One of M$'s greatest goals is to seize control of all digital formats. This will lock them into yet another monopoly in the consumer electronics world. They've been pushing their media format hard for a while but they know that it will always be possible to break it. Enter the new file system. By putting smarts in the file system and locking it down heavily, they fortify their media formats (as well as all their data formats) and make it that much harder to break and store media files, not to mention applications. This is something that the RIAA wants. If M$ can provide them with a secure digital media format and playing environment, they will hand the keys to digital media to M$. What does this mean to the consumer? No more M$ free formats, no more M$ free electronics. If M$ gets it's way you will not be able to buy a CD, DVD, TV, media player etc, that does not contain their software and enforce the protection of their formats.
This mexican company provides one-wire units for $79. Linux sofware is available here. I have one on the top of my house, works great to track the temperature and wind.
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One of M$'s greatest goals is to seize control of all digital formats. This will lock them into yet another monopoly in the consumer electronics world. They've been pushing their media format hard for a while but they know that it will always be possible to break it. Enter the new file system. By putting smarts in the file system and locking it down heavily, they fortify their media formats (as well as all their data formats) and make it that much harder to break and store media files, not to mention applications. This is something that the RIAA wants. If M$ can provide them with a secure digital media format and playing environment, they will hand the keys to digital media to M$. What does this mean to the consumer? No more M$ free formats, no more M$ free electronics. If M$ gets it's way you will not be able to buy a CD, DVD, TV, media player etc, that does not contain their software and enforce the protection of their formats.
This mexican company provides one-wire units for $79. Linux sofware is available here. I have one on the top of my house, works great to track the temperature and wind.