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Networked apps running on the desktop != Terminals
True enough. But if everyone of those apps are just a poorly constructed X Server equivalent (nothing going on locally if the connection drops) ... the difference seems a little semantic?
I am little bit concerned about the way technology trends these days. It feels like sooner or later, big companies will have all the hardware and software hosted on their side and people will only get access to play it according to companies rules. This is actually a concern to my freedom as well. I want to own my hardware and software power. I want to run everything offline if i want to. I don't want to click "I agr…
It just doesn't happen that much on the desktop any more. It's still up to you if you want to use the software from adobe.com or the "Gimp cloud" on your home server.
This could even be an opportunity, because giving a link to non-technical users is easier than installing software locally. In that sense it could close a gap that existed previously.
And this is the logical conclusion of the death of the 56K baud modem. There was a prophetic (if early) contest at Sun to 'imagine the future' and the winner got a SPARCStation. As a networking guy I tried to imagine what was going to change when the 'big yellow hose' (which is what 10MB Ethernet looked like at the time) came right into your living room. And one of the things that changed was that you could work at '…
The power/electricity analogy here is what's really key - there will come a time when the ubiquity of being "online" will be the same as the ubiquity of "the power is on." It's so prevalent in modern society we really don't think about it. It took me a while to realize that this is where Google is headed with ChromeOS/Chromebooks. Ultimately, "applications/apps" will not exist, there will just be the web and all pers…
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This optimistic outlook ignores the pesky reality of latency. Using VNC, X11, or an equivalent protocol over a connectiion to a data center hundreds or thousands of miles away isn't the same as an X terminal connected to a server in the same office buildinig.
While I entirely agree and preach latency often, there are two major points I would like to make: 1) Remote computing doesn't have to use X11. The local machine can do some of the lifting. Wolfram Alpha on mobile phones is a good example of this- a server does the crunching, but neither is the client side a dumb terminal. 2) I cross my fingers that one day latency will be prioritized more... IMO the majority of laten…
If you look at network QoS research in the past 20 years, you'll see that a lot of people do care. It's just not an easy problem to solve.
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The power/electricity analogy here is what's really key - there will come a time when the ubiquity of being "online" will be the same as the ubiquity of "the power is on." It's so prevalent in modern society we really don't think about it. It took me a while to realize that this is where Google is headed with ChromeOS/Chromebooks. Ultimately, "applications/apps" will not exist, there will just be the web and all pers…
> Ultimately, "applications/apps" will not exist, there will just be the web Except this isn't the web at all, this is some closed Google-only internet. This isn't the death of personal computing, this is the death of the web . It should be pretty clear by now to most techies that Chrome* is the neoMSIE. We should stop applauding these complete violations of web standards. This is the opposite of awesome. The directi…
Also, what exactly makes Chrome the "neoMSIE"?
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True enough. But if everyone of those apps are just a poorly constructed X Server equivalent (nothing going on locally if the connection drops) ... the difference seems a little semantic?
Yeah, but usually that is not the case with proper desktop applications.
I really, really wish they would port Photoshop to Linux - it's going to be the killer app for Linux, hugely driving up adoption.
I don't see how, can you elaborate?
I'd much prefer to drop the VM's and go full Linux. I can't. Because of Photoshop.
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If your vision of how people can continue to own their data in the future relies on GIMP being improved to the point that's not unbearably painful to use, you're failing to reassure anyone.
Daily GIMP user here, pretty much the only thing you can't do is print CMYK.
It's really hard to distinguish the Chromebook on the photo from a MacBook Pro. The Chromebook designers should really come up with something of their own instead of copying Jony Ive's design for Apple if they want the laptop to have a better image than poor mans MacBook.
If I had a nickel for every apple fanboi claiming google steals from apple I'd be rich. Please, get over it, let's not act like apple doesn't copy.
I found an old issue of Wallpaper Magazine from 1997 with ad's for Mark Newson's watch named Ikepod. Both the name and the watch are similar to the iPod that appeared first time in 2001. Apple has off course copied a lot it's design from Braun's Dieter Rams. Rams is has retired, but Newson has just started working for apple.