[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 69, Issue 11

[Roland Hughes]

 >Qt company belive that qml is the best thing that happened to qt. So 
many years have passed and we still see this.
 >
 >Reminds me of Nokia, they kept saying windows phone will succeed. Too 
late.
 >
 >Problem is that unlike windows phone Qt has no serious compitition 
(well wxwidgets is not that level). So Qt can live longer.
 >
 >I miss  QWidget.

Just an FYI, Microsoft has issued an End of Life for Windows 
Phone/Mobile without a replacement option. Google is in the process of 
abandoning Android and its butchered underlying Linux OS for Fushcia and 
Cannonical has their own fork of Fushcia (sp?) after Unity basically failed.

A later post on this list talks about the movement to put Qt's core 
features including a Moc like step into the C++ standard. It's just 
white papers, lecturing and grumblings right now but should not be long 
before it turns to pitch forks and torches for the angry mob.

I'm just too old. I've seen too many of these frameworks start out with 
great promise then get pulled down a rabbit hole as they try to be all 
things to all people, whoever "all" is defined as at the moment. CScape, 
Zinc, etc. Heck, even Watcom took a stab at it with their 
OS/2-DOS-Windows platform and IDE and when Novell, their biggest 
customer by far, had a brush with the bankruptcy reef, Watcom went away. 
It now even looks like the OpenWatcom project has faded into the sunset.

Very soon, like within the next 8 years, the x86 based world of INTEL 
and ARM will be relegated to embedded devices. IBM is going to release 
their first Quantum computer with API in 2018. IBM will naturally try to 
scale it up to the Big Iron world of old while other companies will try 
to scale it down, first to midrange computers, then desktops. If you are 
really old like I am you remember a time when we had feeble 8086, 80286 
based desktops and just down the hall there were Sparc Stations and all 
of these other high end engineering workstations. History is about to 
repeat itself. The "cloud" built out of low end x86 blades and racks 
will be replaced by a massive Quantum computer or 5. Development 
machines will be smaller Quantums for "engineering workstations" and PC 
based machines will be viewed as quaint antiques like mechanical adding 
machines.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/ibm-quantum-computer-how-work-commercial-api-faster-q-systems-computing-a7613271.html

According to that the first generation unit will be millions of times 
faster than today's tech and it is not a white paper theory. The machine 
is being tested now with various dates in 2018 floated for production. 
Oddly enough I haven't read anything about Quantum disk drives. It's all 
well and good we can now have a Boolean holding as many states of true 
and false as today's 64-bit integer, but, if the spinning platter of 
rust we need to store on cannot....

I wonder if we will see them bring back The Brick phone just so we can 
get a big enough battery.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/DynaTAC8000X.jpg/220px-DynaTAC8000X.jpg

Within 3 years of Quantums going full production the same thing will 
happen which happened before. Mechanical, biological and chemical 
engineers will clamor about needing the speed on their desktops and 
_someone_ will scale it down to create sub $100K engineering 
workstations. The x86 world cannot scale up to compete. In the past 
INTEL and the big CPU makers were competing in the same arena. Both were 
trying to scale, pack and cool to increase speed. Occasionally one 
manufacturer invented a new compound which allowed the next major leap 
in processing power, eventually plateauing and opting to stacking more 
lower powered cores in the same or a reasonable amount of space.

What much of the world calls a "smart phone" will have to follow suit, 
not because the apps need to be able to dynamically calculate how to 
turn lead into gold but because the graphics world, driven by Hollywood 
and television makers will start deploying Quantums for dynamic image 
generation. In a very short period of time the displays you now consider 
beautiful will look like DOS text graphics of the 1980s. Personally I 
prefer that interface for many types of applications. Seriously, just 
how pretty do you need your word processor or email client to be? Wont' 
matter. The consumer will want the same amazing experience on every 
device. The image file standards we have today will simply go away, 
replaced by Quantum data fed into an image rendering library on a 
Quantum core.

Sorry, I guess I need to mindlessly vent. This happens when I decide to 
read email I've been putting off instead of writing another book when I 
know I should be writing the book.

-- 
Roland Hughes, President
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