Another Theory on Apple's Move To Intel

An anonymous reader writes "Why did Apple really switch to Intel? Larry Loeb thinks that it has everything to do with the Trusted Computing Group's TNC (Trusted Network Connect)." From the article: "The Trusted Computer Group is a multivendor association that grew out of Microsoft's pre-emptive Trusted Computing Platform effort. Microsoft realized it couldn't force this down the manufacturers' throats, so it formed the TCG to give it the veneer of respectability and 'open standards.'"

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Off Topic Alert...

[Spock the Baptist]

"Brooke Shields: Tall Princeton honors student. Tom Cruise: Short high school dropout. You decide!"

Ok, first of all Tom Cruise's recent looniness is just that, loony.

Now as to Brooke Shields--Princeton honors student.

I clearly remember that there was a issue of Life magazine in which a professor was lambasting the state of undergraduate education in the US. Brooke Shields Baccalaureate was used a something of a case study. Her complete transcript was published in the same issue.

At the time I had not completed my B.Sc., but had earned an A.A. with a concentration in Engineering from Tyler Junior College. Frankly, given the courses that Miss Shields took my lowly A.A. was a vastly superior degree. I can't recall the details of Miss Shields Baccalaureate, but I do recall that it totally lacked any courses in mathematics, and had but one or two courses in the natural sciences. If memory serves, I believe that Miss Shields had *a* descriptive astronomy course. What her transcript reveled was a total lack of any rigorous course work on the part of Miss Shields while she was at Princeton.

It's not the fact that you're a college graduate, nor is it the fact that you're an alumnus/alumna of an Ivy, or other prestigious university that makes you an educated person. It's what you did, your course of study, that makes you an educated person.

FWIW
STB

In other words... iTunes 5 with new DRM features!

[duffbeer703]

Apple fanboys defended Apple's right to futz around with "FairPlay" DRM between releases of iTunes, so the door is wide open for Apple to make retroactive changes to all of those songs that suckers... err users bought.