[ros-dev] The Future of the Desktop

[David Johnson]

BIOS will be extinct as soon as Vista arrives.

I dissagree about the open networked desktop. For Windows users... seruriety
is paramount and using a Thin-Client "like" desktop model is not the way to
go.. Because of the Internet be so unreliable it is not a good idea.
Microsoft tried it with MSN v1 ( I was a charter member)
The part about bio-metrics logon is going to happen. I use gmail. I do most
of my applications via networked applications.

I agree to a point.

On 3/21/06, Adam Kennedy <adam at phase-n.com> wrote:
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> Ibrahim Damlaj wrote:
> > Good point. However,
> > I think that the reason that executables are going to be extinct is
> > because computers are getting faster and faster.
>
> I'll note we've however now reached a threshold in speed. Last year
> average clock speed went DOWN for the first time ever.
>
> So many of the high yield avenues for pure straight line single threaded
> speed have been exhausted. You'll notice that there is a focus on
> parallelism and power usage at the moment.
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> While computers will continue to do more things at once, I think that we
> won't be seeing huge advancements in pure speed any more, just
> incremental improvements and big increases in parallelism.
>
> That's not to say there won't be any, just that they will be much slower
> and incremental.
>
> Adam K
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