If it's "outside [their] authority", how can we expect anything to come out of this? Plus there are other "minor" issues to think about, such as infringing on certain "other" rights that people are assumed not to think about or care about (seemingly).
...that virtualisation is going to be that much of a Big Thing(tm). Those that will get the most use out of it will be the would-be dual/tri/mega-booters, and, let's face it, compared to the number of computer users in the world - heck, to the number of people that know roughly what virtualisation is - that number is going to be quite small.
To heck with powering millions of individual computers. Just make a million-core chip and wire them all up like this and you'll have one computer with the power of millions less all that nasty overhead of having to run an OS on all of the other computers. Power to the people!
Ooh, hot-swappable CPUs. Now if somebody can come up with hot-swappable RAM we'll be *really* set. Fully redundant systems, here we come. 100% uptimes are the way of the future!
Nobody in their right mind would be willing to buy a device if this sort of technology would be implemented in it. The only way to make it workable would be to legally mandate it in new players, which would be viciously opposed and have no chance of being implemented.
Besides, the innovative amongst us will no doubt find ways of bypassing any such systems.
Okay, this does sound like a good idea, but I have my doubts as to the accuracy of the testing. AFAIK there's no such thing as a reasonably accurate test for truth...
Now this is the sort of music player I would be looking for. I ask: Do you really need an MP3 player with 10GB worth of storage space? Well, I'm sure some people out there have music collections that fill more than that, but seriously, 90% of people that will be buying MP3 players will use, at most, 1GB of space. Combine that fact with being able to transfer music wirelessly, and you get a useful little music player that I'd certainly buy...
Now THAT's dedication... I bet that if he was given enough time he'd set up those laser cannons to actually work and vaporize any helpless traffic jams that got in his way in the morning..
Actually, the modern metre is defined as 1/299592458th of the distance light travels in one second in a a vacuum, and not in terms of the metre bar in France... reason for that is that we're supposed to be able to measure the metre even if we don't have our wonderful metre bar. So if the people over in China mysteriously got themselves banned from France they could still measure their track length in terms of kilometres and complain about the cost even more accurately.
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If it's "outside [their] authority", how can we expect anything to come out of this? Plus there are other "minor" issues to think about, such as infringing on certain "other" rights that people are assumed not to think about or care about (seemingly).
...the lack of a reasonable answer to this is part of the reason there hasn't been a wider adoption of OSS. :)
At least it's a good indicator that it is OSS. Given an IT guy who's advocating the use of the stuff it might impress the boss now and again.
...that virtualisation is going to be that much of a Big Thing(tm). Those that will get the most use out of it will be the would-be dual/tri/mega-booters, and, let's face it, compared to the number of computer users in the world - heck, to the number of people that know roughly what virtualisation is - that number is going to be quite small.
To heck with powering millions of individual computers. Just make a million-core chip and wire them all up like this and you'll have one computer with the power of millions less all that nasty overhead of having to run an OS on all of the other computers. Power to the people!
Ooh, hot-swappable CPUs. Now if somebody can come up with hot-swappable RAM we'll be *really* set. Fully redundant systems, here we come. 100% uptimes are the way of the future!
Nobody in their right mind would be willing to buy a device if this sort of technology would be implemented in it. The only way to make it workable would be to legally mandate it in new players, which would be viciously opposed and have no chance of being implemented.
Besides, the innovative amongst us will no doubt find ways of bypassing any such systems.
Okay, this does sound like a good idea, but I have my doubts as to the accuracy of the testing. AFAIK there's no such thing as a reasonably accurate test for truth...
Now this is the sort of music player I would be looking for. I ask: Do you really need an MP3 player with 10GB worth of storage space? Well, I'm sure some people out there have music collections that fill more than that, but seriously, 90% of people that will be buying MP3 players will use, at most, 1GB of space. Combine that fact with being able to transfer music wirelessly, and you get a useful little music player that I'd certainly buy...
Now THAT's dedication... I bet that if he was given enough time he'd set up those laser cannons to actually work and vaporize any helpless traffic jams that got in his way in the morning..
Actually, the modern metre is defined as 1/299592458th of the distance light travels in one second in a a vacuum, and not in terms of the metre bar in France... reason for that is that we're supposed to be able to measure the metre even if we don't have our wonderful metre bar. So if the people over in China mysteriously got themselves banned from France they could still measure their track length in terms of kilometres and complain about the cost even more accurately.