I'd do what a "god" does in real life: nothing as it doesnt exist. (im not trolling, Im an atheist) Just let the game play out and watch various people concoct creation myths, start oppressive theocracies, use scripture as an excuse for bigotry, religious wars, attacking new ideas, etc.
This kind of game might be a lot of fun if it was made from the perspective of, say, aliens watching the earth from space. "Hey, look at this, they stopped worshipping animals and nature and now they are all crazy about some carpenter who lived 2000 years ago."
Something tells me this wouldnt sell too well in the US and would probably be banned in some fashion (not carried by walmart, etc).
The main issue seems to be this: That Jet City charges $10 a head for the show. If the show were free, there's a chance that the legal department of Lucasfilm would not have responded. After all, the anonymous fellow who created "The Phantom Edit" (a version of "Star Wars: Episode 1 -- The Phantom Menace" sans Jar Jar Binks) never really got in trouble with Lucasfilm.
"It wasn't commercially exhibited -- they weren't doing it for profit," said Hale.
Copyright holders look the other way unless money is being exchanged. Of course, there's the larger issue of what fair use is, but they werent just parodying SWs they were projecting the footage and "adding on" their own product (their dialogue) and charging for it. Thats a lot like, say, translating the movie into another language, selling it, and not paying lucasfilm. Sure, that analogy isn't perfect but legally I think that's how its going to be seen.
The real downside of this is that you can't really "sample parody" anything anymore without permission and the dollars to back it up. Either you create a whole new work with no samples like "Spaceballs" or you're kinda out of luck.
I saw the Star Wars one man show here in Chicago last year or so and he charged money, but he didnt use anything other than his body to do his act. So he was completely free to charge. In fact a lawsuit by lucas would have (all things being equal) been lost.
ALso, what does this mean for all the movieoke people out there? Sure, I doubt they'll crack down on it, but venue owners may not like them anymore after this.
>Hey! Someone tell Bush quick that there are weapons of mass destruction out there!
Naww, its more like:
Tom Daschle: Mr President, an asteroid is headed this way! If we work with our European and Russian allies we could beat this thing! You have the full support of the democrats for this threat. We'll just sign this bill giving you funding and full military power...
Bush: Good. Attack Iran! Now! Then Syria! Asteroid smashteroid. Sounds like more scientific nonsense like global warming or them darn stem cells you guys are always yapping about.
The P-M is very, very impressive, but isn't it a dead end? Intel can't be banking on this thing to be their new killer chip.
Its not 64 bit (which is not a big deal now), its limited to 400 mhz FSB, the P4-M will not be as thifty with juice as the C3, etc. Its ability to do more with less clock cycles is going to hurt Intel's own branding and marketing strategy which is built on the megahertz myth. It is currently outperformed by the old P4 and the opteron.
Its neat and probably headed towards the desktop (if it isnt there already), but I think the opteron is going to hurt Intel for a while. Perhaps a long while.
Intel could really make inroads with the P-M/mobo as the basis for a quiet PC. Less heat, less fans, etc. Create some new form factor/standard which has ONE fan. Period. Or none, like Apple.
The desktop market could really use an industry leader pushing machines which aren't so loud.
Maybe someone can toss me a clue here, but with all these transistors why aren't these things producing much heat? My athlon has a chunky sized heatsink with a fan attached but my ATI 9800 PRO card has a teeny, tiny fan with a thin heatsink. My geforce cards all had small fans. Are there less resistors in GPUs? Does the lower clockspeed allow for GPUs to run cooler?
> I'm a card-carrying Republican and once in a while it annoys me
I'm curious as to how "liberal" slashdot is. I have never seen a link to The Nation or Common Dreams, but have seen links to WSJ, Fox, etc. I never see articles about socializing healthcare, the legal system, etc. If anything slashdot reflects the opinions of educated city dwellers/tech workers/gen x/y'ers.
To some people the lack of "The Bible is the inerrant word of the one true God" and "We must privatize everything!" equals a liberal bias, when in reality those positions are extremist. I mean, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the Republicans went from a conservative party to something different altogether after Goldwater. The current party is now in bed with fundamentalists, has the biggest deficit ever with the VP claiming "deficits don't matter," tries hard to expand government to get into your bedroom and your religion (gay marriage), etc. I wont even go into how the Neocon movement is clearly anti-conservitive as it involves something akin to empire building, big spending, and anti-isolationism.
>Seems to me that most folks define 'fair' as "whatever I happen to agree with"
Actually most people I know want the fairness doctrine back, which was removed by Reagan and the Republicans in the 80s, so it guarantees that at least two sides of controversial issues are presented. Your whole "both parties are the same, people are all biased partisans" is an easily knocked-over strawmen when you factor in millions who want a real media, more public media, and laws which make those who use our national airwaves at least present the full picture.
Its no coincidence that after the fall of the fairness doctrine did the rise of the super-slanted talk radio/news start. The attack on fair media continues with GOP promises of deregulation, which will give us an even worse media ecology and empower "owner's bias."
Oh, the irony. As you link to LGF who mocks dead protestors like Rachel Corrie by awarding them their "idiotarian award of the year." And they got the entire country of France on there. Umm, who are the haters exactly? I'll let the reader decide:
What liberal media? Seriously, Alterman is right on the money here. I watch a lot of international media and, well, you guys don't know how much disinformation and conservative bias you consume per day. The added insult of believing in a "liberal media" would be funny if it wasn't so sad that media owners can so easily manipulate mass opinion.
FAIR has done an excellent job at pointing out bias and its no surprise that ownership and advertising bias tend to help the conservative "pro-big business" and "pro-deregulation" party.
>I'm sorry, did you actually think Sun was an ally?
And why should they be? Linux installations are killing commercial unix, moreso than MS's server offerings. These are the mechanics of market competition. On top of it, even if Sun is serious about the Java Desktop they can still push it and attack other linux distros at the same time. All they have to claim is that their solution is better than Red Hats (or whoever).
The world of business makes for odd enemies and bedfellows.
Its a real shame someone has to post anonymous here nowadays to even say that.
You are absolutely correct, these problems are not OS depedent. Its trivial to lock-down a windows workstation and put in proper network controls (email filtering, port filtering, IP/MAC based policies, firewalling, etc). The real problem is the industry has yet to crack the whip with users/IT managers/CEO's etc who believe an office machine should be just as usable and fun as a home machine. Err, no. Users should never be able to:
Install software Run non-authorized executables Make any system changes
IT departments will really have to take up a policing role if they ever want a stable network. That means no more activex crap, no more screensavers of the day, no more "i bought this software can you install it," no more email attachments of the day, etc.
The line is the sand has been drawn. You can trust users to install software and get killed by viruses, spyware, non-work related software or you can lock these things down tight and tell people they can get a job elsewhere if they don't like it.
Because people typing their email addresses into that box means its a "known-good" email address. A list of known-goods beats a list of dead addresses any day of the week.
How is this "environmental?" I ride a bike because its practical. I also drive because its practical. If there was a human powered vehicle somewhere between the two I would be all about it. So would many others, because its practical.
I also try to stay in shape and eat right because I don't want to look like a slob, suffer from heart disease, etc.
This is not some ideology, its called being smart. The "I'll eat crap everyday, not get any exercise, and call people elitist environmentalists when they propose new ways of doing things" is just plain stupid.
The same hate/racist site which calls this poor girl "Idiotarian of the Year." Because she went and protested for peace in Palestine only to get killed by an Israeli bulldozer. Because she had a conscience she deserves to be mocked by the 101st fighting keyboarders? From her memorial site:
In another e-mail, Rachel wrote, "This has to stop. I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop. I don't think it's an extremist thing to do anymore. I really want to dance around to Pat Benatar and have boyfriends and make comics for my co-workers. But I also want this to stop. Disbelief and horror is what I feel. Disappointment. I am disappointed that this is the base reality of our world and that we, in fact, participate in it. This is not at all what I asked for when I came into this world. This is not at all what the people here asked for when they came into this world. This is not what they are asking for now. This is not the world you and Dad wanted me to come into when you decided to have me."
Kos is a community site, there is no consensus or "master leader" unlike the other blogs you listed in your other post like Instapundit. Hell, instapundit doesnt even allow comments, yet thedailykos gives weblog space to all its users and the really good entries get promoted to the front page.Kos, Atrios, etc don't just parrot the corporate media, but question it. I dont see the point of reading Instapundit if he's just playing the role of an MSNBC or Fox News anchor.
Even moderation is more interesting at kos as you can see who moderated what. No hidding behind your mod points. The kos community has also dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars into helping win elections. Its a community in every sense of the word, not just "one guy's opinion." That really sums up the whole conservative vs liberal fight in the US. The cons tend to be top-down and the libs tend to be grassroots/bottom up. No comments on Sully, Insta, Dick Cheney makes you sign a loyalty oath, etc.
As far as suffering through syndromes go, these conservative bloggers ignored all the good questions regarding WMD only to back-up the president while the liberal blogs were presenting evidence and good arguments on why Iraq would be WMD-less and a quagmire. Guess who was right?
Andrew Sullivan, Instapundit, and the other token conservatives/neocons don't even allow comments. That speaks VOLUMES on how they run their ship and what kind of information they are peddling.
>Chomsky suffers from being Chomsky
That's an easy attack, but if you want to understand media there's few better books than Manufacturing Consent. Or Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death.
This being politics.slashdot.org I fully expect many people with agendas to hide behind their mod points and rate me a troll or "over-rated" like they've done with my previous posts.
Why gecko? So we can find ourselves in a situation where one popular browser's (or rending engine) tics and weirdness dictates how to write webpages like IE does now?
The point of advocating alternative browsers isn't to make a "better browser" its to empower standards and to create a diverse application ecology so no one app dominates. Imagine some big ass security hole in gecko after the google/firefox revolution.
Maybe they'll go with khtml like Apple did. Maybe they'll write their own. Who knows. The point is there is a standard for writing html, thus no need for any type of lock-in, be it vendor or rendering engine.
A lot of good that will do when the trojan goes through your NAT/Firewall through that big hole we call "email."
Only a comprehensive approach will make a big enough difference. That includes patching, being skeptical of email attachments, firewalling, and virus scanning.
PC hygiene goes a long way too. People are slowly learning that you just can't install the "newest c00lest blah-blah of the day" anymore as it will be 99% spyware and 1% app. It will be poorly written and cause all sorts of problems.
These are just growing pains and even though the stats dont look good right now at least I can talk about spyware and viruses and have people understand what I'm saying.
I'm running SP2 on both a custom built tower and my dell laptop and with DEP on for all apps and haven't noticed anything in regards to performance. I get the same doom3 benchmarks everyone else gets with my processors/video card. Things are as snappy (or as unsnappy for the laptop) as usual.
Man, I use linux too, but mostly on the server side. I've helped more than a few people run Red Hat or Mandrake. I love OSX. But this faux outrage MS bashing shit has to stop. For every bullshit bash, my arguments regarding MS's anti-compeititive practices and protocal hijacking sound all the more unconvincing. At this point when I explain to people whats really wrong with MS I can expect the, "you computer people always complain about MS" line. Now toss in the people who think the anti-trust case was just 'government attacking successful Americans' and we're only feeding the flames of ignorance with every petty MS complaint.
SP2 is one of the few things MS got right:
Pop-up locker for IE
ActiveX nag windows
ActiveX object manager
Default on firewall
DEP, NX
Better wireless manager
Bunch of minor fixes
I dont know about the rest of the people on this board, but I live in the real world. I have friends and relatives who use windows and this is going to help them out a lot. I think the MS pile-on is usually justified, but sometimes its not and its ugly when it isn't.
The FCC's attempts at further deregulation kinda kills any "The FCC is good for you" arguments. Now toss in their 1950's prudish censorship crusade and you've got yourself an organization we can do without or at the very least can be limited only to bandwidth issues and without the cronyism.
Is there a skin of someone who looks like me sitting at their computer in their underwear and sipping folgers? Perhaps with some 3D rendered clothes on the floor and a bowl of dried up ramen next to the keyboard?
Or indie bands. Here's a goood place to start and unlike local unsigned bands, chances are they will come near you on their next tour, the music is just as good if not better, and its a form of commercialization of music you can endorse without feeling unethical.
A lot of the RIAA bullshit doesn't fly with most indie labels. That's not to say they are all saints, but there's enough disdain for the RIAA way of doing things to keep most of them pretty clean. If not, artists are free to leave and move to labels which offer them more freedom or better deals.
Indie labels have been dealing with proper ways to handle ownership and copyright issue for decades. What's new to the net-based "the music industry sucks" crowd is old hat to the indie labels.
1. The desktop model of computering is old, really old. There are demos from the late 60's, early 70s. MS lifted its windowing ideas the same place Apple did, from Xerox. Seems everything is initially derived from Xerox.
2. The home computer didn't hit critical mass until Netscape and the web gave people a real excuse to buy a home computer or two. Especially people who didn't at the time use a computer at work or were otherwise not in the income bracket that allowed for a $2,000+ computer.
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I'd do what a "god" does in real life: nothing as it doesnt exist. (im not trolling, Im an atheist) Just let the game play out and watch various people concoct creation myths, start oppressive theocracies, use scripture as an excuse for bigotry, religious wars, attacking new ideas, etc.
This kind of game might be a lot of fun if it was made from the perspective of, say, aliens watching the earth from space. "Hey, look at this, they stopped worshipping animals and nature and now they are all crazy about some carpenter who lived 2000 years ago."
Something tells me this wouldnt sell too well in the US and would probably be banned in some fashion (not carried by walmart, etc).
The real downside of this is that you can't really "sample parody" anything anymore without permission and the dollars to back it up. Either you create a whole new work with no samples like "Spaceballs" or you're kinda out of luck.
I saw the Star Wars one man show here in Chicago last year or so and he charged money, but he didnt use anything other than his body to do his act. So he was completely free to charge. In fact a lawsuit by lucas would have (all things being equal) been lost.
ALso, what does this mean for all the movieoke people out there? Sure, I doubt they'll crack down on it, but venue owners may not like them anymore after this.
>Hey! Someone tell Bush quick that there are weapons of mass destruction out there!
Naww, its more like:
Tom Daschle: Mr President, an asteroid is headed this way! If we work with our European and Russian allies we could beat this thing! You have the full support of the democrats for this threat. We'll just sign this bill giving you funding and full military power...
Bush: Good. Attack Iran! Now! Then Syria! Asteroid smashteroid. Sounds like more scientific nonsense like global warming or them darn stem cells you guys are always yapping about.
The P-M is very, very impressive, but isn't it a dead end? Intel can't be banking on this thing to be their new killer chip.
Its not 64 bit (which is not a big deal now), its limited to 400 mhz FSB, the P4-M will not be as thifty with juice as the C3, etc. Its ability to do more with less clock cycles is going to hurt Intel's own branding and marketing strategy which is built on the megahertz myth. It is currently outperformed by the old P4 and the opteron.
Its neat and probably headed towards the desktop (if it isnt there already), but I think the opteron is going to hurt Intel for a while. Perhaps a long while.
Intel could really make inroads with the P-M/mobo as the basis for a quiet PC. Less heat, less fans, etc. Create some new form factor/standard which has ONE fan. Period. Or none, like Apple.
The desktop market could really use an industry leader pushing machines which aren't so loud.
> Rachel Corrie was a pro-intifada terror activist. She was "protesting" for Yasser Arafat.
Corrie was a member of a non-violent solidarity group and was killed when she stood in front of an Israeli bulldozer going for a palestinian doctor's home. The dozer driver decided to kill her and continue his work. Some "terrorist activist." No wonder you posted anon.
The house was being torn down to build the apartheid, err, security wall.
Maybe someone can toss me a clue here, but with all these transistors why aren't these things producing much heat? My athlon has a chunky sized heatsink with a fan attached but my ATI 9800 PRO card has a teeny, tiny fan with a thin heatsink. My geforce cards all had small fans. Are there less resistors in GPUs? Does the lower clockspeed allow for GPUs to run cooler?
> I'm a card-carrying Republican and once in a while it annoys me
I'm curious as to how "liberal" slashdot is. I have never seen a link to The Nation or Common Dreams, but have seen links to WSJ, Fox, etc. I never see articles about socializing healthcare, the legal system, etc. If anything slashdot reflects the opinions of educated city dwellers/tech workers/gen x/y'ers.
To some people the lack of "The Bible is the inerrant word of the one true God" and "We must privatize everything!" equals a liberal bias, when in reality those positions are extremist. I mean, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the Republicans went from a conservative party to something different altogether after Goldwater. The current party is now in bed with fundamentalists, has the biggest deficit ever with the VP claiming "deficits don't matter," tries hard to expand government to get into your bedroom and your religion (gay marriage), etc. I wont even go into how the Neocon movement is clearly anti-conservitive as it involves something akin to empire building, big spending, and anti-isolationism.
>Seems to me that most folks define 'fair' as "whatever I happen to agree with"
Actually most people I know want the fairness doctrine back, which was removed by Reagan and the Republicans in the 80s, so it guarantees that at least two sides of controversial issues are presented. Your whole "both parties are the same, people are all biased partisans" is an easily knocked-over strawmen when you factor in millions who want a real media, more public media, and laws which make those who use our national airwaves at least present the full picture.
Its no coincidence that after the fall of the fairness doctrine did the rise of the super-slanted talk radio/news start. The attack on fair media continues with GOP promises of deregulation, which will give us an even worse media ecology and empower "owner's bias."
> Daily Kos hatesite
Oh, the irony. As you link to LGF who mocks dead protestors like Rachel Corrie by awarding them their "idiotarian award of the year." And they got the entire country of France on there. Umm, who are the haters exactly? I'll let the reader decide:
DailyKos
LGF
Even 30 seconds browsing both sites is enough to figure out who the "hatesite" is.
Not to mention the telegraph is openly and proudly conservative. Just ask its owner Conrad Black.
The daily mail is the brit liberal paper, btw.
What liberal media? Seriously, Alterman is right on the money here. I watch a lot of international media and, well, you guys don't know how much disinformation and conservative bias you consume per day. The added insult of believing in a "liberal media" would be funny if it wasn't so sad that media owners can so easily manipulate mass opinion.
FAIR has done an excellent job at pointing out bias and its no surprise that ownership and advertising bias tend to help the conservative "pro-big business" and "pro-deregulation" party.
>I'm sorry, did you actually think Sun was an ally?
And why should they be? Linux installations are killing commercial unix, moreso than MS's server offerings. These are the mechanics of market competition. On top of it, even if Sun is serious about the Java Desktop they can still push it and attack other linux distros at the same time. All they have to claim is that their solution is better than Red Hats (or whoever).
The world of business makes for odd enemies and bedfellows.
>no need for a full Linux desktop conversion here
Its a real shame someone has to post anonymous here nowadays to even say that.
You are absolutely correct, these problems are not OS depedent. Its trivial to lock-down a windows workstation and put in proper network controls (email filtering, port filtering, IP/MAC based policies, firewalling, etc). The real problem is the industry has yet to crack the whip with users/IT managers/CEO's etc who believe an office machine should be just as usable and fun as a home machine. Err, no. Users should never be able to:
Install software
Run non-authorized executables
Make any system changes
IT departments will really have to take up a policing role if they ever want a stable network. That means no more activex crap, no more screensavers of the day, no more "i bought this software can you install it," no more email attachments of the day, etc.
The line is the sand has been drawn. You can trust users to install software and get killed by viruses, spyware, non-work related software or you can lock these things down tight and tell people they can get a job elsewhere if they don't like it.
Because people typing their email addresses into that box means its a "known-good" email address. A list of known-goods beats a list of dead addresses any day of the week.
Wow, slashdot has hit a new low.
"The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to prevent a data overload,"
Thats from the article. Win2K is a completely different OS than Win95. FUD, shameless speculation, and bias. Man, this is just bad.
How is this "environmental?" I ride a bike because its practical. I also drive because its practical. If there was a human powered vehicle somewhere between the two I would be all about it. So would many others, because its practical.
I also try to stay in shape and eat right because I don't want to look like a slob, suffer from heart disease, etc.
This is not some ideology, its called being smart. The "I'll eat crap everyday, not get any exercise, and call people elitist environmentalists when they propose new ways of doing things" is just plain stupid.
>Kos suffered from a case of "Baghdad-Bobia
Kos is a community site, there is no consensus or "master leader" unlike the other blogs you listed in your other post like Instapundit. Hell, instapundit doesnt even allow comments, yet thedailykos gives weblog space to all its users and the really good entries get promoted to the front page.Kos, Atrios, etc don't just parrot the corporate media, but question it. I dont see the point of reading Instapundit if he's just playing the role of an MSNBC or Fox News anchor.
Even moderation is more interesting at kos as you can see who moderated what. No hidding behind your mod points. The kos community has also dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars into helping win elections. Its a community in every sense of the word, not just "one guy's opinion." That really sums up the whole conservative vs liberal fight in the US. The cons tend to be top-down and the libs tend to be grassroots/bottom up. No comments on Sully, Insta, Dick Cheney makes you sign a loyalty oath, etc.
As far as suffering through syndromes go, these conservative bloggers ignored all the good questions regarding WMD only to back-up the president while the liberal blogs were presenting evidence and good arguments on why Iraq would be WMD-less and a quagmire. Guess who was right?
Andrew Sullivan, Instapundit, and the other token conservatives/neocons don't even allow comments. That speaks VOLUMES on how they run their ship and what kind of information they are peddling.
>Chomsky suffers from being Chomsky
That's an easy attack, but if you want to understand media there's few better books than Manufacturing Consent. Or Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death.
This being politics.slashdot.org I fully expect many people with agendas to hide behind their mod points and rate me a troll or "over-rated" like they've done with my previous posts.
Dont forget Atrios, kind of the sane version of Instapundit.
Why gecko? So we can find ourselves in a situation where one popular browser's (or rending engine) tics and weirdness dictates how to write webpages like IE does now?
The point of advocating alternative browsers isn't to make a "better browser" its to empower standards and to create a diverse application ecology so no one app dominates. Imagine some big ass security hole in gecko after the google/firefox revolution.
Maybe they'll go with khtml like Apple did. Maybe they'll write their own. Who knows. The point is there is a standard for writing html, thus no need for any type of lock-in, be it vendor or rendering engine.
A lot of good that will do when the trojan goes through your NAT/Firewall through that big hole we call "email."
Only a comprehensive approach will make a big enough difference. That includes patching, being skeptical of email attachments, firewalling, and virus scanning.
PC hygiene goes a long way too. People are slowly learning that you just can't install the "newest c00lest blah-blah of the day" anymore as it will be 99% spyware and 1% app. It will be poorly written and cause all sorts of problems.
These are just growing pains and even though the stats dont look good right now at least I can talk about spyware and viruses and have people understand what I'm saying.
Man, I use linux too, but mostly on the server side. I've helped more than a few people run Red Hat or Mandrake. I love OSX. But this faux outrage MS bashing shit has to stop. For every bullshit bash, my arguments regarding MS's anti-compeititive practices and protocal hijacking sound all the more unconvincing. At this point when I explain to people whats really wrong with MS I can expect the, "you computer people always complain about MS" line. Now toss in the people who think the anti-trust case was just 'government attacking successful Americans' and we're only feeding the flames of ignorance with every petty MS complaint.
I dont know about the rest of the people on this board, but I live in the real world. I have friends and relatives who use windows and this is going to help them out a lot. I think the MS pile-on is usually justified, but sometimes its not and its ugly when it isn't.
The FCC's attempts at further deregulation kinda kills any "The FCC is good for you" arguments. Now toss in their 1950's prudish censorship crusade and you've got yourself an organization we can do without or at the very least can be limited only to bandwidth issues and without the cronyism.
Is there a skin of someone who looks like me sitting at their computer in their underwear and sipping folgers? Perhaps with some 3D rendered clothes on the floor and a bowl of dried up ramen next to the keyboard?
Or indie bands. Here's a goood place to start and unlike local unsigned bands, chances are they will come near you on their next tour, the music is just as good if not better, and its a form of commercialization of music you can endorse without feeling unethical.
A lot of the RIAA bullshit doesn't fly with most indie labels. That's not to say they are all saints, but there's enough disdain for the RIAA way of doing things to keep most of them pretty clean. If not, artists are free to leave and move to labels which offer them more freedom or better deals.
Indie labels have been dealing with proper ways to handle ownership and copyright issue for decades. What's new to the net-based "the music industry sucks" crowd is old hat to the indie labels.
Also, don't confuse indie with vanity or lesser known RIAA labels.
Oh, and epitonic.com streams tracks too.
A couple counterpoints:
1. The desktop model of computering is old, really old. There are demos from the late 60's, early 70s. MS lifted its windowing ideas the same place Apple did, from Xerox. Seems everything is initially derived from Xerox.
2. The home computer didn't hit critical mass until Netscape and the web gave people a real excuse to buy a home computer or two. Especially people who didn't at the time use a computer at work or were otherwise not in the income bracket that allowed for a $2,000+ computer.