Comments on: Choosing the Puffer Fish Over the Penguin http://skirmisher.org/technology/choosing-the-puffer-fish-over-the-penguin/ Mad. Filthy. Intriguing. Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:48:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tito Mari Francis Escaño http://skirmisher.org/technology/choosing-the-puffer-fish-over-the-penguin/comment-page-1/#comment-225231 Tito Mari Francis Escaño Mon, 19 May 2008 19:18:36 +0000 http://skirmisher.org/technology/choosing-the-puffer-fish-over-the-penguin/#comment-225231 "...everything will be run straight from the web–all you need is a pc that can connect, and you dont even need a harddrive because you can save everything on the web, all your files, etc. i think it’s true..." Doesn't this sound like marketing hype to you? Practically, can you even connect to the internet without an operating system to just boot, start, stop and manage the resources of the lowly computer you use? The current architecture of computers haven't yet gone beyond and/or against the Von Neumann computer architecture (which is based/built on Babbage's work) so the quote above is bluntly without merit. Frankly, it would be possible to have a computer that boots up complete with GUI for familiar use without hard drive on the user's computer (this is called thin-client computing) but this is currently only possible with Unix-like operating systems like Linux and BSDs, and Bill Gates's Microsoft tried to downplay the possibility because they can't profit from it. “…everything will be run straight from the web–all you need is a pc that can connect, and you dont even need a harddrive because you can save everything on the web, all your files, etc. i think it’s true…”

Doesn’t this sound like marketing hype to you? Practically, can you even connect to the internet without an operating system to just boot, start, stop and manage the resources of the lowly computer you use? The current architecture of computers haven’t yet gone beyond and/or against the Von Neumann computer architecture (which is based/built on Babbage’s work) so the quote above is bluntly without merit.

Frankly, it would be possible to have a computer that boots up complete with GUI for familiar use without hard drive on the user’s computer (this is called thin-client computing) but this is currently only possible with Unix-like operating systems like Linux and BSDs, and Bill Gates’s Microsoft tried to downplay the possibility because they can’t profit from it.

]]> By: metal arkos http://skirmisher.org/technology/choosing-the-puffer-fish-over-the-penguin/comment-page-1/#comment-143 metal arkos Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:26:44 +0000 http://skirmisher.org/technology/choosing-the-puffer-fish-over-the-penguin/#comment-143 but google is saying by web 2.0 standards, everything will be run straight from the web--all you need is a pc that can connect, and you dont even need a harddrive because you can save everything on the web, all your files, etc. i think it's true because bill gates is beginning to pack his bags and rethink windows... but google is saying by web 2.0 standards, everything will be run straight from the web–all you need is a pc that can connect, and you dont even need a harddrive because you can save everything on the web, all your files, etc. i think it’s true because bill gates is beginning to pack his bags and rethink windows…

]]> By: Tito Mari Francis Escaño http://skirmisher.org/technology/choosing-the-puffer-fish-over-the-penguin/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Tito Mari Francis Escaño Mon, 19 Jun 2006 06:11:16 +0000 http://skirmisher.org/technology/choosing-the-puffer-fish-over-the-penguin/#comment-139 When you build a house that was supposed to be built to last, you have to be very concerned with the foundation. The operating system is THE foundation, THE platform, THE background upon which we work. It's all about the reliability, the stability of the platform. Would the Internet be as we know, use and benefit from today, if its foundations were shaky? When you build a house that was supposed to be built to last, you have to be very concerned with the foundation. The operating system is THE foundation, THE platform, THE background upon which we work.

It’s all about the reliability, the stability of the platform. Would the Internet be as we know, use and benefit from today, if its foundations were shaky?

]]> By: metal arkos http://skirmisher.org/technology/choosing-the-puffer-fish-over-the-penguin/comment-page-1/#comment-138 metal arkos Mon, 19 Jun 2006 05:03:52 +0000 http://skirmisher.org/technology/choosing-the-puffer-fish-over-the-penguin/#comment-138 what can you say about "The Web as platform of the future"? we might not even need OS by then like we do now... what can you say about “The Web as platform of the future”? we might not even need OS by then like we do now…

]]>