Released in 1999, the PlayStation hit Ape Escape became the first game to explicitly require DualShock/Dual-Analog-type controllers, with its gameplay requiring the use of both analog sticks.
Why would you allow an optout? If your network isn't spewing garbage, it'll never get noticed.
But Comcast might consider downloading torrents garbage. Or even perhaps visiting Slashdot. What then? With their track record, I almost KNOW that this will be abused.
With AMD if it ain't a Sempron it has VT, or whatever AMD calls theirs, and the "bang for the buck" on the new duals and quads means I can give my customers more RAM and bigger HDDs, which I have found for a good 99.95% of the average folks out there matters more than having the fastest CPU out there.
Actually the latest Sempron, the 140 has AMD-V support.
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." -- William James