Karmacom Skrevet 8. januar 2005 Del Skrevet 8. januar 2005 (endret) Ok, kall meg gal/syk, og er ikke ferdig med å skrive den enda, når jeg har gjort det skal jeg sette opp en website for det og prøve å spre godkjennelse for programmet hos brukere og produsenter. Kom gjerne med kjeft/flames eller konstruktive forslag, husk at det må være generelle ting som ikke er plattform-avhengige. UCS2005 - User Configuration Standard 2005 Aim: USCS's goal is to set a world-wide standard for user friendly enviroments and usability, with a rating system and approval-limits for allowance to carry the UCS-brand, amongst manufacturers of digital equipment, mainly Stationary and Portable Computer systems. The mainstream target-comsumers have to date, statistically and in general, a limited knowledge-level when it comes to capabilities and limitations of both hardware and software solutions delivered by manufacturers in a OEM-state. This has been often used widely to the benefit of the manufacturers worldwide at the expense of the end-consumers and at the expense of the platforms used by end-users. Initiative: Due to excess use of markeding-effects, like advertisement, on personal end-user equipment like Stationary PC'er and Laptops, the UCS board feels there needs to be made some changes, putting the level of advertisement and level of configurability into the hands of the end-consumers themselves. This initiative is taken to ensure that a complete system is as much WYSIWYG (What you see, is what you get) as possible to end-consumers when buying products from retailers or via E-commerce. The conditions for approval, are general in terms, so that any complete product-solution can apply for approval without beeing dependant of the system's standard hardware and/or software combination. UCS2005 is a industrial approval-program, that allows manufacturers to license,sell,supply their equipement to the consumer-market as UCS2005-approved units if they get a minimum total score of 10 on the UCS2005-rating and meet the minimal conditions required ( marked with "*" and "**" in the list-diagram below. ). The UCS2005 rating-list includes the following conditions met in a complete product aimed at end-user sales (Single component products featured as a unit in complete solution OEM-packages does not fall under the UCS2005-approval program, and can not apply for approval.): UCS2005 approval for Mobile / Portable systems: Section 1: Atleast one of the following conditions MUST be met in each subsection below regardless of total score: *A: Multi-use /desktop functionality ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Score Condition | Reason | | Problem: +3 The Portable system has BIOS-system | Portable systems per today, that does not have this switch for deactivating LCD-panelswitch, | Option, will not allow a Notebook to be restarted/rebooted but still turns off the LCD-panel itself | while the Notebooks' screencover is closed since the aslong as it's cover is closed | hardware itself will then assume it's supposed to either | go into sleepmode or shut itself down. The consequence of | this is that it's not possible to use the Notebook as a | mini-desktop system with external Screen,Mouse/Keyboard and | be able to reebot it. | This makes it neccessary to have to supply a system with a +1 The Portable system has an automated switch | docking solution to be able to use the system fully as a that deactivates the LCD-panelswitch for 1 | mini-desktop system. minute after reboot. | | Aim: To be able to use a Laptop/Notebook system 100% fully +3 The Portable system has a detection of OS | as a mini-desktop system by only supplying an external loaded-state, only enabling the LCD-panelswitch | screen, mouse and keyboard. This allows for the system when the current OS is sucsessfully loaded, | to be fully rebooted without having to open the Laptop but still turns off the LCD-panel itself aslong | /Notebook to be able to execute a sucsessfull reboot of as it's cover is closed. | the system. | +4 The Portable system disables the POWER/sleepmode | for the system on the LCD-panelswitch aslong as | an external screen is connected, but still turns | off the internal LCD-panel itself | | _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *B: Load up graphical BIOS-Post configuration options: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | +1 The portable system has a fullscreen BIOS-Post | Problem: manufacturerlogo enabled by default, but have an | Many major / large manufacturers of computer-systems today option to disable it in the BIOS-settings. | have excessively over-used the advertisement potencial of | full-screen BIOS Post boot-up's. +3 The portable system has a fullscreen BIOS-Post | This can be, for many end-consumers, very frustrating and manufacturerlogo, but it is disabled by default, | robs them from the notion that the product they've bought and can be enabled in the BIOS-settings. | for thousands of $ are their personal own property. | Many end-consumers, according to investigations, feels that +2 The portable system has no fullscreen manufacturer | they allready have enough annoyance from commercials and BIOS-Post logo enforced. | advertisement from TV, Spyware, Adware and so fourth. | If end-consumers would have to sit and watch a fullscreen +4 The portable system has a user-customizable fullscreen | advertisement logo for 3-4 seconds every time they turned BIOS Post system, where the user can choose their own | on their TV, they would most likely turn against the custom picture/graphic to be displayed, but not in the | manufacturers of the TV-industry. native LCD-resolution of the panel. | Enforcing this into computers systems without the option to | disable it shows a general lack of respect for the consumer | as personal individual and customer. | Enforced advertisement without any benefitial reason for the | end-consumer has never been well accepted by any consumer- | target groups. People's general opinion about ad/spyware | has signaled that clearly. | | Aim / Solution: | It is in the best interest, of the manufacturers, to show | their customers the respect and acknowledgement that the | product they have bought, is theirs and theirs only. | They bought it, and should have the right to free themselves +6 The portable system has a user-customizable fullscreen | of having to look at fullscreen logo advertisement every BIOS Post system, where the user can choose their own | time they turn on their own personally owned computer. custom picture/graphic to be displayed in the | Sometimes the lack of advertisement, is much better advertisement native LCD-resolution of the panel. | by showing a high level of respect for the consumers need for | discresion and feeling of personal ownership. +10 The portable system has a time-configurable | Graphical fullscreen display system that disables | the computer/system output for a user-configured | amount of time, replacing it with a still-image | customizable by the user, retrieved from the | system boot-unit/drive. Making it possible to hide | the whole POST Boot proccess, the OS-loading proccess | if wanted. | | _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *C: POWER/Sleepmode ON/OFF options _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | Problem: ** The system has OS and BIOS-support for Wake-on-USB | Many laptop/Notebook-systems, can not be used as mouse and keyboard activity. | mini-desktop systems fully, due to the lack of methods to | either shut it down, or turn it on without having to either ** The portable system has options in the BIOS-settings, and | open the unit's screen-cover/panel itself, making it unable OS+hardware support for ACPI-mode 3(2004)-approved | to work with without having to open the cover of the unit. functionality and have software-shutdown support. | This can cause inconvenience that could have easily be | avoided by simple means like supporting wake-up from +1 The portable system has wake-on-Lan OS and BIOS-support | external USB-keyboard/mouse, or by simply placing the units +1 The portable system has wake-on-ring OS and BIOS-support | ON/OFF-button on the side of the unit instead of inside +1 The portable system has general wake-on-USB device(disks, | where the internal keyboard is. memory chips etc) support in BIOS and OS. | +1 The portable system has automatic/times wake up functions | in BIOS-settings. | Aim/ Solution: | To ensure, that the laptop/Notebook-system, can be fully | used as a mini-desktop system without the need to open it's +10 The portable system has a ON/OFF button on the side, so | covers or having to supply a docking-solution for it. that turning the system on/off is always reachable | A UCS2005-approved portable system should be able to regardless of the unit's cover/panel beeing open or | function as a mini-desktop unit with only the help of closed / shut. | an external screen/monitor, an external keyboard and an ** = condition must be met regardless. | external mouse. | | | __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Section 2: None-critical user-configurability: The following subsection conditions does not need to be met, but can give additional ratingscore or subtract total-score from the unit's UCS2005 overall rating: A: Supplementary softwares solutions: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ -2 The system OS/OEM-software setup is delivered with supplementary freeware or shareware other than the OS itself that require/asks the end-consumer to buy any other products or commercial versions of the application in any form. -1 The system OS/OEM-software setup is delivered with supplementary applications other than the OS itself, that require/asks the end-consumer to upgrade licenses/payment after a given time-period. This often is the case with solutions like commercial antivirus applications. -1 The system OS/OEM-software setup is delivered with supplementary applications other than the OS itself that enforces popup advertisement or popup loading logo's after or when the OS-GUI is currently loading. This is often the case with Commercial antivirus applications, which should pay attention to the user's security more than furfilling their own advertisement-need. -1 Has a software-controlled volume function-key[FN] button and at the same time lacking a hardware-based side-button/wheel for audio-volume, thus completaly depending on a driver-software to function. These types of volume-solutions often conflict and/or does not work properly during fullscreen applications like 3D-games etc. +2 The system OS/OEM-software setup is delivered with 1 or more supplementary commercial software that does not advertise its presence with logo/ad/loading-popups at OS/GUI-startup, and does not ask the user to lengthen any payment license. +2 The system OS/OEM-software setup is delivered with 1 or more supplementary full-version commercial software that does not advertise its presence with logo/ad/loading-popups at OS/GUI-startup, and does not ask the user to lengthen any payment licenses, +2 The system OS/OEM-software setup is delivered with 1 or more supplimentary freeware released (not beta) applications. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ B: Supplementary hardware solutions: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ +2 Has hardware-based volume-control buttons/wheel that works independantly of software-drivers. +1 Has hardware-based volume-control buttons/wheel that works dependantly of software-drivers. +3 Has BIOS-setting option to turn on/off screen-stretch of lower resolutions than the LCD-native resolution on the internal LCD-panel of the unit. This allows for a smaller, sharper, and more discrete OS loading-logo for OS'es that has a low-resolution loading-logo which often becomes unaturally large and unsharp/distorted on high resolution LCD-screens. This also allows for the user to decide if they want to watch lower resolutions when working with lower-resolution fullscreen applications stretched to fullscreen, or smaller in 1:1 ratio. +3 Hardware-based controls/buttons for DVD/CD-play/stop/ff/rr (general management controls) options. +3 Configurable hardware buttons placed somewhere near the keyboard or on the side of the unit, configurable via a background process/application/TSR panel/launch application. +1 Does not use the system's main RAM/Memory-units for GPU/graphics solution, but uses it's own dedicated memory solution. Evt. forslag til mere industriell navne-betegnelse er også velkomne. Karmacom Endret 8. januar 2005 av Karmacom Lenke til kommentar
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