No, he's got it spot on. You are playing with words. You are misguided in that you think you are smart in trying to change the application of the word customer.
A customer is everyone on both sides of the table. The customer on one side may also be the "average" consumer. That's who you must convince, and your attempt isn't working.
I guess you could do something with the router to block the content from being transmitted back to the advertisers. And, really, what's the point of telling the advertisers this unless Microsoft wants to be collecting it for them. And, the only way it would be useful would be to have it tied into a "google tv" type device or have a TV specially built to connect a device such as this.
You do understand that most people won't be made aware that it's happening hence they won't know to turn it off or unplug it? When they do find out there'll be an outcry in that parents will realize that under age children are being tracked by it, since a lot of these will also be located in the kids room. And, after a while the complacency of the living room will take over and people will just forget to turn off or unplug, or the kids will be too distracted to think about it, leaving it on to be spied on by Microsoft and their advertising buddies.
Microsoft must be a defeatist organization to bring this out knowing it will turn off a lot of people from buying a device that can be used to spy on them.
Put something in front of it until you need to use it again. I have an xbox360 but I don't use it much. I use my PS3 as it is technologically superior in all ways. XBOX360 only has games of which I rarely play.
I don't need those snake oil salesmen hocking their wares to me. I know what I want to buy. I rarely deviate. New packaging, a funny elf, or a cutesy jingle isn't going to influence me. Not to mention the baseness of their attempts at trying to herd the masses into the same coral as everyone else. Nothing like making everyone the Jones. Enough, I can make my own decisions on what I need day in and day out and I can read on the web reviews of products if I have questions. A simple search for the "best this or that" and I can read more than I want from 3rd party review.
Just the idea of these advertisers trying to get me to be like everyone else, to think in their terms, is offensive to me. People are so caught up on their shows and advertisements that they don't understand individuality and the unique quality of each person's personality. It has been so many years since I watched anything on regular TV. Most of my adult life has been avoiding TV and especially commercials. I like to think I can think for myself. It's sad that we have terms like "soccer mom" because clearly it began in marketing as a way of categorizing a target audience.
Creepy is right. Big privacy violation. There's no benefit for this from the consumer. I hate commercials to begin with and view this as a shitty thing to do.
FYI, many drivers were written by NASA engineers early on, as they were early adopters of Linux. Also, the same people writing drivers for Linux were those writing drivers for Windows--they were doing it on their own time. When those drivers are incorporated into the Kernel they are thoroughly vetted by the team that manages the kernel. Doing so allows them to remove redundancies and use one driver for multiple devices (such as sound and network cards). They've stated repeatedly that when reviewing submitted code they noticed that driver writing from submitter to submitter was pretty much the same and that they could reuse code and reduce duplication and increase stability that way.
Some of the reason drivers for Linux were incomplete early on was that chipset designers failed to release proper technical data to allow the driver writers to reverse engineer for completeness. Other reasons were that some code contained in the commercial drivers often was licensed (and there were patent issues involved)--an example would be Creative Labs sound cards.
To imply something different, as your post does, shows either your lack of knowledge on the matter, or demonstrates an intentional desire to deceive.
What he's saying is that Windows itself is old and the market is saturated.
If it weren't for required updates and consumer limits on purchasing units only with Windows (and the version of Microsoft's choice) we'd have migration to other OSes far sooner.
And to say that Linux is at the end of it's life cycle is incredibly absurd. Linux is in every type of device you can imagine and there are 100+ million desktop users. It holds over 90% of the super-computer market, and it accounts for the majority of servers--(No Microsoft, counting sales alone isn't the measure of market penetration). For the record, the kernel and relevant pieces are updated regularly.
Linux is barely at the beginning of its' life cycle. More companies are supporting it and getting involved with it than at any time it its' history. As far as end user desktop advancement goes KDE and Gnome have certainly slowed their innovation over the past couple years and there's no hint of any new paradigm for desktop interaction (and no Shuttleworth's Unity certainly is not the solution).
What the Microsoft FUD spreader should have said is that Linux hasn't introduced anything innovative in a while, so the energy behind it appears to be diminishing (at least to the uninitiated). Though we have consistent updates to various distributions we don't have excitement like we had in the past. For instance, when AMD released the 64bit processor extensions Linux was modified to be 64bit virtually overnight (while Windows took another 6 months to a year to make that happen). That was cool and exciting to know that the Linux community had done this so quickly.
Windows itself is pretty stagnant. (Microsoft needs little advertising as Windows is bundled--level the playing field by restricting the bundling of the OS and you'll see how stagnant Windows is.) Little if any innovation has come from Windows in recent months/years, with the exception of maybe the newer explorer.exe shell with the sort of limited blur effects and it's copying of the technology from the Mac and Linux communities.
The Microsoft minion is simply saying he's out of touch with Linux, but he appears to have noticed a decrease in the excitement behind new technologies and releases.
The most important thing you can do is speak simply and clearly. He's wrong. Period.
But to prop up your own ego with excessive speak is unproductive, even if you are additionally trying to prove you did well in your Philosophy class in logic at the university.
What I stated is true. Find the application of copyright infringement as case law in the US.
A recent Dutch ruling supporting that linking to content isn't infringement. The ruling stated clearly that it isn't infringement when copying for personal use.
Let's get real. Even Jamie Thomas wasn't found guilty for consuming, she was found guilty of distribution. For profit adds special circumstances.
Please, stop trying to promote the RIAA and MPAAA agenda.
People came across the Atlantic on ships to get here to begin with. There are plenty of ships that take passengers even today.
You have a choice. Be groped and/or scanned or to not fly (take some other means of transportation).
We've had laws in place that allow for searches of your person whenever you enter certain places, such as a court house. Most places have clearly marked signs that say you and your baggage is subject to search at any time. If you don't want to be searched then don't go in.
What is so hard to understand about that?
Do I like it any more than you? Absolutely not. And to create an abusive alternative to naked body scans is evil of those who devised the system.
Given enough planning you can take a bus, drive your car, take a boat, or ride a train (whatever's applicable). By electing to fly you are granting them the temporary authority to grope and scan. You haven't been denied rights. Refusal of one should NOT result in using the other as punishment.
This Bill will grant the policing agencies authority to punish without due process. This isn't about protecting us from terrorism or a local insurgency that threatens the security of the nation. This is about giving copyright holders the power to punish anyone without having to go through the court system to do it.
If you ask me the RIAA and MPAA are taking a page from the book of the Scientologists--they position themselves inside and lobby from the outside in order to get whatever they want.
The MPAA Chief is just showing his ignorance and lack of understanding of Constitutional law.
Even if the bill is passed and signed into law, it will likely be shot down as unconsitutional (immediately), and appealed by whatever party looses.
This is not true. To do a recovery off the CD or install with a Winxp CD he doesn't need anything. Any partitions needed are automatically created or you are prompted.
Using a WinXP CD from HP (or compaq) you need to only answer two questions during the install and those actions take less than a second to accomplish.
The recovery CDs don't work that way. So, before you go further just delete the Linux partitions. Not sure what you motivation for that is but it's highly misleading.
You can boot with that Live CD you have and delete the partitions there, or resize them.
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Invasive advertising is not to the benefit of "others". When you spy on people you are being invasive. Stop it.
No, he's got it spot on. You are playing with words. You are misguided in that you think you are smart in trying to change the application of the word customer.
A customer is everyone on both sides of the table. The customer on one side may also be the "average" consumer. That's who you must convince, and your attempt isn't working.
I guess you could do something with the router to block the content from being transmitted back to the advertisers. And, really, what's the point of telling the advertisers this unless Microsoft wants to be collecting it for them. And, the only way it would be useful would be to have it tied into a "google tv" type device or have a TV specially built to connect a device such as this.
This is creepy.
You do understand that most people won't be made aware that it's happening hence they won't know to turn it off or unplug it? When they do find out there'll be an outcry in that parents will realize that under age children are being tracked by it, since a lot of these will also be located in the kids room. And, after a while the complacency of the living room will take over and people will just forget to turn off or unplug, or the kids will be too distracted to think about it, leaving it on to be spied on by Microsoft and their advertising buddies.
Microsoft must be a defeatist organization to bring this out knowing it will turn off a lot of people from buying a device that can be used to spy on them.
They'll grab it and transmit after hacking your wireless in order to do it.
Put something in front of it until you need to use it again. I have an xbox360 but I don't use it much. I use my PS3 as it is technologically superior in all ways. XBOX360 only has games of which I rarely play.
I don't need those snake oil salesmen hocking their wares to me. I know what I want to buy. I rarely deviate. New packaging, a funny elf, or a cutesy jingle isn't going to influence me. Not to mention the baseness of their attempts at trying to herd the masses into the same coral as everyone else. Nothing like making everyone the Jones. Enough, I can make my own decisions on what I need day in and day out and I can read on the web reviews of products if I have questions. A simple search for the "best this or that" and I can read more than I want from 3rd party review.
Just the idea of these advertisers trying to get me to be like everyone else, to think in their terms, is offensive to me. People are so caught up on their shows and advertisements that they don't understand individuality and the unique quality of each person's personality. It has been so many years since I watched anything on regular TV. Most of my adult life has been avoiding TV and especially commercials. I like to think I can think for myself. It's sad that we have terms like "soccer mom" because clearly it began in marketing as a way of categorizing a target audience.
I'm not fine with it, but I don't watch TV except for the football games and super bowl. I don't watch bones and don't watch cartoons.
Nonetheless, you are stating the exact reasons why I no longer watch TV.
Creepy is right. Big privacy violation. There's no benefit for this from the consumer. I hate commercials to begin with and view this as a shitty thing to do.
My question was rhetorical.
You imply that rhetorical questions have no earnest purpose?
FYI, many drivers were written by NASA engineers early on, as they were early adopters of Linux. Also, the same people writing drivers for Linux were those writing drivers for Windows--they were doing it on their own time. When those drivers are incorporated into the Kernel they are thoroughly vetted by the team that manages the kernel. Doing so allows them to remove redundancies and use one driver for multiple devices (such as sound and network cards). They've stated repeatedly that when reviewing submitted code they noticed that driver writing from submitter to submitter was pretty much the same and that they could reuse code and reduce duplication and increase stability that way.
Some of the reason drivers for Linux were incomplete early on was that chipset designers failed to release proper technical data to allow the driver writers to reverse engineer for completeness. Other reasons were that some code contained in the commercial drivers often was licensed (and there were patent issues involved)--an example would be Creative Labs sound cards.
To imply something different, as your post does, shows either your lack of knowledge on the matter, or demonstrates an intentional desire to deceive.
What he's saying is that Windows itself is old and the market is saturated.
If it weren't for required updates and consumer limits on purchasing units only with Windows (and the version of Microsoft's choice) we'd have migration to other OSes far sooner.
And to say that Linux is at the end of it's life cycle is incredibly absurd. Linux is in every type of device you can imagine and there are 100+ million desktop users. It holds over 90% of the super-computer market, and it accounts for the majority of servers--(No Microsoft, counting sales alone isn't the measure of market penetration). For the record, the kernel and relevant pieces are updated regularly.
Linux is barely at the beginning of its' life cycle. More companies are supporting it and getting involved with it than at any time it its' history. As far as end user desktop advancement goes KDE and Gnome have certainly slowed their innovation over the past couple years and there's no hint of any new paradigm for desktop interaction (and no Shuttleworth's Unity certainly is not the solution).
What the Microsoft FUD spreader should have said is that Linux hasn't introduced anything innovative in a while, so the energy behind it appears to be diminishing (at least to the uninitiated). Though we have consistent updates to various distributions we don't have excitement like we had in the past. For instance, when AMD released the 64bit processor extensions Linux was modified to be 64bit virtually overnight (while Windows took another 6 months to a year to make that happen). That was cool and exciting to know that the Linux community had done this so quickly.
Windows itself is pretty stagnant. (Microsoft needs little advertising as Windows is bundled--level the playing field by restricting the bundling of the OS and you'll see how stagnant Windows is.) Little if any innovation has come from Windows in recent months/years, with the exception of maybe the newer explorer.exe shell with the sort of limited blur effects and it's copying of the technology from the Mac and Linux communities.
The Microsoft minion is simply saying he's out of touch with Linux, but he appears to have noticed a decrease in the excitement behind new technologies and releases.
It stands for (or stood for) Windows on Windows.
Or one might say it was rhetorical.
Windows NT was not a ground up rewrite, it was created in tandem with Windows 3.x.
That question is best answered by asking the same about having a King or Queen.
The most important thing you can do is speak simply and clearly. He's wrong. Period.
But to prop up your own ego with excessive speak is unproductive, even if you are additionally trying to prove you did well in your Philosophy class in logic at the university.
What I stated is true. Find the application of copyright infringement as case law in the US.
A recent Dutch ruling supporting that linking to content isn't infringement. The ruling stated clearly that it isn't infringement when copying for personal use.
Let's get real. Even Jamie Thomas wasn't found guilty for consuming, she was found guilty of distribution. For profit adds special circumstances.
Please, stop trying to promote the RIAA and MPAAA agenda.
Now go back and research how that has been applied. It is about distribution and profit.
People came across the Atlantic on ships to get here to begin with. There are plenty of ships that take passengers even today.
You have a choice. Be groped and/or scanned or to not fly (take some other means of transportation).
We've had laws in place that allow for searches of your person whenever you enter certain places, such as a court house. Most places have clearly marked signs that say you and your baggage is subject to search at any time. If you don't want to be searched then don't go in.
What is so hard to understand about that?
Do I like it any more than you? Absolutely not. And to create an abusive alternative to naked body scans is evil of those who devised the system.
Given enough planning you can take a bus, drive your car, take a boat, or ride a train (whatever's applicable). By electing to fly you are granting them the temporary authority to grope and scan. You haven't been denied rights. Refusal of one should NOT result in using the other as punishment.
This Bill will grant the policing agencies authority to punish without due process. This isn't about protecting us from terrorism or a local insurgency that threatens the security of the nation. This is about giving copyright holders the power to punish anyone without having to go through the court system to do it.
If you ask me the RIAA and MPAA are taking a page from the book of the Scientologists--they position themselves inside and lobby from the outside in order to get whatever they want.
The MPAA Chief is just showing his ignorance and lack of understanding of Constitutional law.
Even if the bill is passed and signed into law, it will likely be shot down as unconsitutional (immediately), and appealed by whatever party looses.
Wrong.
And copyright infringement is about reproduction and distribution for profit.
This is not true. To do a recovery off the CD or install with a Winxp CD he doesn't need anything. Any partitions needed are automatically created or you are prompted.
Using a WinXP CD from HP (or compaq) you need to only answer two questions during the install and those actions take less than a second to accomplish.
The recovery CDs don't work that way. So, before you go further just delete the Linux partitions. Not sure what you motivation for that is but it's highly misleading.
You can boot with that Live CD you have and delete the partitions there, or resize them.