{"id":1554,"date":"2013-12-09T01:26:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T06:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2013-11-25T08:34:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:34:09","slug":"the-least-expensive-computer-in-the-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/12\/the-least-expensive-computer-in-the-store\/","title":{"rendered":"The Least-Expensive Computer in the Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the least-expensive in the store these days? Is it really a computer or merely a terminal?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was browsing a few stores recently (you know those places that actually exist, have an exterior and interior?). I looked at the computers and, being as cheap as I am, sought the least-expensive one. The result:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestbuy.com\/site\/acer-c7-11-6-chromebook-2gb-memory-16gb-solid-state-drive-iron-gray\/8850098.p?id=1218914355314&amp;skuId=8850098\">Acer C7 Chromebook<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The above link goes to the Best Buy site, but I think I was in a Staples or something when I saw it in person. It has an 11.6&#8243; screen, a keyboard, and some memory and processor inside. What kind of processor? Who cares? It seemed to work as I visited the parts of the Internet that interest me.<\/p>\n<p>But can I program it? Well, I can go to Amazon AWS and write programs there. I can go to Google drive and DropBox and Amazon S3 and all those places where I can store all the files I would ever have.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we have once again come full circle. Nice computers are really terminals connected to other computers. I can write novels and poetry and everything on those other computers. It sure is nice of those other people to loan me their computers at no cost. I do, however, have to connect to those other computers, and that might be inconvenient at times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips What is the least-expensive in the store these days? Is it really a computer or merely a terminal? I was browsing a few stores recently (you know those places that actually exist, have an exterior and interior?). I looked at the computers and, being as cheap as I am, sought the least-expensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,3],"tags":[200,126],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-technology","tag-computing","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}