I think 'good enough' is good enough for the computer(s) you directly interact with such as the ones with user interfaces attached to them. These computers need only be capable enough to present a smooth enough user interface, decode media good enough and so on. Your photo collection and the resource intensive tasks of recognising faces and such will probably be stored and processed by a more powerful home server or storage and processing service.
I'm happy interacting with my photos|movies|music on my, now relatively old, low-end netbook. It's happy decoding 480p video which definitely is 'good enough' on a 9" display. Heavy processing of the, sometimes rediculously large, data is better done on my noisy, gray box or on a multiple of such in a shipping container somewhere. My gray box is not currently doing face recognition, but it downsamples movies I want to view on my netbook.
I'm not talking about going thin client. I'm talking about distributing the processing to where it fits.
I don't want the computer I carry with me to be heavy, bulky and burning.
Saw three suggestions about Tahoe so far, low scores though. So i thaught I'd just add my own low score suggestion about Tahoe (http://www.allmydata.com/).
I can see no technical reason why "software as a service" would require you to store your data at the service provider only. Of course, the service provider probably would want you to, to be able to lock you in, but then you should take your business elsewhere.
I use a calendar application of a large service provider. Yes, they do store all my calendaring data, but, so do I. It's regularly downloaded from them and inserted into my desktop PIM system.
I would not trust them with sensitive data, but the benefits of me and my family being able to share calendars in nearly real-time is way beyond the possible misuse of the information "Who's picking up the children at school?"
Oh yes, they do live in America. We also live in Europe and Asia, Africa and possibly even Antarctica. Why not even friggin Atlåntis... And yes we've got reindeer, and cute blond girls in Scandinavia, but that's not why we're pirates. Beeing a Pirate is an honor. You stand up for what is right. Ideas are good. Everyone should have one. And share them, please. Sorry. Me drunk. Saw a cute blond though...
Personally, I do not care much if Dell ships laptops with Linux.
What would make me positively surprised is if any large computer manufacturer would provide hardware with a guaranteed open specifications.
If I get it with or without OS is irrelevant.
I agree with you on the fact that Microsoft actually has adopted several open standards. But I think those standards are almost always network protocols. They have to adopt them, else they would be cut of from the rest of the world. When it comes to user experience standards Microsoft has their own (true, derived from other systems, but thats another story).
I think the open source community can/should get the user experience standards together in the same way we develop software. Open standards commented/improved upon/forked by anyone who wants. There could be a "standardforge.net" forum for development. I should be able to set standard preferences (if I want to) in my/etc/apt/sources.list or whatever package manager I use.
I don't think it would become too chaotic. Look at how many free OS distributions there are. How many standardize on using Linux for kernel? Nearly all. Could as many standardize on using an open community developed standard for picking colors or spellchecking. I beleive so if there were some place you could go to search for those standards.
When I write a piece of software I look for well supported libraries I can use and feel comfortable with. In the same way I should look for well supported user experience standards I can use and feel comfortable with.
Next patent application coming out of redmond: When user/software/agent trying to do anything, system responds "No, you can not!" or maybe just "Error loading DLL.". If they'd get such a patent I promise not to infringe.
Distributing wikipedia (electronically) via a p2p protocol would not only solve the need to raise hardware/bandwidth funds. Other benefits would (in a while) be a more scalable information store as it grows (popular articles are faster to download) and getting some serious content into the Freenet or GNUnet networks. Since it would also attract new nodes to the p2p network, theese networks may actually grow to be more usable as more nodes gives a faster network.
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I think 'good enough' is good enough for the computer(s) you directly interact with such as the ones with user interfaces attached to them. These computers need only be capable enough to present a smooth enough user interface, decode media good enough and so on. Your photo collection and the resource intensive tasks of recognising faces and such will probably be stored and processed by a more powerful home server or storage and processing service. I'm happy interacting with my photos|movies|music on my, now relatively old, low-end netbook. It's happy decoding 480p video which definitely is 'good enough' on a 9" display. Heavy processing of the, sometimes rediculously large, data is better done on my noisy, gray box or on a multiple of such in a shipping container somewhere. My gray box is not currently doing face recognition, but it downsamples movies I want to view on my netbook. I'm not talking about going thin client. I'm talking about distributing the processing to where it fits. I don't want the computer I carry with me to be heavy, bulky and burning.
Saw three suggestions about Tahoe so far, low scores though. So i thaught I'd just add my own low score suggestion about Tahoe (http://www.allmydata.com/).
I can see no technical reason why "software as a service" would require you to store your data at the service provider only. Of course, the service provider probably would want you to, to be able to lock you in, but then you should take your business elsewhere.
I use a calendar application of a large service provider. Yes, they do store all my calendaring data, but, so do I. It's regularly downloaded from them and inserted into my desktop PIM system.
I would not trust them with sensitive data, but the benefits of me and my family being able to share calendars in nearly real-time is way beyond the possible misuse of the information "Who's picking up the children at school?"
Oh yes, they do live in America. We also live in Europe and Asia, Africa and possibly even Antarctica. Why not even friggin Atlåntis... And yes we've got reindeer, and cute blond girls in Scandinavia, but that's not why we're pirates. Beeing a Pirate is an honor. You stand up for what is right. Ideas are good. Everyone should have one. And share them, please. Sorry. Me drunk. Saw a cute blond though...
Personally, I do not care much if Dell ships laptops with Linux.
What would make me positively surprised is if any large computer manufacturer would provide hardware with a guaranteed open specifications. If I get it with or without OS is irrelevant.
Closed hardware and no specs makes me a dull boy.
I agree with you on the fact that Microsoft actually has adopted several open standards. But I think those standards are almost always network protocols. They have to adopt them, else they would be cut of from the rest of the world. When it comes to user experience standards Microsoft has their own (true, derived from other systems, but thats another story). /etc/apt/sources.list or whatever package manager I use.
I think the open source community can/should get the user experience standards together in the same way we develop software. Open standards commented/improved upon/forked by anyone who wants. There could be a "standardforge.net" forum for development. I should be able to set standard preferences (if I want to) in my
I don't think it would become too chaotic. Look at how many free OS distributions there are. How many standardize on using Linux for kernel? Nearly all. Could as many standardize on using an open community developed standard for picking colors or spellchecking. I beleive so if there were some place you could go to search for those standards.
When I write a piece of software I look for well supported libraries I can use and feel comfortable with. In the same way I should look for well supported user experience standards I can use and feel comfortable with.
Nope, Finland...
Lots of lakes.
The telephone system works, I've used it.
I wont mention further on Finnish truckies.
Next patent application coming out of redmond:
When user/software/agent trying to do anything, system responds "No, you can not!" or maybe just "Error loading DLL.".
If they'd get such a patent I promise not to infringe.
Distributing wikipedia (electronically) via a p2p protocol would not only solve the need to raise hardware/bandwidth funds. Other benefits would (in a while) be a more scalable information store as it grows (popular articles are faster to download) and getting some serious content into the Freenet or GNUnet networks. Since it would also attract new nodes to the p2p network, theese networks may actually grow to be more usable as more nodes gives a faster network.