Posted on 09/20/2013 11:02:42 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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I went to IDF this year hoping to find a reason that PCs weren’t doomed and came away knowing all key players are actively making things worse. The PC isn’t just in trouble, it is actively being destroyed because no one involved is interested in changing.
Lets face it, the modern Windows 8 PC is a miserable experience, it is not a step forward from its predecessors in any measurable way but the steps backward are as numerous as they are obvious. The forthcoming Windows 8.1 is at best window dressing attempting to placate the critics without actually fixing any of their complaints.
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I agree with all of this. It’s funny, that during my career, Microsoft supporters were the “young” and IBM’ers were the “old”. Now, Microsoft is the “old”; keep in mind that IBM is still around.
Big business hires morons? I don’t think so. They usually include the production giants that actually heavily utilize computers. Not all are just simpleton food retailers.
I don't trust them, their storage area etc. My work, my files on my machine. I need a keyboard and a mouse, to do real workI can't imagine trying to do CAD if I got a program on my machine without a mouse or Stylus.
And if they don't want to make these PC's in the future, some enterprising Freeper will start up Luddites Inc and make Linux PC's to do real work for us and they will retire healthy wealthy and wise...
Some folks will host. But it won’t be universal. Too many companies like to own their own data. And too many have issues with their network. Nobody wants to be in a situation where when the internet goes down productivity ends. Sorry but dumb terminals are the past, and the industry has been trying to re-package them for 20 years, they managed to find one that’s kind of popular but it won’t take things over. It still has too many of the problems that are why dumb terminals are the past.
Yeah, we’re not there yet, but maybe a few years down the line when we all have cellular wifi.
They’re not “dumb” in the traditional old green-screen, thin-net sort of dumb terminals. The WYSE terminals have local RAM, so even if the network is interrupted, whatever is cached in memory will continue to function. I played with distributed VDI at my last company with WYSE terminals, and they worked really well considering it was a hospital system. The nurses loved them; no more clunky desktops.
My current employer, a financial services company, would not likely implement it large scale due to the proprietary nature of the data and the need for 24/7 uninterrupted access to it.
My comparisons were with the operating systems available in the universe of operating systems, and available for study by designers of other operating systems at the time Windows 1.0 was being designed. The source codes of operating systems were generally freely released by the manufacturers in 1983. I know, I studied the microfiches myself. Imagine that, with all the BS talk nowadays of ‘open systems’ and other semi-meaningful buzzwords, as if everything was invented after the users of these buzzwords were born.
But you can win the argument since you really want to.
Good to know winders finally understands the concept of a 'for' loop.
It's hard to believe it's taken this long.
Too bad microsoft took so long to come to scripting table. (unix has had awesome scripting capabilities forever) Heck, even IBM DOS 7.0 had REXX, which was incredibly powerful. Especially since way back then, when I had either a 486 or maybe a Pentium, you could actually write a script in Rexx that would run on PCs running DOS, and OS/2, then take that same script and run it on an actual mainframe without changes.
Thank you. The absurdity is Microsoft’s cripple of an operating system that’s come to dominate our desktops.
But they’re still dumb in the “if the network goes down so does all productivity” sense. Which is why industry moved away from them in the first place. Also there’s the additional problem that some companies are just starting to learn about that if you store all your data on somebody else’s server they now have all the power in your relationship, deciding they suck and you want all your stuff back can become a major undertaking.
$ scp data[1257]-a?.dat zeugma@foo.bar.com:mydata/.
(copy any file in the local directory that begin with "data" followed by any of the numbers 1,2,5 and 7, followed by "-a", followed by any one single character, ending with ".dat". Copy it to the remote system "foo.bar.com" using my 'zeugma' userid and put it into a subdirectory called "mydata" that is under zeugma's home directory.
Super! Have a good one! I’m about to step out in the sunshine myself.
but if you ever want to create a document, presentation, or spreadsheet, you’ll always need a keyboard and mouse.”
Those of us that do real work have to have an adult sized keyboard and mouse - LOL!
Can you still buy carbon paper? I think Windows 8 is okay. Mine works fine. Took about a day to get used to no start button. I went from home laptop with XP to home laptop with Windows 8. I’m not sure what all the big gripes are. It works. My biggest gripe??? I went from a Dell D630 to an Inspirion. The old docking station isn’t compatible and I had to buy a new USB docking station. You gotta upgrade every 6 or 7 years I guess. You would have thought Dell would keep that stuff consistent.
Apps?
On a desktop?
Good lord.
But it’s fun to give them the ZOT!
Is there a ZOT the Democrats app?
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