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the real problem is that it was a catchup project. it was made to be a unix on PC, free of charge.

Topical quote: "We are nauseated by the despicable sloth that, ever since the 1970's, has let our programmers survive only through an incessant reprogramming of the glories of the past."

Now that no more unix is around they are catching up from windows and Mac. Think windows is better, not at all as they copy apple, be and linux also. This is what bring the post C64 era of BORING!!! computer.

I agree. Modern computers are boring once you disconnect them from the Internet (which is not so boring).

What if ftp is not good, the WHOLE internet TCP stuff is broken. Linux community should try to push free internet by doing a new protocol. Ho crap it's true, nobody do hardware now so they could not do custom modem. That is because company stoped to sell easy to get electronic part at finguer scale. So we get a generation of mechanics lost because they can't fix car and the one that could help them with electronics can't because it's too much integrated now

I am a first year doing CS. I am reminded of a recent lecture hearing the praises of TCP/IP sung. I'm pretty neutral with my opinion to this but I certainly have ideas in my head of new modernised network protocols. But moving TCP/IP will be like moving a mountain ;-) <Protocol X> over IP is an option.

I wish I could make my own hardware. The barrier to entry is too high. But even if we stick to 70s/80s level hardware, where does anyone start? There's a deep knowledge gap.

You see, we are in a dead end with computers. Those that don't want to see it are in serious denial. Just read stuff from computer history since early 1920 and up and you will see that current "advance" are more a building of fortification to trap ourself in an evolutive dead end.

I often get that feeling.

you can't see quicktime or windows file? Just stop using them! Every body hate to resort to many media player that don't offer anything different from each other. Support open system, and when you create one include content protection option so that nobody would complain it lack stuff other system have.

And how long until this happens, if ever? If we really want to view that Quicktime movie then we need Windows or OS X or the dodgy codec pack. Dirac looks promising but I'm not holding my breath.

Bring back the OS on a floppy, the 1 wire protocol... stuff like that. Sure sometime cool stuff is made, but most of the time it's to fix a problem that should not even be there in the first place. All those created-by-and-for-computers problem act like noise that screw the "mother of inventivity is creativity" moto. So we got LOT of bright individual having trouble to identify the real problems.

How hard is it to get an OS on a floppy? It amazes me that people can write so much code that they can fill a floppy. Many programmers try to be too general and indirect (running on 10+ architectures from microcontroller to supercomputer... pointless). There are too many standards to catch up with so that you can talk to the rest of the world, before you even get started designing new stuff (check out http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/rob/utah2000.pdf for more thoughts on this). The myriad of different hardware devices, that are very poorly documented and over-complicated, is another horrible barrier.

I've never heard of the "1-wire protocol" (except when I've seen it in 'make menuconfig'). Will Google for that later.

FTP GUI being one as it should never have been an app but an extention of the file system, itself a problem because we should never have transposed the file methaphore in the first place.

Too true...

Everybody curse flat screwdriver, yet we always buy them in screwdriver kit. Because we have them they make stuff screw with flat head... in the end we all get screw.

Vicious cycle, isn't it?