The term denotes a form of control over the rights to thoughts, ideas or formulas that have been translated into physical or electronic form making the one who creates the work as the sole owner or copyright owner. The concept has been twisted, turned and even re-defined many a times that has been made utterly useless by the proliferation of the internet for anything within it is considered to be fair game. In the hey days of the early internet, such rights were held as proper decorum on the internet but with millions of users all over the world, such a move would prove to be an exercise of true futility. Check the internet for copyright laws and every industry would have their own interpretation and every country would also have their own form of laws. Many have been deploring the said laws for they border on the right to expression and many other rights to the flow of free information. On the internet, who really owns the information contained within the many servers scattered all over the world in millions of terabytes of information as they zip all over the place? Nobody and everybody, for as the definition of the internet goes, it is an interconnected network of networked computers in the most basic form which has exploded into a global network.
Even the most secure document protected by the best military-grade encryption system is stored in one form or the other that can be read, interpreted or hacked into making it well, public property. Does the owner of the server on which the data a specific document is stored onto have the right to claim ownership? Or the guy who writes it and places it onto the internet for all to enjoy? The question will get as wide an answer as one can fathom for anything and we do mean anything on the internet is for all to see and use as they see fit. No one policing agency can monitor all the information on the millions of servers among the million sof users to check each and every one of the bytes stored if they were unique or not. Want advise, want to claim copyrights, KEEP IT OFF THE INTERNET and keep it in print or some other form that cannot be shared, copied or downloaded to and from the internet which is the only sire way to go! “Knowledge is Power and knowledge is meant to be shared to all”

The word inspires fear in the hearts of many who favor to get tunes from the many FTP download sites that have killed off the word, rendering it useless for quite sometime. The coming of new media helped little to promote the move to control the flow of music from the masses to the masses and even artists themselves who staunchly embraced the provisions of the laws and regulations turning toward the other direction embracing free media to some extent.
According to Wikipedia:

The use of digital rights management is controversial. Advocates argue it is necessary for copyright holders to prevent unauthorized duplication of their work to maintain artistic integrity and to ensure continued revenue streams. Some opponents, such as the Free Software Foundation, maintain that the use of the word “rights” is misleading and suggest that people instead use the term Digital Restrictions Management. Their position is essentially that copyright holders are attempting to restrict use of copyrighted material in ways not covered by existing laws.The Electronic Frontier Foundation, and other opponents, also consider DRM systems to be anti-competitive practices.

Most artists have already shifted to utilizing the benefits of new media and how fast their music gets out onto the net and into the hands of the people themselves who seem to have been totally iPodized, using the small gadgets and gizmos, playing tunes where ever they may be. The move is totally dead, and with blow after losing blow to the RIAA and their puny lawsuits that did get some of the culprits behind illegal file/song sharing over the internet, but even that cannot stop the thousands or so sites that still operate as such. It seems the term is utterly useless, like the bad after-taste you get after brushing your teeth and trying to gulp down some soda. Many haven’t even heard of the word as it played out in courtrooms all over the globe, it just seems too great a force to stop the free music

According to Wikipedia “plug and play”, denotes:

In computing, plug and play is a term used to describe the characteristic of a computer bus, or device specification, which facilitates the discovery of a hardware component in a system, without the need for physical device configuration, or user intervention in resolving resource conflicts. Plug and play refers to both the traditional boot-time assignment of device resources and driver identification, as well as to hotplug systems such as USB and Firewire

This innovation started to flourish during the early development of the IBM Pc and the subsequent millions of PC Clones as they were called. It stated that a Plug and Play device is one that allows the user to add it onto a computer system, may it be internal or peripherals that you can plug into the external ports. They all began with serial ports, parallel ports, gaming ports and now we have firewire along with USB in its many forms and shapes.
The word should be stripped from the annals of computer history for while it was a huge leap in technology, it seldom meant what it said and went out to do. How many times have you really had a plug and play device? Every manufacturer in the world of computers and peripherals claim the plug and play capability yet they do have installation disks with the hardware. Get something plug and play stick it into a computer and try to use it without any intervention, did it work. They say plug and play was supposed to be stick it in and it works, no mouse clicks no drivers no user intervention. Plug and play also tends to cause utter destruction in your perfectly working computer, till you plugged in the darned thing and it ends up messing up the IRQ and memory allocation tables, along with a late note that is inserted into the install manual saying the gadget won’t work with your particular setup and so on and so forth. The conspiracy between computer, software and peripheral makers continues to this day, try using the all new core 7 desktop and find a software for it to run that uses all 7 cores. Our conclusion is that there is no such thing as a plug and play (more like a radio or cassette) gadget for you always need a driver(windows does this automatically over the net if you don’t know), and a few mouse clicks, what do you think?

Why, well mainly because such software are quite useless in the face of reality. Even industry experts have said that the way things work is that a virus is detected, dissected, a cure is developed, tested(hopefully), and then implemented, all the while the virus has spread to millions of computers all overt the internet. There is no such thing as an anti-virus anymore, just intrusion prevention systems that combines all the stuff you need to protect against intrusion or hacker attacks. Anti-viruses are so things of the past and the name serves no purpose if the software makers themselves say, there is no one perfect protective suite?!?
Anti-viruses worked better when files(and the viruses they surely contained) were transferred from computer to computer through physical media, allowing the software to check the files before they were read and used on another computer. Gone were the days of single diskette software and in with space guzzling ones that seems to always paralyze your laptop/desktop, eating up not only space but precious memory other applications so require. Take a look at current virus lists and you’ll get dizzy just counting them(millions). You pay at least a few dollars for the most basic versions and almost a hundred for some top ones but still they say no one cure works?!!

The term was born way back in the days of kings and queens where certain professionals/tradesmen fell in between royalty and the working class. In today’s world where horses have been replaced by cars, trucks, SUV’s and Luxury cars, the term seems a bit too useless, why? Considering the fact that a small economic bubble that was created by people from within ends up blowing up in their faces dragging the rest of the world down with it suddenly saw a humongous bubbling of the so-called lower class.
People in the “middle class” suddenly had the floors pulled from under them sending them into oblivion in the gutters of the lower-class, while the rich or “upper class” remain in the upper for as long as we remember. The word is quite outdated for we don;t live in castles or ride on horses anymore, yet we still follow this term when according to PBS.Org:

America is sometimes called a “middle-class country,” but nobody — not economists, sociologists, or the U.S. Census Bureau — seems to have a clear definition of who the middle class actually is. The notion of where a dividing line between “middle class” and “working class” might be is an elusive one.

Ask anyone and there should only be two terms, rich and poor for the thin red line that separates them are almost flexible so either up or down, would be best. It’s like saying yes and no with the maybe inside signifying uncertainty. The only thing that is certain is that people who work hard enough to live comfortably can get thrown off their horses in the blink of an eye. The recession is biting down so hard there is no distinction between the three classes anymore with everybody losing jobs and doing what, playing video games. Life would be simpler if a new word for this medieval formed word, just hope it ends this depression for we’re certainly smack in the middle of it.
(Definitions from : Wikipedia)

The word has been used as an excuse to cover-up for the mess somebody else made. The economy is in shambles and people are losing jobs along with their houses for good measure. It makes for one hell of a life, working your butt off then having to lose everything just because somebody made a mistake up the tanks or made of with millions of other people’s money. The practice is becoming too much of a pampering technique encouraging others to follow suit in their predecessor’s footsteps. Government’s use this to describe the release of your taxpayer money for people other that you.
Criticized and despised by economists, they say it is the last ditch effort to alleviate suffering of the people who by the way have to pay up sometime in the future along with everybody else. Promises made, promises broken along with the millions of lives that have lost homes, jobs and everything. Where is the dignity in this earth, why do we have to pay for the crimes greedy people do. One guy was found to have scammed millions out of people and yet manages to give out luxury watches and other extremely expensive gifts. Where’s justice in that? The effects of the decaying economic conditions spurred on by unregulated or should we say ill-regulated industries that boom the go crash. Haven’t we learned anything form the DotCom fall, haven’t we learned from the mistakes of days past.

“What’s being put around behind the scenes is that we’re looking at 1930s stuff. We’re looking at catastrophe, huge, amazing catastrophe. Everybody is extraordinarily scared. It’s going to be really, really nasty.”

May it be necessity or last ditch, bailout isn’t the answer but a thorn in the side that sooner or later, you’ll have to deal with. Greed gets some to benefit yet most to suffer as we are now.

When we hear this word, it automatically points us towards the direction of the World Wide Web or the Internet. Apparently, it points towards websites which usually have URL addresses. In business, it also embraces the fruits of technology to which people resort to cyberspace as a means of enhancing business operations today.

A shortcut rather than saying the entire domain name, it is a clear tag towards embracing websites becoming part of a business empire today.

The dotcoms took the world by storm in the late ’90s, rising faster than any industry in recent memory. Despite the fact that most internet companies were losing money hand over fist, they were given huge valuations on the stock market – but it didn’t last for long. The Nasdaq hit its high in March, 2000, and within a few years most of the dotcom sector was wiped out. – Investopedia

If you are alone and looking for someone to talk to or at least be accompanied with then “Friendquest” is the term for you. Normally, people would want to look for friends, social partners or buddies and searching for them at the right places and the right time may be a challenge.

Looking for friends is not something that is easy. People just have to look at the right places and know where they can pick up a friend or two. Friendquest is a game or a challenge to most but the bottom-line is that you are simply wanting attention so you will not go nuts talking to yourself all the time.

Many people are familiar with this online. But then again, how can you trust someone wholeheartedly if you get to meet them through words and pictures only?

Requesting someone to be a friend and or buddy on an online social network. -Buzzwhack

Baby Boomer is a term that has been out for some time. Many say that people born under these years came out after the WWII, making them among the elite of children at that time that were suddenly given birth. Historic and an honor is what they say. Does it mean it cannot happen again? Well, let see but I think this term may outgrow its meaning soon considering the rate that the world is having population control problems!

A person who was born between 1946 and 1964. The baby boomer generation makes up a substantial portion of the North American population. Representing nearly 20% of the American public, baby boomers have a significant impact on the economy. As a result, baby boomers are often the focus of marketing campaigns and business plans.

After the end of World War II, birth rates across the world spiked. The explosion of new infants became known as the baby boom. During the boom, an estimated 77 million babies were born in the United States alone! The large increase in population produced a substantial rise in demand for consumer goods, stimulating the post-war economy.

(from Investopedia)

Again, this is associated with mobile interface. It provides people with mobile 3G phone ready features which include video to broader scope towards networks. Phones equipped with it are usually praised so much, sort of like a marketing gimmick which is helpful and music to the ears of most mobile phone manufacturers.

3G is the third generation of mobile phone standards and technology, after 2G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) family of standards under the International Mobile Telecommunications programme, “IMT-2000″. 3G technologies enable network operators to offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving greater network capacity through improved spectral efficiency. Services include wide-area wireless voice telephony and broadband wireless data, all in a mobile environment.

Unlike IEEE 802.11 networks, 3G networks are wide area cellular telephone networks which evolved to incorporate high-speed internet access and video telephony. IEEE 802.11 networks are short range, high-bandwidth networks primarily developed for data.

In December 2005, 100 3G networks were operating in 40 countries, according to the Global mobile Suppliers Association. In Asia, Europe, Canada and the USA, telecommunication companies use W-CDMA technology with the support of around 100 terminal designs to operate 3G mobile networks.

(from Wikipedia)