On 04/17/2014 08:10 AM, Dsant wrote:
Le 17/04/2014 13:29, Billie Walsh a écrit :
Anton wrote in another thread:
Or there's this as the future of Linux: http://www.zdnet.com/linux-is-about-to-take-over-the-desktop-but-not-like-yo...
The thing that bothers me is that if your not connected to the web you basically have a paperweight.
Same belief here : it works perfectly within the laboratory, but not in the train in Europe :(
What does work on the train? Perhaps your cell phone? Perhaps you have a data service with your cell phone and can 'tether' to that. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps... Or perhaps you might live in one of the Google'd cities where there is wifi everywhere. SF stories of the past (e.g Poul and Kornblaugh's 'The Space Merchants") envisioned a world where the nations state had faded and the business empire was dominant. I see in the media that people like Mathias Dopfner of the Axel Springer group sees Google as a threat to the pan-European super-state. Or perhaps he sees Google as a threat to his media empire. Actually the article on the BBC uses the term "Superstate". Such a superstate run by Google would, no doubt, have ubiquitous wifi, and we'll all be running netbooks and galaxy style phones, all with minimal local storage since the 'Net/Cloud would be soaking everything up. Wifi relays on Mt Hood and Ayer's Rock ... -- A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers. -- Bertrand Russell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org