Stop Microsoft
All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: mobrien_12 on 26 August 2006, 18:18
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=76
Well MS decides to fuck over the people who actually buy their stuff in favor of big media.
They will only let HD-DVD or BLU-RAY play on 64-bit Vista. Any 32-bit OS could do it, but, you see, 64 bit vista has DRM built into the driver system, so only signed drivers will run. Therefore, Hollywood can make sure that only DRM'd drivers are used to play their precious copies of Charlies Angels Full Throttle.
I hope people finally get the message about THe MPAA and MS from this. Somehow I think they will instead get the message that 64 bit is too weak to handle High Density video, which is CRAP.
There are advantages to 64 bit computing, but the uninformed "64 is bigger than 32, so it's twice as powerful" is complely wrong. Unless you are dealing with large memory applications (more than several gigabytes), or deal with 64 bit numbers, you only see small improvements.
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I agree. Unfortunately, somehow I think everyone will still rush out in hoardes and buy it like crazy.
And the signed drivers bit is even more awesome. Soon they will have absolut control over your PC and you mind too ... muhahahahaah (ok, maybe just your PC)
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It will be spun to make it seem like the only true quality HD will be processed through thier chosen formats on a 64 bit processor in Vista. The spin will work, as it always does, to the point and clickers. They just want the computer to work, they don't care how. They want to hear major corporations tell them it's ok to scrap everything they've had for newer, more expensive better. They believe this is a sign that they are being looked after. I think I'll have the pizza please.
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Somehow I think they will instead get the message that 64 bit is too weak to handle High Density video, which is CRAP.
"Americans like their bullshit up close where they can get a good, strong whiff of it." -George Carlin
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HD sux anyway.
It's just a government-mandated ripoff.
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haha, yeah, that is true, and i still say that as much as these companies fight for DRM we'll see an eventual flood of lawsuits from the ACLU and other organizations to allow open software and so forth, after the companies try to lock everything down and become anti-competitive
either that, or it'll just be cracked anyways, and they'll finally learn to just say fuckit
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If these whores would quit throwing all their money at DRMshit, and start spending it on something that actually benefits technology, humanity, and the state of the art, we might actually have some pretty cool shit available. Microsoft could make something as cool as George Jetson's spaceship that folded up into a briefcase if they would quit fucking around with Trusted Computing, closed formats, and veri-signed media.
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Well, that's just the way things work here. Somehow I doubt it will change within our lifetimes :(
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We can piss and moan but if you know the average joe dumbshit, you would understand. I know quite a few and met even more. They're all the same, for the most part.
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(http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i44/the_jimmy_james/HDTV.jpg)
Why HD sux.
$1500 for a shitty picture.
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LMAO!!! I love the artistic expression of the jimmy! Perhaps it's what I've been missing in my life...
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Of all the possible problems with television, HD chooses to address the one issue that not one single consumer has ever brought up: resolution.
This mess has been going on since the 80s, when Japan made a bunch of industrial contributions to companies like Sony, Panasonic, JVC, etc, to help them develop HDTV. They came up with some ideas and some products, but overall, it was an utter failure. Unfortunately, the FCC decided that a certain amount of the public airwaves would be devoted to HDTV by a certain year. Now some joker wants to use those airwaves. The bandwidth devoted to HDTV could hold like 100 radio stations. If the FCC is going to use everything for shit, we have to start doing things for ourselves, I guess. Fuck it. I'm starting an internet TV station.
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who would want to put vista on anything less than an intel or amd 64bit machine.
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who would want to put vista on anything less than an intel or amd 64bit machine.
Allow me to edit that statement for you...
who would want to put vista on anything
There you go. I'm sure that's what you meant to say. No thanx necessary. Just doing my job.
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Q: Who would want to put Vista on anything?
A: American Bastard's wife...
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true...unfortunately...
Having said that, I am slowly repartitioning my 32bit HD, it has gone from 10Gb to now 20Gb and phasing the monster known as XPSP2yadayadayadayadayadayadayadarev1782468646493425337503.0.000000000000000001 down. She is getting on well with ubuntu. Now I am even slowly phasing her into the world of console. I have to admit, she is starting to use linux adequately, even, dare I say, comfortable with it. The goal is obviously to get it down to 10 Gb, as she will not totally let go. That should leave about 1Mb free on the win part.
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So far there are only 3 things you can't use on Linux (except with Wine or Cedega) that you can on Window$:
1) Shockwave ... useless anyway, and you can run it through wine if you really really need to for some stupid reason
2) ActiveX ... thank goodness for this one ... who the fuck wants ActiveX (besides for playing online poker) ... fuck if you really want to you can run it through wine as well
3) Games. Really this is the toughest one on most people. Wine and Cedega help to a very minor extent. I personally don't play PC games anymore mostly because:
a) you can't return them for a refund if they don't work ... console games you can
b) you need DirectX and a good graphics card as well ... this means you will need to upgrade to Vi$ta sooner or later and a new expensive video card all for a small improvement in graphics
Thus there is no real reason not to switch.
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who would want to put vista on anything less than an intel or amd 64bit machine.
While I'm in agreement with AB on this one, let me turn this question around.
Let's, just for a second, ignore all the reasons why MS and Vista is .
Why wouldn't anyone want to put Vista or (insert a heavy bloated OS) on a 32 Bit machine?
Being 64 Bits doesn't make the chip a lot faster unless you are running programs that use 64 bit numbers or REALLY REALLY large amounts of RAM (several GB). Scientific Computing and large Databases and some servers benefit, for example. Some programs benefit a bit from the expanded instruction set of X86-64. Some run slightly slower under 64 bit mode.
Check this link out. It compares lots of Linux software running under 32 and 64 bit modes in athlon, pentium extreme, and Core Duo 2.
http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/22/0415251&mode=thread
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Is it not possible then for someone to write a 32-bit driver to play HD stuff on XP?
If so the there's no real reason to upgrade to Vista at all.
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Besides DirectX 10, of course.
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Is it not possible then for someone to write a 32-bit driver to play HD stuff on XP?
You mean the way everybody wrote USB drivers and DVD players for 95, even though MS was touting USB and DVD support in 98 as being a "new feature"?