The year is 2008...

[Vehemence]

Where's my flying car and sexrobot?

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: dNor
Where's my flying car and sexrobot?

Don't Date Robots!

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: PricklyPete
My MacBook Pro is pretty darn close...certainly no complaints from me...

You still have to use a mac though.....

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Man of all the things you coulda said...

... and oil is still our main source of fuel.
... and religion still dictates public policy.
... and we've still not gone back to the moon.

The list goes on.

The year is 2008...

...and the name of the place is Babylon 5

(ok, so I was watching B5 reruns the other day..)

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: ricochet
Floppy drive still in use. Come on, why do I need to put RAID drivers on a floppy?

You don't if you use vista.

 

[OUCaptain]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
what about that we don't have flying cars..... I want my flying cars damn it!

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
hibernate comes close.

Not when you've got 2GB of RAM.


With all the background stuff I have set to load, my PC takes about 3 minutes to boot, and that's with the benefit of a 4-drive RAID5 setup. I get sustained read speeds that most hard drives can only burst at.

That just means you have waaaaaaaay too much background crap.

So I've heard. My system tray only has 11 icons in it.
SageTV, TaskManager, Temp monitor, Mouse utilities, Scanner utilities, antivirus, volume utility, F@H, UPS monitor, Tacticalboard keymapper (game thing), volume control.


And I love having various useful utilities and customizations available to me.
I seriously hate doing format & reinstalls, because it takes months to re-customize the PC. I wind up forgetting what all little utilities I have installed, and over the weeks and months, I keep finding things missing, and have to go hunt down the program or registry tweak that did it.

 

[effowe]

Ever hear of Splashtop? Embedded linux on a chip on the mobo, instant boot for browsing and other low level tasks.

 

[Ricochet]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: ricochet
Floppy drive still in use. Come on, why do I need to put RAID drivers on a floppy?

USB key.

Works for Vista but XP still demand the floppy.

No unified configuration for those reset, power, hd LED, and other jumpers. One plug should handle them all.

ASUS makes a hub connector you plug them all into, then plug that into the board.

I have an ASUS mb and really appreciate that feature, but those jumper config should be standardized.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
...And PCs still can't boot up instanteneously.

you just aren't concentrating hard enough.

 

[Ricochet]

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: ricochet
Floppy drive still in use. Come on, why do I need to put RAID drivers on a floppy?

No unified configuration for those reset, power, hd LED, and other jumpers. One plug should handle them all.

You can slipstream the RAID drivers into a winXP disc using the nlite tool.

True, but most people don't even know what slipstream is. That reminds me that I need to slipstream yet again due to new updates as well as service pack 3 for WinXP.

 

[txrandom]

and it's a month away from being halfway over!

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Man of all the things you coulda said...

... and oil is still our main source of fuel.
... and religion still dictates public policy.
... and we've still not gone back to the moon.

The list goes on.

To address these...

1. Oil companies squash innovation....watch "Who Killed the Electric Car?" American engineering will eventually come up with something but since there are only a few engine designs available, it will still be a number of years before we can move away from fossil fuels as a means for generating power.
2. There are a lot of idiots out there. They tend to believe everything they hear in church and around the water cooler instead of putting actual thought into their decisions.
3. We can't go to the moon anymore...we simply don't have anything that can get us there and back. The Saturn V was a LARGE rocket with a small payload. The space shuttle was never designed for that kind of mission...it is merely an orbiter with enough fuel to get to space and then do a re-entry. They would have to design another solid fuel rocket or ship with severe boosters on it to travel the distance to the moon in any reasonable amount of time.

For the instant boot process....technically, your system does boot almost instantly. Its BIOS launches in a few seconds... Then it kicks off whatever is installed on the boot devices (usually a hard drive). So it's either Windows or Linux that is kicking off numerous processes and taking forever to start up.

It's a software limitation and not a hardware limitation. If you installed DOS on your PC, it would be virtually instantaneous after the hardware initializes. ...and believe me, you want your hardware to go through its proper boots up and error checks. Without a few seconds of checking over that, there would be little quality control and you could have memory errors and never realize it until your system shuts down for no apparent reason.

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: effowe
Ever hear of Splashtop? Embedded linux on a chip on the mobo, instant boot for browsing and other low level tasks.

Splashtop could be damn useful on a laptop! It would be nice to quickly look something up on the web or check an e-mail without waiting a minute or two for Windows to boot up and log on.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
...And PCs still can't boot up instanteneously.

SS HDs get pretty close

Thats only a piece of the solution. We need an OS that loads permanently into memory, so when you power up the machine, it just needs to come out of hibernation (and with solid state it would be realtime).