--- Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That situation imo exists because it is too > expensive for them to get more > desktops and then get them networked.
Really, you jest. Expensive? Buying an assembled PC for about 10k, which would be much more flexible and powerful than a thin client, and then spending maybe a 1000 bucks on networking. pffft, expense isn't the problem here. > Once the thin > clients become popular > (which Google can achieve by its level of marketing) > then we will surely see > more SOHO's with networking and thin clients. What kind of marketing are we talking about here anyway? TV ads exhorting people to go buy google pcs? I mean, having nirodh ads on TV is one thing, and asking people to buy thin clients just because google's made them is something else... > fact it can also help > institutions like schools and colleges who want > their students to access only > limited amount of content which could be already > present on their servers. Whoa whoa. Hang on there a minute. "HELP"? I'm not sure how old you are, but do you even know the sorry state of affairs in colleges and schools in the country? Not only will they not allow their students to experiment with computers, they will impose severe penalties on those who have the temerity to do so. Talk about open source and the hacking paradigm. You think MIT would be the mecca for hackers if they'd left their PDPs and other machines to the technicians, who had the power to expel people for displaying an interest in computers? Fact is, people graduating today - a large majority anyway - have no idea about computers save the fact that word processing is the same as MS Word, presentations mean Powerpoint, and viruses and trojans are something we just have to live with - things which can't be dealt with. How many people who use windows (students, so called people who 're aiming to be the techological elite of tomorrow) even know how to use the registry in order to see if they might have a trojan on their machine? Ok, so maybe I've exaggerated a bit - but this goes for most cases. And considering this state of affairs, you've got potential computer science majors using terminals which restrict them even further? Ok, so citrix machines and the like are pretty popular - I've used them myself, and done a rather large number of (*interesting*) things with them - much to the concern of a large number of sysadmins. But when you want to find out if you can break the encryption and capture keystrokes off someone else in your lab, and maybe surprise them - thin clients are going to be hardpressed. > > Not having enough bandwidth or speed of our "so > called" broadband connections > will be detrimental only to plans of using content > right from the internet > but then how many work are we doing like this > anyways and by the time such > functionality reaches to the masses you will be > having uncapped connection > with good bandwidth (at least I hope so) :) Er. What? Try some punctuation there.. Viksit -- Viksit Gaur viksit[dot]gaur[at]yale[dot]edu http://viksit.com Just because you have a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you should treat everyone else like a nail - Terry Pratchett __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
