Yes it seems insane to me... (European). I was wondering why it took to about the 20th or someting post for someone to mention this. Bill next up: Free ice cream on for everybody on Fridays. Tacked on: No more net neutrality.
(Nobody is going to read this after a week, but...)
I whole hartedly argee with the above. Sure, _technically_ WinXP was not much of an advance over Win2K. With a little effort, all games could have been made to run on Win2K smoothly. As you say, the real big move was that WinXP was positioned to finaly (mercyfully) kill off the tortured Win9X strain. WinXP's daring, colorful new UI was an essential feature to motivate the majority home PC owners to migrate, often requiring them to buy a new PC too.
"(1) This is (IMHO) a very well-reasoned critique of WinXP, although it does fail to (2) credit XP as being markedly better than its predecessors"
IMnotsoHO, these two statements contradict each other. Not making myself popular around there, I'd say that WinXP, about the third greatest thing to happen to PC users (after MS DOS and Windows 3.1). Finally a real operating system for PC's without serious limitations, with enough backwards compatibility for the enormous installed base of Windows software. I can race through Need for Speed Most Wanted while downloading the latest, errr, content plus webserving my site. Without ever crashing. Sure, I have to reboot every week or so with some patches, but that's the price of any main-stream OS. Lunix-ers will have to pay later too... So: Hooray for the Borg! Cheers, Richard
I *like* wires because:
- They're faster.
- They're more private.
- They're healthier.
(Don't microwave my body to varying degrees,
and don't even *start* about wireless power)
- They're scalable.
(The wired spectrum, aka 'space', will fill up very slowly)
Unfortulately, the wired renaissance will only begin after a bunch
of people with growth's in their neck have had their bank accounts
emptied via their wireless internet connection after their RFID stored
identity was stolen by a passer-by...
I was thinking along similar lines, but with a difference:
If having the private key is useful for signing a Linux distro, I assume a signed program can somehow take over the XBOX. E.g.: by adding a kernel driver perhaps.
Some new game, signed by M$, could include a small Linux bootloader, that takes over the XBOX this way.
Then it would prompt "Please insert your Linux DVD and press OK to boot it".
Et voila, Lunix booted sans hardware mods. (Albeit a bit cumbersome)
I venture this approach would yield faster results than trying to teach some slashdotters RSA and the vastness of a 2048-bit keyspace. (Oopsie, flamebait:-)
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Yes it seems insane to me... (European). I was wondering why it took to about the 20th or someting post for someone to mention this. Bill next up: Free ice cream on for everybody on Fridays. Tacked on: No more net neutrality.
(Nobody is going to read this after a week, but...)
I whole hartedly argee with the above. Sure, _technically_ WinXP was not much of an advance over Win2K. With a little effort, all games could have been made to run on Win2K smoothly. As you say, the real big move was that WinXP was positioned to finaly (mercyfully) kill off the tortured Win9X strain. WinXP's daring, colorful new UI was an essential feature to motivate the majority home PC owners to migrate, often requiring them to buy a new PC too.
"(1) This is (IMHO) a very well-reasoned critique of WinXP,
although it does fail to (2) credit XP as being markedly better than its predecessors"
IMnotsoHO, these two statements contradict each other. Not making myself popular around there, I'd say that WinXP, about the third greatest thing to happen to PC users (after MS DOS and Windows 3.1). Finally a real operating system for PC's without serious limitations, with enough backwards compatibility for the enormous installed base of Windows software. I can race through Need for Speed Most Wanted while downloading the latest, errr, content plus webserving my site. Without ever crashing. Sure, I have to reboot every week or so with some patches, but that's the price of any main-stream OS. Lunix-ers will have to pay later too... So: Hooray for the Borg! Cheers, Richard
I *like* wires because: - They're faster. - They're more private. - They're healthier. (Don't microwave my body to varying degrees, and don't even *start* about wireless power) - They're scalable. (The wired spectrum, aka 'space', will fill up very slowly) Unfortulately, the wired renaissance will only begin after a bunch of people with growth's in their neck have had their bank accounts emptied via their wireless internet connection after their RFID stored identity was stolen by a passer-by...
I was thinking along similar lines,
:-)
but with a difference:
If having the private key is useful for signing
a Linux distro, I assume a signed program can
somehow take over the XBOX.
E.g.: by adding a kernel driver perhaps.
Some new game, signed by M$, could include
a small Linux bootloader, that takes over the
XBOX this way.
Then it would prompt "Please insert your Linux DVD and press OK to boot it".
Et voila, Lunix booted sans hardware mods.
(Albeit a bit cumbersome)
I venture this approach would yield faster
results than trying to teach some slashdotters
RSA and the vastness of a 2048-bit keyspace.
(Oopsie, flamebait