All regular touchscreens (not phones) do. You can configure them so that a "double-tap" opens, for example, the context menu right under your finger, or launches a specific app with a specific interface at your fingers' location.
Calling this innovative is like calling a blank white board innovative because "you can write anywhere - you're not constrained by the lines."
In other words, this is not an "invention" - it fails the "obviousness" test.
It's been known for a long time vibrations are not good for discs (see notebooks). Even by early 90s music CDs had skip protection. If a disc skips, latency will of course momentarily increase. And with tolerances down even further, it's probably worse than back then.
BWAHAHAHAHHAHA you actually think its men that are making you compete for attention? Try looking at your own gender, you silly women are all the same, claiming men make them dress up and watch their appearance and are judging them. Men enjoy women almost no matter what they are wearing or look like. Its women who are the catty, judgmental mental-cases who eviscerate each other with their in-gender-competitiveness. Oh and BTW if you want to be left alone, move to the woods, dont cry about men looking at you when you live in a society of 6 billion individuals.
Keep in mind that you can be replaced with a turkey baster and a carton of Hagen-Daaz.
Only an old senile grandma would be buying a card game on cd. Everyone who isn't stuck in the '90s gets their shit online. Downloadable card games, online card games. Flash games. Java games. "Card game on CD?" Give it up, dickhead.
So, you honestly think there will be fewer calls with oss? You can explain to my mother in law why the card games disk she bought won't install and walk her through it then...
The mythical grandma who somehow "knows Windows" and can't change to anything else... like she EVER would buy a card games disk... I'd tell her to go to the KDE menu, then Games->Card Games->> then pick a game...
You'd probably have less chance than studying a broad in the USA. Just find yourself one of the "top 10" party universities, and DON'T TELL THEM YOU'RE A CS STUDENT!!!
I know this was meant to be funny, but most people I know (including myself) had absurdly good luck with non-American women. The rest of the world may claim to hate us, but if that's what it means to hate us, then I don't want to be liked.
Poll time
[_] Just goes to show, some people will do anything, even screw a slashdotter, to get a green card.
[_] With the falling dollar, your "date by the hour" will cost more next year.
[_] "um, honey, what do you mean, your real name is CowBoyNeal?"
[_] Eventually, they're going to catch you. You can't end every date with "does it blend" just to hide the bodies...
You'd probably have less chance than studying a broad in the USA. Just find yourself one of the "top 10" party universities, and DON'T TELL THEM YOU'RE A CS STUDENT!!!
Yeah, and how much ram can you get for $60 anyway?..
4 gigs of kingston laptop ram was $49.98 a couple of months ago. I'd rather have the ram than pay $60 for office (I'd have to run it under Wine anyway...)
"The big thing IMO is using a consistant (and at least in the case of MS office consistant means the same version, I dunno if openoffice is better about keeping thier layout engine consistent between versions) office suite both among machines you use and between the machines you use and the machines people you work with use.
Sure for simple documents conversions are possible but for complex documents wysiwyg word processing basically relies on everyone having a layout engine with the exact same behaviour (pdf gets arround this by doing a lot of the layout in advance but this loses editability).
So if thier lecturers all use office 2003 and the uni machines all have office 2003 then the path of least resistance is to use office 2003 on thier own machine(s). Whether they buy it at the academic discount price or pirate it depends on thier circumstances beliefs (some universities even have a subscription which allows students to install it on thier own machines without paying)
plus at least here in the uk they will probablly have used at least one of office 2K, office XP or office 2K3 at school or "6th form college" before they went to university.
plus at least in my experiance openoffice is a bloated pig compared to office 2K to 2K3.
I have not yet used office 2K7 on a serious enough basis to comment on whether it is more or less shit than openoffice. It is certainly very different from both openoffice and older versions of MS office.
Though IIRC MS is trying to use the carrot of lower prices and other side benifits to tempt corporations and academic institutions into subscriptions deals that they then become basically stuck with.
So 20 people leave their PCs on with the screen saver before they go on a two-week vacation, don't notice they still have documents open somewhere, and they get back a bill of $1.25 X 16 days (2 weeks plus the extra weekend) X 24 hours X 20 people, or $9,600.00.
That will happen exactly ONCE before they all switch to anything else... at that point, even vim or pico look better.
t has nothing to do with humans taking *any* action against a particular group, but letting nature take its' course and allowing stupid people to remove themselves from the gene pool.
But if that were true, there would be no need for revolutions, because there'd be no politicians...
Again, this shows a misunderstanding of evolution - the mechanism for passing on your genes is only optimized to the point where you pass on your genes - you can fuck up as much as you want afterwards, and it doesn't affect what happens to whether your genes get passed onto the next generation - they're already there.
Darwin's Famous Thing: People die. Unfit people have a greater tendency to do so.
So Hitler's greatest crime was impatience? Gosh darn these unfit people and they're taking so long to die!
In this case, unlike your godwin attempts, it has nothing to do with humans taking *any* action against a particular group, but letting nature take its' course and allowing stupid people to remove themselves from the gene pool.
Do you have such a problem with allowing people the freedom to be stupid that you have to equate it with advocating genocide and eugenics, or is it the uncomfortable realization that religious beliefs *do* put people at a competitive disadvantage?
For example, people who go to church every week will be spending $x more than the "heathen" on transportation, as well as experiencing more wear-and-tear on their vehicles, putting them at an economic disadvantage to others. Add the additional costs of tithing, etc., and the need to pack the rest of their activities into less time...
Some will argue that they will conversely benefit from the religious support structure, but this ignores two truths - (1) non-believers have their own support structures, and (2) they don't have the stress of dealing with church politics, hypocritical preachers, leaders, and members, worrying about appearances, guilt for stuff that's just normal, social isolation from the rest of the world, and not being able to sleep in on weekends...
Fucking losers. Their existence is proof that Intelligent Design doesn't exist.
It also disproves evolution, since we don't have them publicly shot to eliminate their genes from the population. I guess the Church of FSM had it right after all...
You don't understand evolution if you can make a statement like that. Evolution's "survival of the fit" only applies up to the transfer and raising of the next generation to breeding age. It says nothing about OUR guiding/interfering in the process. Such a process would NOT be "natural selection", but "intelligent selection."
are we so afraid that science will lose the fight?
No, but after fighting the same battles over and over with the same types of losers* for generations, maybe it's time to move on.
* the same "usual suspects" as always - the religious/superstitious who aren't able to convice people using logical arguments ("you gotta have faith" sure isn't a logical argument) want to have unfettered access to promote their agendas in schools. You can have equal access to schools when atheists have equal access to your pulpits and sunday schools.
Fucking losers. Their existence is proof that Intelligent Design doesn't exist.
Mine has twin 320gig hds. At the price of hard drives, it's cheaper to just buy new ones every year, and get a usb or firewire adapter to pull data off the old ones / use them as an external backup.
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All regular touchscreens (not phones) do. You can configure them so that a "double-tap" opens, for example, the context menu right under your finger, or launches a specific app with a specific interface at your fingers' location.
Calling this innovative is like calling a blank white board innovative because "you can write anywhere - you're not constrained by the lines."
In other words, this is not an "invention" - it fails the "obviousness" test.
This is no more different than popping up a window at an arbitrary place on a touch-screen. In other words, it's over a decade old.
This isn't innovative - see mouse gestures, pie menus, even context menus that pop up where you first click, and not in a predefined place.
Now if this guy Raman had instead invented Raman Noodles ...
There's BAD vibrations, and then there's GOOD Vibrations.
Tim Allen: "I just finished milking the cow":
Amish guy: "We don't have a cow."
Keep in mind that you can be replaced with a turkey baster and a carton of Hagen-Daaz.
It will be when it's duped. In the meantime, maybe they got hit with the "Zune 2009 is a leap year so stop working after December 31st 2008" bug?
Only an old senile grandma would be buying a card game on cd. Everyone who isn't stuck in the '90s gets their shit online. Downloadable card games, online card games. Flash games. Java games. "Card game on CD?" Give it up, dickhead.
The mythical grandma who somehow "knows Windows" and can't change to anything else ... like she EVER would buy a card games disk ... I'd tell her to go to the KDE menu, then Games->Card Games->> then pick a game ...
Poll time
[_] Just goes to show, some people will do anything, even screw a slashdotter, to get a green card. ...
[_] With the falling dollar, your "date by the hour" will cost more next year.
[_] "um, honey, what do you mean, your real name is CowBoyNeal?"
[_] Eventually, they're going to catch you. You can't end every date with "does it blend" just to hide the bodies
"Run task manager, kill the exe, and I can eject the USB drive. No real problem but it raises a question: What if this stray process was billing me?"
Quick - patent it!
You'd probably have less chance than studying a broad in the USA. Just find yourself one of the "top 10" party universities, and DON'T TELL THEM YOU'RE A CS STUDENT!!!
4 gigs of kingston laptop ram was $49.98 a couple of months ago. I'd rather have the ram than pay $60 for office (I'd have to run it under Wine anyway ...)
"The big thing IMO is using a consistant (and at least in the case of MS office consistant means the same version, I dunno if openoffice is better about keeping thier layout engine consistent between versions) office suite both among machines you use and between the machines you use and the machines people you work with use.
Sure for simple documents conversions are possible but for complex documents wysiwyg word processing basically relies on everyone having a layout engine with the exact same behaviour (pdf gets arround this by doing a lot of the layout in advance but this loses editability).
So if thier lecturers all use office 2003 and the uni machines all have office 2003 then the path of least resistance is to use office 2003 on thier own machine(s). Whether they buy it at the academic discount price or pirate it depends on thier circumstances beliefs (some universities even have a subscription which allows students to install it on thier own machines without paying)
plus at least here in the uk they will probablly have used at least one of office 2K, office XP or office 2K3 at school or "6th form college" before they went to university.
plus at least in my experiance openoffice is a bloated pig compared to office 2K to 2K3.
I have not yet used office 2K7 on a serious enough basis to comment on whether it is more or less shit than openoffice. It is certainly very different from both openoffice and older versions of MS office.
Too much rum int eggnog? :-)
So 20 people leave their PCs on with the screen saver before they go on a two-week vacation, don't notice they still have documents open somewhere, and they get back a bill of $1.25 X 16 days (2 weeks plus the extra weekend) X 24 hours X 20 people, or $9,600.00.
That will happen exactly ONCE before they all switch to anything else ... at that point, even vim or pico look better.
Again, this shows a misunderstanding of evolution - the mechanism for passing on your genes is only optimized to the point where you pass on your genes - you can fuck up as much as you want afterwards, and it doesn't affect what happens to whether your genes get passed onto the next generation - they're already there.
In this case, unlike your godwin attempts, it has nothing to do with humans taking *any* action against a particular group, but letting nature take its' course and allowing stupid people to remove themselves from the gene pool.
Do you have such a problem with allowing people the freedom to be stupid that you have to equate it with advocating genocide and eugenics, or is it the uncomfortable realization that religious beliefs *do* put people at a competitive disadvantage?
For example, people who go to church every week will be spending $x more than the "heathen" on transportation, as well as experiencing more wear-and-tear on their vehicles, putting them at an economic disadvantage to others. Add the additional costs of tithing, etc., and the need to pack the rest of their activities into less time ...
Some will argue that they will conversely benefit from the religious support structure, but this ignores two truths - (1) non-believers have their own support structures, and (2) they don't have the stress of dealing with church politics, hypocritical preachers, leaders, and members, worrying about appearances, guilt for stuff that's just normal, social isolation from the rest of the world, and not being able to sleep in on weekends ...
[citation needed]
There's zero evidence that Hitler, unlike Jim Jones, incited his followers to retreat from society "in the name of God".
You don't understand evolution if you can make a statement like that. Evolution's "survival of the fit" only applies up to the transfer and raising of the next generation to breeding age. It says nothing about OUR guiding/interfering in the process. Such a process would NOT be "natural selection", but "intelligent selection."
Hey, it was miles better than either Windows 3.0 ... which doesn't mean much.
Actually, we need to come up with more Jim Jones-style religions, and let Darwin do his thing ...
No, but after fighting the same battles over and over with the same types of losers* for generations, maybe it's time to move on.
* the same "usual suspects" as always - the religious/superstitious who aren't able to convice people using logical arguments ("you gotta have faith" sure isn't a logical argument) want to have unfettered access to promote their agendas in schools. You can have equal access to schools when atheists have equal access to your pulpits and sunday schools.
Fucking losers. Their existence is proof that Intelligent Design doesn't exist.
So, when are they going to give equal time to the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Mine has twin 320gig hds. At the price of hard drives, it's cheaper to just buy new ones every year, and get a usb or firewire adapter to pull data off the old ones / use them as an external backup.