By the way, regarding "death of desktops". I welcome appearance of all kinds of "new" devices, all of which seem to use less and less of "screen real estate".
I do, however, deplore the widely promoted concept that "we no longer need desktops", for many reasons. 1. For heavy duty content creation, software development, and so on, it is essential to use a large amount of screen real estate, to have many windows open at the same time. 2. Similarly, typing on tiny keyboards gets very tiring if one needs to type a lot and to have easy access to special characters. I challenge anyone to type *((char *)myRecord->myFunc()) == '\0' on your cell phone. 3. Desktops have always been, in essence, "open hardware" platforms where I could add a hard drive, change a motherboard, and so on, and remain fairly compatible with the installed software. I can install a parallel port card or whatever I want, using a open interface PCI. All those "netbooks", nettops, smart phones, eyepads, and other such things, are exactly the opposite. I feel that I fully own and control my desktop. which I built. I would not be in such control of an eyephone or an eyepad, if I ever bought one. If I need to work on something beyond just asking a simple question in email, guess what I use -- a desktop. So, I hope that desktops are not going away. i ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
