Truly inspired! Also we could have the size of the patches be proportional to what percentage of total campaign funding came from that source - then it'd really stick out which ones were completely bought, and by whom.
This is the kind of blanket assumption that, if enacted in law, would unnecessarily restrict the freedom of fully capable professionals like Greg Louganis.
The iPad would give me a chessboard I can carry around with me anywhere, and do other things on.
Good thing there's never ever been anything else that could do this. Nope. Nothing else. This is the first device ever that could display a chessboard and do other things. Yup.
To see if younger blood could reverse the sluggishness of aging blood cells, the researchers began by surgically joining the bloodstreams of pairs of mice that were of different ages, but nearly clones of one another.
How about you give me a 10" Netbook (usual specs, maybe 2GB ram), give it one of those screens you can twist around and use as a tablet, and make it a touch screen. Price it below 500$. Let it be able to run XP and 7.
I don't know how crucial that last 1" of display is, but ASUS has what you're looking for (with a 9" display). According to the specs, it's multi-touch capable and comes with Windows 7 Home Premium for less than $500.
Voice recognition is over hyped, and it will not work as a sole means for data entry, ever.
I think you meant "text entry". I've also thought about the lack of privacy with current speech-to-text technology, and although the device would be prohibitively expensive for consumers, it seems that even now we have the technology now to put a tiny sensor in the mouth (like a tooth cap, maybe?) that would be sensitive enough to pickup normally inaudible whispers. Combine this with other ambient/background noise cancellation methods (to help pick out the whispering) and you'd be able to have pretty damn good privacy with speech-to-text. Hell, you barely have to move your lips when you're whispering (thus removing the lip-reading concerns).
This wouldn't solve the issues of special characters/formatting (as commonly used in programming), but it seems that it would eventually be functional as the sole means of text entry for a very large percentage of the population. Speech-to-text may be over hyped, and the hardware and software may not be anywhere close to capable right now, but I'd definitely be a little hesitant about using the word "ever".
d) Apple's gonna continue to make bank selling devices to people just like her.
Agreed. However, this is a geek community. We like things like multi-tasking and open platforms. This article isn't about whether Apple will continue to make a ton of money selling intentionally simplified/restricted devices to the masses. It's about an alternative for us. Geeks don't "miss the point" about certain Apple products. Some of us just don't like them because they don't have what we want (or they cost more than their equivalents) in that kind of device.
While Apple may prove that it is indeed possible to put a better-than-TN LCD panel in a small (laptop-like) form factor, MSI would do well to follow the lead on quality.
Of course, if you really want your tablet to also offer better-than-eInk readability (readable in direct sunlight without a glacial refresh rate)- you can just wait until the Notion Ink Adam (the first device with a Pixel Qi display) comes out.
I see it as a salesman promising to deliver a solution to a client without having ANY idea about the technology or time required to do so.
To many here in the software development world who have had to suffer the consequences of sales department's promises (resulting in impossible deadlines, futile engineering attempts, forced overtime), this analogy, apt as it may be, is not going to open our hearts to forgiveness.
Pedant-fail, dude. CE began with year 1. The first decade (applying the Gregorian calendar all the way back to year one) was from 1/1/1 to 12/31/10. The 202nd decade begins with the first day of 2011.
It has a keyboard dock, which makes this into essentially a netbook.
Except that the dock appears to only hold it vertically, which means you only have 768px horizontally. This seriously hampers laptop/desktop-equivalent web browsing capability - especially because the iPad being in the dock makes it a lot more awkward to be using the pinch-zoom functionality that would normally allow you to reasonably navigate 1024+ pixel-wide formatted websites.
The deal with AT&T is the biggest news. Holy hell that's fucking awesome.
...I'd consider going back to AT&T for that price.
Are you, by chance, from some Bizarro world where AT&T has a robust network capable of providing satisfactory speeds to hundreds of thousands of new bandwidth-gobbling internet tablets? If so, has the Year of Linux on the Desktop happened there?
This ties in to exactly what Apple is doing. McGraw Hill releases their textbooks for iPad -> Schools adopt iPad -> Locked in!
If this is part of Apple's strategy, they'd better make sure their tablet is fully functional for the blind. This requirement would seem to present more difficulties if it does end up running a modified form of the iPhone OS (vs. OSX). We'll find out shortly...
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For all we know, you want to teach a computer based course so you have more ways to fail the 75% of your students who do not have a computer at home.
I think it's safe to assume he's not teaching in sub-Saharan Africa.
Truly inspired! Also we could have the size of the patches be proportional to what percentage of total campaign funding came from that source - then it'd really stick out which ones were completely bought, and by whom.
...a car can easily kill as many people as an unwrapped penis...
This is, without a doubt, the funniest thing someone who did not get one of my jokes has ever said.
Don't forget to let us know what your Crysis benchmarks are!
All folks should not be diving while using phone.
This is the kind of blanket assumption that, if enacted in law, would unnecessarily restrict the freedom of fully capable professionals like Greg Louganis.
I don't see a division sign. Division signs look like this: /
I don't see a sense of humor. A sense of humor looks like this:-D
The iPad would give me a chessboard I can carry around with me anywhere, and do other things on.
Good thing there's never ever been anything else that could do this. Nope. Nothing else. This is the first device ever that could display a chessboard and do other things. Yup.
To see if younger blood could reverse the sluggishness of aging blood cells, the researchers began by surgically joining the bloodstreams of pairs of mice that were of different ages, but nearly clones of one another.
PETA is going to go ape-shit.
Not to mention what Dr. Egon Spengler's reaction will be.
How about you give me a 10" Netbook (usual specs, maybe 2GB ram), give it one of those screens you can twist around and use as a tablet, and make it a touch screen. Price it below 500$. Let it be able to run XP and 7.
I don't know how crucial that last 1" of display is, but ASUS has what you're looking for (with a 9" display). According to the specs, it's multi-touch capable and comes with Windows 7 Home Premium for less than $500.
I was fully expecting something I could load up with whatever open source software I wanted.
Seriously?! Did you have this expectation because of their wonderful open-source-friendly track record with iPhone and the iPod Touch?
Voice recognition is over hyped, and it will not work as a sole means for data entry, ever.
I think you meant "text entry". I've also thought about the lack of privacy with current speech-to-text technology, and although the device would be prohibitively expensive for consumers, it seems that even now we have the technology now to put a tiny sensor in the mouth (like a tooth cap, maybe?) that would be sensitive enough to pickup normally inaudible whispers. Combine this with other ambient/background noise cancellation methods (to help pick out the whispering) and you'd be able to have pretty damn good privacy with speech-to-text. Hell, you barely have to move your lips when you're whispering (thus removing the lip-reading concerns).
This wouldn't solve the issues of special characters/formatting (as commonly used in programming), but it seems that it would eventually be functional as the sole means of text entry for a very large percentage of the population. Speech-to-text may be over hyped, and the hardware and software may not be anywhere close to capable right now, but I'd definitely be a little hesitant about using the word "ever".
I don't think he's talking about that kind of hummer.
d) Apple's gonna continue to make bank selling devices to people just like her.
Agreed. However, this is a geek community. We like things like multi-tasking and open platforms. This article isn't about whether Apple will continue to make a ton of money selling intentionally simplified/restricted devices to the masses. It's about an alternative for us. Geeks don't "miss the point" about certain Apple products. Some of us just don't like them because they don't have what we want (or they cost more than their equivalents) in that kind of device.
While Apple may prove that it is indeed possible to put a better-than-TN LCD panel in a small (laptop-like) form factor, MSI would do well to follow the lead on quality.
Of course, if you really want your tablet to also offer better-than-eInk readability (readable in direct sunlight without a glacial refresh rate)- you can just wait until the Notion Ink Adam (the first device with a Pixel Qi display) comes out.
I see it as a salesman promising to deliver a solution to a client without having ANY idea about the technology or time required to do so.
To many here in the software development world who have had to suffer the consequences of sales department's promises (resulting in impossible deadlines, futile engineering attempts, forced overtime), this analogy, apt as it may be, is not going to open our hearts to forgiveness.
...that has, unfortunately, been marred by some overly breathless reporting.
Well, it seems to have gotten someone all hot and bothered.
I rot-13 everything first, and then I go the extra mile and do it again, cause you can't be too sure
I do rot-6.5, but I do it four times.
You guys are both doing it wrong - wasting CPU cycles to get that additional security. I just do one pass with ROT-26.
...and reasonably far away from damaging sources (liver, for example).
Yeah, but it doesn't help much when we bring those damaging sources to them.
Pedant-fail, dude. CE began with year 1. The first decade (applying the Gregorian calendar all the way back to year one) was from 1/1/1 to 12/31/10. The 202nd decade begins with the first day of 2011.
Strings used: "xinerama vs xrandr", "xinerama", "xrandr"
Gosh, isn't it obvious?! Fucking christ, it's the 201st decade, use clairvoyance.
It has a keyboard dock, which makes this into essentially a netbook.
Except that the dock appears to only hold it vertically, which means you only have 768px horizontally. This seriously hampers laptop/desktop-equivalent web browsing capability - especially because the iPad being in the dock makes it a lot more awkward to be using the pinch-zoom functionality that would normally allow you to reasonably navigate 1024+ pixel-wide formatted websites.
The deal with AT&T is the biggest news. Holy hell that's fucking awesome.
...I'd consider going back to AT&T for that price.
Are you, by chance, from some Bizarro world where AT&T has a robust network capable of providing satisfactory speeds to hundreds of thousands of new bandwidth-gobbling internet tablets? If so, has the Year of Linux on the Desktop happened there?
OMGWTFBBQ - just like the woman's hygiene product, LOLZ!!11! I didn't even think of that!! Brilliant!!! Well-played!! What a CRAZY coincidence!1!l1!
What an unfortunate name.
Just wait until Apple partners with Sprint next year and releases the WiMax iPad.
This ties in to exactly what Apple is doing. McGraw Hill releases their textbooks for iPad -> Schools adopt iPad -> Locked in!
If this is part of Apple's strategy, they'd better make sure their tablet is fully functional for the blind. This requirement would seem to present more difficulties if it does end up running a modified form of the iPhone OS (vs. OSX). We'll find out shortly...