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| 12:10.39 | gregj | gw280_: cos it wil lnever happen ;> |
| 12:11.05 | gregj | (btw, "next year is the year of linux desktop" is something I hear for 5+ years now) |
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| 14:08.01 | wethrin | No-one cares about the desktop any more |
| 14:08.11 | wethrin | Smartphones and tablets are where it's at |
| 14:16.04 | dick_turpin | The desktop is dead, tablets are the future. There are only a few disciplines that require a physical keyboard and mouse and even those would be hard to defend in the long run |
| 14:16.54 | wethrin | I doubt that CAD, graphic design, or music typesetting would be hard to defend |
| 14:17.06 | wethrin | Or word processing |
| 14:19.43 | dick_turpin | CAD is the main one I was thinking of although you can use pen's for that. Word processing - software keyboard |
| 14:33.09 | wethrin | Software keyboard isn't good enough |
| 14:33.21 | wethrin | It doesn't give the proper responsiveness that you need to type really fast |
| 14:37.29 | dick_turpin | meh they'll get better |
| 14:37.50 | dick_turpin | you're clutching at the past |
| 14:38.39 | wethrin | Maybe. But I like the feel of a keypress |
| 14:42.07 | dick_turpin | I remember saying to my misses about eight or nine years ago "One day DVD's will be a thing of the past, you'll download films off the Internet probably watching them on your mobile phone." She basically called me an idiot "What moron would watch films on a phone? You talk some rubbish you do!" What do a lot of people do these days? Watch films on phones. |
| 14:42.32 | wethrin | mmm.... |
| 14:42.36 | wethrin | I don't :) |
| 14:42.39 | wethrin | The screen's too small |
| 14:49.46 | dick_turpin | There is an advert on TV at the moment for EE (Formerly Orange) showing a guy watching a movie on his way home then pausing it and carrying on from the pause on his tv in the house. The point being he was watching it on his phone. |
| 14:50.03 | wethrin | yes |
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| 14:51.52 | dick_turpin | tsk I have no idea how you're going to manage when we all have media/computer spectacles |
| 14:52.30 | dick_turpin | I suspect you'll be still lugging your PC around. :-) |
| 14:56.14 | wethrin | Yes! |
| 15:01.49 | dick_turpin | wethrin: You are officially and old fart |
| 15:13.28 | wethrin | Yes, I am |
| 15:13.32 | wethrin | parp |
| 15:16.11 | dick_turpin | I'm dreading the day we all have chips implanted and use retina display :-S |
| 15:22.14 | wethrin | Retina display is already trademarked by Apple |
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| 15:31.00 | Leeds | which is convenient, since it's a meaningless marketing phrase |
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| 15:36.29 | dick_turpin | Maybe I'm wrong (I'm not a biologist) I'm thinking along the lines of the display being displayed in your eyeball as if you was seeing it, if you get what I mean? |
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| 16:49.31 | gw280_ | gregj: spot the sarcasm |
| 17:33.06 | gregj | ;] |
| 18:25.49 | morsing | wethrin: Beer |
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