Yup. It's also what gives paper that unique feel that's so difficult to counterfeit. Most of what goes into making the bills is cotton. That's why you get those little blue and red fibers stuck in bills.
Joe Consumer is not gullable. He is ignorant as you said. However he's only ignorant when it comes down to computers. Joe Consumer has more important thing to worry about than some DRM thing in his cell phone. It's also important to realize that Joe doesn't read slashdot or fark or kuro5hin. The only exposure he'll have to DRM knowledge is the spin Intel puts on it. And of course it will be a positive one.
Right now DRM is fine and dandy. I've realized that the only restrictions opposed on me by Fairplay (iTunes DRM) is restricting things that are illegal anyhow.
The problem lies in what's to come. With DRM in hardware, slashdotters can choose to say no. However, when the general masses eat this up (and they will), that means that DRM hardware will prevail. Soon all the major motherboards will ship with DRM'd BIOSes. We won't have a choice as to what to buy.
And if you think this will drive down prices, you're dillusional. Or really optimistic.
Right. Because we all know Apache is 100% immune to slashdottings.
They really should have been running it on a beowulf cluster of RPN calculators. That's where the stability is.
Microsoft takes a loss on each Xbox sold. MS does this hoping the profit from games will overcome loss on hardware. This emulator allows people to run Xbox games without buying an Xbox.
MS can only benefit from this. The only reason I'd see to defend against it is if Microsoft didn't want people playing them on PCs and instead on consoles. But that's kind of a dumb reason.
1. Grandma Notech (get it? no tech. stay with me here) needs to buy an operating system 2. Grandma Notech sees how expensive Windows is, and instead chooses a linux distribution instead 3. Grandma decides she likes the logo of Gentoo better than all the others and buys it 4. Grandma boots up Gentoo and attempts to install it 5. Grandma's head explodes. Now there's no more grandma 6. ??? 7. Profit
Mapquest used to let me use satellite images (and won't now, for whatever reason). Let me tell you, it's far more clear than a light gray pixel. It looks like it was taken from about as far away as a private plane.
I've heard rumors of another company (read: neither clevo nor apple) making some mac laptops, but I know for a fact that Apple makes at least most of their laptops.
I don't know about Best Buy, but I know CompUSA has Linux boxen (as in product cardboard) right next to copies of Windows. Not only that, but their prices run the gamut from about $30 to $150, significantly lower than Windows.
You're forgetting that these companies have loads of the green stuff. They sign contracts with clevo to make "Dell-only", "HP-only" etc notebooks. This is to get the custom look and feel of the laptops, and to prevent people from buying them from the smaller named brands for cheaper.
If you think Alienwares are the only company that does this, you're sadly mistaken.
In fact, that alienware laptop wasn't Sager's. It was Clevo's. Clevo is the name of a laptop manufacturer, probably the biggest one there is. Dell, HP, Compaq, IBM*, Sager, Alienware, Voodoo, and others all buy from clevo, stick in ram, a hard drive, and a logo and then sell for profit. Sager's model was cheaper than AW's because it was not as well known
Apple and IBM* are the only major companies who make their own laptops. Period.
*Some thinkpads are made by IBM and some are made by Clevo. Depends on the model.
A man proposed to his girlfriend via Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. He created a skatepark in there and they played it together. He created a gap so that when you grinded the longest rail in the level, and it was named "Becky, will you marry me?" Only substitute Becky for whatever the girl's name was, I don't remember.
...that the old type 'B' in recent grammatical reforms has been allowed to become 'ss', where it historically was 'sz' (i.e. tall 's', curved 'z').
To expand on that, the letter sounds like 'ss' as in the english 'swiss' or 'sweet'. Alternatively, the normal 's' in german sounds like the s in 'has' or as 'z' normally sounds. The '3' letter's name is pronounced 'ess-set' which means sz.
I'm in my second year of german now, so I thought I'd add what little I have.
Slashdot Mirror
Yup. It's also what gives paper that unique feel that's so difficult to counterfeit. Most of what goes into making the bills is cotton. That's why you get those little blue and red fibers stuck in bills.
Well duh, but how? Spam is anonymous, which is why it's pretty much impossible to catch spammers in the first place.
But what about joe jobs?
It isn't. I never said that. In fact, I'm not quite sure how you got that out of my post.
Thank god freerushmidis.com* payed for the rights for me. How nice of them.
*I have no idea if this is a real website or not.
Joe Consumer is not gullable. He is ignorant as you said. However he's only ignorant when it comes down to computers. Joe Consumer has more important thing to worry about than some DRM thing in his cell phone. It's also important to realize that Joe doesn't read slashdot or fark or kuro5hin. The only exposure he'll have to DRM knowledge is the spin Intel puts on it. And of course it will be a positive one.
No, it wouldn't be okay then.
Right now DRM is fine and dandy. I've realized that the only restrictions opposed on me by Fairplay (iTunes DRM) is restricting things that are illegal anyhow.
The problem lies in what's to come. With DRM in hardware, slashdotters can choose to say no. However, when the general masses eat this up (and they will), that means that DRM hardware will prevail. Soon all the major motherboards will ship with DRM'd BIOSes. We won't have a choice as to what to buy.
And if you think this will drive down prices, you're dillusional. Or really optimistic.
Is that it will sell just as well as non-DRM'd hardware because the masses are clueless as to what it does.
We as geeks need to inform people about this thing.
Right. Because we all know Apache is 100% immune to slashdottings. They really should have been running it on a beowulf cluster of RPN calculators. That's where the stability is.
Okay
No it doesn't. It helps Best Buy (or wherever) recover (and then some) the less they took by buying the console.
Supposedly it is still true. Also consider that it now sells for half the price it did when it first hit the market.
Let me put it simply. Here are some facts.
Microsoft takes a loss on each Xbox sold.
MS does this hoping the profit from games will overcome loss on hardware.
This emulator allows people to run Xbox games without buying an Xbox.
MS can only benefit from this. The only reason I'd see to defend against it is if Microsoft didn't want people playing them on PCs and instead on consoles. But that's kind of a dumb reason.
Those were apes, not chimps. Not that it matters.
*Is 16 and has The Clash on the turntable right now*
1. Grandma Notech (get it? no tech. stay with me here) needs to buy an operating system
2. Grandma Notech sees how expensive Windows is, and instead chooses a linux distribution instead
3. Grandma decides she likes the logo of Gentoo better than all the others and buys it
4. Grandma boots up Gentoo and attempts to install it
5. Grandma's head explodes. Now there's no more grandma
6. ???
7. Profit
Mapquest used to let me use satellite images (and won't now, for whatever reason). Let me tell you, it's far more clear than a light gray pixel. It looks like it was taken from about as far away as a private plane.
If they find giant radioactive monkeys, I'd like mine back please.
I've heard rumors of another company (read: neither clevo nor apple) making some mac laptops, but I know for a fact that Apple makes at least most of their laptops.
I don't know about Best Buy, but I know CompUSA has Linux boxen (as in product cardboard) right next to copies of Windows. Not only that, but their prices run the gamut from about $30 to $150, significantly lower than Windows.
You're forgetting that these companies have loads of the green stuff. They sign contracts with clevo to make "Dell-only", "HP-only" etc notebooks. This is to get the custom look and feel of the laptops, and to prevent people from buying them from the smaller named brands for cheaper.
As for the Clevo-Kapok connection, I don't know.
If you think Alienwares are the only company that does this, you're sadly mistaken.
In fact, that alienware laptop wasn't Sager's. It was Clevo's. Clevo is the name of a laptop manufacturer, probably the biggest one there is. Dell, HP, Compaq, IBM*, Sager, Alienware, Voodoo, and others all buy from clevo, stick in ram, a hard drive, and a logo and then sell for profit. Sager's model was cheaper than AW's because it was not as well known
Apple and IBM* are the only major companies who make their own laptops. Period.
*Some thinkpads are made by IBM and some are made by Clevo. Depends on the model.
A man proposed to his girlfriend via Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. He created a skatepark in there and they played it together. He created a gap so that when you grinded the longest rail in the level, and it was named "Becky, will you marry me?" Only substitute Becky for whatever the girl's name was, I don't remember.
It was talked about in a really old issue of OPM.
I'm in my second year of german now, so I thought I'd add what little I have.
Now we know where apple got the idea for the iMac