Aurora's Profile

Intel changed their marketing logo because they are now going to put CPUs on the OUTSIDE of computers. This will cause a revolution in digital clothing (as opposed to that bad, old, analog clothing) -- specifically "intelligent lingere". Need a tuck or a few ruffles there? Those teraflops of external computing power will rearrange the light-reflecting substance just SO. And in the end, what's more attractive to geeks than naked computing? Lingere + external CPUS = mad geek love.

It seems to me that it's about freedom and control. Is the music you have yours, or does it still belong to the record companies or the band? I've always thought that the music was mine and the record companies have thought so, too; that's why they've been pushing us to buy LPs, EPs, tapes, box sets, CDs, DVDs, and so on. Now they want to rent the same stuff they've been selling all these years? Screw that. Now maybe this rental concept will work in Europe. I'm seeing a big crash and burn here in the U.S. Music is a personal thing, not a undifferentiated homogenized commodity like power or light, and the concept of taking away your music is a personal violation and invasion.