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Another waste of tax payers money. What percentage of home PC owners play games on their PCs? I don't know, but it's pretty safe to assume a very high percentage of home PCs are used to play games. You won't be able to play video games on the govs latest proposed silliness, so just how many energy hungry PCs would it eliminate, very few. What a waste of money.
I dont think this is targeted at the home user. This is mainly targeted at companies who have 10 and 100s of PCs left on over night or in standby mode. Server rooms, air con uints cooling them etc.
Some companies could benefit from a centrally hosted system, however along with that you would need to get BT to give an SLA on ADSL as if you net connection went down you would not be able to work
Dave
It'll be an excuse for the gov to shove DRM down everyone's backs. And your data will be kept on a central server, so you'll have no privacy.
It seems to be targeting the home user to me, and like the first post says, i was also thinking about games, as i for one play a lot of games on my own computer and would have no interest in this service. Another problem, what if you need ANY other piece of software to do something, even graphics design, seems impossible in this system.
It's all coming to the same place, total control of the New World Order.
The issue isn't the PC, but where the electricity for the PC comes from. Fine PC's produce all this CO2 each year...small print as the power they consume comes from fossil fuel power stations.
Surely, a better course is a larger move to more power efficient machines (which companies like Intel and AMD are heavily persuing anyhow) and even more so, a good kick up the rear for GPU makers like nVidia and thier monstrosity 8800's which practically need its own power station. Good design can lead to power savings, as has been shown with the Core 2 and follow up processors. And this is the direction manufacturers should be heading. Not the big power hungry monsters we currently use (for games).
The whole thin-client based world is very nice on paper, but in reality one slight hic-up when BT puts a shovel through your phone line and won't fix it for a week soon results in you being totally PC-less on this model. For a company, and many individuals that is something thats not acceptable. As a set-top box type internet access device, all well and good. But the majority of users want more than that from thier systems.
This plan is something no doubt some consultants thrown at the government and they've lapped it up as a great way to burn through a shedload of tax payers money. In the distant future maybe, we will all have internet connections with the bandwidth and reliability this kind of system requires. But currently in the UK this isn't going to happen. Can I run games on this service? no. Can I do Media Center tasks? no. Can I fill up the machine with as much music as I like? no. Can I choose what applications I wish to use? no. In brief, this system is not capable of doing what users want. Maybe when Web2.0 applications are a majority reality it will work. But on current situations. Not in the slightest, and it smells as though some consultants fleeced the Gov out of our money once more.
NWO all the way, legislation is the only way to do it.
What a daft plan...
Besides, the worst offenders in all this are companies like Microsoft, Apple and Adobe with their disgustingly bloated, inefficient and power-hunger operating systems and software. 'What? I need at least a dual-core processor and shader-capable video card? JUST TO BOOT UP?!?'
The same goes for browser-based bloatware like Flash, which can easily bring machines to a grinding halt, despite only moving a handful of graphics around.
If you could use a power-efficient architecture like the Core2 but only needed the clock speed to run an older OS like Windows 98, we could all be using far less power, but until software starts becoming efficient, we'll just have to keep upgrading...
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