Don't worry. You know how Stephen Elop used to be the boss of the Office business? Well the guy who was the boss of the Windows business at that time, Bill Veghte, has also left Microsoft and gone to HP now to help them in the way Elop is helping Nokia. He is COO now. You can expect some exciting news from HP on W8 launch I am sure.
You can use it with any monitor or display having HDMI input as a wireless remote display for any Android device, for one thing. Only 400 million of us have those though, so it's probably a niche application. A few more niches like that might add up to a popular market one day. How many of these were they going to make again?
This is going to be interesting. Samsung alone has more than enough resources to take on the entire Windows PC industry. The conversion is already happening. Ditching PCs may not be up to them.
So it's ok with you for your essential enterprise systems to be designed and built by people who have no intention to still be around by the time they might fail. Interesting.
Your odds of surviving thirty years of this is approximately zero. Everybody has an off year eventually. Once people realize that, their commitment also goes to zero.
You don't need 60FPS for desktop work. If it's video you need 12 FPS, and if it's not you need 4. Even at 4K rez that's doable with Tegra 3. At 1080px4 it's in the plan. And these chipsets keep getting better.
I'm not retarded. Display doesn't go over Bluetooth. UI interactions (multitouch, game inputs and keyboard) go over Bluetooth at a few hundred CPS max. Display goes over 802.11n at 150 Mbps per display. Framerates will suffer some even with compression, but that's not really an issue for this use case. In actual practice 1080p streams just fine to one display at 12 FPS at 50 Mbps (HD movies over 802.11g), so this will be fine for desktop apps with 3-4 similar displays. If not, we move the per-monitor processing to the per-monitor dongle and it's all good because the dongle is more than capable and distributed processing has gotten that good. Then each monitor needs only a few thousand bps in actual practice from your mobile device, and it gets the rest internally or from the cloud over wired networking. To not see this you have to be more focused on what has been done than what can be done. But again, we're talking about desktop apps where an average of 4 FPS is overkill. On 802.11n you can run 4K resolution at 4 fps, or 16x 1080p monitors no problem.
And yes, 7.9 MB is "a few megabytes". Especially when your phone comes with 1024 or 2048 megabytes of RAM. That's a reasonable measure for a framebuffer. 512MB is 64 8MB framebuffers.
It's wireless smart monitors. You use video over wifi to project your workspaces onto whatever monitors happen to be in range (subject to security settings, of course). Intel had a Wireless Display (WiDi) tech in development, but it doesn't seem to have gotten very far. Displays are only a few megabytes each - your average Tegra3 tablet like the $200 Nexus 7 can handle dozens of them. Backed by modern VDI tech some of them can be Windows workstation desktop windows, some Macs, some Linux incidences in your private cloud or the public cloud or whatever. The software is in testing but should be along shortly. For each monitor you use a cheapie thing like the Raspberry Pi, or one of the Android HDMI dongles soon to be on the market for about $40. For the rest there's Bluetooth.
No, he said CAD so he really does need 3 huge monitors. There's a wifi attach that turns the Raspberry Pi into a monitor for your Android tablet now, so multi monitor support next year is not unreasonable. Maybe by then VDI solutions will be up to snuff for him too. Then he still needs the computer, but it doesn't have to be in the way - or even anywhere in particular. Then he can take his CAD workstation tablet workspace anywhere he needs to go.
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Then we're going to have to accept the consequences of this choice, like meltdowns.
Don't worry. You know how Stephen Elop used to be the boss of the Office business? Well the guy who was the boss of the Windows business at that time, Bill Veghte, has also left Microsoft and gone to HP now to help them in the way Elop is helping Nokia. He is COO now. You can expect some exciting news from HP on W8 launch I am sure.
You can use it with any monitor or display having HDMI input as a wireless remote display for any Android device, for one thing. Only 400 million of us have those though, so it's probably a niche application. A few more niches like that might add up to a popular market one day. How many of these were they going to make again?
This is an interesting point that deserves more attention. Where are the trade and industry press? Why Vanity Fair?
Tells me they're wetting their pants.
You should have been here the day they were claiming to have invented multitasking. It was hilarious.
This is going to be interesting. Samsung alone has more than enough resources to take on the entire Windows PC industry. The conversion is already happening. Ditching PCs may not be up to them.
There is nothing really new in Office that matters since 2000, or before.
So it's ok with you for your essential enterprise systems to be designed and built by people who have no intention to still be around by the time they might fail. Interesting.
Then we should restrict ourselves to technologies with less severe consequences for error.
The Turing Machine reference is remarkably astute for someone outside the specialty.
People are already buying more smartphones than PCs. Tablets should get there in 2013.
Your odds of surviving thirty years of this is approximately zero. Everybody has an off year eventually. Once people realize that, their commitment also goes to zero.
I see this post now and then, attempting to absolve him of the company's acts. No go.
You don't need 60FPS for desktop work. If it's video you need 12 FPS, and if it's not you need 4. Even at 4K rez that's doable with Tegra 3. At 1080px4 it's in the plan. And these chipsets keep getting better.
I'm not retarded. Display doesn't go over Bluetooth. UI interactions (multitouch, game inputs and keyboard) go over Bluetooth at a few hundred CPS max. Display goes over 802.11n at 150 Mbps per display. Framerates will suffer some even with compression, but that's not really an issue for this use case. In actual practice 1080p streams just fine to one display at 12 FPS at 50 Mbps (HD movies over 802.11g), so this will be fine for desktop apps with 3-4 similar displays. If not, we move the per-monitor processing to the per-monitor dongle and it's all good because the dongle is more than capable and distributed processing has gotten that good. Then each monitor needs only a few thousand bps in actual practice from your mobile device, and it gets the rest internally or from the cloud over wired networking. To not see this you have to be more focused on what has been done than what can be done. But again, we're talking about desktop apps where an average of 4 FPS is overkill. On 802.11n you can run 4K resolution at 4 fps, or 16x 1080p monitors no problem.
And yes, 7.9 MB is "a few megabytes". Especially when your phone comes with 1024 or 2048 megabytes of RAM. That's a reasonable measure for a framebuffer. 512MB is 64 8MB framebuffers.
It's wireless smart monitors. You use video over wifi to project your workspaces onto whatever monitors happen to be in range (subject to security settings, of course). Intel had a Wireless Display (WiDi) tech in development, but it doesn't seem to have gotten very far. Displays are only a few megabytes each - your average Tegra3 tablet like the $200 Nexus 7 can handle dozens of them. Backed by modern VDI tech some of them can be Windows workstation desktop windows, some Macs, some Linux incidences in your private cloud or the public cloud or whatever. The software is in testing but should be along shortly. For each monitor you use a cheapie thing like the Raspberry Pi, or one of the Android HDMI dongles soon to be on the market for about $40. For the rest there's Bluetooth.
Patience.
Inputs are getting even more innovation than CPU right now. There's some stuff coming that will blow you away.
No, he said CAD so he really does need 3 huge monitors. There's a wifi attach that turns the Raspberry Pi into a monitor for your Android tablet now, so multi monitor support next year is not unreasonable. Maybe by then VDI solutions will be up to snuff for him too. Then he still needs the computer, but it doesn't have to be in the way - or even anywhere in particular. Then he can take his CAD workstation tablet workspace anywhere he needs to go.
You raise a good point. But the ARM architectures are coming along so swiftly that you may be in for a surprise.
We have heard that promise before, time and again. Time for show and tell.
He's still chairman of the board.
BOFH is the tagline for a long-running series of humor articles on theregister.co.uk. It stands for "Bastard Operator From Hell". The series is about how an IT person makes his charges miserable. You will also see "PFY" reference, which is the BOFH's "Pretty Fucking Young" associate and protege.
Well except for porn cat pictures may be what the Internet is for. You probably need to turn off SafeSearch.
Google is working on a DWIM interface, not a command line.