First the 3000 series and now this? When i first saw this new range of laptops from IBM/Lenovo, was excited about seeing a possible compromise between the thinkpads price and quality. I just stopped looking when i saw it had no trackpoint, and i can also assume that the build quality will be nothing on the thinkpad. For me, its just another cheap copy of the original and great.
The point you have made about cars is true, however i should have been more specific. I was refering to, for example, the cheap, family centric modern for focus's etc. And how they are bogged down with 'safety features' including crumpling into a miserable ball of scrap upon impact. An equivalent from the early 90s say, would not do that.
I think this article has highlighted a very good point about todays consumer-centric world. It really is hard to get plain old products nowadays.
Another point I notice, is that modern products are not made anywhere near as well as their predecesors. For example, old cars are often a lot more reliable and better built than the latest, of the production line tin cans. And with mobile phones, these modern flip/slide things couldn't take being dropped more than a few times. I used to have an old 'brick' which was run over by a lorry and survived.
Products today just aren't made with the heart, the only thing in the minds of the producers is money money money.
you say mostly legal bittorrent network, but using the idea of the network alone, ignoring the content, any of the P2P networks you listed are legal. Is it not so that the networks were 'originally designed' for benign purposes?
Theya re DRM'd - except all the new DRM free ones.!!
Peer to peer is not illegal, but i doubt that will sway such an idea. I mean, be honest most of peer to peer stuff is illegal, or at least shady (pornography etc).
I'm sure just stopping all P2P is not beyond these sorts of people. The point about encryption is valid - theres not much he can do about that though. I guess thats what all teh l33t h4x0rs will turn to.
Well...
When I was about 5 years old in primary school there was this old computer running 3.1 in our classroom. This boy who was the class 'cool guy' told me to press the button marked power. Being rather low on the pecking order at the time, I did what he said. Unfortunately, systems in those days actually turned off immediately when the power button was pressed and as luck would have it, my teacher had a large unsaved document open (fool). He was not amused when he found it had gone, and I had to stay in at break and sharpen pencils:)
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First the 3000 series and now this? When i first saw this new range of laptops from IBM/Lenovo, was excited about seeing a possible compromise between the thinkpads price and quality. I just stopped looking when i saw it had no trackpoint, and i can also assume that the build quality will be nothing on the thinkpad. For me, its just another cheap copy of the original and great.
The point you have made about cars is true, however i should have been more specific. I was refering to, for example, the cheap, family centric modern for focus's etc. And how they are bogged down with 'safety features' including crumpling into a miserable ball of scrap upon impact. An equivalent from the early 90s say, would not do that.
I think this article has highlighted a very good point about todays consumer-centric world. It really is hard to get plain old products nowadays.
Another point I notice, is that modern products are not made anywhere near as well as their predecesors. For example, old cars are often a lot more reliable and better built than the latest, of the production line tin cans. And with mobile phones, these modern flip/slide things couldn't take being dropped more than a few times. I used to have an old 'brick' which was run over by a lorry and survived.
Products today just aren't made with the heart, the only thing in the minds of the producers is money money money.
the communist comment inspired by steve ballmer? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer _linux_is_communism/
and that is a nice list of sterotypes!
you say mostly legal bittorrent network, but using the idea of the network alone, ignoring the content, any of the P2P networks you listed are legal. Is it not so that the networks were 'originally designed' for benign purposes? Theya re DRM'd - except all the new DRM free ones.!!
Peer to peer is not illegal, but i doubt that will sway such an idea. I mean, be honest most of peer to peer stuff is illegal, or at least shady (pornography etc). I'm sure just stopping all P2P is not beyond these sorts of people. The point about encryption is valid - theres not much he can do about that though. I guess thats what all teh l33t h4x0rs will turn to.
Well... When I was about 5 years old in primary school there was this old computer running 3.1 in our classroom. This boy who was the class 'cool guy' told me to press the button marked power. Being rather low on the pecking order at the time, I did what he said. Unfortunately, systems in those days actually turned off immediately when the power button was pressed and as luck would have it, my teacher had a large unsaved document open (fool). He was not amused when he found it had gone, and I had to stay in at break and sharpen pencils :)