From the public info it just doesn't make any sense, there must be something Intel is hidding.
Since this kind of thing happens regularly, it is not hard to figure out exactly what is happening (with the error margin less than 0.0001%): Intel signed a non-compete agreement with Microsoft; a contract to produce a chip exclusively for MS, with the added benefit of stomping any attempt to install a non-MS OS (aka Linux).
This is similar to the agreement under which Samsung produces CPUs for Apple, except Apple does not worry so excessively about Linux to add DRM to their CPUs.
You can let "excess" population die off from starvation or you can build nuclear power plants, etc. Of course, if you get your income from oil industry or lobby groups, you will choose option 1.
If you don't mind I will inherit your post title...
To the point: there are many ways to slice and dice this. Yes, China has a bigger population, but who are you to claim that each and every one of them does not deserve the same standard of living as yourself? You cannot point your finger at China and scream bloody murder when your own pollution is quadruple of the civilized world average. Just compare US to European developed nations, like Germany and France (using the same link, naturally).
So before "imposing trade sanctions on China", as GGP suggested, check the numbers to make sure you are not laughed out of the trade sanctions meeting.
Hint: France uses nuclear power plants (zero CO2 emissions), and Germany imports power from France:)
I hope we stop the panic and build some nuke facilities of our own.
Yeah, what's the big deal anyway? So some millions of people will die, and some billions will starve. Cap it with couple of nuclear wars because India and China will need to invade neighbours in the midst of rice riots. Some cities wiped by severe storms (those seem to be on the rise with warming). Maldives go underwater. All of this because oil and coal companies must maximise their profits no matter what, and so do politicians. I assume you have a nice bunker somewhere high above the sea level with enough food and porn stashed for the next 200 years?
Are we talking about same government that tried to secretly pass SOPA and PIPA as trade treaties? So your plan is to let this government build up FCC and give them keys to all ISPs and backbones? And this wonderful apparatus will be used to do no evil? Of course not! Because enforcing copyright and preventing terrorism are all good and noble causes...
Net Neutrality is a guise to control the Internet. Once the government agency gets strings to control the ISP's they will start to enforce copyright, public decency laws, terrorism (dissident) watch, etc. The special interests groups who will profit from it is not the individuals, as you imply, but MPAA, Disney, TSA, FCC and such -- all the usual suspects. Once you give them control you cannot take it back.
Redhat says money and Free software can coexist -- you have an outdated view of FOSS. Another example: I purchased OsmAnd on Android market, but could have compiled it from source for free. It is true that you cannot charge as much for FOSS, but on the other hand you don't need to build it from the ground up, like you would with proprietary software, so you costs should be much lower as well.
Because all closed code is at the mercy of whatever company owns it. Its support can be dropped at a whim of the management, thus "at the mercy" is an accurate description. In fact, all closed software meets the end of life sooner or later, and then all the users who rely on it are SOL. This is not to say that free software is immortal, but at least we are guaranteed that it will be around as long as someone capable of maintaining needs it.
The link you provided actually disproves what you say next to it. The inventors/early adapters got rewarded. This is normal for anything that becomes successful later, but nobody can predict it becoming successful in advance. Go ahead, invest in a currency or company stock that will become uber-successful 5 years from now. You cannot. The current market cap of Bitcoin is estimated to be around 100 million - did not make anyone a billionaire yet. Compare that to Disney Corp that did not produce anything of value in the past 60 years, and their market cap is in tens of billions.
So there are risks and rewards, sounds like a normal financial instrument to me. You don't think bitcoin is worth a penny - do not invest in it. However, the market decides if it is worth something, not just you, and the market thinks it is worth 100 million at this point. Can the whole affair collapse tomorrow? Definitely, as soon as someone comes up with a better algorithm, or governments worldwide decide to crack down on Wikileaks. This is called "risk", and it happened to Enron, Mortgage backed securities, USSR -- all asset-backed securities. So this is as much a scam as anything else related to finance.
What people remember and what they *think* they remember is not the same. Example:
There was a surgeon who got tired of hearing stories how patients escaped their bodies during surgery and hovered in the room during procedure. So he placed a large bright object on top of a tall cabinet, and every time this story came up he asked what was the bright object in the operating room. So far no answer.
I am sorry, that's due to a random variation, calling it "reduced" is far fetched.
US is still the global leader at polluting our planet, outdoing other industrialized countries and whole continents by a large factor. And given that our government is still doing nada about it, it sits deep in the pocked of the energy industry.
Excellent post, but you arrived at a wrong conclusion. Who do you think will safeguard nukes better, a Supreme Dictator with a rule by Iron Fist, or a Wild West style hungry democracy?
Everybody knows that dictators are easier to deal with: transfer a few million to his Swiss bank account and you can harvest all his national resources and dump toxic waste back. You can do the same with democracy but the price tag will be much higher:) This is why we installed our personal pet pocket dictators in Iran and around the world.
So for the West this is a good news. As for battling Global Warming -- I am sorry but the US is the worst offender. You see, Big Coal and Big Oil say global warming is a myth, and they just happen to have our government in their pocket. Expect US not to make a move in the right direction until crops seriously dry out and world hunger begins. Then they will point their fat finger at Russia and say "that big bad Wol... Putin, he is the enemy here!"
to pull out the old "The US is just as bad" nonsense
It is not. Very far from it, but we are getting there:
- Mass media is a government's pet. They either lie (Fox News) or hide facts. There are a few exceptions, like NYT, but they are not read by an average Joe. This is the beginning of a disease.
- We got a common enemy to keep populace in fear. "Look, the Terrorists, they are everywhere! Watch out for the terrorists!"-- This is an old Russian Stalin-era trick to grip power with iron fist =~ s/terrorists/imperialists/
- Phones and other communications are eavesdropped, a-la 1970's KGB style.
- Wall Street peaceful protest members arrested, media members arrested
- Police requested Twitter to provide tweets by Wall Street protest organizers. WTF for? You gona charge them with "hooliganism" now?
So the same shit is happening here, but it is more civilized and convoluted as not to raise too many red flags.
Except Fox won a right to lie on Fox News. All your arguments about "highest watched" and "liberal leaning" are irrelevant in face of the fact that they needed to defend their right to lie and won, meaning they can continue making shit up and call it "news" with impunity.
"Only for ARM products"... for now, and while MS does not require to lock x86, manufacturers can still "voluntarily" do it (*wink* *wink*)
So once it's done -- all your hardware belongs to Microsoft, and they will start to raise the barriers you need to hop to dual boot. Already you will need to go to BIOS every time and change setup. Eventually they will migrate new "security and piracy protection" to x86 as well, and make "circumvention" a federal offence, as the last nail in the coffin.
"hearing of products" and finding a practical solution that works is not one and the same. For example, I would love to use Nexus 7 as a phone, but it is probably not practical at this point because I frequently have voice-only connection where I travel. Let me demonstrate why your argument does not work:
A man landed on moon today. He got there by strapping a rocket booster engine to his lawn chair.
Yeah.....this post seemed like a lot of "duh" to anyone who's heard of any of these products.
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From the public info it just doesn't make any sense, there must be something Intel is hidding.
Since this kind of thing happens regularly, it is not hard to figure out exactly what is happening (with the error margin less than 0.0001%):
Intel signed a non-compete agreement with Microsoft; a contract to produce a chip exclusively for MS, with the added benefit of stomping any attempt to install a non-MS OS (aka Linux).
This is similar to the agreement under which Samsung produces CPUs for Apple, except Apple does not worry so excessively about Linux to add DRM to their CPUs.
You can let "excess" population die off from starvation or you can build nuclear power plants, etc. Of course, if you get your income from oil industry or lobby groups, you will choose option 1.
Because global droughts were caused by overpopulation, and climate change had nothing to do with it. How about ceasing to burn coal for energy?
You don't need much of a rump-up for simple web development. One week = one website completed, no cost!
If you don't mind I will inherit your post title...
To the point: there are many ways to slice and dice this. Yes, China has a bigger population, but who are you to claim that each and every one of them does not deserve the same standard of living as yourself? You cannot point your finger at China and scream bloody murder when your own pollution is quadruple of the civilized world average. Just compare US to European developed nations, like Germany and France (using the same link, naturally).
So before "imposing trade sanctions on China", as GGP suggested, check the numbers to make sure you are not laughed out of the trade sanctions meeting.
Hint: France uses nuclear power plants (zero CO2 emissions), and Germany imports power from France :)
I hope we stop the panic and build some nuke facilities of our own.
Yeah, what's the big deal anyway? So some millions of people will die, and some billions will starve. Cap it with couple of nuclear wars because India and China will need to invade neighbours in the midst of rice riots. Some cities wiped by severe storms (those seem to be on the rise with warming). Maldives go underwater. All of this because oil and coal companies must maximise their profits no matter what, and so do politicians. I assume you have a nice bunker somewhere high above the sea level with enough food and porn stashed for the next 200 years?
restricting trade with China, even though they are throwing so much pollution into the sky we can detect it in California
Why does everyone blame China? Care to look in your own backyard?
Are we talking about same government that tried to secretly pass SOPA and PIPA as trade treaties? So your plan is to let this government build up FCC and give them keys to all ISPs and backbones? And this wonderful apparatus will be used to do no evil? Of course not! Because enforcing copyright and preventing terrorism are all good and noble causes...
Net Neutrality is a guise to control the Internet. Once the government agency gets strings to control the ISP's they will start to enforce copyright, public decency laws, terrorism (dissident) watch, etc. The special interests groups who will profit from it is not the individuals, as you imply, but MPAA, Disney, TSA, FCC and such -- all the usual suspects. Once you give them control you cannot take it back.
Redhat says money and Free software can coexist -- you have an outdated view of FOSS. Another example: I purchased OsmAnd on Android market, but could have compiled it from source for free. It is true that you cannot charge as much for FOSS, but on the other hand you don't need to build it from the ground up, like you would with proprietary software, so you costs should be much lower as well.
Because all closed code is at the mercy of whatever company owns it. Its support can be dropped at a whim of the management, thus "at the mercy" is an accurate description. In fact, all closed software meets the end of life sooner or later, and then all the users who rely on it are SOL. This is not to say that free software is immortal, but at least we are guaranteed that it will be around as long as someone capable of maintaining needs it.
But Apple fans had never been to a Sony store before Apple stores became popular, i guess?
You mean like this one?
Bitcoin is a scam to benefit the creators and early adopters. Here's your link, you pedantic little fagget: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Initial_distribution
The link you provided actually disproves what you say next to it.
The inventors/early adapters got rewarded. This is normal for anything that becomes successful later, but nobody can predict it becoming successful in advance. Go ahead, invest in a currency or company stock that will become uber-successful 5 years from now. You cannot. The current market cap of Bitcoin is estimated to be around 100 million - did not make anyone a billionaire yet. Compare that to Disney Corp that did not produce anything of value in the past 60 years, and their market cap is in tens of billions.
So there are risks and rewards, sounds like a normal financial instrument to me. You don't think bitcoin is worth a penny - do not invest in it. However, the market decides if it is worth something, not just you, and the market thinks it is worth 100 million at this point. Can the whole affair collapse tomorrow? Definitely, as soon as someone comes up with a better algorithm, or governments worldwide decide to crack down on Wikileaks. This is called "risk", and it happened to Enron, Mortgage backed securities, USSR -- all asset-backed securities. So this is as much a scam as anything else related to finance.
What people remember and what they *think* they remember is not the same. Example:
There was a surgeon who got tired of hearing stories how patients escaped their bodies during surgery and hovered in the room during procedure. So he placed a large bright object on top of a tall cabinet, and every time this story came up he asked what was the bright object in the operating room. So far no answer.
I am sorry, that's due to a random variation, calling it "reduced" is far fetched.
US is still the global leader at polluting our planet, outdoing other industrialized countries and whole continents by a large factor. And given that our government is still doing nada about it, it sits deep in the pocked of the energy industry.
Everybody knows that dictators are easier to deal with: transfer a few million to his Swiss bank account and you can harvest all his national resources and dump toxic waste back. You can do the same with democracy but the price tag will be much higher :) This is why we installed our personal pet pocket dictators in Iran and around the world.
So for the West this is a good news. As for battling Global Warming -- I am sorry but the US is the worst offender. You see, Big Coal and Big Oil say global warming is a myth, and they just happen to have our government in their pocket. Expect US not to make a move in the right direction until crops seriously dry out and world hunger begins. Then they will point their fat finger at Russia and say "that big bad Wol... Putin, he is the enemy here!"
to pull out the old "The US is just as bad" nonsense
It is not. Very far from it, but we are getting there:
- Mass media is a government's pet. They either lie (Fox News) or hide facts. There are a few exceptions, like NYT, but they are not read by an average Joe. This is the beginning of a disease.
- We got a common enemy to keep populace in fear. "Look, the Terrorists, they are everywhere! Watch out for the terrorists!"-- This is an old Russian Stalin-era trick to grip power with iron fist =~ s/terrorists/imperialists/
- Phones and other communications are eavesdropped, a-la 1970's KGB style.
- Wall Street peaceful protest members arrested, media members arrested
- Police requested Twitter to provide tweets by Wall Street protest organizers. WTF for? You gona charge them with "hooliganism" now?
So the same shit is happening here, but it is more civilized and convoluted as not to raise too many red flags.
Except Fox won a right to lie on Fox News. All your arguments about "highest watched" and "liberal leaning" are irrelevant in face of the fact that they needed to defend their right to lie and won, meaning they can continue making shit up and call it "news" with impunity.
The boot lockout has been discussed on Slashdot to a great depth:
red-hat-will-pay-microsoft-to-get-past-uefi-restrictions
ubuntu-lays-plans-for-getting-past-uefi-secureboot
uefi-secure-boot-and-linux-where-things-stand
red-hat-clarifies-doubts-over-uefi-secure-boot-solution
"Only for ARM products"... for now, and while MS does not require to lock x86, manufacturers can still "voluntarily" do it (*wink* *wink*)
So once it's done -- all your hardware belongs to Microsoft, and they will start to raise the barriers you need to hop to dual boot. Already you will need to go to BIOS every time and change setup. Eventually they will migrate new "security and piracy protection" to x86 as well, and make "circumvention" a federal offence, as the last nail in the coffin.
Collecting "protection money" and locking competitors out at boot level - not so risky.
You mean, like this?
A man landed on moon today. He got there by strapping a rocket booster engine to his lawn chair.
Yeah.....this post seemed like a lot of "duh" to anyone who's heard of any of these products.
what about the human rights or the women in sweden
There is a line of women happily willing to give up their "rights" for every political figure that needs to be destroyed.
Eliot Spitzer
Bill Clinton
Mark Hurd
French presidential candidate
The list goes on