Intel LaGrande

[Pam R]

On Sunday 22 September 2002 8:01 pm, Zoki wrote:
[snip]
>
> Pam, how much more do you need to understand Microsoft is acting like a
> drug dealer; Give people small amounts of your shit and once they hooked
> squeze their balls...

Surely what is good for MS is good for the USA, and what is good for the USA 
is just what the rest of the world really really wants?

But seriously, it will be interesting to see how this pans out over the next 
few years. As I see it the availability of free downloads of 'illegal' music 
& videos is perhaps the main reason that people are buying the latest and 
greatest hardware. If you always have to pay for a video then surely it is 
more sensible to play it on a standard DVD player which costs what, $100?, 
rather than on a $1000 computer.

So if Palladium and the various acronymic acts of legislation take off the 
computer box manufacturers could face a bleak future, but remember that they 
are located in countries like China and will do everything they can to sell 
product. In their eyes what the customer wants is what he gets, a good 
example of this being the effective smashing of DVD regional coding because 
virtually every DVD player you can buy these days is multi-region - because 
_that_ is what the customer wants.

What interesting times we live in.
-- 
Pam R: Don't put off until tomorrow what you can leave to the day after.
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