On Friday 11 April 2008 07:20:55 jonathon wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
May I once again deny that I said this. It was greg who said it, I was refuting it. Sometimes when one trims an email the meaning accidentally changes. It has happened in this case. Lisi > > 1) Prevents piracy. > > This is only an issue if your business model is one of stealing your > customer's data, and holding it hostage. > > If your business model is not based on violating the Ten Commandments > (or ten suggestions, if you want the literal translation from Hebrew), > then piracy is a non-issue. > > > 2) You always have the lastest version without downloading and > > installing updates. > > Sometimes the latest version does not provide the same degree of > functionality as the earlier version does. > > > 3) You don't have to wait for it to come out on CD. > > Irrelevant. > CDs are simply one of half a dozen ways of delivering software. > > > 4) You can access your files and the software from any computer in the > > world with an internet connection. > > And so can the rest of the world. This can have major, serious, > negative consequences. > > > You see by having more and more software online your computer's > > operating > > system will not need to be so elaborate. > > The OS might not need to be so elaborate, but the software on one's > system will have to be. > > Try using Thinkpad, when your web browser is Lynx. > > On second thoughts, if your O/S is CP/M, could you log into Yahoo? > > > develop operating systems other them MS Windows that will simply allow > > our > > There are at least 100 operating systems for Intel chips. Probably > more. Microsoft's dominance in the software market has been due to > their criminal behavior. (They have been convicted of violating laws > in three continents.) > > Then there is the study the Microsoft appears to have paid for, that > indicated that Microsoft was not only losing market share, but had > lost both the O/S wars, and the office suite wars. > > > computer will not need to have a superfast processor, a lot of memory, > > or even a big hard drive. > > Thin clients have their place. However, to expect everything to be a > thin client is akin to expecting that everybody will drive a Honda > Civic. > > > happen is the hard drive is going to disappear. > > Which explains why hard drive sizes increase every six or so months. > Hard drives are not going to go away any time soon. > > >Windows (or another operating system) will be installed on a USB > > flash drive or actually installed in a memory module on the > motherboard. > > You are roughly thirty years behind the times. (Or did you not know > that the first chips to be shipped with a built in O/S shipped that > long ago?) > > >Windows will not need to load > > Linux based devices have had this functionality for almost a decade. > Of course, you probably didn't know that you were using a Linux > device. > > > I know this because I've been in the computer field for 10 years. > > But did you learn anything in those ten years? > > From your message, I suspect not. > > > I'm telling you this is the way the industry is going. > > It is the way Microsoft wants the world to go. It isn't necessarily > where the rest of the IT industry is going. > > >All software will be online in the next few years. > > More probable is that there will be a market split: > * Web based software, for "quick and dirty" work; > * Hard drive based software, for serious work; > > > It's not my doing, it's the software manufacturers doing. > > The "driving force" is hardware manufacturers, not software developers. > > >Open Office is behind the times by not being available online. > > OOo will serve the needs of those who do serious work. Google Office, > ThinkPad, and the like will serve the needs of those who need > something "quick and dirty". > > xan > > jonathon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
