Re: PC--What is it good for?

"Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Ken from Chicago wrote:
>> "Matt Browne SFW" <matt.h.browne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> On Dec 9, 12:03 pm, "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> wrote:
>>>> By PC I mean "personal computer", be it Windows OS, Mac OS, Linux OS
or 
>>>> even
>>>> Amiga OS, what are personal computers good for?
>>>> What functionality is there left to put into their base operating 
>>>> systems?
>>>> -- Ken from Chicago
>>> I think the future is not about huge operating systems getting bigger
>>> and ****nier every year. It's about smart and tailored "personal
>>> computers" being omnipresent in your life: in your clothes, your
>>> wristwatch, your gl*****, your multimedia center at home, your car and
>>> so forth... in 10 - 15 years time almost every mp3 file that exists in
>>> this world will fit in a memory that could be part of your
>>> wristwatch... in 20 - 30 years perhaps you might have a whole set of
>>> "personal computers" in the form of nanorobots helping you to take
>>> care of your health...
>>>
>>> XP and Vista are headed in the wrong direction. The future is about
>>> getting smaller and smarter.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Matt Browne
>>> My webpage is at http://www.meet-matt-browne.com
>>> "As a race, we survive on planet Earth purely by geological consent."
>>> Bill McGuire
>>
>> That I tend to agree with. Individual tiny modules or "applets"
networked 
>> together to do individually tiny tasks and grouped to do major tasks.
>>
>> And being modular, it's easier to upgrade them.
>
> The problem with that is security.  There is a direct tradeoff between 
> openness and extensibility on the one hand, and security against threats

> on the other.  The saving strength of still having a "kernel" operating 
> system that is inaccessible to change, is that ideally it can be 
> completely walled off against anything that could maliciously modify it:

> viruses, trojan horses, disgruntled employees sabotaging the computer 
> system, etc.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Steven L.
> Email:  sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Remove the NOSPAM before replying to me.

Not so much a networking hub but more of a docking station, akin to what 
notebooks have to connect full-size peripherals, monitors, keyboards,
mice, 
etc. to a notebook--but in this case a palmtop pc (PPC). Want better
video? 
Swap out a new video card and plug it into the slot. Want more storage? 
Either swap out the current hd or daisy chain a new one in (the way Amigas

did in the '80s). Want a bigger monitor? Swap out a bigger monitor. Etc.

-- Ken from Chicago