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Hot Multi-OS Switching — Why Isn't It Everywhere?
First time accepted submitter recrudescence writes "Slashdot readers might remember the Touchbook announcement from Always Innovating stirring up a lot of excitement in the Slashdot community back in 2009 (almost a year before the iPad was announced and essentially killed this off, and way before the Asus Transformer, which is essentially the same idea). The company's new product seems to support Hot multi-OS switching, supposedly with a minimal performance penalty. What seems strange to me is, why haven't other developers jumped in on this already? Macs, for instance, made a huge campaign of their products' new ability to finally support Microsoft Windows, yet (disregarding emulation options) they're still limited to booting to a single working system at any time."
They live their whole lives attempting to deny the fact that they love, absolutely love, hot multi-switching. They live a double life, unable to reveal their true feelings to their friends and neighbors. Every night they pray to their God to take away the horrible lust and debauched thoughts screaming through their mind every hour of the day. In the grocery store checkout, they think about hot multi-OS action. In their car, driving to work. In the shower, trying to sing contemporary spiritual music so loud that it will drown out the evil thoughts, they think about hot multi-OS action. And even some of the preachers and imams, while they are delivering another fire-brand sermon straight from God to the people, are, in the back of their mind, thinking about hot multi-OS action.
Only when our society has gone through another generation or two, and hot multi-OS is no longer branded with the stigma of 'perversion' and 'sin', will we begin to see some sort of social acceptance. The laws against hot multi-OS will fall, piece by piece, one by one. Eventually, we may even see hot multi-OS allowed in the military.