What benefits? Best I can tell, trusted computing provides me, a consumer, no benefits over what exist today. It does, however, provide many benefits to large corporations and media control companies.
So 'trusted' here means that the companies can finally trust 'all us thieves' with 'their' media property.
Explain to me again, why on earth would I want any machine like this as a general computing platform?
At my company, yes, there are interesting comments all through the code. They aren't as colorful as the Linux kernel though (those kind of comments would probably get you in trouble in a business setting).
I like to think that having interesting comments (non abusive comments mind you) in the code shows the developers are enjoying themselves and working on something they like and with a team they like. Our code is sprinkled with numerous quips and questions and many comments are part of a running joke involving one of our team members and his (humourous, not real) abusive drinking.
You do have to be careful though. In one previous version of our product some Javascript code (i.e. viewable in the browser) went out with a comment along these lines: "How could this have ever worked? No one must have tested this part at all." It was removed shortly after a customer called to complain about it.:)
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What benefits? Best I can tell, trusted computing provides me, a consumer, no benefits over what exist today. It does, however, provide many benefits to large corporations and media control companies.
So 'trusted' here means that the companies can finally trust 'all us thieves' with 'their' media property.
Explain to me again, why on earth would I want any machine like this as a general computing platform?
At my company, yes, there are interesting comments all through the code. They aren't as colorful as the Linux kernel though (those kind of comments would probably get you in trouble in a business setting).
:)
I like to think that having interesting comments (non abusive comments mind you) in the code shows the developers are enjoying themselves and working on something they like and with a team they like. Our code is sprinkled with numerous quips and questions and many comments are part of a running joke involving one of our team members and his (humourous, not real) abusive drinking.
You do have to be careful though. In one previous version of our product some Javascript code (i.e. viewable in the browser) went out with a comment along these lines: "How could this have ever worked? No one must have tested this part at all." It was removed shortly after a customer called to complain about it.
So what was the code? Do tell.
I think this question is especially apropos given that a few articles down is the announcement for the 72 hour ICFP programming contest.
Just wait until Tuesday and check _that_ code quality.