No more OOo in UNR 10.04

[Knapp]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, but given 4 years and Netbooks will be as fast and strong as
>> desktops are now. Give it 10 years and your glasses will be as strong
>> as your desktop is now.
>>
>
> And at that time the server will be like a supercomputer and Matlab
> will need no less than 32 GB or RAM. Photoshop will need an eight-core
> CPU and mplayer will need a 40 Ghz processor to decode SFHD video at
> 16000x12000 resolution at 96 fps, dual channel (one for each eye).

At some point we reach the resolution of the human eyes, ears and
perhaps nose? :-) We really are not that far from it with 14 month
doubling of tech. I think we will reach an end to what people will pay
for. Even HDTV is close to that. My wife looks at them side by side
and says, "So what?" Doubling the resolution will only matter on huge
screen or tiny ones in the near future.

> Netbooks will by definition always be at the low end of the hardware
> specs, and will need to pipe over X the real heavy hitters. As
> hardware improves, software will bloat to need it.

Could be.

>> I see this as a very short term problem with very long term
>> implications. We don't need to go there. It is a way for firms to get
>> total control of your computer and then charge you for it. By going
>> that way you are hold out your hands and asking for them to put on
>> those free handcuffs!
>>
>
> I agree with this. But this is an argument for using hardware powerful
> enough to do what you need, not for cramming bloated software into
> underpowered devices. Furthermore, what is to stop you from running
> your own server in the cloud? I do that today.
>
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen

To many kids? No really, you and I sure but all the people like my
wife that says talking about OSs is man talk? So there are half the
people that can't do it. LOL (joke, don't kill me!) but really there
are a lot of people that will not set up their own server and that
brings us back to the fact the Open Source software only does well
when it has a lot of users and a lot of devs. If you start to kill
these off, the development will slow of stop. At least it will start
to loose ground to the "popular" software and then begins the slow
slide into project death or at least irrelevance.


-- 
Douglas E Knapp

Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project.
http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page
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