If you for a moment believe that isn't really the US government asking, using MAFIAA as a mouthpiece, you live in a happier world...
The US government isn't using the MPAA as a mouth piece, the MPAA wants to use/abuse this power and will turn around to ask other governments around the world, US included, to help them get what they want.
Because this will help them take their enemies offline and unable to have their secrets shown, like how there has been so much protests against ACTA in general, even though it started as a quiet, behind doors concept and wasn't meant to be public until after it was all said and done.
This is a dangerous path to follow because the MPAA would have strong backers for something like this, like the US government. Torrent search engines would be small potatoes, how about people/websites that show what your doing is wrong? Again, like WikiLeaks, but others like the EFF? Don't like that they show your dirty little secrets? Just use the ACTA on them and claim something like "they were using illegal software".
To understand how they got from 1996 to where they are today you need to remember that, flow of funds aside, it was actually NeXT that acquired Apple. Apple didn't pick up an operating system - NeXT acquired a hardware distribution channel.
To understand how Apple got from 1996 to today isn't because of NeXT (OSX was their first OS to use it, in 2001, 5 years after 1996). Apple got to today because of Microsoft. In the middle of 1997, Apple and Microsoft finished an agreement. Microsoft bought $150 million worth of non-voting shares in Apple, agreed to make and update Microsoft Office for Mac (a big deal at the time), as well as cross-licensing of existing patents. All this from Microsoft allowed Apple the ability to bring itself out of the red and be still alive for when they finally released OSX in 2001. All the things that are involved with NeXT didn't happen until 2001 so declaring that Apple's entire road to recovery was because of NeXT isn't correct because they wouldn't have lived long enough to utilize any of that technology.
Linux Mint isn't illegal, it's hosted/maintained in Ireland so they aren't affected by US law. Thats how they can add the extra codecs and stuff because they are fully in compliance of Irish law, unlike Ubuntu which is hosted/maintained in the US and is thus bound by US law.
Yes, but with many low-end Intel CPUs, if your willing to "get your hands dirty" you can unlock them (most people won't, but those who want/can might just do it). With this, that option/power has been removed from you and been given a price tag instead.
From what I know about the DMCA, it's illegal to reverse engineer a copyrighted software (and this software unlock will be copyrighted). So you won't be able to reverse engineer the program to "do-it-yourself", and the CPU could also have a hardware checks (to make sure the software is the correct Intel-only program) so you won't be able to reverse engineer the CPUs firmware under the same DMCA issues. That leaves pirating the software unlock which is still illegal under the DMCA.
Why? Seriously, exactly what is it about this that would piss off a rational human being? Are you _seriously_ claiming that _not_ having the ability to upgrade your processor for a fee is a good thing?
Are you seriously claiming that being sold a crippled product that you have to pay more then the listed price to become fully functional is a good thing?
But you didn't pay for all of it. You got extra cores without paying for them. So you won't be able to use them until you pay another $50.
It's cheaper for Intel because they have to produce only one line of CPUs instead of 2 or 4.
I paid the full/listed price for the CPU and everything built onto it and take it home with their blessing. That means yes, I did pay for it. I shouldn't have to pay more on top of the listed price for the CPU.
The problem is you need to pay more for the equivalent of "flipping a switch" to get the most from your product. And they've made sure to keep it flippable on a software only level so you can't flip it yourself and it can literally/possible legally only be flipped by a "Intel certified" process.
Doubt they would give you a $50 break on the new CPU, I don't think the markup is that high and they aren't going to sell the CPU's at a loss hoping everyone will pay for the upgrade (because I doubt most would bother since most people only use their computer to surf the web, listen to mp3's and play something like FarmVille, not the most CPU intensive). And they won't bump up the markup because that would give companies like AMD one hell of a competitive advantage by AMD just cutting their markup to below $50.
Look at it this way: you buy a CPU at $200 with one core. A year later, you need more performance. Instead of trashing the entire computer (ram, cpu, and motherboard at least), you simply pay a mere $50, unlock 3 more cores, booth the clock by 100% and throw-in hyperthreading. You'll extend the life of the unit for at least another year saving a few hundred dollars. Make it 6 months and another 6 months but the idea is the same.
I might work great if the price and options are right.
Or look at it this way: you buy a CPU at $200 to have access to 100% of it, and then a year later you don't need more performance since you already bought all of the chips performance at the beginning (like most physical objects). No needing to spend more money just to open up what you already bought and paid for.
Since its a software unlock, it can come down to a DMCA violation, or it's a possible software style "codec" to designed to "optimize" your processor (which would make it software piracy to do it without paying for the unlocked). As a hardware only concept it might be a harder issue (but could work along the lines of modchipping laws possibly), but since it's software then the BSA could decide to have a go at you.
Your forgetting about the iAd platform. While average person may only spend $80 in apps, they will download much, much more free apps that have iAds in them and that it where the real money might actually be. Similar to how many Free to Play online games work (think Farmville...)
I know I've seen this design before... the only difference is the Dell's screen (glass part) flips instead of the whole top. I feel that I would prefer the other design since it has a bigger hinge, less likely to break then that Dell's.
The US was selling weapons to other nations by the Neutrality Act of 1939 which allowed the US to sell weapons and supplies until the middle of 1941 helping to pull the US completely out of the last bits of the Great Depression. As for the US owning factories in Germany, those are IBM's factories that were legally allowed to sell the Nazi's the equipment until 1941, when the US offically entered the war, 2 years after it started.
Having lived and gone to school in both the US and Canada, I have to call complete BS on this. I've also worked for the Canadian government in and around historical monuments and sites and it is nothing like what your trying to declare. Canada always declares that "the Allies" not "Canada" helped win WW2, that the Bush plane (not pilot...) while is a well known plane is not the be all end all of anything in history, nor do they declare "everything" was invented in Canada. While in the US though, I found that things like the Vietnam war are altered and edited (my history text books enter listing of that war was "The US entered Vietnam, fought the rebels, then the war protests happened, and then in the 80s..." completely removing any mentioning of the end of the Vietnam war, the removal of troops, the fact that the US lost that war (the teachers aren't to mention this)). The US also always wants to declare that WW2 only started after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, and not in 1939 (since the US was supplying both sides with weapons and supplies) and that the US single handedly ended the war. That they are the center of the world, ect...
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If you for a moment believe that isn't really the US government asking, using MAFIAA as a mouthpiece, you live in a happier world ...
The US government isn't using the MPAA as a mouth piece, the MPAA wants to use/abuse this power and will turn around to ask other governments around the world, US included, to help them get what they want.
Because this will help them take their enemies offline and unable to have their secrets shown, like how there has been so much protests against ACTA in general, even though it started as a quiet, behind doors concept and wasn't meant to be public until after it was all said and done.
This is a dangerous path to follow because the MPAA would have strong backers for something like this, like the US government. Torrent search engines would be small potatoes, how about people/websites that show what your doing is wrong? Again, like WikiLeaks, but others like the EFF? Don't like that they show your dirty little secrets? Just use the ACTA on them and claim something like "they were using illegal software".
Ah this again.
Apple had over a billion in the bank when Microsoft paid them off.
Wow, how did Steve Jobs miss that after all these years?
To understand how they got from 1996 to where they are today you need to remember that, flow of funds aside, it was actually NeXT that acquired Apple. Apple didn't pick up an operating system - NeXT acquired a hardware distribution channel.
To understand how Apple got from 1996 to today isn't because of NeXT (OSX was their first OS to use it, in 2001, 5 years after 1996). Apple got to today because of Microsoft. In the middle of 1997, Apple and Microsoft finished an agreement. Microsoft bought $150 million worth of non-voting shares in Apple, agreed to make and update Microsoft Office for Mac (a big deal at the time), as well as cross-licensing of existing patents. All this from Microsoft allowed Apple the ability to bring itself out of the red and be still alive for when they finally released OSX in 2001. All the things that are involved with NeXT didn't happen until 2001 so declaring that Apple's entire road to recovery was because of NeXT isn't correct because they wouldn't have lived long enough to utilize any of that technology.
Linux Mint isn't illegal, it's hosted/maintained in Ireland so they aren't affected by US law. Thats how they can add the extra codecs and stuff because they are fully in compliance of Irish law, unlike Ubuntu which is hosted/maintained in the US and is thus bound by US law.
Yes, but with many low-end Intel CPUs, if your willing to "get your hands dirty" you can unlock them (most people won't, but those who want/can might just do it). With this, that option/power has been removed from you and been given a price tag instead.
From what I know about the DMCA, it's illegal to reverse engineer a copyrighted software (and this software unlock will be copyrighted). So you won't be able to reverse engineer the program to "do-it-yourself", and the CPU could also have a hardware checks (to make sure the software is the correct Intel-only program) so you won't be able to reverse engineer the CPUs firmware under the same DMCA issues. That leaves pirating the software unlock which is still illegal under the DMCA.
Why? Seriously, exactly what is it about this that would piss off a rational human being? Are you _seriously_ claiming that _not_ having the ability to upgrade your processor for a fee is a good thing?
Are you seriously claiming that being sold a crippled product that you have to pay more then the listed price to become fully functional is a good thing?
But you didn't pay for all of it. You got extra cores without paying for them. So you won't be able to use them until you pay another $50.
It's cheaper for Intel because they have to produce only one line of CPUs instead of 2 or 4.
I paid the full/listed price for the CPU and everything built onto it and take it home with their blessing. That means yes, I did pay for it. I shouldn't have to pay more on top of the listed price for the CPU.
the law also says you can jailbreak stuff what does the BSA and others think about that?
Sorry, but thats not right. The law is very exact in how its phrased, being "bypassing a manufacturer's protection mechanisms to allow "handsets to execute software applications" is permissible". This is what makes sure things like modchips and modding consoles is still illegal. Only effect handsets aka cellphones/smartphones.
For the same reason BIOS and other firmware upgrades are typically Windows only.
The problem is you need to pay more for the equivalent of "flipping a switch" to get the most from your product. And they've made sure to keep it flippable on a software only level so you can't flip it yourself and it can literally/possible legally only be flipped by a "Intel certified" process.
Doubt they would give you a $50 break on the new CPU, I don't think the markup is that high and they aren't going to sell the CPU's at a loss hoping everyone will pay for the upgrade (because I doubt most would bother since most people only use their computer to surf the web, listen to mp3's and play something like FarmVille, not the most CPU intensive). And they won't bump up the markup because that would give companies like AMD one hell of a competitive advantage by AMD just cutting their markup to below $50.
Fifteen enormous cocks raping every orifice in your body.
I couldn't describe hiring the geeksquad any better then that.
Look at it this way: you buy a CPU at $200 with one core. A year later, you need more performance. Instead of trashing the entire computer (ram, cpu, and motherboard at least), you simply pay a mere $50, unlock 3 more cores, booth the clock by 100% and throw-in hyperthreading. You'll extend the life of the unit for at least another year saving a few hundred dollars. Make it 6 months and another 6 months but the idea is the same.
I might work great if the price and options are right.
Or look at it this way: you buy a CPU at $200 to have access to 100% of it, and then a year later you don't need more performance since you already bought all of the chips performance at the beginning (like most physical objects). No needing to spend more money just to open up what you already bought and paid for.
Wouldn't Intel benefit from embracing it's customers and just allowing this to be done?
Maybe, but embracing this would benefit Intel's stockholders even more.
Since its a software unlock, it can come down to a DMCA violation, or it's a possible software style "codec" to designed to "optimize" your processor (which would make it software piracy to do it without paying for the unlocked). As a hardware only concept it might be a harder issue (but could work along the lines of modchipping laws possibly), but since it's software then the BSA could decide to have a go at you.
Your forgetting about the iAd platform. While average person may only spend $80 in apps, they will download much, much more free apps that have iAds in them and that it where the real money might actually be. Similar to how many Free to Play online games work (think Farmville...)
The Golden Fleece Award is for people/groups in the US that are the biggest wasters of public money. And awards are still given.
Gateway also had one like it in 2005 running Windows XP. The video on the netbook shows it better then the older review pictures though. All in all, it's a (what I feel) gimmicky twist on an old design, and possibly a bad move since I feel the screen without the case boarder would make it more delicate and more likely to be broken by Joe User.
I know I've seen this design before... the only difference is the Dell's screen (glass part) flips instead of the whole top. I feel that I would prefer the other design since it has a bigger hinge, less likely to break then that Dell's.
The U.S. did not lose the Vietnam War. We signed the Paris Peace Accords, withdrew, and then South Vietnam lost to North Vietnam.
If only there were a term for withdrawing from an armed conflict without having met your objectives...
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction." Douglas MacArthur
The US was selling weapons to other nations by the Neutrality Act of 1939 which allowed the US to sell weapons and supplies until the middle of 1941 helping to pull the US completely out of the last bits of the Great Depression. As for the US owning factories in Germany, those are IBM's factories that were legally allowed to sell the Nazi's the equipment until 1941, when the US offically entered the war, 2 years after it started.
Having lived and gone to school in both the US and Canada, I have to call complete BS on this. I've also worked for the Canadian government in and around historical monuments and sites and it is nothing like what your trying to declare. Canada always declares that "the Allies" not "Canada" helped win WW2, that the Bush plane (not pilot...) while is a well known plane is not the be all end all of anything in history, nor do they declare "everything" was invented in Canada. While in the US though, I found that things like the Vietnam war are altered and edited (my history text books enter listing of that war was "The US entered Vietnam, fought the rebels, then the war protests happened, and then in the 80s..." completely removing any mentioning of the end of the Vietnam war, the removal of troops, the fact that the US lost that war (the teachers aren't to mention this)). The US also always wants to declare that WW2 only started after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, and not in 1939 (since the US was supplying both sides with weapons and supplies) and that the US single handedly ended the war. That they are the center of the world, ect...