Risk in the Computer Hardware Industry

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Risk in the Computer Hardware Industry
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Competition
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Monopolies

• minimize or wipe out competition
• undesirable price controls
• market growth is halted
• decrease in individual incentive

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Pre-installation of Microsoft Windows
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Piracy

• Piracy the making use of or reproducing
  anothers work without proper authorization
• stolen hardware
• re-clocked chips

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Preventing Piracy

• State law enforcement
• chip coding and tracking
• foreign government intervention

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Difficult to Prevent

• no effective ways have been developed
• manufacturers are reluctant to take a stand

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Y2K

• Real Time Clock (RTC)
• hardware clock
• runs whether the computer is on or off
• tracks both time and date
• Virtual Clock
• systems clock
• runs only when computer is on
• tracks only time

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Time and Date Retrieval

• operating system
• virtual clock
• basic input-output systems
• real time clock

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QUESTIONS