(OT) Interesting article on Vista

[Bill Campbell]

A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

     ``Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS
     elements in order to provide content protection for so-called
     ?premium content?, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD
     sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in
     terms of system performance, system stability, technical
     support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues
     affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry,
     since the effects of the protection measures extend to cover
     all hardware and software that will ever come into contact with
     Vista, even if it's not used directly with Vista (for example
     hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). This
     document analyses the cost involved in Vista's content
     protection, and the collateral damage that this incurs
     throughout the computer industry.

	http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

Bill
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Democracy, n.:
	A government of the masses.  Authority derived through mass
meeting or any other form of direct expression.  Results in mobocracy.
Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate,
whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion,
prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
		-- U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932),
		   since withdrawn.