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This reminds me of the question "will internet connections all be wireless one day?". The answer imho is no because wired/optical connections should always outpace wireless in bandwidth. So to the question will desktops be replaced by phones/tablets/cloud the answer for me is definitively no!
I need several massive video cards in SLI to render Fallout 4 nicely and lots of video RAM to model in Maya. I need several monitors to develop in Unity3D's many IDE panels. I need massive hard drive space to store my Photoshop files. I cannot debug in Visual Studio with even a little cloud lag.
That said I do find myself being able to do more and more tasks on my Sager laptop with the caveat that the quadcore, 32GB RAM and replaceable NVidia GPU sizes it to a brick but still I can use it on the couch.
One final note who puts their lovingly crafted desktop on the floor?
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I think people still want big monitors / TVs, game controllers and keyboards. And the video hardware to run them at 90+ FPS. But I think these will move to wireless and the Desktop PC will become more and more a Home Server in a back room or closet.
Some people will be content to use remote "cloud" systems but I think there are a ton of people who don't want to give up control of their media collections, especially the ripped and torrent stuff.
I am always being surprised by people who aren't in IT but are running Kodi on Linux with 12 TB of RAID drives.
Media users will want heavy CPU for transcoding, gamers for games, developers for virtual machines and containers.
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I've attempted to track down an author of a rather nice little project I found on here, but since trying to contact him in November of 2014, there's been no replies from him or anyone else in the community.
It's no big deal - I wrote a minor modification to the code and wanted to share it with anyone who wanted it, but following the guidelines, I need the author's permission.
So I've not published it. Seems like a shame, but I respect the rules.
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason; the madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
--G.K. Chesterton
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So post your own version.
Open the article in question, on the very left side below the link to comments you have a link to "Add your own alternative version".
Since it's directly referring to the original article there should be no issues on plagiarism, especially if you only post your changes/improvements.
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Publish it with reference to the original, we hate plagiarism but improving or even offering an alternative is standard practice. Just make sure you give original credit where it is due.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Ok,
I went back and re-read the posting guidelines. I will do as you guys suggest. It's kind of a neat project - [^]
Chootair's original Altimeter only went to 9,999 feet. I put together an instrumentation package for a high-altitude balloon project and used his Altimeter for the ground-chase vehicles which would receive real time telemetry from the balloon and provide a visual indication of the system's AGL and ground track using a map API. All I did was update it so it would handle one foot less than 100K feet. With so many balloon projects, I figure someone else might like that.
No big deal, but didn't want to upset him or anyone else by reposting w/o permission.
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason; the madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
--G.K. Chesterton
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public int? Group { get; set; }
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: public int? Group { get; set; }
Shouldn't that be written:
public int? Author {byte; this;}
Merry Christmas, Marc! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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You just gave me an idea for a story, Marc.
Merry merry thanks !
Bill
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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Interesting. I wonder if more sites are going this route. 
modified 23-Dec-15 13:28pm.
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There is a website for UK soccer teams called something like footymad. Each time has their own pages and forums, some used more than others.
Earlier this year they blocked access to the forums if you had adblocker turned on.
They received loads of complaints and a massive drop in use and had to back away from that policy.
Websites cost money to run, plenty of them are commercial, users are going to have to pay or receive adverts, if enough refuse to do either then sites will close down.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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You can: disable the adblocker, enter, turn it on again.
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If users of the Internet remain predominantly degenerate freeloaders, I don't see that they'll have much choice. Either that or paywalls. Or they'll just not bother any more at all and we'll see sites simply ceasing to exist. I'm sure adblockers are all very clever but all the [insert favourite non-CP approved epithet here] currently rubbing their hands with glee at sticking it to the man might just want to consider whether there will be anything left of their favoured sites come the next decade.
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Yes they will.
AdBlocking is the same as having someone covering up billboards as you walk past, or cutting out all the ads from a newspaper just before delivering it to you. I'm actually stunned that those guys haven't been subject to a class action for obstruction of business.
I hate crap ads - and that's what started the hole adblocker thing - but advertising has been with us forever and is an integral part of our society and economy.
They should focus on improving the quality of advertising rather than creating an escalating war that simply wastes precious cycles from everyone.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I do set exceptions for my ad blocker for sites that work better with it off or sites that I frequent often, such as here. However, I personally never click on ads, so I don't see the need for them, for me personally.
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Also, If you started a subscription model for this site, I would pay. Just saying.
I have no problem giving companies or sites that I use/frequent often, a subscription or member fee, especially if the service/product/content is worth the money.
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AdBlocking is not the same as covering up billboards. The ads actively get in the way of the web site - the entire site stalls until some database somewhere looks up my IP, reads my cookies and finally decides I want to know about saving elephants. The equivalent would be the billboard blocking the damn road.
No, the problem with ads is that they have gone from a) hmm, out on the side bar to b) stalling the web site to c) popping up covering content and hiding where the damn x button is.
If you want to advertise, fine. Just don't be an arse about it.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Hear, hear! Charlie.
I'd add some additional coloration to the problem. Billboards certainly don't block the road. Yet, in many cases, adverts on sites do this routinely.
Also, a billboard doesn't ambush you five miles down the road, having secretly used an exploit to leave behind a fleet of spies and malware that car-jacks you, then forces your vehicle off the main highway and down some hillbilly dead-end road leading to a small town with in-breds running the police, jail and banks.
If the sites stopped selecting adverts that attempt to use these software and OS exploits and behaved with any modicum of decency and honesty, then people might just not need the #%$!#@ ad-blockers.
Until then, any site that demands I turn off ad-blocking software will never see me again.
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason; the madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
--G.K. Chesterton
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I'm sure that all seems very noble in your head but if somebody's buying your ticket to get into the cinema/theatre/game do you then start complaining about the seats? Everyone of those advertisers is paying money to enable you to view websites for free. Just have a look through your browsing history for a day and imagine how much it would take out of your bank account at even a few pence/cents per page should advertising disappear.
It would do everybody a great deal of good if their first year on the Internet was limited to the 56k dial-up pay as you go that we oldies remember as the height of luxury. We might then see an end to this poisonous sense of entitlement of which ad blockers is just a symptom. People who don't realise that the extraordinary speed and convenience of modern internet connections is a privilege and not a right lack the gratitude necessary to preserve it. Ad blockers are the ultimate expression of the selfishness and philistinism of modern internet users. Me, me, me and now, now, now, are unhealthy mantras in any context. It would be tragic (though utterly typical of humanity) if they were to lead to the Internet becoming nothing more than a rich man's toy as the vast array of free services and information it offers disappear behind paywalls or simply cease to exist at all. Enduring the odd obtrusive ad is surely not too great price to pay to prevent that?
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Member 9082365 wrote: Ad blockers are the ultimate expression of the selfishness and philistinism of modern internet users.
I don't believe this. Quite the opposite, Ad Blockers are a consequence of the greed and intrusiveness of marketing agencies who insist on turning a website with some adverts to an advertising site with a little bit of content if you can find it.
There was never the need for Ad Blockers when adverts were restrained and unobtrusive like they are on CP.
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Member 9082365 wrote: Ad blockers are the ultimate expression of the selfishness and philistinism of modern internet users.
My initial, knee jerk reaction to this comment is --> cough, bullshit.
I will always use an ad blocker, unless my user experience on the site dictates otherwise. I will never click on an ad, ever, so why do I need to see them.
I will be faarrrkkkking legless before I am carriedcto the car ftombhere. - Michael Martin - Christmas 2015
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908 - I would only comment that in my original comment, I don't have an issue with ads. The problem is as others have stated. That said, there is a sort of free market contest going on - how can I advertise without driving away my customer base?
TV is still trying to figure out how to do it. We are witnessing the morphing of technology and discarding of what people don't want to pay for. The other night I caught up on my BBT. Of 30 minutes of show time, only 20 minutes was actually content. Thank God for the DVR. Yet even with the ubiquitous of DVRs, certain shows seem to make money.
It's not really a question of not wanting to pay for services received. It's more of don't annoy me while I'm doing it. 
Now, if Santa wanted to give me what I really want for Christmas, I want my local cell providers to be able to go head to head with Comcast. Comcast has a lock on shows and data right now, but all I can tell is people "tolerate" their garbage. Given the option to jump to a more flexible offering, people will leave in droves.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I think you're reading more into this than there really is.
Nobody I've read so far is advocating (or as you put it, poisonously demanding via a sense of entitlement) that ad's completely disappear forever and we all bask in free everything. Don't get me started. Those advocating for free everything haven't quite graduated from school yet.
What we are pointing out, are the real Philistines -- the advertisers and their slimy ilk who are hijacking browsers, depositing tracking cookies and stealing personal information from your computer and generally giving legitimate ads a really, really bad name. Any advert company that seeks to create ads that trick, dupe, steal, exploit or otherwise cheat their way into my PC and attention deserve to be stuck with a cheap 300 baud acoustic modem dialing into an HP-1000 time share service with an ASCII scope to get their weekly data feed from tape for the next 20 years.
Them, company that hired them, their aunts, uncles, siblings and the two Siamese cats next door.
What we are seeing is the natural evolution of things as they are. Measure, countermeasure. It's an engineering thing, and nothing to get uptight about. Ad-blockers will be around as long as these tricksters are.
Pop-up ads, browser hijacks, tracking cookies and their ilk were born out of greed, not necessity.
Also, I might point out that I'm old enough that I used the internet before it was public. Even back in the 1980's it was forbidden to advertise products openly on the 'internet'. Newsgroups routinely banned the emergent spammers and nitwits posting under fake accounts. It wasn't until several of the pay-to-access sites showed up in the early 1990's that "legitimate" pay-for advertising started rearing its ugly head.
I have faith that the industry will work things out. Measure and countermeasure is always going to be the order of the day in the roadrunner and coyote world we inhabit.
And, personally, I'm rooting for the roadrunner. 
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason; the madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
--G.K. Chesterton
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