With the early 486 cpu:s we had the extra fpu chip. Later, that was integrated into the main cpu. The reason for integration was price, It's cheaper to produce one chip then two. Today, we have spu:s (sound prossecing units), gpu:s (graphics prossecing utits) and so on.
You'r talking about redesigning the 'PC' when you actually mean 'redesigning the OS'.
I don't think there will ever be a future as the one you described, why? Because all mainstream OS:s are just click and play and will become more easier to use for every month that passes. If you want to set up a webserver just press the webserver button and then go through a wizard that asks you all these questions from which it generates the configuration. The point is, if something goes wrong in the OS or you need a quick fix for some error you cant just open up a nice gui and mark some checkbox to make it do what you want. If these people that had no other experience then an OS with a bunch of static fetures tries to switch to something with a dynamic interface they will probably be scared of it and not bother with it. How is someone going to learn how to program when the only compiler for your OS costs several thousends of dollars (replace with currency and/or amount of choice).
I remember the first time I installed linux on my computer after hearing about how easy it was to get started with programming.The login screen came up, I logged in and thought, 'How the hell do I navigate this OS?' With no book or manuall I slowly started to learn the OS. I think you need to have a sortof 'geek-attitude' to be able to learn things on you own and the average humen dosn't have this 'geek-attitude'. Atleast I dont think so;).
Me, cheap?, no. I download my distro because I have the bandwidth to do so, this goes faster then buying it from some online store. If I had a dial-up I would probably buy it to since the phone bill goes up pretty fast. Why download OpenOffice instead of buying suns product, hmm lets see, not counting the above reason, last time I heard suns staroffice was based on openoffice so by using openoffice I get a more up to date piece of software.
Im getting pissed of now, They're doing price drops on the consoles all the time so people will buy their machines but I thought cosole gaming was about the games?!? Today its more like about the console since I can't afford to buy one console and one game. Here in sweden a GC costs around $250 and ONE game costs around $70. Xbox is similar priced and the games for the PS2 costs a little less. Now, which one is the most attractive if your looking at the price, I'd say the PS2. To bad the only good game I was looking forward to on the PS2 was MGS2, now when ive seen the game, well, its more like a movie to me:(
Isn't this the hole point of a console, to have ONE system configuration. If people started to make clones of a games console then there would just be a matter of time before someone implemented a chip that is faster but backwards-compatible. Then some games are released with this new chip as minimum requirement so you can't use the original chip because it is to slow.
I thought the big thing about a console is that you buy a cheap computer that just plays games and you don't need to upgrade with new hardware.
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Should be, Guns don't kill people, People kill people.
With the early 486 cpu:s we had the extra fpu chip. Later, that was integrated into the main cpu.
The reason for integration was price, It's cheaper to produce one chip then two.
Today, we have spu:s (sound prossecing units), gpu:s (graphics prossecing utits) and so on.
You'r talking about redesigning the 'PC' when you actually mean 'redesigning the OS'.
I don't think there will ever be a future as the one you described, why? Because all mainstream OS:s are just click and play and will become more easier to use for every month that passes. If you want to set up a webserver just press the webserver button and then go through a wizard that asks you all these questions from which it generates the configuration. The point is, if something goes wrong in the OS or you need a quick fix for some error you cant just open up a nice gui and mark some checkbox to make it do what you want.
;).
If these people that had no other experience then an OS with a bunch of static fetures tries to switch to something with a dynamic interface they will probably be scared of it and not bother with it.
How is someone going to learn how to program when the only compiler for your OS costs several thousends of dollars (replace with currency and/or amount of choice).
I remember the first time I installed linux on my computer after hearing about how easy it was to get started with programming.The login screen came up, I logged in and thought, 'How the hell do I navigate this OS?' With no book or manuall I slowly started to learn the OS. I think you need to have a sortof 'geek-attitude' to be able to learn things on you own and the average humen dosn't have this 'geek-attitude'. Atleast I dont think so
Compare the two =)
Can we get some screenshots of these desktops so that we may actually see how they look.
Me, cheap?, no. I download my distro because I have the bandwidth to do so, this goes faster then buying it from some online store. If I had a dial-up I would probably buy it to since the phone bill goes up pretty fast.
Why download OpenOffice instead of buying suns product, hmm lets see, not counting the above reason, last time I heard suns staroffice was based on openoffice so by using openoffice I get a more up to date piece of software.
And this beats the "greek bans all computer games" article I sent in a few days ago how ?
Why cant we all just realize we all are earthlings, then you could be an earthling or you aint...right, RIGHT?
Im getting pissed of now, They're doing price drops on the consoles all the time so people will buy their machines but I thought cosole gaming was about the games?!? Today its more like about the console since I can't afford to buy one console and one game. Here in sweden a GC costs around $250 and ONE game costs around $70. Xbox is similar priced and the games for the PS2 costs a little less. Now, which one is the most attractive if your looking at the price, I'd say the PS2. To bad the only good game I was looking forward to on the PS2 was MGS2, now when ive seen the game, well, its more like a movie to me :(
one step closer to the reality of that game where the bad guy named "Dollar bill" wants to build a artificial moon and use it for 24/7 advertising.
Now just market these damn PVR:s in sweden and ill be all set and happy :p
damn, I really liked that movie, was kinda slow in the end though.
Maybe skynet runs on linux ? ;P
Then open-source it so somebody else can continue to develope the emulator for the x86.
by Harvey M. Dunkirk
The guy who wrote it.
I made it up! Harvey M. Dunkirk, 10/30/2001 2:07:27 AM Thats right, I can't believe anyone fell for it. Muhahaha
his reply.
man, im not alone?!? the pain started for the second time in my life yesterday morning. I'm going to do what I did last time, wait untill its over =))
Isn't this the hole point of a console, to have ONE system configuration. If people started to make clones of a games console then there would just be a matter of time before someone implemented a chip that is faster but backwards-compatible. Then some games are released with this new chip as minimum requirement so you can't use the original chip because it is to slow. I thought the big thing about a console is that you buy a cheap computer that just plays games and you don't need to upgrade with new hardware.