Trusted Computing (TCPA)

Lil nice clip in Real Media Format(why they used such crappy codec, I dunno). Just klick the banner

I feel sexy, do you?

The video, from my POV, was just a bunch of fancy effects with little explanation or clear objective. I feel confused about what they want to happen and what they plan for the future. What is it they're trying to do?

basicly it's that if TCPA doesn't want you to have certain prgs or hardwares they can just disable it or refuse to let you install it to begin with.
Let's say you got Won Viesta, wich suppose to have it buils in as a suportive part of DRM, and you got a BlueRayRom which refuses to work
with a burning or copy prg like Nero or Alcohol, then you just can't use it anymore. It's not like they let you chose what you want to use or do
on your comp, they preset it and blacklisted tools won't work anymore.
You probably know the "this software is not registered with MS, do you still want to install that prg" message on XP. Imagin the same only it
says it's not registered so fornicate you. That's also why I'm not a big supporter of VIESTA and the next gen of hardware that supports it.
i just thought the vid did a nice job in explaining it without to much chitchat technological lalala.

If that should happen there will always be custom builds of Vista, not that i'm ever going to use that horsepie :dennis:

If that happens, it will just mean that a lot of people will start running Linux on a bootable disc or even as their native os to burn cd's. Then some anti monopoly law will force Microsoft to share it's Directx technology and all gamers will use the more stable Linux giving their fps a huge boost. Goodbye Microsoft :P

Else you can always use WineX on linux

Not a big fan of Linux. tried it...wasted lotsa time...got Quake3 to run..for one day.