They crazy homeless guy on the street corner outside the office is pushing boundaries, dreaming, and doing things. The only difference is he doesnt have 1.2 billion and a marketing arm to sensationalize everything he says or talks about.
"I don't understand why "gorilla arm" has become such an issue with touchscreens when teachers have been using chalkboards/markerboards for decades."
It's because most Tech people are 50 pound weaklings that whine horribly if they have to carry a 15 or 17" laptop... OMG! it's sooo heavy... Must stop to rest... Anyone seen my inhaler?
Glass is a HMD or Head Mounted Display. Heads up displays are completely different in every single way. It's like comparing an Fresh Orange to a Bugatti Veyron.
No, n o it's not. I have yet to find a SINGLE person that says "OMG Windows 8 is so much better than Windows 7!! I get calls constantly from friends and others asking how they can install windows 7 on their new laptop. They do NOT want windows 8, and the morons that run Microsoft refuse to listen to the bulk of the customers.
But then they also ignored everyone with Windows Phone and Surface... their other two utter failures that are not selling.
And that is another problem. Microsoft has become Intel Whores and set the "requirements" so low that if you buy the lower end hardware for that OS you end up with a pile of crap. They need to tell intel to shove it in their arse and say that Windows 8 requires quad i5 or higher.
I was a part of the internet when it started and was the wild wild west. Everyone had nearly unlimited ip addresses and NOBODY used them for several reasons.
First nobody put everything on the internet. It's just Dumb to put workstations on the internet... Sally in accounting does not need a public IP and all it does is make her computer easier to target and attack. Hiding behind that router on a separate private network is far more secure. Plus it is easier to defend a single point of entry than it is to defend a 255.255.0.0 address space from the world.
Second I have yet to have someone give me a real need for having everything on the internet with a direct address. you have zero need to have your toaster accessible from the internet.
IPV6 is not needed. Not at all in any way. I dont need to connect my watch to my toaster back home vial the internet. I do want to connect to it when I am home so NAT (ZOMG EVIL NAT!!! ZOMG!) works just fine and will work just fine for the next 30 years.
What is needed is ISP's to deliver REAL bandwidth to the home and not the low grade dog food they deliver today.
"The first tablets ran windows 95, and were powered by pentiums."
Absolutely wrong.
the FIRST tablets ran Windows 3.11 for pen computing and were powered by 386 processors. I had one, Dauphin DTR-1 the very FIRST tablet ever made. I then had others that ran on 486 and on up. Win95+ pentium was well into the 3rd generation of tablets.
No the problem is it's hard to sell a new ipad to someone that already has an ipad that works just fine. I know a LOT of people that still happily used their ipad1's They dont have nerd ADHD and must have new shiny every times one comes out.
If you want to see something fun, Have someone eat RAW kidney beans or kidney beans not boiled but slowly soaked and cooked under very low heat.
They will turn into a Puke and poo sprinkler as it violently comes out pretty much every hole all at once. Most beans require cooking above a certain temperature and time to make them safe to eat.
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They crazy homeless guy on the street corner outside the office is pushing boundaries, dreaming, and doing things. The only difference is he doesnt have 1.2 billion and a marketing arm to sensationalize everything he says or talks about.
"I don't understand why "gorilla arm" has become such an issue with touchscreens when teachers have been using chalkboards/markerboards for decades."
It's because most Tech people are 50 pound weaklings that whine horribly if they have to carry a 15 or 17" laptop... OMG! it's sooo heavy... Must stop to rest... Anyone seen my inhaler?
You had it facing the wrong way.
Hi Steve!
I see you are having problems getting used to not working for Microsoft anymore...
Go find a discarded old style rear projection TV. disassemble to get the giant Fresnel lens out of it.
You now have your very own death ray that will set wet grass on fire and scorch concrete.
"I believe people are just using it wrong."
Yet all of you people Crucified Apple for saying that people were holding the phone wrong....
Google Earth is NOT a GIS system. I can not map watershed flow information on Google Earth.
Glass is a HMD or Head Mounted Display.
Heads up displays are completely different in every single way. It's like comparing an Fresh Orange to a Bugatti Veyron.
They do, it's called the small ups under the desk.
I'd rather use that than a built in battery any day.
Imac's have been way ahead of dell for years in the "all in one" design world. So now Dell finally stopped making low grade garbage all in ones?
Here is to hoping they used the right parts so I can hackintosh it. Oh wait, they cost as much as an iMac.... Ahhh...
Nobody really. Most people are buying laptops.
windows 9 will come with the new Windows BOB interface as default.
Honestly, they can no longer design anything. They jumped the shark 5 years ago and have been living on rerun royalties ever since.
"Windows 8 is better than people think"
No, n o it's not. I have yet to find a SINGLE person that says "OMG Windows 8 is so much better than Windows 7!! I get calls constantly from friends and others asking how they can install windows 7 on their new laptop. They do NOT want windows 8, and the morons that run Microsoft refuse to listen to the bulk of the customers.
But then they also ignored everyone with Windows Phone and Surface... their other two utter failures that are not selling.
And that is another problem. Microsoft has become Intel Whores and set the "requirements" so low that if you buy the lower end hardware for that OS you end up with a pile of crap. They need to tell intel to shove it in their arse and say that Windows 8 requires quad i5 or higher.
I was a part of the internet when it started and was the wild wild west. Everyone had nearly unlimited ip addresses and NOBODY used them for several reasons.
First nobody put everything on the internet. It's just Dumb to put workstations on the internet... Sally in accounting does not need a public IP and all it does is make her computer easier to target and attack. Hiding behind that router on a separate private network is far more secure. Plus it is easier to defend a single point of entry than it is to defend a 255.255.0.0 address space from the world.
Second I have yet to have someone give me a real need for having everything on the internet with a direct address. you have zero need to have your toaster accessible from the internet.
It's called Linux and BSD....
It runs on the worstations, laptops, tablets, servers and even network gear.... no other OS can say that.
IPV6 is not needed. Not at all in any way. I dont need to connect my watch to my toaster back home vial the internet. I do want to connect to it when I am home so NAT (ZOMG EVIL NAT!!! ZOMG!) works just fine and will work just fine for the next 30 years.
What is needed is ISP's to deliver REAL bandwidth to the home and not the low grade dog food they deliver today.
went to say in a hotel this weekend. They gave me all kinds of flack and charged me a FEE to use cash.
Windows Server 2012 upgrades on all their servers...
What? Windows is so good I am certain that Google runs windows.... The MS guys here cant be lying to me.
Because Samsung has only made a decent tablet in the past year.
Honestly before 2012 all android tablets sucked horribly and were utter garbage. the FIRST good one was honestly the ASUS tablet sold as the nexus 7.
So it seems that Time has gone to only hiring minimum wage reporters now, Did they pick this guy from a local restaurant that was their waiter?
"The first tablets ran windows 95, and were powered by pentiums."
Absolutely wrong.
the FIRST tablets ran Windows 3.11 for pen computing and were powered by 386 processors. I had one, Dauphin DTR-1 the very FIRST tablet ever made. I then had others that ran on 486 and on up. Win95+ pentium was well into the 3rd generation of tablets.
No the problem is it's hard to sell a new ipad to someone that already has an ipad that works just fine. I know a LOT of people that still happily used their ipad1's They dont have nerd ADHD and must have new shiny every times one comes out.
If you want to see something fun, Have someone eat RAW kidney beans or kidney beans not boiled but slowly soaked and cooked under very low heat.
They will turn into a Puke and poo sprinkler as it violently comes out pretty much every hole all at once. Most beans require cooking above a certain temperature and time to make them safe to eat.