[scifinoir2] Topic: Revenge of the dumb terminal?

2010-03-29 Thread Mr. Worf
I was just watching an interview with the CEO of Panalogic (John Kisch). With the big push toward servers dumb terminals (Basically how computers started) as part of the infrastructure of cloud computing we are now seeing cost benefits of taking this step backwards. Instead of spending hundreds

Re: [scifinoir2] Topic: Revenge of the dumb terminal?

2010-03-29 Thread Martin Baxter
Don't think it'll last. Humans who deal in tech like to have The Next Big Thing. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I was just watching an interview with the CEO of Panalogic (John Kisch). With the big push toward servers dumb terminals (Basically how

Re: [scifinoir2] Topic: Revenge of the dumb terminal?

2010-03-29 Thread Tracy Curtis
It might be popular for travel. But I imagine that service would be at least as spotty as cell service is now. I wouldn't have much patience for that. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Don't think it'll last. Humans who deal in tech like to have