1) Godwin's law is that as the length of a USENET thread grows, the probability of someone being compared to Hitler approaches 1. You do not understand Godwin's law any more than most people understand Murphy's Law. (Both are fine examples of Murphy's law.)
2) Mike Godwin explicitly said that comparing Trump to Hitler is apt, not that this is relevant to Godwin's law, which doesn't refer to aptness of comparison.

It seems like you are ignorant on every topic.

It's probably wrong, as we will likely have a nuclear war before then, and we can have a party at ground zero instead.

The bulk of Slashdotters are American, Slashdot is hosted in America, there is nothing going on in America right now which is more important than the influence of the orange dick-who-would-be-tator. If you don't like it, start your own website. If you don't like it, do something to help remove him. If you don't like politics, explain your nickname.

https://www.abc4.com/gtu/ameri...

One of the most fascinating aspects of H2O is the sheer number of forms it can take under different conditions.

We're going to have to hope this project pans out, I guess. I used to run Familiar linux with GPE (gnome-based) desktop on my HP Ipaq... H2215 I think? It had what was then the fastest mobile ARM processor, the Intel PXA255. Unfortunately it was power hungry so I had to have a big stupid battery.

ANYHOO they had phone versions of those PocketPC devices, and you could run Linux on those as well.

For the time being, I guess I'm stuck on Android. I have an app library there I'd rather not abandon, and I still want to be able to use the bank app.

This is silly. You can run whatever you want on a phone, and while more pixels and more real estate are better (he saw himself type on his 42.5" 4k TV) you can still do a lot with a small screen. Work is done with phones every day. It's of course absolutely true that most people are mostly consuming content with their phones rather than creating it, but that doesn't negate actual uses like CRM and data collection which are completely viable on a small-screen device.

Having all that processing power on the phone is mostly squandered, but it's handy for a lot of short-running, high-horsepower tasks. When was the last time you experienced a perceptible delay in loading an image that wasn't related to storage? And on the more expensive phones, even the storage is fairly snappy. I buy mostly cheap Motos and the storage is plodding on all of them, but I rarely do storage-limited tasks so it's only irritating when installing or updating apps.

Do you mean Palmtop PCs, or PDAs? Both have done a lot more jobs than that. I've known a lot of people who had sub-laptop PCs who did actual work with them. A friend of mine had a Dauphin 486 tablet-with-pen for example, and used it as his primary machine on the go. That had a kind of laughable form factor by today's standards, and it was amusing back then too to be honest since it was as thick as a GRiDPad 1910. Maybe thicker? Too lazy to look it up now, and I only have the gridpad so I can't just compare.

Hmm, that was supposed to be ejected, but you know, fucking Google. Autocorrect always picks the dumbest option.

They can, mining equipment can do that. And it's big enough too

IMO, wrong question. Let's look at other places where that quick context switch is needed. As an example, voice chat in games. They bind a key to activate it rather than hope and pray the computer guesses right (with all the added latency that would also add). They already have a MUTE key. They'll just need to make that a three way toggle: Mute, Call, Computer. No reason to wait for the tech to be perfect when that would be and is trivial to implement.

But it's the exact same problem.
* Basic was designed for normal people to use.
* SQL was designed for normal people to use.
* The computer GUI itself is there to make them more accessible to normal people.

Sure, let's use voice:
2008 MS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
2012 MS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You mean we will be left in mass graves? They are absolutely not planning to give us any basic income.

Given the requirements to be featured on such a coin, I certainly hope so.

That computer wouldn't need your voice because it would have to be reading your mind. That's not how it worked in Star Trek. The AI doctor in Voyager might be a better example, as he observed all of the surrounding context, had real communication with people, etc.. but that wasn't at all how their computers worked. The computer was given commands and did them. The actions that made the most sense are already features in smart speakers, and had little to do with actual computer use.

I never mentioned who was talking to the computer. Let's say Picard told Worf, then Worf had to tell the computer. Even Star Trek doesn't pretend that will work! Worf has a terminal he uses to do the actual stuff. The computer is often relegated to making tea, adjusting the lights, or opening a short comms link.

TBH, I think that gets at the actual uses. What do we use our smart speakers for today? They *can* do a lot more than we use them for (ex. I never buy products via Alexa, nor do I have it send emails or know my contacts), but they mainly get used to tell me the weather, time, adjust the lights, play some music, convert imperial to metric, ... easy and straight forward stuff.

I suspect this will be much like a touchscreen on a computer - occasionally convenient, very useful in select situations, and awful for day to day work. One of the most useful things I can think of would be diction, but that's been available for decades. Text to speech could have some uses, but book publishers (the things I'd want read to me the most) have already blocked that where it was readily available (even the first Kindle could do text to speech on any book... but only those with the right licensing so they didn't step on Audibles profits). The accessibility community should benefit quite a bit though, and that's a good thing.

FTFY, see subject. EOM.