On 16 October 2012 21:39, blake <[email protected]> wrote: >> And let me remind you , that personal computers appeared long before 1995. > > I got my Apple ][+ in 1979. But I was a geek, and both my parents were > geeks. (Before that, my dad and I worked on our own ADVENT, using the > Fortran code from Colossal Cave.) > > Geeks will doubtless still continue to have and want desktops. > >> IMO, the fundamental difference between personal computer apps, that >> they rely on capabilities of your personal computer. While web-apps, >> obviously not. > > Screen-size is a personal computer capability. Input devices are. > Other output devices (e.g., sounds or vibrations) are. Flash is. > Anything executing locally requires understanding of capabilities. > Bandwidth, although not usually bottlenecked at the device point these > days, is still a capability. > > As for your list of "never"s--well, never say never. >
i am pretty confident, as long as speed of light remains finite :) > The Internet in general is an unsafe mess--and yet here we are. > let the carrier be with you! (an old modem era joke ;) > ===Blake=== > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
