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Why did the fail?
What was wrong with products that do processing locally?

You've said that they don't work, but haven't given any solid reasons why.

You mention tampering, but anything capable of rendering windows is going to have some sort of client-side OS that can be tampered with by someone smart enough. Besides, why tamper when I can unplug the smart display from the network jack and plug my handheld computer in? And I don't think schools and businesses are that concerned with expert tampering, anyway.

You also mentioned the problem with slow networks hurting storage access, but networks are faster, and, in my opinion just as important, main memory is so dirt cheap that in most application just about every piece of persistent data can be held in cache and asynchronously persisted as needed.
Posted by: Erik1234   Posted on: 09/23/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Why did the fail?  Erik1234 | 09/23/05
I Don't really know  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 09/23/05
Good wrap-up  rapson | 09/23/05
Needs More  Erik1234 | 09/23/05
I think I understand...  rapson | 09/23/05
Users are NOT allowed to be "empowered"  IT-sys | 09/23/05
Irrelevant  rapson | 09/23/05
Windows based Enterprises are LOCKED DOWN  IT-sys | 09/23/05
I agree  Mark Miller | 09/24/05
MCSEs Exposed  matrixdomain | 09/25/05
User Applications  Erik1234 | 09/23/05
But...  rapson | 09/23/05
All of them  Erik1234 | 09/23/05
OK  rapson | 09/23/05
All this NC stuff is stupid!  An_Axe_to_Grind | 09/23/05
Agreeing - a bit - with Carl  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 09/23/05
Final thought  rapson | 09/23/05
"Smart Displays" and Security  Erik1234 | 09/23/05
Actually a big market  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 09/23/05
Your reasons have no justification  BrutalTruth | 09/25/05
User "lock down"  teme | 09/29/05

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