I hate to play the devil's advocate, but can't anybody out there see why these companies don't want their products reverse engineered? In the grand scheme of things, it's only ever about money. If someone else knows how their product works, and compete with them (or deny them revenue streams as in the case of CueCat), these companies lose money.
I agree, however, that reverse engineering is important and is in the end benefical to the consumer. But that does not mean that we have to attack companies that are trying to defend their business interests. Remember, the bottom line here is that all companies are in the business of making money, not in providing perfect service to consumers, as much as we want them to.
Anyways, I just thought I'd present my point of view, and will probably be labled flamebait.. oh well, doesn't life just suck.
I thought the big push from Intel was to switch to copper interconnects. Isn't copper supposed to increase speed at lower power? Or am I just talking out of my ass? Oh well, it is pretty late. Also, I'm glad to see that the Willamette is using a 400 MHz bus (Or a quad pumped data bus running at 100 MHz for the nit pickers)... wow.. that's pretty damn fast. Seem's like quite a jump from the PIII 133MHz. All in all, seems like another new crop of goodies that I won't be able to afford for a year or two... boohoo.
I don't know about you guys, but I'd much rather skim through a text version of a presentation... Much faster. Who has time to listen to a long webcast these days? Oh well...
B.T.W, I can see this site getting/.ed really really quickly.
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I hate to play the devil's advocate, but can't anybody out there see why these companies don't want their products reverse engineered? In the grand scheme of things, it's only ever about money. If someone else knows how their product works, and compete with them (or deny them revenue streams as in the case of CueCat), these companies lose money. I agree, however, that reverse engineering is important and is in the end benefical to the consumer. But that does not mean that we have to attack companies that are trying to defend their business interests. Remember, the bottom line here is that all companies are in the business of making money, not in providing perfect service to consumers, as much as we want them to. Anyways, I just thought I'd present my point of view, and will probably be labled flamebait.. oh well, doesn't life just suck.
I thought the big push from Intel was to switch to copper interconnects. Isn't copper supposed to increase speed at lower power? Or am I just talking out of my ass? Oh well, it is pretty late. Also, I'm glad to see that the Willamette is using a 400 MHz bus (Or a quad pumped data bus running at 100 MHz for the nit pickers)... wow.. that's pretty damn fast. Seem's like quite a jump from the PIII 133MHz. All in all, seems like another new crop of goodies that I won't be able to afford for a year or two... boohoo.
B.T.W, I can see this site getting /.ed really really quickly.