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To: regli who wrote (29602)	5/7/2005 8:05:25 PM
From: ild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

<<<Longhorn's system requirements>>> Another Wintel monster. Microsoft is digging its own grave. Microsoft is a tax on US society. Right now $200 PC can satisfy 95% users.

To: regli who wrote (29602)	5/8/2005 5:08:31 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

I don't need software to do face recognition though, the gubbment does, I did need software to stream my music and make my email work. End user software I just don't see needing a lot of this tech to make thier email faster. What do you want to do today? what do inviduals need computers for? face recognize? the average joe wants to sit at home and let his entertainment wash over him and make him happy. He wants to chat with his buds - do you really see martha stewart getting a computer so she can face recognize or multithread a ton of processes? She just wants to get online and trade recipes back and forth with oprah - nothing more. Maybe talk how men rule this world and how bad men treat women while they both have billions. The most useful thing about a computer to me is not how fast it is, it is how CONNECTED it is, connected to you here on SI and my buds all over the planet. That is what is important. But then I was in networking so maybe I am biased. At IBM bulding 203 RTP NC we had lots of old aptiva's running OS2 Warp - it was slow - that didn't matter - they were connected to each other and central archives - that was the power. Big Blue is great if you want to beat garry kasparov - but a billion people on yahoo games chess with a 486 and net connection occupies a lot more minds no? I worked in the as400 group, 5250 group, then they moved me to the autosense token ring group, then I got to watch some dummy get fired because the wireless PCMCIA adapter wouldn't work with the butterfly keyboard in the 701 thinkpad. Why was I in hardware? My degree was software - I don't get it. But we had the wireless networks running in building 203 in the early 90's and it was fun and exciting, now it is ubiquitous and taken for granted. It seems half of SI is former Blue boys - I guess lots of friends from europe are about to join us - BWAHAHA! Remember your motto soldier - Ibm, U bm, we all BM, for I bm. The bears or the ants - who wins in nature long term? The big gubbment may have big bear computers, but you give me and the other ant borgs a wireless net connection and 24/7 access to all the other 12 billion - and some amazing things may come forth for all of us. Moore's law - hehe - I read intel just paid a ton of money for an old copy of his article. You know they used to pay us software guys by lines of code at IBM, and gates tried to tell them that was a dumb way to get bloated code that was not efficient, how bloated is windows? A jack of all trades is master of none. I spend many hours a day on SI, you too, how much computer do you need to read the SI BBS? You can get a verizon cellphone and do your daily SI.