Have you ever been to a theater with a digital projector? I'm not sure about all theaters, but the Famous Players Theater near me has them and the ghosting is atrocious! My laptop has a better refresh rate than those pieces of crap.
I can see the touch screen being better for some things (interactive industrial interfaces, wall mounted systems, etc.), but have you ever thought of the most popular thing done with computers...GAMING!
Every tried to play a FPS game with a touch screen? I've done it with a touch pad (oh god, the nightmares) and don't ever TRY to suggest joystick controls as any TRUE FPS gamer will take his mouse by the cord and mouse whip you so hard you'll see game logos circling your head!
Sure there are a bajillion flavors, but there are only a half dozen or so ones that get recomended on a regular basis. For that matter, ever tried buying windows lately, there are just as many versions of Vista ALONE as there are highly recommended linux distros.
I'll vouch for litestep. The entire thing is text file configured, and easy to read. You can make that sucker emulate gnome or kde so nicely you'll fool the sysadmin.
Have you visited any forums lately?
I think we've reached a kind of evolutionary slingshot status where our language has evolved so quickly, we've over extended and fired back to square one...
Now if only we can hit another one and start going forward again.
Why not stream the webcam to a server and give the cops the address? Nothing makes it hard to say "we can't help you" than bugging the entire room for them!
Fine, tell them you have seen your car (computer) and written down the new licenses plate number (ip address), you just need to know who insured it (payed for the connection).
I think the parent poster's analogy is quite accurate but should be elaborated on a little bit.
Basically, if the human genome were the alphabet, then what they are doing is patenting the use of "words" such as "saawef" or "afjaef". Your name may be "John Smith", but that is not what the companies are patenting. They are patenting a word, not a person's name.
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Have you ever been to a theater with a digital projector? I'm not sure about all theaters, but the Famous Players Theater near me has them and the ghosting is atrocious! My laptop has a better refresh rate than those pieces of crap.
I can see the touch screen being better for some things (interactive industrial interfaces, wall mounted systems, etc.), but have you ever thought of the most popular thing done with computers...GAMING!
Every tried to play a FPS game with a touch screen? I've done it with a touch pad (oh god, the nightmares) and don't ever TRY to suggest joystick controls as any TRUE FPS gamer will take his mouse by the cord and mouse whip you so hard you'll see game logos circling your head!
Sure there are a bajillion flavors, but there are only a half dozen or so ones that get recomended on a regular basis. For that matter, ever tried buying windows lately, there are just as many versions of Vista ALONE as there are highly recommended linux distros.
I'll vouch for litestep. The entire thing is text file configured, and easy to read. You can make that sucker emulate gnome or kde so nicely you'll fool the sysadmin.
Could you set it up to send you a text message if your car leaves the stall without you?
Yes there are, they just have cars parked in them already!
Did anyone else read that as "electric free defibrillator"?
My god, all those years of trying to understand the relation of those things summed up in 5 words...
Have you visited any forums lately?
I think we've reached a kind of evolutionary slingshot status where our language has evolved so quickly, we've over extended and fired back to square one...
Now if only we can hit another one and start going forward again.
Remember 1812, or of the bi-annual attempted invasion of the northing Canadian islands?
And you though we didn't know about the islands thing...
I understand how hard it can be to fight the RIAA, but how hard can it be to beat a digital copyright suit when you've never used a computer?
That's ok, they'll never fit in that car anyways!
Why not stream the webcam to a server and give the cops the address? Nothing makes it hard to say "we can't help you" than bugging the entire room for them!
If they try to reinstall windows (no doubt they will), it will overwrite the boot sector.
To really brick it, try and flash the BIOS.
Not many thieves know how to fix that!
Fine, tell them you have seen your car (computer) and written down the new licenses plate number (ip address), you just need to know who insured it (payed for the connection).
See, a car analogy can be used for ANYTHING!
When they pay for it to go back, they actually pay by the weight, so go out back and bet a few small steel plates and add them to the envelope!
Does a freeway analogy count as a car analogy?
...a swift kick in the ass!
Just use a seperate profile (or user) and clear the data out of that one (or password protect it so you can book mark your naughty pages).
Of course the ending to their sentence would be "Damnit, she took the wifi with her!"
Another reason that we need a "-1 Too much information" mod!
Why'd it have to be robotic snakes?
Damnit, i was just about to put that link there!!!
My Creative Zen Vision W can, but that's just an Media Player.
Just another reason not to get an iPod.
I think the parent poster's analogy is quite accurate but should be elaborated on a little bit.
Basically, if the human genome were the alphabet, then what they are doing is patenting the use of "words" such as "saawef" or "afjaef". Your name may be "John Smith", but that is not what the companies are patenting. They are patenting a word, not a person's name.