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I thought this as well. I'd love to plug my phone into a laptop-looking-thingy...and instantly have a keyboard, screen, and maybe a battery (to keep the phone charged up).
Samsung is advertising that usage when promoting the current Galaxy phones
1. Augmented reality. When I played around it with on the 3DS, I thought the idea was going to really blow up and end up having a ton of games based around it. And in the first year or two, we did get a few like that. Such as Kid Icarus Uprising having said features or Spirit Camera being entirely based on the technology.
But it quickly died off afterwards, and since about 2012 I don't think I've seen a single major game on the system where AR has been a central feature. Same goes with other consoles and systems too. It's occasionally been advertised (like with Microsoft and the Hololens or whatever it is), but it's generally remained a niche idea.
2. Also, the eReader. No, not the Kindle type, that thing the Game Boy Advance had in the early 00s where you could scan cards to unlock features in games. I genuinely believed that would be a huge revolution, to the point of importing the device from America to try it out. Alas, it failed pretty damn hard, and even the titles which had support for it in the US dropped said support in the European versions.
3. For non gaming stuff, VRML was a good example as well. Again, I thought the future of the internet would be 3D worlds accessed through the browser, and looked at the sites writing about it as if they were a glimpse of a high tech future only a few years off in the distance. Nope, VRML failed, and pretty much every attempt to implement VR functionality in the browser died too.
4. Also, I'm not sure if it counts as revolutionary on a tech level, but at one point there was a lot of talk about using oauth to tie various communities together into something akin to a forum network or Reddit equivalent. I think a group called Zoints tried this in the early 00s or so, and I expected their service to do pretty well off it.
Again, didn't really happen. Shared login systems did, in the most basic sense (login with Facebook/Twitter/Google/whatever) but it seemed people preferred walled gardens run by large companies over individual communities networked together.
Finally, there were an awful lot of Google products and services I expected to take the world by storm too. Google Wave has already been mentioned, but Google Buzz was another one too. Think it acted as a neat alternative to using Facebook comments or Diqus when it was active.
But yeah, my record with tech predictions is not exactly a great one.
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Depends... Public school? Probably not. Tech school? Absolutely.
Yeah RIT students run an underground DC network.
The RIT DC hub was the shit back in the day....
Back in the day there was nothing underground about it, at least for CS students. :) Connecting to the DC hub was a right of passage. So I am speaking from experience. :)
I am still waiting for all my favourite applications to be extendable in GNU Guile. On a more general note, I am still waiting for the world to fall for lisp in general.
Scheme pursued a foolish simplicity, foregoing the complexity necessary to deal with the real world.
It's a wonderful language for implementing language interpreters, but I wouldn't want to write large programs in it. For that, the only thing worth using is Common Lisp.
RSS and Google Reader. What can I say, I was young and foolish.
The fundamental question for the users here is "should I read an article on a website, which is designed exactly as the users should read and explore it and has 100% support for all typographical element, or on a third party reader which displays a processed copy of the article and requires effort to set up?" RSS hasn't died , but it is definitely not growing, as those who prefer to use it are already using it.
I'd take the plain text of an article over a JavaScript-laden monstrosity of a single-page app any day of the week, and twice on Sundays.
I really miss being able to quickly & easily read articles, without distraction. But then, I miss lynx — and I still harbour a deep-seated hatred for those who have destroyed the Internet I once loved.
Smalltalk. Everybody was supposed to be able to program, not just professional software developers.
Believe it or not, that was the original goal of COBOL.
The problem is that it turns out most human beings don't actually think in a clear and logical manner, and thus there's a need for someone to translate unclear and illogical statements into clear and logical instructions for a computer — that someone is a programmer.
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False dichotomy. A user-in-control sandboxing model is perfectly possible, e.g. https://sandstorm.io/ I agree that mainstream desktop OSes have failed to give us this yet. Fuchsia sounds like an opportunity to do better.
Agreeing with you, mini rant time: Why in the fuck do desktop computers have user-based permission models? Don't answer that, I know why, it's because they inherited them from the server-OS ancestors, but it's retarded. Desktops are personal computers, there is no reason to stop the user from doing what they want because it is their computer. Some might say, "oh, well, we can protect the system from malicious softwar…
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IIRC, consumer wifi routers supposedly support a protocol that allows a computer to request a temporary port forward and release it when its finished using it. Anyone remember what that protocol is called?
UPnP, Universal Plug and Play.