I don't think that desktop will die anytime soon. But to have other choices will be good as it will lead others to develop application to compete against MS. Google is already going that way with a mini excel and world online. So one day, it will be irrelevent where you will have to do your work. It will be a good thing, a lot of people can figure out how to click on install.exe when their autorun doesn't start their CDRom.
I was thinking that the cheapest rate were in Quebec and Oregon. I live in Quebec (canada) and I pay around 4 or 5 cents a Kw for the first 30 Kw per day and then a little bit lower than 6 cents after that ($0.056). I believe in Oregon or Washington (state) it is a little bit cheaper than that. It is why Google build a massive server farm over there. Anyway it is impossible to pay around 2 cents a kw anywhere in North America or somebody else subsidize it.
My $0.02!
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I don't think that desktop will die anytime soon. But to have other choices will be good as it will lead others to develop application to compete against MS. Google is already going that way with a mini excel and world online. So one day, it will be irrelevent where you will have to do your work. It will be a good thing, a lot of people can figure out how to click on install.exe when their autorun doesn't start their CDRom.
I was thinking that the cheapest rate were in Quebec and Oregon. I live in Quebec (canada) and I pay around 4 or 5 cents a Kw for the first 30 Kw per day and then a little bit lower than 6 cents after that ($0.056). I believe in Oregon or Washington (state) it is a little bit cheaper than that. It is why Google build a massive server farm over there. Anyway it is impossible to pay around 2 cents a kw anywhere in North America or somebody else subsidize it. My $0.02!