[Am-info] Andy Grove giveth, and Bill Gates taketh away.

[Fred A. Miller]

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http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,45941,00.html?cnn=3Dyes

A nice discussion of Moore's Law included.

"As anyone who has been forced to buy a faster, more powerful computer in=
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order to run the latest version of Windows knows, today's operating syste=
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are memory and processing hogs. You probably aren't much more productive =
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top-of-the-line 2-gigahertz Pentium 4 desktop running Windows XP today th=
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you were with a 300-megahertz Pentium II running Windows 95 five years ag=
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The sad fact is that the hardware upgrades of the past decade have been=20
driven more by Microsoft (MSFT) operating system demands than by consumer=
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demands for more power. As the old saying goes, Andy Grove giveth, and Bi=
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Gates taketh away. "

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"DRM.. Digitally Retarded Media. That's exactly what it is - content
that cannot reach its full potential because of artificial restraints." -=
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Rickard

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