I happen to live with a big CSI fan, and so have watched a couple (maybe 3) episodes and I have to say I can't stand it. The technology, the police procedures, and often the motivations of the characters all seem a bit hokey to me. Plus, the snappy one-liners and diatribes just seem way too contrived.
I would much rather watch re-runs of Quincy.
As to the main point of the thread, that the popularity of the CSI shows stimulate more interest in the criminal justice system: Is there any evidence that this is true? After all, crime dramas have been a staple of broadcast television for decades now, and a lot of them (Law & Order, NYPD Blue, ad infinitum) have been #1 in the Neilsons.
There is nothing stopping Microsoft from designing new and better products, and I don't think anybody is trying to stop them. What is wrong is the way that Microsoft crams all of these products into an operating system and makes it almost impossible to remove them.
If these innovations are so great, why can't MS sell them separately? Simple: why should they compete when they can use their (court proven) monopoly to squeeze out the competition?
If WMP is so much better than the competition (granted, it is better than Real & Quicktime), then why don't they charge people for it? I gladly paid my $20 to Musicmatch because it works better for my home computer.
I have a lot of machines at work that need to run one program - they don't need to browse the internet, play media files, edit movies or any of that other sh*t. Unfortunately, this one program only runs on Windows, and I have to pay four times what the OS itself is worth so that I can have all of this garbage on my machines slowing them down.
As soon as I can convince the software vendor to give me a Linux version (they are warming to the idea), I get to stop paying my yearly tithe to Redmond.
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I happen to live with a big CSI fan, and so have watched a couple (maybe 3) episodes and I have to say I can't stand it. The technology, the police procedures, and often the motivations of the characters all seem a bit hokey to me. Plus, the snappy one-liners and diatribes just seem way too contrived. I would much rather watch re-runs of Quincy. As to the main point of the thread, that the popularity of the CSI shows stimulate more interest in the criminal justice system: Is there any evidence that this is true? After all, crime dramas have been a staple of broadcast television for decades now, and a lot of them (Law & Order, NYPD Blue, ad infinitum) have been #1 in the Neilsons.
There is nothing stopping Microsoft from designing new and better products, and I don't think anybody is trying to stop them. What is wrong is the way that Microsoft crams all of these products into an operating system and makes it almost impossible to remove them.
If these innovations are so great, why can't MS sell them separately? Simple: why should they compete when they can use their (court proven) monopoly to squeeze out the competition?
If WMP is so much better than the competition (granted, it is better than Real & Quicktime), then why don't they charge people for it? I gladly paid my $20 to Musicmatch because it works better for my home computer.
I have a lot of machines at work that need to run one program - they don't need to browse the internet, play media files, edit movies or any of that other sh*t. Unfortunately, this one program only runs on Windows, and I have to pay four times what the OS itself is worth so that I can have all of this garbage on my machines slowing them down.
As soon as I can convince the software vendor to give me a Linux version (they are warming to the idea), I get to stop paying my yearly tithe to Redmond.