More info is available if you visit the company's website (which oddly isn't linked in the pcworld article).
From the site:
Storage capacity from 100MB to multi-gigabyte capacity* (in future generations).
Also, in the slideshow it shows a graph of the product scaling from 100MB in 2003 to 1 gig in 2004 to 5 gigs in 2005, at a constant price of $15.
So, they won't be selling high-priced large capacity drives, as they won't be available and when they are they will remain at the current pricepoint.
I think this could have some usefull applications, depending on how well it is accepted and whether they can actually produce a product that scales as well as they say.
This is just the same old monopolistic style of thinking. As one post put it "hiding the application layer" is a good thing for most people.
However, the way Microsoft intends on doing it is wrong. Instead of integrating all their programs together, they need to create an interface where anyone can integrate anyone else's programs together. That way, you could integrate say, mozilla's email client with word and say the opera browser.
I saw this done a couple weeks ago with a linux distro called "HomeBase" from OEone, here.
As far as paladium, It makes me sick to my stomach. As good as the security could be, I don't think I can accept giving control of my computer to a 'dumb' hardware chip, or to remote authentication.
I knew a guy who had roadrunner (TimeWarner) and he uncappeded his modem, I think he actually flashed the chip directly. Anyway, he was literally getting 10 megs a second for about a month, when he burned out his modem. When the cable company found out, they canceled his account and banned him from their service for life. Now he has DSL.
That seems like a reasonable punishment. He knew what he was doing was wrong, and the punishment made it so he couldn't do it again.
Well, I've just recently ventured into linux, and I'm using a 'dumbed down' if you will version of it - lycoris dektop/lx. It installed in 30 min and I was instantly online and all my hardware worked (except my zip drive, but I never use it). I was quite impressed. Yet, on the pII 266 machine it's one, it's slower than WinME.
There is the issue of games. I mostly play quake, which I'm told runs faster on linux, but I want all my games to work all the time and not have to worry, oh will this game work or not? If I'm playing games it's in my free time, and if I'm wasting my free time trying to get my games to work, I'm not playing them.
As far as stability, NT has kinda nullified that argument for the desktop user.
Now, the one thing I think is critical for Linux to succeed is a centralization of coding. There needs to be like 5 distos: A Desktop distro, a Server distro, a Minimalist Distro, a Traditional Distro (command line or limited GUI), and a PDA/Portable Distro. Maybe some other things like a multimedia PC distro or something would pop up. But the key idea here is if you want a linux desktop os, you pick the desktop version. Just like windows, if you want a desktop os, you buy Windows XP. IF you want an MS Server OS, there are several options. If you want a PDA software, there's pocketpc 2002/3. With Linux, you have to choose between Mandrake/RedHat/Suse/Lycoris/Lindows(shiver)/etc/e tc. The disunity is/would be confusing for the average user, and it is what limits the ease of installing software and hardware (how do you write programs to do these things if every distro does it their own way?).
If that happened, the focus of one large community would get things done so much faster, and there would be more people available to dedicate themselves to say, driver support, Wine type technology, etc.
The general population can't be hassled with understanding what their computer does, they just want it to do what they want. I always knew this but the other day I was talking with a few people who are working on a project with me, and we needed to do a powerpoint presentation. I said I didn't have Powerpoint, and the other people In my group were like, oh, well I have windows xp, I don't know if that has Powerpoint. I told them it didn't come with windows, you had to have office, and then someone else said, I have that imitation windows, I don't think it has powerpoint. She was talking about Windows ME. They just didn't understand, and It kind of amazed me.
Until linux can provide a useable desktop for this kind of people, it won't get anywhere with anyone but the developer community. People from outside the community need to start giving input that the community listens to. Then Linux will have some degree of success. That is, if they can overcome the ultimate obstacle of marketing.
All these people who say "It's too big to be usefull" "Think how long it would take for me to burn my audio collection" etc. don't get it. If this was introduced into the current marketplace, it would most likely take the place of tape backup. People wouldn't set their Easy Epoxy-CD Creator to mix all thier audio then come back a few days later. It wouldn't be like current cd burning until a new high speed drive interface came out (face it, even scsi 160 is really slow in that application)
The other thing is, like most people have said, this won't be out for years to come, if ever. By then we'll have our 2TB pixie dust HDD on SATA4 at 1.2gb/s and we'll be like "100GB?, give me somthing big enough that I can actually use it..."
hmm, best deal I ever got ended up costing me about half a cent a piece for cd-r's. They're not the cheap-o type where the film peels off after 6 mo either.
First of all, the cost of actually making a cd is somewhere less than a dollar and they sell for 12,16 or even 20 dollars. Now, most of that money goes to the Record label, and a very small amount (somewhere around 10%) goes to the artist. Artists don't get rich solely off record sales. They make most of their money from concerts. Just think: people buy the tickets at 20 to 100 bucks a head, and they probably buy a tshirt or two for like 20 bucks while they're there and maybe some memorabilia. It adds up much faster than cd sales and artists usually get a better cut than 10%.
IMO the RIAA is only protesting filesharing because they don't like losing the ability to line their pockets from inflated cd prices.
In theory, there really isn't a purpose for record labels anymore. With the internet, artists have the power to distribute their own music. However, in the current situation this isn't completely feasible.
Unfortunatly, lawmakers have little or no reason to kill an industry that provides millions if not billions of dollars in tax revenue annually.
There should be a way to divide fields into something called "subjects", and to become certified in each of these individual workshops ("courses").
You just summarized college. Why put classes and courses in parenthesis?? You take different classes, usually progressing in difficulty/specialization and when you accumulate enough in a specified field you get a degree. If this degree isn't specific enough to your career/jop path, you minor in something that is, meaning you took more specific classes. So you have a collection of classes (each class is really like a mini-certification) that makes up your major, and several other classes that complement your major and give you your minor. What you're proposing really isn't much different than how it works now, if you look at it from a broader view.
Microsoft can say anything they want NOW, but what is stopping them from embedding code that they can switch on at a later date to add these kind of restrictions? That's the danger of this new security platform. Although, look at passport. Maybe Palladium will be too buggy to be effective.
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More info is available if you visit the company's website (which oddly isn't linked in the pcworld article).
From the site:
Storage capacity from 100MB to multi-gigabyte capacity* (in future generations).
Also, in the slideshow it shows a graph of the product scaling from 100MB in 2003 to 1 gig in 2004 to 5 gigs in 2005, at a constant price of $15.
So, they won't be selling high-priced large capacity drives, as they won't be available and when they are they will remain at the current pricepoint.
I think this could have some usefull applications, depending on how well it is accepted and whether they can actually produce a product that scales as well as they say.
This is just the same old monopolistic style of thinking. As one post put it "hiding the application layer" is a good thing for most people.
However, the way Microsoft intends on doing it is wrong. Instead of integrating all their programs together, they need to create an interface where anyone can integrate anyone else's programs together. That way, you could integrate say, mozilla's email client with word and say the opera browser.
I saw this done a couple weeks ago with a linux distro called "HomeBase" from OEone, here.
As far as paladium, It makes me sick to my stomach. As good as the security could be, I don't think I can accept giving control of my computer to a 'dumb' hardware chip, or to remote authentication.
Maybe someone already said this but Pegasus would be a cool name, kinda fits too.
I knew a guy who had roadrunner (TimeWarner) and he uncappeded his modem, I think he actually flashed the chip directly. Anyway, he was literally getting 10 megs a second for about a month, when he burned out his modem. When the cable company found out, they canceled his account and banned him from their service for life. Now he has DSL.
That seems like a reasonable punishment. He knew what he was doing was wrong, and the punishment made it so he couldn't do it again.
Well, I've just recently ventured into linux, and I'm using a 'dumbed down' if you will version of it - lycoris dektop/lx. It installed in 30 min and I was instantly online and all my hardware worked (except my zip drive, but I never use it). I was quite impressed. Yet, on the pII 266 machine it's one, it's slower than WinME. There is the issue of games. I mostly play quake, which I'm told runs faster on linux, but I want all my games to work all the time and not have to worry, oh will this game work or not? If I'm playing games it's in my free time, and if I'm wasting my free time trying to get my games to work, I'm not playing them. As far as stability, NT has kinda nullified that argument for the desktop user.
e tc. The disunity is/would be confusing for the average user, and it is what limits the ease of installing software and hardware (how do you write programs to do these things if every distro does it their own way?).
Now, the one thing I think is critical for Linux to succeed is a centralization of coding. There needs to be like 5 distos: A Desktop distro, a Server distro, a Minimalist Distro, a Traditional Distro (command line or limited GUI), and a PDA/Portable Distro. Maybe some other things like a multimedia PC distro or something would pop up. But the key idea here is if you want a linux desktop os, you pick the desktop version. Just like windows, if you want a desktop os, you buy Windows XP. IF you want an MS Server OS, there are several options. If you want a PDA software, there's pocketpc 2002/3. With Linux, you have to choose between Mandrake/RedHat/Suse/Lycoris/Lindows(shiver)/etc/
If that happened, the focus of one large community would get things done so much faster, and there would be more people available to dedicate themselves to say, driver support, Wine type technology, etc.
The general population can't be hassled with understanding what their computer does, they just want it to do what they want. I always knew this but the other day I was talking with a few people who are working on a project with me, and we needed to do a powerpoint presentation. I said I didn't have Powerpoint, and the other people In my group were like, oh, well I have windows xp, I don't know if that has Powerpoint. I told them it didn't come with windows, you had to have office, and then someone else said, I have that imitation windows, I don't think it has powerpoint. She was talking about Windows ME. They just didn't understand, and It kind of amazed me.
Until linux can provide a useable desktop for this kind of people, it won't get anywhere with anyone but the developer community. People from outside the community need to start giving input that the community listens to. Then Linux will have some degree of success. That is, if they can overcome the ultimate obstacle of marketing.
All these people who say "It's too big to be usefull" "Think how long it would take for me to burn my audio collection" etc. don't get it. If this was introduced into the current marketplace, it would most likely take the place of tape backup. People wouldn't set their Easy Epoxy-CD Creator to mix all thier audio then come back a few days later. It wouldn't be like current cd burning until a new high speed drive interface came out (face it, even scsi 160 is really slow in that application)
The other thing is, like most people have said, this won't be out for years to come, if ever. By then we'll have our 2TB pixie dust HDD on SATA4 at 1.2gb/s and we'll be like "100GB?, give me somthing big enough that I can actually use it..."
hmm, best deal I ever got ended up costing me about half a cent a piece for cd-r's. They're not the cheap-o type where the film peels off after 6 mo either.
First of all, the cost of actually making a cd is somewhere less than a dollar and they sell for 12,16 or even 20 dollars. Now, most of that money goes to the Record label, and a very small amount (somewhere around 10%) goes to the artist. Artists don't get rich solely off record sales. They make most of their money from concerts. Just think: people buy the tickets at 20 to 100 bucks a head, and they probably buy a tshirt or two for like 20 bucks while they're there and maybe some memorabilia. It adds up much faster than cd sales and artists usually get a better cut than 10%.
IMO the RIAA is only protesting filesharing because they don't like losing the ability to line their pockets from inflated cd prices.
In theory, there really isn't a purpose for record labels anymore. With the internet, artists have the power to distribute their own music. However, in the current situation this isn't completely feasible. Unfortunatly, lawmakers have little or no reason to kill an industry that provides millions if not billions of dollars in tax revenue annually.
There should be a way to divide fields into something called "subjects", and to become certified in each of these individual workshops ("courses").
You just summarized college. Why put classes and courses in parenthesis?? You take different classes, usually progressing in difficulty/specialization and when you accumulate enough in a specified field you get a degree. If this degree isn't specific enough to your career/jop path, you minor in something that is, meaning you took more specific classes. So you have a collection of classes (each class is really like a mini-certification) that makes up your major, and several other classes that complement your major and give you your minor. What you're proposing really isn't much different than how it works now, if you look at it from a broader view.
Microsoft can say anything they want NOW, but what is stopping them from embedding code that they can switch on at a later date to add these kind of restrictions? That's the danger of this new security platform. Although, look at passport. Maybe Palladium will be too buggy to be effective.