Jesus, are you fucking kidding me? Have you ever taken courses at a four-year college?
Forget the fact that the majority of college profs barely touch a piece of chalk/dry marker during a lecture. The second time you had to tell a prof to step to the side of the whiteboard so you could snap a picture before he erased and continued, you and your digital camera would be at the registrar with a drop slip faster than you can say "Not in my class you don't".
There isn't anything the Tablet PC's are doing right now that make them worth the price/performance cost. The Handwriting thing is cool, but not yet up to snuff compared to just straight typing. The detachable/rotatable is, again, cool, but more of a gimick in real-life use. Outside of that the big feature is wireless connectivity, but these days that's not that big a feature for a laptop (perhaps even getting close to standard).
Tablet PC's tend to be underpowered, and have a "unique" (read, difficult) form factor when using one. For the price you can get a tricked out Dell that has twice the power, twice the battery, three times the screen quality, and probably about 5 times the useful lifespan.
Don't get me wrong, in another 10 years the Tablet PC's or something very much like them will probably be the best thing going, but right now laptops are still where it's at.
But don't forget about Marcus Allen. You know the guy on the Raiders who had the other running play? He maybe didn't have quite the juice that Bo did, but he could easily break it at any time as well.
Also, I can't believe I haven't heard mention of Derrick Thomas from Techmo SuperBowl. Made Lawrence Taylor look like a wimp. When Derrick was in "Excellent" condition I could rush the quarterback, and if he managed to throw the bomb, get back on defense before the pass got to the receiver. Derrick is literally a force of nature on that game.
It's been my experience that Ad-Aware is pretty close to useless in it's current state, at least for the freeware version. It doesn't find half the things Spybot finds; from what I've heard Lavasoft hasn't updated Ad-Aware's signature files for while.
I haven't used it for a while though, so someone correct me if this is no longer the case.
Thank God that you make Big Brother go to a little extra trouble to find our your DMV-recorded address, your weight when you were 18 years old, and the color of your eyes.
Jesus, get a life before you end up drilling a hole in your left temple.
Hey, you got to give him props for having the balls to post this under his own username if anything.
And besides, dial-up would probably be OK for your typical "log in and check the submission Q" thing, but it does make you wonder what happens when there's a problem.
Yes, and then people like you start yelling about how all media is Liberal Controlled (tm), and the two sides yell and scream some more, while the rest of the country either falls on one of the sides or stops caring about the whole thing. And in the end we are left with nothing.
An area with a couple computers dedicated to internet access would probably be appreciated by most gamers (check their email, etc). Perhaps a couple phones thrown in there as well.
Jobs: How about you sell us half a million of those drives for $10 each.
Cornice CEO: Well, that's pretty much below what it costs us to make them, we've got to have at least $50 each for them.
Jobs: Let me put this another way. How about you sell us half a million of those drive for $10 each, and we'll not buy out your company and fire every manager making over $100k a year?
Cornice CEO: Uh...OK!
OK, so Apple isn't exactly Microsoft, but you can't tell me Cornice isn't going to bend over backwards to get their name associated with something that would be this big.
I also hear that feeding your children lead-based paint chips can make for a tasty afternoon snack that is low in calories and fat. What more could a parent ask for?
I'm the exact same way. To me the $99 price point and 1Gig size is the key. At $300, it doesn't matter if it's 10 Gigabytes or 10 Terrabytes, I'm not paying that kind of money to listen to Dave Mathews on the treadmill. But give it to me for $99 and I'm all over it, and so is half this country.
2 gig for $99 almost seems too good to be true. Although my need for an MP3 player is small, I gotta admit that at that price point, I'd probably pick one up. Assuming they can keep the form factor as nice as the current iPods of course.
I saw this before a ROTK screening, and also thought it was some kind of new robot. After all, Sony or whomever had just been announcing their "jogging" robot and whatnot.
Anyway, I'm sitting there trying my best to ignore the "ad", waiting impatiently for ROTK to start, and then the "3 Laws Safe" tagline comes up. I about shit my pants. Tried to explain it to one of my buddies next to me, but he just kind of looked at me like "Aragorn did what now?" Oh well, here's hoping they don't fuck this movie up too much.
Slashdot Mirror
Jesus, are you fucking kidding me? Have you ever taken courses at a four-year college?
Forget the fact that the majority of college profs barely touch a piece of chalk/dry marker during a lecture. The second time you had to tell a prof to step to the side of the whiteboard so you could snap a picture before he erased and continued, you and your digital camera would be at the registrar with a drop slip faster than you can say "Not in my class you don't".
Just get a laptop.
There isn't anything the Tablet PC's are doing right now that make them worth the price/performance cost. The Handwriting thing is cool, but not yet up to snuff compared to just straight typing. The detachable/rotatable is, again, cool, but more of a gimick in real-life use. Outside of that the big feature is wireless connectivity, but these days that's not that big a feature for a laptop (perhaps even getting close to standard).
Tablet PC's tend to be underpowered, and have a "unique" (read, difficult) form factor when using one. For the price you can get a tricked out Dell that has twice the power, twice the battery, three times the screen quality, and probably about 5 times the useful lifespan.
Don't get me wrong, in another 10 years the Tablet PC's or something very much like them will probably be the best thing going, but right now laptops are still where it's at.
I'd say that with buzz-speak like that, she's going to make some CIO very happy someday.
But don't forget about Marcus Allen. You know the guy on the Raiders who had the other running play? He maybe didn't have quite the juice that Bo did, but he could easily break it at any time as well.
Also, I can't believe I haven't heard mention of Derrick Thomas from Techmo SuperBowl. Made Lawrence Taylor look like a wimp. When Derrick was in "Excellent" condition I could rush the quarterback, and if he managed to throw the bomb, get back on defense before the pass got to the receiver. Derrick is literally a force of nature on that game.
OK, thx for the heads up.
It's been my experience that Ad-Aware is pretty close to useless in it's current state, at least for the freeware version. It doesn't find half the things Spybot finds; from what I've heard Lavasoft hasn't updated Ad-Aware's signature files for while.
I haven't used it for a while though, so someone correct me if this is no longer the case.
Thank God that you make Big Brother go to a little extra trouble to find our your DMV-recorded address, your weight when you were 18 years old, and the color of your eyes.
Jesus, get a life before you end up drilling a hole in your left temple.
Hey, you got to give him props for having the balls to post this under his own username if anything.
And besides, dial-up would probably be OK for your typical "log in and check the submission Q" thing, but it does make you wonder what happens when there's a problem.
Which the article actually states.
Yes, and then people like you start yelling about how all media is Liberal Controlled (tm), and the two sides yell and scream some more, while the rest of the country either falls on one of the sides or stops caring about the whole thing. And in the end we are left with nothing.
So congrats.
An area with a couple computers dedicated to internet access would probably be appreciated by most gamers (check their email, etc). Perhaps a couple phones thrown in there as well.
I wonder what would happen if you tried to Photoshop Peter Gammons?
Maybe, but that's getting a little nit-picky IMHO. I must have missed that description, because I always pictured Arthur as a short anyway.
Yeah, that's Arthur Dent alright.
No, TNT did that.
Someone who has a different opinion than yours is not automatically a troll, asshat.
And you can still get your HL updates sans steam, via someplace like FilePlanet if nothing else.
More like...
Jobs: How about you sell us half a million of those drives for $10 each.
Cornice CEO: Well, that's pretty much below what it costs us to make them, we've got to have at least $50 each for them.
Jobs: Let me put this another way. How about you sell us half a million of those drive for $10 each, and we'll not buy out your company and fire every manager making over $100k a year?
Cornice CEO: Uh...OK!
OK, so Apple isn't exactly Microsoft, but you can't tell me Cornice isn't going to bend over backwards to get their name associated with something that would be this big.
I also hear that feeding your children lead-based paint chips can make for a tasty afternoon snack that is low in calories and fat. What more could a parent ask for?
What you failed to notice is that the article was written by Jim Louderback. This should explain everything.
Go look up "hyperbole" dude.
I'm the exact same way. To me the $99 price point and 1Gig size is the key. At $300, it doesn't matter if it's 10 Gigabytes or 10 Terrabytes, I'm not paying that kind of money to listen to Dave Mathews on the treadmill. But give it to me for $99 and I'm all over it, and so is half this country.
2 gig for $99 almost seems too good to be true. Although my need for an MP3 player is small, I gotta admit that at that price point, I'd probably pick one up. Assuming they can keep the form factor as nice as the current iPods of course.
Off-topic on Slashdot personals: Is it just me or is Claire Danes really hard up for work these days?
I saw this before a ROTK screening, and also thought it was some kind of new robot. After all, Sony or whomever had just been announcing their "jogging" robot and whatnot.
Anyway, I'm sitting there trying my best to ignore the "ad", waiting impatiently for ROTK to start, and then the "3 Laws Safe" tagline comes up. I about shit my pants. Tried to explain it to one of my buddies next to me, but he just kind of looked at me like "Aragorn did what now?" Oh well, here's hoping they don't fuck this movie up too much.
Let me guess: the protagonists save the day by creating a giant lake of mercury?
Cryptinomicron: Good book, but still the worst ending of all time.