From my old high school buddy, SAP guru Hamish:
I came across this article on the DRM in Vista. No much wonder it is late. First they had to build it, then they had to break it.What this fails to understand is that the idea of a file, a computer, and a user are all metaphors.
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All the information is binary, and in the same environment, it is like asking someone to lift themselves by the bootstraps. The notion of imposing the same metaphorical limits, like "this is a file of content, ", "this is an executable", is like asking matter to divide itself into fire and ice. it may suit your metaphor, but it does not correspond to reality.
This is transformation, not metaphor? Take a motor car with all it's mechanical complexity. It came out of the rocks. The rocks formed from stardust. Is it not reality that stardust has become a car, as transformed by man?
Similarly, have not electrical impulses been transformed by man by harnessing the sciences for the purposes of transformation?
If your transformation provides nothing useful, nothing different, nothing remarkable - then you may as well still have a handful of stardust. Which is the situation Microsoft finds itself in ...
My Mac is not my metaphorical desktop -- it *is* my actual desktop, where I have my actual In Tray, my actual Out Tray, my communications methods, etc.
I am not a metaphorical user - I actually use my Mac to do stuff, even spend energy transforming my ideas into something I can articulate to others.
Binary 'information' is actually data. It is not information until it has been *transformed*. The Death of Computer Science has a strong correlation with the rise of Microsoft :-(
Long Live Computer Science.
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Posted by: tubnd wiyneht at April 21, 2007 1:33 AM