no I have a dec laptop with a trackball in the now normal position, Its date of manufacture is 1990 which is the same year as the original Macintosh portable started coming with a backlight, and a year before the first powerbook. The original portable in 89-90 gave you a reflective screen (think gameboy) a full sized keyboard, a full sized trackball on the right of the keyboard, and ran off of lead acid batteries. It was a old clunky luggable about 6 years too late.
The first powerbook came out in 91 and it came with the trackball built in, which makes since as you HAVE to have a mouse with a mac. My DEC clips onto the front with pogo pins that make the contact as an option. So while the powerbook was the first one with a built in pointing device, PC makers have been putting the trackball under the keyboard for years as an option
Whats more likley to happen is that everyone using XP and office 2003 will continue to do so, whats the point of new computers, new operating systems and retraining eeryone on a new office interface when the shit you have has been doing fine for the last decade?
your using natural gas to create electricity, to create compressed air, which is then stored then used at a later date to produce electricity... why not just not burn the gas in the first place and save that to create electricity?
That's capitalism, and if you hate capitalism you MUST hate America, no if's and's buts, shades of grey, good or evil. You cant honestly dislike any part of it if you have ever bought a good or service, period, else you are a hypocrite!
that was 20 something years ago, and hell if you dont want to pay 70 2012 bucks for a game that has higher production quality than most movies from 20 something years ago and gives you months of entertainment, wait
yea OMFG wait, by Christmas it will be in the sub 30$ bin at walmart and still have thousands of players.
of all the things people can bitch and whine about new games, cost is not really one of them
a 2600 game would cost you 77 bucks today a SNES game would cost you 79 bucks today Metal Gear solid would cost you 84 bucks today
(and we haven't even left the 90's yet) so please STFU that game prices have not inflated equally with everything else, they have actually gotten cheaper!
its not the artifacts, its the shit compression being sent to it
I was in walmart earlier, walked past their top of the line tv's including plasma, what did I see... something that looked like video CD on my pentium. that's the point, the content is just not there, even HD services are at best 720 stretched, more often its 480.
It just looks like garbage to me, and having a billion pixels running at 600Hz does me no good when I cant read the phone number on a commercial... something my 27 inch 10 year old, will go another 20 years Trinatron does in perfect razor sharp clarity, all because chi-co industries shoved some half assed video processor onto a decent screen, and the providers are trying to skimp on video bandwidth so they can give me swamp people on 9 channels in 6 languages.
I really have no desire to go out and drop a pile of money on a TV that's got a rep for short lifespans and every time I walk pas one it looks like MPEG vomit. Sure they look good when you have all the right sources, but since I sont spend my life building a movie collection most normal content is stretched and full of digital garbage.
My stupid CRT looks much better for non HD content, and if you want HD content it cost out the ass, fuck it, its a gimick for dumb consumers, and a slight advantage to the unwashed masses playing console games.
earth is curved, lasers are straight, how many seconds can you actually do this in the field before you loose the tiny target... not counting in wind, drift, clouds, rain, or some dipshit playing with his watch?
I can see it for flight sims or racing sims, but for normal gaming why? so I can see my characters ass split between 2 screens with an inch of bezel in their crack?
cept most of those computers you listed, were already hitting homes before the 2600 by a year, and personally I went thoughout the entire 80's without a single arcade game, cause who gives a shit about space invaders when you have pretty massive RPG's and adventure games that wont bore you after 15 min?
and out of reach for many families? really? by 91 the clone wars had slashed the price of pc's to death, I got a pretty beefy tandy 386 with sound and CD for 70 bucks a month with the money I earned working part time after school and paid it off within a year.
sorry you were poor? but when a teen too young to drive to work could finance one, piss most of his pay away, AND still pay it off early, dont cry that bullshit.
apple is bad, but china doesnt even pretend to give a shit about other peoples IP. I personally hope they keep this up though, pissing off enough companies to finally storm in and nail everyone in china making knock off crap, and using trademarked logos on everything they have no right to.
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no I have a dec laptop with a trackball in the now normal position, Its date of manufacture is 1990 which is the same year as the original Macintosh portable started coming with a backlight, and a year before the first powerbook. The original portable in 89-90 gave you a reflective screen (think gameboy) a full sized keyboard, a full sized trackball on the right of the keyboard, and ran off of lead acid batteries. It was a old clunky luggable about 6 years too late.
The first powerbook came out in 91 and it came with the trackball built in, which makes since as you HAVE to have a mouse with a mac. My DEC clips onto the front with pogo pins that make the contact as an option. So while the powerbook was the first one with a built in pointing device, PC makers have been putting the trackball under the keyboard for years as an option
how the fuck did you miss the first half of the summary, were talking about clamshell computers, like modern laptops, not the first portable numbnuts
whoppie shit, its not a clamshell, which is what the story is about
hey my first car was a ford!
course a high percentage of this problem is in for a petty crime involving a plant.
Whats more likley to happen is that everyone using XP and office 2003 will continue to do so, whats the point of new computers, new operating systems and retraining eeryone on a new office interface when the shit you have has been doing fine for the last decade?
I just started to get used to the ribbon interface
your using natural gas to create electricity, to create compressed air, which is then stored then used at a later date to produce electricity... why not just not burn the gas in the first place and save that to create electricity?
That's capitalism, and if you hate capitalism you MUST hate America, no if's and's buts, shades of grey, good or evil. You cant honestly dislike any part of it if you have ever bought a good or service, period, else you are a hypocrite!
Well, at least that's what FOX news tells me...
or for his family to be barbecued!
it cost 39.99 in the states new and you can get a used copy for 20
that was 20 something years ago, and hell if you dont want to pay 70 2012 bucks for a game that has higher production quality than most movies from 20 something years ago and gives you months of entertainment, wait
yea OMFG wait, by Christmas it will be in the sub 30$ bin at walmart and still have thousands of players.
of all the things people can bitch and whine about new games, cost is not really one of them
a 2600 game would cost you 77 bucks today
a SNES game would cost you 79 bucks today
Metal Gear solid would cost you 84 bucks today
(and we haven't even left the 90's yet)
so please STFU that game prices have not inflated equally with everything else, they have actually gotten cheaper!
its not the artifacts, its the shit compression being sent to it
I was in walmart earlier, walked past their top of the line tv's including plasma, what did I see ... something that looked like video CD on my pentium. that's the point, the content is just not there, even HD services are at best 720 stretched, more often its 480.
It just looks like garbage to me, and having a billion pixels running at 600Hz does me no good when I cant read the phone number on a commercial ... something my 27 inch 10 year old, will go another 20 years Trinatron does in perfect razor sharp clarity, all because chi-co industries shoved some half assed video processor onto a decent screen, and the providers are trying to skimp on video bandwidth so they can give me swamp people on 9 channels in 6 languages.
IMO its retarded
no pirated content, DVD's and digital cable tyvm
I really have no desire to go out and drop a pile of money on a TV that's got a rep for short lifespans and every time I walk pas one it looks like MPEG vomit. Sure they look good when you have all the right sources, but since I sont spend my life building a movie collection most normal content is stretched and full of digital garbage.
My stupid CRT looks much better for non HD content, and if you want HD content it cost out the ass, fuck it, its a gimick for dumb consumers, and a slight advantage to the unwashed masses playing console games.
Really? would it kill you to include a half sentence to give us an idea what your talking about?
they will use a monster brand hdmi cable, it will be fine
while the target is flying away at 100mph +?
and how many fractions of a second is that? How much current can that generate?
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STFU! YOU are everything that you piss and moan about, moron.
earth is curved, lasers are straight, how many seconds can you actually do this in the field before you loose the tiny target ... not counting in wind, drift, clouds, rain, or some dipshit playing with his watch?
I can see it for flight sims or racing sims, but for normal gaming why? so I can see my characters ass split between 2 screens with an inch of bezel in their crack?
links2 -g works fine with slashdot and no X though you might want to load GPM beforehand cause tabbing though a page sucks
cept most of those computers you listed, were already hitting homes before the 2600 by a year, and personally I went thoughout the entire 80's without a single arcade game, cause who gives a shit about space invaders when you have pretty massive RPG's and adventure games that wont bore you after 15 min?
and out of reach for many families? really? by 91 the clone wars had slashed the price of pc's to death, I got a pretty beefy tandy 386 with sound and CD for 70 bucks a month with the money I earned working part time after school and paid it off within a year.
sorry you were poor? but when a teen too young to drive to work could finance one, piss most of his pay away, AND still pay it off early, dont cry that bullshit.
apple is bad, but china doesnt even pretend to give a shit about other peoples IP. I personally hope they keep this up though, pissing off enough companies to finally storm in and nail everyone in china making knock off crap, and using trademarked logos on everything they have no right to.
least I am not the only one