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| weblordpepe Dec 16, 2010 11:20 AM EDT |
"Google's 'Net-centric Chrome OS platform challenges conventional notions about what constitutes an operating system. It puts the cloud front and center, eschewing the familiar desktop paradigm and native applications in favor of a browser-only environment. It's an audacious and intriguing experiment, but it's not clear yet if it will resonate with a mainstream audience. " Dude it is a THIN CLIENT. Read that again. THIN CLIENT. They have been around for DECADES. Arguably the first networked computers were thin clients/dumb terminals. Dude less hype, more facts. |
| dinotrac Dec 16, 2010 11:41 AM EDT |
Arguably, nothing. The old mainframe terminals were pretty (but not completely) stupid, no surprise given the technology of the day, but they were attached to terminal controllers that knew a little more than they did. Terminal + controller smarts = (very thin) client. They were actually better than Unix terminals in one very significant way -- Unix terminals tend to communicate back to the host, meaning your terminal can freeze if the load gets heavy. The old mainframe terminals communicated with the controller, and left you able to work up until you hit the enter key. Don't even get me started on "the cloud". |
| helios Dec 20, 2010 12:44 PM EDT |
"The Cloud", I predict, will be used mainly by computer users who traditionally take no responsibility for their own systems. I don't particularly trust anyone else with my data...I don't want to be a slave to an internet connection to do stuff like type letters and listen to/manipulate my music library or work with my graphics files. That is the direction in which we seem to be herded. As Microsoft is offering in their latest commercials: "To The Cloud"... Until they lose your data or corrupt it like Carbonite did recently to over 200K users. Who's responsible then? |
| JaseP Dec 20, 2010 1:33 PM EDT |
Agreed on all points. I have an Android tablet. You want to know what it gets used for? I'll tell you regardless. It's a glorified remote control for my z-wave home automation stuff, also for surfing the web & using as a GPS (Navit w/ full speech turn-by-turn directions, so that's off-line use). Oh, it also sits in a display cradle & does a decent digital picture frame imitation when not being used. I don't know why anyone would trust "the cloud" for anything other than researching, downloading, shopping or communicating. |
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