You may want to begin reformatting, loading linux, and downloading staroffice...

[SnapIT]

Originally posted by: BillGates

Originally posted by: Beattie

I'm going use Windows 2000 forever.

I'd consider Linux once it is able to run with the snappiness and performance of Windows.

It already performs and is faster than windows...

the only thing is the software support. (read: games)

Totally untrue. I have messed with Mandrake, Red Had, and BSD.... None can open a simple web browser or really any program for that matter as fast as my same exact machine running Win2k or WinXP.

Thunderbird 1.33, 512MB PC2100, WD12000JB, GF3....can't compare. Linux just doesn't feel...optomized...

XP faster than BSD??????????????????????????????? ehhh... No...

And if you want to, in linux, you can compile optimized kernel and software for your CPU...

 

[SnapIT]

Originally posted by: BillGates

Originally posted by: Beattie

I'm going use Windows 2000 forever.

I'd consider Linux once it is able to run with the snappiness and performance of Windows.

It already performs and is faster than windows...

the only thing is the software support. (read: games)

Totally untrue. I have messed with Mandrake, Red Had, and BSD.... None can open a simple web browser or really any program for that matter as fast as my same exact machine running Win2k or WinXP.

Thunderbird 1.33, 512MB PC2100, WD12000JB, GF3....can't compare. Linux just doesn't feel...optomized...

Which browser did you use in BSD and what flavor of BSD was it, and why the heck are you lumping BSD and Linux together as one?

 

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: SuperTool
If Intel and AMD make it so that only Paladdium runs on their systems, off I go to Apple.

soon i'll stock up on mobo's and todays AMD's. then i'll put XP from now on it, install the critical updates till now, and all that, so i dont have palladrium. if it turns out that MS is watching what im typing now, im going with Linux for my beowulf chain computer. 🙂

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Spencer278

Originally posted by: SuperTool
Basically MS will have to approve every program that runs on windows now, or it won't be trusted. Bill Gates will decide what is trusted and what isn't.

So what will happen with in house development. That would kill off any programming being done on windows because you would need to get microsofts approval to compile code. And how do they plan to stop buffer under runs in other peoples programs when they can't even keep them out of their own code?

From what we know now, I'd have to assume that you would have to purchase a much more expensive system without the evil software prison, or (how ironic) disable the TCPA (if that is even possible, it might be done in the BIOS) to be able to develop stuff (or run Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenBEOS, or any other open source OS that MS does not agree with).

Some have commented that TCPA technology is useful (aka ViRGE in the thread he linked to). I can see how this could be very useful to the military, CIA, etc., but I simply can not trust my computer's total administrative privileges to Microsoft. In the end, I buy the hardware, so I should have the right to run whatever legal software I want to on it.

:frown:

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Freejack2
I'd gladly run Linux if they put out all the games for it. Problem is most games that come out, developers don't bother with a Linux port.
It's a bit of a pain in the @ss to have to switch os'es several times a day just because I want to play mafia or Simcity.

You should look into KVM Switches😀


I'm runnign WindowsXP and Linux right now😎

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: SuperTool
If Intel and AMD make it so that only Paladdium runs on their systems, off I go to Apple.

Forget it. Apple's already tapped in, apparently.

Wrong. Apple refuses to use DRM related cages.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: SuperTool
If Intel and AMD make it so that only Paladdium runs on their systems, off I go to Apple.

Forget it. Apple's already tapped in, apparently.

Wrong. Apple refuses to use DRM related cages.

Really?

If someone can prove to me that Apple's not jumping on the bandwagon, I'll put my PC on FS/FT right now.

- M4H

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: SuperTool
If Intel and AMD make it so that only Paladdium runs on their systems, off I go to Apple.

Forget it. Apple's already tapped in, apparently.

Wrong. Apple refuses to use DRM related cages.

Really?

If someone can prove to me that Apple's not jumping on the bandwagon, I'll put my PC on FS/FT right now.

- M4H

Ill look for some links.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: SuperTool
If Intel and AMD make it so that only Paladdium runs on their systems, off I go to Apple.

Forget it. Apple's already tapped in, apparently.

Wrong. Apple refuses to use DRM related cages.

Really?

If someone can prove to me that Apple's not jumping on the bandwagon, I'll put my PC on FS/FT right now.

- M4H

Ill look for some links.

1
2
And my favorite:
3

You may be unable to eject certain copy-protected audio discs, which resemble Compact Discs (CD) but technically are not.

EDIT: changed to links because of forum formatting.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
1
2
And my favorite:
3

You may be unable to eject certain copy-protected audio discs, which resemble Compact Discs (CD) but technically are not.

*sigh* What, no linky for the lazy PeeCee user? 🙂

So ... who wants to buy an Athlon XP 2100 / A7V333 / 512MB / WD1000JB / gF4Ti rig? 😛

- M4H

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

*sigh* What, no linky for the lazy PeeCee user? 🙂

So ... who wants to buy an Athlon XP 2100 / A7V333 / 512MB / WD1000JB / gF4Ti rig? 😛

- M4H

Linkified. Edit your post to fix the formatting 😉

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

*sigh* What, no linky for the lazy PeeCee user? 🙂

So ... who wants to buy an Athlon XP 2100 / A7V333 / 512MB / WD1000JB / gF4Ti rig? 😛

- M4H

Linkified. Edit your post to fix the formatting 😉

Done. 🙂

- M4H

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: Zakath15

Originally posted by: spankyOO7
u should create a poll on how long it will take for it to be hacked/cracked.

It would take quite a while, seeing as how the hardware is linked with a unique key to the software.

You're right, probably at least 2 weeks.

 

[dejitaru]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: SuperTool
If Intel and AMD make it so that only Paladdium runs on their systems, off I go to Apple.

Forget it. Apple's already tapped in, apparently.

Wrong. Apple refuses to use DRM related cages.

Really?

If someone can prove to me that Apple's not jumping on the bandwagon, I'll put my PC on FS/FT right now.

- M4H

Ill look for some links.

1
2
And my favorite:
3

You may be unable to eject certain copy-protected audio discs, which resemble Compact Discs (CD) but technically are not.

EDIT: changed to links because of forum formatting.

That was a bug, not an implementation. Copy-protected CD's cannot be read by any CD-ROM drive, by design. The drive simply doesn't recognize it.
Did you even read that?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: dejitaru
That was a bug, not an implementation. Copy-protected CD's cannot be read by any CD-ROM drive, by design. The drive simply doesn't recognize it.
Did you even read that?

Hmm.

/pops "protected" disc in his PC

Works just fine here. Want me to rip the tracks and MP3ify them for you too?

- M4H

 

[dejitaru]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: dejitaru
That was a bug, not an implementation. Copy-protected CD's cannot be read by any CD-ROM drive, by design. The drive simply doesn't recognize it.
Did you even read that?

Hmm.

/pops "protected" disc in his PC

Works just fine here. Want me to rip the tracks and MP3ify them for you too?

- M4H

Perhaps.
If the copy-protected disc cannot function with the Apple drivers, then it is functioning properly. It's a corrupted form of an existing media. Apple would not deliberately implement a malfunction, of all things, when attempting to read such a disc. The software apparently checks more errors than on your machine.

Whether or not you can read a copy-protected disc on your machine is impertinent.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Zakath15

Originally posted by: spankyOO7
u should create a poll on how long it will take for it to be hacked/cracked.

It would take quite a while, seeing as how the hardware is linked with a unique key to the software.

Kinda like the Xbox, huh?

I'm gonna start a store selling palladium hardware, software, and black magic markers 🙂