do people actually get away with piracy

i was home sick yesterday and happened to be watching Judge Joe Brown and this particular case had caught my attention because it kinda ties in to what we were talking about in class. there was this 62 year old man who had purchased a laptop computer from this company, he had the laptop for about 6 months and it had crashed. so he took the PC back to the place where he had bought it. the man who sold it was an independent distrubuter for Dell. the man who bought the PC from the Dell distributor had lost the CD to recover his program.anyway the distributor had placed a pirated copy of windows XP on the laptop. the man started using his PC and soon came to find that he couldn't receive updates on his XP. the case goes on and the man was suing for $3700 for lost pictures and a faulty PC. the judge was in favor of the man who bought the PC but gave his ruling of $40 because the man should have backed up his pictures and apparently the man who put the pirated package on the PC was in the correct place according to the judge. the ruling of 40 bucks came from the cost for the company labour to fix the problem in which they had to refund the labour costs. so what i am asking i guess is it right to have pirated programs on your PC and doesn't this set precedents in the USA where this case took place???????

school computers can harm learning in early grades

i was reading a article on the Canada east website that states that allowing kids to spend time with school computers can harm thier education at an early age, it states that during the time that students are on the pc that this could be valuable time to be delivering more literacy skills and interacting with the teacher. the article goes on to say that its just common sense that a lot of teaching time is being lost. does anyone agree with this. i mean to an certain extent there could could be time lost but i believe that if your using computers as a teaching tool that this could be a valuable learning experience for both student and teacher. it goes on to say that kids are using computers for entertainment and comminications, but if kids are taught to use them for education while in school at a young age that they can learn alot. they need to address this issue because i think that todays student would really be at a disadvantage if thier were no computers in school. everyone has thier own opinions about this topic. whats yours??? here is the link to the article. feel free to respond!!!! http://www.canadaeast.com/news/article/222913

dazed and confused

today is february 19, 08 and i am pretty upset with the way technolgy is treating me these past few days. it seems as though i cannot send off my response paper to my prof. why i have no idea, but it is really bugging me because i cant do anything about because i am at work and the assignment is saved on my pc at home. hopefully by tonight this will be staightend out. any one hear of any new technologies that they have seen or tried in the past few days????

too bad

today is thursdasy february 14, valentines day. it was too bad class was cancelled last night i was really looking forward to the guest speaker that was coming in. hopefully he will reschedule for a later date.

the assignment

Today is February 6, and i am still curious as to what the business response assignment will be, i hope i dont have to wait until last minute to do this assignment.

well today is Tuesday Feb. 5, and i am very excited to be part of this great learning experience. It has been about six years since i have done any schooling, i do know a little about computers and how they operate, although i could use a good refresher!!!!!