It would be too much like a Mac clone. The reason IBM is outta the game is because OS/2 was originally available for IBM only (makes sense, it WAS developed by IBM), much like Mac OS. When the PC clone market came out, Microsoft (since they didn't make the hardware) felt free to lease out MS-DOS to the clone manufacturers. What killed IBM was that the OS that they used in their computer was also used in other computer systems. Apple nearly died at the hands of the Mac clones in the mid '90s. That's the primary Steve Jobs kicked them all out. If you make both the software and the computer (like IBM did and Apple does), you make much more money off of the computer than you do the OS. By confining the OS to their own software, they prevent a company like Sony from coming in and using Mac OS on their next Mac look-alike.
I've gotten a solution for you. It's called WINE. It consists of open sourced libraries designed to mimic Windows libraries. In fact, it can even incorporate MS libraries like DirectX. All apps are compatible with it as long as it doesn't make any weird calls for some mysterious driver. For instance, there's a healthy community of players on WoW who use their Linux boxes, thanks to WINE.
It's also easy to uninstall. Just drag it to the trash (along with all other files that comes up when you run a spotlight search for realplayer), then just hit Command, Shift, Delete. Then again, I uninstalled IE from Windows 95 machine. Anything is easy to uninstall after that.
Actually, it's more like this. Let's say you need bread, for instance, to survive. You can't use anything else. You need bread. Let's say that you're allergic to wheat bread, so you must eat potato bread. Let's say that the only supermarket in town produces it's own goods but also allows other groups to sell their goods in the one store. The supermarket decides to end this agreement. This normally wouldn't be bad, but one of the other companies is the only company to produce potato bread. That would cause significant problems for you. This is extreme, but you get the point. Removing available sources of goods hurts society by removing the desire for established players to innovate. For instance, there would be no reason for ISPs to invest in new high-speed transmission technologies. When you want to see the latest streaming video on YouTube HD, but you can't because your ISP never bothered to upgrade their networks because they had no competition, you'll likely feel different about allowing ISPs to block other ISPs from using their services.
I can understand the desire for a wireless classic controller, but why a wireless nunchuck? Games that use the classic controller usually use the classic controller by itself and not at the same time as the Wii Remote, even though the classic controller connects to the Wii using the Wii Remote. Every game that I can think of that uses the Nunchuck uses both the Nunchuck and the Wii Remote concurrently. It's not like the cord between the Nunchuck and the Wii Remote is short either. It's a pretty long cord. I just don't see the point in having a wireless Nunchuck unless a game uses only the Nunchuck as it's input device.
Man, that's a scary patent. It says in the patent itself in language plain enough for every one to see that Microsoft reserves the right to establish expiration dates for modules to the OS. Basically, if they want to kill off Windows 7 immediately when Windows 8 comes out, all they have to do is to kill off all your modules. I thought Vista took too much of the ownership of my computer away from me. This is an outrage! There's never been a better reason to switch to an alternate OS. They basically control your computer with this scheme. I hope they realize, though, how ridiculously hard a modular OS will be for them to make. I mean, Microsoft is the one that couldn't make Me work well. Vista's no walk in the park either. I was afraid of Microsoft before. Now, I'm more afraid of Microsoft than I am of death itself. Don't let MS get away with this! Frankly, I'm surprised how open that patent is. Most patents are intentionally vague. This one clearly defines Microsoft's strategy if they're technically able to do this.
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It would be too much like a Mac clone. The reason IBM is outta the game is because OS/2 was originally available for IBM only (makes sense, it WAS developed by IBM), much like Mac OS. When the PC clone market came out, Microsoft (since they didn't make the hardware) felt free to lease out MS-DOS to the clone manufacturers. What killed IBM was that the OS that they used in their computer was also used in other computer systems. Apple nearly died at the hands of the Mac clones in the mid '90s. That's the primary Steve Jobs kicked them all out. If you make both the software and the computer (like IBM did and Apple does), you make much more money off of the computer than you do the OS. By confining the OS to their own software, they prevent a company like Sony from coming in and using Mac OS on their next Mac look-alike.
I've gotten a solution for you. It's called WINE. It consists of open sourced libraries designed to mimic Windows libraries. In fact, it can even incorporate MS libraries like DirectX. All apps are compatible with it as long as it doesn't make any weird calls for some mysterious driver. For instance, there's a healthy community of players on WoW who use their Linux boxes, thanks to WINE.
It's also easy to uninstall. Just drag it to the trash (along with all other files that comes up when you run a spotlight search for realplayer), then just hit Command, Shift, Delete. Then again, I uninstalled IE from Windows 95 machine. Anything is easy to uninstall after that.
Actually, it's more like this. Let's say you need bread, for instance, to survive. You can't use anything else. You need bread. Let's say that you're allergic to wheat bread, so you must eat potato bread. Let's say that the only supermarket in town produces it's own goods but also allows other groups to sell their goods in the one store. The supermarket decides to end this agreement. This normally wouldn't be bad, but one of the other companies is the only company to produce potato bread. That would cause significant problems for you. This is extreme, but you get the point. Removing available sources of goods hurts society by removing the desire for established players to innovate. For instance, there would be no reason for ISPs to invest in new high-speed transmission technologies. When you want to see the latest streaming video on YouTube HD, but you can't because your ISP never bothered to upgrade their networks because they had no competition, you'll likely feel different about allowing ISPs to block other ISPs from using their services.
I can understand the desire for a wireless classic controller, but why a wireless nunchuck? Games that use the classic controller usually use the classic controller by itself and not at the same time as the Wii Remote, even though the classic controller connects to the Wii using the Wii Remote. Every game that I can think of that uses the Nunchuck uses both the Nunchuck and the Wii Remote concurrently. It's not like the cord between the Nunchuck and the Wii Remote is short either. It's a pretty long cord. I just don't see the point in having a wireless Nunchuck unless a game uses only the Nunchuck as it's input device.
You could just run the .exe with WINE and then take the TTF over to your actual system.
Man, that's a scary patent. It says in the patent itself in language plain enough for every one to see that Microsoft reserves the right to establish expiration dates for modules to the OS. Basically, if they want to kill off Windows 7 immediately when Windows 8 comes out, all they have to do is to kill off all your modules. I thought Vista took too much of the ownership of my computer away from me. This is an outrage! There's never been a better reason to switch to an alternate OS. They basically control your computer with this scheme. I hope they realize, though, how ridiculously hard a modular OS will be for them to make. I mean, Microsoft is the one that couldn't make Me work well. Vista's no walk in the park either. I was afraid of Microsoft before. Now, I'm more afraid of Microsoft than I am of death itself. Don't let MS get away with this! Frankly, I'm surprised how open that patent is. Most patents are intentionally vague. This one clearly defines Microsoft's strategy if they're technically able to do this.