I would say this was more informative than insiteful. The remaining infrastructure could be much increased with cheaper cable. Though the cost of digging stuff up to lay it wont go down. We could do with more of it in the UK.
Oh- Btw- nice serpinski triangle....(Or carpet even)...
Mod parent down- who the hell modded this rubbish up? Its hardly relevant. Yes the spelling wasnt great- but who cares.. Scanning vinyl is way too cool to concentrate on spelling..
I also live in the uk, and ate meat in the 80's. I've no ill effects yet(all though insanity may be debatable;-) ). But really I have just been lucky so far-and my meat intake was fairly low-being the only meat eater in a vege household.
Surely if there was some form of transferable pathogen, then extensive blood sampling and testing(nothing diabetics arent used to) would find them and quickly deal with them. The ideal solution would be to find a synthetic system that could do the same. And I admit I would be a whole lot more comfortable with a synth system than pig-bits. Indeed many ops, transplants would be better done if synthetics were to catch up. Given the time and cost it takes to find a human donor, and the risks involved in pig bits(remember there are already people walking around with pig-heart tissue) - then it would be a very reasonable investment to furthar research into prosthetic parts, their efficiency, longevity, stability and ease-of-installation. In theory- maintenance shouldnt be an issue - as the ideal systems would come with a lifetime(thats 120 years not a poxy 25) guarantee. Like oxidisation proof materials etc.
Anyway- most of this is a stepping stone towards succesful stem-cell research. Though I wonder if humans will ever get into designer prosthetics-for non-medical reasons. Dr Warwick could start us on that path. How many slashdotters would be happy with becoming cosmoniks?
For the sake of all goodness- I really hope thats how it turns out... If the poisoning was to go ahead that woudl be a reasonable outcome.
The thing is- a certain amount of this poisoning already exists. Ever typed in a search string only to have an Exe, a zip or rar file or even an avi with embedded html returned with the exact search terms. Those are poison. Some propogate virii, some promote crappy porn servers. The network *has* been poisoned. Its just a case of being on the ball enough to know not to mess with most exe's without serious checking. Most at risk here are warez downloaders and people too stupid to tell the difference between an exe and an mp3. AVI's with embedded pop-up urls suck- and there is not a great deal you can do about them.
Yes but no one would find out without rigorous testing- and there are many diabetics who would be willing to volunteer as test subjects. As long as they are watched carefully for these retrovirus's and other possible adversity then the kinks could be ironed out, and could well provide a reasonable future solution for certain types of diabetes.
You know- I know some diabetics to whome the watch concept and something like this are virtually their holy grail. Myself I am midly hypoglyceamic and have to watch my sugar levels through careful diet. Otherwise I tend to pass out or go into hypermode. If I could glance at the tattoo and know what the status was I would be a lot happier than knowing it when I begin to feel dizzy and on the brink of dropping.
Depends- if its conventional tattoos- thats just many little holes ripped into your skin in one compresed session, while introducing a foreign fluid to it. Beleive me- tattoos are sore.. And for days not minutes...
However - were it to last for a month or a year- then it is definately worth it for the matter that it could be a clear indicator not just to yourself- but to others as well.
But door to door salesmen and junk-mail posters are less likely to succeed in delivering their message anyway.. So this would be the pyramid schemes opportunity to buttin there. I dont think technology is an evil demon. Like I said- everyone should have access to it- but also the choice not to access it if that is their way.
I think its great to open up the opportunity for any walk of life to have access to this technology- but I think the guy is trying to say not to force it upon them. There are still areas of Africa where there are tribes who have a life, with although it may seem terrible to us, they are very happy with-they find food, have shelter, have kids and sing and dance. Their biggest issue is that farms are destroying and fencing off the land which they use and ruining this lifestyle. If they are so happy with there lifestyle- then who are we to decide it needs to change. Offer them the intenet yes- but dont discount anyone not taking that offer as simple. You know-in many ways I envied how happy and carefree those people appeared to be. The life was tough but much more rewarding than the mundane cube-life most of us over here(including me) live. Not everyone lives for technology. I certainly do-but there have been times I have wondered...
Hey but it would be a cure for fat-kids. If they want to surf, watch tv/movies or phone their freinds- they gotta pedal... I like it... We could do with more ideas like that....
AS for mothers- someone should explain to them that there kids wasteline doesnt need to compete with the girth of the channel tunnel anyway....
Umm- so howabout putting the two areas- passenger space and crew/instrumentation space into seperated faraday cages. Sheilded from each other. Besides- if aircraft were designed in such a way that the cabin was not accessible from passenger space at all then certain events could never have transpired. Hijackers could hold passengers as hostages- but never get near the cabin crew. Isolate the two groups.
So that still brings the issue down to cost for the airlines who appear to be on the brink of going bust. One of the great failings of privatised transport is the cost-cutting made to maximise profits.
This is when the more sensible ideas of increasing magnetic sheilding and stability of the poorly thought out devices in the cockpit(obviously derived form going cheap on EM sheilding). Internal Laptops are not the only thing to emit these. Imagine being on a plane passing through statically charged clouds discharging... Oh yeah- thats a relatively frequent situation. NO- I really dont think this ban makes any sense at all. A revision of equipment in planes its whats needed. Poissbly some of the other safety problems could be alleviated with some better investment. LIke fingerscanning pilots. If the Science-museum can do it for kids with emails - airlines can do it with pilots-including systems to tell if they have left the seat, and recheck them regularly. There are things much, much worse the UWB enabled laptops and CDRoms to bring airplanes crashing down....
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I agree with what you say. And yes the car does not need to conform to the old shape and size regimes... But I think the guy is making another point- that is- he doesnt want to be the pink-shirt-bearer(re the simpsons). He wants to have the choice of making his choice without stigma of being some animal-loving-tree-hugging-hare-crishna-hippy-ston er or something(note I do not thing this of environmentalists- I am merely making a point). Its like the geek who doesnt want to look like a geek- so he shaves, cuts his hair, ditches the glasses and wears deisgner clothes or something like that. People cant look at him and say "There goes the guy in an electric car" becuase his electric car looks like any other ICE car on the road. Its only the inside thats different....
There are many solutions to this- which dont involve conventional "Fill-up" scenarios. The most basic is to change the battery-or failing that pump out old electrolyte, swap the electrodes and recharge the old ones at the station.
The second is to have recharge points at any given parking space-where it is incorporated in parking charges should you use it. It would probably work out cheaper for companies to supply these than deal with petrol expense forms/claims anyway and much fewer tax oddities.
The third is having a built-in unit that acts like the secondary coil of a transformer, with the roads having an EM grid underneath them. The car on the road would be constantly charged from a field. Using superconductive materials- this could be HIGHLY efficient. I recharging by coil induction. This would mean that 90% of the time- the car may be running directly of grid, and only using batteries where there was no grid yet.
The 4th is the h2 fuel cell which is fairly well known-so I wont discuss this further.
The 5th is the attempt at using a flywheel for powering these- although I dont beleive it was entirely succesful- but suspending it with magnetic bearings, then engaging it when power was required. Charging would involving spinning up the flywheel.
I think the real problem here is that attitudes,politics and economies need to change before we would see people using EV's or alternative fuels. Until then-we can only speculate where it could lead us. I still feel the research done on this has been in no way conclusive-and although money has been spent on it- you can guarantee a great deal more was spent on the bodywork and ad campaign for the new mundano.
You know- I think something like this would justify(and many other situations) a law along the lines of- if a big monopoly buys up a patent, then never acts upon it, shelves it or defunds the use of it- then the patent should be removed from them. I wonder how markets would involve if IP laws were different..... I wonder how many fuel efficiency patents BP or BAT own and shelved...
Really now, how often do you haul stuff around, vs just yourself?
From the sound of it- given his thing for fat cars- he probably has a very fat ass to haul around in it...
Sorry couldnt resist it.. But really disagree that electric motors dont have the haulage power. Some of the largest haulage vehicles run on electrics. Although they also dont use roads. If you are talking your laptop- no probs. If you are talking full-on truckloads- trucks are in no way the cheapest, quickest, safest way to get them their. Thats what a rail system is best at - Oh yeah-most of those use electric motors...
Most tube trains system *have* to run on electric motors. They definately have the get up and go. Motors can burn out eventually- and this is a problem- but than how many times a year do you service a gas engine? They certainly wear out sooner than coil burnout.
If you want real pulling power/horse power- you only need to put the motor output through somesort of worm gear system, and a clutch system the other end of that to avoid motor strain. Of course - the whole point of gears is at lower gears you can have greater pulling power, and at higher gears more speed. If you are on a straight road- you have inertia behind the weight- so you can shift to faster gears and lower pulling power.
Anyone who beleives electric motors cannot match engine horsepower are quite seriously misinformed. Indeed if you made a single motor and battery aseembly as large as the whole cylinder block, radiator, cams, carb, alternator, choke coil assembly you would indeed have a fairly powerful motor. The big problem at the moment is power storage- battery technology has been neglected and has not moved on in 20/30 years. Partly because there are standardised batteries that have been used in common circ for so long that it would be a big PITA to replace them. Partly because petrol-co's and battery-co's have to much to loose. Half of the battery cos business models is to keep selling you poxy duracells that will run out quickly so they can sell you another set....
The petrol cos are absolutely terrified of the idea-imagine if the storage capacity for this could cheaply replace them completely. There are worldwide economies based on oil exploitation that would fall. A lot of the middle east would cease to be as important-which east asia would grow for its electronics,miniturisation and fabrication industries. All of which for me personally would be a good thing. Middle east would be a lot less dangerous if there was not so much disposable money to buy weapons coming directly from the oil/petrochemical industry.
I know public transport is not great- and I really would admit to that. But I use it every day. Yes it could be improved-and will be, and I do hope toll-road systems will be used to subsidise it in the uk. Sorry - any body who cares so little about anything else but there fat SUV can get the hell away.
The EV is great for small inner city transport where a bus or train network is not available. And even for small amounts of luggage/shopping. In fact what would be ideal would be vehicles that can be leased and return to base in some manner- even EV taxis. The problem with Taxis is they spend so much time ripping people off that they stink and dont know the routes (I really look forward to AI jonny cabs). I am prepared to look at any system which could:
a) Decongest London
b) Make the air a little more breathable
c) take half the dangerous idiots in the uk off the road - like stricter, more regular driving tests(not you can try the test 6 times in a row failing it and then pass and get by on your lucky average pass with crappy driving skills for the rest of your life-though anything short of some driver genocide may not actually work).
d) Subsidise public transport so it is cleaner(that is cleaned more often and doesnt smell), safer(no more Selby style sh1t), faster(read as realistic timetables- if they cant send a train to X at Y time - then at least admit it- dont lie), and cheaper.
If theres one thing that really makes me angry- its that london is full of idiots driving to work in the biggest, noisiest, smelly car they could afford, with 4 to six passenger seats and no passengers. Personally- a good start would be an outright ban or heavy fines levied for such behaviour. I understand someone commuting from god knows where in the sticks needing a car- but even they could leave it in the suburbs and take public transport into the center. Beleive me- parking would be cheaper and easier and you will probably reach the destination quicker. Im not a vegetarian, or some fscking hippy- but I really think that macho/penis symbolic car ownership is the biggest load of w4nk this side of Iraq.
NOw thats a system I would invest in... Given how well sony have thoght stuff out already. Yes PS2 hardware is difficult to code with.. But its also very rewarding- and it could also finally drag us out of the x86 well the desktop market has sunk into. Hmmm... With popular gaming compatibility- it would grow market share quite quickly too....
Well if anything you said made me smile it "Heres to more coding -- and less politics". Thats probably a line that all coders on slashdot should bare in mind until it all works. I wonder how many hours are spent typing comments on slashdot- when the same WPM could be used to improve linux and other projects a hundred fold?
You insert a CD and the game plays on a PS2 or a cube. Thats what Sony and Nintendo do. SCEE and Nintendo explicitly do. Without messing around with registry, MS Office and 60 bn tons of cruft to deal with. They build boxes for gaming, games for their boxes, have extensive QA testing for all releases and dont need DX. There are however GL ports for PSX/PS2. But who needs a middleware metalayer of cruft/slow crappy bulky code when you could use tight machine specific code on a console.
I would like to see linux gaming. But from my point of view(inside the gaming industry),I dont think these machines are the future of gaming at all.... Even Microsoft are beginning to admit that - XBOX.
I still fail to see why pure M$ headz even bothered to read and post to this artical in the first place-although by even responding I may have justified your very existence. I wouldnt saying anything about killing linux gaming- more like firing it up. The problem here is people expect remuneration for game development-which is gruelling, has unreasonable deadlines, late nites and bad pizza. There is stuff I would code for free- but thats not one of them. I would code gaming API's for free, and even engines. But theres no way I would do an actual game. However- were someone to port a game to linux- would you pay(linux people only- MS'ers can put their heads in rectums and rol down hills) for a decent game at the same price and release date as a MS win based one?
Sadly I have to agree with one argument- apart from the very rich elite gamers with super-performance PC's- the better alternative is a PS2 or Cube - games ALWAYS work, boot first time, and dont have stupid issues. Occasionally they crash- but thats fairly rare.
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I would say this was more informative than insiteful. The remaining infrastructure could be much increased with cheaper cable. Though the cost of digging stuff up to lay it wont go down. We could do with more of it in the UK. Oh- Btw- nice serpinski triangle....(Or carpet even)...
Mod parent down- who the hell modded this rubbish up? Its hardly relevant. Yes the spelling wasnt great- but who cares.. Scanning vinyl is way too cool to concentrate on spelling..
I also live in the uk, and ate meat in the 80's. I've no ill effects yet(all though insanity may be debatable ;-) ). But really I have just been lucky so far-and my meat intake was fairly low-being the only meat eater in a vege household.
Surely if there was some form of transferable pathogen, then extensive blood sampling and testing(nothing diabetics arent used to) would find them and quickly deal with them. The ideal solution would be to find a synthetic system that could do the same. And I admit I would be a whole lot more comfortable with a synth system than pig-bits. Indeed many ops, transplants would be better done if synthetics were to catch up. Given the time and cost it takes to find a human donor, and the risks involved in pig bits(remember there are already people walking around with pig-heart tissue) - then it would be a very reasonable investment to furthar research into prosthetic parts, their efficiency, longevity, stability and ease-of-installation. In theory- maintenance shouldnt be an issue - as the ideal systems would come with a lifetime(thats 120 years not a poxy 25) guarantee. Like oxidisation proof materials etc.
Anyway- most of this is a stepping stone towards succesful stem-cell research. Though I wonder if humans will ever get into designer prosthetics-for non-medical reasons. Dr Warwick could start us on that path. How many slashdotters would be happy with becoming cosmoniks?
For the sake of all goodness- I really hope thats how it turns out... If the poisoning was to go ahead that woudl be a reasonable outcome.
The thing is- a certain amount of this poisoning already exists. Ever typed in a search string only to have an Exe, a zip or rar file or even an avi with embedded html returned with the exact search terms. Those are poison. Some propogate virii, some promote crappy porn servers. The network *has* been poisoned. Its just a case of being on the ball enough to know not to mess with most exe's without serious checking. Most at risk here are warez downloaders and people too stupid to tell the difference between an exe and an mp3. AVI's with embedded pop-up urls suck- and there is not a great deal you can do about them.
Yes but no one would find out without rigorous testing- and there are many diabetics who would be willing to volunteer as test subjects. As long as they are watched carefully for these retrovirus's and other possible adversity then the kinks could be ironed out, and could well provide a reasonable future solution for certain types of diabetes.
You know- I know some diabetics to whome the watch concept and something like this are virtually their holy grail. Myself I am midly hypoglyceamic and have to watch my sugar levels through careful diet. Otherwise I tend to pass out or go into hypermode. If I could glance at the tattoo and know what the status was I would be a lot happier than knowing it when I begin to feel dizzy and on the brink of dropping.
Depends- if its conventional tattoos- thats just many little holes ripped into your skin in one compresed session, while introducing a foreign fluid to it. Beleive me- tattoos are sore.. And for days not minutes...
However - were it to last for a month or a year- then it is definately worth it for the matter that it could be a clear indicator not just to yourself- but to others as well.
And at H2G2 its also an abbreviation for Brassnose College, Oxford. Though there was not much to be found on BNC networking...
But door to door salesmen and junk-mail posters are less likely to succeed in delivering their message anyway.. So this would be the pyramid schemes opportunity to buttin there. I dont think technology is an evil demon. Like I said- everyone should have access to it- but also the choice not to access it if that is their way.
I think its great to open up the opportunity for any walk of life to have access to this technology- but I think the guy is trying to say not to force it upon them. There are still areas of Africa where there are tribes who have a life, with although it may seem terrible to us, they are very happy with-they find food, have shelter, have kids and sing and dance. Their biggest issue is that farms are destroying and fencing off the land which they use and ruining this lifestyle. If they are so happy with there lifestyle- then who are we to decide it needs to change. Offer them the intenet yes- but dont discount anyone not taking that offer as simple. You know-in many ways I envied how happy and carefree those people appeared to be. The life was tough but much more rewarding than the mundane cube-life most of us over here(including me) live. Not everyone lives for technology. I certainly do-but there have been times I have wondered...
Hey but it would be a cure for fat-kids. If they want to surf, watch tv/movies or phone their freinds- they gotta pedal... I like it... We could do with more ideas like that....
AS for mothers- someone should explain to them that there kids wasteline doesnt need to compete with the girth of the channel tunnel anyway....
Umm- so howabout putting the two areas- passenger space and crew/instrumentation space into seperated faraday cages. Sheilded from each other. Besides- if aircraft were designed in such a way that the cabin was not accessible from passenger space at all then certain events could never have transpired. Hijackers could hold passengers as hostages- but never get near the cabin crew. Isolate the two groups.
So that still brings the issue down to cost for the airlines who appear to be on the brink of going bust. One of the great failings of privatised transport is the cost-cutting made to maximise profits.
Yes but many owners would lie-so they can have their proverbial cake and eat it... Lie about not having the UWB, and lie about disabling it. Comeon...
This is when the more sensible ideas of increasing magnetic sheilding and stability of the poorly thought out devices in the cockpit(obviously derived form going cheap on EM sheilding). Internal Laptops are not the only thing to emit these. Imagine being on a plane passing through statically charged clouds discharging... Oh yeah- thats a relatively frequent situation. NO- I really dont think this ban makes any sense at all. A revision of equipment in planes its whats needed. Poissbly some of the other safety problems could be alleviated with some better investment. LIke fingerscanning pilots. If the Science-museum can do it for kids with emails - airlines can do it with pilots-including systems to tell if they have left the seat, and recheck them regularly. There are things much, much worse the UWB enabled laptops and CDRoms to bring airplanes crashing down....
1. Land on Mars... 2. Build radiation shelters.. 3. ???? 4. Profit (The pointless comments society has hijacked this comment)
I agree with what you say. And yes the car does not need to conform to the old shape and size regimes... But I think the guy is making another point- that is- he doesnt want to be the pink-shirt-bearer(re the simpsons). He wants to have the choice of making his choice without stigma of being some animal-loving-tree-hugging-hare-crishna-hippy-ston er or something(note I do not thing this of environmentalists- I am merely making a point). Its like the geek who doesnt want to look like a geek- so he shaves, cuts his hair, ditches the glasses and wears deisgner clothes or something like that. People cant look at him and say "There goes the guy in an electric car" becuase his electric car looks like any other ICE car on the road. Its only the inside thats different....
There are many solutions to this- which dont involve conventional "Fill-up" scenarios. The most basic is to change the battery-or failing that pump out old electrolyte, swap the electrodes and recharge the old ones at the station.
The second is to have recharge points at any given parking space-where it is incorporated in parking charges should you use it. It would probably work out cheaper for companies to supply these than deal with petrol expense forms/claims anyway and much fewer tax oddities.
The third is having a built-in unit that acts like the secondary coil of a transformer, with the roads having an EM grid underneath them. The car on the road would be constantly charged from a field. Using superconductive materials- this could be HIGHLY efficient. I recharging by coil induction. This would mean that 90% of the time- the car may be running directly of grid, and only using batteries where there was no grid yet.
The 4th is the h2 fuel cell which is fairly well known-so I wont discuss this further.
The 5th is the attempt at using a flywheel for powering these- although I dont beleive it was entirely succesful- but suspending it with magnetic bearings, then engaging it when power was required. Charging would involving spinning up the flywheel.
I think the real problem here is that attitudes,politics and economies need to change before we would see people using EV's or alternative fuels. Until then-we can only speculate where it could lead us. I still feel the research done on this has been in no way conclusive-and although money has been spent on it- you can guarantee a great deal more was spent on the bodywork and ad campaign for the new mundano.
You know- I think something like this would justify(and many other situations) a law along the lines of- if a big monopoly buys up a patent, then never acts upon it, shelves it or defunds the use of it- then the patent should be removed from them. I wonder how markets would involve if IP laws were different..... I wonder how many fuel efficiency patents BP or BAT own and shelved...
Really now, how often do you haul stuff around, vs just yourself?
From the sound of it- given his thing for fat cars- he probably has a very fat ass to haul around in it...
Sorry couldnt resist it.. But really disagree that electric motors dont have the haulage power. Some of the largest haulage vehicles run on electrics. Although they also dont use roads. If you are talking your laptop- no probs. If you are talking full-on truckloads- trucks are in no way the cheapest, quickest, safest way to get them their. Thats what a rail system is best at - Oh yeah-most of those use electric motors...
Most tube trains system *have* to run on electric motors. They definately have the get up and go. Motors can burn out eventually- and this is a problem- but than how many times a year do you service a gas engine? They certainly wear out sooner than coil burnout.
If you want real pulling power/horse power- you only need to put the motor output through somesort of worm gear system, and a clutch system the other end of that to avoid motor strain. Of course - the whole point of gears is at lower gears you can have greater pulling power, and at higher gears more speed. If you are on a straight road- you have inertia behind the weight- so you can shift to faster gears and lower pulling power.
Anyone who beleives electric motors cannot match engine horsepower are quite seriously misinformed. Indeed if you made a single motor and battery aseembly as large as the whole cylinder block, radiator, cams, carb, alternator, choke coil assembly you would indeed have a fairly powerful motor. The big problem at the moment is power storage- battery technology has been neglected and has not moved on in 20/30 years. Partly because there are standardised batteries that have been used in common circ for so long that it would be a big PITA to replace them. Partly because petrol-co's and battery-co's have to much to loose. Half of the battery cos business models is to keep selling you poxy duracells that will run out quickly so they can sell you another set....
The petrol cos are absolutely terrified of the idea-imagine if the storage capacity for this could cheaply replace them completely. There are worldwide economies based on oil exploitation that would fall. A lot of the middle east would cease to be as important-which east asia would grow for its electronics,miniturisation and fabrication industries. All of which for me personally would be a good thing. Middle east would be a lot less dangerous if there was not so much disposable money to buy weapons coming directly from the oil/petrochemical industry.
I know public transport is not great- and I really would admit to that. But I use it every day. Yes it could be improved-and will be, and I do hope toll-road systems will be used to subsidise it in the uk. Sorry - any body who cares so little about anything else but there fat SUV can get the hell away.
The EV is great for small inner city transport where a bus or train network is not available. And even for small amounts of luggage/shopping. In fact what would be ideal would be vehicles that can be leased and return to base in some manner- even EV taxis. The problem with Taxis is they spend so much time ripping people off that they stink and dont know the routes (I really look forward to AI jonny cabs). I am prepared to look at any system which could:
a) Decongest London
b) Make the air a little more breathable
c) take half the dangerous idiots in the uk off the road - like stricter, more regular driving tests(not you can try the test 6 times in a row failing it and then pass and get by on your lucky average pass with crappy driving skills for the rest of your life-though anything short of some driver genocide may not actually work).
d) Subsidise public transport so it is cleaner(that is cleaned more often and doesnt smell), safer(no more Selby style sh1t), faster(read as realistic timetables- if they cant send a train to X at Y time - then at least admit it- dont lie), and cheaper.
If theres one thing that really makes me angry- its that london is full of idiots driving to work in the biggest, noisiest, smelly car they could afford, with 4 to six passenger seats and no passengers. Personally- a good start would be an outright ban or heavy fines levied for such behaviour. I understand someone commuting from god knows where in the sticks needing a car- but even they could leave it in the suburbs and take public transport into the center. Beleive me- parking would be cheaper and easier and you will probably reach the destination quicker. Im not a vegetarian, or some fscking hippy- but I really think that macho/penis symbolic car ownership is the biggest load of w4nk this side of Iraq.
NOw thats a system I would invest in... Given how well sony have thoght stuff out already. Yes PS2 hardware is difficult to code with.. But its also very rewarding- and it could also finally drag us out of the x86 well the desktop market has sunk into. Hmmm... With popular gaming compatibility- it would grow market share quite quickly too....
Well if anything you said made me smile it "Heres to more coding -- and less politics". Thats probably a line that all coders on slashdot should bare in mind until it all works. I wonder how many hours are spent typing comments on slashdot- when the same WPM could be used to improve linux and other projects a hundred fold?
You insert a CD and the game plays on a PS2 or a cube. Thats what Sony and Nintendo do. SCEE and Nintendo explicitly do. Without messing around with registry, MS Office and 60 bn tons of cruft to deal with. They build boxes for gaming, games for their boxes, have extensive QA testing for all releases and dont need DX. There are however GL ports for PSX/PS2. But who needs a middleware metalayer of cruft/slow crappy bulky code when you could use tight machine specific code on a console.
I would like to see linux gaming. But from my point of view(inside the gaming industry),I dont think these machines are the future of gaming at all.... Even Microsoft are beginning to admit that - XBOX.
I still fail to see why pure M$ headz even bothered to read and post to this artical in the first place-although by even responding I may have justified your very existence. I wouldnt saying anything about killing linux gaming- more like firing it up. The problem here is people expect remuneration for game development-which is gruelling, has unreasonable deadlines, late nites and bad pizza. There is stuff I would code for free- but thats not one of them. I would code gaming API's for free, and even engines. But theres no way I would do an actual game. However- were someone to port a game to linux- would you pay(linux people only- MS'ers can put their heads in rectums and rol down hills) for a decent game at the same price and release date as a MS win based one?
Sadly I have to agree with one argument- apart from the very rich elite gamers with super-performance PC's- the better alternative is a PS2 or Cube - games ALWAYS work, boot first time, and dont have stupid issues. Occasionally they crash- but thats fairly rare.