Palladium as I understand it has NO APPLICATION for content protection. It's not a DRM system. It's a security function so that your hardware knows what it's doing.
Ideally, yes, you are correct. However, how long before its turns into a tool for enforcing DRM?
If palladium is a "security" feature, why not make it make it optional? As a user, it is MY system, if I choose to leave it insecure, so be it. And if other sites won't let me go to them or place secure orders or whatever, to hell with em. I should have the right to choose, not the people whom I buy hardware/software from.
When the electric motor was invented, I doubt everyone in the world had it within a year. I doubt trains were made everywhere within a year of making the steam engine.
Just because the reasearch doesn't provide immediate benefits doesn't mean its useless.
Also, science isn't just about making life better. Part of it is also about satisfying curiosity and knowing more. If someone found the edge of the universe tomorrow, it would not help life in any way, but I would still regard it as the one of the most compelling achievements in science.
And just one more thing; how does anti-matter compare? anti-matter, if successfully harnessed would be a clean pure source of energy. Go talk to the people of Chernobyl and they will tell you how important it is.
But I think its not very practical. The biggest advantage of dual screen is that it provides twice the workspace. I use a dual screen setup at work and it lets me view code in one screen and the running application in another, but in full resolution. With this laptop, it seems that the overall screen size is the same, just that its been seperated in the middle.
That is hardly "Dual Screen". It simply provides two screens, each with half the workspace. I might as well start 2 applications on a normal laptop and resize the windows to use half screens each.
If they can manage atleast 800*600 res. on each screen, that'd be amazing.
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Palladium as I understand it has NO APPLICATION for content protection. It's not a DRM system. It's a security function so that your hardware knows what it's doing.
Ideally, yes, you are correct. However, how long before its turns into a tool for enforcing DRM?
If palladium is a "security" feature, why not make it make it optional? As a user, it is MY system, if I choose to leave it insecure, so be it. And if other sites won't let me go to them or place secure orders or whatever, to hell with em. I should have the right to choose, not the people whom I buy hardware/software from.
When the electric motor was invented, I doubt everyone in the world had it within a year. I doubt trains were made everywhere within a year of making the steam engine.
Just because the reasearch doesn't provide immediate benefits doesn't mean its useless.
Also, science isn't just about making life better. Part of it is also about satisfying curiosity and knowing more. If someone found the edge of the universe tomorrow, it would not help life in any way, but I would still regard it as the one of the most compelling achievements in science.
And just one more thing; how does anti-matter compare? anti-matter, if successfully harnessed would be a clean pure source of energy. Go talk to the people of Chernobyl and they will tell you how important it is.
But I think its not very practical. The biggest advantage of dual screen is that it provides twice the workspace. I use a dual screen setup at work and it lets me view code in one screen and the running application in another, but in full resolution. With this laptop, it seems that the overall screen size is the same, just that its been seperated in the middle.
That is hardly "Dual Screen". It simply provides two screens, each with half the workspace. I might as well start 2 applications on a normal laptop and resize the windows to use half screens each.
If they can manage atleast 800*600 res. on each screen, that'd be amazing.
Main Entry: consortium Pronunciation: k&n-'sor-sh(E-)&m, -'sor-tE-&m Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural consortia /-'sor-sh(E-)&, -'sor-tE-&/; also -sortiums
"consortium" is singular and it should be "is" not "are".
... will these disks be? the current dvds already cram so much that even a small scratch (which wouldn't damage a CD) could render the dvd useless.
With 1.5TB on it, every square mm. will hold lots of info. A small scratch could render GB's useless.. thats a lot of data...
Either that, or the link, is, well, wrong... W Shatner? is that you?!
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