whole phenomenon of The Pirate Bay sounds incurably adolescent. This is where the American middle class parts company with the Slashdot Geek.
The point is that you don't have to buy anything. I took a look at the time I was spending on BT and the P2P nets. It didn't make any sense when the all-you-can-eat buffet from Netfix is $20-$30 a month.
I'll wager that the EFF campaign will have less public visibility than any single Disney title added to the rental shelves this weekend. Which is the minimal requirement for political effectiveness.
I could spent hours or days producing a compilation CD.
Or I could simply type out a playlist for use with Rhapsody or Y! Unlimited.
Drawing on a library of professional rips 100-500 times the size of my personal collection and offered to friends as a one click download for their home networks and portable players, and, of course, my own.
Tell me what you think makes more sense.
How many american households owned a computer before MSDOS and Windows? How many after?
The commodity PC running Windows has had an extraordinary impact on technology.
The buyer at entry level expects to see networking, a 3 GHz CPU, DX9 level graphics, multichannel HD audio, 100 GB of hard disk storage, and read-write optical drives at $500 or less.
In system bundle complete with monitor, ink-jet color printing, and free home delivery.
OEM Linux has all but disappeared from Walmart.com.
When Walmart began sales to up-market retailers like Target, Linux was put on the back burner and Windows MCE moved up front, with HDTV and the X-Box 360.
The home user in the U.S. is not a system builder. He does not migrate to an alternative OS. He does expect DRM'd media and subscription services to work out of the box.
Netflix. 60,000 videos. iTunes. Rhapsody. Y! Unlimited. 250,000 alblums. XM. Sirius. Live365. 1200 HD radio stations.
Steam. World of War. XBox Live.
Grace Murray Hopper Born 1906. Instructor, Vassar. 1928. PhD in Mathematics. Yale 1934. Midshipman USNR. 1943. Admiral USNR. 1946. UNIVAC. 1949. The Compiler, 1952. COBOL. 1959....
I could go on, but you should get the general idea.