But I wouldn't accept my motherboard supplier locking hardware features behind software updates either. Like if my can do pci express 16x. I wouldn't think it is right that it only does 8x unless I pay for a software unlock
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398555
basically adding or removing a few resistors made card performa like other models costing hundreds of dollars more.
No...?
By using Free Software?
And one has not needed to pay a separate fee for OS upgrades in quite some time. Linux has obviously always been free. macOS since at least Mavericks - if not earlier - is also free of additional charge.
I don't think Telsa falls under this unless they let you take a car for free and require you to pay monthly for the car to actually turn on.
That's more of a zipcar.
I think the law will only change for worse. It all starts with the DRM/DMCA.
However, some parts of the world are more enlightened when it comes to consumer rights. For example, the EU has at least attempted to make constructive regulatory interventions in the interests of consumers as technologies have evolved, even if their success has been mixed. Here in the UK, aside from EU rules we're inheriting after Brexit, we too have some solid basic consumer rights laws of our own. The EU+UK market is already larger than the US one, so that's a pretty big incentive for Tesla not to try those sorts of games around these parts. And if we get reasonable treatment, maybe that's enough for customers in places like the US to demand the same standards.
Surely you did. You just didn't pay attention. You paid for a bigger package (i.e new UI)that included driver updates as well.
In searching for more information, I found https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER5/ipha2_p5/... which talks about activating and deactivating not only processors but extra storage.
It doesn't seem like that would work very well for most laptops and phones, given how people won't pay for online backup or anything above the minimums.
Anyway, IBM had a vision of "computing on demand" many years ago but it wasn't in the cloud, it was in your data center.
only if I want to. In many cases I keep using old version.
>"Everything is going towards subscription models."
That is a wet dream that will not materialize for many vendors or will fail after a while.
