For the past several years, they've been busy killing off their Ranger line of small trucks in favor of of the F-150 line of "giant trucks that don't fit in my garage."
I use my Ranger mostly as a commuter vehicle, but we need a truck for weekend projects like landscaping and hauling stuff. I'd never even consider commuting with a gas guzzler like an F-150.
I hope they figure this out before they close their last Ranger lines down.
Cast iron's not exactly dead. It's still good for producing relatively intricate parts cheaply. As long as you don't require high accuracy on every surface, you can have a really complex part that's only somewhat more expensive than the scrap iron that goes into it.
Think of a thin stationary engine housing with fins to dissipate heat -- you usually don't care if the fins are within 0.25" of where they're supposed to be; as long as air can pass over them they can do their job. As far as the important surfaces, such as the ones that hold the bearings or that mate with another housing, sure, you'll have to machine those. But if you had to machine all those fins from a solid steel block, or cut a bunch and weld them all on, you'd easily spend three times the money on labor and tooling and have a part that doesn't last as long as a casting.
There are many different alloys of cast iron, and they each have their own set of properties. All are much harder than ordinary steels, and usually have excellent wear resistance. Some alloys allow for more intricate castings. Some are easier to machine. And some, such as white iron, are extremely brittle and almost worthless in tensile strength, but can be treated to crazy levels of hardness. It all depends on your application, and in which properties you require. Steel can't simply be "dropped-in" as a replacement material. Hell, sometimes you can't even substitute ductile cast iron for malleable cast iron.
And I wouldn't count on being able to substitute paper for cast iron, either!
This spring I went out to the valley for a conference. Instead of my usual routine of "go to the car rental desk, get the map of the area, memorize the two-or-three freeways that will get me around to the various venues, and then take off," I opted for the GPS with turn-by-turn navigation.
Two things happened. First, it was absolutely great. I could get in the car without knowing anything about the local roads, where each hotel was, where to find an Irish pub, etc. I just tapped it into the GPS and drove off. There was no fear of missing turns, I just had to drive the car safely. As a matter of fact, I drove more safely than I normally would in a new city, because I was concentrating on the traffic around me rather than hunting for exit signs and wondering if I should be in the right or left lane.
The other thing that happened is I still have absolutely no idea whatsoever of the roads or the layout of the cities in the valley. I couldn't tell you which roads led north, south, east or west. I couldn't even tell you if Santa Clara is east or west of San Jose. It's really weird because I am used to learning a city when I visit one.
So did Garmin make me stupid? Did my laziness make me stupid? I'd argue "neither". The key learning is that I absolutely did not need to learn the roads in order to be 100% functional. The little box on my dashboard knew it, and I essentially outsourced my geographic knowledge to that machine. As a bonus, I drove better. But I still don't know if it was a good trade-off or not.
Unfortunately, I needed to set extensions.checkUpdateSecurity to false because TargetAlert does not provide secure updates. (Actually, it hasn't been updated for about four years, so that's not much of a risk for it!) And I really find the little icons to let me know "opening a new window" or "downloading a PDF" or whatever to be very convenient.
I've done this and nothing complains about compatibility any more. Of course, there's a huge downside: nothing guarantees compatibility any more, either!
So far, I've found that old themes do not work very well (I miss Pinball!) In my case, they caused the scrollbar on the right side to disappear. On the positive side, all of my extensions seem to work fine, and I run a lot of them. (13 of my extensions claim to not be Firefox 3.0 compatible, but still work.)
This isn't America were you have coherent government. Thanks; if I had been drinking anything, I would have laughed it out of my nose when I read this!
think "how would a government react if the president were republican, the vice president democratic, the secretary of state republican,...". But that's not exactly how it works in America. When the powers are split between the parties (executive is one party, senate and/or house is a different party) then they accomplish nothing at all; and I learned long ago that gridlock is how the founding fathers assured we would preserve stability in our laws.
In other words you get the combined downsides of all parties : massive taxes (democrat), sweeping investigative powers (rep.), no freedom of speech (dem.), direct judicial interference by unions (dem.),... Ah. Gridlock avoids that particular downside quite well. The only way much change happens is when one party really controls both the legislature and the executive. We kind of saw that here in the US when Bush took office and both houses of Congress were controlled by his party. They did some republican agenda things like passing popular tax cuts, but refused to accept the unpopular responsibility of cutting government spending. (So we've been generating a huge deficit ever since he came into power, essentially financing the Iraq war on the promise that if I ever have grandchildren they will pay it back.)
So now the US is on the verge of "throwing the bums out" again. I guess it's not 100% hopeless for those of us who are fans of gridlock: the Democrats who are poised to take power have much internal squabbling and no coherent direction other than "away from George Bush", and can barely agree on anything themselves, so I'm not too worried that they'll pass much of their crazy platform either.
That's what the static analyzers do. They don't bother discerning whether or not the true or false path can be taken, they simply follow both paths and report something like "Null pointer dereference in line 222 when 'if' clause at line 123 is false." It doesn't bother to figure out if it's possible for the condition to actually become true or false -- if you coded a decision path, it makes the assumption that either could be followed.
The analyzers wouldn't be very useful if they had to fork at every code branch. A program with not-too-many nested decision branches would quickly become unexaminable.
It's also not likely to matter too much if they don't track every single customer. Companies like this are providing statistical analysis to the stores, not "Peter Simpson spent 10 minutes in the bookshop and 50 minutes in the coffee shop." Their info is more likely along the lines of "5% of the mall traffic went to the bookshop then straight to the coffee shop." From this data, the mall might decide to place a second coffee shop near the other bookstore.
They don't need to sample 100% of the people to figure that out. They can track 33% of the people and still have a statistically valid analysis of how many people went from coffee shops to book stores.
The obvious value in their data is in the biggest trends. The smallest trends are essentially unpredictable, as there may never be enough data to figure out those kinds of behaviors. Of course, they may find valuable patterns in the noise, too, such as "most unpredictable shoppers spend 5 minutes in front of the window of the lingerie shop."
Marriage is "til death do you part", not "until we aren't happy anymore."
Sorry, gotta call utter bullshit on this one.
Seriously, if you are in an abusive relationship, LEAVE. Leave before it gets worse, leave before it injures or kills you.
A psychologically abusive relationship is just as bad as a physically abusive one -- perhaps worse, because the victim is led to believe a pack of lies that keeps them from leaving.
There is no reason to stay married in this situation. If you're worried about the whole "till death do us part" thing, consider that the abuser broke the vows first by failing to love and honor.
While they seem like adding fuel to the fire, the technology concerns you raise just aren't that big.
RFID chips have no power source of their own, and are electrically inert until they're powered up by receiving energy from an external transmitter. Unless you have an actively transmitting RFID reader next to you, your tag won't be able to "modulate your nervous system" or do anything else to you.
Using them for remote tracking would be hard, as the "ordinary range" is two meters or less, and the "extraordinary range" is still under 100 meters.
However, there is a tracking aspect separate from Big Brother, and that's one I personally don't like. A store could read your tag as you walk in, monitor your shopping behavior, and market to you personally as you walk around. (The scene from Minority Report where the billboard identifies Anderton's new eyes and says "Welcome back, Mr. Yakamoto" comes to mind.) While the government might not have real-time access to your location, any place you choose to go could.
As far as the Auschwitz tattoo analogy, well, I can't argue how you would feel about being tagged. I might personally like it for the convenience factor ( I'm thinking of the "pay for your drinks with a wave of your hand" and the "can't forget my access badge" scenarios. ) But yeah, it would not be for everyone.
Are you opposed in every case, or just "forced" implantation? I can think of several scenarios:
Required to enter secure room at work - (I believe this is in use in some places today)
Optional to enter secure room at work, with the alternative being a time-consuming strong password, a card swipe and a retinal scan
Optional as part of criminal home monitoring - either remain in jail or stay at home with an implant kept near the bedside monitor, instead of an ankle bracelet
Required to hold a particular job, such as prison guard
Voluntary temporary implant to hold credit information while you're partying on nude beaches (I heard some bars in Ibiza have done this, but I don't get out much!)
U.S. Army soldier, as an optional replacement for the Common Access Card - they get filled with vaccinations and all kinds of other stuff today, and are essentially treated as paid property of Uncle Sam.
As a voluntary part of a lifesaving medical treatment -- perhaps the tag is swallowed and followed through your GI tract, or perhaps it's implanted and used to monitor a medical condition?
As a required part of a lifesaving medical treatment, where your only access to obtain treatment is to consent to implanted RFID?
I'm just wondering what your tolerance is. A similar question is: do you carry a cell phone? They're more trackable than an RFID chip. RFID is still limited to less than about 100 meters under perfect conditions. Or do you have to carry an RFID access card for work? Again, not a big difference in "trackability".
As far as health, RFID is a low power technology, and active chips emit only a minute fraction of that power. The only real exposure you get is from RFID readers, not RFID chips. And you can't really avoid the readers unless you don't walk through the doors at stores with anti-shoplifting antennas.
Anyway, I think the Xtian Right would rise up before they'd accept mandatory implants, so you'd probably have some strong allies there.
There goes my plan of hanging out at the bar while my video presentation is running at the booth.
Hardly. I bet HOPE is going to be a circus of people hiding RFID tags on each other, unsuspecting passers-by, luggage carts, equipment crates, laptops, and probably in capsules hidden in hamburger buns in the buffet. I expect very few tags to remain on their originally intended targets.
It's not whether or not the hard drive will last, it's more of a question about the availability of the interfaces 20 years from now.
There's a lot of work that has to happen in order for those e-books to be readable in 20 years. If your hard drive is PATA, you'll need to upgrade it to SATA, or more likely Ultra-SATA 3.5 or whatever the new technology proves to be.
That's if your machine still has an efs2 file system available.
And that your new machine still speaks ASCII, and you have a distro for the modern chipset on your new machine, and that you can still have tar and/or gunzip.
You'll need a reader, too: Acrobat 17.0 might not still have the "import ancient formats" plugins. Of course, you could safely store it in OOXML <-- ( that was a JOKE for the smiley impaired! )
While these may seem like trivialities, they're all links in a chain. And that chain has come before, and it will come again. Do you still have a paper tape reader? An 80-column card reader? A 96 column card reader? A 9-track tape reader? A 5-1/4" floppy drive? Or a 1/4" cartridge drive? How about a ZIP drive? At one point in the not-too-distant past, those were all modern forms of storage. Anything still on those media today, however, is going to require scrounging through museum pieces to recover.
Even the assumption that your 20-year-from-now computer can connect to your new one kind of assumes your new computer will still support IPV4. What about 50 years from now, when all removable media has moved to instant-seek-time holographic crystals? During the cutover phase, did you remember to get your hard disk out of storage and port your old documents to crystals?
And then there's the people factor: will your children's children have any interest in recovering your data from that ancient fan-filled "grampa box", the one that runs on old-fashioned AC? Or will they gravitate towards your slender bookshelves, filled with books with rough-taken notes in grampa's distinctive handwriting lining the margins? Will they try to borrow an olde tyme disc-player to watch your home videos? Or will they sit down with the photo album, just like today's families do?
Permanence is an interesting concept, when it's applied to very long term data storage. Books have a fairly well understood lifetime, as we have a lot of experience with them. Photographs may not last nearly as long. But digital data? I still have an oiled paper tape from 30 years ago with a prize-winning program on it, but little chance of being able to read it without a lot of work and/or expense. I had several ZIP disks from my dad that I simply threw out after his passing -- I never even owned a ZIP drive. And I have some old data on a hard drive that I'm currently porting from my old box to my new box, but I'm looking hard at that 15 year old cruft and thinking "it's not even worth my time to port it any more."
I'm trying to imply that not all content on Youtube is copyrighted, and only a small fraction of it is going to be copyrighted by an owner actively defending their copyrights. The O.P. sounded panicked that he wouldn't be able to download FLVs and convert them for use on the Zune, and I don't believe that will be the case.
However, if he's downloading files that NBC (or whoever) owns, and they've somehow watermarked or otherwise found a way to identify the copyrighted material, yes, he'll be out of luck.
IIF he downloads the latest software updates for his Zune, that is.
Nope. You are forgetting what drives Microsoft (and all corporations, really): money.
In today's world, Microsoft MUST continue to put out new versions of Office and Windows, otherwise people will not give them money. But would you put out $400 for a new copy of Office 2007 to replace your copy of Office 2003, just to get the Ribbon bar, or to get the new and improved Pashtun grammar checker? And if so, will you put out another $400 in 2009 for another new copy, to get the ultra-dynamic margin tool? Probably not. So in Microsoft's eyes, you are not sending them enough money.
Microsoft's business plan has no way to continually extract money from its customers over the long haul. So they are forced to invent new "features" to keep people upgrading, in order to churn that money. But Office and XP are "good enough" for most people. The churn is slowing.
Where Microsoft is trying to go tomorrow is the subscription model. You'll buy a subscription to Office Forever which will cost you only $9.99 per month, (or whatever the rate will be.) The OS in conjunction with the TPM chip will enforce that only a legitimate, paid subscription will be able to run. Illicit copies will be prevented from saving, or crippled from editing, or whatever.
Microsoft believes they need the lock-in DRM model to work in order to survive over the long term. They are deathly afraid of Linux, because it's nipping at their heels of functionality and usability already, and a free alternative that runs whatever software you want is the only thing that could stop their model from working. Look to the future for Microsoft to push for incorporating the TPM chip into the BIOS, so only a blessed and approved (and paid for) OS will boot on the hardware of the future. So, any technology or business deal that helps them leverage DRM is a step in the right direction -- for them.
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In fact, forget the Digg and the blackjack. Eh, screw the whole thing.
I use my Ranger mostly as a commuter vehicle, but we need a truck for weekend projects like landscaping and hauling stuff. I'd never even consider commuting with a gas guzzler like an F-150.
I hope they figure this out before they close their last Ranger lines down.
Think of a thin stationary engine housing with fins to dissipate heat -- you usually don't care if the fins are within 0.25" of where they're supposed to be; as long as air can pass over them they can do their job. As far as the important surfaces, such as the ones that hold the bearings or that mate with another housing, sure, you'll have to machine those. But if you had to machine all those fins from a solid steel block, or cut a bunch and weld them all on, you'd easily spend three times the money on labor and tooling and have a part that doesn't last as long as a casting.
There are many different alloys of cast iron, and they each have their own set of properties. All are much harder than ordinary steels, and usually have excellent wear resistance. Some alloys allow for more intricate castings. Some are easier to machine. And some, such as white iron, are extremely brittle and almost worthless in tensile strength, but can be treated to crazy levels of hardness. It all depends on your application, and in which properties you require. Steel can't simply be "dropped-in" as a replacement material. Hell, sometimes you can't even substitute ductile cast iron for malleable cast iron.
And I wouldn't count on being able to substitute paper for cast iron, either!
This spring I went out to the valley for a conference. Instead of my usual routine of "go to the car rental desk, get the map of the area, memorize the two-or-three freeways that will get me around to the various venues, and then take off," I opted for the GPS with turn-by-turn navigation.
Two things happened. First, it was absolutely great. I could get in the car without knowing anything about the local roads, where each hotel was, where to find an Irish pub, etc. I just tapped it into the GPS and drove off. There was no fear of missing turns, I just had to drive the car safely. As a matter of fact, I drove more safely than I normally would in a new city, because I was concentrating on the traffic around me rather than hunting for exit signs and wondering if I should be in the right or left lane.
The other thing that happened is I still have absolutely no idea whatsoever of the roads or the layout of the cities in the valley. I couldn't tell you which roads led north, south, east or west. I couldn't even tell you if Santa Clara is east or west of San Jose. It's really weird because I am used to learning a city when I visit one.
So did Garmin make me stupid? Did my laziness make me stupid? I'd argue "neither". The key learning is that I absolutely did not need to learn the roads in order to be 100% functional. The little box on my dashboard knew it, and I essentially outsourced my geographic knowledge to that machine. As a bonus, I drove better. But I still don't know if it was a good trade-off or not.
Of course the Silverlight and the zooming works as advertised in IE 7.0.6
- New books!
- New art!
- Online tools!
- New prices!
There, fixed that for you.Unfortunately, I needed to set extensions.checkUpdateSecurity to false because TargetAlert does not provide secure updates. (Actually, it hasn't been updated for about four years, so that's not much of a risk for it!) And I really find the little icons to let me know "opening a new window" or "downloading a PDF" or whatever to be very convenient.
If I had to guess, I think they'd be hot grits in his breakfast pants.
http://lifehacker.com/355973/make-your-extensions-work-with-the-firefox-3-beta
I've done this and nothing complains about compatibility any more. Of course, there's a huge downside: nothing guarantees compatibility any more, either!
So far, I've found that old themes do not work very well (I miss Pinball!) In my case, they caused the scrollbar on the right side to disappear. On the positive side, all of my extensions seem to work fine, and I run a lot of them. (13 of my extensions claim to not be Firefox 3.0 compatible, but still work.)
So now the US is on the verge of "throwing the bums out" again. I guess it's not 100% hopeless for those of us who are fans of gridlock: the Democrats who are poised to take power have much internal squabbling and no coherent direction other than "away from George Bush", and can barely agree on anything themselves, so I'm not too worried that they'll pass much of their crazy platform either.
It's pretty obvious, and has a Bacon number of 1.0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
However, my employer would love to find your new cluster and beat it with a tire iron.
The analyzers wouldn't be very useful if they had to fork at every code branch. A program with not-too-many nested decision branches would quickly become unexaminable.
They don't need to sample 100% of the people to figure that out. They can track 33% of the people and still have a statistically valid analysis of how many people went from coffee shops to book stores.
The obvious value in their data is in the biggest trends. The smallest trends are essentially unpredictable, as there may never be enough data to figure out those kinds of behaviors. Of course, they may find valuable patterns in the noise, too, such as "most unpredictable shoppers spend 5 minutes in front of the window of the lingerie shop."
Sorry, gotta call utter bullshit on this one.
Seriously, if you are in an abusive relationship, LEAVE. Leave before it gets worse, leave before it injures or kills you.
A psychologically abusive relationship is just as bad as a physically abusive one -- perhaps worse, because the victim is led to believe a pack of lies that keeps them from leaving.
There is no reason to stay married in this situation. If you're worried about the whole "till death do us part" thing, consider that the abuser broke the vows first by failing to love and honor.
RFID chips have no power source of their own, and are electrically inert until they're powered up by receiving energy from an external transmitter. Unless you have an actively transmitting RFID reader next to you, your tag won't be able to "modulate your nervous system" or do anything else to you.
Using them for remote tracking would be hard, as the "ordinary range" is two meters or less, and the "extraordinary range" is still under 100 meters.
However, there is a tracking aspect separate from Big Brother, and that's one I personally don't like. A store could read your tag as you walk in, monitor your shopping behavior, and market to you personally as you walk around. (The scene from Minority Report where the billboard identifies Anderton's new eyes and says "Welcome back, Mr. Yakamoto" comes to mind.) While the government might not have real-time access to your location, any place you choose to go could.
As far as the Auschwitz tattoo analogy, well, I can't argue how you would feel about being tagged. I might personally like it for the convenience factor ( I'm thinking of the "pay for your drinks with a wave of your hand" and the "can't forget my access badge" scenarios. ) But yeah, it would not be for everyone.
But the previous poster has a great point: an RFID-tag-seeking RPG would make the desire for implanted chips go way, way down.
- Required to enter secure room at work - (I believe this is in use in some places today)
- Optional to enter secure room at work, with the alternative being a time-consuming strong password, a card swipe and a retinal scan
- Optional as part of criminal home monitoring - either remain in jail or stay at home with an implant kept near the bedside monitor, instead of an ankle bracelet
- Required to hold a particular job, such as prison guard
- Voluntary temporary implant to hold credit information while you're partying on nude beaches (I heard some bars in Ibiza have done this, but I don't get out much!)
- U.S. Army soldier, as an optional replacement for the Common Access Card - they get filled with vaccinations and all kinds of other stuff today, and are essentially treated as paid property of Uncle Sam.
- As a voluntary part of a lifesaving medical treatment -- perhaps the tag is swallowed and followed through your GI tract, or perhaps it's implanted and used to monitor a medical condition?
- As a required part of a lifesaving medical treatment, where your only access to obtain treatment is to consent to implanted RFID?
I'm just wondering what your tolerance is. A similar question is: do you carry a cell phone? They're more trackable than an RFID chip. RFID is still limited to less than about 100 meters under perfect conditions. Or do you have to carry an RFID access card for work? Again, not a big difference in "trackability".As far as health, RFID is a low power technology, and active chips emit only a minute fraction of that power. The only real exposure you get is from RFID readers, not RFID chips. And you can't really avoid the readers unless you don't walk through the doors at stores with anti-shoplifting antennas.
Anyway, I think the Xtian Right would rise up before they'd accept mandatory implants, so you'd probably have some strong allies there.
Hardly. I bet HOPE is going to be a circus of people hiding RFID tags on each other, unsuspecting passers-by, luggage carts, equipment crates, laptops, and probably in capsules hidden in hamburger buns in the buffet. I expect very few tags to remain on their originally intended targets.
There's a lot of work that has to happen in order for those e-books to be readable in 20 years. If your hard drive is PATA, you'll need to upgrade it to SATA, or more likely Ultra-SATA 3.5 or whatever the new technology proves to be.
That's if your machine still has an efs2 file system available.
And that your new machine still speaks ASCII, and you have a distro for the modern chipset on your new machine, and that you can still have tar and/or gunzip.
You'll need a reader, too: Acrobat 17.0 might not still have the "import ancient formats" plugins. Of course, you could safely store it in OOXML <-- ( that was a JOKE for the smiley impaired! )
While these may seem like trivialities, they're all links in a chain. And that chain has come before, and it will come again. Do you still have a paper tape reader? An 80-column card reader? A 96 column card reader? A 9-track tape reader? A 5-1/4" floppy drive? Or a 1/4" cartridge drive? How about a ZIP drive? At one point in the not-too-distant past, those were all modern forms of storage. Anything still on those media today, however, is going to require scrounging through museum pieces to recover.
Even the assumption that your 20-year-from-now computer can connect to your new one kind of assumes your new computer will still support IPV4. What about 50 years from now, when all removable media has moved to instant-seek-time holographic crystals? During the cutover phase, did you remember to get your hard disk out of storage and port your old documents to crystals?
And then there's the people factor: will your children's children have any interest in recovering your data from that ancient fan-filled "grampa box", the one that runs on old-fashioned AC? Or will they gravitate towards your slender bookshelves, filled with books with rough-taken notes in grampa's distinctive handwriting lining the margins? Will they try to borrow an olde tyme disc-player to watch your home videos? Or will they sit down with the photo album, just like today's families do?
Permanence is an interesting concept, when it's applied to very long term data storage. Books have a fairly well understood lifetime, as we have a lot of experience with them. Photographs may not last nearly as long. But digital data? I still have an oiled paper tape from 30 years ago with a prize-winning program on it, but little chance of being able to read it without a lot of work and/or expense. I had several ZIP disks from my dad that I simply threw out after his passing -- I never even owned a ZIP drive. And I have some old data on a hard drive that I'm currently porting from my old box to my new box, but I'm looking hard at that 15 year old cruft and thinking "it's not even worth my time to port it any more."
Note to self: do not fall into hard-drive shredder.
Just record over the same spot for 18 minutes. It worked for Nixon!
However, if he's downloading files that NBC (or whoever) owns, and they've somehow watermarked or otherwise found a way to identify the copyrighted material, yes, he'll be out of luck.
IIF he downloads the latest software updates for his Zune, that is.
In today's world, Microsoft MUST continue to put out new versions of Office and Windows, otherwise people will not give them money. But would you put out $400 for a new copy of Office 2007 to replace your copy of Office 2003, just to get the Ribbon bar, or to get the new and improved Pashtun grammar checker? And if so, will you put out another $400 in 2009 for another new copy, to get the ultra-dynamic margin tool? Probably not. So in Microsoft's eyes, you are not sending them enough money.
Microsoft's business plan has no way to continually extract money from its customers over the long haul. So they are forced to invent new "features" to keep people upgrading, in order to churn that money. But Office and XP are "good enough" for most people. The churn is slowing.
Where Microsoft is trying to go tomorrow is the subscription model. You'll buy a subscription to Office Forever which will cost you only $9.99 per month, (or whatever the rate will be.) The OS in conjunction with the TPM chip will enforce that only a legitimate, paid subscription will be able to run. Illicit copies will be prevented from saving, or crippled from editing, or whatever.
Microsoft believes they need the lock-in DRM model to work in order to survive over the long term. They are deathly afraid of Linux, because it's nipping at their heels of functionality and usability already, and a free alternative that runs whatever software you want is the only thing that could stop their model from working. Look to the future for Microsoft to push for incorporating the TPM chip into the BIOS, so only a blessed and approved (and paid for) OS will boot on the hardware of the future. So, any technology or business deal that helps them leverage DRM is a step in the right direction -- for them.