Trusted Computing isn't a "huge pile of nothing". Though it probably won't amount to much in the end, it is something the industry leaders seriously thought they could push through. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it, but I will continue to express my objections to it anytime the subject comes up.
As for ending support for XP Home, that would really give a boost to Microsoft's competition. I suspect they'll think better of it, but if they don't, Linux is sounding better all the time...
Using Windows XP Home? Not for Much Longer.
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Uncle Spellbinder wrote:I wanted to believe Thumper's assertion that this was all bogus. Looks like it's true. I wish I could afford a Mac or a truly "user friendly" Linux distro was available.
OS updates support ends on Mac OS even quicker than it does for a windows user.
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Thats 7/8 years support, while Apple makes you buy an OS-upgrade every 18 months or so.
Thats 7/8 years support, while Apple makes you buy an OS-upgrade every 18 months or so.
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yamal wrote:Thats 7/8 years support, while Apple makes you buy an OS-upgrade every 18 months or so.
There really aren't many Linux distros with that kind of support either. Come to think of it, I can't name a single one.
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I don't think the term is as important as the reasons for the term. My concern is while some distros may want to keep up with hardware and other software changes they may become overloaded trying to accomodate all the previous hardware and software which isn't defunct yet. I screamed murder after spend huge sums of money on hardware and software only to have it all made useless after about 6 months. Personnally I'd like to see a schism of sorts where the gamers went somewhere else, the movie folks went somewhere else and less of an entertainment media format was considered. This need to have computers as the quantum center of human existance is like trying to cram 5 pounds of crap in a one pound bag and believing you'll get it home without getting any on you.
Things like listening to music are not the things I'm referring to, it's the feature film on the desktop, while an amusing bauble in a small screen in the corner, defeating of the art form as it diminishes the real escapist mechanics a movie is meant to provide. Multiple focus/tasking leads to mistakes and errors and a lack of retention of the information either what was being worked on or the jist of the movie.
Games???? sure you want to play something during a long process or want to have the power of the computer to play, that's focused but maybe there should be a games based world seperate from computers, wait there is, but the key players are so screwy trying to monopolize the games consoles nothing becomes a standard or is workable with the other, also on a lunatic replacement console timeline, which is what drives the computer gamers, which drives the power needs and hardware advances. Which is detrimental to the basic computer user who is subjected to the hardware and software upgrades the gamers want or need. I just can't imagine needing a game, sorry?
It's a lunatic rat race which needs some simplification and some clarity, which may be what the "Trusted Computing" designers were interested in but more than likely it was more market footprint and control.
Unless it was inteneded the machines would be permitted to run open source or just about anyone's software additionally, which gets back to why, since that's what most folks have as it is.
....be patient it's a full moon and the side of my head always extends outwards in the shape of a large turnip.
Things like listening to music are not the things I'm referring to, it's the feature film on the desktop, while an amusing bauble in a small screen in the corner, defeating of the art form as it diminishes the real escapist mechanics a movie is meant to provide. Multiple focus/tasking leads to mistakes and errors and a lack of retention of the information either what was being worked on or the jist of the movie.
Games???? sure you want to play something during a long process or want to have the power of the computer to play, that's focused but maybe there should be a games based world seperate from computers, wait there is, but the key players are so screwy trying to monopolize the games consoles nothing becomes a standard or is workable with the other, also on a lunatic replacement console timeline, which is what drives the computer gamers, which drives the power needs and hardware advances. Which is detrimental to the basic computer user who is subjected to the hardware and software upgrades the gamers want or need. I just can't imagine needing a game, sorry?
It's a lunatic rat race which needs some simplification and some clarity, which may be what the "Trusted Computing" designers were interested in but more than likely it was more market footprint and control.
Unless it was inteneded the machines would be permitted to run open source or just about anyone's software additionally, which gets back to why, since that's what most folks have as it is.
....be patient it's a full moon and the side of my head always extends outwards in the shape of a large turnip.