If Intel can release a slightly better processor for less money, that can be paired with an inexpensive chipset and tiny power supply, they could take a bite out of the microcontroller segment and ARM's small but tenacious market share. Are you a sports commentator by chance?
"...because you know, the team that goes out there and works the hardest, scores the most points, and shuts down the opposing team's offense puts themselves in the best position to win the game."
If this is such a huge problem, as Symantec and McAfee suggest, then why do Avast!, eTrust, and TrendMicro, among others, already have products that work just fine in Vista (I'm running RC2 and have tested them) without needing access to PatchGuard or the kernel?
Maybe because Trend (I can't speak for the others) doesn't even catch viruses in XP/2000? So if by 'work' you mean they 'coexist with the OS', then yes. They 'work'.
Not that I'm touting McAfee or Symantec, but they are definitely a step up from Trend.
The oil companies will continue to charge what they think the market will bear for gasoline and other products; when the cost of transportation fuels starts to become a major source of pain to American families, they will modify their usage patterns.
Yeah, and the low income families that depend on their car to make their $15000 a year will adjust to that how exactly? Tele-commute to their maid-service jobs? their factory jobs? their low-paying-whatever jobs? And the families who already struggle to keep up with the rising cost of home heating will...what? Do more jumpingjacks to stay warm?
Maybe you mean that the wasteful upper class will be more conservative with their usage habits? Yeah. I see that happening all the time. Why, just the other day I saw some guy in a brand new hummer shutting off his engine instead of idling at a traffic light! not.
This was insightful? How do you figure that hard drive speed has anything to do with checking email and slashdot? Your net connection is the bottleneck here. Unless you're working on a 386 or something ridiculous like that.
Why did those cars suddenly disappear? You'd think a car that they'd be marketing that car out the wazoo with our rising gas prices. Unless maybe they pulled those cars off the shelf to make room for hybrids which effectively get the same gas mileage with a lot more complexity and more fragile parts and systems.
Although, one thing about the TDI, does it actually get 50mpg or is that what the sticker said? I also bought a fairly efficient car, mostly for the price-point and the fuel efficiency. It's a mitsubishi mirage that was advertised at 33/38 city/hwy. Sometimes I get more, but usually I get less, especially now that the car is aging.
I bet your coffee came with no restrictions at all. I'm pretty sure that all the restrictions on how you interact with your coffee, and how the two of you interact with society at large are driven by society - not the coffee, nor the coffee vendor. This is substantially different from the interaction between you and non public domain media that is sold (or given) to you. Media tends to come with a lot more restrictions.
Couldn't have said it better.
DRM is an attempt to enfoce the restrictions media vendors have placed on you. ...DRM is just an attempt to enforce the rules that we're already (theoretically) playing by.
There is a problem with media vendors attempting to enforce these laws for a few reasons. Here are two:
1. Civilian vigilantes are not condoned by the laws in place in our society. If you kill someone for raping your sister, you are still breaking the law. You may find a sympathetic ear on the jury, but that's beside the point. Corporate vigilantes are still breaking the law, and there's a good reason those laws are in place:
2. The media vendors seem to be playing by a different set of rules where they can sabotage your own personal equipment outside of the product that they sell. If a car manufacturer mandated that you use a certain brand of tire by installing rims that would automatically puncture offending tires when you reached a speed of 100km/h -without telling you- this debate would be over before it began. Since no one's -life- is on the line obviously it's a different story, but it's still an untenable position.
In conclusion, if the media vendor's rules were agreeable, or if they even matched up with the rules consumers play by, DRM wouldn't be an issue in the first place.
Do you think those were well-made cars? Rehabilitating, how exactly? Replacing parts? How many Geo Metros do you think there are that could be "rehabilitated" that wouldn't require practically everything be replaced? Are the new parts somehow created without the energy that it takes to build a new car?
So, observing that my sister, aproximately 15 years ago, had a car that routinely got 65 miles per (US) gallon of gasoline
What kind of car would that be exactly? If I could find one of those I would certainly be inclined to make the switch.
You make some good points, but some of that is just a little far-fetched.
Yeah, I slept with some girl I met at a party two years ago and the sex was AWDUL! So I decided to go to a prostitute, and I've never looked back.
I pay for my coffee, why not pay for sex!?
If you don't like something that's free that doesn't mean that the only alternative is to pay for it. You could shop around at one of a hundred other free email services that are much better than hotmail, and for that matter yahoo.
Will we ever have a president we can feel really good about again?
Again? When did we have a feel-good president in our lives (or ever?) You're fooling yourself if you think anyone has lived up to that recently. I will grant that dubya is about the worst president I can think of in this nation's history, but I think you'd be hard pressed to convince me we've had a truly decent president in the last 30 years (my life.)
A big part of the problem is the single-issue voting that the two-party system creates, perpetuates, and feeds off of. But anyway, this is pretty far off topic. So, boooo google for rolling over.
I don't think we have to worry about the middle east anymore, the middle east is being liberated as we speak...
I can't believe you actually wrote this. "Liberated"? From the dictator Rumsfeld himself helped install all those years ago? And "liberated" to what exactly? An oil-producing slave state with a yet-to-be-named puppet regime? Oh no, that's right, they had the elections, and the puppet regime was already installed.
Does anyone remember Vietnam? Does the word "Quagmire" mean anything to you aside from a Family Guy reference?
modern terrorist == red-scare communist == simple, effective, political demonizing device for keeping the masses in line
When are we going to learn that our political dichotomy just means that everyone loses, with the possible exception of some very rich lobbyists and corporations? There's certainly no place for anyone with a conscience to vote in this system.
Then why did you post as AC, and why didn't you explain anything? If you want to dispel bad information, spread the truth. Post some links to some articles if you're too lazy to explain it yourself. Don't just call bullshit if you're not going to back it up. You're just as bad as the rest of them.
Yeah, I noticed that too. Makes you wonder if something was going on behind closed doors and escaped the lab a la "The Stand" by Stephen King, only not quite as deadly of a virus.
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You must be new here...
They would probably make fun of his grammatical errors, especially on /.
"...because you know, the team that goes out there and works the hardest, scores the most points, and shuts down the opposing team's offense puts themselves in the best position to win the game."
No, but they can make popcorn with space lasers.
'Well, I kinda thought killing was wrong...but since it's more expensive it's definitely wrong.'
stunning.
Computers don't kill people
oh yes they do...they eat old people's medicine for food.
better get your insurance policy up to date.
I say we take off...nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
If this is such a huge problem, as Symantec and McAfee suggest, then why do Avast!, eTrust, and TrendMicro, among others, already have products that work just fine in Vista (I'm running RC2 and have tested them) without needing access to PatchGuard or the kernel? Maybe because Trend (I can't speak for the others) doesn't even catch viruses in XP/2000? So if by 'work' you mean they 'coexist with the OS', then yes. They 'work'. Not that I'm touting McAfee or Symantec, but they are definitely a step up from Trend.
Yeah, and the low income families that depend on their car to make their $15000 a year will adjust to that how exactly? Tele-commute to their maid-service jobs? their factory jobs? their low-paying-whatever jobs? And the families who already struggle to keep up with the rising cost of home heating will...what? Do more jumpingjacks to stay warm?
Maybe you mean that the wasteful upper class will be more conservative with their usage habits? Yeah. I see that happening all the time. Why, just the other day I saw some guy in a brand new hummer shutting off his engine instead of idling at a traffic light! not.
This was insightful? How do you figure that hard drive speed has anything to do with checking email and slashdot? Your net connection is the bottleneck here. Unless you're working on a 386 or something ridiculous like that.
No, they want it to be -connected- to the brain, not -bypass- the brain...
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Although, one thing about the TDI, does it actually get 50mpg or is that what the sticker said? I also bought a fairly efficient car, mostly for the price-point and the fuel efficiency. It's a mitsubishi mirage that was advertised at 33/38 city/hwy. Sometimes I get more, but usually I get less, especially now that the car is aging.
Couldn't have said it better.
DRM is an attempt to enfoce the restrictions media vendors have placed on you.
...DRM is just an attempt to enforce the rules that we're already (theoretically) playing by.
There is a problem with media vendors attempting to enforce these laws for a few reasons. Here are two:
1. Civilian vigilantes are not condoned by the laws in place in our society. If you kill someone for raping your sister, you are still breaking the law. You may find a sympathetic ear on the jury, but that's beside the point. Corporate vigilantes are still breaking the law, and there's a good reason those laws are in place:
2. The media vendors seem to be playing by a different set of rules where they can sabotage your own personal equipment outside of the product that they sell. If a car manufacturer mandated that you use a certain brand of tire by installing rims that would automatically puncture offending tires when you reached a speed of 100km/h -without telling you- this debate would be over before it began. Since no one's -life- is on the line obviously it's a different story, but it's still an untenable position.
In conclusion, if the media vendor's rules were agreeable, or if they even matched up with the rules consumers play by, DRM wouldn't be an issue in the first place.
Do you think those were well-made cars? Rehabilitating, how exactly? Replacing parts? How many Geo Metros do you think there are that could be "rehabilitated" that wouldn't require practically everything be replaced? Are the new parts somehow created without the energy that it takes to build a new car?
So, observing that my sister, aproximately 15 years ago, had a car that routinely got 65 miles per (US) gallon of gasoline
What kind of car would that be exactly? If I could find one of those I would certainly be inclined to make the switch.
You make some good points, but some of that is just a little far-fetched.
I pay for my coffee, why not pay for sex!?
If you don't like something that's free that doesn't mean that the only alternative is to pay for it. You could shop around at one of a hundred other free email services that are much better than hotmail, and for that matter yahoo.
Well, thanks for clearing that up for us, AC.
Will we ever have a president we can feel really good about again?
Again? When did we have a feel-good president in our lives (or ever?) You're fooling yourself if you think anyone has lived up to that recently. I will grant that dubya is about the worst president I can think of in this nation's history, but I think you'd be hard pressed to convince me we've had a truly decent president in the last 30 years (my life.)
A big part of the problem is the single-issue voting that the two-party system creates, perpetuates, and feeds off of. But anyway, this is pretty far off topic. So, boooo google for rolling over.
Oh there's plenty out there. The drug companies are handy with them, too.
I can't believe you actually wrote this. "Liberated"? From the dictator Rumsfeld himself helped install all those years ago? And "liberated" to what exactly? An oil-producing slave state with a yet-to-be-named puppet regime? Oh no, that's right, they had the elections, and the puppet regime was already installed.
Does anyone remember Vietnam? Does the word "Quagmire" mean anything to you aside from a Family Guy reference?
modern terrorist == red-scare communist == simple, effective, political demonizing device for keeping the masses in line
"Actually, he is number 2 in North America" who's number one? The other three you list are not in North America.
if only I could mod this up...
When are we going to learn that our political dichotomy just means that everyone loses, with the possible exception of some very rich lobbyists and corporations? There's certainly no place for anyone with a conscience to vote in this system.
Except in reality, said jocks would simply pound said geeks into the floor. That's the advantage of being a jock in high school.
Then why did you post as AC, and why didn't you explain anything? If you want to dispel bad information, spread the truth. Post some links to some articles if you're too lazy to explain it yourself. Don't just call bullshit if you're not going to back it up. You're just as bad as the rest of them.
Yeah, I noticed that too. Makes you wonder if something was going on behind closed doors and escaped the lab a la "The Stand" by Stephen King, only not quite as deadly of a virus.