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WallsRSolid writes "Microsoft just finished a week-long series of lectures and demos at my university, and the product that really stole the show was the Tablet PC. I was in a room with probably 150 hardcore linux users, and it seemed to me that the demonstration just floored them (the entire lecture hall CHEERED a Microsoft product). I believe that Microsoft's own online hype literature is insufficient in describing just how powerful their Tablet concept is. A July preview, Acer's propaganda, a press release about their initial success, and a behind-the-scenes account (good article) of the enabling technology. Oh, and the input stylus is electromagnetic, not pressure-sensing, ANY document (not just MS) can be annotated, and the journal software is AMAZING in its power and flexibility."
Microsoft came out with something that Linux fans cheered for? Yeah right...
1: Write free software.
2: ?
3: Make proprietary software.
4: Profit!
I do believe the earth just ripped open, pigs have wings, and it might just be me, but it's awful cold down here....
Sent from your iPad.
before:
1)People get one and install Linux onto it (eleven seconds)
2)Someone tries to make a beowulf cluster (fourteen minutes)
3)We see them on eBay (4 days)
4)That hinge thing on the Acer one gets broken (0.5345 seconds after the warranty expires)
Tablet PC?! Electromagnetic input pen?! I'm pretty sure Fisher-Price made the same thing like 25 years ago!
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Definitely, I'd hit it. And the Acer page doesn't have a disclaimer that says "Hot girl in chair does not come with Tablet PC," so hey, y'know, you might be lucky.
If the handwriting recognition software is as good as they say it is, give one to every doctor - that way we will all understand the damn prescriptions.
Semper ubi sub ubi
Swap the stock photo girl out with Heidi Wall chicken-scratching GIMP under X windows, and I'll buy one. Tell me I can bash alias a frowny face to /dev/null and I'll buy two. Tell me someone's working on a GUI iptables interface where I can flick digital bugs with my index finger, and I'll swap out my router. And if I can get it with an at&t natural voice Majel Barrett module, I'll wet my pants and run around in little circles. Now to resurrect a cliche- will it run linux? oops, I mean, how long til it runs linux?
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
...is you having to excuse yourself for a quick trip to the photocopier every ten words or so.
Someone revoke this guy's slashdot account NOW.
I was in a room with probably 150 hardcore linux users
how did you stand the smell? good god, man...
I was in a room with probably 150 hardcore linux users, and it seemed to me that the demonstration just floored them (the entire lecture hall CHEERED a Microsoft product).
well they don't sound very hardcore to me. Unless the person holding the tablet pc was natalie portman or something...
IBM just used it ala mouse-input. Microsoft is allowing people to use digital ink as a first class citizen in the computing world. It's a whole new way of looking at computing.
Didn't they fire you for those falsified 'switch' promotions? You should perhaps quit drinking the digital ink.
Remember kids, service guarantees citizenship!
I'm glad somebody with deep pockets is reinventing the Newton Notepad concept because it was a really great way to take notes and Apple seems to have abandoned the technology.
No, they just ditched the Newton. The handwriting recognition is alive and well in Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), rechristened "Inkwell". Works in any app, using a Wacom tablet. Apple would be well placed to do a tablet of their own if they want to - anyone for a Powerbook without a lid?
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