What the customer does with it after that, they could give two shits about.
That's true for a very short time. Microsoft needs windows to be the dominating platform, at home as in business, otherwise they have nothing, nothing, to compete with. If people start using Linux at home or at work even while paying the windows tax, the same people will probably not want to pay the windows tax much longer, when they notice that a lot of other people are using something else, and that Dell actually has a Linux option as well.
Have you even read the book you recommend? Ever heard of things like DMA? Bus controllers? Did you know that a CPU can actually process more than one bit during one cycle? Yes, a CPU can never handle more than it can handle. Logic. Even a slow CPU by todays standard can shuffle around data faster than the 480MB/s that this future technology can stream. Or do you think that the CPU reads 4 bits at a time from my gigabit NIC, 250 million times/second? Or one bit at a time from my 3GHz SATA-disks?
I'd like a fast graphics card on USB. And a HD video in. And two or more fast harddrives. Then add a gigabit NIC to this. Now imagine all on the same hub.
And this is what I want today, I can imagine it'll be quite much more in the Future(tm)
Great idea, and I just got an even better. I have instructions on how to modify the BIOS boot logo for my ThinkPad, which currently says IBM in big letters. I haven't found a good reason for doing this, until now. Sure, an intelligent and resourceful thief with a little time to spare could set up a TFTP-server, download a new BIOS, overburn my custom version, but if they bother to do that, fine. Then they can have it.:)
I'm sure you can modify the boot logo on other vendor's BIOS as well, if you poke around a bit. Just don't break it.;)
The OS would be designed so that programs in a more outer (less trusted,
and less essential) ring, could not have any access to the memory or disk
areas of more inner programs, and could only ever use the services of inner
programs through narrow public interfaces supervised by the OS.
Dude.
This is how all operating systems (even Windows, in theory, not in practice) works already. Except everything is in the outermost ring. Want to write to disk? Have to go through the system call. Not allowed to write to this file? Tough shit. Want to write to memory? Are you allowed to write here? No? Then die a gruesome death and end with a coredump.
My natural freedom here is to be able to make a copy of something that I own, and to whatever I wish with it. I could for example want to make a copy of a spoon I bought from IKEA, or of a DVD. Another freedom would be to examine and modify something that I have bought, for example a toaster, or a computer, or the software running in my DVD player.
Have you even taken a look at Ubuntu lately? You never have to touch the command line, and you can install all applications from one single location in the OS, and it will even keep track of all updates for all programs you install.
There was a study in Sweden that showed that of the amount of money the population at large spend on culture, 2% goes to the actual creators. The rest disappears on the way. Imagine if you could increase that to 20% (still a massive 80% overhead). You could sell CDs for a tenth of the price and still make as much money as you do today, but I'm quite sure people would buy more CDs if they were available legally for a tenth of the price...
If you compare the lost music sale to the increase in the amount people spend on concerts, then factor in how much kids today (probably their most valuable customers) spend on their cellphone, it all adds up nicely, all without having to resort to imaginary lost sales.
Another interesting thing to look at is that music sales is now pretty much back to what it was before the CD boom in the 90ies when people replaced their record collection with CDs. All in all, people spend more *money* on culture today, than they used to, and I'm quite sure it's because of the availability of culture, thanks to filesharing.
That's one of the (many) reasons I got a ThinkPad instead of some n00bPad. The trackpoint is like.. well.. like playing with a nipple 24/7. Just great.
obviously I do understand the tensions it can create if everybody in your line of work votes republican, or in your family
And still you don't understand why people are so afraid of saying who they voted for?
Keeping votes secret is one very important way to make sure any democracy works, since humans can easily be forced to vote for something they do not want to vote for, either by threat of violence to your own person or someone in your family, or by money. Secret votes makes sure that someone can vote how they want, not how peer pressure wants.
Bluray wins in movie quality as soon as you unmute your TV, so who cares about scratch resistance?
Well, people who doesn't want to buy a new movie/game each time they want to use it?
Some anecdotal evidence: My local gamestore doesn't even accept second hand PS3 games. Because they scratch so easily, they can never resell them. They do however accept Xbox360-games, since they still work.
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That's true for a very short time. Microsoft needs windows to be the dominating platform, at home as in business, otherwise they have nothing, nothing, to compete with. If people start using Linux at home or at work even while paying the windows tax, the same people will probably not want to pay the windows tax much longer, when they notice that a lot of other people are using something else, and that Dell actually has a Linux option as well.
You're on the wrong website.
Have you even read the book you recommend? Ever heard of things like DMA? Bus controllers? Did you know that a CPU can actually process more than one bit during one cycle? Yes, a CPU can never handle more than it can handle. Logic. Even a slow CPU by todays standard can shuffle around data faster than the 480MB/s that this future technology can stream. Or do you think that the CPU reads 4 bits at a time from my gigabit NIC, 250 million times/second? Or one bit at a time from my 3GHz SATA-disks?
Don't forget a much improved battery technology and flexible, outdoor-readable LCD in 3-5 years.
I'd like a fast graphics card on USB. And a HD video in. And two or more fast harddrives. Then add a gigabit NIC to this. Now imagine all on the same hub.
And this is what I want today, I can imagine it'll be quite much more in the Future(tm)
Uh, what? 0.9TB/(4.8Gb/s) = 25.6 minutes, not 1.5 seconds, even IF the platters would cope with the new speed.
Great idea, and I just got an even better. I have instructions on how to modify the BIOS boot logo for my ThinkPad, which currently says IBM in big letters. I haven't found a good reason for doing this, until now. Sure, an intelligent and resourceful thief with a little time to spare could set up a TFTP-server, download a new BIOS, overburn my custom version, but if they bother to do that, fine. Then they can have it. :)
I'm sure you can modify the boot logo on other vendor's BIOS as well, if you poke around a bit. Just don't break it. ;)
Yeah, I know what you mean, investing in cars would just be stupid.
Me, I invest all my money in computers.
Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people.
Dude.
This is how all operating systems (even Windows, in theory, not in practice) works already. Except everything is in the outermost ring. Want to write to disk? Have to go through the system call. Not allowed to write to this file? Tough shit. Want to write to memory? Are you allowed to write here? No? Then die a gruesome death and end with a coredump.
It means that it has been designed to actually limit performance for no technical reasons at all. Precisely what they have done here, with DRM.
I'm from Sweden, you insensitive clod!
Here it is. You're welcome to visit us anytime you want!
(ok, maybe Iceland doesn't have the fastest connection to the rest of us, but you know what I mean)
I'm quite sure IBM pioneered this long before MS.
tags.
My natural freedom here is to be able to make a copy of something that I own, and to whatever I wish with it. I could for example want to make a copy of a spoon I bought from IKEA, or of a DVD. Another freedom would be to examine and modify something that I have bought, for example a toaster, or a computer, or the software running in my DVD player.
Have you even taken a look at Ubuntu lately? You never have to touch the command line, and you can install all applications from one single location in the OS, and it will even keep track of all updates for all programs you install.
There, corrected that for you. This is slashdot, you don't have to pretend you don't live in your mother's basement here.
There was a study in Sweden that showed that of the amount of money the population at large spend on culture, 2% goes to the actual creators. The rest disappears on the way. Imagine if you could increase that to 20% (still a massive 80% overhead). You could sell CDs for a tenth of the price and still make as much money as you do today, but I'm quite sure people would buy more CDs if they were available legally for a tenth of the price...
If you compare the lost music sale to the increase in the amount people spend on concerts, then factor in how much kids today (probably their most valuable customers) spend on their cellphone, it all adds up nicely, all without having to resort to imaginary lost sales.
Another interesting thing to look at is that music sales is now pretty much back to what it was before the CD boom in the 90ies when people replaced their record collection with CDs. All in all, people spend more *money* on culture today, than they used to, and I'm quite sure it's because of the availability of culture, thanks to filesharing.
Kapten Krok, Gothenburg, Sweden
That's one of the (many) reasons I got a ThinkPad instead of some n00bPad. The trackpoint is like.. well.. like playing with a nipple 24/7. Just great.
And still you don't understand why people are so afraid of saying who they voted for?
Keeping votes secret is one very important way to make sure any democracy works, since humans can easily be forced to vote for something they do not want to vote for, either by threat of violence to your own person or someone in your family, or by money. Secret votes makes sure that someone can vote how they want, not how peer pressure wants.
Well, people who doesn't want to buy a new movie/game each time they want to use it?
Some anecdotal evidence: My local gamestore doesn't even accept second hand PS3 games. Because they scratch so easily, they can never resell them. They do however accept Xbox360-games, since they still work.
They probably show their love to his bank account already.