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[badahhh]

Computer Science (and science in general) is evolving fast, Windows XP is great (comparing to others microsoft Operating Systems) but isn't it time to go to the next level? When will we see an OS like in the movies? A 3D Windows. It seems Microsoft is working on it with his next Windows installment code name Longhorn. So, in a chat with mansond,

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[pirho13]

Sadly, I don't see technology freeing us, not in the way it's being created.

Technology is sold by greedy people, they want us to need it, not for it to help us not need anything.

The increases in technology have done very few good things for our lives. People work more now, have less free time, make less money and are generally less happy. I'm not saying this is all the fault of technology, but it certainly hasn't been the saviour everyone said it would be.

Either way, it will be a long time before we have access to an AI system like Skynet (terminator), and either way, it would be fairly easy to program in safeguards so that it wouldn't learn too much, or break free of it's programming.

And yes, longhorn looks quite kickass, but if you look at the requirements that have been posted so far, it's also going to require quite the computer to run, which means that it will also have a much bigger virtual footprint in almost every category.

[badahhh]

Longhorn seems to be the thing we needed to have in an O.S. The requirements i haven't seen them yet but i guess that 2-3 years after it's release, most people will have a system capable of running it with most part of it's functions activated

[pirho13]

Aye, I have an Xbox, PS2 and Gamecube.

Out of all 3 of them, I'd have to say I love my Gamecube the most, it's provided me with the most amount of fun.

[badahhh]

Nice, i always wanted to play that exclusive star wars game for GC. Do you have it? What do you think of it? could you answer to that topic that i posted here asking the favourite type of game? So that i get to know your likes.

[pirho13]

I haven't played rogue squadron, I wanted to, but never got around to it, not yet at least.

As for my favourite game, I'd have to say Mario Kart: Double Dash, Super Smash Bros Melee and Resident Evil 4 for GC.

Final Fantasy series for PS1 and 2, that and DDR.

For xbox, there's really nothing, there's a lot of fun games... but there's nothing that is really great.

And PC: Civilization 3, Shogun: Total War, Medieval: Total war, Command & Conquer generals, Evil genius, Black and White, Quake 3, UT2k4 and many many others. I wish I could play the newer games, but my video card sucks.

[badahhh]

I see you love strategy games. I've been playing C&C - Red Alert for almost 10 years now (I don't know what that says of me), and i don't see the time in tha t i will stop playing it. Other then strategy, i see your style of game is not like mine. But i had a tremendous fun playing Quake III Arena on Dreamcast for exemple.

[pirho13]

The thing is I like all games, except sports games.

[pirho13]

I should add that resident evil 4, while being one of my favourite games is not something I would play again, because to be honest, It freaks me out.

[badahhh]

Oh, i forgot that great game too. Man i love resident evil. I wish i had that one.