Everyone should know about the recent investigations against Intel.  Personally, I use Intel processor(I also have a few AMD processors) and I like how Intel has really been spending some money to push in some fresh new blood into the desktop x86 market.  I also like seeing them push some extra competition into the mobile products market(them and nVidia), but has anyone ever ventured to go beyond the major computer players such as Intel and Microsoft and investigate someone who is blatantly conspiring against consumers?

I’m talking about the RIAA and MPAA and the entertainment corporations behind them.  They’re blatantly conspiring together, and they’re definitely out to get "pirates" and they don’t care who or what they step on.

Now maybe they really are loosing a lot of profits.  My sentiments are really, too bad.  I’m not going to pirate music personally but that’s not going to stop several hundred million others.  But really, if they’d get off of their high wagon and do something innovative and fresh, maybe they’d make more profits.

Lets take the consumer laptop/desktop market.  This is obviously a market with razor sharp margins on products.  Yet people like HP(I’m a big HP fan, sorry if you’re not, but I have my reasons) are pumping out some seriously cool stuff(you didn’t think I’d forget the Blackbird would you?).  And they also seem to be making plenty of money in the consumer market.

Remember my previous post on the future of profits for Hollywood?  Well that’s what other companies seem to be well doing.

But back to anti-trust.  Isn’t one inclined to think that these companies need a good dose of reality and need to have some consumer rights forced down their throat(since they’re obviously not interested in doing it themselves)?

Up to you, but as for me, I’m off of their "products" until they see the light, or maybe they never will and I’ll be stuck in the indie world forever(fine by me really).

Some people argue about the difference between C++ and Java, well, I think I’ve finally figured it out.

With C++, the experience is ultimately rewarding. Sure you want to beat your head in with a slice of lemon, wrapped around a large gold brick(even though that’s considered enjoyable for some people); but in the end, it makes you feel like a king of computers. You finally shake off that last compiler error and finalize the debugging and you feel like all 1337 having done so, ever the more confident until you sit down for another session with it.

Java, by contrast, makes you feel like you’ve just been halfway through brain surgery and the surgeon went for lunch, so no all you’re left with is the janitor and a pair of rats, who have found their way to your brain after trying to flee from the janitor attempting to smash them. Even once you DO finish with the compiler(which is stupidly annoying), and take care of the few odd bugs(you WON’T be able to fix them all lest you risk more compiler errors) you feel like a couple of Ewoks are using your once shiny helmet as a musical drum.

Even so, I guess it’s possible to accomplish a lot with Java, still, doesn’t stop it from being annoying.