Agreed, same here. But I'm still waiting for the Ion platform to come out, which should best both of them, giving a good performance mark between the Atom/Nano and the Core 2 Duo.
Yes, it's a slow news day and that's why this is on the front page! It's Sunday afternoon (for most of us), ferchrissakes.
So just enjoy it, it's geeky and novel. I don't think anybody meant for it to be considered a big deal, and if you don't find any fleeting moment of joy from it, just move along.
Seriously, unless you hold the phone up over your forehead pointing down, the people on the other end get the most unflattering view right up your nose.
One thing that does not seem obvious to previous posters is that this is not just about multi-touch, but about "one or more fingers" touching the screen. In other words, gestures.
There is a ton of touch software out there already using this, not just on phones but on tablets and other devices as well.
Oh so you haven't seen the "Zii" unveilin and learned how "stem cell computing" from Creative is going to change "everything you know" and "better lives beyond our imagination".
Just out of curiosity, do you have the UI pared down to decrease CPU/GPU load? I'm guessing the Ars Technica guys didn't. I'm just wondering because I'm considering giving it a go on my HP 2133.
The whole basis for this "speculation" (the mobile device world already seems to have moved on from this rumor) was a mock-up of a rubber skin for an iPhone nano device from a chinese supplier that makes rubber device skins.
Likely due to all the knock-off companies in China making knock-off devices, one probably has a mini iPhone knockoff in the works.
It was all over engadget, et al, like a month ago. (and this is/. so naturally i'm too lazy to go dig up links)
Likewise, I just don't understand the bashing of 32-bit. 64-bit application support never really took off, imho. A lot of apps and drivers aren't even available in 64-bit. Hell, I have a desktop and a laptop that are both 32-bit machines and they're perfectly fine for what I need them for (for now) - my desktop is a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz w/ 2GB RAM. And if Windows 7 truly turns out to be so much faster than even XP, that should be plenty of machine for 90% web browsing use.
For years I have been making the analogy to driving cars. It's something most people need to do every day, and so they take the time and effort to learn about cars, at least from an interface standpoint, how to use them, how to interact with the roadways and laws, etc. When they get a new one, they may spend days going over all the new features and learning how to use them.
And now, for many people, a computer is also something they have to use day in and day out to do their jobs. Yet they feel that it's somehow acceptable to simply refuse to learn anything about them or how to use them. Then when a little minor thing goes wrong they throw their hands up in the air and exclaim "I can't work like this!"
Whoever was the HP sales rep that was selling the printers to this intermediary company in Dubai, likely had a VERY good knowledge of where all those printers were going.
Whether that sales rep (or their boss) communicated this up the chain to senior execs, however, is anybody's guess.
I would just like to add to parent poster's informative post, since he/she touched on the local affiliates. Some are great, and some as stated, are maybe too narrowly focused or play too little NPR broadcast content to have wide listenership.
So I just wanted to throw in a plug for a superb local affiliate in the L.A. area based out of Santa Monica (from Santa Monica College), KCRW. They have a great selection of shows of all genres of music, excellent DJ's, and play a LOT of NPR syndicated shows.
So you don't have to live in the L.A. area to listen to a great NPR station.
Personally, NPR is the ONLY thing I can stand to listen to in the car, literally. I just cannot stand having people yelling and screaming at me about sales on furniture and playing all kinds of horrible sound effects and bad pop music, with endless commercials and bad radio DJ's talking about garbage. Clear Channel needs to crawl in a hole and die.
I was only 8 years old at the time. But I remember it well, because I was already very into computers (programming in BASIC on an Apple IIe, and my friend's C64).
Anyway, I remember it being on the news every day, and they were using all kinds of scary "Computer virus" graphics, and talking about virus this and that. I don't recall the word "worm" being used.
But the thing I remember most about the coverage was some of the journalists warning that it is still unknown whether or not computer viruses can be transferred to humans! I'm not kidding, they actually were trying to spread fear that people could catch this virus too. I don't know if this was intentional, or due to sheer ignorance. And they were also saying it could be transferred between PC's over the air (and I'm not confusing this with sneakernet)...
So yea, I wish I could see some of that old footage too:)
I am thinking that they are starting to try to wean people off of FW because USB3 is on the cusp of becoming available in consumer devices. It will likely replace both USB2 and FW.
Well if we're talking about 1998 era then zip drives were the only real option for easily portable and widely compatible removable, rewritable media that was larger than a floppy.
Don't make fun of old technology just because its old, especially when its current in the context of the discussion.
Scary - They probably have the search logs too...
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Who knows what kind of pr0n^H^H^H^Hstuff I was searching for 10 years ago!
Seriously though, if they have snapshots of their entire indexes, they most likely have the whole DB snapshots including all search logs as well.
+1 on God of War series. I'm looking forward to 3.
The thing with me is, as I get older, I am less into puzzle games because I look to gaming as a release, where I don't have to think hard or concentrate (since I do that all day at work). When I play a game, I just want to blow sh!t up, whereas I used to enjoy the puzzle aspect more as a kid. I don't feel like trapsing a whole universe three times looking for the Shield of Truth or whatever only to find out you have to put a bomb on some random un-demarked location for it to show up.
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Agreed, same here. But I'm still waiting for the Ion platform to come out, which should best both of them, giving a good performance mark between the Atom/Nano and the Core 2 Duo.
Yes, it's a slow news day and that's why this is on the front page! It's Sunday afternoon (for most of us), ferchrissakes.
So just enjoy it, it's geeky and novel. I don't think anybody meant for it to be considered a big deal, and if you don't find any fleeting moment of joy from it, just move along.
The camera points right up your nose.
Seriously, unless you hold the phone up over your forehead pointing down, the people on the other end get the most unflattering view right up your nose.
One thing that does not seem obvious to previous posters is that this is not just about multi-touch, but about "one or more fingers" touching the screen. In other words, gestures.
There is a ton of touch software out there already using this, not just on phones but on tablets and other devices as well.
Oh so you haven't seen the "Zii" unveilin and learned how "stem cell computing" from Creative is going to change "everything you know" and "better lives beyond our imagination".
Seriously, you cannot make this stuff up:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/creative-sheds-some-hype-on-zii-stem-cell-computing/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/08/creative-unveils-zii/
Just out of curiosity, do you have the UI pared down to decrease CPU/GPU load? I'm guessing the Ars Technica guys didn't. I'm just wondering because I'm considering giving it a go on my HP 2133.
The whole basis for this "speculation" (the mobile device world already seems to have moved on from this rumor) was a mock-up of a rubber skin for an iPhone nano device from a chinese supplier that makes rubber device skins.
Likely due to all the knock-off companies in China making knock-off devices, one probably has a mini iPhone knockoff in the works.
It was all over engadget, et al, like a month ago. (and this is /. so naturally i'm too lazy to go dig up links)
Likewise, I just don't understand the bashing of 32-bit. 64-bit application support never really took off, imho. A lot of apps and drivers aren't even available in 64-bit. Hell, I have a desktop and a laptop that are both 32-bit machines and they're perfectly fine for what I need them for (for now) - my desktop is a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz w/ 2GB RAM. And if Windows 7 truly turns out to be so much faster than even XP, that should be plenty of machine for 90% web browsing use.
a poster above (WhatAmIDoingHere) posted the reason:
"The win7 beta EULA says no benchmarking. This is his way around that. If he could have posted times he would have."
Nor does it predict when I'm typing an expletive. Seriously, that annoys me (I swear a lot because I have no imagination).
Amen.
For years I have been making the analogy to driving cars. It's something most people need to do every day, and so they take the time and effort to learn about cars, at least from an interface standpoint, how to use them, how to interact with the roadways and laws, etc. When they get a new one, they may spend days going over all the new features and learning how to use them.
And now, for many people, a computer is also something they have to use day in and day out to do their jobs. Yet they feel that it's somehow acceptable to simply refuse to learn anything about them or how to use them. Then when a little minor thing goes wrong they throw their hands up in the air and exclaim "I can't work like this!"
Whoever was the HP sales rep that was selling the printers to this intermediary company in Dubai, likely had a VERY good knowledge of where all those printers were going.
Whether that sales rep (or their boss) communicated this up the chain to senior execs, however, is anybody's guess.
I would just like to add to parent poster's informative post, since he/she touched on the local affiliates. Some are great, and some as stated, are maybe too narrowly focused or play too little NPR broadcast content to have wide listenership.
So I just wanted to throw in a plug for a superb local affiliate in the L.A. area based out of Santa Monica (from Santa Monica College), KCRW. They have a great selection of shows of all genres of music, excellent DJ's, and play a LOT of NPR syndicated shows.
They have a full online radio station, with streaming at: http://www.kcrw.com/
So you don't have to live in the L.A. area to listen to a great NPR station.
Personally, NPR is the ONLY thing I can stand to listen to in the car, literally. I just cannot stand having people yelling and screaming at me about sales on furniture and playing all kinds of horrible sound effects and bad pop music, with endless commercials and bad radio DJ's talking about garbage. Clear Channel needs to crawl in a hole and die.
Anyone know if there's a way to change the onscreen keyboard (for typing messages to friends) to QWERTY?
The current layout is absolute shite.
Wow, I would NOT want to be the guy who cleans out the bin of stuff left over after they distill all the water out of it...
Just use disk encryption.
I was only 8 years old at the time. But I remember it well, because I was already very into computers (programming in BASIC on an Apple IIe, and my friend's C64).
Anyway, I remember it being on the news every day, and they were using all kinds of scary "Computer virus" graphics, and talking about virus this and that. I don't recall the word "worm" being used.
But the thing I remember most about the coverage was some of the journalists warning that it is still unknown whether or not computer viruses can be transferred to humans! I'm not kidding, they actually were trying to spread fear that people could catch this virus too. I don't know if this was intentional, or due to sheer ignorance. And they were also saying it could be transferred between PC's over the air (and I'm not confusing this with sneakernet)...
So yea, I wish I could see some of that old footage too :)
I am thinking that they are starting to try to wean people off of FW because USB3 is on the cusp of becoming available in consumer devices. It will likely replace both USB2 and FW.
Pure Hollywood Sci-Fi??
http://www.videosift.com/video/Original-Max-Headroom-TV-signal-hack-on-22-November-1987
Mod this up, Rez was awesome, and was exactly the sort of thing this post is talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rez
Then you sell your film in Japan.
Profit!
Well if we're talking about 1998 era then zip drives were the only real option for easily portable and widely compatible removable, rewritable media that was larger than a floppy.
Don't make fun of old technology just because its old, especially when its current in the context of the discussion.
Who knows what kind of pr0n^H^H^H^Hstuff I was searching for 10 years ago!
Seriously though, if they have snapshots of their entire indexes, they most likely have the whole DB snapshots including all search logs as well.
So how do I start buying up helium, today?
+1 on God of War series. I'm looking forward to 3.
The thing with me is, as I get older, I am less into puzzle games because I look to gaming as a release, where I don't have to think hard or concentrate (since I do that all day at work). When I play a game, I just want to blow sh!t up, whereas I used to enjoy the puzzle aspect more as a kid. I don't feel like trapsing a whole universe three times looking for the Shield of Truth or whatever only to find out you have to put a bomb on some random un-demarked location for it to show up.