Comment Singularity is coming as predicted in Sci-Fi (Score 1) 258
Journal Journal: play doom and re-use your virtual sofa as a shared display
Virtual Network Computing, or VNC, can be combined with a multiuser online environment. realXtend open source virtual world platform has a built in version of the tightVNC viewer.
The shared application can be projected on any virtual world surface. Here is how to do it and how it looks like..
Comment Subscription to legal music store is 15$ (Score 2, Interesting) 461
Comment Or is your computer really an IM Buddy? (Score 2, Informative) 288
Comment More visualization; email inbox in a virtual world (Score 1) 82
Comment Thin clients could solve part of the problem (Score 1) 348
If companies were using thin clients, it should be an easy decision to switch it off, because the wake up time is in seconds rather than minutes.
IMO this is a usability problem; When no-one (including my processes) is using a computer, it should switch off automatically. And wake up when I come back.
The same applies to lights, heating,
Maybe even bigger problem is that I drive to work instead of working from home using a virtual world...