the Toshiba one I played with wasn't touch sensitive, it used a magnetic pickup in the pen just like the drawing pens that professional artists use.
It had a much better feel that a PDA's Pen, In fact an artist I know played on it and drew a picture on it. It was hard to tell if he penciled in on paper and scanned it or drew it on the laptop. The pickup was that good. Of course it better be for $2000+ and if you lose the pen your screwed though.
A friend of mine has the Toshiba Tablet PC. It's pen has a tremendous feel and its excellent for sketching, and typing since it folds out to be a full flegded laptop.
Is it worth $2000+ when I can get a laptop for $1000+ that can basicially do the same thing except Now I can't use a pen? No way. That's the problem with them. they are nowhere near price competitive to traditional laptops. If they were then would be selling like hotcacks.
Its a cool technology that prices itself out of the market. pure and simple.
Considering that Bittorrent is used for more legal purposes than illegal, and that many web companies would see bittorrent as a money saver since bandwidth costs are one of the highest costs of running any web based infrastructure, do you see, or have been approached by Microsoft, Mozilla or Opera to natively support bittorrent in their next browser releases without any external Bittorrent application?
At the College Where I work, We have 2 T1's Generating about 3MB/s bandwidth.
Before we got a Packeteer to throttle p2p bandwidth Roughtly 2MB's were dedicated to Kazaa alone. The rest of the bandwidth, 1MB's was everything else, Including other p2p apps that may have gotten through the firewall. After The Packeteer, we average about 1-1.5MB's Total including p2p apps where before we would saturate the 3MB's.
60% seems about accurate to me. Also if a Network Admin Reading this wants to throttle p2p Bandwidth I'd suggest looking into a packeteer. Its saved us a ton of money vs a new T1 line.
I still Believe that this is more of a Cover your @$$ issue than it is a IP Rights Issue or a Bash Linux Issue.
I mean they've been sued once by SCO already and lost because of DRDOS and SCO is now suing IBM Over Unix. Guess who's next in line that has a big pile of money sitting in a corner of a room that has Unix IP. Most likely Microsoft Lawyer XP(TM) is advising Bill that paying the Royalities is cheaper than going through yet another reputation damaging lawsuit over Unix.
MS is taking the bullseye off of it's back to allow them to work on their Unix Stuff without worry and forces SCO to go after other companies such as Sun.
I dont have a problem when a Card manufacturer optimizes for a game either, but the way ATI did it was to drop the Image Quality Substanually when it was quake and once quake3 was renamed to quack3, it would bring the IQ to a level that Nvidia would render at a lower framerate. Back then when all these benchmarks were all "FPS" and no IQ it was a easy way to cheat. Thats why so many reviews focus on IQ now. If your going to optimize for a game, at least make it look just as good as your competition and faster.
As for Nvidia. My guess is that its a rendering issue with the drivers and not cheating. My Geforce4 4200 is still running on 3082 and will continue to do so becasue that was the last driver Nvidia made that doesn't have some sort of issue when it comes to rendering. Look at some NV30 reviews and you can see where the drivers misrender all the time. When I updated to 4403 it would screw up even the desktop in some situations. moving back to 3082 solved the problem.
Although having a Portable PC in a Porta-potty doesn't make much sense, it seems like a somewhat good idea in a permament environment.
I mean realistically your going to be sitting down anyway and since your basicially a captive audience you might as well read up on the news or sports while your there. It's better than reading the writing on the wall.
Of course a paper would be just as good, but something like this built into a wall would be more up to date. It doesn't really need to be interactive either. just run headlines, Sport Scores and Stock Market tickers.
I Found this site while I was finding a pop up stopper for my boss. It does tests for various popup killers and rates them based on their effectiveness.
Since I cant draw worth a crap, imagine it, or you can use photoshop to draw it or whatever.
First Panel: (Gabe at front door looking at a guy wearing a three piece suit.)
Gabe: what the hell do you want Lawyer: Hello. I'm here representing a rather large monolitic corporation.
Second Panel: Gabe: So What do YoOOOoOOWWWWWWW (Lawyer Sucker Punches Gabe in the Stomach while he was speaking)
Third Panel: Lawyer: Have a Nice Day. Lawyer walking in the other direction as Gabe irks in pain.
The best part is that since it never ID's the company you cant get sued and it can be used over and over. It would especially look good where the actual infringed comic used to be.
First like half of the posts pointed out, it only applies to consoles, not the PC Version. Microsoft would have to pay ID Bill Gates total income for the next five years before they would make it THAT exclusive
Second, Even if Microsoft didn't give ID the "Bag of Money" to make it XBOX exclusive for consoles it would make the most sense to put it on the XBOX anyway because 1) The mean age of owners is much higher on the XBOX. In fact it's around the age that ID is targeting. 2) The XBOX gamers are more FPS savvy then the other systems thanks to Halo. 3) The Networking system that the XBOX uses from being able to wire XBOX's together using a hub to XBOX live makes it perfect for deathmatching. 4) The XBOX, being a stripped down PC, gives ID the smallest amount of problem when it comes to porting it over, not to mention that the XBOX has the power to run Doom3 as close to the PC as possible.
Ok. Since the US public Opinion is running on this "If it's bad it's Supports Terrorism" Nonsense, I've decided to put it to some good use by Saying the following.
"Spam Supports Terrorism".
Think about it. 1) Most spam comes from compainies overseas that can not be identified, move randomly and take advantage of Security Holes to send it. 2) These Anonymous Companies make millions in revenue, and for all we know could be tied to the mob, or Terrorist Organizations. 3) It costs US Companies Millions of dollars Annually, Hurting Our Economy. 4) It attacks unsuspected citizens by using Virus-Like Activity (FriendGreetings for Example) to spread, which could slow the internet down like a DDOS attack.
Thank you god. Now all it has to do is infect our network and all those open Sharedocs shares that WinXP automaticially creates that are full of Nimda are history. Although the PC would most likely be history too.
This is what is scaring me about Nvidia, Espicially since just about everything Nvidia makes is running my PC right now and it would be a cold day in hell before an ATI product touches my PC.
From what I've seen so far, Nvidia is doing the exact same thing that 3dfx Did when the voodoo3 came out, and whats more disturbing is that the're following the 3dfx downward spiral so close that you could praticially mirror the two, a sort of NVfx if you will.
Making Video cards, Pushing their Rendering Format harder than ever, Bashing Benchmarks, claiming that their hardware is limited for a reason, ETC. All of this failed miserably when 3dfx did it, and it's going to fail for Nvidia as well.
It wouldn't suprise me to see a dual GeforceFX board this year, or even a quad version. It's what 3dfx did before they went under.
...Because you had to Pay to Play. Especially when McDonalds and Pepsi was Buying Ad's on it.
If they would have made the thing free but then used the sims game design to sell product placements they probably would have been more sucessful and probably could have demanded more money from advertisers because of the huge turnout of players to the game.
I remember looking at an old phone book and noticed that the phone numbers were only five digits at the time. Obviously, they moved up to seven digits in order to handle the increasing amount of phones that people were starting to get.
So why haven't we added an 8th digit to phone numbers yet? It would effectively give area codes 10 times more numbers and allow much more room for expansion than adding area code after area code.
Graffiti was a really nice system for the palmpilot. it was easy, simple and fast. I'm afraid of what the newer Graffiti would be like simply because I've used the pocketpc equivilant and even though it's similar to graffiti in many ways, the places where it is different make it a real pain. not to mention is seemed to be a lot slower than graffiti simply because it required more stroke in some of the characters.
Frankly, If Graffiti can be sued, what stops xerox from suing CIC for their Jot character recgonition? especially when unistrokes looked nothing like graffiti and still won.
I'm sure Microsoft likes what it's hearing today, but it's not stupid enough to get involved.
Why? Because it's in still in court trying to settle it's antitrust case. All a judge (or Sun, or any one else that is "Sue MS" Happy) would have to hear is that MS is involved (in any way I might add) in preventing Linux from being sold in a market that MS dominates, and all kinds of hell breaks loose.
Because if this, Microsoft will not even think of getting close to this case, let alone touch it.
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either that or "Sims Disaters Caught on tape."
I still say that the only reason people play "The Sims" is for the Darwin-like ways you can kill your sim.
Dont Believe me? Ask someone that plays "The Sims" what his/her favorite moment was in the game. Most likely it involves Death in some way.
the Toshiba one I played with wasn't touch sensitive, it used a magnetic pickup in the pen just like the drawing pens that professional artists use.
It had a much better feel that a PDA's Pen, In fact an artist I know played on it and drew a picture on it. It was hard to tell if he penciled in on paper and scanned it or drew it on the laptop. The pickup was that good. Of course it better be for $2000+ and if you lose the pen your screwed though.
A friend of mine has the Toshiba Tablet PC. It's pen has a tremendous feel and its excellent for sketching, and typing since it folds out to be a full flegded laptop.
Is it worth $2000+ when I can get a laptop for $1000+ that can basicially do the same thing except Now I can't use a pen? No way. That's the problem with them. they are nowhere near price competitive to traditional laptops. If they were then would be selling like hotcacks.
Its a cool technology that prices itself out of the market. pure and simple.
Considering that Bittorrent is used for more legal purposes than illegal, and that many web companies would see bittorrent as a money saver since bandwidth costs are one of the highest costs of running any web based infrastructure, do you see, or have been approached by Microsoft, Mozilla or Opera to natively support bittorrent in their next browser releases without any external Bittorrent application?
Before of after the riot that insued from rabid players that lost months of player buildup?
I shouldn't be talking though. I'd probably go nuts if something like this happened to Ragnarok Online.
At the College Where I work, We have 2 T1's Generating about 3MB/s bandwidth.
Before we got a Packeteer to throttle p2p bandwidth Roughtly 2MB's were dedicated to Kazaa alone. The rest of the bandwidth, 1MB's was everything else, Including other p2p apps that may have gotten through the firewall. After The Packeteer, we average about 1-1.5MB's Total including p2p apps where before we would saturate the 3MB's.
60% seems about accurate to me. Also if a Network Admin Reading this wants to throttle p2p Bandwidth I'd suggest looking into a packeteer. Its saved us a ton of money vs a new T1 line.
I still Believe that this is more of a Cover your @$$ issue than it is a IP Rights Issue or a Bash Linux Issue.
I mean they've been sued once by SCO already and lost because of DRDOS and SCO is now suing IBM Over Unix. Guess who's next in line that has a big pile of money sitting in a corner of a room that has Unix IP. Most likely Microsoft Lawyer XP(TM) is advising Bill that paying the Royalities is cheaper than going through yet another reputation damaging lawsuit over Unix.
MS is taking the bullseye off of it's back to allow them to work on their Unix Stuff without worry and forces SCO to go after other companies such as Sun.
IBM's 1U Server
Sun's 1U Server
At least they are price competitive with IBM. I'm not too sure about Dell but it's a start.
I dont have a problem when a Card manufacturer optimizes for a game either, but the way ATI did it was to drop the Image Quality Substanually when it was quake and once quake3 was renamed to quack3, it would bring the IQ to a level that Nvidia would render at a lower framerate. Back then when all these benchmarks were all "FPS" and no IQ it was a easy way to cheat. Thats why so many reviews focus on IQ now. If your going to optimize for a game, at least make it look just as good as your competition and faster.
As for Nvidia. My guess is that its a rendering issue with the drivers and not cheating. My Geforce4 4200 is still running on 3082 and will continue to do so becasue that was the last driver Nvidia made that doesn't have some sort of issue when it comes to rendering. Look at some NV30 reviews and you can see where the drivers misrender all the time. When I updated to 4403 it would screw up even the desktop in some situations. moving back to 3082 solved the problem.
Although having a Portable PC in a Porta-potty doesn't make much sense, it seems like a somewhat good idea in a permament environment.
I mean realistically your going to be sitting down anyway and since your basicially a captive audience you might as well read up on the news or sports while your there. It's better than reading the writing on the wall.
Of course a paper would be just as good, but something like this built into a wall would be more up to date. It doesn't really need to be interactive either. just run headlines, Sport Scores and Stock Market tickers.
Sucks when the Bulb burns out and you were downloading that 600MB file from the internet for the past 6 hours.
:)
Of course if would really suck if you didn't have a replacement bulb
I Found this site while I was finding a pop up stopper for my boss. It does tests for various popup killers and rates them based on their effectiveness.
http://www.popup-killer-review.com/
Since I cant draw worth a crap, imagine it, or you can use photoshop to draw it or whatever.
First Panel:
(Gabe at front door looking at a guy wearing a three piece suit.)
Gabe: what the hell do you want
Lawyer: Hello. I'm here representing a rather large monolitic corporation.
Second Panel:
Gabe: So What do YoOOOoOOWWWWWWW
(Lawyer Sucker Punches Gabe in the Stomach while he was speaking)
Third Panel:
Lawyer: Have a Nice Day.
Lawyer walking in the other direction as Gabe irks in pain.
The best part is that since it never ID's the company you cant get sued and it can be used over and over. It would especially look good where the actual infringed comic used to be.
If Wing seals were the problem, Shouldn't we be clubbing them instead of letting them cause more accidents?
Maybe American Greetings is actually Making the game and want to keep the title under wraps. :)
First like half of the posts pointed out, it only applies to consoles, not the PC Version. Microsoft would have to pay ID Bill Gates total income for the next five years before they would make it THAT exclusive
Second, Even if Microsoft didn't give ID the "Bag of Money" to make it XBOX exclusive for consoles it would make the most sense to put it on the XBOX anyway because
1) The mean age of owners is much higher on the XBOX. In fact it's around the age that ID is targeting.
2) The XBOX gamers are more FPS savvy then the other systems thanks to Halo.
3) The Networking system that the XBOX uses from being able to wire XBOX's together using a hub to XBOX live makes it perfect for deathmatching.
4) The XBOX, being a stripped down PC, gives ID the smallest amount of problem when it comes to porting it over, not to mention that the XBOX has the power to run Doom3 as close to the PC as possible.
Ok. Since the US public Opinion is running on this "If it's bad it's Supports Terrorism" Nonsense, I've decided to put it to some good use by Saying the following.
"Spam Supports Terrorism".
Think about it.
1) Most spam comes from compainies overseas that can not be identified, move randomly and take advantage of Security Holes to send it.
2) These Anonymous Companies make millions in revenue, and for all we know could be tied to the mob, or Terrorist Organizations.
3) It costs US Companies Millions of dollars Annually, Hurting Our Economy.
4) It attacks unsuspected citizens by using Virus-Like Activity (FriendGreetings for Example) to spread, which could slow the internet down like a DDOS attack.
Im sure I could go on and on but you get the idea
"disables network sharing."
:)
Thank you god. Now all it has to do is infect our network and all those open Sharedocs shares that WinXP automaticially creates that are full of Nimda are history. Although the PC would most likely be history too.
Either way nimda would be off the network
This is what is scaring me about Nvidia, Espicially since just about everything Nvidia makes is running my PC right now and it would be a cold day in hell before an ATI product touches my PC.
From what I've seen so far, Nvidia is doing the exact same thing that 3dfx Did when the voodoo3 came out, and whats more disturbing is that the're following the 3dfx downward spiral so close that you could praticially mirror the two, a sort of NVfx if you will.
Making Video cards, Pushing their Rendering Format harder than ever, Bashing Benchmarks, claiming that their hardware is limited for a reason, ETC. All of this failed miserably when 3dfx did it, and it's going to fail for Nvidia as well.
It wouldn't suprise me to see a dual GeforceFX board this year, or even a quad version. It's what 3dfx did before they went under.
...Because you had to Pay to Play. Especially when McDonalds and Pepsi was Buying Ad's on it.
If they would have made the thing free but then used the sims game design to sell product placements they probably would have been more sucessful and probably could have demanded more money from advertisers because of the huge turnout of players to the game.
The Combined Forces of the RIAA and MPAA arrests half the Populous of the United States for Illegal File sharing under the No Electronic Theft Act.
I remember looking at an old phone book and noticed that the phone numbers were only five digits at the time. Obviously, they moved up to seven digits in order to handle the increasing amount of phones that people were starting to get.
So why haven't we added an 8th digit to phone numbers yet? It would effectively give area codes 10 times more numbers and allow much more room for expansion than adding area code after area code.
Bug 158323: Mass Profile Migration Utility For Server Admins
If we could covert all of our Netscape Profiles from 4.x to 7.0 all at once it would be a real help in switching to mozilla.
Graffiti was a really nice system for the palmpilot. it was easy, simple and fast. I'm afraid of what the newer Graffiti would be like simply because I've used the pocketpc equivilant and even though it's similar to graffiti in many ways, the places where it is different make it a real pain. not to mention is seemed to be a lot slower than graffiti simply because it required more stroke in some of the characters.
Frankly, If Graffiti can be sued, what stops xerox from suing CIC for their Jot character recgonition? especially when unistrokes looked nothing like graffiti and still won.
I'm sure Microsoft likes what it's hearing today, but it's not stupid enough to get involved.
Why? Because it's in still in court trying to settle it's antitrust case. All a judge (or Sun, or any one else that is "Sue MS" Happy) would have to hear is that MS is involved (in any way I might add) in preventing Linux from being sold in a market that MS dominates, and all kinds of hell breaks loose.
Because if this, Microsoft will not even think of getting close to this case, let alone touch it.