Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

2010-06-22 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message e1oqo1x-0008vu...@outmx06.plus.net, Martin Wheatley mart...@martinwheatley.plus.com writes With the iPad, you have missed the point I was making. I was using the iPad like devices - not the iPad per se - as an example as to the way things may well ( are ) going forward. Then we

Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

2010-06-22 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message 4c1fbc34.2000...@dunbar-it.co.uk, Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk writes Yes, OK then ... what will be the 21st Century specification of this Linux based laptop ? No need to be practical, right now ... just dream what it might be . Well, if you put it like that, I

Re: [Ql-Users] Cloud computing/.

2010-06-22 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message 2f9d3963-8924-4e2f-926a-3b5ca2614...@btinternet.com, John Taylor j_taylo...@btinternet.com writes Malcolm Can't you see. Cloud computing is monopolistic. That is it's great attraction. All computing will finish up in the hands of a select few and they will control everything. If

Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

2010-06-22 Thread Martin Wheatley
For personal use it will be provided free. Although, a persons free use will continue to make money for the provider behind the scenes. -- Malcolm Cadman ___ If you are expecting Microsoft or Apple to allow you to use their products for free