Norton and Internet Explorer.... hahahaha

hahaha

I thought computer savvy users stopped using BOTH of those programs years ago.

now you did it.
Nice work.
The secret is out now.

You can always turn it to off, then back to acc.

I guess these people just panic and lock up. Needs more driver ed!

Drive by wire, stop it!
I just bought a brand new new car, its a hyundai Tiburon. There is this nice braided stainless steel cable between my throttle body and my foot. This is a brand new 2009 model sports car.

I lift my foot, car slows down. There is your solution.

step 1 :profit.

wheres my freaking profit dammit!
Its a recipe for disaster using pure electronics to control the speed of an engine. In a device that often weighs over a ton, that can cause massive and greivous bodily damage. Resistors fail. Motors lock up. Drive MOSFETs get latched on, wires short circuit, capacitors short circuit or explode.

To be honest, i also wonder why these people dont work out to turn the damn ignition off, put the car in neutral, and push on their brakes with all their might. I understand that vacuum assist brakes dont work well when you have a wide open throttle, but they still work.

As i understand, there is NO physical device that prevents someone from turning the damn ignition off!!!

The higher end dreytek business modems support at least two aggregate DSL links. The real question is, do you want a wider pipe, or a faster pipe. One is easy, the other not so easy. Bigger trucks in your tubes, or faster trucks in your tubes :) (sorry couldnt resist that analogy)

Pulling over 70 megabytes a second using a 90 AUD motherboard, with a 80 AUD amd cpu and using silicon image sata cards with 1tb WD green caviar hard drives, and running windows 2003 standard. Now you dont have to run 2003, Solaris would be your next best bet for the beauty that is ZFS, or just run something along the lines of freenas. If the os doesnt like the onboard nic (atheros L1 in my case) you can get a PCI-E intel gigabit desktop card for 70 AUD, which should run just beautifully. Like everone said, if you want speed, dont even bother with the small nas products. Its just not going to happen. In your application you need a real proper server, and a non embedded OS.

If Microsoft spent all this money and time on DRM and Anti Piracy on actually improving the OS, making it quicker, more stable, and more usable, there wouldn't be such a market for Piracy. Increase the quality, drop the price a little, and I'm sure piracy would drop.
There will ALWAYS be piracy however, just as there will always be spam, and theft. If you give ANYTHING a value, at least some humans out there will try and get it for free.

Hell, maybe make a totally cut down version of vista thats 20-30 dollars, remove all but the basic features, allow users to get an OS on to their machine that doesnt cost an arm and a leg, and if they do need or want the extra things, pay for it.
Thats a business model that definately works. Look at cable tv.

Oh and another thing, what the hell is up with the DRM. If i buy an OS I want to be able to do what I want. If i get caught, i face the repercussions. Its not up to the OS manufacturer to impose third party restrictions on what YOU do with YOUR time. That is another subject for another time, and one of the reasons I won't be getting vista. I currently use windows 2003 server on my work PC, and it works, and works very well. No need to change.