On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 10:09:52AM -0500, JD Runyan spake thusly: > I'm starting to think that we are in an age where more people would > prefer an appliance for their computer needs. Most services are
I agree completely. We just need more bandwidth to more homes. I think a lot of people would like an email appliance that someone else administers. Some place where their data will be cared for by professionals. Sure they will have less freedom to do whatever they want including shoot themselves in the foot but I bet there are a lot of people who would happily make the trade. We keep hearing about all of these people who want their ocmputer to "just work". Once we get more bandwidth I think we are going to see a lot more net based services. I would like to be able to sell a dumb piece of hardware that would boot off the net and run everything off of my servers in my datacenter leaving as little as possible to go wrong on the client end. > been talking about better. Users would not be allowed to do dumb things > in this scenario, and the normal concerns of a full blown Linux system > would not be warranted. For those who think this violates the UNIX way, Yep. The end user who just wants a computer to work is going to have to give up a lot of the freedom they had with their own PC. Yes, it is a return to the centralized days of the mainframe and the priesthood etc but now the machines are much more capable. -- Tracy Reed http://ultraviolet.org This message is cryptographically signed for your protection. Info: http://copilotconsulting.com/sig
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