cause the heathens of the mass market screamed for widescreen HD
see this post PC thing isnt really bad, people who actually have a use for PC's will still use them, and people like my dumbass sister-in-law who has zero business on a real computer can facebook from her crappy little tablet, and I dont get called every fucking week cause the computer is broken
They should have just pulled the plug, fuck warnings, these people havent the slightest idea in the first place, you think another scam like site is going to warrant any action?
fuck them, let tech support figure it out. Smart users will investigate, dumb ones will pay 75 bucks an hour for a 30 second fix just like they always do, cause they have no OS disk and half the software they have is copies.
(I was a tech for many years, back when it was somewhat respectable)
using the latest in technology to emulate a handful of switches and a simple microcontroller, or a pair of rotary encoders and a simple micro, or some switches and a shift register
Today, we have overcome all limits!
sorry whats the point other than gee whiz factor? Its 20(fuckin)12, with a trip to radio shack a child could whip up a fart chair to signal keyboard input to any OS they choose for under 40 bucks.
Aside from the memory thing, which you dont need to run IE, and Office, I have yet to see a significant reason to run 64 bit windows clients, and it usually saves a little bit of money as well. So unless you want to pay for it (and how did you do your work on a 32 bit win xp machine but now need a 64 bit os?)
Now linux 64 bit is about as useful as windows XP 64, you want a throwback, hardly anything works out of the box and you spend your time hand compiling what seems like every piddleshit thing. Now granted its been about a year since I tried it, but lets face it, linux people drag their feet kicking and screaming over improving something, when they could be doing something fun... like redesigning the desktop theme every minor release
let me sign up now and wait 6 fucking months if I am one of the lucky ones. Then instead of getting updates on orders I can read about how I should vote for the team being so damned awesome in yet another web e-peen contest! Or read about them doing the maker faire tour instead of getting us some fucking documentation so we dont blow the GPIO ports on the rare, impossible to get chunk of crap, which they are currently clueless about.
PI FOREVER
second thought, fuck that, you can get a better board for not that much more, and wont get ass raped on shipping
The only reason I even use outlook is not for its email client, its all the other shit that it also does, none of which thunderbird does and thus I never use it
blackberry, i, android, windows, java, and now firefox. all ensuring I loose all my software if I make the wrong choice and wish to move at a later date. All for the low low price of ass raping forced dataplans, and giving all my personal information away to any douche that asks for it.
oh yea thats even better, rather than the local pharmacy know, now google, facebook and every single one of their ad whores know. a few hours later their friends start noticing "HIVStick" ad's on every page
I dunno, those dell precisions and alienwares sure do sell well, its not the majority ill give you that, but anyone in design does want huge amounts of power, the closest we have are laptops that are damn near luggables, so while those people exist, along with the gamers, then tablets wont take over.
no I am trying to figure out where newton serves as prior art for THIS patent, you can use your hindsight all you want, it doesn't make it true, the newton had nothing to scan an email for a phone number and pull it out to a contacts list, its that damn simple
and ps dink, the sharp wizard had a touch screen with rows of icons as early as 1991, icons had been used in computers for over a decade at that point, and at the consumer level for almost 7 years, it wasnt some magical new thing.
I dont think its that outlandish, our laptops at work have power bricks the size of a lunch box and they still jitter around in serious applications, while running like little ovens.
and yet with all this cloud shit what are we doing? logging into mainframes to write papers, we just dont call them that anymore
and just like 27 years ago, we can have the state of the art plopped in our laps and its STILL not fast enough when you need to do something heavy. For example we collect data from a test machine out in the manufacturing line, this thing spits out metric tons of data. I got a brand new top of the line i7 system to gather this data and put it on our internal network, and what am I doing this week? Rewriting the server to improve performance, cause despite nearly a decade large jump in disk, network and cpu performance its still fkin slow!
(before you get all high n mighty as I know you will, I didnt write the current version)
Yea and HP, Sharp, Casio, and GRID all had the same type of system in the 80's whats your point? The fact that apple made a palmtop has nothing to do with the patent in question dink.
"The patent covers a system to detect telephone numbers in e-mails so, when the number on the screen is tapped, they can be stored in directories or called without dialing."
Slashdot Mirror
cause the heathens of the mass market screamed for widescreen HD
see this post PC thing isnt really bad, people who actually have a use for PC's will still use them, and people like my dumbass sister-in-law who has zero business on a real computer can facebook from her crappy little tablet, and I dont get called every fucking week cause the computer is broken
win win! bring it on
the ones near me still have a selection of basic passives, along with propeller boards and 2 arduinos + shields, and I was just there last week.
They should have just pulled the plug, fuck warnings, these people havent the slightest idea in the first place, you think another scam like site is going to warrant any action?
fuck them, let tech support figure it out. Smart users will investigate, dumb ones will pay 75 bucks an hour for a 30 second fix just like they always do, cause they have no OS disk and half the software they have is copies.
(I was a tech for many years, back when it was somewhat respectable)
using the latest in technology to emulate a handful of switches and a simple microcontroller, or a pair of rotary encoders and a simple micro, or some switches and a shift register
Today, we have overcome all limits!
sorry whats the point other than gee whiz factor? Its 20(fuckin)12, with a trip to radio shack a child could whip up a fart chair to signal keyboard input to any OS they choose for under 40 bucks.
cause it was originally infected by a page saying your computer is infected, here's how to fix it
Glue is not a replacement for proper engineering
Aside from the memory thing, which you dont need to run IE, and Office, I have yet to see a significant reason to run 64 bit windows clients, and it usually saves a little bit of money as well. So unless you want to pay for it (and how did you do your work on a 32 bit win xp machine but now need a 64 bit os?)
Now linux 64 bit is about as useful as windows XP 64, you want a throwback, hardly anything works out of the box and you spend your time hand compiling what seems like every piddleshit thing. Now granted its been about a year since I tried it, but lets face it, linux people drag their feet kicking and screaming over improving something, when they could be doing something fun ... like redesigning the desktop theme every minor release
the idiots are the ones who bought it, and have yet to receive it
they haven't even began to fulfill the original orders, and here's a new model which they cant produce, yay joy
I wont call it vaporware, but its certainly a tucker
flunky comes to mind
let me sign up now and wait 6 fucking months if I am one of the lucky ones. Then instead of getting updates on orders I can read about how I should vote for the team being so damned awesome in yet another web e-peen contest! Or read about them doing the maker faire tour instead of getting us some fucking documentation so we dont blow the GPIO ports on the rare, impossible to get chunk of crap, which they are currently clueless about.
PI FOREVER
second thought, fuck that, you can get a better board for not that much more, and wont get ass raped on shipping
The only reason I even use outlook is not for its email client, its all the other shit that it also does, none of which thunderbird does and thus I never use it
you seriously just gave descriptions of blender and warzone 2010 on slashdot? Im sorry, but, just how retarded are you?
blackberry, i, android, windows, java, and now firefox. all ensuring I loose all my software if I make the wrong choice and wish to move at a later date. All for the low low price of ass raping forced dataplans, and giving all my personal information away to any douche that asks for it.
Why didnt they warn the operators beforehand, that sounds like negligence.
See how that works?
oh yea thats even better, rather than the local pharmacy know, now google, facebook and every single one of their ad whores know. a few hours later their friends start noticing "HIVStick" ad's on every page
what about service? radio aint free anymore
yea ok let me know next month when you ipad gets done with a SPICE simulation of a multiGHz digital radio transmitter
any datacenter selling a cloud
If you get ever slighty sassy with them they have to run and hide and call the real police...
worthless rent-a-cops
who's going to pay for it?
I dunno, those dell precisions and alienwares sure do sell well, its not the majority ill give you that, but anyone in design does want huge amounts of power, the closest we have are laptops that are damn near luggables, so while those people exist, along with the gamers, then tablets wont take over.
no I am trying to figure out where newton serves as prior art for THIS patent, you can use your hindsight all you want, it doesn't make it true, the newton had nothing to scan an email for a phone number and pull it out to a contacts list, its that damn simple
and ps dink, the sharp wizard had a touch screen with rows of icons as early as 1991, icons had been used in computers for over a decade at that point, and at the consumer level for almost 7 years, it wasnt some magical new thing.
I dont think its that outlandish, our laptops at work have power bricks the size of a lunch box and they still jitter around in serious applications, while running like little ovens.
and yet with all this cloud shit what are we doing? logging into mainframes to write papers, we just dont call them that anymore
and just like 27 years ago, we can have the state of the art plopped in our laps and its STILL not fast enough when you need to do something heavy. For example we collect data from a test machine out in the manufacturing line, this thing spits out metric tons of data. I got a brand new top of the line i7 system to gather this data and put it on our internal network, and what am I doing this week? Rewriting the server to improve performance, cause despite nearly a decade large jump in disk, network and cpu performance its still fkin slow!
(before you get all high n mighty as I know you will, I didnt write the current version)
Yea and HP, Sharp, Casio, and GRID all had the same type of system in the 80's whats your point? The fact that apple made a palmtop has nothing to do with the patent in question dink.
"The patent covers a system to detect telephone numbers in e-mails so, when the number on the screen is tapped, they can be stored in directories or called without dialing."
la-de da, show me where a newton did that?