A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
If you don't get it by reading the Executive Summary, you should scroll down to the Indirect Disabling of Functionality part, then read the Elimination of Unified Drivers part and the Denial-of-Service via Driver/Device Revocation part. Yes, nVidia probably does have problems getting completely functional drivers for every version/release/upgrade/service pack of Vista, but that is not really nVidia's fault, as you can read in the article. There probably isn't going to be any hardware company that is going to get it right, because the OS software won't let them get it right. Read the part about Increased Hardware Costs and security/DRM having to be approved by "Hollywood and other content owners", rather than technicians and security experts.
Gutmann states that "This document looks purely at the cost of the technical portions of Vista's content protection" not the "political issues". He also states "Vista's content protection must be able to violate the laws of physics, something that's unlikely to happen..."
Go ahead and scream and kick and cry about everything except the OS... all you do is exhibit your abject ignorance to all and sundry. You can try to blame the hardware/driver suppliers all you want, but in the end it is technically impossible for them to provide reliable, quality products for this OS. Some may have a system that actually works, because their particular build/release of Vista just happened to get installed on marginally compatible hardware with marginally functional drivers/firmware, but that won't last long. As soon as the first "update" is loaded without the user's knowledge, things start to break.
You can drink all the MS koolaid you want, but technically this OS version is not going to work, and it may put some hardware manufacturers out of business through no fault of their own because they tried to "comply" with the OS requirements.
Have fun with your anti-nVidia rants. Have fun with all the problems you are going to have with Vista. And believe me, it will be Vista that is the problem, not the hardware/drivers/applications. I can't wait to hear your rant about how some hardware/application "blew up" your computer, or shut down/deleted your application, or outputs a fuzzy image or krappy sound... or no sound or video at all. And when Vista shuts down your hardware, applications and deletes your files. I'm sure it will always be everything else's fault but Vista's. Good luck, you're going to need it.
Yup, class action lawsuits against the hardware manufacturer because they cannot possibly comply with the OS/MS requirements. I agree, nVidia labeled some video cards as Vista ready/compliant, when they should never have even released a piece of hardware for the OS.
It would also help your credibility (such as it is) if you'd learn to spell and use reasonably understandable grammar and punctuation, so people could try to understand what you are writing. As it is, you come off as an illiterate who probably has trouble finding the on/off switch on the computer, so no wonder you have problems having drank the MS koolaid. Examples: learn the difference between to/too, their/there, just for a start.
What name did I call anybody?
OK NOw I just read your ridiculous rant.
You seem to be taking the position that because Vista is the OS it is therefore the sole reason that anything will go wrong. You say its not nVidias fault, yet nVidia has admitted it is wrong and is working on a solution. You say I will blame everybody but microsoft, yet you dont know me, you didnt see me throw my Windows ME Pc off of my second story apartment because it had the worse OS in the history of OS's. I dont care for the amount of security issues with XP. I am just not an ignorant fool who thinks that a company who releases a product specifically for another should require the other company to fix its problems. No sir, the OS is new, the problem is not its problem its the vendors fault. Take five minutes out of your day and go read alittle about it.