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HP Reportedly Cancels Plans for Windows 7 Tablet
A recent post up at TechCrunch claims that HP's "Slate" tablet has been canceled. Officials details for the tablet were limited, though a leaked internal presentation indicated it had an 8.9" screen, a 1.6GHz Atom processor, and ran on Windows 7. Some are now speculating that HP may experiment with porting WebOS to a similar device. Quoting: "Will WebOS emerge as a successful operating system for tablet devices? That seems very unlikely given the dominance of the closed Apple OS and the likely success of the open Android and Chrome operating systems from Google. To get traction from third-party developers with WebOS, HP will need to sell a lot of units. And it's not clear what they'd gain from all that effort, anyway. HP knows how to build and sell hardware, not operating systems."
You mean they're too high.
You mean for a WebOS to work well
"Roaming" is not a proper noun. You probably don't know what that means, so I'll simplify it for you: it means it should not be capitalized.
While I'm at it, most of the time that you guys say "less" what you mean is "fewer". Apparently a fine subtle thing like the distinction between quality and quantity is too much for your minds. Oh and seriously, learn the difference between "lose" and "loose". I know the spellings are similar and that this is very confusing for people who are not so bright, but the two words have nothing else in common.
Parents, do you see what happens when you send your kids to public school? They can't give you change at the cash register without a calculator either, because subtracting a two-digit number from 100 is too much for them. You know what else they can't do? They can't easily determine when someone is lying to them, such as a politician, other authority figure, or the media. Let's keep cranking out morons who let the wool be pulled over their eyes, that way we can keep fucking society real good, right parents? I mean, how will we end up with the true cradle-to-grave nanny state unless we have a bunch of dumb helpless people who need to be protected from their own bad decisions?
Bravo, sir, bravo. ::slow clap::
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I weant too publick skewl and I'am turned out a'right. And four you're infomansion, I dont half two wurry about counting no changes becuz I'd not half to asked you if you'ld want you're frys with that, OK? You fucking grammer/spelling nazi douche bag. Go learn something about DEC, and Compaq buying DEC, and HP buying Compaq, etc, etc and stop wasting our time with your grammar nazi manifesto. Code editors have spell-checkers, auto-complete for variable names, syntax coloring, and a variety of other features developed precisely to avoid JTD's typos in code. So the "presentation" of his opinion wasn't up to your standards. Too bad. If you've got something to say regarding HP, Palm, WebOS, or any other non-grammar related subject chime right in. Until then, you're just a grammar fucktard.
As usual you miss the point. I've never seen a calm person miss the point like that. I only see angry resentful people who are outraged that you'd dare to point out anything wrong with acting in a lazy half-assed fashion. They have a bit of an agenda or interest in denying the connection between mental laziness and poor composition, the same way that Microsoft has an interest in promoting Windows.
The point is, you use the English language every single day, multiple times a day. That means you have plenty of practice with it. If after such frequent use and such a great deal of practice, you show not even the slightest mastery over it, then something is wrong with you. Why should I think you're any better at constructing or deconstructing an argument, advocating a position, or knowing what you are talking about?
I think I know what this is about. You want to pick and choose what you do well and what you do in a half-assed lazy fashion. You're not trying to discover your weaknesses so you can improve and overcome them to become a stronger person. The things you really like and really interest you are the things you do well. The things you don't like but have to deal with in order to accomplish something else, like grammar and spelling, are the things you want to do in a lazy fashion. It's a "me me me" mentality that has no discipline and no patience because you want what you want and won't put any effort towards anything else.
You'll never know the simple pleasure of believing that anything worth doing at all is worth doing well, and actually living like you believe that. Your quest to shortcut every possible effort and your addiction to the path of least resistance denies you such an insight. I bet if your boss at work required you to use proper grammar you'd find a way to do it, because you need some kind of external threat of punishment (like getting fired) before you care enough since you sure as hell don't have your own standards. Now go on, get more upset at me and call me names some more, since you clearly cannot argue with me.
Our society is being dumbed down to a bunch of childish, emotionally reactive, superficial morons who can't handle critical thinking, don't care enough to do simple things correctly, rarely question what they see and hear, and cannot use foresight to think past anything immediately obvious to understand where a situation is going before it gets there. Watch the news and carefully observe it and tell me it isn't tailor-made for this audience. This leads to a society of people who need to be micromanaged and who need to be taken care of and government is only too happy to increase its size and power to meet that need. Those of us who love freedom and will happily pay its price of vigilence, excellence, and introspection are suffering a great burden because of it and it's unjust.