Moore's Law actually only indirectly affects CPU speed.
Moore's Law states that transistor density doubles every 18 months. Finding how to use all those transistors usually results in far less than a 2x speeded.
I go to the University of Texas at Austin. There's LOTS of Linux people around!
Consequently, a lot of the pro-Linux folks from Dell and IBM get hired from here. Many of my professors are also working at IBM and they all talk about how you can't walk through their buildings without seeing penguin stickers on the doors.
It's encouraging that there will be a future beyond working with the broken Win32 SDK; and with the trial looking so well, a future beyond working for Microsoft.
But these are *new* Linux users, not old time "Unix is everything" people. I hear people asking their friends what distro they should install and I see people with Running Linux books on their desks in my Computer Science classes. It was NOT this popular last year or the other three years that I've been attending college.
Bloatware is a result of one thing: a company's iterative processes through version numbers to get more revenue. Open-source projects are immune to this trend, because open-source projects aren't driven by corporations, but by necessity.
Programs in the open source model exist to solve a problem, not to get people to buy it.
As far as 'not main-stream acceptance', what about Apache? sendmail? bind? XFree86? Granted, not everyone is using those programs, but if he's trying to predict what Linux (any *nix really) will be as far as a desktop operating system in several years... well... he's nuts.
Also, he fails to grasp that new talented programmers are created daily. Linux is quite popular on campuses. I can't cross campus without hearing about it somewhere. Linux can easily move in to capture future talented programmers in a way that Apple and Microsoft's astroturf campaigns cannot possibly attain.
Real computer science majors won't touch Microsoft or Apple products. That's why the business building has the shrine to Microsoft, and not any of the many computer buildings. (Macs are for the liberal arts people).
Actually, a great deal of doctors already use such programs based on simple AI algorithms (probability matrixes, etc). It really wouldn't be that different. You'd still need the doctor to prescribe drugs though, so I'm not sure what good it would do.
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Moore's Law actually only indirectly affects CPU speed.
Moore's Law states that transistor density doubles every 18 months. Finding how to use all those transistors usually results in far less than a 2x speeded.
I go to the University of Texas at Austin. There's LOTS of Linux people around!
Consequently, a lot of the pro-Linux folks from Dell and IBM get hired from here. Many of my professors are also working at IBM and they all talk about how you can't walk through their buildings without seeing penguin stickers on the doors.
It's encouraging that there will be a future beyond working with the broken Win32 SDK; and with the trial looking so well, a future beyond working for Microsoft.
(Not that I ever would)
But these are *new* Linux users, not old time "Unix is everything" people. I hear people asking their friends what distro they should install and I see people with Running Linux books on their desks in my Computer Science classes. It was NOT this popular last year or the other three years that I've been attending college.
Bloatware is a result of one thing: a company's iterative processes through version numbers to get more revenue. Open-source projects are immune to this trend, because open-source projects aren't driven by corporations, but by necessity.
Programs in the open source model exist to solve a problem, not to get people to buy it.
As far as 'not main-stream acceptance', what about Apache? sendmail? bind? XFree86?
Granted, not everyone is using those programs, but if he's trying to predict what Linux (any *nix really) will be as far as a desktop operating system in several years... well... he's nuts.
Also, he fails to grasp that new talented programmers are created daily. Linux is quite popular on campuses. I can't cross campus without hearing about it somewhere. Linux can easily move in to capture future talented programmers in a way that Apple and Microsoft's astroturf campaigns cannot possibly attain.
Real computer science majors won't touch Microsoft or Apple products. That's why the business building has the shrine to Microsoft, and not any of the many computer buildings. (Macs are for the liberal arts people).
Actually, a great deal of doctors already use such programs based on simple AI algorithms (probability matrixes, etc). It really wouldn't be that different. You'd still need the doctor to prescribe drugs though, so I'm not sure what good it would do.