On Monday 25 September 2006 18:29, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
On 25/09/06 10:31 +0530, jtd wrote:
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That is precisely what the market is delivering these days, set top box, media center, game consoles, phones that do everything except call. The majority use linux. If we are to total these into usage it should outstrip M$ sales by an order of magnitude. In the old days
In numbers, yes. In dollar terms, no.
In dollar terms would be very difficult to account for, since the majority are home bred distros. So would be priced at "zero". However assuming eqivalent pricing (M$ kit price = linux kit price), M$ will certainly bite the dust. Ofcourse this mode of costing would be deemed questionable.
Also, I still have to see a PC replacement which offers a browser, an office suite, an email client, and some games. There are some high end phones running WinCE which offer stuff like this, but they aren't a PC replacement.
Definetly not. As u said flexibility and complexity go hand in hand, with it's attendant requirements of user labour to achieve profeciency.
(atleast in Japan where text processing is compleXXX) u had
Text processing in Devnagari is easily more complex (left to right primary direction, with glyphs going right to left above and below the character lines).
Believe me Devnagiri is simple. Devnagiri has top middle and bottom with vertical symmetry (dunno what the tech term is). Chinese and Japanese have top, middle, bottom with middle divided into 4 quadrant for glyphs in the middle of characters. and 3000++ characters in common use. Those machines in the 80s had monitors and graphics which were stunning even by today's standards.
The complexity of the script resulted in a funny ability of Japanese to write english accross a table "mirrored", so that u could read.