[Olpc-open] Re: [OLPC Security] Application bundles and delegation

[John Kintree]

Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:Computers are usually replaced after 3 or 4 years. The problem is not
that the computers become less capable, but that software to do more
also requires more hardware in every generation. I appreciated and mostly agreed with your comments, Edward.  On the point of rapid obsolecence, if many of the new applications can be handled at the server side instead of the PC side, the lifetime of the OLPC laptops may be extended.  For example, real-time translation of spoken words from one human language to another would require more processing and memory than the OLPC laptop will have, but if it can be handled on a voice translation server "out there" on the Internet, the OLPC laptop will remain good enough.
 John Kintree
 http://home.swbell.net/jkintree/islt/
 
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