It is strange that in a time when we exploded the atom bomb more than 50 years ago and put a man on the moon over 30 years ago we cannot build a domestic computer that doesn't crash.
Or can we?
I suspect that computers that never crash, start from cold in a flash and are silent bar for the sounds we wish them to make are a reality.
But at what cost would this come? A playstation is an excellent example of a device manufactured along the above concept.
Forget Linux or windows you will never know what the OS is as it would be transparent, forget application choice, it would be limited closed and above all user friendly and forget upgrade's it would be close architecture.
Our price of freedom of software, applications and hardware is the unreliability, incompatibility and rapid obsolesence.
Buyers vote with there dollars and they vote for freedom of choice.
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It is strange that in a time when we exploded the atom bomb more than 50 years ago and put a man on the moon over 30 years ago we cannot build a domestic computer that doesn't crash. Or can we? I suspect that computers that never crash, start from cold in a flash and are silent bar for the sounds we wish them to make are a reality. But at what cost would this come? A playstation is an excellent example of a device manufactured along the above concept. Forget Linux or windows you will never know what the OS is as it would be transparent, forget application choice, it would be limited closed and above all user friendly and forget upgrade's it would be close architecture. Our price of freedom of software, applications and hardware is the unreliability, incompatibility and rapid obsolesence. Buyers vote with there dollars and they vote for freedom of choice.