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The Future of the P.C.

Posted by michael on from the chinese-everything dept.

scarcrowman writes "This is an interesting article on the projected future of what we call the 'P.C.' It is becoming more 'Personal' than ever."

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  1. 2000 SMALL photos by Daniel+Ellard · · Score: 3, Informative
    Maybe I'm planning to live a bit longer than Rick Rashid, but for me that's 40-50MB per day. Suddenly it sounds more like the size my home directory grows per day day than a detailed history of my life.

    --
    Disclaimer: I work for a company, but I don't speak for them.
  2. Re:Sure there is: Windows by mboverload · · Score: 1, Informative

    It comes with Lindows

  3. Re:Life Recorder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    OK lets say you record your life at 128kbps so the concerts you go to will come out decent at least.

    128kbps = 2^17 bits per second = 2^14 bytes per second
    1 terabyte = 2^40 bytes
    2^40 bytes / 2^14 bytes per second = 2^26 seconds
    2^26 seconds / 86400 seconds per day = 776.72 days
    776.72 days / 365.25 days per year = 2.1 years.
    to get your whole life you either need a lot more terabytes or a really crappy bit rate.

  4. Re:The PC evolving into a dataserver by emurphy42 · · Score: 4, Informative
    The modern PC, with it's QWERTY keyboard (a design meant to hinder speed, not help it)
    From Wikipedia:
    "Frequently-used pairs of letters were separated in an attempt to stop the typebars from intertwining and becoming stuck, thus forcing the typist to manually unstick the typebars and also frequently blotting the document."
    Beyond this, there's an awful lot of debate over QWERTY vs. alternatives (particularly Dvorak), which I shan't get into here.
    isn't the premiere choice for entering data.
    It damn well is for me. I touch-type, and any slight edge I might gain from Dvorak is easily outweighed by (a) QWERTY's ubiquity and - more importantly - (b) the inherent slowdown incurred by thinking and typing simultaneously. And don't bother suggesting voice recognition; my voice would get tired a lot more quickly than my fingers do. (For businessmen who spend lots of time producing correspondence, voice recognition would make a lot more sense.)
  5. Re:Rambling? by gad_zuki! · · Score: 2, Informative

    >especially since console makers are losing money on each one produced?????

    Psst, they get a % of the game sales.

    > Consoles do not compare to gaming machines, in a professional way.

    Gamers don't seem to mind. Look at the sales. My videocard costs more than all the popular consoles. Guess which people would rather pay for?