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How HP Could Turn a Novelty Into a Revolution
RobotsDinner writes "HP's TouchSmart desktop is cool, but a blogger suggests it could be the beginning of a revolution if HP were to finally make the move of ditching Windows and building a Linux distro around the TouchSmart UI. 'Hello, HP. The UI of your latest TouchSmart computer says something about you. You may not have recognized your own weaving-in of meaning, but it comes across quite clearly if one reads just right: You want out. You want to escape the world of Windows to which Microsoft has sequestered you for the better part of two decades. Ah, but you can. No longer does Bill Gates stand guard outside your cell ... It's time to ditch Windows and build a Linux distro around the TouchSmart UI ... Your captivity of innovation under Microsoft is over. You're free. Free to invent, as you might put it.'"
And it's such a YAWNable product too.
How we know is more important than what we know.
You can love your pc,
but just don't "love" your pc :P
A fanboi needs to remember to take his meds imho.
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Free to pay $50 for 2 ounces of ink is more like it.
Anybody else find it amusing that those who take Linux seriously to the point of delusion (often caught posting these idealistic "head-in-the-clouds" diatribes) have become the slashdot equivalent of hippies?
I record my sleeptalking
All the way to 11.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Hitler...
There, Godwined.
Now we can move on to the next story.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Bah... Some of us have hated Compaq since DEC...
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Until we get transparent hands, people will obscure the screen while using it
I've heard that there is experimental support for hand transparency in the current X.org git tree. The code is still very much alpha however; in particular, on some hardware, you cannot disable transparent hands after you have enabled them.
Exactly! Who's hair-brained idea was it to decide that touchscreens were a good idea? Not only is it tiring, you have to sit within arms reach of the display, you have to touch the display which strains your arm/hand and gets the screen messy, and you're replacing a mouse and keyboard with something vastly inferior on so many levels! And worst of all they're cool!
How can it be prior art when Star Trek is ~300 years in the future?