Even if we have a perfect kernel, it won't insulate us from bugs in the software running on top of that kernel, so do we really gain much?
I guess for mission critical apps the answer could be yes... But for every-day computing?? On my desktop I have more trouble with Firefox crashing than I do the OS! (Yes I run linux).
My car has daytime running lights and I forgot to turn on my headlights then wondered why I couldn't see very well.
It got darker... As I was driving up a hill I realised I had no idea which way the road was going. Not to worry - I looked over to my 3D sat nav map and saw the road continued straight. Excellent!
What do I drive? You guessed it, an old boxy Volvo!
That'd be fine but don't magnetic drives need "refreshing" at regular intervals otherwise after 5-10 years the data just tends to disappear? At least that's been my experience with an old 5.25" HDD (I can read the middle tracks but the outer ones give unhelpful sector not found errors).
I would think you'd have to pull it out and use some product to read every track and write it back again.
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Even if we have a perfect kernel, it won't insulate us from bugs in the software running on top of that kernel, so do we really gain much? I guess for mission critical apps the answer could be yes... But for every-day computing?? On my desktop I have more trouble with Firefox crashing than I do the OS! (Yes I run linux).
My car has daytime running lights and I forgot to turn on my headlights then wondered why I couldn't see very well.
It got darker... As I was driving up a hill I realised I had no idea which way the road was going. Not to worry - I looked over to my 3D sat nav map and saw the road continued straight. Excellent!
What do I drive? You guessed it, an old boxy Volvo!
That'd be fine but don't magnetic drives need "refreshing" at regular intervals otherwise after 5-10 years the data just tends to disappear? At least that's been my experience with an old 5.25" HDD (I can read the middle tracks but the outer ones give unhelpful sector not found errors).
I would think you'd have to pull it out and use some product to read every track and write it back again.
'nuff said.
With wall-to-wall 4k x 8k displays you could "virtually" join two living rooms together and keep in touch with family far away like never before!
Or we might just have have an ice age (or two!) in 10000 years!
How will we know it is keeping accurate time if nothing else is as accurate to check it against?