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I cant wait to see when you plug in ya mouse and keyboard to the mobilephone to play Crysis
since this will be the 121st post in this thread i'll say for at least the 121st time that the pc is not dead or dying. though a thread for show use your ipad could make for a few good laughs.
It's kind of sad that so many reporters and producers at MSNBC are sitting in their faux ivory tower where they enjoy infinite bandwidth and nearly unlimited computing resources. The cloud has some problems to address before it is as viable as these pundits think it is. The first two that come to mind are Bandwidth and Security. Anyone have a breakdown on the percentages of Internet users by bandwidth? What percentage of users are below 1.5Mbs? Below 3Mbs? I suspect these percentages are a lot higher than is commonly believed. Security is a bit like Rule 34; if it's on the net it will be hacked. Strong encryption protects the content, but won't stop hackers from corrupting or deleting the data. Cloud companies may not have robust backup and recovery solutions. Remember that animation house that lost an entire season of material? All because a former employee of the storage company they used deleted their data and nobody had backups.
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another of these so called experts is the "Gartner" organisation -- usually about 50% of their projections fail --which is the exact same % as random guessing would give you -- yet organisations pay HUGE amounts of money for their usually rubbishy research reports.
Similarly look at the stupid notice people take of so called agencies who "rate USA's credit rating" -- wasn't it that same stupid organisation that totally missed the Bank / finance problem with the "sub prime slime" -- and who in their right mind thinks the USA is going out of business any time soon --if it does I don't know what the rest of us would do !!
BBC News - US loses AAA credit rating after S&P downgrade
Just ignore these so called predictions -- they are totally USELESS.
We will use devices differently -- of course tablet like devices and iphones are convenient for some type of internet access but I'd hate to create a spreadsheet, presentation or do stock exchange trading on these.
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why would Apple want to kill their illustrious and popular line of mac "pc" computers with tablets and smart phones?
and if that's the case, why would competitors stop making pc's as well? Seeing that components are becoming increasingly cheaper - pc computers are going down in price while new tablet technology will be high for the interim.
it's not happening anytime soon...
Hey I'm approaching retirement and if they think for a nano moment I want to be squinting at some ridiculous piece of junk that I can shove in my pocket they must be quite psychotic.
I love my PC and all the things I can do with all 4 of them - no they can put the ipads and phones where the monkey put it's nuts. As for this "cloud" I don't know what it's all about and I'd rather it stay that way.
Oh wonder if they have thought of bringing it out in braille for the visually impaired - hows that going to go.
Seems to me we are supposed to act like trained monkeys and jump at the masters command while they make their trillions from air heads who have got nothing else better to do but to have the latest piece of idiotology to play with.