> Who builds and installs that server in the average > person's home?
Multiple companies, competing with each other for the customer's money, integrate the system together. A consumer (not a customer), buys it in their local store, just like you'd buy a washing machine or a TV. > Obviously someone specialized in and hired > specifically for the task, Depends on how much engineering had been done, doesn't it? How good are we really? Can we push against the limits and break them? > because this entire thread is grown out of your > seeming position that > the average person can and should be shut out of > managing their own > gear. No, not at all. Two things: a) we need to usher the majority into the computer age, be educating them so they are no longer computer illiterate b) things can be made to be simple, robust, reliable and effective. a) and b) at the same time. What do you get? > What is the difference between a person's "beige-box" > PC, and your > description here serving a single client, which is > all the average > "living room server" would need to handle? Other > than a lot more > latency, possibly less noise, and more power required > to the server? The fact that one such device replaces multiple "beige boxes" around the house, that there are less things to break, less things to service... and that in the end, it's cheaper and more reliable. > The desktop dogma is challenged constantly. However, > the desktop dogma > constantly *wins*. Don't confuse the lack of defeat > with the lack of > challenge. Yes, you are correct, the desktop always wins. Now please tell me, why does the desktop always win? Desktop always winning is the effect. What is the cause? > "Simple" is not necessarily an insult. Wholeheartedly agree with you. Simple is robust! I just disagree about "clicky bunty" being simple, effective, and cheap enough in the long run. All that will do is encourage another brain-dead generation of plants. And then we can surely kiss any possibility of ever even so much as challenging the "desktop always wins" buh-bye. In other words, we will have shot ourselves in the foot. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
