Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:58 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: This all has something to do with CentOS in a round-about way. I am using CentOS to host our corporate web apps in a tomcat6 instance. except, nothing aobut centos's user interface is different than its upstream

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Can you all please move this subthread the majority will NEVER use smartphones elsewhere? Discuss it on Facebook if you have to. Thanks! Kai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/18/2011 06:24 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Grammar is somewhat harder, but as for voice recognition goes, I have never heard of easier language. But there is only 20-30 million speaking it/them. Large chunks of this thread are irrelevant to CentOS. People have repeatedly asked for

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.11.2011 03:23, schrieb Craig White: Consider the upcoming Asus Transformer Prime tablet which has more horsepower than my desktop computer (by far) though less RAM and less storage. The cloud can be your storage... heck all of my music is already on Google Music. uninteresting because

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 11/17/2011 09:07 AM, Reindl Harald piše: Am 17.11.2011 03:23, schrieb Craig White: Consider the upcoming Asus Transformer Prime tablet which has more horsepower than my desktop computer (by far) though less RAM and less storage. The cloud can be your storage... heck all of my music is

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Consider the upcoming Asus Transformer Prime tablet which has more horsepower than my desktop computer (by far) though less RAM and less storage. The cloud can be your storage... heck all of my music is already on

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Les Mikesell: Not sure I understand - a soft keyboard only takes screen space when needed. And a very popular device is making news about its voice input app that is sort-of usable. i do not speak about soft-keyboard i speak about wasting braindead space with

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: I think we are only a few years away from fully usable voice controls which will eliminate any size requirements for your end point device. Keyboard input isn't really that great anyway. *lol* you really believe

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, November 17, 2011 10:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Letters? You mean the things that the Post Office used to deliver? Who does that anymore? Maybe a picture or video clip instead... Gee...business people that's who...at least until we get some to use and legal digital signing. But

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: snip Or embedded devices with remote controls and no keyboard at all... Netflix got their popularity by running on just about every device that can connect to the internet and a screen. But

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: I think we are only a few years away from fully usable voice controls which will eliminate any size requirements for your end point device. Keyboard input isn't really that great anyway. *lol*

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread m . roth
Christopher Chan wrote: On Thursday, November 17, 2011 10:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Letters? You mean the things that the Post Office used to deliver? Who does that anymore? Maybe a picture or video clip instead... Gee...business people that's who...at least until we get some to use and

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: or more years, voice computing will never come in: e.g., the employee who's just been fired, walks out of the office and yells, FORMAT c:; YES, YES, YES!!! ROTFL!!! I don't remamber thy guy who

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.11.2011 15:10, schrieb Les Mikesell: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: I think we are only a few years away from fully usable voice controls which will eliminate any size requirements for your end point device. Keyboard input isn't really

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 17.11.2011 15:10, schrieb Les Mikesell: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: I think we are only a few years away from fully usable voice controls which will eliminate

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread Craig White
On Nov 17, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Les Mikesell: Not sure I understand - a soft keyboard only takes screen space when needed. And a very popular device is making news about its voice input app that is sort-of usable. i do not speak about

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.11.2011 17:02, schrieb Craig White: As for the majority... more than 50% of all phones sold now are smart phones. Soon everyone, everywhere will have one. and for you this does mean they have ONLY a smartphone jesus christ i have a smartphone too and i like optimized interfaces for

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread m . roth
Craig White wrote: On Nov 17, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Les Mikesell: snip As for the majority... more than 50% of all phones sold now are smart phones. Soon everyone, everywhere will have one. Ah, now I understand: you've drunk the Kool-Aid. No, NOT

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/17/11 8:02 AM, Craig White wrote: As for the majority... more than 50% of all phones sold now are smart phones. Soon everyone, everywhere will have one. So they all can walk off a cliff while fondling their angrybirds like a bunch of lemmings. That said, what in Dogs name does this

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread Dan Irwin
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:38 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: That said, what in Dogs name does this thread have to do with CentOS??    Can we please STOP already? Hi, Not wanting to drag out this topic, or post anything inflamatory. Also I am not necessarily replying only to John,

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 11:14 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Craig White wrote: On Nov 17, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Les Mikesell: snip As for the majority... more than 50% of all phones sold now are smart phones. Soon everyone, everywhere will

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Thursday, November 17, 2011 08:02:00 AM Craig White wrote: development follows the money. Computer sales are flat and convergent devices such as smart phones and tablets are selling. Why is it so hard to figure out that computer development is following the money? Recognize that it's not

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/17/11 5:40 PM, Dan Irwin wrote: This all has something to do with CentOS in a round-about way. I am using CentOS to host our corporate web apps in a tomcat6 instance. except, nothing aobut centos's user interface is different than its upstream source. so, if you want to champion user

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.11.2011 01:42, schrieb Timothy Murphy: Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: If no smartphones gets broken and/or replaced, they could reach number of PC users (50%) in one year. Realistically it will take them 2-3 years to reach those numbers. BUT, I have 2 phones (one of them is Android), 1

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-16 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 02:03:58AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.11.2011 01:42, schrieb Timothy Murphy: Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: If no smartphones gets broken and/or replaced, they could reach number of PC users (50%) in one year. Realistically it will take them 2-3 years to

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.11.2011 02:32, schrieb fred smith: Well, I'm happy with my stupid phone. I don't especially want a pocket-sized computer (at least not one that's tightly chained inside a walled garden, whether it be Apple's, or Microsoft's, or any one else's garden). As long as it reliably makes phone

Re: [CentOS] the majority will NEVER use smartphones

2011-11-16 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 02:38 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.11.2011 02:32, schrieb fred smith: Well, I'm happy with my stupid phone. I don't especially want a pocket-sized computer (at least not one that's tightly chained inside a walled garden, whether it be Apple's, or Microsoft's, or