ZombieKitten said:

"Eat me."

They really stuffed up with the wording for this article. As they clearly state (which a lot of you are missing) is that they believe desktops will die for your average joe who all he does is browse the internet and doesn't do anything a phone or other device can do these days.

But for everyone else (gamers/graphic designers etc) it will be impossible to do what they need efficiently on a phone as there just isn't enough power for them to support the software, nor is the screen big enough.

Yeah right, I'm going to post-process my photographs on a telephone. I don't even have one.

Yeah right, I'm going to post-process my photographs on a telephone. I don't even have one.

Fauxie said:

That's nice, Steve

Fauxie said:

I don't even think I COULD on my phone

Alej said:

Oh, hey Steve.

I don't think it's ridiculous at all, if you think about it. You don't have to limit your thoughts to just the phones screen and QWERTY.

I imagine you will have a keyboard and mouse hooked to your TV, your phone will act as the computer. Access it on the phone's screen and QWERTY when you are mobile, dock it when you get home and use the TV and keyboard, but the phone will still be the computer part. Hell, I doubt you'll even need to dock it, it will automatically switch to the TV whenever it is in range, then switch back when it is not. Optical drives are becoming a thing of the past...it will all be flash based. That includes TV's, most all TV's sold now have a USB port, and eventually it will be wireless anyway. Movies and such don't need discs anymore...that will all be on demand streaming..it's already starting.

I totally agree. The smartphone, in 10 years, is going to be used for essentially everything...your debit and credit transactions, filling out forms at doctor offices, unlocking your home and car locks, starting your car, housing ALL your music, playing music in your car, ears, home...watching security cameras in your home remotely, remote control just about everything you own, etc. etc....

Make no mistake, it will be the advertising nightmare you expect it to be also, why in the world do you think corporate america is so behind the tech??? It is a DIRECT line, to you the consumer, as never seen before.

It's a brave new dystopia we are entering into.

But it never rings.

Fauxie said:

that's what I want!

im experiencing futuristic visions. and imagining new local laws and ordinances

JerseyKRS said:

But JerseyKRS, how will we illegally download music and porn?

bboy87 said:

Who needs to download porn anymore? There are so many PornTube sites out there that you can be awash in hot fucking without even having to save anything.

But I suppose if you have to get that latest Lady GaGa album or that first 3D porn flick you can show on your huge HD flat screen in your living room, you probably will need a desktop PC to run your torrent download program.

it will be a little box plugged into the telly, no need for computer as such

ZombieKitten said:

Technically, there are already media center PC's that you plug into your TV that turns your TV into a computer monitor so you can do all of your computing plus it works as a DVR and can work with Netflix or whatever video-on-demand service is out there. I suppose the difference in the future is that the media PC/gaming device will be built into the flat screen television you buy at the electronics store or your cable/satellite set-top box will be a full functioning PC as well as TV box/DVR.

bboy87 said:

Who needs to download porn anymore? There are so many PornTube sites out there that you can be awash in hot fucking without even having to save anything.
But I suppose if you have to get that latest Lady GaGa album or that first 3D porn flick you can show on your huge HD flat screen in your living room, you probably will need a desktop PC to run your torrent download program.

728huey said:

please.... everybody knows some of the best porn isn't available on those sites

bboy87 said:

What kind of porn are you watching? That really freaky German or Japanese porn? The kind where some woman is gang raped by some tentacled creature?

The very idea is stupid in theory alone.
.

ugh. i don't want any of that. constantly being forced to get new phones
or computers or whatever. i just don't want to learn how to use all that
stupid shit. 90% of it is boring, compared to 10% actual daily convenience.

i need to be slowly coaxed into any new appliance

about 4 months ago i got a new tv and it's got a usb port and all but it
wasn't until this weekend that i've finally decided to put some movies on
a usb stick and try to watch a movie on the tv like that. it worked well
and i'm happy with that.

but if my tv had 50 different new functions like that, it would already
be either outdated or even broken before i'd even wanted to try them all.

same thing with mobile phones. my friends have what i call "uberphones".
those things make me fcking nervous. my own phone is pretty basic, tho
these days, you just can't escape it having about 45 different things on
the menu. figuring that stuff out is already a pain, plus, i never use
any of it.

these days when you go into a store and you say "i want a basic model,
no bells or whistles, just pure basic and nothing more", they look at
you as if you've come from another planet.

oh my god

OH MY FUCKING GOD

i've now officially turned into my grandfather

what the hell?

that's it, i'm getting an iphone right this fucking second
and something else, something with at least 79 obsolete and
totally non essential extra features

I tried the usb with movie on my telly, but apparently this country denied our sets the firmware to let that work

which FRIKKING SUCKS!!!!!

In three years I'll be too busy cruising around in my flying car to notice.

ZombieKitten said:

ow, that does suck, esp if it has a usb port. are you sure the
file format of the movie on the stick was compatible with your
tv's features (or whatever it's called).

my brother told me that .avi files would always play on the tv
i have so i only download illegal copies of movies if they are
in avi format.

ZombieKitten said:

ow, that does suck, esp if it has a usb port. are you sure the
file format of the movie on the stick was compatible with your
tv's features (or whatever it's called).

my brother told me that .avi files would always play on the tv
i have so i only download illegal copies of movies if they are
in avi format.

IstenSzek said:

I have always wondered why your line breaks are so much shorter than everyone else's. Is it the machine you use? The internet provider? You just like hitting the "return" bar?

Enquiring minds need to know!

RodeoSchro said:

that's just the way i like to type. it gives me a clear view
of where my lines are gonna end. i don't know why i started
doing it but i think it started as soon as we went from the
black and purple org to this one.

IstenSzek said:

.avi files should work fine

I just googled
http://forums.cnet.com/52...dID=349912
weird huh!