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Microsoft Origami To Play Halo
Gamasutra reports on elements of the Microsoft project code-named Origami, which has been revealed through some snooping to be a tablet PC. The device is shown playing Halo indicating there is likely to be some gaming aspect to the product. From the article: "Previous to the appearance of the DigitalKitchen video, Bill Gates had discussed a mobile PC concept at a conference in Seattle last year, where a non-working device called the Ultra Mobile 2007 was shown. At the time, Gates indicated that the device should have an 'all-day' battery life, weigh less than a pound and cost between $500 and $800. Microsoft has indicated it will unveil more details of the Origami Project 'in the coming weeks'."
...after something that you're supposed to fold?
Do you think it'll play Snap too?
Guy asked me for a quarter for a cup of coffee. So I bit him.
Gates indicated that the device should have an 'all-day' battery life, weigh less than a pound and cost between $500 and $800.
It only took them three tries to see the obvious faults in their tablet designs. Bravo!
If it does what they say, sign me up.
"Sensitive mercury switches inside the tablet allow you to clear the screen just by shaking it, while the core interface has been simplified down to two edge-positioned dials, using technologies licensed from Synaptics and Ohio Arts."
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Many Bothans died to bring us this information...
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digitalkitchen took it down, but youtube has a copy.
In that picture, the program being run is an existing tabletPC program called "ArtRage." It's actually a really cool app, which takes full advantage of the pressure sensitivity feature of the tablet digitizer.
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I'm not sure what you're selling, but I'll take 10,000.
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First it was 15 inch monitors where actually 14-inches.
This is true only of CRTs, but LCDs (such as the ones used in most Windows Mobile devices such as the device of The Article) are measured directly in visible image size.
120GB hard-drives arn't actually close to an actual 120GB.
First of all, hard disk drives are labeled as 120 GB as opposed to 120 GiB. Unlike the situation with tons, a metric gigabyte is smaller. At least it's not as bad as it was in the 3.5" floppy era, where a "2.0 MB" high-density diskette could hold only 1440 KiB due to inefficient MFM recording techniques used by PC drives.
Second, your operating system needs some space to store metadata. Feel free to devise a file system that stores metadata more compactly while maintaining expandability of files.
The only reason anyone came up with GiBs and KiBs is because they couldn't stop the bastards from labelling a 111GB (119,185,342,464 bytes) drive as 120GB.