This is actually a tricky subject. On the face of it, yes they shouldn't have an "opinion". However, within a system of checks-and-balances, it is the responsibility of the judiciary to interpret the laws and even decicide if they are unconstituational or unenforcable.
Where it can get tricky is do you believe the constitution is a "complete" document. Do you believe we are only due those rights speicifically spelled out in the constitution over 250 years ago or are there other rights we should be afforded even if they aren't really laid out in the constitution? The US government was basically laid out at a time when the assumption was the legislative branch couldn't get TOO far out of control because they have to answer to the people. Because of this they have the sole right to add constituational amendments with a 2/3 vote. Once this is done, in theory there is nothing the judiciary can do about it.
Today, in many ways you could argue the legislative branch doesn't really have to answer to the people. Its more they have to answer to the social eliete and those people can help them get elected. There is certinaly talk about media being liberal or conservitive and if the legislative makes those in charge of the media happy thats all they need to worry about as the media can then take care of convincing the "people" who to vote for. Personally, I don't think it has gotten too far out of hand and the system is still working, but this is the worry.
If the legislative DID get WAY out of control they could just pass tons of constituational ammendments and completely by-pass the "balance" the judiciary was meant to provide.
As an example, its pretty tough to read into the constitution that everyone is created equal and have the same rights, except in the case of gay marriage. Judges can easily see this and so are striking down such laws. So now there is talk of passing an amendment banning this to get by the judiciary. If this were to happen, what do you do? The constitution's core concepts clash with a new amendment so what do you do?
This is where it gets REALLY tricky. Some people subscribe to the idea of "natural law" (I personally agree with this). In a nut-shell means that reguardless of what laws
are written down, there are a "natural" set of laws which also exist. For example, of this from wikipedia Natural law is intended to function as a non-theistic standard by which laws may themselves be judged. One classic example is that of the Nazi final solution: the laws which permitted the extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Poles, Communists, etc. may have been formulated and ratified within the legal structures of Germany, but they violated natural law..
While I completely agree there is a natrual law, and cases like the above example is a time when it should have been envoked by someone THIS is the tricky part. Since this "natural" law is basically completely subjective, it could be used by idiot judges anywhere anytime for anything. There is no real way to say "OK, use this if Nazi are killing people but not if its something I want". It can be very dangerous in cases to use it and equally dangerous in other cases not to use it. Anyway, a use of "natural law" as the basis for a decision could easily be considered "judicial activisim". All the current talk currently about "judicial activisim" is really a bunch of crap. What they are doing now is thier JOB!!!! This balance is clearly spelled out! They ARE supposed to look at laws and decide if they are valid (unconstitional, unenforcable, etc), but those currently in power happen to want things which aren't strickly constitutional and are try to put pressure on the judiciary to have them stop doing thier jobs.
Anyone who really buys into this "judicial activisim" stuff REALLY should have paid more attention in civics class.
Yeah, I agree about the stick;-) I don't think even he believes Apple makes HDD or RAM, his point is Apple will choose which ones to use and because they choose, they don't have to worry about trying to support god knows how many different combinations so thier stuff is pretty stable.
Now its pretty hard to agrue with that point. However, I think its basically like choosing between Democracy and a Dictatorship. WinTel (actually in this context we should call in WixTel for choice of Win or *nix on x86) is basically a Democracy while Apple is a dictatorship. As long as you have an amazing dictator, a dictatorship is pretty hard to beat. However, if the dictator starts doing bone-head shit your screwed.
Democracy is a horribly messy and ineffiecnt system most of the time. However, after looking at the options I choose democracy as there isn't really anything better available that I see. I make the same choice with computers. Apple is doing pretty well right now, but I still choose to stick with an environment which offers choice. For many Apple might seem the way to go and that is fine. I just personally put choice VERY high on my list so will stick with WixTel.
TFA wan't that long, but to make it easier for you here are his reasons:
Windows is complex, trying to be everything to everyone. This complexity comes at a terrible price: downtime, help desks, upgrades, patches and the inevitable failures.
When a new operating system or service pack is released, there are tons of changes to the functionality.
WinTel machines use different versions of BIOS. They are not all equal, nor do they all have the same level of compatibility.
Some Windows software applications are well written; others take shortcuts. Shortcuts may work in some environments, but not all, and ultimately the consumer pays in lost time, availability and productivity.
Hardware. There are hundreds of "WinTel-compatible" motherboards, each claiming to be better than the next. Whatever.
Memory. Not all RAM is equal. Some works well. Cheap stuff doesn't.
Hard disks. Same problem: cheap or reliable. Your call.
Of the seven reasons he gives only 2 are related to the OS and his statements on those 2 would be true of any modern OS.
Basically, he thinks there is too much choice (espeically in hardware). He just wants a computer where it all comes from one place and is tightly controlled. Choice is the last think he wants.
What he is saying of course does have some truth to it. I personally hate the idea of one company having that much control over my computer and I love choice. I've never had big issues because of these choices, but if you completely ignore hardware compatibility lists, etc then yes I can see where these problems would arrise.
OK, I hate to sound like I'm with McVoy on this, but if that list of apps is the best you can do then he might have a point. I use amaroK and F-spot and they are nice and all, but innovative????
For those of you who don't know these products:
Valgrind - code & memory profiler Tomboy - note taking application (sticky notes) F-spot - Application to organize your digital photos Muine - Music player amaroK - Another music player
If you REALLY need me to point out TONS of applications that did the same things before these I guess I MIGHT be bothered to spend the time, but please just look it up yourself.
The Sith "rule of two" is actually a fairly new concept. Also, Dark Jedi != Sith Lord. Not sure the exact time-lines, but about a 1,000 years before EPI there were many Dark Jedi and Sith Lords. There was then an epic battle between the Jedi and these Dark Jedi and Sith. During that battle is was believed all the Sith were destroyed. However, I believe it was Darth Bane who actually survived and I believe it was him who created the "rule of two" to stay under the Jedi's radar until the time was right.
As a side note, many thousand years ago the Sith (not Sith Lords) were a primitave species who practiced some sort of dark magic (but weren't really evil). Thier homeworld was then discovered by some Dark Jedi, who relized they had some knowledge of the dark-side and wanted to learn about it. These Dark Jedi then subjegated the Sith and became "Sith Lords". This extra dark magic they learned is the main difference between Dark Jedi and Sith Lords going forward.
Anyway, I'm guessing this prequel they are talking about is to be set in the time of this epic battle between the Jedi and the Sith Lords and Dark Jedi.
The dissidents in (insert your favorite African nation experiencing genocide here) should setup a huge rack of servers dedicated to hosting pirated movies and music. Then all they have to do is sit back and wait. Within a couple weeks I'm sure the Marines would arrive to "liberate" the country.
If genocide isn't enough to get the good old USA to act, "stealing" a few bucks from their VERY wealthy citizens should do it.
I admit I downloaded this one. I don't live in the states and it usually takes at least a few months for new releases to get here and actually our only theater has been under contruction since last fall (damn hurricanes) so I have no idea if we'll ever get it in theaters.
IF it ever gets here I'll certainly see it in the theater. I don't feel too bad about this (first movie I've ever downloaded illegally).
The iPod took a problem that no one else had solved effectively and reduced it to 4 buttons, a wheel, and some Very Easy menus.
I always hear this. I've been using MP3 players since they were first released and I've always thought they were the simpliest things in the bloody world. I've had friends (VERY non-computer nerd friends) use the early ones as well and it would take them all of three seconds to figure it out. I have NO IDEA where this myth came from that portible music players were hard to use before the Ipod came around!!!! Sure they are pretty white and have cool comercials, but I am at a loss when people talk about how they "revolutionized" portable players.
BTW, I use the new Zen Micro. Yes it supports DRMed software, but it doesn't try to force me into ONE online music source (which just happens to be owned by the vendor of the player).
Yes, they both had the same exploits, but since Netscapte shipped later it wasn't "at risk" as long. Of course they should have fixed it before shipping, but the point that FF was at risk longer remains.
In general his comment about "the official Mozilla release will always be more secure" seems to make sense, but I you have to be careful about absolute statements like that. Perhaps there will be a redistrubtion which will say always wait for a month or two after an offical Mozilla release in hopes of having any new bugs caught. In this case you may not always have the latest bells and whistles, but in theory might be more secure (of course you could just stick with the older version of Mozilla for a month or two as well).
In general I'm just a bit wary of absolute statements like that.
CD's and DVD's aren't bad technology for the problem (I'd argue probably better than tape), but the way they are used today doesn't really lend itself to "secure" storage because of scratches, etc you mention.
A few years ago, I saw this Canon scanner with built in CD burner used to archive documents. The smart thing this did was you couldn't just pop CDs in and out. There was actually a CD caddy. The caddy was very similar to a regular CD case but actually also a bit like floppys (small hole on bottom of case for laser to read/write though and a CD mount inside the caddy so the disk actuall spun inside the caddy itself.
Seemed a pretty smart idea and the time and I expected to see CD-R/DVD-R backup devices with similar systems. However, I haven't see these yet and it seems a shame (there may be some around I just have seen them).
Anyway, CD/DVD seems actually a pretty good technology for backup, but the current method of just using the "raw" disk without some sort of caddy or perminant protection just seems silly.
Correct you are sir. And what idiot would fall for this marketing???? Since when does type-by-touch make you ubergeek? My grandmother can type-by-touch, but trust me ubergeek she is not. If you need a keyboard to solidify your geek status, I'd say more computer knowledge might actually be a better investment.
I mean really, isn't equating type-by-touch with ubergeek a bit like equating ability to boil water with gormet chef?
Opps, read your previous post too fast. Your mention of byte-code was clearly in reference to the CLI, so I didn't need to point that out to you. My bad. I'll read more slowly next time;-)
Its not actually just C#. Much of.NET is the CLI which is also available. So.NET isn't open source, but the info is out there if you want to reimplement. Obviously, open sourcing the whole thing would have made it easier, but by opening up what they have its not really too difficult to reimplement (if you want to take the time).
From the link: It is also expected that ECMA standardization will make the CLI available
on a wide range of computing platforms. This combination of multi-language capability and multiplatform implementation
make the CLI an important target for future language compilers.
Dude, have you been living in a cave???? Haven't you seen those commercials with the cool shadows dancing in front of pretty colors? This is the best tech since Intel released the Blue Man Group.
Ipod wasn't really meant for those who understand DRM, vendor tie-down, or patent encumbered propietary formats. Its meant for joe-six-pack. However, once it became sooooo cool, even the/. crowd had to get one. I mean when living in your mothers basement, you REALLY cannot afford to let any chance to look cool pass you by;-)
Not strictly true. They made.NET so it CAN run on any platform, they just didn't implement VMs for other platforms. They have published the specs so others (like MONO) can implement VMs for other platforms.
Well I certainly don't agree with MSs decision not to implement VMs for other platforms, you can understand thier reasons for it (hey why should they spend the to time building support other platforms when they want you to use thier platform). I think had they created VMs for other platforms it would have garnered some good-will from the *nix crowd (no not the/. crowd where it would have been seen as some evil ploy), but some would perhaps seen it as a positive shift.
However, its hard to measure the good-will in dollars and it certainly would have been interesting to hear them explain doing this while still bashing othe platforms, so you can understand why they wouldn't.
Seriously, MS replacement for Passport seems to be InfoCard. Now I know this is MS, but this does actually look like a cool concept (we'll have to wait and see about the implementation).
Kim Cameron (the lead guy on this) is actually pretty adament that this need to be an "Open" system that others can implement. We'll see if that ends up meaning "open source", but interesting none the less.
The company said its research of technology training at universities around the world have shown a need for more open-standards offerings
In related news MS said its research of technology traning at universities around the world have shown the need for more MS offerings, and Apple said the same thing about Apple offerings, and Sun said the same thing about Sun offerings, and Novell said the same thing about Novell offerings............
OK, a possible solution to the hardware/drivers issue in my dream world;-)
There is one extra Flash module which is hardwired into the MOBO. PC manufacturers can then load drivers for the hardware for each major OS onto this hardwired module. Then when the PC detects a new "HDD" Flash module, the system will automatically use the proper drivers from the hardwired Flash module. Of course as end users we have the ability to add/delete/update the drivers on this hardwired Flash module.
OK, thats the idea now who's going to build this for me?;-)
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This is actually a tricky subject. On the face of it, yes they shouldn't have an "opinion". However, within a system of checks-and-balances, it is the responsibility of the judiciary to interpret the laws and even decicide if they are unconstituational or unenforcable.
Where it can get tricky is do you believe the constitution is a "complete" document. Do you believe we are only due those rights speicifically spelled out in the constitution over 250 years ago or are there other rights we should be afforded even if they aren't really laid out in the constitution? The US government was basically laid out at a time when the assumption was the legislative branch couldn't get TOO far out of control because they have to answer to the people. Because of this they have the sole right to add constituational amendments with a 2/3 vote. Once this is done, in theory there is nothing the judiciary can do about it.
Today, in many ways you could argue the legislative branch doesn't really have to answer to the people. Its more they have to answer to the social eliete and those people can help them get elected. There is certinaly talk about media being liberal or conservitive and if the legislative makes those in charge of the media happy thats all they need to worry about as the media can then take care of convincing the "people" who to vote for. Personally, I don't think it has gotten too far out of hand and the system is still working, but this is the worry.
If the legislative DID get WAY out of control they could just pass tons of constituational ammendments and completely by-pass the "balance" the judiciary was meant to provide.
As an example, its pretty tough to read into the constitution that everyone is created equal and have the same rights, except in the case of gay marriage. Judges can easily see this and so are striking down such laws. So now there is talk of passing an amendment banning this to get by the judiciary. If this were to happen, what do you do? The constitution's core concepts clash with a new amendment so what do you do?
This is where it gets REALLY tricky. Some people subscribe to the idea of "natural law" (I personally agree with this). In a nut-shell means that reguardless of what laws are written down, there are a "natural" set of laws which also exist. For example, of this from wikipedia Natural law is intended to function as a non-theistic standard by which laws may themselves be judged. One classic example is that of the Nazi final solution: the laws which permitted the extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Poles, Communists, etc. may have been formulated and ratified within the legal structures of Germany, but they violated natural law..
While I completely agree there is a natrual law, and cases like the above example is a time when it should have been envoked by someone THIS is the tricky part. Since this "natural" law is basically completely subjective, it could be used by idiot judges anywhere anytime for anything. There is no real way to say "OK, use this if Nazi are killing people but not if its something I want". It can be very dangerous in cases to use it and equally dangerous in other cases not to use it. Anyway, a use of "natural law" as the basis for a decision could easily be considered "judicial activisim". All the current talk currently about "judicial activisim" is really a bunch of crap. What they are doing now is thier JOB!!!! This balance is clearly spelled out! They ARE supposed to look at laws and decide if they are valid (unconstitional, unenforcable, etc), but those currently in power happen to want things which aren't strickly constitutional and are try to put pressure on the judiciary to have them stop doing thier jobs.
Anyone who really buys into this "judicial activisim" stuff REALLY should have paid more attention in civics class.
Yeah, I agree about the stick ;-) I don't think even he believes Apple makes HDD or RAM, his point is Apple will choose which ones to use and because they choose, they don't have to worry about trying to support god knows how many different combinations so thier stuff is pretty stable.
Now its pretty hard to agrue with that point. However, I think its basically like choosing between Democracy and a Dictatorship. WinTel (actually in this context we should call in WixTel for choice of Win or *nix on x86) is basically a Democracy while Apple is a dictatorship. As long as you have an amazing dictator, a dictatorship is pretty hard to beat. However, if the dictator starts doing bone-head shit your screwed.
Democracy is a horribly messy and ineffiecnt system most of the time. However, after looking at the options I choose democracy as there isn't really anything better available that I see. I make the same choice with computers. Apple is doing pretty well right now, but I still choose to stick with an environment which offers choice. For many Apple might seem the way to go and that is fine. I just personally put choice VERY high on my list so will stick with WixTel.
TFA wan't that long, but to make it easier for you here are his reasons:
Windows is complex, trying to be everything to everyone. This complexity comes at a terrible price: downtime, help desks, upgrades, patches and the inevitable failures.
When a new operating system or service pack is released, there are tons of changes to the functionality.
WinTel machines use different versions of BIOS. They are not all equal, nor do they all have the same level of compatibility.
Some Windows software applications are well written; others take shortcuts. Shortcuts may work in some environments, but not all, and ultimately the consumer pays in lost time, availability and productivity.
Hardware. There are hundreds of "WinTel-compatible" motherboards, each claiming to be better than the next. Whatever.
Memory. Not all RAM is equal. Some works well. Cheap stuff doesn't.
Hard disks. Same problem: cheap or reliable. Your call.
Of the seven reasons he gives only 2 are related to the OS and his statements on those 2 would be true of any modern OS.
Basically, he thinks there is too much choice (espeically in hardware). He just wants a computer where it all comes from one place and is tightly controlled. Choice is the last think he wants.
What he is saying of course does have some truth to it. I personally hate the idea of one company having that much control over my computer and I love choice. I've never had big issues because of these choices, but if you completely ignore hardware compatibility lists, etc then yes I can see where these problems would arrise.
OK, I hate to sound like I'm with McVoy on this, but if that list of apps is the best you can do then he might have a point. I use amaroK and F-spot and they are nice and all, but innovative????
For those of you who don't know these products:
Valgrind - code & memory profiler
Tomboy - note taking application (sticky notes)
F-spot - Application to organize your digital photos
Muine - Music player
amaroK - Another music player
If you REALLY need me to point out TONS of applications that did the same things before these I guess I MIGHT be bothered to spend the time, but please just look it up yourself.
The Sith "rule of two" is actually a fairly new concept. Also, Dark Jedi != Sith Lord. Not sure the exact time-lines, but about a 1,000 years before EPI there were many Dark Jedi and Sith Lords. There was then an epic battle between the Jedi and these Dark Jedi and Sith. During that battle is was believed all the Sith were destroyed. However, I believe it was Darth Bane who actually survived and I believe it was him who created the "rule of two" to stay under the Jedi's radar until the time was right.
As a side note, many thousand years ago the Sith (not Sith Lords) were a primitave species who practiced some sort of dark magic (but weren't really evil). Thier homeworld was then discovered by some Dark Jedi, who relized they had some knowledge of the dark-side and wanted to learn about it. These Dark Jedi then subjegated the Sith and became "Sith Lords". This extra dark magic they learned is the main difference between Dark Jedi and Sith Lords going forward.
Anyway, I'm guessing this prequel they are talking about is to be set in the time of this epic battle between the Jedi and the Sith Lords and Dark Jedi.
The dissidents in (insert your favorite African nation experiencing genocide here) should setup a huge rack of servers dedicated to hosting pirated movies and music. Then all they have to do is sit back and wait. Within a couple weeks I'm sure the Marines would arrive to "liberate" the country.
If genocide isn't enough to get the good old USA to act, "stealing" a few bucks from their VERY wealthy citizens should do it.
I admit I downloaded this one. I don't live in the states and it usually takes at least a few months for new releases to get here and actually our only theater has been under contruction since last fall (damn hurricanes) so I have no idea if we'll ever get it in theaters.
IF it ever gets here I'll certainly see it in the theater. I don't feel too bad about this (first movie I've ever downloaded illegally).
I don't buy it! It took me 4 days for christs sake!
Thanks for the info, didn't realize that. Very cool!
The iPod took a problem that no one else had solved effectively and reduced it to 4 buttons, a wheel, and some Very Easy menus.
I always hear this. I've been using MP3 players since they were first released and I've always thought they were the simpliest things in the bloody world. I've had friends (VERY non-computer nerd friends) use the early ones as well and it would take them all of three seconds to figure it out. I have NO IDEA where this myth came from that portible music players were hard to use before the Ipod came around!!!! Sure they are pretty white and have cool comercials, but I am at a loss when people talk about how they "revolutionized" portable players.
BTW, I use the new Zen Micro. Yes it supports DRMed software, but it doesn't try to force me into ONE online music source (which just happens to be owned by the vendor of the player).
Yes, they both had the same exploits, but since Netscapte shipped later it wasn't "at risk" as long. Of course they should have fixed it before shipping, but the point that FF was at risk longer remains.
In general his comment about "the official Mozilla release will always be more secure" seems to make sense, but I you have to be careful about absolute statements like that. Perhaps there will be a redistrubtion which will say always wait for a month or two after an offical Mozilla release in hopes of having any new bugs caught. In this case you may not always have the latest bells and whistles, but in theory might be more secure (of course you could just stick with the older version of Mozilla for a month or two as well).
In general I'm just a bit wary of absolute statements like that.
OK, before I get flamed by FF fans this is just a devils advocate stance!
He said that redistrbutions (like Netscape) will never be as secure as the official Mozilla version.
How many "days at risk" was FF from these issues?
Three days I believe (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong).
How many "days at risk" was Netscape 8.0 from these issues?
Less than one.
Just saying the arguement COULD be made, thats all.
CD's and DVD's aren't bad technology for the problem (I'd argue probably better than tape), but the way they are used today doesn't really lend itself to "secure" storage because of scratches, etc you mention.
A few years ago, I saw this Canon scanner with built in CD burner used to archive documents. The smart thing this did was you couldn't just pop CDs in and out. There was actually a CD caddy. The caddy was very similar to a regular CD case but actually also a bit like floppys (small hole on bottom of case for laser to read/write though and a CD mount inside the caddy so the disk actuall spun inside the caddy itself.
Seemed a pretty smart idea and the time and I expected to see CD-R/DVD-R backup devices with similar systems. However, I haven't see these yet and it seems a shame (there may be some around I just have seen them).
Anyway, CD/DVD seems actually a pretty good technology for backup, but the current method of just using the "raw" disk without some sort of caddy or perminant protection just seems silly.
Correct you are sir. And what idiot would fall for this marketing???? Since when does type-by-touch make you ubergeek? My grandmother can type-by-touch, but trust me ubergeek she is not. If you need a keyboard to solidify your geek status, I'd say more computer knowledge might actually be a better investment.
I mean really, isn't equating type-by-touch with ubergeek a bit like equating ability to boil water with gormet chef?
Check this out. No idea how "usable" it is, but its certainly not the traditional keyboard/mouse.
Opps, read your previous post too fast. Your mention of byte-code was clearly in reference to the CLI, so I didn't need to point that out to you. My bad. I'll read more slowly next time ;-)
Its not actually just C#. Much of .NET is the CLI which is also available. So .NET isn't open source, but the info is out there if you want to reimplement. Obviously, open sourcing the whole thing would have made it easier, but by opening up what they have its not really too difficult to reimplement (if you want to take the time).
From the link:
It is also expected that ECMA standardization will make the CLI available on a wide range of computing platforms. This combination of multi-language capability and multiplatform implementation make the CLI an important target for future language compilers.
Dude, have you been living in a cave???? Haven't you seen those commercials with the cool shadows dancing in front of pretty colors? This is the best tech since Intel released the Blue Man Group.
/. crowd had to get one. I mean when living in your mothers basement, you REALLY cannot afford to let any chance to look cool pass you by ;-)
Ipod wasn't really meant for those who understand DRM, vendor tie-down, or patent encumbered propietary formats. Its meant for joe-six-pack. However, once it became sooooo cool, even the
I think this is the link you meant.
/. ;-)
I was about to be REALLY shocked when I saw your link to a research.micorosoft.com sub-folder on
and then made it so it would only run on IIS
.NET so it CAN run on any platform, they just didn't implement VMs for other platforms. They have published the specs so others (like MONO) can implement VMs for other platforms.
/. crowd where it would have been seen as some evil ploy), but some would perhaps seen it as a positive shift.
Not strictly true. They made
Well I certainly don't agree with MSs decision not to implement VMs for other platforms, you can understand thier reasons for it (hey why should they spend the to time building support other platforms when they want you to use thier platform). I think had they created VMs for other platforms it would have garnered some good-will from the *nix crowd (no not the
However, its hard to measure the good-will in dollars and it certainly would have been interesting to hear them explain doing this while still bashing othe platforms, so you can understand why they wouldn't.
Also the title of this story is incredibly stupid. What the hell is a VS.Net application?
I assume the title is refering to the fact that this tool only seems to be available as a plug-in for VS.NET.
Funny ;-)
Seriously, MS replacement for Passport seems to be InfoCard. Now I know this is MS, but this does actually look like a cool concept (we'll have to wait and see about the implementation).
Kim Cameron (the lead guy on this) is actually pretty adament that this need to be an "Open" system that others can implement. We'll see if that ends up meaning "open source", but interesting none the less.
Maybe a bit OT, but MIT has basically open sourced alot of thier stuff (pretty cool). MIT's OpenCourseWare
The company said its research of technology training at universities around the world have shown a need for more open-standards offerings
In related news MS said its research of technology traning at universities around the world have shown the need for more MS offerings, and Apple said the same thing about Apple offerings, and Sun said the same thing about Sun offerings, and Novell said the same thing about Novell offerings............
OK, a possible solution to the hardware/drivers issue in my dream world ;-)
;-)
There is one extra Flash module which is hardwired into the MOBO. PC manufacturers can then load drivers for the hardware for each major OS onto this hardwired module. Then when the PC detects a new "HDD" Flash module, the system will automatically use the proper drivers from the hardwired Flash module. Of course as end users we have the ability to add/delete/update the drivers on this hardwired Flash module.
OK, thats the idea now who's going to build this for me?