9 Oct
2011
9 Oct
'11
7:45 p.m.
On 10/9/2011 6:20 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 09/10/11 8:47 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
Well, had you included Apple in your "Gateses and Dells" line above, I
perhaps wouldn't have made such an assumption.
- Josh
On 10/9/2011 3:28 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
Of course they're part of that same system. It's weird how people
assume Apple users aren't Apple critics...
Well you have to admit that the motivating model for a networked
window system - thin clients, approximately, or remote computing
services - has largely evaporated in favour of a model of expensive
per-person workstations with more CPU and GPU than they can ever use.
I'm not arguing that the latter wasteful craziness makes any sense,
but it does make a lot of money for the scum^H^H^H^H Gateses and Dells
of the world.
Of course, Apple only sells thin client machines. They don't make a lot
of money selling systems with more CPU and GPU power than a given person
could ever use, running non-networked windowing systems. (What wasteful
craziness that would be!). Nope, they're not scum, no sir.