Author: J. C. Boco
Date: 21:31:51 05/26/02
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>>>I'm exagerating a little bit, but do you disagree completely?
There are a number of "features" that are added to the Windows OS (and other
OSes as well BTW) which look innocent at first sight (the shadow under the mouse
pointer), but little by little they make the OS more and more bloated.
People don't notice, but after a while they realize they have bought a much
faster computer and it does not do most of the tasks faster. Or maybe they do
not realize.
Playing MPG and MP3 smoothly is possible since several years now. Naturally, if
you add fancy psychedelic graphics to the multimedia player, your 1GHz computer
suddenly seems to be obsolete.
I think the next step for graphical interfaces is going to be a completely 3D
virtual desktop. You won't be able to do any useful task like typing 3 lines
with NotePad without a 3GHz processor and loads of RAM for the 1600x1200
Z-Buffer.
>>>Icon animation will be stored in MPG format in 640x480 just in case you are
using a 3200x2400 screen resolution. Sounds (like the "click" when you open a
submenu) will be stored in 64 bits, 128KHz, 5 ways (so you will actually feel
deep in your bones the sound of your click through that 250W subwoofer installed
at your feet).
The common "This application has caused a general protection fault" error
message will come with blazing 3D graphics of a crashing window application
involving extremely complex calculations like the ones that have been created by
Lucas studios to simulate the module race in Star Wars episode 1 (remember when
the modules crash and burn?).
...that's called progress on the solar system's third planet.
Christophe
Do you think the Palm system will eventually become bloated as well?
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