In regards to the CD vs Vinyl argument, its best to refer to
Mad Max beyond Thunderdome. Remember the kids played the vinyl record at the end. Its hard to play a CD when you have no electricity.
In recent years, modern disk drives, used to store vast quantities of digital information securely
I don't know of ANY hard drive that natively stores information securely.
A far stretching thought: "They" don't want Lenovo to make hard drives because Lenovo would probably make a hard drive that does store information securely through cryptographic means. Then "they" could no longer read your HDD. Yes, yes, I know there are full hard drive encryption programs out there but you pay a larger performance hit than you would if it was implemented in the HD's hardware.
Back before Al Gore invented the internet, I used to work in at a windsurfing store. The biggest competition started to be mail order warehouses that could sell boards cheaper due to less overhead. In the short term, its better for the consumer but in the long term, it kills the sport. People would go to the local store and find out which board they wanted then order it from the warehouse. Local stores couldn't compete and started to close up but these local stores were the ones were creating new customers through lessons, demos, etc. Some manufactures realized this and stop selling to warehouses.
I can understand why Merle Norman Cosmetics doesn't want their products sold on Ebay. If consumers don't buy the product in the stores, then why should the stores carry it. If stores don't carry it, how is the company to find new customers? Online, you can't sample a smell or see its true color. Cheap stuff is great but sometimes its affect on the bigger picture isn't.
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In regards to the CD vs Vinyl argument, its best to refer to Mad Max beyond Thunderdome. Remember the kids played the vinyl record at the end. Its hard to play a CD when you have no electricity.
In recent years, modern disk drives, used to store vast quantities of digital information securely
I don't know of ANY hard drive that natively stores information securely.
A far stretching thought: "They" don't want Lenovo to make hard drives because Lenovo would probably make a hard drive that does store information securely through cryptographic means. Then "they" could no longer read your HDD. Yes, yes, I know there are full hard drive encryption programs out there but you pay a larger performance hit than you would if it was implemented in the HD's hardware.
I think too many people in the military were playing moon patrol as kids.
Back before Al Gore invented the internet, I used to work in at a windsurfing store. The biggest competition started to be mail order warehouses that could sell boards cheaper due to less overhead. In the short term, its better for the consumer but in the long term, it kills the sport. People would go to the local store and find out which board they wanted then order it from the warehouse. Local stores couldn't compete and started to close up but these local stores were the ones were creating new customers through lessons, demos, etc. Some manufactures realized this and stop selling to warehouses.
I can understand why Merle Norman Cosmetics doesn't want their products sold on Ebay. If consumers don't buy the product in the stores, then why should the stores carry it. If stores don't carry it, how is the company to find new customers? Online, you can't sample a smell or see its true color. Cheap stuff is great but sometimes its affect on the bigger picture isn't.
Damn, I got all excite when I thought it said Moby strips....