The Palladium (the horse of Troj) also was the reason of the conquest of the city when it first came in to the city. The armies that wanted to conquer the city builded a wooden horse and kept a task force in it. The soldiers in the city saw the horse in the open and dragged it in their city. When it was there the soldiers in it waited until the night and got out of the horse and opened the gates. Then the ciy was conquered.
Does this mean that M$ wants to take over the chip producers?
:) great story The first thing what they will have to do is introduce a new mail server that can't be checked with a non-ms system:-> I'm afraid they will make a system for almost not copyable documents. I think I'll buy a few hundred pens after work for the future.:)
I see this move to fix the security problems with hardware as a sign that MS is unable to do it with software. Linux is capable of a much better security than win, and the only way that Palladium is going to work is that the new os gets a architecture that doesn't even resemble win. I think other key considerations are to make software piracy impossible and I'm afraid (or happy? Perhaps, now more people will move to Linux) that the new platform will be closed. It is all very vague now, but I fear that only programs developed with MS programs will run on it and that there will be a massive lock-in effect for those who jump in this train. Excuse me, I'm going to polish my debian machine:)
Why don't you just install a dual boot system with the default windows? Then your family can use windows and you use mandrake on the same machine:) I have been doing this for years! And there is always vmware:)
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I expect that we can throw away a lot of communication protocols if we want ternary computing. Take for example the I2C protocol. I do not expect that the protocols will be modified, but I think they will be translated. So they will encode "tits" (thanks to corebreech) in bits, send it over the communication line and decode it. Eventually we will see new protocols, but I think this will take years. One good thing is that we can make sure we haven't got too many standards. I try to recall Tanenbaum... "the nice thing about standards is that we have so many of them to choose from" (don't shoot me if the quote isn't exact).
For bits we need one comperator to differentiate between true and false, but for tits we will need two of them. What about the good old RS232 protocol? My god, this is a nightmare!
How much may the OEM's actually change of the system? Let's replace the windows kernel by a linux kernel, this way they do not have to change the most common screen of Windows... The blue screen!
Hell yeah go for it! By the way... make the numerical part of the keybord stretchable. Now I have to type on the left side then stretch my right arm... even further... that's it! I found my mouse!
Who had the brilliant idea to place keys that you never use at the location where your mouse should be?
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We should ask the guys of Microsoft what to do with this... They probably will dynamically change key so you have to look for them all the time! And finally some annoying paperclip will say: "you do not seem to use the 'e'. Should I show it in the future?" A nightmare!
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The Palladium (the horse of Troj) also was the reason of the conquest of the city when it first came in to the city.
The armies that wanted to conquer the city builded a wooden horse and kept a task force in it. The soldiers in the city saw the horse in the open and dragged it in their city. When it was there the soldiers in it waited until the night and got out of the horse and opened the gates. Then the ciy was conquered.
Does this mean that M$ wants to take over the chip producers?
:) great story :-> :)
The first thing what they will have to do is introduce a new mail server that can't be checked with a non-ms system
I'm afraid they will make a system for almost not copyable documents.
I think I'll buy a few hundred pens after work for the future.
I see this move to fix the security problems with hardware as a sign that MS is unable to do it with software. :)
Linux is capable of a much better security than win, and the only way that Palladium is going to work is that the new os gets a architecture that doesn't even resemble win.
I think other key considerations are to make software piracy impossible and I'm afraid (or happy? Perhaps, now more people will move to Linux) that the new platform will be closed.
It is all very vague now, but I fear that only programs developed with MS programs will run on it and that there will be a massive lock-in effect for those who jump in this train.
Excuse me, I'm going to polish my debian machine
Why don't you just install a dual boot system with the default windows? Then your family can use windows and you use mandrake on the same machine :) I have been doing this for years! :)
And there is always vmware
I expect that we can throw away a lot of communication protocols if we want ternary computing. Take for example the I2C protocol. I do not expect that the protocols will be modified, but I think they will be translated. So they will encode "tits" (thanks to corebreech) in bits, send it over the communication line and decode it. Eventually we will see new protocols, but I think this will take years. One good thing is that we can make sure we haven't got too many standards. I try to recall Tanenbaum... "the nice thing about standards is that we have so many of them to choose from" (don't shoot me if the quote isn't exact).
For bits we need one comperator to differentiate between true and false, but for tits we will need two of them. What about the good old RS232 protocol? My god, this is a nightmare!
Microsoft will love this.
Now a bit can be true, false, or have crashed!
How much may the OEM's actually change of the system? Let's replace the windows kernel by a linux kernel, this way they do not have to change the most common screen of Windows... The blue screen!
Hell yeah go for it! By the way... make the numerical part of the keybord stretchable. Now I have to type on the left side then stretch my right arm... even further... that's it! I found my mouse! Who had the brilliant idea to place keys that you never use at the location where your mouse should be? c==||::::::::::::::::>
We should ask the guys of Microsoft what to do with this... They probably will dynamically change key so you have to look for them all the time! And finally some annoying paperclip will say: "you do not seem to use the 'e'. Should I show it in the future?" A nightmare!