Much though I'm loathe to admit it, there are things called "Windows" for many architectures, nameley "i386" aka Pentium/Athlon, AMD64 (Opteron and Athlon 64), itanic (itanium), ARM (for those WinCE things), and there used to be WinCE for embedded MIPS i.e. other hand-helds. Now, the question is, how much of the codebase do these "ports" have in common?
I'm sure our good friends at intel will have a $200 itanic for the home and desktop market by then that will only dissipate 250W of heat or something. So don't all go rushing out to by these newfangled AMD thingies at once...
Even as a small child when 8-bit micros had speech synthesizers, I wondered why, in the technologically advanced Star Wars society that damned robot couldn't speak in a human (or whatever) language. Look at C3PO. 3 million languages? They had space craft capable of superluminal travel, weapons the size of a moon, and a damned robot that sounded like a ZX Spectrum loading Manic Miner.
I'll tell you who: Old People. That's right, bigotted, opinionated, austere and puritanical old people. These are the people who "fought in the war for us." They also harbour secret hatred of the Irish, socialists, liberals, brown and balck people, foreigners etc. They also believe in low taxes, criticise the government for giving them rubbishy state health and social care and low pensions and then go and vote for the right-wingers. These are the people who like Norman Tebbit, Nicholas Ridley, Michael Howard, John Redwood and think that Margaret Thatcher was too left-wing. These are the people who'd have us all in crew-cuts and doing national service. I should know because 90% of my family are like this.... and I'm not at all bitter.
They have two main flaws: they oppose nuclear power and they favour proportional representation. I used to think the same until I worked in nuclear power and had to vote in a PR election. In the election I voted for my preferred candidate and then had to vote for the token gesture Great British Loonatic to avoid giving Conservative, Labour or *barf* the Green Party my support.
It wouldn't work in the UK.. There is a law that says you have to hand over your encryption keys to the authorities when they ask for it. They just have to ask you. They don't have to take you to court. Something to do with terrorists using the Intarweb or something...
Oh dear. It looks like I'll now have to delete all those pieces of music I have ogg'd up on my machine FROM MY OWN CD COLLECTION or else I'll be doing porridge. Anyway, I've been watching DVDs under Linux now for a couple of years and they haven't caught me. In fact, they've sold me a few DVDs that I wouldn't otherwise have bought. Music ones...
Anyway, once old Blunkett gets his police state, and one surveilance is stepped up to the next level, we'll all be for it. They'd better start building more prisons now.
How Chinese medicine is so wonderful and western medicine is bad(My inlaws masters biology students don't really think that viruses and germs cause disease, and that if they opened their windows to let the Chi flow and excercised, they wouldn't get SARS. Most of them contuined to eat from a common bowl because it's the chinese way, and their strong chi would keep them from getting sick...)
And how is that so very different from the West where millions pray to god, jesus, allah etc. to cure or prevent disease or illness? With a straight face many supposedly inteliigent and educated people advocate this behaviour.
I did not say that it wasn't any better than what we already have. As for proof, Google is your friend.
My point is that the politicians and beurocrats want us to put all of our eggs in one basket, so to speak. Currently I must provide several forms of identification. In the future, this shambles will be all that is required to get access to all services. That's a single point of failure. Anyone with any sense knows that this is dangerous. No engineer would build such a system. So why should the politicians get away with such shoddiness?
You see, many people think that biometric identification is fool-proof and that the ID cards will be perfect and unforgeable.
Both of these premises are false. Try finding out what the reliability of DNA fingerprinting is. The probability of a flase match with someone else's is not infinitessimal. Fingerprint readers have already been fooled, people have made copies of fingerprints left on surfaces and used them to fool machines, and iris scans have been duplicated as well.
Anyway, I'm white, male, middle-class, of moderate political views, have been in continuous education or employment since the age of 16, I haven't committed any crimes and I pay my taxes and bills.
On the surface, I have nothing to fear.
However, this is a flase sense of security. Biometric compulsary ID cards will be an expensive failure open to fraud, abuse and miscarriages of justice.
But what do I know? I'm just another ammateur pundit.
As technology advances, those in power expect to be able to use it to keep tabs on us all, for reasons of safety and security and economics. Very few people will object to the state having complete knowledge and power over us since "obviously" those who object must have something to hide. Me, I think that the system will implode under its own beurocracy following the inevitable farce it will become.
Currently you need several forms of identification to get anything important. When there is a one-size-fits-all solution that is officially deemed perfectly secure, the fraud and deception will take off, and the whole thing will collapse.
Why should volunteers spend their valuable time making something to give away to corporations?
For this purpose, commercial distributions such as SuSE and RedHat exist.
One size does not fit all.
The market will decide as and when Linux is ready for the corporate desktop, and in what form.
Microsoft is doing a marvellous job already of comitting suicide due to over-pricing its software, shoddy quality and vulnerabilities to malicious code.
Linux has been doing just fine for my personal computing needs since 1996. If corporate America (or anywhere else for that matter) wants to enjoy the privilege of using Linux, it can make like the rest of us and make an effort.
Where I come from, it's PAL, not NTSC, which gave you 100 pixels extra vertical resolution. Anyway, the Amigas and STs had monitor outputs for serious use, and even the low-end ones could do higher resolution, with much better pucture quality, on proper monitors.
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Much though I'm loathe to admit it, there are things called "Windows" for many architectures, nameley "i386" aka Pentium/Athlon, AMD64 (Opteron and Athlon 64), itanic (itanium), ARM (for those WinCE things), and there used to be WinCE for embedded MIPS i.e. other hand-helds. Now, the question is, how much of the codebase do these "ports" have in common?
Compiling Windows Leghorn?
I'm sure our good friends at intel will have a $200 itanic for the home and desktop market by then that will only dissipate 250W of heat or something. So don't all go rushing out to by these newfangled AMD thingies at once...
Even as a small child when 8-bit micros had speech synthesizers, I wondered why, in the technologically advanced Star Wars society that damned robot couldn't speak in a human (or whatever) language. Look at C3PO. 3 million languages? They had space craft capable of superluminal travel, weapons the size of a moon, and a damned robot that sounded like a ZX Spectrum loading Manic Miner.
Ha ha ha ha he he he he he tee hee heee hee ho ho ho ho *splutter*.
OK Mr or Ms AC, I'll hold you to those words.
Ha ha ha ha ....
I'll tell you who: Old People. That's right, bigotted, opinionated, austere and puritanical old people. These are the people who "fought in the war for us." They also harbour secret hatred of the Irish, socialists, liberals, brown and balck people, foreigners etc. They also believe in low taxes, criticise the government for giving them rubbishy state health and social care and low pensions and then go and vote for the right-wingers. These are the people who like Norman Tebbit, Nicholas Ridley, Michael Howard, John Redwood and think that Margaret Thatcher was too left-wing. These are the people who'd have us all in crew-cuts and doing national service. I should know because 90% of my family are like this.... and I'm not at all bitter.
This could be one of the final nails in itanic's coffin (or maybe the iceberg that finally sinks it.)
When will Carly wield the axe? And what will intel do now?
Not quite. Whomever it is easier to catch and convict gets punished.
They have two main flaws: they oppose nuclear power and they favour proportional representation. I used to think the same until I worked in nuclear power and had to vote in a PR election. In the election I voted for my preferred candidate and then had to vote for the token gesture Great British Loonatic to avoid giving Conservative, Labour or *barf* the Green Party my support.
Hmmm. Do they have a branch in the UK?
It wouldn't work in the UK.. There is a law that says you have to hand over your encryption keys to the authorities when they ask for it. They just have to ask you. They don't have to take you to court. Something to do with terrorists using the Intarweb or something...
The time has definitely come for a new political party that champions individual liberty, social responsibility and sicentific progress.
I'd love to help, but I'm far too busy trying to earn a living and stuff.
But I might vote for you.
Anyway, once old Blunkett gets his police state, and one surveilance is stepped up to the next level, we'll all be for it. They'd better start building more prisons now.
Complete and utter hogwash.
Since when did scientific fact, reason and common sense ever stop a politician or the "great British public?"
And how is that so very different from the West where millions pray to god, jesus, allah etc. to cure or prevent disease or illness? With a straight face many supposedly inteliigent and educated people advocate this behaviour.
Sad, isn't it? And if you object "you must have something to hide."
My point is that the politicians and beurocrats want us to put all of our eggs in one basket, so to speak. Currently I must provide several forms of identification. In the future, this shambles will be all that is required to get access to all services. That's a single point of failure. Anyone with any sense knows that this is dangerous. No engineer would build such a system. So why should the politicians get away with such shoddiness?
You see, many people think that biometric identification is fool-proof and that the ID cards will be perfect and unforgeable.
Both of these premises are false. Try finding out what the reliability of DNA fingerprinting is. The probability of a flase match with someone else's is not infinitessimal. Fingerprint readers have already been fooled, people have made copies of fingerprints left on surfaces and used them to fool machines, and iris scans have been duplicated as well.
Anyway, I'm white, male, middle-class, of moderate political views, have been in continuous education or employment since the age of 16, I haven't committed any crimes and I pay my taxes and bills.
On the surface, I have nothing to fear.
However, this is a flase sense of security. Biometric compulsary ID cards will be an expensive failure open to fraud, abuse and miscarriages of justice.
But what do I know? I'm just another ammateur pundit.
Currently you need several forms of identification to get anything important. When there is a one-size-fits-all solution that is officially deemed perfectly secure, the fraud and deception will take off, and the whole thing will collapse.
For this purpose, commercial distributions such as SuSE and RedHat exist.
One size does not fit all.
The market will decide as and when Linux is ready for the corporate desktop, and in what form.
Microsoft is doing a marvellous job already of comitting suicide due to over-pricing its software, shoddy quality and vulnerabilities to malicious code.
Linux has been doing just fine for my personal computing needs since 1996. If corporate America (or anywhere else for that matter) wants to enjoy the privilege of using Linux, it can make like the rest of us and make an effort.
And you, sir, are a teenage fashion victim. I bet you wear silly trousers, take drugs and gyrate and convulse all night long to techno "music."
You had a 12 milligram graphics card?
But it doesn't double every year. It doules every 18 months. That's approximately a factor of 10 every 5 years. Do you work for intel?
EGA was expensive and slow compared.