Sorry but that rings a few bells there, Big-Ben sized bells. If it was really tha important to them in the first place wouldnt they have sorted it out when it was first found to have occured? It seems to me that microsoft are completely willing to put individual people in jail for minor acts of copyright infringement but when it comes to a whole company theyre more than happy just to pay them off and hope it all goes away.
*imagines the sound of mission impossible theme over an earpiece*
All it needs is for someone to call one of those cell phones and start playing loud music on thir side, which would basicly broadcast it over the other phones, presuming the phones would be relatively close to each other. No matter how loud the music is when it reaches an innocent listener, it will cause annoyance and confusion.
Some participants in the study said the sound made them 'feel insecure, some found it startling, and disliked the occasional shrill sound the maglevs produced.' The researcher postulated that unfamiliarity with the noise might be part of the problem."
Maybe we should compare this to when steam trains were first largely used, in both industry and personal travel. We've all heard the stories from older members of our families, or read them in articles, of how fearful people were of the noise that the steam engines made. This is a natural reaction to something new and unknown, and in time can be overcome. But that's not to say that research shouldn't be carried out into the acoustics of the thing, just let's not bouycott the trains just because they're big and loud and scary.
It suggests that by requiring software manufacturers to include clear icons for each nasty behavior
Surely though, things like winrar that add funtionality to menus and suchlike would also give grounds for labeling under the "changes operating system" catagory? My point being that not all of the things each catagory describes are harmful to you or your computer, and such vague descriptions as these labels carry could mislead joe-public as to the program's intent.
Another point being, how would each program be labeled if it could only be downloaded from say, an ftp, where there were no visual descriptions outside of the program itself?
On another note though, I think this could work to everybody's advantage IF such creases were ironed out.
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Sorry but that rings a few bells there, Big-Ben sized bells. If it was really tha important to them in the first place wouldnt they have sorted it out when it was first found to have occured? It seems to me that microsoft are completely willing to put individual people in jail for minor acts of copyright infringement but when it comes to a whole company theyre more than happy just to pay them off and hope it all goes away.
All it needs is for someone to call one of those cell phones and start playing loud music on thir side, which would basicly broadcast it over the other phones, presuming the phones would be relatively close to each other. No matter how loud the music is when it reaches an innocent listener, it will cause annoyance and confusion.
I beleive they already have something quite similar to help in the training of horses for competitions.
Maybe we should compare this to when steam trains were first largely used, in both industry and personal travel. We've all heard the stories from older members of our families, or read them in articles, of how fearful people were of the noise that the steam engines made. This is a natural reaction to something new and unknown, and in time can be overcome. But that's not to say that research shouldn't be carried out into the acoustics of the thing, just let's not bouycott the trains just because they're big and loud and scary.
Surely though, things like winrar that add funtionality to menus and suchlike would also give grounds for labeling under the "changes operating system" catagory? My point being that not all of the things each catagory describes are harmful to you or your computer, and such vague descriptions as these labels carry could mislead joe-public as to the program's intent.
Another point being, how would each program be labeled if it could only be downloaded from say, an ftp, where there were no visual descriptions outside of the program itself?
On another note though, I think this could work to everybody's advantage IF such creases were ironed out.