posted by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Nov 2008 00:11 UTC,
submitted by Moulinneuf  I remember reading somewhere, some time
ago about scientists working for NASA who regularly receive
proposals for new space craft from what I respectfully refer to
as "amateurs". One of those NASA scientists told an interesting
anecdote, about how all of these amateur schematics have a big,
white, empty section at the back of the ship, labeled "warp
drive goes here" - with no details on that rather crucial little
element.  These proposals for a free, ad-powered version of
Windows always remind me of these stories from the NASA
scientists. How would an ad-powered version of Windows work?
Where do the ads go? How long would they appear? Can you click a
close button? Are they text-only? Can they use
Flash/Silverlight? Can they enlarge my pen1s?  It's an
intriguing concept to ponder, but I'm just not really sure if
there is an acceptable, yet profitable way of presenting ads all
throughout an operating system. It's the big, white, em