1) Engadget should invest a few bucks in professional Technical Communicators, both writers and editors.
This "how to" guide is unacceptable. As a member of the Society for Technical Communication (www.stc.org), this almost unreadable. Not only that, but the punctuation is just wrong in so many places.
2) The US government's position is very clear regarding unlicensed downloading of any electronic media: it's against the law. That law is called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Now, I'm not a fan of DMCA. I'm with Kembrew McLeod on the subject of intellectual property rights (www.kembrew.com). But, in addition to the structure and punctuation of this piece being off, it is also inaccurate-- and perhaps dangerously so for your readers.
Please, hire a technical editor to teach your writers how to write an instruction set. More importantly, also edit for content. You could do some real damage to your readers if you don't.
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With all due respect, two things.
1) Engadget should invest a few bucks in professional Technical Communicators, both writers and editors.
This "how to" guide is unacceptable. As a member of the Society for Technical Communication (www.stc.org), this almost unreadable. Not only that, but the punctuation is just wrong in so many places.
2) The US government's position is very clear regarding unlicensed downloading of any electronic media: it's against the law. That law is called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Now, I'm not a fan of DMCA. I'm with Kembrew McLeod on the subject of intellectual property rights (www.kembrew.com). But, in addition to the structure and punctuation of this piece being off, it is also inaccurate-- and perhaps dangerously so for your readers.
Link to the DMCA: http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
Please, hire a technical editor to teach your writers how to write an instruction set. More importantly, also edit for content. You could do some real damage to your readers if you don't.
Thanks for your tips, but rather than just say it is unacceptable, why not actually contribute and give specific examples?
As for your DMCA concerns. The DMCA only applies to the US, whereas this site is accessible around the world.
Also, the DMCA is focused on circumventing encryption and this process does not do that.