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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.'"
"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
"Oh drat these computers, they're so naughty and so complex, I could pinch them." --Marvin the Martian
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.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
failed.
My MAC uses a 3Com 40-0336-004. Since when does AMD make network cards?
After paying 3 times as much for an apple laptop, you think the users would be able to afford a pay-to-play wi-fi spot?
Or even copping up the cost of broadband at home?
Or maybe the apple laptops in the free wi-fi coffee shops is like the guy with the small penis pulling up in his ferrari to the starbucks. "See my expensive toy?"
Failure is not an option.