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Why?
Why carry around an OS?

Why carry around applications?

These things are better left on a server.

Personal Data, preffered Application Options extensions and themes, and preffered OS options I can understand - for that portability by hand makes perfect sense to me. It does away with the need to secure transport from a server to any endpoint - and minimises the need for authentication.

Privacy issues become far simpler to manage.

Thus, much of the workload of application services and terminals becomes standardized and far simpler to workload balance - thus maximising lon-line performance for software as services.

It's about time all citizens were issued with personal a dongle from birth. In a perfect World, USB 3.0 would take us to the point where the terminal hardware standards are ready.

Its the software and services that worry me. They still have a long, long, way to go.
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Why?  Stephen Wheeler | 10/13/05
One major problem with Server based of anything  JJ_z | 10/13/05
Here's why...  Confused by religion | 10/13/05
LOL @ Remote Villages  itanalyst | 10/13/05
Has anyone ever thought  Gravitas@... | 10/14/05
Ignorance gone to seed!  KD_z | 10/14/05
India is a different case.  Gravitas@... | 10/14/05
Third World  KD_z | 10/14/05
You have to take your OS with you ...  terry flores | 10/13/05
No "intraweb?"  voice_of_all_reason | 10/13/05
Good point  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/13/05
4:1 highball  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/13/05
I'd still rather have  Michael Kelly | 10/13/05
True  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/13/05
Small Computer in a Big Box  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/13/05
It's possible -- Think "recycling"  carrollj@... | 10/14/05
First computers . . .  HiRezL | 10/19/05
Get REAL!  Wolfie2K3 | 11/29/05
Go Puppy!  HiRezL | 10/19/05
Interesting...  Anti_Zealot | 10/13/05
yup  Tim Patterson | 10/13/05
Would you care to show us  Linux User 147560 | 10/13/05
I said it was possible...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/13/05
I would really like to see a  Linux User 147560 | 10/13/05
Linux also makes it a heck of a lot easier than Windows  Sabz5150 | 10/13/05
"Would you care to show us a bootable USB Windows?"  HiRezL | 10/19/05
Would you let someone else show us?  flippurr | 05/27/08
An answer to the $100 PC?  Loverock Davidson | 10/13/05
Then make it happen  Linux User 147560 | 10/13/05
I said I couldn't  Loverock Davidson | 10/13/05
There Is Already Portable Firefox/Thunderbird  itanalyst | 10/13/05
Linux on a stick  johnnwvs | 10/14/05
Check Puppy Linux  rarsa | 10/15/05
Why does it have to be limited to 256MB?  Michael Kelly | 10/13/05
I used those numbers based  Linux User 147560 | 10/13/05
The 256 Ones Come With Office Suite  Ed_Meyers | 10/13/05
--I Should Mention  Ed_Meyers | 10/13/05
WinCE  java.user | 10/13/05
WinCE or XP Embedded  PB_z | 10/13/05
I was thinking the same thing...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/13/05
Short life  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/14/05
You have a point  HiRezL | 10/19/05
Didn't We Go Through This About 8 Years Ago?  itanalyst | 10/13/05
This is a bit different  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/13/05
I Concur With You  itanalyst | 10/13/05
Only Expensive if it's Windows  BanjoPaterson | 10/13/05
Pricing  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/13/05
Touche  BanjoPaterson | 10/13/05
You have that backwards  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/13/05
"INCONCEIVABLE"  BanjoPaterson | 10/13/05
You're incorrect. With Dell you pay LESS  John Zern | 10/13/05
Post the URLs  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/13/05
URLs  HiRezL | 10/19/05
Actually MS gaining in server market  John Zern | 10/13/05
Windows is losing to Linux  whisperycat | 10/14/05
Dell offers PCs with Linux  PB_z | 10/13/05
I had one of those  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/14/05
"Vectors into the kernel" in Windows  PB_z | 10/13/05
Good news - but does it guard against app level exploits e.g. IE  BanjoPaterson | 10/13/05
Definition of "kernel"  PB_z | 10/14/05
Insecure by design  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/14/05
Death bed conversion  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/13/05
Yes, programming is fun  Anti_Zealot | 10/13/05
Well there's your problem. Duh!  daver_z | 10/14/05
Super automatic update  Rafael Ribeiro | 10/14/05
Forgot to mention  Rafael Ribeiro | 10/14/05
Uh ... no.  Henaway | 10/14/05
Re: Uh  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/14/05
Sorry John but please insert another quarter and try again...  Linux User 147560 | 10/14/05
Re: Quarters  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/14/05
MCSEs are clueless in Linux: they can't support it  matrixdomain | 10/15/05
To matrixdomain  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/15/05
Like Dell's Windows-free PC?  Robert Crocker | 10/15/05
Prove it  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/15/05
$150 - John your getting hosed  Ed_Meyers | 10/13/05
Thank you. Try $8, not $150!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  daver_z | 10/14/05
Why?  Tim Patterson | 10/13/05
Re: Why?  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/13/05
Not personally...  Tim Patterson | 10/13/05
Come on...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/13/05
Both of you are missing the point  drorharari | 10/14/05
I like it  Richard Flude | 10/13/05
I agree  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/13/05
You'd be surprised  Richard Flude | 10/14/05
RAM IMAGE TRANSFER - HAH!  daver_z | 10/14/05
Easy..  Patrick Jones | 10/14/05
Here's a better way  daver_z | 10/14/05
How?  Patrick Jones | 10/14/05
Flash is slow  daver_z | 10/14/05
Have already done all that.  Patrick Jones | 10/14/05
Slow Drives?  doc_cotton | 10/19/05
I thought we were talking about a cheap mass produced machine  Richard Flude | 10/14/05
Terminals on fold-down trays in airplanes  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/13/05
Scratch the rollball mouse  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/13/05
One problem...  Patrick Jones | 10/14/05
Good point...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/14/05
More ideas...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/13/05
Gee.. kinda sounds like a PC  daver_z | 10/14/05
but also a beef up option  toxicfreak | 10/13/05
limitations of media?  lwvirden | 10/14/05
So...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/14/05
$100 pc  cmpenchina@... | 10/14/05
Good 'ol Days...  Adhimot | 10/16/05
Bad old days  george_ou | 10/17/05
just use a cf/sd/ms card  distantrhythm | 10/14/05
Bootable?  Adhimot | 10/16/05
You can do this for only $8  daver_z | 10/14/05
You said 4gb flash drive is probably the largest, no  keithbaca | 10/14/05
Your 20GB *is* a hard drive...  jjmmhh | 10/14/05
Big OS, Slow Flash (yes, flash is super slow)  daver_z | 10/14/05
Fast flash drives  daver_z | 10/14/05
think 10-20yrs out  kulkan | 10/14/05
GotoMyPC technology makes more sense to me  daver_z | 10/14/05
USB ports to be blocked on public computers  daver_z | 10/14/05
That's because...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/14/05
You can't ALL be so young...  kgillis | 10/14/05
Thorns  billgovols | 10/14/05
I thought there already was a "windows lite"  jtimouri | 10/14/05
Windows Lite  HiRezL | 10/19/05
Take a look at XPlite and 2000lite  jtimouri | 10/14/05
It is probubly a mindset problem.  B.O.F.H. | 10/14/05
IMHO  istari2ve2002@... | 10/14/05
NeXT did this in the 80s  AldoWatts | 10/14/05
No...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/15/05
You still need to have a computer to run a flash drive  luv2sail2@... | 10/14/05
Overgrown PDA!  Airwolph | 10/15/05
that for sure causes pain  Rafael Ribeiro | 10/17/05
in the mean time, is the data enough??  jdevora | 10/18/05
Correct me if I'm wrong  istari2ve2002@... | 10/18/05
Answer to myself  istari2ve2002@... | 10/18/05
why the sudden change of opinion?  No_Brain_To_Think | 10/18/05
Why not as a super cell phone/PDA?  bboyes@... | 10/19/05
MatrixDomain:"MCSEs are clueless in Linux: they can't support it"  HiRezL | 10/19/05

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