TV out and a bluetooth keyboard/mouse. You'll take your tablet/handset everywhere with you. Yes, open plan offices with brainstorming sessions on couches, fuck it, we'll throw in some group therapy once a week. Online apps/remotely hosted apps are going to dominate, E-Mail sold the internet, now everyone* uses web mail. The dumb terminal is not so long ago, is it? Of course will this always with you tablet-thingy dominate all computing needs? Of course not, as no one platform ever has but it really is coming to this.
If you think personal computers are no longer necessary, interesting, or are part of a dying industry, turn in your geek card at the door as you GTFO.
And this year is the year of the Linux desktop, right? Do you see what I did there? Yeah man, the PC market is in decline, mobile devices and on-line apps are the way ahead for the 'normals' (I'm not one either). The big black whirry box will soon be a distant memory for most people, they don't need 10k MIPS per core, they don't know they don't need it and the don't want to know. So long as they can tweet, update facebook, listen to tunes and watch youtube they don't care. You probably know all this, or I hope you do.:)
*chuckle* thnks for that, I did forget to mention that I won't upload ripped movies from DVD rentals, just an ongoing moral problem for me. Redistributing copyright material that cost a lot of money to make in the first place is something that I can see as wrong, but my own counter-argument tells me that paying Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Cruise and the like $10million a movie is also morally wrong and I don't want to support that model of business either...
You might even be one of those types that 'backs up' movies you rent from Blockbuster and/or Netflix, you know to prevent the lock-in of needing a membership.
I don't tell myself that, I tell myself that spending 3 quid, taking a lower quality copy and giving them their disc back is a fair business model
In your post you mention X windows consistency... what do you mean by that exactly, there is the old technicality that X is not a Desktop Enviroment, more a GUI frame work. I use KDE and I can assure you that all K* apps are fantastically consistent in there design...
Using the sun news paper as a reference to your post is quite possibly the worst example of close mindedness or ill thought out opinion posting I have ever seen.
The sun news paper rates up there with fox news (as I understand fox news to be) in the US. Fear and Anger. Fear and Anger. Fear And Anger.
And I can guess with near certainty that those x86 boxen are running win32. I propose that the improved performance under strain is not mac hardware but the *nix base of OS X.
Language can only be understood by the means of interpretation, so ambiguity is central to its character, and is properly understood as a strength rather than a weakness. Perfect precision would rob language of its robustness and potential for adaptation. Human language is not a phenomenon which is well understood by either science or philosophy, and it has not been reproduced by technologies.
I just had a vision of Agent Smith sneering at this guy while saying
"... Some believed we lacked
the programming language to describe your perfect world...."
from the Mandriva site, regarding 2006 'powerpack' features:
Other innovations specific to PowerPack
Low resources setup: this means that Mandriva automatically assesses available hardware resources and will install software that meets your hardware configuration. For instance, IceWM may be installed instead of KDE if you don't have enough memory.
Yet they chose Mandrake 10 instead, not only are they selecting the distros to compare, they're selecting the releases too, man it's such a crock
In testing Firefox 1.5 without a system running McAfee security software, the Firefox 1.5 browser would stall and not respond to a user's mouse, said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer for the Sans Institute
A very interesting point, you have clearly highlighted that the current patent situation in global IT basically amounts to the same thing as MAD did/does. You used a handgun analogy though:)
is it really fair to assume that all of the impoverished masses of the world are willing to trade Aqua for an inferior performing, but open source alternative?
Slashdot Mirror
Yup, bait and switch. "We're all warm and fluffy with open source, we're a safe alternative to java, honest, look." *sigh*
TV out and a bluetooth keyboard/mouse. You'll take your tablet/handset everywhere with you. Yes, open plan offices with brainstorming sessions on couches, fuck it, we'll throw in some group therapy once a week. Online apps/remotely hosted apps are going to dominate, E-Mail sold the internet, now everyone* uses web mail. The dumb terminal is not so long ago, is it? Of course will this always with you tablet-thingy dominate all computing needs? Of course not, as no one platform ever has but it really is coming to this.
*For some value of everyone.
If you think personal computers are no longer necessary, interesting, or are part of a dying industry, turn in your geek card at the door as you GTFO.
And this year is the year of the Linux desktop, right? Do you see what I did there? Yeah man, the PC market is in decline, mobile devices and on-line apps are the way ahead for the 'normals' (I'm not one either). The big black whirry box will soon be a distant memory for most people, they don't need 10k MIPS per core, they don't know they don't need it and the don't want to know. So long as they can tweet, update facebook, listen to tunes and watch youtube they don't care. You probably know all this, or I hope you do. :)
*chuckle* thnks for that, I did forget to mention that I won't upload ripped movies from DVD rentals, just an ongoing moral problem for me. Redistributing copyright material that cost a lot of money to make in the first place is something that I can see as wrong, but my own counter-argument tells me that paying Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Cruise and the like $10million a movie is also morally wrong and I don't want to support that model of business either ...
I see, it auto syncs changed files between the devices and the time capsule, yeah that is kinda cool, thanks for replying
what can be easier than (windows) right-click, share this folder on the network or in KDE right-click share, share this, use samba?
...the other toys Apple gives me (ZFS, Unix, Stuff that just works(tm)).
Apple gave you neither of ZFS or UNIX, they aren't apple technology by a long stretch, just stuff apple have used in their products
You might even be one of those types that 'backs up' movies you rent from Blockbuster and/or Netflix, you know to prevent the lock-in of needing a membership.
I don't tell myself that, I tell myself that spending 3 quid, taking a lower quality copy and giving them their disc back is a fair business model
It's about the easy money, and stealing childrens pocket money is easy
Radiohead seem to agree with this sentiment
I always preferd the low-grav levels myself :)
In your post you mention X windows consistency ... what do you mean by that exactly, there is the old technicality that X is not a Desktop Enviroment, more a GUI frame work. I use KDE and I can assure you that all K* apps are fantastically consistent in there design...
..anything except for a chemically addictive substance
Try telling that to compulisive gamblers,people with eating disorders and sex addicts.
chmod -R 777 /* would almost certainly render your machine unbootable, thats why.
/me looks it up right now
The sun news paper rates up there with fox news (as I understand fox news to be) in the US. Fear and Anger. Fear and Anger. Fear And Anger.
Richard Stallman calls it Treacherous Computing
And I can guess with near certainty that those x86 boxen are running win32. I propose that the improved performance under strain is not mac hardware but the *nix base of OS X.
ABsolutely brilliant, Thank you for the laugh :)
I just had a vision of Agent Smith sneering at this guy while saying ..."
:)
"... Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world.
Other innovations specific to PowerPack Low resources setup: this means that Mandriva automatically assesses available hardware resources and will install software that meets your hardware configuration. For instance, IceWM may be installed instead of KDE if you don't have enough memory.
Yet they chose Mandrake 10 instead, not only are they selecting the distros to compare, they're selecting the releases too, man it's such a crockEmpahsis mine.
What's all that about then?
It will make it the default browser until certain updates are installed, then you may well find that you need to reset it.
A very interesting point, you have clearly highlighted that the current patent situation in global IT basically amounts to the same thing as MAD did/does. You used a handgun analogy though :)
is it really fair to assume that all of the impoverished masses of the world are willing to trade Aqua for an inferior performing, but open source alternative?
Rather inflamatory