The design should be focusing on teaching children to use computers; as in the computers that everyone else uses.
What will these kids do when they encounter a Windows machine for the first time?
Also, how easy is it to move beyond this restricted UI paradigm once the kids gain the basic understanding? I think it would be wise to consider how limiting the Sugar interface will be years after the child starts using it. Unless these computers are designed to be obsolete by then.
It's psychological intimidation
Which any self respecting psychologist would recognise as completely unethical. It makes me wonder who actually administers these involuntary tests, surely not a card carrying member of the APA.
Or possibly..
Stargate: Miami/New York/Las Vegas
The same old shit with a different filter on the lens.
or how about
Stargate: SVU
Finally... we can prosecute all those anal probing bastards.
Well you don't have to complete it on Census Night. You can do it anytime from now until Aug 28th I believe.
But please consider doing it as it makes the job of the collector a lot easier.
I'll think you'll find that Revolution is the mantra of a (pseudo)communist state.
In fact I'm quite sure the Great Firewall would replace all references to America with "anti-revolutionary pigs"
Yes you are right... if Google wants to enter the Chinese market then they have to bend to the will of the Chinese government. Western companies must realise that things that are taken for granted in the West are not always a given in Asian nations. The overarching culture of confucianism in China is at odds with the ideals that many of us in the West hold sacred- but as visitors to their country Westerners must be flexible and respect their world-view as legitimate.
People seem to be of the view that access to an uncensored Google is a basic human right- but not only is this not mentioned anywhere is the Bangkok Declaration but I don't think it is mentioned in the UN Declaration of Human Rights. In Asian countries and China in particular the civil freedoms that we prize play second fiddle to the economic and freedoms that they enshrine. Indeed a universal declration of human rights is alien to Asian culture and the constant need for the West to push this ideal only serves to drive Asian countires away.
Does this actually count as piracy?
IANAL- but arent you protected under the doctrine of first sale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
effectively giving you the right to trade/give away said CDs.
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"I could keep bringing up examples, but I think you get the idea"
It should have been:
I could keep bringing up examples, but I think you're bored by now
The design should be focusing on teaching children to use computers; as in the computers that everyone else uses. What will these kids do when they encounter a Windows machine for the first time?
Also, how easy is it to move beyond this restricted UI paradigm once the kids gain the basic understanding? I think it would be wise to consider how limiting the Sugar interface will be years after the child starts using it. Unless these computers are designed to be obsolete by then.
Which any self respecting psychologist would recognise as completely unethical. It makes me wonder who actually administers these involuntary tests, surely not a card carrying member of the APA.
All they need to do is make it out to CASH.
Let's see the RIAA try to find a bank that wont laugh in their face when they try and collect.
Not everyone has the financial means to choose the non-free version.
Or maybe you mean even the poor have the choice to pirate a copy of Windows.
Or possibly.. Stargate: Miami/New York/Las Vegas The same old shit with a different filter on the lens. or how about Stargate: SVU Finally... we can prosecute all those anal probing bastards.
Who cares if it is anonymous. Are you afraid they will find out your are Jedi?
Well you don't have to complete it on Census Night. You can do it anytime from now until Aug 28th I believe. But please consider doing it as it makes the job of the collector a lot easier.
I'll think you'll find that Revolution is the mantra of a (pseudo)communist state. In fact I'm quite sure the Great Firewall would replace all references to America with "anti-revolutionary pigs"
Yes you are right... if Google wants to enter the Chinese market then they have to bend to the will of the Chinese government. Western companies must realise that things that are taken for granted in the West are not always a given in Asian nations. The overarching culture of confucianism in China is at odds with the ideals that many of us in the West hold sacred- but as visitors to their country Westerners must be flexible and respect their world-view as legitimate. People seem to be of the view that access to an uncensored Google is a basic human right- but not only is this not mentioned anywhere is the Bangkok Declaration but I don't think it is mentioned in the UN Declaration of Human Rights. In Asian countries and China in particular the civil freedoms that we prize play second fiddle to the economic and freedoms that they enshrine. Indeed a universal declration of human rights is alien to Asian culture and the constant need for the West to push this ideal only serves to drive Asian countires away.
Maybe they are transferring their CDs onto their portable players so that they can listen to them more easily?
. Who knows what all these Australian iPods are actually doing...
Unless they live somewhere where even this is still illegal ala http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2792/
Does this actually count as piracy? IANAL- but arent you protected under the doctrine of first sale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine effectively giving you the right to trade/give away said CDs.