The media companies claim that they are losing quadrillions of dollars in lost sales to internet piracy.
Bottom line is that the content they are producing is mostly crapola.
With or without piracy, their revenue will decline drastically, since no one wants to buy their doodoo.
People might use the content if its easily available for free, but no one wants to go out and pay for content created without soul, with their hard earned bucks.
If the media companies would put some soul/passion into their content, maybe consumers would be willing to give up some of theirs in trade.

Personally i haven't downloaded any commercial music since the year 2001.
This is due to the fact that music created after said date is all garbage.
I do understand thats my opinion, but if you disagree, consider this...
Think about music from before 2001 and after... then ask yourself... does music created post-2001 have the same level of soul/passion/effort in it as pre-2001 music?
I can easily say it doesn't. Most of it feels like some algorithm created it, its that soul-less.

$ ./content.creator-2.0.1.0 -generate newmusic
=> Sending garbage to a.out

Same can be said of movie scripts and acting.

Instead of actually making stuff worth paying for, they use legal muscle to extort the weak, and financial muscle to buy politicians.
Essentially they are a mafia-type organization, yet they get mad when individuals bootleg.

They should spend less time harassing/annoying people, and more time working on a decent movie script.
Helping to get laws put in place that erode freedom of speech and a free internet makes them even bigger scumbags.

The gov'ts need to make it legal to copy commercial content provided its not being copied for profit.
That would put an end to this madness.

Lately, the last couple summers, I've seen a lot of opossums, now i know why.

Last summer, a kitten was born on my door step and i saw its mother fighting with a huge opossum over its survival.
The fight was epic, they were knocking over trash cans, hurdling each other 3ft into the air.
I should've made a video.

Honestly, if they could lower the feral cat population, that would also be a service.
I hate the smell of cat poopy.
Worst fecal smell ever!!!
But the plan doesn't seem to be working at all.
Yesterday i saw an opossum on the subway tracks with his head 3ft apart from his body, obviously cut off by a moving train, but this was at an above ground station in brooklyn.
I rarely see them in the subway system.
I usually see small brown mice or huge rats, especially in the underground stations in manhattan.
I also see tons of small brown mice in the parks of downtown manhattan, especially union sq.
I see opossum on the beach at night.

We need to find a predator that hunts/eats cats,mice,rats, and opossum but that doesnt multiply rapidly.
We need more chinese takeout spots and starving rednecks haha
If they would eat mosquitos too... would be nice.

I find it upsetting that there is no mention of BSD or other open-source code Apple has integrated into their cr4ppy expensive proprietary products.
Taking code that a community built for the world to use freely, and then charging up the rear for it, is not cool.
Taking all the credit for that code, and not thanking the open-source community for all its contributions, or at least admitting to Apple's use of such code (legal theft since the licensing on that code permitted such use) is not cool.

On a side note...
Apple makes a terrible product anyway.
Their hardware is overpriced by at least 300%.
Their software platform is garbage (have u seen gameplay on a mac).
Any modern OS is capable of doing what OSx is capable of, but not vice-versa.
Steve Jobs is a scumbag.
The typical OSx user is a wannabe hipster, that knows nothing of computers, would bend over gladly and buy an iDildo for 1000$ if Steve Jobs said it was revolutionary, and wouldn't even be able change the battery.

On a side side note...
Thank you Steve Jobs for all the laughter.
Nowadays, when my friends and I are walking down a street, and we see someone using a mac, we yell "MACF4G!!!" and laugh.
One hundred percent of the time, the "MACF4G" just sits there and takes it.
LOL

btw, i never had a component without moving parts fail.
actually the only other failure i had besides burners and hdds, was a gfx card.
that was due to a fan failure, which caused it to fry.

last component to fail for me was a harddisk.
but usually its my dvd burners since i pump mad discs thru em... one after another.
i run out of disc space and then go on a burning spree.
i guess they dont like having to burn so many discs without a cool off period.
my burners usually die after a thousand burns.
but i had one last much more.

children and adults that dont have a prospective financial future ahead of them could also be against legalization.
imagine a teenager, who isnt getting good grades at school, not very smart, and doesnt expect to make something of him/herself.
that troubled youth prolly wouldnt be able to find a decent job, but can always make decent money selling weed or other drugs.
take away the black market for drugs, and you could be destroying the lives of ppl who cant do anything else but sell drugs.

thats just an idea, i am actually for legalization, since i wanna get great weed for cheap.
paying 600 an ounce for great quality is very expensive.
im not one of those that needs to sell drugs to survive, but i do sorta sympathize for those that do.
i have many friends who would be homeless without those opportunities.
Especially weed, since hydro-weed is indoor grown and usually manufactured locally, so u know the money isnt funneling out of the country to god knows where.
its usually spent within the country on consumer products ( err... and most likely gets funneled to china lol)

just my thoughts...
hoping they not off topic

both have chipsets (northbridges)
intel recently integrated the memory controller
still uses the x58 chipset for socket1366 cpus

these days its harder and harder to achieve higher clock speeds due to the speed limits of current transistor technologies, so instead we just add more and more transistors.
its easier to add extra flipflops than to make faster flipflops.
for the most part, programs benefit more from clock speed than parallelism, but that mostly depends on the way the program was coded\compiled.
some apps are able to take advantage of all 12 threads on a i7 980x, which is good since clock speed aint gonna go up much in the near future.
so if more apps could be designed to take advantage of the increasing amount of cores, it would be a better computing environment.

actually intel makes compilers for various different languages that come with parallelism toolkits, that help recompile existing code for parallel execution.
nevertheless, its better to write code for parallel processing from the getgo.

Maxing out a i7 is very easy, just do some video encoding.
As for virtualization, it depends wat the virtual machines are working on. if u do video encoding in virtual machines, it only takes 1 to max out an i7.

amd doesnt even try to compete with intel in the high end market, its market niche is low prices, but in the end u get wat u pay for.
id rather pay more and get a solid product, but thats just me
infact i paid a shitload more and got a 980x

the 3 channel configuration current max is 6x4gb for a total of 24gb
thats wat i have :D
the boards with 4 slots arent triple channel, those are the lower end socket1156 boards for the i5/lowend-i7 cpus which only support 2chans
they shoulda labeled all their socket1156 processors as i5, its very confusing
i3/i5/i7 how about 'iKill' the marketing genius lol

btw, the intel chips that draw more power than their amd counterparts, are a shitload faster
amd sucks ass

on another note, intel should buy nvidia and should stop making halfassed gfx solutions

intel made IA64 instruction set for their itanium processors.
AMD made the AMD64 (x86-64) instruction extensions and licenses it to intel in the same way intel licenses x86 to them.
They now have a mutually dependant existence where each requires the others property to survive.
Although, i think intel could potentially survive without amd64, whereas amd would die without x86.

which part of 'my' english did you not understand?