I get the feeling Betty is that farmer on the side of the road 100 years ago ridiculing his neighbor for using a fancy tractor with one of those engines to plow his field instead of the tried and true mule or team of horses. Sure the next few years...decade...the horse was pretty reliable, but it didn't take long before that farmer was left behind still crowing about how bad those jalopies were.
I think back to teaching my great uncle the computer basics, a man with two doctorates, a world traveler, decorated officer in WW2, composer...friend to several presidents. The computer was just beyond him...technology had grown from his grasp of the age he was born in. Will we be like that when our children or grand children are running around with the newest tech? On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:30 PM, b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es> wrote: > It's the stupid cloud again! No. The cloud won't obscure computers. > Ridiculous, as in worthy of ridicule, as only in geek fantasies. > > Computers are changing, but aren't going away any time soon, and neither > are Apple or MS, as long as they keep changing as technology evolves. Apple > is in a better position than MS, in that they create the hardware that's > evolving instead of MS keeping up with software competition. > > The cloud will never be able to overwhelm computers, at least in the US, > since it's not available all the time, everywhere. My local computer, Touch, > and/or smart phone are more reliable than the cloud will ever be, as long as > it's not ubiquitous. You can't integrate with the Internet if it's not there > or remains too expensive. > > Cloud....HAHAHAHAHAHA. George Carlin had some wonderful comments about > ephemisms like "the cloud" and the stupidity of euphemisms in general. > Cloud...DUH! Where's my free Internets??? Where's my cheap Internets? > Where's the "everywhere" Internets???? > > Do you trust Google with all your precious and personal data? Do you > _trust_ the Cloud? > > mike escribió: > > Somehow I don't think MS or especially Apple have anything to worry about. >> Google is going to race to the bottom with this one for a little while I >> think. Look out for bad sales on win 7 starter in the future...if there >> ever were a future for starter. >> >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:16 AM, tjp <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: >> >> >>> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/11/chromeos-announcement.ars >>> >>> "Put differently, in more concrete and less aesthetic terms, Apple and >>> Microsoft began decades ago with "the PC," and they're currently involved >>> in >>> a slow and painful process of trying to stretch and push "the PC" out >>> towards the Internet and towards a more useful and integrated >>> relationship >>> with the cloud as a new type of server. >>> >> > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
