.. the eyeglass industry saw a 50% jump in revenues as computer users in record numbers started needing eye exams and glasses due to eyestrain from white on black websites. A class action suit against google has been filed. Rumors spread of Google acquiring Lenscrafters to actually profit from black google...
A computer user stuck in the late 70's said "I've been urging the use of green monochrome monitors for years now, so whats the big deal about this?"
If beyondTV costs $70 and gives you listings, couldnt somebody set up a company and buy their data from the same place that snapstream does, and sell a small mythtv addin for $70 and probably make a tidy profit? I'd rather pay $70 to a mythtv company than snapstream. Hopefully they wouldnt be greedy and would use some of that $70 to further develop mythtv...
Or does snapstream get their data from zap2it? In which case my backup plan (buy beyondtv and format my mythtv box with windows...) is fubar'd..
Yeah, but, that means more commuting, which further reduces the possible pollution savings, and I bet these people will still have to be paid more than your typical farm worker..
I don't imagine they'd want to just pump normal poluted city air into their nice clean envirionment. but perhaps part of the deal would be a special "organic filter" section with plants that are grown specificaly for that purpose, where the air would be filtered through first, and lots of carbon and other usefull polutants could be captured and returned the plants and soil in that section, which could then be used as mulch and subsequently fertilizer for the other parts of teh building..
It would definitely be a very complicated system. It would be worth it just for the science involved in creating such an almost self contained eco system. Good practical research that could be used later for space exploration (particularly mars missions or moon bases).
1. Laborers to harvest the crops probably will have to be paid more than on a traditional farm, because they will be living in the city.
2. It wouldn't be an advantage to the envirionment of the city in terms of adding more biomass to product more oxygen, etc, since the building would have to be sealed off. It would need pretty stringent controls, like a clean-room.. airlocks, filters, etc, to keep insects and other baddies out.
3. I like the idea of cutting polution and costs by largely eliminating transportation. Also all the harvesting equipment I imagine would probably be electrical, futher reducing polution.
4. I wonder where all the dirt will come from, and how they will keep the dirt sustainable? They would have to probably bring in a lot of fertilizer and other nutrients to replace what is removed when the crops/livestock are exported. How much different will that be from the costs and polution of transporting current crops from farms to the city?
I am thinking this may not have the cost saving and polution reducing effect they want. But more importantly, it will allow us as they say to maybe return some of our farm lands to nature, at the same time increase our production ability and to go "Organic". Its a long term thing that I think will be necessary for our civilization, but it may be a hard sell to the people with money to get it done..
That was probably one of the most important things that led to my love of programing, when I saw it on a PET computer back in the late 70's as a child. It blew my mind, particularly the concept of simulations (as opposed to munching dots or zapping aliens), and later when I finally scored the only computer cheap enough (a sinclair) I wrote my own simple version.
Unfortunately today I just program boring business applications for the mortgage industry and websites... but I remember those days fondly. I wish there was something equivalent today for my kids to be inspired by, but I dont know what it is...
I've actually been noticing some banding on my laptop's display and could not figure out why I was seeing this, not to mention some subtle colours being hardly visible on my computer and then I see it on a desktop machine and its way more visible.
It never even occurred to me that laptop LCD's were not generally using 8 bits per pixel. I actually am kinda pissed now that I know this.
Freshness, the most important. This cannot be understated. A friend of mine has a small home coffee roaster. I thought I'd had good coffee before, but after tasting freshly roasted, I could never go back. You won't believe the difference between freshly roasted and something from a can.
A good point to be made is that coffee really shouldnt be very bitter. Case in point, the first thing I noticed when drinking fresh roasted coffee was how little sugar it needed. If you have to drown out the bitter taste with lots of sugar, you can't taste the coffee anymore! That's why Starbucks sucks.. it just tastes like burnt coffee (because it is).
Its cheap, its not real fast, great for making one or two cups at a time, but it works well for the price and its not big. Stay away from all the steam espresso machines, get only a pump one.
We've (citipacificmortgage.com) developed our own CRM software (swiftlead.com) that is highly customized for mortgage brokers (as well as used by lead providers and branch operations). Things like SugarCRM just aren't really suitable for how most mortgage companies operate.
We use Trac and Subversion for our development, LAMP and WAMP to run our application on, google mail and calendar.
400 million in stolen DVD's? Well lets see, they sell what, over a billion DVD's a year (google it)? So lets say this thing eliminated stolen DVD's. So they could save 400 million / 1 billion, that's less than $.50 a DVD.
The same thing could be said about the home security industry.
If homes were secure, we wouldn't need them either.
The problem is not that computers are insecure by design or by flaw, but that *everything* in the universe is insecure AND there are always people looking to exploit that.
You can't make your computer completely secure any better than you can your home, or your car. Fact is, if somebody wants to badly enough, they are going to break into your home, or your car, or your computer, or your work, or whatever.
Its always a battle of staying ahead of the bad guys, and employing reasonable deterants for the situation.
We have security products for computers for the same reason why have locks on our doors, bars on the windows, entry alarms, security cameras, guards, policemen, etc etc.
You want to solve the problem? Get rid of all the bad people...
wouldn't it be great if you had a small stand that you could mount on the wall or put on your desk, where you would put your cell phone, pda, and other gadgets? Between me and my wife we have 2 phones, two pda's, game boy ds, wireless mice, mp3 player etc.. and all the matching (and different) wall warts to charge them.
How about also building in the ability to communicate when on the pad? That way your pda or cell phone could automaticaly sync when on the pad. How about mouse pads that charge the mouse?
How about a coffee mug that heats up when on the pad?
The possibilities are endless!
No more power plugs going bad from mechanical wear (the cause of death of most of my cell phones)..
If this could be scaled up to higher voltage/amperage you could replace wall sockets with these.. totaly safe for the kids. You could probably make small little adapters for old plugs. (yes you'd have to have some kind of locking mechanism since walls are vertical, maybe magnetic like apple power plugs?)
is anybody suprised, and further, upset about this?
XP makes no use of the 3D hardware in your computer.
Vista uses the 3D hardware to do all the GUI rendering, including lots of extra stuff like alpha blending the window layers, zooming in and out and "wobbling" the windows and dialogs. That means all that silicon that used to sit there doing nothing is now working, which means more electricity being used.
And in case you haven't noticed, 3D chips are sucking up as much or more juice than CPU's these days.
So of course, vista (with aero enabled) drains your battery faster.
Is there a half-way mode with vista? IE use the 3D compositing (which in theory takes the load off your CPU) but turn off all the blending and zooming etc? That, in theory, should give *better* battery life than XP..
Oh, yay! I haven't done any overzealous Amiga evangelizing in years! Oh, the memories!
How about no MMU meaning no virtual memory. No FPU meaning that floating point math which means the 5 year old Mac II could run circles around it for math intensive tasks. 24 bit memory bus meaning a maximum of 16MiB of memory.
I'm not sure how you compare a Mac II to an A1200, they werent even in the same class. The Mac II was a much more expensive "professional" machine where the A1200 was a cheap home computer.
At that time, no home user was going to give a crap about FPU performance. Although if you remember, pretty much every Amigan was supposedly raytracing while formatting 2 floppy disks and using DeluxePaint while running ARexx scripts to background process data between multiple applications.... *
I'm going to assume this means "something that might be possible to make currently or very soon, but is not just something you can go to dell/hp/etc and just configure online".
So...
It would be a laptop/notebook/whatever. It would be smallish, with maybe a 15" widescreen (1280 x 800). It would be light weight, maybe 2 pounds. It would be less than 3/4" thick. It would would have at least 16gig of very fast flash (or one of the other new nonvolatile memory chips coming RSN) for the OS and most frequently accessed data and a large hardrive (100gig). It would get good battery life not needing to access the drive often and good performance. It would need a dual or quad core cpu, of course. 3 hours battery life. 4 gigs ram. The case would be metal, maybe titanium for strength and lightweight.
For the docking base, it would have two video adapters so I could go three heads (including the laptop screen) at work. It would have a full speed PCIe connection to the laptop, and it would have an additional video chip (for SLI) and an additional CPU matching the notebook. Throw in the option for more ram too. And its not some rediculous looking monster, its just a nice little flat platform the notebook sits on, no thicker than 1" in back, inclined so the laptop front is no higher than without it.
I want the keyboard to be translucent, with backlighting for nighttime use.
On the screen, I want flat panel speakers that fold open, like ears, and video cam on top that also folds out. I want the lcd to go right to very edge as close as mechanically possible instead of having a.5 to.75" border. I want the case, the touch pad, etc absolutely smooth.. no little cracks for "style" (I cant stand dirt getting in there). Make the pad large, I mean huge, like double the normal size. Use the extra area for customizable actions, gestures, whatever. Maybe put in some tactile bumps so you know where you are.
I want all lighting to be blues. Aw heck, make all the leds multi color and set them whatever you want.
I want a secure keychain dongle to lock my computer when I walk away (and not some hacked bluetooth mouse, but something really secure).
The wireless card should have an external antenna connector.
I would like all my ports on the back, except the memory card slots on the side. No legacy ports (including no modem). I want 6usb ports, 2 on each side and the back.
The fan and the exhaust should be in the center, not on the side where its going to rest on your leg most of the time.
I wont even get into the OS because that's a much harder request...
Would you let your kid walk around a downtown city, unsupervised? For that matter, how safe would you feel just letting them walk around the local mall by themselves?
I for one wouldn't do that, and I don't let them wander the net without being supervised.
Would you sue the city if your kid got kidnapped? Probably not.
Would you expect your city to take reasonable measures to try and make it as safe as possible? Of course.
MySpace shouldn't be sued for this. However they probably could implement more in the way of safety measures. Should the parents be blamed? PRobably not. But they could probably have more closely monitored what their child was doing..
Even as a kid (late 70's), I would often wish for all manner of special parts that did not exist. At one point, being very much into airplanes, I wanted a part that was a curved hull peice. I actualy drew it up and sent it to lego hopeing that might produce it. Some years later they actualy did make some pieces for making airplaces, though they were not curved.
But then, when I saw the original castle set compared to the new one, I was very upset. They went from lots of bricks to those giant premade wall peices that couldnt be used for anything else, and really just didnt look nearly as cool (it was a castle after all, it should be made from bricks!).
Over the years lego has disapointed in many ways. But then they redeem themselves with things like the robotics sets (which got me back into lego after many years).
What I want, and many others, is a home computer/console hybrid with an open programmable standard hardware.
In other words, we want a console disguised as a computer that we can program our games on it without several layers of committee-design code to block us.
I always thought of my Amiga as so much more than just a game machine with a keyboard...
Maybe you want a Nintendo wii? Sounds like it may be a relatively open machine...
The difference between the Amiga and the PC is that the PC is a closed platform owned by Intel and Microsoft (not counting Linux), whereas the Amiga was an open platform that one could use the hardware in anyway imaginable, since the O/S was open.
What crack are you smoking?
The "PC" is the most open platform there is, being that it started off being designed with off the shelf parts. It is what it is today because it was so easily duplicated (remember they used to be called pc-clones?) by everybody and their dog. Sure, the CPU (intel) isn't "open" but that didnt stop AMD and others from cloning that too.
Whereas the Amiga hardware was very customized, uniquely different and very patented. It was not easy to clone, and it was anything but open. AmigaOS is no different than Windows in this regard. It was hardly open either.
Dont get me wrong, I loved my Amigas, and I still have them (sadly no use for them though).
I hope they do something cool with AmigaOS. I am not holding my breath though. Because even if they make it once again the kick ass system it used to be, its still a long hard battle to fight, if not harder than the one they already lost once...
I hate to say it, but, probably the only chance they have is to do what Apple has done, and make AmigaOS built on top of a linux or other unix kernel (lets choose a real-time variation). Unfortunately, I dont think Intuition (the GUI) or the graphics library could stand up to what modern os's have.
I think the only thing worth saving at this point is the spirit of the AmigaOS (because compatibility can easily be achieved with emulators). And what's that? A real-time microkernel OS, parallel processing support, etc. They should be looking not necessarily at trying to match MacOS or Windows but looking at what is being done academicaly with OS design and really start using some of the inovative things people have come up with that would be hard to bolt onto to existing popular OS's.
And they absolutely must have some kind of cpu binary independant code support, and I am not talking about Java (but it should have Java too) or Fat Binaries or the Tao Intent stuff. Then you really could span devices from a PDA to a Set top box to a game machine to a desktop. Stick with PPC and Cell processors for a lot of that, but allow seamless support on x86 as well..
Which is currently found on 95% of the world's desktops. And explains the sorry state we are in today. IIRC, you click on the 'Start' button, and then it's all downhill from there...er I mean uphill...
You do know you can simply move the 'task bar' to any side of the screen you want?
I just moved mine to the top. I think I might keep it there. It does make more sense...
I still don't understand why the USA has this position. It costs us $2.5B a year and only serves to destabilize the mideast and make us a target for terrorism.
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.. the eyeglass industry saw a 50% jump in revenues as computer users in record numbers started needing eye exams and glasses due to eyestrain from white on black websites. A class action suit against google has been filed. Rumors spread of Google acquiring Lenscrafters to actually profit from black google...
A computer user stuck in the late 70's said "I've been urging the use of green monochrome monitors for years now, so whats the big deal about this?"
equals God.
If beyondTV costs $70 and gives you listings, couldnt somebody set up a company and buy their data from the same place that snapstream does, and sell a small mythtv addin for $70 and probably make a tidy profit? I'd rather pay $70 to a mythtv company than snapstream. Hopefully they wouldnt be greedy and would use some of that $70 to further develop mythtv...
Or does snapstream get their data from zap2it? In which case my backup plan (buy beyondtv and format my mythtv box with windows...) is fubar'd..
Yeah, but, that means more commuting, which further reduces the possible pollution savings, and I bet these people will still have to be paid more than your typical farm worker..
I don't imagine they'd want to just pump normal poluted city air into their nice clean envirionment. but perhaps part of the deal would be a special "organic filter" section with plants that are grown specificaly for that purpose, where the air would be filtered through first, and lots of carbon and other usefull polutants could be captured and returned the plants and soil in that section, which could then be used as mulch and subsequently fertilizer for the other parts of teh building..
It would definitely be a very complicated system. It would be worth it just for the science involved in creating such an almost self contained eco system. Good practical research that could be used later for space exploration (particularly mars missions or moon bases).
1. Laborers to harvest the crops probably will have to be paid more than on a traditional farm, because they will be living in the city.
2. It wouldn't be an advantage to the envirionment of the city in terms of adding more biomass to product more oxygen, etc, since the building would have to be sealed off. It would need pretty stringent controls, like a clean-room.. airlocks, filters, etc, to keep insects and other baddies out.
3. I like the idea of cutting polution and costs by largely eliminating transportation. Also all the harvesting equipment I imagine would probably be electrical, futher reducing polution.
4. I wonder where all the dirt will come from, and how they will keep the dirt sustainable? They would have to probably bring in a lot of fertilizer and other nutrients to replace what is removed when the crops/livestock are exported. How much different will that be from the costs and polution of transporting current crops from farms to the city?
I am thinking this may not have the cost saving and polution reducing effect they want. But more importantly, it will allow us as they say to maybe return some of our farm lands to nature, at the same time increase our production ability and to go "Organic". Its a long term thing that I think will be necessary for our civilization, but it may be a hard sell to the people with money to get it done..
That was probably one of the most important things that led to my love of programing, when I saw it on a PET computer back in the late 70's as a child. It blew my mind, particularly the concept of simulations (as opposed to munching dots or zapping aliens), and later when I finally scored the only computer cheap enough (a sinclair) I wrote my own simple version.
Unfortunately today I just program boring business applications for the mortgage industry and websites... but I remember those days fondly. I wish there was something equivalent today for my kids to be inspired by, but I dont know what it is...
I've actually been noticing some banding on my laptop's display and could not figure out why I was seeing this, not to mention some subtle colours being hardly visible on my computer and then I see it on a desktop machine and its way more visible.
It never even occurred to me that laptop LCD's were not generally using 8 bits per pixel. I actually am kinda pissed now that I know this.
Lots of good comments here.
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For me, two most important things:
Freshness, the most important. This cannot be understated. A friend of mine has a small home coffee roaster. I thought I'd had good coffee before, but after tasting freshly roasted, I could never go back. You won't believe the difference between freshly roasted and something from a can.
A good point to be made is that coffee really shouldnt be very bitter. Case in point, the first thing I noticed when drinking fresh roasted coffee was how little sugar it needed. If you have to drown out the bitter taste with lots of sugar, you can't taste the coffee anymore! That's why Starbucks sucks.. it just tastes like burnt coffee (because it is).
The other thing is a good brew method.
Personaly, I have a Krups pump espresso machine that makes the best damned coffee I've ever had. I only paid $50 for it on ebay since I couldnt find it anywhere else. They have a newer model that looks like mine, but seems to cost more and is hard to find: http://www.krups.com/All+Products/Espresso+Machin
Its cheap, its not real fast, great for making one or two cups at a time, but it works well for the price and its not big. Stay away from all the steam espresso machines, get only a pump one.
We've (citipacificmortgage.com) developed our own CRM software (swiftlead.com) that is highly customized for mortgage brokers (as well as used by lead providers and branch operations). Things like SugarCRM just aren't really suitable for how most mortgage companies operate. We use Trac and Subversion for our development, LAMP and WAMP to run our application on, google mail and calendar.
400 million in stolen DVD's? Well lets see, they sell what, over a billion DVD's a year (google it)? So lets say this thing eliminated stolen DVD's. So they could save 400 million / 1 billion, that's less than $.50 a DVD.
Bring down the cost of DVD's? Yeah, whatever...
How long before this and any other uniquely human differences are patented, and thus a company will be able to say they have a patent on humanity?
Will this have to happen before people finally agree that our patent system is horribly flawed?
The same thing could be said about the home security industry.
If homes were secure, we wouldn't need them either.
The problem is not that computers are insecure by design or by flaw, but that *everything* in the universe is insecure AND there are always people looking to exploit that.
You can't make your computer completely secure any better than you can your home, or your car. Fact is, if somebody wants to badly enough, they are going to break into your home, or your car, or your computer, or your work, or whatever.
Its always a battle of staying ahead of the bad guys, and employing reasonable deterants for the situation.
We have security products for computers for the same reason why have locks on our doors, bars on the windows, entry alarms, security cameras, guards, policemen, etc etc.
You want to solve the problem? Get rid of all the bad people...
wouldn't it be great if you had a small stand that you could mount on the wall or put on your desk, where you would put your cell phone, pda, and other gadgets? Between me and my wife we have 2 phones, two pda's, game boy ds, wireless mice, mp3 player etc.. and all the matching (and different) wall warts to charge them.
How about also building in the ability to communicate when on the pad? That way your pda or cell phone could automaticaly sync when on the pad. How about mouse pads that charge the mouse?
How about a coffee mug that heats up when on the pad?
The possibilities are endless!
No more power plugs going bad from mechanical wear (the cause of death of most of my cell phones)..
If this could be scaled up to higher voltage/amperage you could replace wall sockets with these.. totaly safe for the kids. You could probably make small little adapters for old plugs. (yes you'd have to have some kind of locking mechanism since walls are vertical, maybe magnetic like apple power plugs?)
is anybody suprised, and further, upset about this?
XP makes no use of the 3D hardware in your computer.
Vista uses the 3D hardware to do all the GUI rendering, including lots of extra stuff like alpha blending the window layers, zooming in and out and "wobbling" the windows and dialogs. That means all that silicon that used to sit there doing nothing is now working, which means more electricity being used.
And in case you haven't noticed, 3D chips are sucking up as much or more juice than CPU's these days.
So of course, vista (with aero enabled) drains your battery faster.
Is there a half-way mode with vista? IE use the 3D compositing (which in theory takes the load off your CPU) but turn off all the blending and zooming etc? That, in theory, should give *better* battery life than XP..
I'm not sure how you compare a Mac II to an A1200, they werent even in the same class. The Mac II was a much more expensive "professional" machine where the A1200 was a cheap home computer.
At that time, no home user was going to give a crap about FPU performance. Although if you remember, pretty much every Amigan was supposedly raytracing while formatting 2 floppy disks and using DeluxePaint while running ARexx scripts to background process data between multiple applications.... *
Ah, yes, good times..
Or would people vote for a chimp?
Oh, wait..
Now me and my computer can be powered by the same thing.
I'm going to assume this means "something that might be possible to make currently or very soon, but is not just something you can go to dell/hp/etc and just configure online".
.5 to .75" border. I want the case, the touch pad, etc absolutely smooth.. no little cracks for "style" (I cant stand dirt getting in there). Make the pad large, I mean huge, like double the normal size. Use the extra area for customizable actions, gestures, whatever. Maybe put in some tactile bumps so you know where you are.
So...
It would be a laptop/notebook/whatever. It would be smallish, with maybe a 15" widescreen (1280 x 800). It would be light weight, maybe 2 pounds. It would be less than 3/4" thick. It would would have at least 16gig of very fast flash (or one of the other new nonvolatile memory chips coming RSN) for the OS and most frequently accessed data and a large hardrive (100gig). It would get good battery life not needing to access the drive often and good performance. It would need a dual or quad core cpu, of course. 3 hours battery life. 4 gigs ram. The case would be metal, maybe titanium for strength and lightweight.
For the docking base, it would have two video adapters so I could go three heads (including the laptop screen) at work. It would have a full speed PCIe connection to the laptop, and it would have an additional video chip (for SLI) and an additional CPU matching the notebook. Throw in the option for more ram too. And its not some rediculous looking monster, its just a nice little flat platform the notebook sits on, no thicker than 1" in back, inclined so the laptop front is no higher than without it.
I want the keyboard to be translucent, with backlighting for nighttime use.
On the screen, I want flat panel speakers that fold open, like ears, and video cam on top that also folds out. I want the lcd to go right to very edge as close as mechanically possible instead of having a
I want all lighting to be blues. Aw heck, make all the leds multi color and set them whatever you want.
I want a secure keychain dongle to lock my computer when I walk away (and not some hacked bluetooth mouse, but something really secure).
The wireless card should have an external antenna connector.
I would like all my ports on the back, except the memory card slots on the side. No legacy ports (including no modem). I want 6usb ports, 2 on each side and the back.
The fan and the exhaust should be in the center, not on the side where its going to rest on your leg most of the time.
I wont even get into the OS because that's a much harder request...
Would you let your kid walk around a downtown city, unsupervised? For that matter, how safe would you feel just letting them walk around the local mall by themselves?
I for one wouldn't do that, and I don't let them wander the net without being supervised.
Would you sue the city if your kid got kidnapped? Probably not.
Would you expect your city to take reasonable measures to try and make it as safe as possible? Of course.
MySpace shouldn't be sued for this. However they probably could implement more in the way of safety measures. Should the parents be blamed? PRobably not. But they could probably have more closely monitored what their child was doing..
Even as a kid (late 70's), I would often wish for all manner of special parts that did not exist. At one point, being very much into airplanes, I wanted a part that was a curved hull peice. I actualy drew it up and sent it to lego hopeing that might produce it. Some years later they actualy did make some pieces for making airplaces, though they were not curved.
But then, when I saw the original castle set compared to the new one, I was very upset. They went from lots of bricks to those giant premade wall peices that couldnt be used for anything else, and really just didnt look nearly as cool (it was a castle after all, it should be made from bricks!).
Over the years lego has disapointed in many ways. But then they redeem themselves with things like the robotics sets (which got me back into lego after many years).
I always thought of my Amiga as so much more than just a game machine with a keyboard...
Maybe you want a Nintendo wii? Sounds like it may be a relatively open machine...
What crack are you smoking?
The "PC" is the most open platform there is, being that it started off being designed with off the shelf parts. It is what it is today because it was so easily duplicated (remember they used to be called pc-clones?) by everybody and their dog. Sure, the CPU (intel) isn't "open" but that didnt stop AMD and others from cloning that too.
Whereas the Amiga hardware was very customized, uniquely different and very patented. It was not easy to clone, and it was anything but open. AmigaOS is no different than Windows in this regard. It was hardly open either.
Dont get me wrong, I loved my Amigas, and I still have them (sadly no use for them though).
I hope they do something cool with AmigaOS. I am not holding my breath though. Because even if they make it once again the kick ass system it used to be, its still a long hard battle to fight, if not harder than the one they already lost once...
I hate to say it, but, probably the only chance they have is to do what Apple has done, and make AmigaOS built on top of a linux or other unix kernel (lets choose a real-time variation). Unfortunately, I dont think Intuition (the GUI) or the graphics library could stand up to what modern os's have.
I think the only thing worth saving at this point is the spirit of the AmigaOS (because compatibility can easily be achieved with emulators). And what's that? A real-time microkernel OS, parallel processing support, etc. They should be looking not necessarily at trying to match MacOS or Windows but looking at what is being done academicaly with OS design and really start using some of the inovative things people have come up with that would be hard to bolt onto to existing popular OS's.
And they absolutely must have some kind of cpu binary independant code support, and I am not talking about Java (but it should have Java too) or Fat Binaries or the Tao Intent stuff. Then you really could span devices from a PDA to a Set top box to a game machine to a desktop. Stick with PPC and Cell processors for a lot of that, but allow seamless support on x86 as well..
I think the real question is whether its "worth it" it money terms, because its not, and probably wont be for a long time.
But is it "worth it" in terms of saving the envirionment? Maybe.
Although I think some kind of solar power or fuel power from renewable fuels is a better option right now..
Which is currently found on 95% of the world's desktops. And explains the sorry state we are in today. IIRC, you click on the 'Start' button, and then it's all downhill from there...er I mean uphill...
You do know you can simply move the 'task bar' to any side of the screen you want?
I just moved mine to the top. I think I might keep it there. It does make more sense...
I still don't understand why the USA has this position. It costs us $2.5B a year and only serves to destabilize the mideast and make us a target for terrorism.
Exactly.