One can currently buy a computer to do all those things, and more, today. Buying a tablet assumes a trade-off in capabilities vs. a personal computer. GP is whining about an imaginary situation. I might as well complain about the lack of flying cars and rocket belts promised to my parents.
Quick google search shows me that the Droid 2 Global is a phone that sells for $580, not a tablet by any means. And where does your magical $100 price tag come from?
When CGI looks bad, that's when we hate on it. And there's plenty of *that* to go around. Do it well, use it well, and you'll hear nary a complaint from most.
Or Starship Troopers or The Fifth Element, both of which used models extensively with green screen compositing and CGI. Seriously, check out the special features on the Fifth Element DVD, the New New York scenes were mostly done in a giant model.
One thing that Ticketmaster started doing a year or two ago was disclosing each additional fee/charge on their tickets, showing clearly which were theirs and which were the venues. The venues freaked out. However, the transparency was enlightening: of those 7.50 in extra charges, 2 might be Ticketmasters' and the rest extra fees added by the venue, who are *already* getting paid for hosting the show in the first place!
These are our books. I am entirely unable to throw away a paper book on principal. So, I have a full room in my house with the walls covered with books and books stacked in boxes and a chair... I call it the library. I find it doubtful my children will buy paper books later in life. They're inconvenient, wasteful, and they suck up space.
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They're the same key on my Japanese keyboard!
Sure, but AC was implying you might run something like a nuclear reactor on windows. Which is ludicrously stupid.
Yeah, and it's against the EULA!
Is there a chance the case could bend?
No, that'd just break the Wayback Machine.
True. They should have called it Research In Motion Blackberry OS for Mobile Phones and Tablets version 10.
On a sidenote the keynote and all other opening prezzies were delivered using a Macbook pro which had the back covered to obscure the apple logo.
That's pretty damn lame. It's not like they're Dell or Sony, actual PC-type hardware makers that would feel the need to hide a competitor's hardware.
Top Gear's hosts are professional writers.
That's what he said!
User name/post combo of the day!
One can currently buy a computer to do all those things, and more, today. Buying a tablet assumes a trade-off in capabilities vs. a personal computer. GP is whining about an imaginary situation. I might as well complain about the lack of flying cars and rocket belts promised to my parents.
People will buy any old fucking thing you slap a lower case i in front of. Why bother trying?
Don't be silly; nobody bought an iPaq.
I remember the days when you'd go buy a computing device and it would just be yours, without the need to "jailbreak" it.
Guess it'll be a nice memory to tell my grandkids about someday: the time before megacorps took over our computing devices (and we all let them).
I see. And you wrote your own BASIC interpreter, machine language monitor and compiler, I/O drivers, and every application and game that you needed?
Give me a break.
The 7800 and NES were gaming consoles. WTF is a "computing device?"
Quick google search shows me that the Droid 2 Global is a phone that sells for $580, not a tablet by any means. And where does your magical $100 price tag come from?
Can I get a cheap, fast, vindaloo?
Thankfully, "Donald Duck In Mathmagic Land" is just under an half an hour.
Dang, littering and causing a disturbance!
We have a similar thing in Canada, a blank media levy. Only question I have: why do Canadian artists get money when I pirate British bands?
They've monetized the eschaton!
When CGI looks bad, that's when we hate on it. And there's plenty of *that* to go around. Do it well, use it well, and you'll hear nary a complaint from most.
Turbolifts always moved at the speed of plot.
Or Starship Troopers or The Fifth Element, both of which used models extensively with green screen compositing and CGI. Seriously, check out the special features on the Fifth Element DVD, the New New York scenes were mostly done in a giant model.
One thing that Ticketmaster started doing a year or two ago was disclosing each additional fee/charge on their tickets, showing clearly which were theirs and which were the venues. The venues freaked out. However, the transparency was enlightening: of those 7.50 in extra charges, 2 might be Ticketmasters' and the rest extra fees added by the venue, who are *already* getting paid for hosting the show in the first place!
Try seeing The Who or Clapton for $30 these days.
These are our books. I am entirely unable to throw away a paper book on principal. So, I have a full room in my house with the walls covered with books and books stacked in boxes and a chair... I call it the library. I find it doubtful my children will buy paper books later in life. They're inconvenient, wasteful, and they suck up space.
So sell them or give them away, dumbass.