The thought of monotone lyrics made me think of redoing the complete catalog of music from a particular subset of musicians and call the results "Boy Blands" but I can't find MMMM-BOP in the dictionary.
The Skywalker brothers were a high-wire act in Episode 11 (Attache of the Clowns) which is scheduled to begin filming shortly after George Lucas dies. It is this episode which will reveal the childhood traumatization Lucas suffered at the hands of the patriarch of the Clampett family which explains why Darth Vader, the villain in the middle tier trilogy, had a hat that flopped down over his ears and the hero element in the movies are called Jed-die.
Organizations like this one focus on making outdoor lighting point downwards towards the Earth and shielding the bulbs from putting out light into the atmosphere.
So these little LED lamps pointed directly at a work surface would probably help that problem over a lantern, oil lamp or fire used for light.
Remind me how exactly having to ride an exercise bike to generate electricity would raise my quality of living?
Well, if you're really that lazy it'd have to improve your cardiovascular fitness level. Less huffing an puffing on the way to the Krispy Kreme counter (oh, you probably use the drive thru).
Besides, this is gentle pedaling, nowhere near exercise bike levels of exertion.
How about renewable energy that costs nothing (unless you count food you're probably going to be eating anyway to fuel your body). Dang! We're out of legs. Martha, be sure and get some more legs next time you're at Nepal-Mart.
How about not sucking down smoke from oil lamps or kerosene from lanterns.
(Although I MIGHT be tempted to get the whole hookup just so I could use my computer.)
Wow! Your computer runs off of LED's??? Now there's an innovation worth talking about.
I had to go back and look, but I see what you mean. Scratch that scenario. Heck, it was a bonus anyway.
It's not that an individual book weighs as much as a laptop. You can carry a small library electronically. Some for technical reference, some for pleasure reading.
It's just tahat a laptop is more useful, even when it runs out of battery
Huh? You lost me there. Do you use your laptop for winter sledding when the battery dies?
... they might be right in saying the future of mobile computing is keyboard-less, but that's a hard sell to make to those of us that are so used to using them.
Exactly. Have you ever tried writing to your PDA (or even on a pad of paper) in a moving vehicle? Reminds me of the commercial with someone applying lipstick and when they hit a pothole getting a red racing stripe from lip to eyelid. Typing is so much more convenient and for those of us who touch-type much faster as well (even when the vehicle isn't moving). I spend at least 3 hours a day in a vanpool and have given up writing to my visor.
Except in practice, monopolistic effects ensure that you won't see your "much cheaper price" for electronic textbook rental once dead-tree textbooks are driven off the market.
That leads to another point mentioned earlier in the thread - that of selling the books back. It's not the selling of the book back because you own it issue that's important, it's the ability of others to buy a used textbook at a significantly reduced price that is key. This practice creates the only competition in the textbook market now.
Also, what happens when someone bumps the music stand and the gadget hits the floor? Do I buy a new one?
I wouldn't use one of those cheap flimsy music stands. Maybe a good adjustable stand (so that you can tilt the stand back enough to keep accidental bumpage followed by dropage to a minimum.
At least you wouldn't have to worry about the slightes breeze turning your pages or causing them to flutter to the floor.
Well, the only one you seem to be left with is the awkwardness in holding (I think if someone is going to close their screens or laptop with something bulky and hard between them they'll eventually crack either one).
As for shifting weight distribution when you go to write, I think the attitude of the device would change at that point and would be laid flat on the lap or a table rather than being held upright like a book. Think about how you do these things with notepads and pen. It would be just as awkward to hold your notepad aloft on one edge and write with the other hand. That's why nobody does it. It may also be possible to fold one screen under, hold the device in the crook of your arm and write if you are standing. Have you ever tried to type on a laptop while standing? Now THAT's awkward!
Why try to emulate pencil and paper when we already have real pencil and real paper for much less money, that work much better than any fancy laptop.
I think you get that impression from the ring-binder graphics that do make it look like a 3-ring portfolio. Given that though, your argument applies to any laptop. Here are just a few problems with your analogy:
I must get to a fax machine to send my paper. I store my paper in a bulky file cabinet. It's easier to type in a moving vehicle than it is to write.
On the other hand, if you're stuck in the john you can't wipe with a laptop.... well, you can, but I don't want to go into that here.
Actually, you seem to have formed an opinion based on gut reaction and are formulating weak points to bolster your conclusion.
Connectors: That argument would also apply to laptops (unless yours is permanently fixed in the open position).
Cracked Screen: How does this not apply to laptops seeing they use the same technology in this area?
Holding expensive, breakable world atlas: Again, the size appears to be that of a standard laptop. The only difference is orientation. In fact, holding it like a book would certainly lessen the chances that you'd drop the silly thing - two hands grasping the sides as opposed to two hands resting on the keyboard.
I honestly can't see in your arguments anything that would justify your conclusion. Think about what you're saying and then compare that to the devices you currently don't have problems with (laptops specifically - discounting those that use power resources too quickly if you like).
Most people have no trouble finding space on a plane or train to use a magazine or a newspaper. This should fall somewhere closer to magazine size judging by picture and description. As far as practical use, your own use of a laptop must be very limited if you can't see any practicality in this form factor. Get those aging executives with bad eyes to review and mark up documents during their commute or business flight using this since many of them still don't (won't) type anyway.
I do wonder if it has a keyboard how practical it is to use both screens while typing though. I could see having reference material open on one screen and typing to a document in the other.
Does it have a keyboard? Not mentioned in the article. I'd think with the PDA market spawning numerous foldable keyboards and folks learning to thumb-type on the smaller adjunct keyboards that this would be a feature they need to keep. Most of us can still type far faster than we can write (especially when you consider having to correct what handwriting recognition couldn't get right).
Ad Astra Per Aspera "A Rough Road Leads to the Stars"
Actually, that's more properly rendered, "To the stars through difficulty"
I liked the old Flash Gordon serials. They're hilarious. People with what looks like coffee pots on their heads. Cliff-hangers that leave you with one scene but resume with something totally different happening - must've been before continuity directors (not that they do much better in some cases).
Like the time I took a friend to dinner and nearly choked when the Prime Rib I paid for got slathered in ketchup! Next time he gets a burger. That's probably why most movies are such low quality - all condiments and no substance - because that's the taste so many have attuned themselves to.
Even if it were remotely possible that Parker could sell the fluid without placing his loved ones in danger...
That never seemed to be a problem for the bad guys. Look at the Goblin, he was able to keep his identity secret while getting rich from his inventive genius (until Spidey caught him of course). Although Harry's dad didn't really give a rip about who might be jeopardized by his activities (since he was nuts).
Let them mandate changes in the content provider's business model. Why should the legislative answer be to change the manufacturing process for hardware used to process the content if the provider hasn't considered changing their own methodologies first? If you can mandate changes to the hardware industry (and it seems the content providers believe that is their right) then it should be even easier to mandate changes to the industry that's pitching a fit about the problem in the first place.
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the relationship between Parker and Mary Jane has always been a part of Spider-Man.
I guess it's a good thing that Gwen died before she found out about that...
The thought of monotone lyrics made me think of redoing the complete catalog of music from a particular subset of musicians and call the results "Boy Blands" but I can't find MMMM-BOP in the dictionary.
Skywalker had a brother? Which Skywalker?
The Skywalker brothers were a high-wire act in Episode 11 (Attache of the Clowns) which is scheduled to begin filming shortly after George Lucas dies. It is this episode which will reveal the childhood traumatization Lucas suffered at the hands of the patriarch of the Clampett family which explains why Darth Vader, the villain in the middle tier trilogy, had a hat that flopped down over his ears and the hero element in the movies are called Jed-die.
Isn't an infinte number of computers enough?
I'd like to see a beowulf cluster of those.... Oh, wait.....
Looking at the sky with the naked eye in no way gives a true impression of how vast the universe is.
You take your eyes outside naked??? Omigosh!
Some people might be better off without lights or connection to a power grid.
.sig I'd guess you mean that people with ugly women would be better off without lights....
Given the link in your
Organizations like this one focus on making outdoor lighting point downwards towards the Earth and shielding the bulbs from putting out light into the atmosphere.
So these little LED lamps pointed directly at a work surface would probably help that problem over a lantern, oil lamp or fire used for light.
Remind me how exactly having to ride an exercise bike to generate electricity would raise my quality of living?
Well, if you're really that lazy it'd have to improve your cardiovascular fitness level. Less huffing an puffing on the way to the Krispy Kreme counter (oh, you probably use the drive thru).
Besides, this is gentle pedaling, nowhere near exercise bike levels of exertion.
How about renewable energy that costs nothing (unless you count food you're probably going to be eating anyway to fuel your body). Dang! We're out of legs. Martha, be sure and get some more legs next time you're at Nepal-Mart.
How about not sucking down smoke from oil lamps or kerosene from lanterns.
(Although I MIGHT be tempted to get the whole hookup just so I could use my computer.)
Wow! Your computer runs off of LED's??? Now there's an innovation worth talking about.
I had to go back and look, but I see what you mean. Scratch that scenario. Heck, it was a bonus anyway.
It's not that an individual book weighs as much as a laptop. You can carry a small library electronically. Some for technical reference, some for pleasure reading.
It's just tahat a laptop is more useful, even when it runs out of battery
Huh? You lost me there. Do you use your laptop for winter sledding when the battery dies?
... they might be right in saying the future of mobile computing is keyboard-less, but that's a hard sell to make to those of us that are so used to using them.
Exactly. Have you ever tried writing to your PDA (or even on a pad of paper) in a moving vehicle? Reminds me of the commercial with someone applying lipstick and when they hit a pothole getting a red racing stripe from lip to eyelid. Typing is so much more convenient and for those of us who touch-type much faster as well (even when the vehicle isn't moving). I spend at least 3 hours a day in a vanpool and have given up writing to my visor.
Except in practice, monopolistic effects ensure that you won't see your "much cheaper price" for electronic textbook rental once dead-tree textbooks are driven off the market.
That leads to another point mentioned earlier in the thread - that of selling the books back. It's not the selling of the book back because you own it issue that's important, it's the ability of others to buy a used textbook at a significantly reduced price that is key. This practice creates the only competition in the textbook market now.
Also, what happens when someone bumps the music stand and the gadget hits the floor? Do I buy a new one?
I wouldn't use one of those cheap flimsy music stands. Maybe a good adjustable stand (so that you can tilt the stand back enough to keep accidental bumpage followed by dropage to a minimum.
At least you wouldn't have to worry about the slightes breeze turning your pages or causing them to flutter to the floor.
Are these reasons any better?
Well, the only one you seem to be left with is the awkwardness in holding (I think if someone is going to close their screens or laptop with something bulky and hard between them they'll eventually crack either one).
As for shifting weight distribution when you go to write, I think the attitude of the device would change at that point and would be laid flat on the lap or a table rather than being held upright like a book. Think about how you do these things with notepads and pen. It would be just as awkward to hold your notepad aloft on one edge and write with the other hand. That's why nobody does it. It may also be possible to fold one screen under, hold the device in the crook of your arm and write if you are standing. Have you ever tried to type on a laptop while standing? Now THAT's awkward!
Why try to emulate pencil and paper when we already have real pencil and real paper for much less money, that work much better than any fancy laptop.
I think you get that impression from the ring-binder graphics that do make it look like a 3-ring portfolio. Given that though, your argument applies to any laptop. Here are just a few problems with your analogy:
I must get to a fax machine to send my paper.
I store my paper in a bulky file cabinet.
It's easier to type in a moving vehicle than it is to write.
On the other hand, if you're stuck in the john you can't wipe with a laptop.... well, you can, but I don't want to go into that here.
Some of my points still stand.
Actually, you seem to have formed an opinion based on gut reaction and are formulating weak points to bolster your conclusion.
Connectors: That argument would also apply to laptops (unless yours is permanently fixed in the open position).
Cracked Screen: How does this not apply to laptops seeing they use the same technology in this area?
Holding expensive, breakable world atlas: Again, the size appears to be that of a standard laptop. The only difference is orientation. In fact, holding it like a book would certainly lessen the chances that you'd drop the silly thing - two hands grasping the sides as opposed to two hands resting on the keyboard.
I honestly can't see in your arguments anything that would justify your conclusion. Think about what you're saying and then compare that to the devices you currently don't have problems with (laptops specifically - discounting those that use power resources too quickly if you like).
Most people have no trouble finding space on a plane or train to use a magazine or a newspaper. This should fall somewhere closer to magazine size judging by picture and description. As far as practical use, your own use of a laptop must be very limited if you can't see any practicality in this form factor. Get those aging executives with bad eyes to review and mark up documents during their commute or business flight using this since many of them still don't (won't) type anyway.
I do wonder if it has a keyboard how practical it is to use both screens while typing though. I could see having reference material open on one screen and typing to a document in the other.
Does it have a keyboard? Not mentioned in the article. I'd think with the PDA market spawning numerous foldable keyboards and folks learning to thumb-type on the smaller adjunct keyboards that this would be a feature they need to keep. Most of us can still type far faster than we can write (especially when you consider having to correct what handwriting recognition couldn't get right).
Did you even look at it? it's not a dual head laptop, it's more like an ebook with a folding screen.. Probably not much bigger then a normal book.
Did you read the article? These are two 15" diag screens. What kind of books do you consider "normal"?
The company says it will restrict .Pro to doctors, lawyers or accountants: 'qualified professionals in good standing ...
And just how do they determine who is 'qualified' or 'in good standing'?
Oh, yeah.... I forgot about the $300.00 'proof'.
Shouldn't that be OPEN-RRRRRRRR ARFchitecture?
Wasn't a matter of elitism. It's a cost/benefit issue. If he makes the primo cut of beef taste like a hamburger, why pay the premium price?
Ad Astra Per Aspera "A Rough Road Leads to the Stars"
Actually, that's more properly rendered, "To the stars through difficulty"
I liked the old Flash Gordon serials. They're hilarious. People with what looks like coffee pots on their heads. Cliff-hangers that leave you with one scene but resume with something totally different happening - must've been before continuity directors (not that they do much better in some cases).
Like the time I took a friend to dinner and nearly choked when the Prime Rib I paid for got slathered in ketchup! Next time he gets a burger. That's probably why most movies are such low quality - all condiments and no substance - because that's the taste so many have attuned themselves to.
Even if it were remotely possible that Parker could sell the fluid without placing his loved ones in danger...
That never seemed to be a problem for the bad guys. Look at the Goblin, he was able to keep his identity secret while getting rich from his inventive genius (until Spidey caught him of course). Although Harry's dad didn't really give a rip about who might be jeopardized by his activities (since he was nuts).
Let them mandate changes in the content provider's business model. Why should the legislative answer be to change the manufacturing process for hardware used to process the content if the provider hasn't considered changing their own methodologies first? If you can mandate changes to the hardware industry (and it seems the content providers believe that is their right) then it should be even easier to mandate changes to the industry that's pitching a fit about the problem in the first place.