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I don't think we's let a little thing like that stop us
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... by this stage the people who aren't online already probably have a particular reason for not doing so. That might be that there are totally intransigent and the last thing they want is someone (again) trying to get them to go online.
It may be that they are too poor to have a machine at home and hate the idea of being tutored in a public library.
I'd be very interested to see some data from the survey to see what proportion of the "have not used" are open to the idea of using the Web.
My parents, in their 80s made the conscious decision to go online because "that's the way the world's going" - I'm ever so glad I installed LogMeInFree on their machine, however.
"So the value proposition is clear: a tenner for offline content."
I'm trying out the Guardian on an iPad at the moment, for me the value proposition is two-fold - it's quite a lot cheaper than a paper copy and it is delivered to my breakfast table by 6am each morning. These are both reasonable reasons to consider it.
Personally, I still prefer the paper version, but the early morning delivery makes it quite tempting.
"To me, there is nothing "moral" about forcing people to do what is "moral". And personally, I have only contempt for any ideology which is against people getting paid for their work."
It's a good thing that no-one is forcing you to use the GPL then.
The point about the GPL is that it is a voluntary licence that people who create code are *free* to use if they would like to make their work available for others to freely use. It allows the people who have chosen that license to place an important restriction on those who want to re-use it "You can do what you want with it, but if you create some more software based on it, the recipients of that software must be free to do what they want with it too - you can't snaffle my work and then close it down".
Yes, it is a fundamentally ideological license - it is designed to service a particularly ideology, but there is no coercion involved - people who like the free ideology can choose to publish their software under the GPL if they wish, and people who want to build software on that code can use it - or not if they don't like the license.
As for "an ideology which is against people getting paid for their work.", there is absolutely nothing to stop anyone publishing their original code under a dual license.
I'm sad to see Jobs go, simply on a human level, but it is interesting that the rumours of a radically redesigned Mac surfaced a few days ago. I believe them a little more now. I wonder whether Jobs felt that having pointed the Mac business in a new direction, he had completed as much of the mission as he had time for.
I'll miss him, even though he was infuriating at times.
Where in your story is there any indication that the story might be fake? As you point out, Resellers can't call themselves Apple Stores - the photos in the original story conspicuously show the Apple Store moniker.
So - you haven't been able to verify the story for yourself first hand, but so what?
I was happily reading through the comments, staying on a even keel until this old chestnut was wheeled out:
"Carbon dioxide is essential to life on the planet."
So what? How is that relevant to *anything*? did you sit there in front of the Japanese tsunami footage smugly opining: "Ah yes, well water is essential to life on the planet".?
Whether something is essential to life is irrelevant.
It's nearly up there with:
"Climate changes, and always will." Yes, and as we know large climate changes have historically caused mass extinctions. So...?
Oddly enough I Am someone who usually dives straight in for Apple OS uodates - they usually have functionality I desire and they're resobnable priced.
On the other hand, I'm still using Office v.X has my workhorse productivity suite - and why not, it's fast, and does everything I need. I also have old (legal) copies of Photoshop, Quark Xpress & Dreamweaver that I have absolutely no intention of upgrading since I only use them about twice a year.
I agree I'm probably atypical, but the lack of Rosetta is a pain. I suspect I'll probably have to update office and work out some kind of dual-boot system for the other stuff in the long term.
... if the company is caught astroturfing, and there's a nice site somewhere with good page rank that records instances of said astroturfing, I think you'll find the memory will live on for quite some time - hopefully for as long as people type 'CompanyX Review' into a search engine.
iMovie HD was a good old fashioned linear editing app. iMovie '08 was a 'What the hell' moment as the entire way you worked was thrown out of the Window, iMovie '09 returned most of the capabilities that went missing in the previous version, but still in a form that would make anyone familiar with the traditional approaches really disorientated.
I had to buy my first ever Missing Manual to get my head around iMovie '09 It's bloodyt powerful, but even now I still find myself fighting it and not quite getting my head around the new way of doing things.
>This extension to the naming system will significantly relieve the pressure and diversify the eco system.
No. it just means that the registered owner of 'Example-brand' will need to register
.example-brand as well as example-brand.com example-brand.net example-brand.co.uk example-brand.org etc.
It does nothing to expand the namespace.