A *load* of children in developing countries just want to eat...
This OLPC is just a cunning way of indirectly making money. The computer itself will not generate a lot a revenues but will bring new clients to other internet businesses.
Humans will never be able to create by themself something more intelligent than themself. Because all our thechnology is based on physical/mathematical theories. And to validate a new theory, we have to prove it with a practical experience from which we can *witness* the expected result. But the most intelligent thing we can witness is our own intelligence, so this is why we will never be able to create something more intelligent than ourself.
But... in our world living things evolve because they are *not* perfect. For example a cosmic ray could alter the DNA of the embryo of a mouse, and this mouse could become weaker or stronger. As well as for humans, if one day we create something more intelligent than ourself, it will be by mistake because we are not perfect. The rest of the story depends on natural selection.
My view on ReactOS is similar to what is going to happen with Doom3 or Half-Life2 for exemple.
Those games will come with several new graphical improvements, which have not been seen so far. That will be something really new regarding the current games that are on the market...and that's the reason why everybody (well, every gamer) is looking forward to them.
Then, after the release of those games, a lot of new games will appear but with no improvement at all. They will just be clones of Doom3 or HL2 and that's it, just because it's cool to make a game like doom3.
In my opinion it's not interesting to re-do the same thing even if it's open sourced or faster or whatever else. What is really interesting is what you can get from your imagination to make something new. (it doesn't mean it's better to write a new OS from scratch;))
Why on earth are people with so much talent wasting their time trying to re-do existing things !!!
Why don't they try to do something new ?
A free NT may be a good idea in some way, but by the time ReactOS is 100% compatible with NT5.x, microsoft will have new features, new incompatible things etc... therefore ReactOS will be again behind them and will have to catch up with all the new stuff.
In a situation like that Microsoft have the interesting job, because they invent new things and concepts andReactOS is simply trying to re-do it.
If you are talented enough to build an OS, why not using that talent to build something fresh, new and groundbreaking ?!
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A *load* of children in developing countries just want to eat...
This OLPC is just a cunning way of indirectly making money. The computer itself will not generate a lot a revenues but will bring new clients to other internet businesses.
IMO, it is rather an accent from Vaud
Would you like to play a game ? >> No
Humans will never be able to create by themself something more intelligent than themself. Because all our thechnology is based on physical/mathematical theories. And to validate a new theory, we have to prove it with a practical experience from which we can *witness* the expected result. But the most intelligent thing we can witness is our own intelligence, so this is why we will never be able to create something more intelligent than ourself.
But... in our world living things evolve because they are *not* perfect. For example a cosmic ray could alter the DNA of the embryo of a mouse, and this mouse could become weaker or stronger. As well as for humans, if one day we create something more intelligent than ourself, it will be by mistake because we are not perfect. The rest of the story depends on natural selection.
My view on ReactOS is similar to what is going to happen with Doom3 or Half-Life2 for exemple. Those games will come with several new graphical improvements, which have not been seen so far. That will be something really new regarding the current games that are on the market...and that's the reason why everybody (well, every gamer) is looking forward to them. Then, after the release of those games, a lot of new games will appear but with no improvement at all. They will just be clones of Doom3 or HL2 and that's it, just because it's cool to make a game like doom3. In my opinion it's not interesting to re-do the same thing even if it's open sourced or faster or whatever else. What is really interesting is what you can get from your imagination to make something new. (it doesn't mean it's better to write a new OS from scratch ;))
Why on earth are people with so much talent wasting their time trying to re-do existing things !!! Why don't they try to do something new ? A free NT may be a good idea in some way, but by the time ReactOS is 100% compatible with NT5.x, microsoft will have new features, new incompatible things etc... therefore ReactOS will be again behind them and will have to catch up with all the new stuff. In a situation like that Microsoft have the interesting job, because they invent new things and concepts andReactOS is simply trying to re-do it. If you are talented enough to build an OS, why not using that talent to build something fresh, new and groundbreaking ?!