"Believe me, when Intel figures out that the reason their latest and greatest isn't selling is because consumers don't like this 'feature' they'll take it out"
No, millions of uninformed consumers will continue to buy their inferior chips, just as they have in the past, and when enough do, requirement of the PSN will become a standard, and those who do not advertise their PSN will be "shut out" of vital internet services like ecommerce, etc.
The genie is out, and intel is only making the bullets. The firing squad is the online business community, and the sheep just keep on marching to their slaughter, and taking us all along for the ride.
. . . "Far too often a state will bend over backwards to please corporations". . . Try - bend over forwards. Actually, AZ just hit up Motorola for a huge bill to clean up toxic waste. I think the semiconductor industry isn't feeling too welcome in that state any longer.
All those Macintoshes at NASA, now they have to copy their data from floppies to USB-connected ZIP drives. Just because Steve Jobs says floppies are obsolete!
Thousands of terrabytes? Think how many ZIP disks that is! Giga-click-of-death!
" The social challenge will be how to re-distribute the huge profits this brings to those that don't have the skills to get a job in a non-production environment"
Oh come on, we've already solved that problem. rich++ poor--
"For example, although we have mastered flight and can fly higher and faster than anything God created on this earth we still cannot faithfully reproduce the skill and the grace of a swallow or the nimbleness of a dragonfly and I'll wager we never will"
swallow and dragonfly: prolly easy compared to the human mind.
Even if the chips are shipped with PSN "off", don't buy them. The marketing numbers on sales of these chips will prevent PSN requirments for authentication from becoming a standard. Something no sane netizen would want.
one other point - What about emulators? On a Macintosh running VirtualPC, couldn't one, in theory, tamper with the code, and forge a CPU ID since it's not tied to hardware?
no, but any day, "they" could make a law that makes what you do illegal. maybe it's currently legal, but won't be in the future because some high-priced corporate lobbyist greased some congressional palms.
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"Believe me, when Intel figures out that the reason their latest and greatest isn't
selling is because consumers don't like this 'feature' they'll take it out"
No, millions of uninformed consumers will continue to buy their inferior chips, just as they have in the past, and when enough do, requirement of the PSN will become a standard, and those who do not advertise their PSN will be "shut out" of vital internet services like ecommerce, etc.
The genie is out, and intel is only making the bullets. The firing squad is the online business community, and the sheep just keep on marching to their slaughter, and taking us all along for the ride.
. . . "Far too often a state will bend over
backwards to please corporations". . .
Try - bend over forwards.
Actually, AZ just hit up Motorola for a huge bill to clean up toxic waste.
I think the semiconductor industry isn't feeling too welcome in that state any longer.
Really, it's all Steve Jobs' fault.
All those Macintoshes at NASA, now they have to copy their data from floppies to USB-connected ZIP drives. Just because Steve Jobs says floppies are obsolete!
Thousands of terrabytes? Think how many ZIP disks that is!
Giga-click-of-death!
could you imagine trying to locate a specific file, somewhere in a library of 100,000 CD's?
they MUST find a solution to the capacity problem first. Optical don't cut it.
" The social challenge will be how to re-distribute the
huge profits this brings to those that don't have the skills to get a job in a non-production environment"
Oh come on, we've already solved that problem.
rich++
poor--
maybe the industrialized nations should have a holiday, two days every year, where they shut off all computers, and live life.
that way, when a failure occurs, people won't be so paranoid that the world will come to an end when their Windoze machines all blue-screen.
Moore's law won't break down - Intel will just sell more Dual and Quad machines to make up for continuing to fall behind the curve.
"For example, although we have mastered flight and can fly higher and faster than anything God created on
this earth we still cannot faithfully reproduce the skill and the grace of a swallow or the nimbleness of a
dragonfly and I'll wager we never will"
swallow and dragonfly: prolly easy compared to the human mind.
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same with fusion. You realize that we've been 10 years away from fusion as an industrial power source since the 60's?
In the same vein, Apple has been going out of business for 20 years. . .
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an evil computer turning on it's creators and taking over the world. . .
that's a pretty old story, dates back to Frankenstien - no, Genesis. . .
oh, the BRAIN may be deterministic, and operate by physical laws. But it's still open for debate whether the MIND is/does. . .
. . . which says that Deep Blue wasn't really "intelligent" -
but still a FANTASTIC tool for whooping-ass on other human chess players.
Oh, we have some pretty good ideas about how the brain works.
but we don't have a fucking clue when it comes to the mind.
hm. it's 1999. is it the future yet?
Let me go down the checklist. . .
flying cars? nope
robot maid? nope
eternal youth? nope
matter transport? nope
cashless economy? nope
truth detecting machines? nope
Gee. Maybe by 2020, we'll have flying cars, and maybe Mr. Spacely will give me a raise so I can buy one. . .
Really, they make substandard products.
Even if the chips are shipped with PSN "off", don't buy them. The marketing numbers on sales of these chips will prevent PSN requirments for authentication from becoming a standard. Something no sane netizen would want.
one other point -
What about emulators?
On a Macintosh running VirtualPC, couldn't one, in theory, tamper with the code, and forge a CPU ID since it's not tied to hardware?
hm. NOW Intel's investment in Linux is starting to make more sense. . .
no, but any day, "they" could make a law that makes what you do illegal. maybe it's currently legal, but won't be in the future because some high-priced corporate lobbyist greased some congressional palms.
It happens all the time.
In his State of the Union address last night, Bill Clinton said:
"Stability can no longer be purchased at the price of liberty".
He was talking about China.
I think this should also apply to his Crypto policy.
I thought that Luke would become an agent of evil, and get turned back by Leia.
"one you start down the path to the dark side, forever will it rule your destiny"
-yoda
Luke had at least started. . .