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Re: sc stands for super computer

From	owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: sc stands for super computer
Date	2017-04-25 15:29 +0000
Organization	O.W.L.
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Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> wrote:
> On 2017-04-25, owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:
>> Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> wrote:
>>> On 2017-04-25, Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> // snip
>>> 
>>>> Thanks for the effort. Not a big deal as the post was just me pointing
>>>> out how Apple dumping Automator would piss some people off but,
>>>> in the grand scheme of things, it wasn't going to affect the "average"
>>>> user much.
>>> 
>>> Apple abandoning something?? No way... ;)
>>> 
>>
>> They have to clear a path for maciOS.
> 
> Actually, they don't. iOS and MacOS will never intersect.

I don't see a convergence of OSes.  I do think that macOS will
go away and iOS will be wedged onto the Macks as maciOS.   


> Now if they just
> gave the Mac a touch screen, a pen and a cellular modem, they'd have
> something. Instead of running an ARM processor to manage the touch bar
> that ARM processor should be monitoring events such as a text message or
> a phone call. If they did that with MacOS such that it could stay on all
> the time like the iPad can stay on all the time, they'd really have
> something there. 
> 
> I have an iPad and an iPhone. There are two things I like about both.
> I never turn them off. They iPad will make a noise and alert me when I
> get an email. I can leave it in my pack 24 hours a day, seven days week
> and if I don't turn the display on to actually use it, the battery is
> hardly touched at all. It will only lose a few percent of power per day.
> The events are monitors while the CPU is in a very low usage mode. It's
> pretty much asleep, but still gets events. You put that kind of function
> into a laptop, and you got me sold. 
> 
> ARM is really on to something here. Thanks to the hundreds of millions
> of these sold per quarter they keep getting faster and faster while
> giving better and better battery life. They are very dynamic in terms of
> CPUs cores being active or not, and being used or shut down to save
> power. 
> 
> In my opinion the next great feature for the PC is the monitoring of
> events in real time. Always on, always monitoring. My laptop should get
> smaller, lighter and yet always be on and always be monitoring. 
> 
> One nice thing about the phone is that we decided it is a phone. We
> decided it is a communications device. Now we have to allow the PC to
> *also* become a communications device. That means each PC needs
> something like a text message capability and an assumed method of
> reaching the user on the device. If you like, have two sides to the same
> device. An ARM CPU for events and an Intel CPU for the muscle. But the
> laptop needs to be on all the time. 
> 
> And iPad with a keyboard pretends to be this but it's missing the
> functionality of a PC. The PC has the functionality of a PC, but isn't a
> communications device at its soul the way a smart phone is. I can't
> leave the laptop on 24 x 7 from battery only. With the iPad I only
> top it off once ever two or three days and otherwise, it is not plugged
> in at all. I assume it is not dead because it takes days to kill it with
> my usage. I don't use it like a PC because it lacks the functions of a
> PC. It sits in my backpack most of the time, powered on and waiting for
> me to need it. I still hear it alerting me to events though. I like that
> part about it. 
> 

I think improving the computing experience for mobile devices, with
a more capable OS, along with modular accessories like keyboard and
portable monitor will be the way it goes.

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Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-23 13:57 -0700
  Re: sc stands for super computer DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-24 13:45 -0400
    Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 10:51 -0700
      Re: sc stands for super computer DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-25 13:49 -0400
        Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 10:56 -0700
          Re: sc stands for super computer DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-26 08:38 -0400
        Re: sc stands for super computer owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-25 18:07 +0000
          Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 11:41 -0700
          Re: sc stands for super computer Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-25 19:11 -0400
            Re: sc stands for super computer chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-26 06:35 -0500
              Re: sc stands for super computer Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-26 07:32 -0400
          Re: sc stands for super computer DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-26 09:09 -0400
    Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-24 11:01 -0700
      Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 11:49 -0700
        Re: sc stands for super computer Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-24 14:40 -0500
          Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-24 12:50 -0700
          Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <"Steve Carroll"@noSPAM.none> - 2017-04-24 19:51 +0000
            Re: sc stands for super computer Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-24 14:58 -0500
              Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 13:52 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-24 16:21 -0500
                Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-24 14:34 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 14:56 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-24 17:03 -0500
                Re: sc stands for super computer owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-24 22:09 +0000
                Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 15:53 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-24 23:07 +0000
                Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 16:24 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-24 23:35 +0000
                Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 16:46 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-24 23:51 +0000
                Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 17:37 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-24 19:54 -0500
                Re: sc stands for super computer owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-25 01:07 +0000
                Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-24 18:41 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-24 20:50 -0500
                Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-24 19:00 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-25 15:29 +0000
                Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 08:53 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-25 11:17 -0500
                Re: sc stands for super computer owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-25 16:24 +0000
                Re: sc stands for super computer Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-25 11:33 -0500
                Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 12:03 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 09:37 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 12:05 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 12:07 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-24 18:41 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer Silver Slimer <sl@im.er> - 2017-04-25 08:24 -0400
                Re: sc stands for super computer Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-25 10:03 -0500
                Re: sc stands for super computer chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-25 10:15 -0500
                Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 13:25 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer Silver Slimer <sl@im.er> - 2017-04-25 12:35 -0400
                Re: sc stands for super computer =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E5=90=8D=E8=AA=89=E6=AF=80=E6=90=8D=E3=81=AE=E3=81=9F=E3=8  <invalid@gmail.invalid> - 2017-04-25 19:06 +0200
                Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 09:20 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 09:23 -0700
                Re: sc stands for super computer Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-24 22:30 +0000
              Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-24 14:25 -0700
    Re: sc stands for super computer fr314159@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 12:24 -0700
      Re: sc stands for super computer DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-24 16:41 -0400
        Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 14:13 -0700

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