To speed up gaming, 3D card would do it, but there are people who actually need a lot of (cheap) processing power at their home pc:s. Anyway, getting to 1G has a lot more to do with marketing than anything else. There are many people out there, who still think that higher number=faster=better.
That's a simple and bad solution. It's the same as saying "Do not ever tell anyone anything sensitive". Too bad it seems to be the only solution right now. Personally I feel that letters, email and phonecalls should all be rated equal with ordinary conversation. No-one should ever be forced to reveal contents of their personal documents or private conversations. But also I don't feel that planning a murder should be punished, only executing the plan.
Nice and funny story. Nice to think that in past there could really have been comments like those. However, I feel that Internet is actually bringing people closer together. Not physically, but through things like slashdot, newsgroups and irc. I bet that there would be a lot more people feeling lonely, if internet would not exist. Actually I, and many of my friends, count irc as 'seeing' each other. When I leave from work, and will work from home next day, I will say "see you tomorrow", because we will 'see' each other all day on irc anyway.
Thank you all. I read Richard Stallman's "Why We Must Fight UCITA" and it (in addition of your answers) made things a lot clearer. Before that, I had a problem understanding how many things UCITA actually would affect.
I mean, this whole UCITA deal. I'm too lazy to go through all that text, but it seems to me that this is all about commercial, closed-source software. Could someone please explain, what this means for opensource? I know this takes away a lot of customer rights, but I only see this as a good thing. Eventually, people will get tired of being 'slaves' of big corporations and are willing to turn to free software.
Actually better and more effective solution is that those alternative OS users will go around and ask companies to port stuff. Why wait for them to come up with the idea. If there is demand, supply will come.
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To speed up gaming, 3D card would do it, but there are people who actually need a lot of (cheap) processing power at their home pc:s. Anyway, getting to 1G has a lot more to do with marketing than anything else. There are many people out there, who still think that higher number=faster=better.
That's a simple and bad solution. It's the same as saying "Do not ever tell anyone anything sensitive". Too bad it seems to be the only solution right now.
Personally I feel that letters, email and phonecalls should all be rated equal with ordinary conversation. No-one should ever be forced to reveal contents of their personal documents or private conversations. But also I don't feel that planning a murder should be punished, only executing the plan.
Nice and funny story. Nice to think that in past there could really have been comments like those.
However, I feel that Internet is actually bringing people closer together. Not physically, but through things like slashdot, newsgroups and irc. I bet that there would be a lot more people feeling lonely, if internet would not exist. Actually I, and many of my friends, count irc as 'seeing' each other. When I leave from work, and will work from home next day, I will say "see you tomorrow", because we will 'see' each other all day on irc anyway.
Thank you all.
I read Richard Stallman's "Why We Must Fight UCITA" and it (in addition of your answers) made things a lot clearer. Before that, I had a problem understanding how many things UCITA actually would affect.
I mean, this whole UCITA deal. I'm too lazy to go through all that text, but it seems to me that this is all about commercial, closed-source software.
Could someone please explain, what this means for opensource? I know this takes away a lot of customer rights, but I only see this as a good thing. Eventually, people will get tired of being 'slaves' of big corporations and are willing to turn to free software.
Actually better and more effective solution is that those alternative OS users will go around and ask companies to port stuff. Why wait for them to come up with the idea. If there is demand, supply will come.