Mood: Calm
Music: Hed Candy
You know what is really overdue. Three Dimensional computer interfaces. We've had 3d games for over a decade, as well as a 3d markup language (VRML), 3d goggles, and gloves. What's the hold up?
3DNA is the only attempt I'm aware of to even moderatly take a step in this direction and it's not even halfway decent.
Hardware is ready for this jump. Humans will find it easier to interface with computers in a 3d setting.
So what, exactly, is the problem???
I suppose bandwidth. If you've done much 3d gaming online you are aware of the problem of lag and it would probably be a huge problem on a 3d internet.
But how about just a 3d OS? Like doing BeOS 3d, now THAT would be a technological advance - as opposed to the latest version of Windows.
Windows is dying people. I give it 2 years after they release this Longhorn piece of shit before everyone and their grandmother switches to Linux.
The fact is that Windows continues to gobble resources like a fat baby eating candy while Linux continues to get easier while maintaining a very very mimnimal resource diet.
My Linux system does everything I need it to do (just like Windows used to for me) using on average about 64 megs of ram (as opposed to 4x that in Windows) and uses about 1/10 of the disk space Windows was gobbling.
One tenth!!!
This isn't to mention how far surperior Linux is at running web services or utilizing the full funtionality of my graphics card. No, I'm just talking the basics of Hard Disk and RAM usage that everyone can relate to.
Let me break it down for you people: If you have the know-how to go to www.knoppix.com and download and burn a CD image and then boot your system from Knoppix then you understand enough about computers to switch to Linux and then not have to be concerned with upgrading your hardware or getting a Virus ever again.
And if you don't know enough about computers to do that then, well, I'm sorry. ::Jae looks at you with pity in his eyes::
To be fair there is one, count it: ONE, problem with Linux - configuring things.
Using WINE and VMWare you can get ANYTHING that works in Windows on your machine to work in Linux - and it will work 3x faster usually.
But this requires configuring.
And if something doesn't autodetect during installation you may need to download a custom driver and configure it.
And sometimes there is no driver for your particular hardware, but this is very rare these days and getting rarer. But it happens.
Occasionally if you want to start using a new advanced app this also will require a bit of configuring. But usually this is for the big boys.
But well, hell, from my perspective the really fun thing about computers that was lost when windows95 came out WAS the custom configuring. Call me a hacker but I miss those days.
So, in my opinion, even Linux's one small weakness is a strength.
BECAUSE it's so configurable you can customize your computer's interface in ways that you just never dreamed were possible. It's kinda like making your whole machine as veristile and responsive as WinAmp5.
For the record in my experience installing Linux is quicker and easier then installing Windows. It hasn't always been that way but it's certainly that way these days.
What you have to consider about installing Windows is that it requires several reboots and if you have the least bit unconventional hardware than it requires a driver disk from you to use it (usually) and ANOTHER reboot.
None of this takes place with Linux. Most hardware will be autodetected by Linux and the entire installation process only requires A SINGLE reboot.
Even if you needed to, later on, install new drives you would not be required to reboot. That you have to in Windows is just another fine example of how shitty Window's source code truely is.
Let me wrap up by saying that the new Windows that will come out probably this time next year will require better hardware than most of us have. The most advanced Linux to date (Linux updates about every month, not every several years and updating all the software on you system in Linux is a snap if you are connected to the Internet by broadband) requires a Pentium 133 with 128 megs of RAM and a 10 gig hard drive (for a full install, which inclues every app you can imagine - all free).
And it will do just about everything the new Windows will do and it will do it all much faster - even on that ANCIENT hardware.
Does everyone get the point yet???
Go download and burn KNOPPIX and just test drive Linux.
Do it for me.
I really think you'll be amazed.
This is me begging you to be a radical open-minded liberal in the technological scheme of things.
Remember: if you don't like KNOPPIX you can just throw the CD in the garbage then reboot and everything goes back to the way it was.
This is me begging you to stop paying Microsoft to fuck you in the ass.
Please.
Music: Hed Candy
You know what is really overdue. Three Dimensional computer interfaces. We've had 3d games for over a decade, as well as a 3d markup language (VRML), 3d goggles, and gloves. What's the hold up?
3DNA is the only attempt I'm aware of to even moderatly take a step in this direction and it's not even halfway decent.
Hardware is ready for this jump. Humans will find it easier to interface with computers in a 3d setting.
So what, exactly, is the problem???
I suppose bandwidth. If you've done much 3d gaming online you are aware of the problem of lag and it would probably be a huge problem on a 3d internet.
But how about just a 3d OS? Like doing BeOS 3d, now THAT would be a technological advance - as opposed to the latest version of Windows.
Windows is dying people. I give it 2 years after they release this Longhorn piece of shit before everyone and their grandmother switches to Linux.
The fact is that Windows continues to gobble resources like a fat baby eating candy while Linux continues to get easier while maintaining a very very mimnimal resource diet.
My Linux system does everything I need it to do (just like Windows used to for me) using on average about 64 megs of ram (as opposed to 4x that in Windows) and uses about 1/10 of the disk space Windows was gobbling.
One tenth!!!
This isn't to mention how far surperior Linux is at running web services or utilizing the full funtionality of my graphics card. No, I'm just talking the basics of Hard Disk and RAM usage that everyone can relate to.
Let me break it down for you people: If you have the know-how to go to www.knoppix.com and download and burn a CD image and then boot your system from Knoppix then you understand enough about computers to switch to Linux and then not have to be concerned with upgrading your hardware or getting a Virus ever again.
And if you don't know enough about computers to do that then, well, I'm sorry. ::Jae looks at you with pity in his eyes::
To be fair there is one, count it: ONE, problem with Linux - configuring things.
Using WINE and VMWare you can get ANYTHING that works in Windows on your machine to work in Linux - and it will work 3x faster usually.
But this requires configuring.
And if something doesn't autodetect during installation you may need to download a custom driver and configure it.
And sometimes there is no driver for your particular hardware, but this is very rare these days and getting rarer. But it happens.
Occasionally if you want to start using a new advanced app this also will require a bit of configuring. But usually this is for the big boys.
But well, hell, from my perspective the really fun thing about computers that was lost when windows95 came out WAS the custom configuring. Call me a hacker but I miss those days.
So, in my opinion, even Linux's one small weakness is a strength.
BECAUSE it's so configurable you can customize your computer's interface in ways that you just never dreamed were possible. It's kinda like making your whole machine as veristile and responsive as WinAmp5.
For the record in my experience installing Linux is quicker and easier then installing Windows. It hasn't always been that way but it's certainly that way these days.
What you have to consider about installing Windows is that it requires several reboots and if you have the least bit unconventional hardware than it requires a driver disk from you to use it (usually) and ANOTHER reboot.
None of this takes place with Linux. Most hardware will be autodetected by Linux and the entire installation process only requires A SINGLE reboot.
Even if you needed to, later on, install new drives you would not be required to reboot. That you have to in Windows is just another fine example of how shitty Window's source code truely is.
Let me wrap up by saying that the new Windows that will come out probably this time next year will require better hardware than most of us have. The most advanced Linux to date (Linux updates about every month, not every several years and updating all the software on you system in Linux is a snap if you are connected to the Internet by broadband) requires a Pentium 133 with 128 megs of RAM and a 10 gig hard drive (for a full install, which inclues every app you can imagine - all free).
And it will do just about everything the new Windows will do and it will do it all much faster - even on that ANCIENT hardware.
Does everyone get the point yet???
Go download and burn KNOPPIX and just test drive Linux.
Do it for me.
I really think you'll be amazed.
This is me begging you to be a radical open-minded liberal in the technological scheme of things.
Remember: if you don't like KNOPPIX you can just throw the CD in the garbage then reboot and everything goes back to the way it was.
This is me begging you to stop paying Microsoft to fuck you in the ass.
Please.
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