Employers love thin clients because they give more control over the information moved in and out of the organisation. You don't have to worry about blocking Lady Gaga CD-RW disks if the user only gets a picture of the data anyway.
But then the same limitations create a constant demand for new solutions to work around problems which should be simple. How can the PHB work on the plane? What is a switch dies and takes out sixteen users?
I have seen thin clients used successfully in a doctors office, where the integration requirements are simple. I can't see it satisfying every requirement in the engineering environment where I work.
If Lamo is on being paid by the FBI it would seem reasonable that Wired would be cautious about using an account of the exchange with Manning which came only from Lamo. They may as well just get the version from the FBI.
A guy I work with keeps his iPad right below the screen of his work computer. I uses it to browse the web. Our IT policies pretty much say you can be sacked on the spot for browsing a non-work web site on work equipment. Its a safe way to go because there is a separate project where people are developing for the iPad in the same office.
Other than that I find tablets and phones are great for displaying content such as plans and maps when flat on a table. Its a good replacement for a rolled up map or similar.
Its definitely a bit awkward for reading. Not as good as a netbook. There is a case which combines an external keyboard with a prop for the tablet. Sort of turns it into a laptop.
I believe there is (or was) a brand of Christianity in South Africa which favoured Apartheid. This fits with the desires of their white membership. Its pretty much the same everywhere else. Moderate people have moderate churches.
I don't think that's true. They don't preinstall it, but it's relatively trivial to add another repository and install them yourself. Anybody that's not capable of that with a bit of googling is probably not going to be happy with a Linux anything.
I don't have a problem googling on my desktop, but I seriously won't be happy about doing it on a tablet. Googling is not the same without a keyboard and mouse. Sure, it's possible, but not nearly as easy without the proper input devices and screen.
It works well enough on my android phone and it would be easier on a tablet. Personally I would prefer SHR or android on a tablet instead of ubuntu.
Yeah you could hitch it to the post beside other peoples horses. Perhaps it should come with a bicycle cable lock.
Incidentally I work in an office building with many of our state's police. I noticed that they now wear this solid body armour stuff as part of their normal uniform. Its not hard to imagine that you could build solar cells into the same material and maybe use the power to operate communications or lighting gear.
I think the only part that I got interested in was Quorra becoming human. They could make a WHOLE movie about that, did you know? What does it mean to be human?
Yeah if that had turned out to be the whole point of the movie and Quorra had sent the page to get the portal opened, it would have been All Tomorrow's Parties. And not bad too. She could turn out to more of a superhuman baddie in a subsequent film.
You know if you turn one of those MRI machines up to 11 and push the body all the way through, well, make sure you give the resulting data to somebody who knows where to install it, thats all I'm saying...
On the subject of focus, even some the scenes in the grid had some objects seriously out of focus. It looked like a deliberate style to me. Not sure if it worked though.
More specifically, my main issue with the OP's point is that the movie's anthropomorphization of the computer's inner workings is too obviously inaccurate
Spare us an accurate movie about the inner workings of a computer.
I was born in the 60s and I don't see many films at the cinema these days. Its too hard to find the time. I can enjoy a movie with a good plot at home. At the cinema I can appreciate movies which are just fun to watch. I went out to see both Avatar and Tron Legacy, and had a good time, despite their limitations.
Why would there be a portal inside a corporate tower? Remember its just a device for scanning people. If they had that machine in their office, what were they using it for? I suppose that will be in the sequel.
I appreciated the Transhuman/Virtual reality sequences. The ones which hark back to The Matrix are better than the scenes they reference. I thought the 80's music was a nice touch.
I liked the shot of the original Mac and the fact they used real unix commands.
I saw the movie with my son yesterday at the Melbourne IMAX and it was way too loud. We both had our hands in our ears during the violent bits. For me, it has a few really beautiful scenes which justify watching the movie for me. Water falling upwards in Flynn's fireplace. The beginning of the light bike scene.
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Employers love thin clients because they give more control over the information moved in and out of the organisation. You don't have to worry about blocking Lady Gaga CD-RW disks if the user only gets a picture of the data anyway.
But then the same limitations create a constant demand for new solutions to work around problems which should be simple. How can the PHB work on the plane? What is a switch dies and takes out sixteen users?
I have seen thin clients used successfully in a doctors office, where the integration requirements are simple. I can't see it satisfying every requirement in the engineering environment where I work.
My LG phone runs 1.6 and I am perfectly happy with it.
Facebook app?
If Lamo is on being paid by the FBI it would seem reasonable that Wired would be cautious about using an account of the exchange with Manning which came only from Lamo. They may as well just get the version from the FBI.
I'm just curious how people actually use it.
A guy I work with keeps his iPad right below the screen of his work computer. I uses it to browse the web. Our IT policies pretty much say you can be sacked on the spot for browsing a non-work web site on work equipment. Its a safe way to go because there is a separate project where people are developing for the iPad in the same office.
Other than that I find tablets and phones are great for displaying content such as plans and maps when flat on a table. Its a good replacement for a rolled up map or similar.
Its definitely a bit awkward for reading. Not as good as a netbook. There is a case which combines an external keyboard with a prop for the tablet. Sort of turns it into a laptop.
I believe there is (or was) a brand of Christianity in South Africa which favoured Apartheid. This fits with the desires of their white membership. Its pretty much the same everywhere else. Moderate people have moderate churches.
You browsed *chan at work?
Let me introduce you to your new friend.
Perhaps there is a case with a hook.
I don't think that's true. They don't preinstall it, but it's relatively trivial to add another repository and install them yourself. Anybody that's not capable of that with a bit of googling is probably not going to be happy with a Linux anything.
I don't have a problem googling on my desktop, but I seriously won't be happy about doing it on a tablet. Googling is not the same without a keyboard and mouse. Sure, it's possible, but not nearly as easy without the proper input devices and screen.
It works well enough on my android phone and it would be easier on a tablet. Personally I would prefer SHR or android on a tablet instead of ubuntu.
(or are in a pub having a beer
Yeah you could hitch it to the post beside other peoples horses. Perhaps it should come with a bicycle cable lock.
Incidentally I work in an office building with many of our state's police. I noticed that they now wear this solid body armour stuff as part of their normal uniform. Its not hard to imagine that you could build solar cells into the same material and maybe use the power to operate communications or lighting gear.
I missed that
Every computer outside the Grid was running Mac OS X. Didn't you recognize the Darwin command line?
Look again. uname -a said solaris
Yeah I think I read about that once.
I think the only part that I got interested in was Quorra becoming human. They could make a WHOLE movie about that, did you know? What does it mean to be human?
Yeah if that had turned out to be the whole point of the movie and Quorra had sent the page to get the portal opened, it would have been All Tomorrow's Parties. And not bad too. She could turn out to more of a superhuman baddie in a subsequent film.
You know if you turn one of those MRI machines up to 11 and push the body all the way through, well, make sure you give the resulting data to somebody who knows where to install it, thats all I'm saying...
Sounds almost like a prequel to Permutation City.
On the subject of focus, even some the scenes in the grid had some objects seriously out of focus. It looked like a deliberate style to me. Not sure if it worked though.
I guess that means that Tron: Legacy is about the GNU Public License.
If so, then yes, that means that Clu represents Richard Stallman.
But Clu spent the whole film trying to kill Sam Flynn, who is the only character who actually promotes something like free software.
Come to think about it Sam seems a bit like the young Steve Jobs. He is orphaned, a bit of a smart arse, rich....
Perhaps in Tron 3 he turns the occupants of the grid into slaves to drive his domination of the market for laptops and phones.
More specifically, my main issue with the OP's point is that the movie's anthropomorphization of the computer's inner workings is too obviously inaccurate
Spare us an accurate movie about the inner workings of a computer.
I was born in the 60s and I don't see many films at the cinema these days. Its too hard to find the time. I can enjoy a movie with a good plot at home. At the cinema I can appreciate movies which are just fun to watch. I went out to see both Avatar and Tron Legacy, and had a good time, despite their limitations.
Why would there be a portal inside a corporate tower? Remember its just a device for scanning people. If they had that machine in their office, what were they using it for? I suppose that will be in the sequel.
I appreciated the Transhuman/Virtual reality sequences. The ones which hark back to The Matrix are better than the scenes they reference. I thought the 80's music was a nice touch.
I liked the shot of the original Mac and the fact they used real unix commands.
I saw the movie with my son yesterday at the Melbourne IMAX and it was way too loud. We both had our hands in our ears during the violent bits. For me, it has a few really beautiful scenes which justify watching the movie for me. Water falling upwards in Flynn's fireplace. The beginning of the light bike scene.
Its only the last half inch that hurts.
I learned to hand code in assembler and machine code on the 6502 with it.
Me too but I had a different 6502 machine. Very lucky it didn't use a Z80. I might never have gotten there.
“A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid artery.”
...and thanked God for her lunch?
does that include lessons on *landing* as well?
Thats extra.