This is hardly flamebait. He says that no amount of "personable and usable training" is going to change the behavior of most users.
The most common user most certainly does not want to spend any time learning how to use any software. They just want to get their work done. If there is a way of getting the work done without learning anything they will.
There are only a few people in my small software development company, but the most common complaint of the senior programmers and adminstrators is that they have to keep on repeating the same instructions for the same tasks to the users.
There is no need for training - personable or not - when James is right there and already knows how to do it.
By the way, James, I forgot how to file my TPS reports, can you show me how to put the new cover sheet into these documents? Thanks.
Actually, 20 years ago, I was just hearing about plans for the REALLY NEW format that might displace VHS tapes.
I complained to my congressional representatives, and told all of my friends that this was a bad idea. I deliberately did not by any DVD player or DVDs for many years. But two years ago I finally broke down an bought a DVD player even though it includes the region encoding and CSS features that I objected to.
I bought them because I could not purchase the videos that I wanted in VHS or beta format.
So I was there 20 years ago speaking out against this bad idea, and I was not alone, but we did not stop CSS and region encoding. Now it is nearly impossible to legally purchase some items in formats that are free of CSS and region encoding.
Do you now understand that we really do need to stop this DRM or we will lose the ability to purchase unencumbered music and videos just as we have lost the ability to purchase videos that are free of CSS and region encoding?
Barber shop cuttings would be of little use as the hair has no DNA that can be used in PCR. There would be some dandruff, and that might be usable, but normally the CSI types like to have the root of the hair with all of its nice fresh cells.
But go ahead and use the barber shop cuttings anyway as that will mask the presence of the 100 hairs that you drop from your scalp every day. Your one or two hairs at the scene will be lost in the hay stack of cuttings from the barber shop.
Whoa whoa whoa.
The license does not just say: If you never ever look at anything this licence covers, then this licence does not apply to you. It also says: If you look at anything this license covers, then you must comply with this license for the next year. This is like saying that if you step foot in this country then leave, you must obey the laws of this country for one year after you leave. This one year no-compete clause leaves you open to an entire year of harrassment by auditors before you can resume a normal life. (And any software you developed must be continuously brought into compliance with changes within 120 days.)
The analog hole is very limited. It only works as long as the process is truly analog, and under our control. The day is coming when there will be no way to use analog capture, then reconvert to digital.
Already we have scanners that refuse to create an image if they detect that a piece of currency is to be scanned. When the hardware and its drivers are completely locked up inside the box, it is easy to include watermark detection routines.
It will not be long before all images/movies include a hard-to-remove watermark that tells the firmware of our digital cameras/scanners/etc that this content must not be converted to a digital format.
Once we get to this point, the large corporations just wait a few years until all the existing A/D converters wear out. Then they will be able to effectively make the Analog hole truly Analog only. And they might just ban analog devices at that point, as they can be used to circumvent DRM controls.
Now here is a new tactic for supporting space exploration. Announce that there are liquid hydrocarbons --- OIL --- on the surface of Titan. In no time the nations and corporations of the world will be racing to make sure that they have the rights to develop Titan's oil industry. Soon we will have regular tanker shipments from Titan.
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Mods, get a clue.
This is hardly flamebait. He says that no amount of "personable and usable training" is going to change the behavior of most users.
The most common user most certainly does not want to spend any time learning how to use any software. They just want to get their work done. If there is a way of getting the work done without learning anything they will.
There are only a few people in my small software development company, but the most common complaint of the senior programmers and adminstrators is that they have to keep on repeating the same instructions for the same tasks to the users.
There is no need for training - personable or not - when James is right there and already knows how to do it.
By the way, James, I forgot how to file my TPS reports, can you show me how to put the new cover sheet into these documents? Thanks.
Actually, 20 years ago, I was just hearing about plans for the REALLY NEW format that might displace VHS tapes.
I complained to my congressional representatives, and told all of my friends that this was a bad idea. I deliberately did not by any DVD player or DVDs for many years. But two years ago I finally broke down an bought a DVD player even though it includes the region encoding and CSS features that I objected to.
I bought them because I could not purchase the videos that I wanted in VHS or beta format.
So I was there 20 years ago speaking out against this bad idea, and I was not alone, but we did not stop CSS and region encoding. Now it is nearly impossible to legally purchase some items in formats that are free of CSS and region encoding.
Do you now understand that we really do need to stop this DRM or we will lose the ability to purchase unencumbered music and videos just as we have lost the ability to purchase videos that are free of CSS and region encoding?
Barber shop cuttings would be of little use as the hair has no DNA that can be used in PCR. There would be some dandruff, and that might be usable, but normally the CSI types like to have the root of the hair with all of its nice fresh cells.
;-)
But go ahead and use the barber shop cuttings anyway as that will mask the presence of the 100 hairs that you drop from your scalp every day. Your one or two hairs at the scene will be lost in the hay stack of cuttings from the barber shop.
Now where did i put those M-80s?
Whoa whoa whoa.
The license does not just say:
If you never ever look at anything this licence covers, then this licence does not apply to you.
It also says:
If you look at anything this license covers, then you must comply with this license for the next year.
This is like saying that if you step foot in this country then leave, you must obey the laws of this country for one year after you leave.
This one year no-compete clause leaves you open to an entire year of harrassment by auditors before you can resume a normal life. (And any software you developed must be continuously brought into compliance with changes within 120 days.)
So it could be impossible to ever leave.
The analog hole is very limited. It only works as long as the process is truly analog, and under our control. The day is coming when there will be no way to use analog capture, then reconvert to digital.
Already we have scanners that refuse to create an image if they detect that a piece of currency is to be scanned. When the hardware and its drivers are completely locked up inside the box, it is easy to include watermark detection routines.
It will not be long before all images/movies include a hard-to-remove watermark that tells the firmware of our digital cameras/scanners/etc that this content must not be converted to a digital format.
Once we get to this point, the large corporations just wait a few years until all the existing A/D converters wear out. Then they will be able to effectively make the Analog hole truly Analog only. And they might just ban analog devices at that point, as they can be used to circumvent DRM controls.
Screwed, screwed, screwed.
Now here is a new tactic for supporting space exploration. Announce that there are liquid hydrocarbons --- OIL --- on the surface of Titan. In no time the nations and corporations of the world will be racing to make sure that they have the rights to develop Titan's oil industry. Soon we will have regular tanker shipments from Titan.
If you criminalize privacy, only criminals will have privacy.
Nothing on the GNU site describes how this 'breaks copyleft'. So does it break copyleft? Or is it simply a bad idea?
No its the other way around. If you run Kazaa, then you can sue spammers for damages. I gotta start running Kazaa!