11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
11:18 a.m.
On 10/11/2011 09:02 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
Now we have web browsers where the heavy lifting is
done remotely and
pushed to a thin client (Opera Mini, Amazon Silk), and work is also
being done on streaming video for compute-heavy game graphics to devices
which are too small to render it realtime themselves. That could end up
being a popular model, even if it sounds odd at first, being such a
reversal of the "buy the biggest PC and graphics card you can" model.
None of the long haul uses X11... Sorry Dave.
No apologies necesary, the real data processing world is just lucky
that you don't know a whole lot about this. ;) Web browsers aren't
going to replace windowing systems anytime soon, sparky. Sorry.
Videogames and cell phones aren't the entire future of computing.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA