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11/4/05 about 8:30pm
Proposal
Ok, here's my proposal. I hope it doesn't just seem like some boring computer stuff...
Computers as we know them now have not been around for all that long of a time. The technology is growing so fast that it is becoming difficult for both creators and consumers to keep up with everything. Now, there are many great individual things, but the overall support for these things is often unsupported by other aspects, limiting their functionality. From fairly new technologies like SLI video support and dual core processors, to fairly old technologies such as 64 bit processors, all need to be better supported by both hardware and software to get full effect. On the leading edge of making use of the advantages of these new technologies is the open source community. Commercial software makers, who can devote all of their time to software development, should take the hint from the often part-time coders of the open source community and offer better support for new technologies. Their input would greatly speed the process of fully using current technology. Also, the backing of these big name software companies, such as Microsoft, is needed in order to help promote the making of further advancements in hardware. The hardware manufactures who designed these new, often not fully supported technologies are not likely to do as well with further advances. If the limits of current technology cannot be found, it will be difficult to better that technology. Anyone who wishes to see further advancement in computer technology should push for better support of current technology.
Preliminary Bibliography
Columbus, Frank H. Progress in Computer Research. Nova Science Publishers
Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware, Advances in Computer Graphics Hardware Springer-Verlag Publishers
What is 64 bit Computing?
History of Computing Hardware
A possible counter-argument is that companies DO spend time and resources to making better software, they just choose to do it slowly enough so that they can sell different versions of their software and generate more income that way. You do make a good point that there are other alternatives, and you might want to touch on the fact that if more people were aware of open source software that they would most likely use that instead of typical commercial software they have to pay a lot for. -BrandonBlog
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