Good, competitive hardware cannot be realistically built at night, in your room, while drinking cola and eating pizza. Good software, instead, can be done with just a computer, a text editor and a compiler. Software is just a written-down idea. Hardware needs money for the parts, the assembly, etc. Try etching a processor on a silicon wafer:D
given the fact I my living room is a 3m x 2m rectangle, with barely enough place for the sofa and the furniture for the TV. Barcelona is an expensive place to live in:(
That's one of the reasons why business is not in software per se. It's in services around it (docs, tech. support, training, etc.)
If only we had this for software engineering...
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When are we going to get real interoperable building blocks for software? And I don't mean STL for C++ or CPAN for Perl. I mean building blocks, LEGO-like (or civil-engineering-like) for building software. Anybody up to the task?:)
Hard drives today are like the good old magnetic tapes of yesterday. Huge storage, slow access. Access times are still in the milliseconds range, and transfer rates... Heck, transfer rates are ridiculously small compared to the huge capacities we are getting. Who cares about magnetization speed limit with those pending issues...
It's the culture of neighbors chatting across the street, of people gathering around a table in a cafe in the afternoon, etc. that I was referring to. And that's pretty common in all those countries you mention. A certain culture of relaxed privacy, of people knowing each other. Not exactly that of a small town, it's a bit different.
Not pretending to be a troll, but, why so much paranoia about your personal data? Maybe it's because of my Mediterranean culture, but hey, I don't really care about companies knowing me.
I really like, for example, Amazon knowing my preferences, as they make interesting offers to me. And if you are really worried about your government knowing too much, laws can be made against that.
(a) Amiga OS had no true memory protection. Neither does AROS.
In these times of need for security, thats not an option, although (c),(d) and (e) are so interesting. There are other ways to get get those. Check it at http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/exo/exo-internals/inte rnals.html
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Good, competitive hardware cannot be realistically built at night, in your room, while drinking cola and eating pizza. Good software, instead, can be done with just a computer, a text editor and a compiler. Software is just a written-down idea. Hardware needs money for the parts, the assembly, etc. Try etching a processor on a silicon wafer :D
given the fact I my living room is a 3m x 2m rectangle, with barely enough place for the sofa and the furniture for the TV. Barcelona is an expensive place to live in :(
Nah, better solution: pass a bill prohibiting the use of Internet for planning terrorist attacks. That would be the end of terrorism!
That's one of the reasons why business is not in software per se. It's in services around it (docs, tech. support, training, etc.)
When are we going to get real interoperable building blocks for software? And I don't mean STL for C++ or CPAN for Perl. I mean building blocks, LEGO-like (or civil-engineering-like) for building software. Anybody up to the task? :)
Hard drives today are like the good old magnetic tapes of yesterday. Huge storage, slow access. Access times are still in the milliseconds range, and transfer rates... Heck, transfer rates are ridiculously small compared to the huge capacities we are getting. Who cares about magnetization speed limit with those pending issues...
It's the culture of neighbors chatting across the street, of people gathering around a table in a cafe in the afternoon, etc. that I was referring to. And that's pretty common in all those countries you mention. A certain culture of relaxed privacy, of people knowing each other. Not exactly that of a small town, it's a bit different.
Hmmm... maybe I'm missing some point... Am I?
In these times of need for security, thats not an option, although (c),(d) and (e) are so interesting. There are other ways to get get those. Check it at http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/exo/exo-internals/inte rnals.html