Unless streaming games takes over. I also doubt that the Cell phone will take over the CAD/CAM, Video production, or any other HPC tasks. But for the masses that get on facebook, use quicken, and run office a phone maybe good enough. With an X86, monitor, mouse, and keyboard a phone running Windows 10 could also run all those legacy applications that a lot of people can not live without.
I didn't say the PC was dead I said the phone would replace your PC. It is a bit different than just a new chassis since it will also be your phone and have long battery life and fit in your pocket. Replacing the PC does not mean that PC will go away completely. IBM still makes minicomputers and while the company formally known as SUN probably calls them servers they are closer to mini computers in many ways. Tradition desktops will still be used by gamers, for CAD/CAM, and other HPC uses but I can see the phone running Windows 10 and USB 3.1 replacing many low end PCs and home PCs
No but it will be a different form factor. Did you read what I wrote? Just what would you call a phone with an x86 running Windows using a full sized monitor, keyboard, and mouse? It is just a small form factor PC.
Today probably not all that fast but in two years? Besides gaming and other HPC tasks will not go away but for the I need to run Office and Quicken crowd phones are getting very close to good enough.
You mean like Nintendo and Sega where the winners in the Console war... until Sony showed up. Then it was Nintendo and Sony until Microsoft showed up... Or how DEC and IBM where real computers companies while Apple made toys... Or IBM won the PC war? It may be over for now but not forever.
The microcomputer first replaced the low end mini-computer and word processing systems. Next they replaced larger mini-computers like the PDP-11. Later they replaced the Super-minicomputers like the VAX. The cell phone will probably replace the PC. Imagine a Windows Phone that you put on your desk and hook up a USB 3 connector to your monitor that provided power and a network connection to your phone and video to the display. Mouse and keyboard can be USB connected to the monitor or bluetooth. You could even use the phone's screen as a touch pad. If Intel can get a good x86 mobile cpu and microsoft may just win the mobile phone market. If not then it maybe Android or Apple but I doubt that Apple wants to do that since it is not all that interested in the enterprise market.
"As an example, Hypponen said he had recently spoken to a European aircraft maker that said it cleans the cockpits of its planes every week of malware designed for Android phones. The malware spread to the planes only because factory employees were charging their phones with the USB port in the cockpit.
Because the plane runs a different operating system, nothing would befall it. But it would pass the virus on to other devices that plugged into the charger."
Okay for a system to spread a virus it must execute code... So does this mean that F_Protect have no idea what they are doing or are they just spreading FUD.
Smart phones have reached a state of maturity. They are not improving by leaps and bounds any longer so the upgrade cycle is getting longer. PCs have been that way for a while now and now phones and tablets have reached that point. Sorry but the days of massive growth are probably over for a while. Maybe if you see a massive increase in the middle class in India, China, Latin America, and or Africa but then you will probably see the growth in local companies and not the current producers like Apple and Samsung.
"You know... It might be worth having a meaningful discussion about legislating that non-criminal political activity is a protected class." In most places it is but that can get into a some odd corner cases.
1. What about a teacher that wants to legalize sexual relations between adults and minors? They have never been convicted of any crime and may just want the change because they believe it is good change but have never actually had sex with a child. Should their job be protected? Would you want them teaching your child? 2. Someone that is a member of the KKK or is a neonazi and a police officer? If you were a minority would you feel safe? Should those people have their jobs protected? The Supreme court did come down with this ruling. http://www.latimes.com/nation/...
But what about someone that works for a company and then public states that the company is terrible?
I guess I just find it convenient. I do not have kids and have never been 'tricked" by Amazon. Amazon really needs to find a way to prevent the kids buying everything issue. Maybe a way to keep remove the ability to buy from some logons or devices. Amazon could create child accounts for parents to give to their kids and then set limits on how much they can spend a day/week/month and or a limit to how expensive of a purchase they can make at any one time.
I have Google Music so I get YouTube red for free so I don't think I am seeing ads. Even so a short ad instead of paying is not a bad deal. Now Hulu where I pay had have way too many ads sucks.
I will live with images from ad servers if they are fast. Animations, video, and even sound have got to to as well as those ads that are embedded in the text of the site!
Actually I think TV needs to go back to the way it used to work. I watch one broadcast channel and that is the one I can get with an antenna. The broadcast stations are missing out because the want the money that the cable companies have to pay to carry them. So I watch the local morning news before I go to work for traffic and weather as well as my local news. National news I get from the Internet. As to VOX and the Verge, I used to really like the Verge when it first started. I followed the Endgadet people to Thisismynext and that became the Verge. They where good with tech news but then they thought they were real journalists. I would be driven crazy by all the errors I found in some of the posts and then they went off on a Hipster social engineering policy and that was enough for me.
"Grok is actually a pretty useful term." No you are wrong. Grok "to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with" and "to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment" Yea it a new age hippy dippy twaddle. It is so odd that Heinlein who if you read Starship Trooper was just a little left of Attila the Hun wrote Stranger in a Strange Land.
"California used to be nice and warm, but some parts have become unbearably hot during the summer, and the drought devestated the area I lived in after I moved away. " That is called weather not climate. I doubt that you can find any data that backs up your claim that parts of California have become unbearably hot hat have never been unbearably hot in the past.
Except that DDT was used all over Europe from 1945 until the 1970s and with that you saw a large decrease in Malaria. Eliminating Malaria didn't start over last week but has been an ongoing task that really got started after WWII. It is often said that WWII was the first war where more people were killed by weapons than starvation and disease. I do not know now if that is true or not but it was probably the first war where the victors made such a large effort to keep the civilians of the nations that lost alive and healthy.
4k sets are dropping in price all the time so I would say that people do not agree with you. Also in apartments 10 feet is pretty far to sit back from a TV.
It uses a small about of Xeon I think the Dawn spacecraft used less than 500 grams for it's mission.
I am wondering if why we are not seeing these used on spysats. You could have then at a lower orbit if you used an ion engine to cancel out the additional drag.
That system has been replaced by Drupal long ago but it didn't matter to me what the EU said. It was a US company and the website was hosted in the US. We respected our users privacy for the simple reason that they were our customers. They bought things from us and the website had 4 functions that justified it's cost. 1. Advertising our product. 2. Customer support and communications. 3. Updates. 4. An online store for customers to buy our products. Most sales came from our sales force back then so the store was more for accessories and such. We had no need to sell any advertising but our own.
I used cookies to keep track of the last message that users read and what files for download had been updated. It was a long time ago but you can use cookies for things other than tracking users for ads. Frankly I thought I was respecting the user's privacy by storing that info on their system vs keeping it in a database.
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Unless streaming games takes over. I also doubt that the Cell phone will take over the CAD/CAM, Video production, or any other HPC tasks. But for the masses that get on facebook, use quicken, and run office a phone maybe good enough. With an X86, monitor, mouse, and keyboard a phone running Windows 10 could also run all those legacy applications that a lot of people can not live without.
I didn't say the PC was dead I said the phone would replace your PC. It is a bit different than just a new chassis since it will also be your phone and have long battery life and fit in your pocket. Replacing the PC does not mean that PC will go away completely. IBM still makes minicomputers and while the company formally known as SUN probably calls them servers they are closer to mini computers in many ways.
Tradition desktops will still be used by gamers, for CAD/CAM, and other HPC uses but I can see the phone running Windows 10 and USB 3.1 replacing many low end PCs and home PCs
No but it will be a different form factor. Did you read what I wrote?
Just what would you call a phone with an x86 running Windows using a full sized monitor, keyboard, and mouse? It is just a small form factor PC.
Today probably not all that fast but in two years? Besides gaming and other HPC tasks will not go away but for the I need to run Office and Quicken crowd phones are getting very close to good enough.
You mean like Nintendo and Sega where the winners in the Console war... until Sony showed up. Then it was Nintendo and Sony until Microsoft showed up...
Or how DEC and IBM where real computers companies while Apple made toys...
Or IBM won the PC war?
It may be over for now but not forever.
" Like when you plug in a storage device it automatically runs scripts on the filesystem"
That is executing code on the system...
The microcomputer first replaced the low end mini-computer and word processing systems.
Next they replaced larger mini-computers like the PDP-11.
Later they replaced the Super-minicomputers like the VAX.
The cell phone will probably replace the PC.
Imagine a Windows Phone that you put on your desk and hook up a USB 3 connector to your monitor that provided power and a network connection to your phone and video to the display. Mouse and keyboard can be USB connected to the monitor or bluetooth. You could even use the phone's screen as a touch pad.
If Intel can get a good x86 mobile cpu and microsoft may just win the mobile phone market.
If not then it maybe Android or Apple but I doubt that Apple wants to do that since it is not all that interested in the enterprise market.
"As an example, Hypponen said he had recently spoken to a European aircraft maker that said it cleans the cockpits of its planes every week of malware designed for Android phones. The malware spread to the planes only because factory employees were charging their phones with the USB port in the cockpit.
Because the plane runs a different operating system, nothing would befall it. But it would pass the virus on to other devices that plugged into the charger."
Okay for a system to spread a virus it must execute code...
So does this mean that F_Protect have no idea what they are doing or are they just spreading FUD.
Smart phones have reached a state of maturity. They are not improving by leaps and bounds any longer so the upgrade cycle is getting longer. PCs have been that way for a while now and now phones and tablets have reached that point.
Sorry but the days of massive growth are probably over for a while. Maybe if you see a massive increase in the middle class in India, China, Latin America, and or Africa but then you will probably see the growth in local companies and not the current producers like Apple and Samsung.
I don't need to replace my MotoX at all. It runs the latest version of the OS and works well.
"You know... It might be worth having a meaningful discussion about legislating that non-criminal political activity is a protected class."
In most places it is but that can get into a some odd corner cases.
1. What about a teacher that wants to legalize sexual relations between adults and minors? They have never been convicted of any crime and may just want the change because they believe it is good change but have never actually had sex with a child. Should their job be protected? Would you want them teaching your child?
2. Someone that is a member of the KKK or is a neonazi and a police officer? If you were a minority would you feel safe?
Should those people have their jobs protected?
The Supreme court did come down with this ruling. http://www.latimes.com/nation/...
But what about someone that works for a company and then public states that the company is terrible?
I guess I just find it convenient. I do not have kids and have never been 'tricked" by Amazon. Amazon really needs to find a way to prevent the kids buying everything issue. Maybe a way to keep remove the ability to buy from some logons or devices. Amazon could create child accounts for parents to give to their kids and then set limits on how much they can spend a day/week/month and or a limit to how expensive of a purchase they can make at any one time.
I have Google Music so I get YouTube red for free so I don't think I am seeing ads. Even so a short ad instead of paying is not a bad deal. Now Hulu where I pay had have way too many ads sucks.
I will live with images from ad servers if they are fast. Animations, video, and even sound have got to to as well as those ads that are embedded in the text of the site!
Actually I think TV needs to go back to the way it used to work. I watch one broadcast channel and that is the one I can get with an antenna. The broadcast stations are missing out because the want the money that the cable companies have to pay to carry them. So I watch the local morning news before I go to work for traffic and weather as well as my local news. National news I get from the Internet.
As to VOX and the Verge, I used to really like the Verge when it first started. I followed the Endgadet people to Thisismynext and that became the Verge. They where good with tech news but then they thought they were real journalists. I would be driven crazy by all the errors I found in some of the posts and then they went off on a Hipster social engineering policy and that was enough for me.
"Grok is actually a pretty useful term."
No you are wrong.
Grok "to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with" and "to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment"
Yea it a new age hippy dippy twaddle. It is so odd that Heinlein who if you read Starship Trooper was just a little left of Attila the Hun wrote Stranger in a Strange Land.
"California used to be nice and warm, but some parts have become unbearably hot during the summer, and the drought devestated the area I lived in after I moved away. "
That is called weather not climate. I doubt that you can find any data that backs up your claim that parts of California have become unbearably hot hat have never been unbearably hot in the past.
Except that DDT was used all over Europe from 1945 until the 1970s and with that you saw a large decrease in Malaria.
Eliminating Malaria didn't start over last week but has been an ongoing task that really got started after WWII.
It is often said that WWII was the first war where more people were killed by weapons than starvation and disease. I do not know now if that is true or not but it was probably the first war where the victors made such a large effort to keep the civilians of the nations that lost alive and healthy.
I hate autocorrect Xenon.
4k sets are dropping in price all the time so I would say that people do not agree with you. Also in apartments 10 feet is pretty far to sit back from a TV.
It uses a small about of Xeon I think the Dawn spacecraft used less than 500 grams for it's mission.
I am wondering if why we are not seeing these used on spysats. You could have then at a lower orbit if you used an ion engine to cancel out the additional drag.
If VR takes off.
A 4k console would like the PS/2 and the PS/3 probably offer a player for 4k video aka 4k Bluray
Then next console that matters will be the one that supports 4k well.
That system has been replaced by Drupal long ago but it didn't matter to me what the EU said. It was a US company and the website was hosted in the US. We respected our users privacy for the simple reason that they were our customers. They bought things from us and the website had 4 functions that justified it's cost.
1. Advertising our product.
2. Customer support and communications.
3. Updates.
4. An online store for customers to buy our products.
Most sales came from our sales force back then so the store was more for accessories and such.
We had no need to sell any advertising but our own.
I used cookies to keep track of the last message that users read and what files for download had been updated. It was a long time ago but you can use cookies for things other than tracking users for ads.
Frankly I thought I was respecting the user's privacy by storing that info on their system vs keeping it in a database.