@stefano - the whole point behind a 'personal computer' was that the user wasn't relying on a dumb keyboard attached to some anonymous mainframe elsewhere that held the OS, software and your data. With a PC, the users was in control, on a device that was local. If not in their lap.
Now we're being told that subscription-based software, virtual software (including OS), cloud-based storage and a software application that chooses what it will offer the user is the way to go.
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In the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters. -
A positive thing about Trump's insane, lie-filled, egocentric speech at the UN today is that the more he gives speeches like that, the more the world as a whole will understand he's a raving lunatic.@petergleick - oh, that ship has sailed.
Laughter the very first time he spoke there, and if not for trade (and many are looking at Plan B), little has changed in their attitude towards him.
Except now he’s a _dangerous_ loony, following in the footsteps of some of the worst, past and present.