As an operating system for a dedicated, single purpose server this may be okay. As an operating system for mobile phones, this may one day be alright (when phones get about 12 cores). As an operating system for workstations and desktops, this is probably the worst idea I have heard in a long time. It sounds like a hipster version of multidos. At one application per core (or at least I think that's the idea), you are severely limiting the ability to multitask. So, on an 8 core system I have one core running the exokernel (1), another core running a gui (2), another core running an audio application (3), another running my web browser (4), another with my editor (5), another with git (6), another with a torrent going (7), and another with email (8). Due to the description, I am hoping that the GUI using a core and other applications having access to it is possible. I also hope that audio services don't need a core, or else the audio application developer will need to reimpelement OSS4 and/or ALSA in his/her application. That's just about idiotic... oh well...
I just wish that their ruling was a little more broad and far reaching in its effect. For those like myself who believe in self-ownership this is a no brainer, and it would seem that people are recognizing the basics of self-ownership in this case, but refuse to do so in almost every other facet of modern Western law.
bhauer: a few flaws in your analysis. Insurance companies do not like prices being high either. They have to raise premiums and this discourages people from purchasing insurance. Insurance companies have a vested interest in making sure that you do not get ill. They have to pay if you get ill. This is the reason that people who smoke pay higher insurance premiums.
Outside of other comments: of course profit changes doctors' decisions! Why wouldn't it? The medical industry is a business. It is, however, the most regulated industry in the USA. Tech is the least regulated. In the tech industry progress and innovation abounds. It does not in the medical industry. I see a correlation there.
Well, I highly doubt that generational social issues are going to stay confined to Japan, and I would argue that they are already common around the world at large. Here in the West, people ranging from 18 to 30 are seeing higher unemployment and higher debt levels as educational costs rise. A lot of us visiting this site may not see this as unemployment within the IT sector is not as high as other sectors, but many of my friends fit the category of highly educated and unemployed.
A few of my friends have taken to getting 3 part time pink collar jobs to try and make it on their own. They sleep maybe 4 hours each night, a little more on weekends. Some would argue that this problem is related to degrees that are not useful in the job market, but in older generations only 1/3 of the population had attended college... yet those over 60 hold over 3/4 of the USA's wealth.
Android only competes in a supercilious way. Android powered phones compete with the iPhone and Android OS does not compete with iOS. You cannot install Android on an iPhone and Apple does not offer iOS without an iTrinket. Samsung is a competitor of Apple not Android.
These days, OSX is simply a better product than is Windows (stability, security, feature set). OSX also has things like iTunes (largest provider of digital content world-wide... besides Pirate Bay), FinalCut, Logic, Aperture, and GNU/BSD tools. That's a hard line up for Windows to beat. More importantly, I think, is that OSX and iOS work well with one another. If I have an iPad, an iPhone, and an iMac my content syncs easily and transparently. When taken with iTunes this is simply tough to compete with.
What a rediculous comment. Windows still has plenty of advantages over OSX. Better window management, much better backward compatibility, better driver support, particularly for graphics cards. Its "simply better" for office productivity work, and computer games.
OSX has Unix compatibility, better audio and video production etc.
