Amigas turn to play catch up - new intel cpu

[fishy_fiz]

Hehe.... the sad thing is that I know Commodore Amiga Iran is supposed to be a joke, and yet I'd be more likely to buy something from them than I would C-USA  

[nicholas]

Provisional website should be live very soon my friend.

[Boudicca]

@haywirepc/Steven

I really don't understand... Is it jealousy?..... Is it mother issues?... Because we have somehow bruised your sensibilities? Because we're not doing it your way? All I can think is, that you're just a little too sensitive or have crazy high expectations.
.. you act obsessively crazy in regard to us.

... You sir, are not normal, to put it kindly.

...Yeah, sorry your highness.

....Don't assume it's bullshit..... I wrote a few lines on this forum bearing our licensed Amiga name.

I assume you intend to back up these allegations, evidently your employer has funds available to support these assertions, and as a representative of the company, I expect you have Barry's full backing to post here as such.

Interesting times ahead.

[r06ue1]

Looks like I'll continue to buy AMD processors (until they add that DRM crap too).

[Boudicca]

Looks like I'll continue to buy AMD processors (until they add that DRM crap too).

There all going this way, everything embedded soon on single BGA package. Covered in gunk or extended over the pcb to prevent tampering, locked down with a bastion hypervisor, running a drm'ed processor/video and audio with eventually encrypted memory and tamperproof internal fuse-links.

They all want to be the next (Sky/Fox/NDS VideoGuard and milk the video cash cow.)

Where do you want to go today, that's 5 bucks, oh no the door bell rang, pause, thats 5 more bucks, oh you want to watch it upstairs thats 10 more bucks, oh you missed it, thats 5 more bucks, you want to watch it again, thats 5 more bucks, oh you like to keep a copy that's 40 bucks but we never actually send it you its on our server anytime you want until the end of calendar year. You can't resell what you never owned can you !. Oh just in case that's 40 bucks for a transfer licence.

What book was that called "Brave New World", not in our collection it must have been archived, have you taken your pill !

The free, must defend, those who are not.

[KThunder]

There all going this way, everything embedded soon on single BGA package. Covered in gunk or extended over the pcb to prevent tampering, locked down with a bastion hypervisor, running a drm'ed processor/video and audio with eventually encrypted memory and tamperproof internal fuse-links.

They all want to be the next (Sky/Fox/NDS VideoGuard and milk the video cash cow.)

Where do you want to go today, that's 5 bucks, oh no the door bell rang, pause, thats 5 more bucks, oh you want to watch it upstairs thats 10 more bucks, oh you missed it, thats 5 more bucks, you want to watch it again, thats 5 more bucks, oh you like to keep a copy that's 40 bucks but we never actually send it you its on our server anytime you want until the end of calendar year. You can't resell what you never owned can you !. Oh just in case that's 40 bucks for a transfer licence.

What book was that called "Brave New World", not in our collection it must have been archived, have you taken your pill !

The free, must defend, those who are not.

Interesting little rant you have there. I have dishnetwork and for ony 5bucks I have dvr service. Pause, rewind, record, watch anywhere anytime, only 5 bucks a month. Not 5 bucks each time 5 dollars once a month.

Do any of you remember when the Pentium III came out with internal serial numbers, and we made Intel remove them. We consumers, normal people, made the mighty Intel bow to our wishes. All we have to do is speak up. Paranoia will get us nowhere. Responsible dialogue will get us what we want.

These companies have a right to protect their money flow. And they realize that we have rights too. We can get DVDs with free digital copy. Watch it on your laptop, or Ipod, or whatever, they don't care as long as you follow the rules and don't rip them off. You want a particular game or movie or whatever, buy it.

[motrucker]

Aros, MorphOS, Minimig, and OS4 are direct decendants of Amiga and are currently being developed. When we say "Amiga" is alive it is the same as saying that Windows is still alive. Is Windows 3.0 still alive, no but it's decendent is. Same with MacOs etc.

The Commodore Amiga is dead but it's clones are still very much alive, and being developed.
Aros could very easily use this technology.  

And yes you did want to start an argument.

Didn't say I didn't want to start an argument! A good debate might be a better way of putting it, but, this is all way off topic....

[psxphill]

Do any of you remember when the Pentium III came out with internal serial numbers, and we made Intel remove them. We consumers, normal people, made the mighty Intel bow to our wishes. All we have to do is speak up.

They only removed it because it was pointless. Network cards and hard drives already had internal serial numbers & while it would have been useful to have a serial number on the CPU as well, it really wasn't worth their while trying to explain it to all the idiots who were outraged.
 
I'm planning on getting a trackable laptop next, in case it gets stolen. As I can already be tracked by my mobile phone, card payments etc I can't see why I'd not take advantage of it.

[Boudicca]

Interesting little rant you have there. I have dishnetwork and for ony 5bucks I have dvr service. Pause, rewind, record, watch anywhere anytime, only 5 bucks a month. Not 5 bucks each time 5 dollars once a month.

These companies have a right to protect their money flow. And they realize that we have rights too. We can get DVDs with free digital copy. Watch it on your laptop, or Ipod, or whatever, they don't care as long as you follow the rules and don't rip them off. You want a particular game or movie or whatever, buy it.

Mr Kthunder of the good ole USA, thank your star spangled banner that you don't live in near a Murdochnopoly, I pay 150 dollars a month to watch some football and a few movies in HD with the ability to pause/record and rewind. Thank you very much for your DMCA 2000 that doesn't appear to affect your digital economy very much, but by god it affected everyone elses and mr murdoch wants even more....once a thieving bastard always a thieving bastard ! and we don't have much of a choice to stay legal!

Sky Sports 15 quid approx
Sky Movies 15 quid approx
Sky HD Basic pack 10 quid
Sky Basic Package 20 quid approx
Sky HD Options pack 2 quid
Sky Multi-Room (That's for an extra receiver) 10 quid
Sky HD Basic pack for the 2nd box 10 quid

And its so locked down NDS VideoGuard has never been cracked.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it

PS Yes I can afford it at the moment, but don't lecture us about the rights of the "company". (Oh yes Murdoch is now a naturalised american !)

[KThunder]

Mr Kthunder of the good ole USA, thank your star spangled banner that you don't live in near a Murdochnopoly, I pay 150 dollars a month to watch some football and a few movies in HD with the ability to pause/record and rewind. Thank you very much for your DMCA 2000 that doesn't appear to affect your digital economy very much, but by god it affected everyone elses and mr murdoch wants even more....once a thieving bastard always a thieving bastard ! and we don't have much of a choice to stay legal!

Sky Sports 15 quid approx
Sky Movies 15 quid approx
Sky HD Basic pack 10 quid
Sky Basic Package 20 quid approx
Sky HD Options pack 2 quid
Sky Multi-Room (That's for an extra receiver) 10 quid
Sky HD Basic pack for the 2nd box 10 quid

And its so locked down NDS VideoGuard has never been cracked.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it

PS Yes I can afford it at the moment, but don't lecture us about the rights of the "company". (Oh yes Murdoch is now a naturalised american !)

ok Mr. Boudicca it's in my pipe and I'm smoking it, but it seems really really...normal.
150 a month thats normal I pay 95 a month but I don't have movies or sports. I can (and you presumably) get a basic package for 29 to 39 but I want the extras.

You seriously call this thievery?!?

Who the heck was lecturing? not me! Tell me what rights you think the companies that produce and distribute the entertaintainment we "can't" live without have. Do they have a right to make a profit? Each of the channels we watch costs money, it costs money to put satellites up to carry the data, etc. etc.

What I call thievery is the 95% of people who produce no art, no film, no anything constantly trying to find ways of getting this stuff (which is not necessary for life) for free.

there is your lecture Mr. Boudicca put that in your pipe and smoke it  

...or whatever

[haywirepc]

I think its always best to try and fight these copy protection schemes.
 
Does anyone remember back in the day when you'd buy a game and you had to always enter a word from the instruction manual just to play the game? That annoyed the shit out of me, I'd get cracked copies of the games I bought just for spite because if I pay money for something I shouldn't be annoyed when wanting to use it. But I stress I rarely just got cracked games. If I liked a game, I paid for it for the most part.
 
Same goes for digital copy protection. They can annoy me if they want but if I buy a movie, then I should be able to make backup copies, have it on my server in digital form, whatever, I paid for it, its MY copy.
 
BTW
 
Aw, what happened, back on topic? Can't we get back to trashing bigbenaussie, and his company's imagined 30 million dollar advertising budget?
 
Boy he really respresented himself and his "company" well in this thread. As for the other allegations of his stupidiy in posts on another forum... Yeah right that wasn't him. Some hacker hacked into his amigaworld account, then hacked into his private email accounts and then pasted private emails from his private email accounts on to a public forum.
 
Wow what a fantastic "Chief technical officer". He's so tremendously tech savy that his own personal email accounts aren't secure. Wow that says alot about his technical skills. Lets not forget that one...
 
One more FAIL for CUSA.
 
Steven

[Franko]

I too subscibe to Sky and pay them a small fortune each month for my TV (£83 minimum per month) ok nobody's forcing me to, but what pisses me off with these companies like sky is I pay all that money and still get bombarded with ads...

It may cost them money to put the satellites up etc... but the obscene profits companies like Sky make from adverts alone doesn't justify the prices they charge folk just to watch TV... :

What's worse still is the fact that Sky now treat us like American viewers... ie: they think we only have an attention span that lasts for the opening credits of a show before going to an ad break that's twice as long as the progs opening titles...

(ever watched Monday Night RAW live, 2 hours long and at least 45 minutes of it is ad breaks...)

[the_leander]

It's rubbishy DRM-infested crap, the hardware equivalent of Windoze Vista. I'll be giving Intel CPUs a miss from this point onwards.

Presumably you haven't bought a PC any time since the launch of the original Athlon64 then, since all modern cpus have drm available as an option, same too for many graphics cards post 2005....

Whilst the cries of *no drm ever* is a laudable one, it is simply untenable in today's world. Even Android has a certain amount of protection for some things, such as gps for instance, which is locked up tighter than a drum.

[Boudicca]

ok Mr. Boudicca

Ouch! Quick check...nope nowt there....phew.

it's in my pipe and I'm smoking it

I bet they all say that...down your way

but it seems really really...normal.

Fair do's if thats the case.

You seriously call this thievery?!?

Deffo. Murdovision is theft. (Definition: Thievery - Pronounced (We remember Wapping), A method to obtain money by blatant reruns/cheap tv production and charge ridiculous sums of money for sporting and other live content which was originally on national television to allo for the purchasing of the Fox Network to extort monies from American citizens, and feed the UK with even more crap. (Quote OED, Oxbridge University Press)

Who the heck was lecturing? not me!

Oh ok, then don't tell the French, that we also Surrender monkeys.

Tell me what rights you think the companies that produce and distribute the entertaintainment we "can't" live without have.

You got me there, I have decided to pay the other form of entertainment, that's it enoughs enough...I've gone fishing.

Do they have a right to make a profit? Each of the channels we watch costs money, it costs money to put satellites up to carry the data, etc. etc.

Your absolutely right. Where's my coat.

What I call thievery is the 95% of people who produce no art, no film, no anything constantly trying to find ways of getting this stuff (which is not necessary for life) for free.

Contradiction there, but if we can't live we out it, its can't be not necessary for life.

I think the truth is, we take for granted many things in life, TV is a luxury in anyone's book but I find it difficult to understand in a open and fair society that a content provider Sky tv also are a content distributor and reseller. 90% of all channels viewed in the UK are the almost the property of one R.Murdoch and no matter what pricing is charge, I resent the man, I resent what he stands for. It isn't business its greed and more greedy these little b*ggers get, the more I feel we need to remind them who actually pays for their lifestyle.

If that means finding ways around that greed. I won't argue its wrong....any especially not wrong when it comes to murdovision.

[KThunder]

ok Mrs.? Boudicca

I read, and reread your post and you don't seem to really be saying anything, until the end so other than the Mrs. thing i'll only address that.

this bit:
"Contradiction there, but if we can't live we out it, its can't be not necessary for life."

doesn't seem to be proper english so I don't know what to do with it.

and the rest just seems to be an attack on "murdoch" who I don't know and since I dont have or know sky either all I can say is that you seem to have a comparable package for a comparable price.

If you actually get into it you realize how much syndication costs, production costs etc. all are. This stuff costs huge amounts of money. Thats why we pay what we do. if we want to go back to standard def tv. and cardboard sets we could pay a bit less but I like stuff realistic, I like high def. and I like good acting and writing.

It all costs money. thats were we come in.

sitting around a campfire telling stories is free

[Franko]

@ KThuder

Mr Murdoch who currently owns around 39% of SKY and is at this very moment trying to buy out SKY completely, is not a very popular chap in this county mainly thanks to his vast ownership of much of the newspapers & other media here...

He also like to do things as cheaply as possible in any of the pies he has his grubby little fingers in which generally leads to the dumbing down of it's content...

If Murdoch has his way TV here will only get worse as he'll simply flood us with more cheap made American trash and even more adverts (it's almost as bad as American TV here now...)

I wish Mr Murdoch would do as his arch rival did (Robert Maxwell) and fall of his luxury yacht and swim like a brick...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/city-news/2010/07/30/sky-tv-reveals-record-profits-115875-22451060/

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/news/a252503/sky-profits-soar-amid-hd-demand.html