主题:Vista安全功能是“史上最长的自杀笔记 -- 心文连博
The Inquirer报道了一篇很有意思的分析Vista (http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt)的文章,作者Peter Gutmann,一位内科医生,做手术前要使用PC进行图像预览。这不是一篇普通的反微软托拉斯的文章,Peter Gutmann从专业的角度来评论如果他的电脑升级到Windows Vista会发生什么,他的评价是Vista上安全功能是“自杀”。他说“Windows Vista的内核OS进行了大规模的重写,为的是提供所谓的"premium content"的内容保护功能,典型的就是从蓝光DVD和HD-DVD的数据不能拷贝到硬盘上。提供这样的保护显然将对系统的执行性能和系统的可靠性有很大的影响,技术支持的费用,硬件和软件的花费都会上涨。”
"None of the AGP or PCI-E graphics cards that you can buy today support HDCP
[...] If you.ve just spent $1000 on a pair of Radeon X1900 XT graphics cards
expecting to be able to playback HD-DVD or Blu-Ray movies at 1920x1080
resolution in the future, you've just wasted your money [...] If you just
spent $1500 on a pair of 7800GTX 512MB GPUs expecting to be able to play
1920x1080 HD-DVD or Blu-Ray movies in the future, you've just wasted your
money".