Even though Linus thinks virtualization is overhyped, I think this will bring a huge leap in consumer choice in these kind of environments. If the virtualized and the host environments can merge well from a user's perspective (thinks like file access, clipboard, menu's, etc.), people would be able to use IE/win for those things they really have to use IE on windows, and for the rest they can really use whatever environment they like.
In almost all new markets untill this date, it has been possible to make huge sums of money. As markets mature competition takes over. John D. Rockefeller and Bill Gates would be names you would've never heard of if they were born 30 years later.
Consumers, businesses, and governments are slow learners, but they do learn. In a couple of decades, this whole Microsoft thing will only be known to us geeks and some historians.
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what's so hard about "sudo apt-get install sun-java5-plugin sun-java5-bin", or "sudoe emerge sun-jre-bin"?
are all gamers the same? do they all want to play all games? does someone simply want to play games, or do they want to play GTA, doom3, WoW, etc.? (btw: all games supported by wine/cedega).
I'm not really a gamer, but if I were to have a subscription to WoW I'd like to be able to play it. Why would it matter to me if other games don't run on linux?
This is a huge victory of the tech people! This shows that if you try hard enough, you can convince people who know nothing about computers, open source, EM radiation, etc.
The guy who started the group is a hacker, who started the best ISP in the Netherlands, XS4ALL. they have a very good record when it comes to consumer privacy and helping the internet evolve. He's a nerd, like most of us, but he can convince other people. We can do more if we try harder.
indeed there are issues with those other appliances as well, but they do usually not compromise one's democratic rights, which we value highly in the Netherlands.
We have a lot less reason than some other countries (US is one of them) to suspect someone would even try to fraud elections, because the rest of the system works quite well, and the whole process is quite democratic. This is again, because we value democracy highly, the exact reason we don't want to use machines that can compromise secracy in voting.
I'm not sure if it's this type of machine or one of the others, but at least one of them doesn't transmit anything on purpose, but there is RF radiation coming from the display, and the chip that drives it. You can't actually read what's on the screen, but you can make a fingerprint and compare it to known fingerprints.
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Even though Linus thinks virtualization is overhyped, I think this will bring a huge leap in consumer choice in these kind of environments. If the virtualized and the host environments can merge well from a user's perspective (thinks like file access, clipboard, menu's, etc.), people would be able to use IE/win for those things they really have to use IE on windows, and for the rest they can really use whatever environment they like.
In almost all new markets untill this date, it has been possible to make huge sums of money. As markets mature competition takes over. John D. Rockefeller and Bill Gates would be names you would've never heard of if they were born 30 years later.
Consumers, businesses, and governments are slow learners, but they do learn. In a couple of decades, this whole Microsoft thing will only be known to us geeks and some historians.
what's so hard about "sudo apt-get install sun-java5-plugin sun-java5-bin", or "sudoe emerge sun-jre-bin"?
are all gamers the same? do they all want to play all games? does someone simply want to play games, or do they want to play GTA, doom3, WoW, etc.? (btw: all games supported by wine/cedega).
I'm not really a gamer, but if I were to have a subscription to WoW I'd like to be able to play it. Why would it matter to me if other games don't run on linux?
This is a huge victory of the tech people! This shows that if you try hard enough, you can convince people who know nothing about computers, open source, EM radiation, etc.
The guy who started the group is a hacker, who started the best ISP in the Netherlands, XS4ALL. they have a very good record when it comes to consumer privacy and helping the internet evolve. He's a nerd, like most of us, but he can convince other people. We can do more if we try harder.
indeed there are issues with those other appliances as well, but they do usually not compromise one's democratic rights, which we value highly in the Netherlands. We have a lot less reason than some other countries (US is one of them) to suspect someone would even try to fraud elections, because the rest of the system works quite well, and the whole process is quite democratic. This is again, because we value democracy highly, the exact reason we don't want to use machines that can compromise secracy in voting.
I'm not sure if it's this type of machine or one of the others, but at least one of them doesn't transmit anything on purpose, but there is RF radiation coming from the display, and the chip that drives it. You can't actually read what's on the screen, but you can make a fingerprint and compare it to known fingerprints.