Intel's Pay-As-You-Go CPU Feature Gets Launch Window

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[–]Antarchomachus 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

So what you're saying is I have to pay Intel a monthly extortion fee not to block me from using the features the chip already has built into it.

Fantastic

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You'll probably be able to buy the cheapest no frills plan and just run a jailbreak program. Like zyxzevn said though, I don't see how this won't be terrible for performance.

[–]Antarchomachus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, my anger stems more from the fact as a society we seem to think that this is a desirable or acceptable economic arrangement.

Elon Musk will 'increase' the range of your Tesla, by unlocking the artificially blocked capacity of the battery via a software update.

That we would seek to arrange the basis of trade on this type of artificially exploitative arrangement is insane, whether they are able to do it well or not.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We're screwed if they're allowed to connect this with the digital ID.

[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I refuse to buy something and then have to pay to use it.

[–]thisusernamesucks 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If AMD is waiting for a sign to make a move for market domination, this is it.

[–]zyxzevn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They have been working on that for 50 years. It generally does not work, because your hardware can be about 10x faster or more, if you do not use software programmable logic.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's what I was thinking. Also, eventually this would be hacked so you'd be able to buy the cheapest model and just jailbreak it.