Have you seen a 7" screen recently and tried typing on that surface? I put my hands index finger to index finger and that is almost 7". Not to mention that you can't use both hands if you have to hold it in front of you with the other hand. OR... put it down on the table. But then you are entering a literal world of pain - you'd have to "hang" over the keys/screen all the time you are typing. 14" is a minimum if you are going to use it for any kind of major work. 7" is fine (even excellent at times) for entertainment, but if you are going to type a memo, let alone do something more - you need more workspace.
Nobody types on laptops anymore? Damn! Has someone told that to the laptop manufacturers? They are like... throwing money out the window.
Oh.. and about that 160 characters...
Your post is 1439 characters long. Soo... I'm guessing you did it in 9 parts?
I type SMS' longer than 160 characters. On a regular 12-key phone keypad.
According to cnet.co.uk the oft-rumoured Apple Tablet PC is actually very real, and on its way soon. CNET claims to have spoken to an anonymous tipster at Asus who claims to be working with Apple to produce the tablet. On the off chance that it IS true...
I can't afford one running windows. Actually... I am yet to see one used IRL. Don't see how exactly will an Apple's overpriced version bring the tech to the masses.
And... ummm.. Where exactly is the appeal in the TabletPC? I mean... hand-held PDA devices - OK. I can use it and hold it with one hand, and put it in my pocket.
But a 14", or 15" or 17" big, clumsy, fragile thing I have to haul around and which I must always hold with one hand when I interact with it (no keyboard to put on my lap, while the screen stays upright), AND the control/input interface IS the viewing interface (so one dies with another in case of a malfunction) - why?
And still... can't fit that movie with all the other gifts there. That is not a movie for sick kids. Yeah, it is PG-13 through some creative fiddling around with the camera - but the main character still kills two people in first five minutes of the movie. Not to mention all the other killings, torture and etc.
Notice what amazon offers you to buy along with it?
Better Together
Buy this DVD with The Departed (Widescreen Edition) DVD ~ Leonardo DiCaprio today! Yeah... why not? Lets drop a headshot or two in the children's hospital's DVD library.
Anyway... whatever... Found that hospital fishy, bought something for another hospital instead.
A fraudulent market for uninformed and stupid people, but still - a market in which such products fulfil a demand?
I mean... I know that the sale of such products is based on presumed stupidity/confusion but that it actually works that way? (o_O)?
For some reason, thinking about those fine specimens of stupid people out there, forking out money for such products instead of giving it to me, makes me kind of... sad.
I mean.. I can imagine one teen desperately needing a daily dose of Daniel Craig in his/hers life, but five of them? Or could it be that someone thought that this would make a great (free) Christmas gift?
Quick and strong ones run around after the ball and each other the whole day, while "normals" sit at home and watch them do it on the TV. Normals seem much smarter. Or at least more civilized.
Until you see how much cheese and "privileges" those ball chasers get.
Comparing Gimp to Photoshop is like comparing the newest laser printer to a early '90s ink-jet printer.
As for Apple buying Adobe, and then going Apple only - that would burry both companies. Think about it. You'd have a de facto industry standard (not to mention household name) that is bought up and switched from "ANY computer in the world"-market to a 5%-world market.
99% market share turned into a 5% market share. Apples shares wouldn't be worth the ink used to print them.
Did you really think he was going there for his health? When the Godfather comes to your house and asks for a favour, you don't say no unless you like sleeping with fishes and/or waking up with a stallion's head next to you.
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there How did they expect those bombs and rockets to be built without chemistry sets?
I often have to admire to what people put into their national anthems. Should words and prayers have ANY power in them... oh boy.
UK would have a nearly immortal queen.
God save our gracious Queen! Long live our noble Queen! God save the Queen! Send her victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us, God save the Queen. Germans used to almost call for misfortune:
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Und im Unglück nun erst recht. Nur im Unglück kann die Liebe Zeigen, ob sie stark und echt. Und so soll es weiterklingen Von Geschlechte zu Geschlecht: Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Und im Unglück nun erst recht.
Germany, Germany above all And in misfortune all the more. Only in misfortune can love Show if it's strong and true. And so it should ring out From generation to generation: Germany, Germany above all, And in misfortune all the more. That is when the Nazies came and replace the anthem. XD
My personal favorite (that being my anthem for quite some time) would have to be the national anthem of pre-1992 Yugoslavia. SFRJ that is. Besides being a copy, it had a verse in it cursing "every traitor of the home/father-land".
And then in the early '90s those same people that called out for a curse over the "traitors of homeland" their entire lives, broke up the country into a bunch of smaller states and started killing each other.
I must say that both me and Maria Conchita Alonso find that there's nothing funny about a dickless moron with a battery up his ass. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/quotes
Read that "capable of converting 70 percent of its deceleration energy into electricity, which it sends back to the battery." part again.
Every time it stops - it recharges a bit. On its inertia alone. Also, being battery powered, you could set up recharge stations that get electricity from solar or other renewable sources.
And... you can remove all those cables and save/recycle quite a bit of copper.
Not a problem that doesn't exist. Maybe couple of problems we weren't aware of.
If the enemy appeared to be immortal cyborgs that your (apparently) puny weapons had no affect on, would you not just be afraid of them and comply? Actually, it would make me reach for a bat'leth (or an axe - they are generally easier to find). It always works for Lt. Worf. Or retreat into the jungle, smear mud over myself, and build a giant mousetrap with logs and some rope. Worked for both the Governator AND Ewoks.
There is no such thing as "immortal". You are just not hitting it hard enough.
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Have you seen a 7" screen recently and tried typing on that surface?
I put my hands index finger to index finger and that is almost 7". Not to mention that you can't use both hands if you have to hold it in front of you with the other hand.
OR... put it down on the table. But then you are entering a literal world of pain - you'd have to "hang" over the keys/screen all the time you are typing.
14" is a minimum if you are going to use it for any kind of major work.
7" is fine (even excellent at times) for entertainment, but if you are going to type a memo, let alone do something more - you need more workspace.
Nobody types on laptops anymore? Damn! Has someone told that to the laptop manufacturers? They are like... throwing money out the window.
Oh.. and about that 160 characters...
Your post is 1439 characters long. Soo... I'm guessing you did it in 9 parts?
I type SMS' longer than 160 characters. On a regular 12-key phone keypad.
I can't afford one running windows. Actually... I am yet to see one used IRL.
Don't see how exactly will an Apple's overpriced version bring the tech to the masses.
And... ummm.. Where exactly is the appeal in the TabletPC?
I mean... hand-held PDA devices - OK. I can use it and hold it with one hand, and put it in my pocket.
But a 14", or 15" or 17" big, clumsy, fragile thing I have to haul around and which I must always hold with one hand when I interact with it (no keyboard to put on my lap, while the screen stays upright), AND the control/input interface IS the viewing interface (so one dies with another in case of a malfunction) - why?
Your experience obviously does not include higher quality printers of either kind.
Or the Win3.1 and DOS era printers.
OK... let us try along these lines.
Gimp is a Mini, or a Smart. Goes from A to B on a budget. If you only need to go from A to B, what more do you need?
Photoshop is a Bentley-Monster Truck-Buldozer-IceCream Truck-Humvee.
And still... can't fit that movie with all the other gifts there. That is not a movie for sick kids.
Yeah, it is PG-13 through some creative fiddling around with the camera - but the main character still kills two people in first five minutes of the movie.
Not to mention all the other killings, torture and etc.
Notice what amazon offers you to buy along with it? Better Together
Buy this DVD with The Departed (Widescreen Edition) DVD ~ Leonardo DiCaprio today! Yeah... why not? Lets drop a headshot or two in the children's hospital's DVD library.
Anyway... whatever...
Found that hospital fishy, bought something for another hospital instead.
So like... there really IS a market for pop stations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvXleDSkB-g
Poli Stations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a6lxiB1b_I
and Neo Double Games http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SNv2xEyyeg out there?
A fraudulent market for uninformed and stupid people, but still - a market in which such products fulfil a demand?
I mean... I know that the sale of such products is based on presumed stupidity/confusion but that it actually works that way? (o_O)?
For some reason, thinking about those fine specimens of stupid people out there, forking out money for such products instead of giving it to me, makes me kind of... sad.
First off - great idea. Love it. Gonna go there and buy something for a kids' hospital somewhere myself after this.
But... how is the new Casino Royale children's hospital material? http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html/?_&id=1YESGR3K97CSS
And 5 of those?
I mean.. I can imagine one teen desperately needing a daily dose of Daniel Craig in his/hers life, but five of them?
Or could it be that someone thought that this would make a great (free) Christmas gift?
How 'bout newest and early '90s? Read that part? No? Right.
I mean... If you can't tell the difference in quality and speed (and price - both hardware and per page) between laser and ink-jet...
Well then... Gimp might be the right thing for you.
I'd say more, but I am aiming at a homage to the TFA here.
Cheap AND easy to get.
Chain their legs together, or just chain them to the house.
Quick and strong ones run around after the ball and each other the whole day, while "normals" sit at home and watch them do it on the TV.
Normals seem much smarter. Or at least more civilized.
Until you see how much cheese and "privileges" those ball chasers get.
Just their "normal" cousins.
For both food and shelter.
Until they decided that its time to start teaming up and hunting cats...
Adobe is not Photoshop.
And neither is Gimp.
Comparing Gimp to Photoshop is like comparing the newest laser printer to a early '90s ink-jet printer.
As for Apple buying Adobe, and then going Apple only - that would burry both companies.
Think about it.
You'd have a de facto industry standard (not to mention household name) that is bought up and switched from "ANY computer in the world"-market to a 5%-world market.
99% market share turned into a 5% market share.
Apples shares wouldn't be worth the ink used to print them.
Or IBM should do that.
Come ooouuun... Apple buying Adobe wasn't feasible back in the days when you NEEDED Apple hardware if you wanted to work with Adobe software.
But you get these new, inflation/war weakened dollars.
Not the 2001. or 2002. or even early 2007. dollars.
If nothing else, this is a very good time for cash settlements.
It would still measure the distance from you to the other phones.
No (useful) image from you, but it still might be useful sonar data.
Until someone starts putting bluetooth phones into the walls and burying them into the ground just to screw with people.
We of the Giant Purple People Eater Society (GPPES) find cleaning stored humans a much more obvious application.
Does anyone remember that story couple of weeks ago? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/13/2121250
How Bill Gates (or Big Willy as his "associates" call him) got denied entry visa to Nigeria?
Did you really think he was going there for his health?
When the Godfather comes to your house and asks for a favour, you don't say no unless you like sleeping with fishes and/or waking up with a stallion's head next to you.
Just ask Moe Greene.
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there How did they expect those bombs and rockets to be built without chemistry sets?
I often have to admire to what people put into their national anthems.
Should words and prayers have ANY power in them... oh boy.
UK would have a nearly immortal queen. God save our gracious Queen!
Long live our noble Queen!
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save the Queen. Germans used to almost call for misfortune: Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Und im Unglück nun erst recht.
Nur im Unglück kann die Liebe
Zeigen, ob sie stark und echt.
Und so soll es weiterklingen
Von Geschlechte zu Geschlecht:
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Und im Unglück nun erst recht.
Germany, Germany above all
And in misfortune all the more.
Only in misfortune can love
Show if it's strong and true.
And so it should ring out
From generation to generation:
Germany, Germany above all,
And in misfortune all the more. That is when the Nazies came and replace the anthem. XD
My personal favorite (that being my anthem for quite some time) would have to be the national anthem of pre-1992 Yugoslavia. SFRJ that is.
Besides being a copy, it had a verse in it cursing "every traitor of the home/father-land".
And then in the early '90s those same people that called out for a curse over the "traitors of homeland" their entire lives, broke up the country into a bunch of smaller states and started killing each other.
Used on soldiers today, tomorrow entire continents may be powered by small children on sugar dressed in overalls made this way.
Just don't let them go swimming wearing that.
I must say that both me and Maria Conchita Alonso find that there's nothing funny about a dickless moron with a battery up his ass. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/quotes
Particularly when they don't make him waterproof.
Read that "capable of converting 70 percent of its deceleration energy into electricity, which it sends back to the battery." part again.
Every time it stops - it recharges a bit. On its inertia alone.
Also, being battery powered, you could set up recharge stations that get electricity from solar or other renewable sources.
And... you can remove all those cables and save/recycle quite a bit of copper.
Not a problem that doesn't exist. Maybe couple of problems we weren't aware of.
Apparently, Chinese and Japanese are way ahead... Working prototypes and all that...
http://www.youtube.com/user/huyu0711
http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200523/000020052305A0951847.php
Figures.
It was always obvious that robotic overlords will NOT be speaking English as first language.
Well... At least we can eliminate a few more of "in charge of Gundam potentials".
Or retreat into the jungle, smear mud over myself, and build a giant mousetrap with logs and some rope. Worked for both the Governator AND Ewoks.
There is no such thing as "immortal". You are just not hitting it hard enough.
But Bruce Wayne will.
"Wow," said his spacewalking partner, Scott Parazynski. Its nice to see those "Keanu Reeves Linguistic School" classes paying off for astronauts.