The future of computing?
This is rather interesting, kind of a different take on thin clients. I've been waiting for something like this to come along for years.
I've always thought it made more sense to have a central computer in your home, and simply have a monitor and keyboard at strategic places in your home. It just makes more sense. This would be especially useful if it was completely plug and play (no setup required). Just plug your device into a wall jack (wireless would be even better) and use the processing power and resources of your main computer. Think about having touchscreens built into your walls linked in this way. Have an electronic notepad beside your front door that automatically links to your calendar and reminds you of things you need to do. Check your email from your PDA without having to sync it to your PC. Listen to your MP3's in your kitchen without having to transfer anything or have a PC in there.
All updates would only have to happen once (as opposed to once for each device).
I know we're still a long way from being quite this plug and play, but this seems like a start. Simply being able to run displays and input devices in seperate sessions on a PC without the need for a traditional thin client and with minimal setup opens up a lot of doors.
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bunch of double talk without real details. all he is doing is VMWare for windows, thus the talked about limit of recommending 4 clients to 1 server, or X11 and that has been around in Linux/Unix for a decade plus.
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projects like that and others. i have even seen a projeect were a guy put in 7 GPUs into 1 system and had 7 different users playing Doom III at the same time all with the power of Linux.
still with linux is is 10x less expensive to run projects like this then windows as you do not have to pay for the over head software license from MS, nor do you have to pay for the VMWare type software in order to share it out like that. plus you can have a lighter desktop thus lighter system resources used.
so yes, neat stuff.
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projects like that and others. i have even seen a projeect were a guy put in 7 GPUs into 1 system and had 7 different users playing Doom III at the same time all with the power of Linux.
still with linux is is 10x less expensive to run projects like this then windows as you do not have to pay for the over head software license from MS, nor do you have to pay for the VMWare type software in order to share it out like that. plus you can have a lighter desktop thus lighter system resources used.
so yes, neat stuff.
An immediate aside, just because it popped out at me...They left out the fact that the eMachines' price was kept low by bundling it with multi-year committments to overpriced ISPs (namely, AOL). I think people began to wise up to the fact that a $500 machine with a three year committment at $24/mth was a worse deal than a $750 machine and paying $9.95/mth for a standard dial-up ISP.
Anyway, back to the OP, I remember the promises of "smart appliances" in the late 90's and the public being underwhelmed by refridgerators which could call Peapod for you or electric ranges with internet receipes on a flat-screen display. Some aspects have crept into our lives (Tivo cataloging and recommending shows) but paper notepads are still cheap and $25 will buy you a kitchen countertop dancing dog to plug your iPod into.
I'm not saying it won't come. I just don't expect a watershed moment.
The article wrote:
Like the OLPC, eMachines bets that high volume could make up for its razor-thin margins. That worked for a while, as eMachines briefly became the third-largest seller of PCs in U.S. stores. But reliability complaints and a slow post-dot-com economy wrecked that model, and Dukker was long gone by the time eMachines was sold to Gateway Inc. in 2004.
Anyway, back to the OP, I remember the promises of "smart appliances" in the late 90's and the public being underwhelmed by refridgerators which could call Peapod for you or electric ranges with internet receipes on a flat-screen display. Some aspects have crept into our lives (Tivo cataloging and recommending shows) but paper notepads are still cheap and $25 will buy you a kitchen countertop dancing dog to plug your iPod into.
I'm not saying it won't come. I just don't expect a watershed moment.
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Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Jophiel wrote:
I'm not saying it won't come. I just don't expect a watershed moment.
Nor do I, but I'm not talking about smart appliances (I personally think they're a bad idea and would just make life more complicated in most cases). I'm talking about all of those devices that we sync up not having to be sync'd because they access the information at the source. There's no setting up multiple copies of things simply because everything uses the same PC for its information and processing power. Devices would be that much cheaper because they'd just be shells without any real resources that link to your main computer.
It's a long way off, but I think we'll get there eventually.
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