New Microsoft VP consigns the PC to irrelevance

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  1. Posts : 26,863
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       #40

    I suspect that most of the people who use the Smart Phones all day, get home and plug them into their desktop/laptop.
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  2. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #41

    essenbe said:
    I suspect that most of the people who use the Smart Phones all day, get home and plug them into their desktop/laptop.
    I'm telling your using logic
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  3. Posts : 1,002
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       #42

    When I get home and on weekends, I turn my phone off ... to have a life.
    There is nothing on the planet that cannot wait ...
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  4. Posts : 5,941
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       #43

    GrayGhost2 said:
    When I get home and on weekends, I turn my phone off ... to have a life.
    There is nothing on the planet that cannot wait ...
    Hi there

    Wish that were true -- but "Death and Taxes" !!!!!!

    Agree with you about phones and weekends -- It saddens me when say I see 4 "friends" sitting at a table in a café / bar or Restaurant and ALL of them are twiddling away with their thumbs -- none of the party are even speaking unless to order another Beer -- and even then I suppose they do it by Texting.

    Annoys me also even at Work when you try and speak to someone but they say - can you wait a few minutes as they are dealing with usually 100's of TOTALLY POINTLESS company Emails.

    (At work I have it well known that I NEVER read emails if it's CC'd to more than THREE people !!! - that's cut down rubbish emails by around 97% !!).

    Cheers
    jimbo
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  5. Posts : 24,479
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       #44

    Jimbo, the stupid part is those 4 friends were probably texting each other!
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  6. Posts : 350
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       #45

    jimbo45 said:
    Hi there


    ......Agree with you about phones and weekends -- It saddens me when say I see 4 "friends" sitting at a table in a café / bar or Restaurant and ALL of them are twiddling away with their thumbs -- none of the party are even speaking unless to order another Beer -- and even then I suppose they do it by Texting......

    Cheers
    jimbo
    Jimbo you are SOOOOO on target! It's not just sad, it's ridiculous and dangerous.
    They can't do anything without texting. They can't converse, eat, work, they can't even drive without texting. On the highways they've become a public menace.
    Texting is turning people into digital drug addicts, they can't put it down.
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  7. Posts : 1,002
    XP Pro (x86) | 7 HP (x86) & (x64) | 7 Pro (x64)
       #46

    OFF TOPIC !

    I just don't get the addiction to sitting in a group and texting someone else.

    As a very late blooming hippie I have fond memories of very wet weekends, an open fire, three couples. Fortunately we were all mad. Start playing serious cards at about 10 am.
    Lunch was a catering pack of beans on toast all washed down with industrial quantities of industrial port.
    A lot of talk, lies and laughter.

    The drugs of our generation.

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  8. mjf
    Posts : 5,969
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       #47

    First define what you mean by a PC.
    Then define what you really want to use it for.

    Mobility is great for some requirements. A person who comes and does a job at your home will probably bill you with a mobile hand held device.
    Most office workers require a screen, and a keyboard/mouse. This needs to be networked and both the data and processing capability can be as localized or distributed as you like based on economics. This centralized vs decentralized argument has bounced around for decades.

    A PC to me means limited decentralization but with great networking capability and that's the way I like it.
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  9. Posts : 20,583
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       #48

    Britton30 said:
    Jimbo, the stupid part is those 4 friends were probably texting each other!
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  10. Posts : 5,941
    Linux CENTOS 7 / various Windows OS'es and servers
       #49

    Hi there

    Saw in a local pub very much used by "trendy" (at least they think so) Young professionals the following slogan over the Bar - Nearest English translation :

    "With God we converse - With everyone else we text ..." (apologies to the US dollar logo).

    I'm waiting for an announcement of the World's FIRST SILENT PUB -- what happens when your favorite team scores a Goal etc !!!!

    Actually if you drive using a mobile outside the City here - you won't need any Police etc -- you'll be over the side and very DEAD before anyone could pick you up !!!! The smaller roads (or tracks) change quite quickly so if you don't have 120% attention on the "Road" you're GONE.

    Anyway back to the point - I've found tablets virtually UNUSEABLE in bright light for reading (Kindles are better for that job) and If I'm out in a bar why on earth would I want to take a tablet anyway.

    A Laptop computer has its uses as I sometimes dicuss with fellow workers some points of work with Excel / PowerPoint - and it's much nicer in a comfortable bar with some food and Beer rather than a boringly massive open plan office with everyone yabbering away on phones etc.

    In my book the PC is NOT going away. (Not at least until I've totally retired anyway).

    Cheers
    jimbo
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