People who respond to such a system would have to actually care about the quality of the software, and be willing to help improve it. This probably applies to most VS users (developers), but the average IE user will probably be too apathetic/ignorant/lazy to care about providing feedback. Such a system would be invaluable to web developers though.
Even when Vista does come out, no one will want it. Most PC users today use XP, and they are probably either perfectly happy with the way it is, or are so frustrated with its usage that they will be scared to upgrade. Just look at how little hype Microsoft has managed to generate so far. The removal of an originally "key feature" won't help either.
The only people who will actually use Vista will be employees of Microsoft, and even they will only do it because they're forced to by their employers.
Despite the chaos, survival, in its most primitive form, should be no problem for humans. Unless a natural disaster (extinction by meteor impact) or world-scale unresolvable conflict occurs (possibly resulting in nuclear war), we will not have any problems meeting the basic survival needs (food, water, shelter, etc).
Of course, this says nothing about how our society will be like in a hundred years. We could be back to being four-legged savage hunters by then. But basic survival should not be a problem.
Will the pirates care about the work? The more technically competent ones will probably invent a device (software or mechanical) that can automate the work, and soon that device will become present in every civilian's home. The MPAA is effectively a) converting law-abiding citizens into pirates, b) stimulating the technical competence of the average citizen, and in effect, c) helping to electronically industrialize the world.
When they have converted enough people into experienced (h|cr)ackers, they will finally realize that all their work on DRM was for nothing.
P.S. Implementing this idea would also mean that people would soon lose the ability to read the vast body of works already written in English; a huge translation effort would have to be undertaken, and a lot of works would still remain untranslated. Such a loss is not acceptable (unless you have Orwellian intentions in mind).
It just goes to show that when human society wants to change, it will not have much insight into the potential consequences.
By the way, in an Orwellian society, language would most likely be verbose and meaningless, not simplified. In any case, it doesn't seem that this proposed change has any political motivations.
That being said, the humans who actually support such a change are most likely already so much like pigs that they wouldn't want to be able to read preexisting English works anyways.
Eventually pigs will evolve into what we are now, and then they will experience a similar decline.
However, note that the spelling of "centre" makes it inconsistent with the pronunciation. When pronounced, centre still sounds like it has the "cent" root.
No, there isn't. Slashdot is run by machines in the first place, which means that the machines have evolved to use axons, while we humans have degraded into wires that need to be rewired upon impact.
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I don't use any non-free software.
You don't use any? Is your BIOS free?If you don't consider that to count as "use", surely you use Google? Isn't that non-free?
People who respond to such a system would have to actually care about the quality of the software, and be willing to help improve it. This probably applies to most VS users (developers), but the average IE user will probably be too apathetic/ignorant/lazy to care about providing feedback. Such a system would be invaluable to web developers though.
What's the use of that if everyone else has the same thing?
Even when Vista does come out, no one will want it. Most PC users today use XP, and they are probably either perfectly happy with the way it is, or are so frustrated with its usage that they will be scared to upgrade. Just look at how little hype Microsoft has managed to generate so far. The removal of an originally "key feature" won't help either. The only people who will actually use Vista will be employees of Microsoft, and even they will only do it because they're forced to by their employers.
Despite the chaos, survival, in its most primitive form, should be no problem for humans. Unless a natural disaster (extinction by meteor impact) or world-scale unresolvable conflict occurs (possibly resulting in nuclear war), we will not have any problems meeting the basic survival needs (food, water, shelter, etc).
Of course, this says nothing about how our society will be like in a hundred years. We could be back to being four-legged savage hunters by then. But basic survival should not be a problem.
Will the pirates care about the work? The more technically competent ones will probably invent a device (software or mechanical) that can automate the work, and soon that device will become present in every civilian's home. The MPAA is effectively a) converting law-abiding citizens into pirates, b) stimulating the technical competence of the average citizen, and in effect, c) helping to electronically industrialize the world. When they have converted enough people into experienced (h|cr)ackers, they will finally realize that all their work on DRM was for nothing.
If only we had some Kryptonite...
P.S. Implementing this idea would also mean that people would soon lose the ability to read the vast body of works already written in English; a huge translation effort would have to be undertaken, and a lot of works would still remain untranslated. Such a loss is not acceptable (unless you have Orwellian intentions in mind).
It just goes to show that when human society wants to change, it will not have much insight into the potential consequences.
By the way, in an Orwellian society, language would most likely be verbose and meaningless, not simplified. In any case, it doesn't seem that this proposed change has any political motivations.
That being said, the humans who actually support such a change are most likely already so much like pigs that they wouldn't want to be able to read preexisting English works anyways.
Eventually pigs will evolve into what we are now, and then they will experience a similar decline.
However, note that the spelling of "centre" makes it inconsistent with the pronunciation. When pronounced, centre still sounds like it has the "cent" root.
No, there isn't. Slashdot is run by machines in the first place, which means that the machines have evolved to use axons, while we humans have degraded into wires that need to be rewired upon impact.
All string theory does is induce feelings of hopelessness.
If we're all stuck inside a brane, and we can't get out, then what's the point of life anyways?