150 hard-core Linux users cheering for a Microsoft product? Why do I have trouble believing this? And even if it is a cool product, what do you think will run on it? Windows of course. And I seriously doubt whether they will ever publish the details for this thing's hardware API. Therefore, I don't see that this product can ever be better than any of M$' other products. I just don't trust their motives.
If it's cool enough, I'll just wait until some other manufacturer produces one that runs Linux.:-)
Excellent point. However, I thought only Microsoft were in the business of producing billions of lines of code.:-)
Anyway, this whole story reminds me of an Omni article that I read almost 20 years ago. In it, someone speculated that "in the future" you'd be able to plant a computer chip onto your cerebral cortex. This chip would be so much faster and more efficient than all those messy neurons that we're always stumbling over, that it would be only natural for your mind to want to migrate to it. Eventually, the chip would be removed after your body started to fail and you could live out the rest of eternity inside a computer.
I can only imagine that someone out there has been working hard on this idea for the past 20 years. Normally, I'd be the first in line for one of these, since I've always felt that my brain was in dire need of an upgrade, but this time I feel I should pass the honor onto a certain world leader who seems to have no brain at all.
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150 hard-core Linux users cheering for a Microsoft product? Why do I have trouble believing this? And even if it is a cool product, what do you think will run on it? Windows of course. And I seriously doubt whether they will ever publish the details for this thing's hardware API. Therefore, I don't see that this product can ever be better than any of M$' other products. I just don't trust their motives.
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If it's cool enough, I'll just wait until some other manufacturer produces one that runs Linux.
Excellent point. However, I thought only Microsoft were in the business of producing billions of lines of code. :-)
Anyway, this whole story reminds me of an Omni article that I read almost 20 years ago. In it, someone speculated that "in the future" you'd be able to plant a computer chip onto your cerebral cortex. This chip would be so much faster and more efficient than all those messy neurons that we're always stumbling over, that it would be only natural for your mind to want to migrate to it. Eventually, the chip would be removed after your body started to fail and you could live out the rest of eternity inside a computer.
I can only imagine that someone out there has been working hard on this idea for the past 20 years. Normally, I'd be the first in line for one of these, since I've always felt that my brain was in dire need of an upgrade, but this time I feel I should pass the honor onto a certain world leader who seems to have no brain at all.