Driving may not be a "right", but just because I'm on the road doesn't give the police authority to search my car without reasonable suspicion or a warrant.

Don't know why you guys place so much of the blame on the student. It isn't like buying a Ferrari and then complaining that it's expensive. This is like being TOLD by "experts" in every single facet of life that you have to attend college at any cost necessary, and that if you don't you will be a homeless bum with nothing to show for after graduating high school, and every single white collar job out there requires a college degree. And add to the fact of the government TELLING lenders to give tens of thousands of dollars to any person that can fog a mirror. Sure you could say that these inept 18yr olds shouldn't have borrowed so much money, but at the same time nobody is faulting the lenders (typically educated in the vast world of finance) that giving uneducated 18yr olds nearly $100k without collateral is a good idea. The only difference now is that Uncle Sam can garnish your wages for the rest of your life until your loans are paid off. Just like the housing situation, the banks/gov't took on the RISK of lending tens of thousands to college students. Now instead of facing that risk through losses, they are turning these students into indentured servants. Capitalism without risk is nothing more than dictatorship. Winners have been chosen, and you are not in the 1%.

What good is spending millions on original content just to have 90% of the users on fast broadband pipes buffering for 15 minutes at 360p just to watch a preview of yet another reality TV show?

I believe authors do want DRM on their eBooks. You send can easily send a PDF around to your entire Google Contacts List in a matter of seconds much easier than you can share the latest XViD scene rip.

BD is a big step forward in CPU revolution. If Bulldozer came out in 2009 when it was originally announced nearly a half-decade ago, it would have been a really good CPU for its time. Sandy Bridge is now every where and eats Bulldozer's lunch in nearly every single category. I for one bought into the AMD hype that this would be the next best thing for CPUs and would beat the pants off of Sandy Bridge, but it was just the opposite. Underwhelming in every sense of the word.

Wow you are an extreme fan boy. I've seen you post on this article a few dozen times full of FUD and lies. You must be paid by AMD. Llano was a huge dissapointment. I sat around waiting for Llano to come out because of the supposed battery power and supposed gaming usage and CPU power. Llano is based on a previous generation of AMD technology. It is a Phenom II core with an ATI Radeon GPU sewn together. A Core i3 blows Llano out of the water on anything CPU related. Read any respectable site and you will see benchmarks where the Llano doesn't even come close to the Core i5 or i7 except for GPU usage. Intel's onboard GPU is very weak (by its own admittance). You don't buy an Intel CPU expecting to get a great onboard GPU for playing games, but you get a CPU that magnitudes times faster, better battery life, etc. And you can use the extra money that you saved to get a BETTER discrete GPU if you do intend to play games on a laptop.

They're not planning to fix the memory leak issues until Firefox 416, due out sometime in early 2012.

Can we please get the memory issues fixed before you guys keep thinking of other stuff to change? The interface isn't THAT bad as compared to two tabs eating 4GB of RAM.

Nobody cares if Farmville or Facebook will only utilize one core. When folks have the money, they are going to buy the fastest CPU available. Only the budget conscious person is going to ask themselves if they will utilize all those cores or even need that many megahertz (and possibly higher TDP). When they are at their local BestBuy, the sales person is going to pitch them the latest Quad-Core or Octal-Core machine "because your college-bound daughter need it for running Microsoft Word". Going forward, there will be no choice from AMD/Intel but to have a multi-core machine at 3+GHz. Even though a low-end Via will be fine for most folks at a fraction of the cost, it won't be commercially available at the local electronics stores. Related Analogy: Americans still buy fast cars even though the speed limit is 70mph in most places. Just about every modern car nowadays is capable of going at least 100mph even though most urban folks average 30-35mph in their daily commute

Wow, AMD fanboys out in full force today. This is about your 12th post with the same thing. If all people do is run Office and play Angry Birds, then they don't need a Radeon 5000-series GPU, a budget Core i3 would do just fine, plus it has superior CPU performance. So aren't you arguing against what you were paid to do here?

If people had all the CPU power they needed, they would all still be on Pentium4's. I would venture out to say that anybody who reads Slashdot on a daily basis is probably a power user, who needs more than budget CPU. So basically for a couple dollars more, they can get a Core i3 Sandy Bridge with superior CPU performance and an onboard GPU that is "good enough" to make Windows8 fly as you say.

And again, I like Llano, but it's just a little too slow for the tasks that *I* need. Plus its a little too late to the market with its older PhenomII core. Bulldozer will be here shortly and that should give Intel a run for its money.