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        <title><![CDATA[The idea is ludicrous]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is anyone really suggesting that no one will need a PC in the near future? Is there anyone here who never uses a PC or laptop at home now?&quot;My primary computer now is a tablet.&quot; suggests to me that he still has at least one PC for all the things his tablet can't do.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:59:26 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[last time I used the mail was last week]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm having a parcel shipped to me. Email can't do that so the post office isn't going away. Also I have some Christmas cards to send.Likewise, there are many things tablets can't do that will keep the PC around.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:39:08 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[for open bracket int(how do you pronounce &quot;int&quot; anyway?) I, no lower case i, semi colon, i is   ten, no i   ten, no i  one zero, semi colon, i plus plus, no i ++, no i++, close bracket, open bracket((), no the other bracket &quot;{&quot;(I don't know what that is called)...I quit, I'm going to be a carpenter...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:29:24 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I prefer to type]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is the most efficient tool for me. Even if speech recognition was flawless, I still type faster than I talk. And imagine having to speaking in code.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:21:12 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My definition of a PC]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A PC is one that adheres to the original PC, the 8 bit 8085, later the 8086, hence the &quot;X86&quot; generation designation.  There has been loads of  computers based on just about every 8 bit to hit the market.  The PC helped to advance the double sided floppy and eventually to the  1.4 MB diskettes as the cpu's gained more addressablity on RAM, floppies and hard drive.  The scientific community jumped on the CO-Processor and soon it became an integral part.  Upward compatablity was the goal and was driven by none other than Microsoft.  The wrote the first DOS for the IBM PC and later re-wrote it to reflect hardware differences of different mfgrs.  MS-DOS became more common and came bundled on the machine.  With the third party market almost equal to the OEM, hardware options further the advances and clued the mfgrs to the next inclusions on their boards to eliminate the need for after-market parts and hardware.  As the devices get smaller and more and more gets included in that package, the PC may remain as a backup to one of those all in one things when you drop it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mjd420nova]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:42:17 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Still looking for the digital personal assitant]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I owned a newton for a couple of years and have yet to find a device that takes 'lunch with david' and goes to my calendar and blocks 90 minutes starting at 11:30 with david's contact info.Does siri or google voice on the  samsung note 2 do this?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ibrother]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:58:52 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's just marketing!]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-347218-3492645]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Quote from Wikipedia on Personal Computer:&quot;A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator.&quot;A personal computer is one that is primary used by one person. If you think of what predated the personal computer, main frames (which require a computer operator) you soon realize that the real differencing factor between a PC, smart phone, or tablet is how you access your data. Once you can no longer access any data on the local device without the help of a computer operator (whether it???s a person or a remote computer program) then you can say that it is not a PC. Today???s personal computing devices are not so different from the standalone machines from years ago in the fact they are chemical electrical based computational tools. In a strong technical sense of the definition a tablet, smart phone, and arguably even a cloud notebook are personal computers because they are computing devices intended for the purpose of being used by a sole individual. Years ago I heard the term Personal Computing Device as a broader term to describe all these new hybrid devices that were and are coming to the market. The key word is coming to market. In marketing since of the word yes the PC era is over, but it???s simply marketing. The CD and record use different materials, so does the automobile compared to the horse and buggy. But that smart phone, PC, tablet, or cloud notebook are all pretty much the same inside, and they are intended as a tool for single individual. Perhaps in the future there will be computers that we access using our brains or some embed processing unit. At that point I think we can agree that the PC is dead and instead we just have Personal Computing Spaces (PCS).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[chroswalt@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:29:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tablets and PC fusion.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[i think the tablets and PCs are going to fuse to create more powerful equipement like the Dell Inspiron Duo (http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/inspiron-duo/pd?sc_err=noocs) and Acer Iconia (http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/iconia).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[wompai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:41:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Personal Computers are far from dead.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[With all the excitement about tablets, they just do not offer a full productive experience to everyone. I cannot write code on my tablet, I cannot write a full report with embedded objects that the word processing vender did not think of. The tablets are great for people who only deal with email and spend their lives moving from one meeting to the next. I myself have just replaced my notebook computer with a tablet and most of the time I do not miss my notebook computer at all. As a more technical person and not someone who moves from meeting to meeting, I have found solutions like Citrix Receiver allow me to not have a notebook computer and just rely on the tablet to handle all my mobile computing tasks. I still need a desktop computer to do some additional work that I would not be able to do on my tablet. I am also a graduate student and I am using the tablet to take notes in class and I will also use the computer to type out documents and work on calcultions that I will need for my classes. I will still need a desktop computer in which to add stuff like biblographys and equations in my reports.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jfreedle2@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:52:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Developer speak? ... so...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What do you think the older folkes think when they see youngsters passing by talking to their bluetooth devices?Yes, it will happen, developpers will actually talk code to their computers. Why not, dont you yell your smartphone which number to dial?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ontopper@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:07:53 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Maybe you should start a blog?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nobody here is denying change. We are just discussing if speech input would be practical on all devices, we are not trying to halt the universe from changing :-p get a hang on yourself ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[belli_bettens@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:45:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mark Dean doesn't know what he's talking about]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-347218-3483843]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[The PC era is not going to end until we have a good interactive AI as our user interface.  Until then, the PC may, and has, expanded into a plethora of more portable, specialized physical configurations.  Expanded, not ended.  There is a vast difference; unless you're some kind of marketing stooge trying to sell more of what people already have.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr_Zinj]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:43:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Demise of PC]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The demise of PC is in the conventional format sense only. If we go literally then personal computing is becoming more prominent and ubiquitous may be called by any name or using any device. Today even for using the mobile we use a computing chip not to speak of the tablets and the like. These all have the input, output and processing entities within &amp; even use an OS to do the house keeping. So PC has morphed into different form and format, that is all.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[S. K. Kak]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:03:20 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Predictions are risky]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[About forty yeas ago, when ATMs first started to appear, a banker told me that tellers would no longer be needed. When I protested that I preferred a teller, he told me that young people would all go to ATMs and us older characters would eventually disappear.  Well, as you know, there are now more tellers than ever because banks have entered retail stores and now have long hours(banker's hours is no longer a joke). My wife is a librarian and was told long ago that librarians would not be needed because of the information available on the Internet.  Well, librarians are now &quot;information specialists&quot; and are needed more than ever to guide people through all the misinformation on the Web.  Actually the computerization of medical facilities will keep small PC's around for a long time, although most may be &quot;thin clients.&quot;  I have yet to see a doctor use a tablet, and at my age I see a lot of doctors. Of course obsolescence does occur; the typewriter and the telex are gone.  On the other hand, the computer compelled many men to learn how to type who otherwise would have left that to the female secretary. The typewriter is gone, but typing is here to stay.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ElijahKam]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:31:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Errr....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Was he paid off by Steve Jobs who also announce the end of the &quot;PC&quot; era or just copying jobs? If the &quot;PC&quot; is dead why does Jobs' Apple continue to sell Mac laptops and desktops? Wouldn't that be unethical?  I guess he figures if the government knows that smoking kills people then he can still sell his computers.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gisabun]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:23:31 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[And Rock is Dead too]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The truth is that like an onion the PC layer will be part of all the layers that come after it, just as the PC is part of all the layers before it.  These guys that don't produce work, but rather manage it, find the tablets and smartphones easier than carrying a laptop because they absorb information, they don't create much.  Creators of the data they absorb however will be the PC users of the future, in whatever incarnation that they want to call it.  Just like Rock and Roll, the back beat rhythm, just can't be taken out of music.  Carry on my friends I am the data master, I own you as you innocently absorb all that your dumb devices can display !!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[billtomlinson@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:08:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Another IBM prediction]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I also remember IBM making the prediction that the world could or would be run on 4 main computers/servers and how most professionals scuffed at that notion as some comments do above. Now, with cloud computing taking shape and portable devices I think we are well on our way perhaps not with 4 computers but rather a hubs of central servers/repositories consolidating with better technologies. So its easy to see, especially with the progression of technologies and the means of accessing information, how this is playing out. BTW: I think we can also expect the capitalists and paranoids to strangle this progress to sell us with another few version of the same product and not let go of the revenue streams but then again here comes Google-Moto.Remember the average Joe just wants something that is cheap, easy to use and works (for the most part). Security, is unfortunately an after thought but I am sure the IT pros with work on that.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[slipchuk]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:42:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hello.  Comedy?  I'm old, and haven't seemed to predict the future yet.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Every time someone has prescribed a provocative future, like most, I am always first to discount that possibility.  Can't be.  Won't happen.  People won't stand for it.  They won't make any money.  Every incorrect prediction has propelled me to the status of inverse great oracle.  Every prediction I make will go the other way.  So have hope my friends!I've been around too long.  I now believe that nothing is permanent, and that everything is possible.  Why not?  It could happen.  I've been wrong before.So now, when someone predicts the end of the PC, I consider the possibility.  The words alone can influence a new generation of hype-drivers to make it a reality.  I wouldn't like the things I refered to tongue-and-cheek, because everything I know would be turned upside down yet again.  I lamented the loss of Cobol and MVS which pushed me from mainframes into those little toy PCs where you worked on files one at a time.  It was never going to be any good without a punch card processor. I never imagined all of the things we now take for granted.  Cellular telephones the size of a pack of gum stuck in people's ears, cameras without film that did a dozen other things, a completely tubeless TV, cable TV/satellite channels by the hundreds with yucky channels, stun guns that launch riots, color laser printers, fiber-optic communication, a space station orbiting our home planet, telescopes in space, tyvek suits to keep people from messing clean things up instead of the other way around, jet airplanes crossing oceans non-stop without those wonderful layovers on islands, low taxes cranking up the debt, even lower interest rates with folks still losing homes, world ecomonic collapses, 3D movies in full color, planes used as bombs, antibiotic resistant diseases, genetic engineering, mass killings of humans and animals with production efficiency, the internet phenomen, body piercing.    Who would want all of this stuff?  Kids.  They are the engine of the economy that drives desires beyond what my poor little mind can comprehend.We often have a choice of technolgies we want to use, but sometimes they are chosen for us by mass marketing, peer pressure and incomprehensible desires to be cool.  Who knows what direction hype will send society?  Carry phones around with you all over the place all of the time?  When will we get a moment's peace?  Folks have highly spirited and animated conversations aloud all of the time.  But instead of yelling at humans, they'll be yelling at their AI buddies?  Technology won't suddenly make people sane, but maybe someone will create an app for that.Typing hasn't always been around.  It's a fairly recent invention in the grand scheme of things.  The wheel and fire have been around a bit longer. We've been promised flying cars for decades and maybe it won't &quot;burn&quot; fuel.  I have given up the notion that it will happen really soon.  But it could still happen.  And it also doesn't mean I have to like it. It sure is funny when a few words can set off a firestorm of fear and denial. Good luck folks, change is coming.  It's always coming.  And all too often someone predicts the world is supposed to end, and despite that, most of us are still here, complaining. Misery reminds us that we are indeed still alive.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ToR24]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:38:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not totally true but scary]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Look, I know companies would love to have us all on the Cloud; you can't easily pirate programs and movies located on distant servers. THIS is the unspoken reason businesses are rushing to it. It's a scary thought, that because of a bunch of amoral geeks and thugs (and that is what most pirates are), the rest of us will be held hostage, not being able to use any software or watch any movie without someone else knowing about it and having the ability to stop us whenever they want. I will not move to the cloud. I will continue to use computers with installed software until they have to ply the dusty keyboard from my cold, dead fingers..I am not a Luddite. I will use tablets and the Cloud but not exclusively and not to replace the greatest tool fhe information age ever produced, the computer.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[OldPoet]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:43:21 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[End of the pc.not!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[i don't know about you but if i am going to live in the cloud . I wan't my data at home by  logging in to my own server  at my house with back up storage amd power.i wan't to wach my local t.v.,play my music ,and watch my videos with out the cost of loseing it all .  End of P.C. i think not.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sarai1313@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:43:01 -0700</pubDate>
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