he was also quick to add that "at the end of the day, my clients are trying to develop relationships with these people."
But what he meant to say was "at the end of the day, my clients are trying to control every aspect of these people's media consumption."
The industry has tried to seek legislative support for aggressive measures. Representative Howard L. Berman, Democrat of California, introduced a bill last fall that would have limited the liability of copyright owners for using tougher technical counterpiracy tactics to protect their works online. But the bill was roundly criticized by privacy advocates. "There was such an immediate attack that you couldn't get a rational dialogue going," said Cary Sherman, president of the recording industry association.
So our rational attack on your attempt to circumvent rational dialogue by attacking alleged copyright holders prevented the rational dialogue?
My Oregon House Representative, Mitch Greenlick (Democrat-033), wrote back to me:
John, I wasn't at that hearing so I don't know what happened. But I
read the same news reports you did and I also heard that Microsoft and
Intel, et al really brought full fire on the proposal. And it is
definitely dead.
Mitch
Now, I don't mean to be a naysayer, and I'd hate to quit too early, but when the man says it's dead...
Doomed feelings aside, I'm off to write the speaker of the house, Ms. Minnis... As I said to Rep. Greenlick, I'd rather not have my taxes raised when the alternative could be to use open-source software providing Oregonians with jobs (installation, design, maintenance) and saving money by eliminating the need to pay economic rent to Washingtonians (Microsoft Licensing Fees).
SLM
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That's the problem with statistics. This could be a complementary or parallel development. All statistics can show is how numbers move together. I can practically guarantee that there are educational, social, and political conditions in the sample set that would seriously weaken the validity of the conclusions drawn by the BSA.
To overcome this cultural gap between techies and computer users, Mann concludes, tech folk "would need both technical and interpersonal skills."
No, offense, but I have interpersonal skills. What I lack is patience for attitudes like these, where "it's all your fault". Half the answer is that techies need to be more empathetic. The other half of the answer (missing from the article) is that users need to meet techies halfway, and at least try to understand what the computer does. Not mind you how to create animated transitions with sound for their power point slides, but the basics of computer usage, like we used to get in 8th grade computer literacy. Directories, commands, arguments, files, etc...
When I run across a user who actually tries, I am willing to do a lot more explaining than for the marketing guy who seems unable to use his docking station...
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They'll replace your LEDs or change the LCD backlight color...
Many a dry-t-shirt contest was sadly fueled by the aforementioned...
Umm... Wanna try that again?
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But what he meant to say was "at the end of the day, my clients are trying to control every aspect of these people's media consumption."
So our rational attack on your attempt to circumvent rational dialogue by attacking alleged copyright holders prevented the rational dialogue?
My head spins like Linda Blair...
My Oregon House Representative, Mitch Greenlick (Democrat-033), wrote back to me:
Now, I don't mean to be a naysayer, and I'd hate to quit too early, but when the man says it's dead...
Doomed feelings aside, I'm off to write the speaker of the house, Ms. Minnis... As I said to Rep. Greenlick, I'd rather not have my taxes raised when the alternative could be to use open-source software providing Oregonians with jobs (installation, design, maintenance) and saving money by eliminating the need to pay economic rent to Washingtonians (Microsoft Licensing Fees).
SLM
That's the problem with statistics. This could be a complementary or parallel development. All statistics can show is how numbers move together. I can practically guarantee that there are educational, social, and political conditions in the sample set that would seriously weaken the validity of the conclusions drawn by the BSA.
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No, offense, but I have interpersonal skills. What I lack is patience for attitudes like these, where "it's all your fault". Half the answer is that techies need to be more empathetic. The other half of the answer (missing from the article) is that users need to meet techies halfway, and at least try to understand what the computer does. Not mind you how to create animated transitions with sound for their power point slides, but the basics of computer usage, like we used to get in 8th grade computer literacy. Directories, commands, arguments, files, etc...
When I run across a user who actually tries, I am willing to do a lot more explaining than for the marketing guy who seems unable to use his docking station...