What happens when you hit 2 at the same time in 2012? one action, the first you hit, so radio buttons still apply, you choose one, just like on your radio
Clipboards? anyone who doesnt sit at a desk all fucking day making up tripe articles has a use for a clipboard
Bookmarks? why is this on the list, do you have a better way to mark a book?
Spiral bound is strange? shit man someone better tell wallmart, they have an entire isle of them, and its often difficult to find college rule cause they sell out
Manila Folders? really dude? theres arguments over who gets the last couple folders in any workplace that actually has to keep up with paperwork, though it may be strange to you since your just writing on some yippy blog, and have nothing like sales or accounting
Envelopes, yea go drop a hundred bucks in cash in the night deposit or rent box with the slip attached via paperclip, see how far that gets you, again still relevant
Screwdrivers are something a 20 something has never seen? for fucks sake your really stretching, most put together cheap furniture that 20 somethings would buy for their party pad comes with one
Micophones, yea you are correct, that should be replaced with a "-", much clearer and mimics modern life to boot
Photography... I dont know where your stretching to see this, windows shows me the picture in a box, paint has a artist pallet and brush, must be some mac crap or hippy linux nonsense
"Does your TV have "rabbit ears?"" why yes it does asswipe, its called DTV, it shows me the news and weather for free
"I'll "cc" you on that email. Last time I made a carbon copy I was using a mimeograph to do it". No you didnt mimeographs used a wet chemical process, and last time I bought a car, eh 2006 everything printed was on carbon paper, my time sheets are on carbon paper, and many workorders / receipts are on carbon paper
while I am no fan of ubuntu its hard to argue with a system out of the box installing in 20 min with just about everything you need, you cant even get debian to a installed command line in that amount of time, and those of us with shit internet access dont want to spend a day and a half for all the "bloat" that comes on a normal live cd these days
then OMFG theres the video situation, if you dont mind the piss poor slow freetard solution your ok, but if you want to install nvidia or ati on debian prepare for a good pile of reading, ubuntu gives you a nice little 2 click option
they both have their place, debian is no where near my desktops, and ubuntu is no where near anything I want to keep
it also didn't have any software, and we needed it for real uses, not playing games and demos (what kind of moron buys a computer with jack shit software available for it)
in 1985 it was a 1024k (ramworks II) Apple IIe with 5.25 floppy, 3.5 inch floppy, 10 meg profile, and letter quality printer, yea it was 8 bit, yea it didnt play dumb games on our TV, but it was a workhorse
I didnt see the effort, this time around, where did they advertise, QST? oh ok wow so the dying ham radio hobby market in a magazine I may thumb through if I happen to need to take a dump at my dad's house...
There are a large number of hobby electronics people, myself included, and yet I had totally forgotten they came back out with kits until today. They choose a overfilled niche market inside of an overfilled niche market, put next to no effort into it, and I shed a tear why?
"a remake of a classic Apple II game, 'Return to Castle Wolfenstein.'"
first, wrong game second, classic is very debatable, most people didn't know it existed until well after wolf3d, including myself, and I have owned and apple II since 1985 to present
just cause its old, its not automatically a classic
well jeez it was just such an original forward thinking item that no one could have ever come up with ARM+touchscreen+android during all this time they have been dragging nuts getting around to it
ugh yea ok BUT in less than half the time that 3D printers have been out personal computers went from nerds in garages to a mega industry where people were buying them up as fast as they can make them.
3D printers are NOT the next computer revolution, its already proven that, its more akin to the Laser Disc, its around, a very small subset of people will use it, and maybe in 30 years it may become the DVD if they can bring the cost and size down, and make the quality not suck.
arguably there has not been all that much innovation in the tech world except size and storage, your innovation was new in the late 70's
IMITATE: "Now documents filed by Apple in a court case show the US firm acknowledges him as the father of the iPod.
The computer giant even flew Mr Kramer to its Californian headquarters to give evidence in its defence during a legal wrangle with another firm, Burst.com, which claimed it held patents to technology in the iPod and deserved a cut of Apple’s £89billion profits.
Two years ago, Mr Kramer told this newspaper how he had invented and built the device in 1979 – when he was just 23.
His invention, called the IXI, stored only 3.5 minutes of music on to a chip – but Mr Kramer rightly believed its capacity would improve.
His sketches at the time showed a credit-card-sized player with a rectangular screen and a central menu button to scroll through a selection of music tracks – very similar to the iPod.
He took out a worldwide patent and set up a company to develop the idea.
But in 1988, after a boardroom split, he was unable to raise the £60,000 needed to renew patents across 120 countries and the technology became public property."
INNOVATE: iTunes
LITIGATE: "In March 2007, Apple opposed a trademark application by startup Sector Labs, which sought to register "Video Pod" as a mark identifying goods associated with a video projector product. Apple argued that the proposed mark was merely "descriptive" and should be denied because the registration would cause a likelihood of confusion with Apple's pre-existing "iPod" marks"
DISINTEGRATE: Apple historically has done nothing but floundered in the market with its high prices and total arrogance to customers, this works while Steve Jobs is in charge becuase the quality of the next product makes you totally forget your 1 year old 1200$ computer just got made totally useless by an OS update, or archatecture change, but without Jobs at the helm this ideology simply does not work, as the real world comes crashing down, and managers of the estate are focused on maximizing profit without the brilliance of the comapnies founders. There is only one problem on this Jobs outting... there is no chance he is coming back. Apple will be dead just over a decade from now, nothing more than a shell name for another mega-corp to consume.
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What happens when you hit 2 at the same time in 2012? one action, the first you hit, so radio buttons still apply, you choose one, just like on your radio
Clipboards? anyone who doesnt sit at a desk all fucking day making up tripe articles has a use for a clipboard
Bookmarks? why is this on the list, do you have a better way to mark a book?
Spiral bound is strange? shit man someone better tell wallmart, they have an entire isle of them, and its often difficult to find college rule cause they sell out
Manila Folders? really dude? theres arguments over who gets the last couple folders in any workplace that actually has to keep up with paperwork, though it may be strange to you since your just writing on some yippy blog, and have nothing like sales or accounting
Envelopes, yea go drop a hundred bucks in cash in the night deposit or rent box with the slip attached via paperclip, see how far that gets you, again still relevant
Screwdrivers are something a 20 something has never seen? for fucks sake your really stretching, most put together cheap furniture that 20 somethings would buy for their party pad comes with one
Micophones, yea you are correct, that should be replaced with a "-", much clearer and mimics modern life to boot
Photography ... I dont know where your stretching to see this, windows shows me the picture in a box, paint has a artist pallet and brush, must be some mac crap or hippy linux nonsense
"Does your TV have "rabbit ears?"" why yes it does asswipe, its called DTV, it shows me the news and weather for free
"I'll "cc" you on that email. Last time I made a carbon copy I was using a mimeograph to do it". No you didnt mimeographs used a wet chemical process, and last time I bought a car, eh 2006 everything printed was on carbon paper, my time sheets are on carbon paper, and many workorders / receipts are on carbon paper
not when your screen resolution at best was 640x480, and you had dozens of actions on the toolbar
while I am no fan of ubuntu its hard to argue with a system out of the box installing in 20 min with just about everything you need, you cant even get debian to a installed command line in that amount of time, and those of us with shit internet access dont want to spend a day and a half for all the "bloat" that comes on a normal live cd these days
then OMFG theres the video situation, if you dont mind the piss poor slow freetard solution your ok, but if you want to install nvidia or ati on debian prepare for a good pile of reading, ubuntu gives you a nice little 2 click option
they both have their place, debian is no where near my desktops, and ubuntu is no where near anything I want to keep
it also didn't have any software, and we needed it for real uses, not playing games and demos (what kind of moron buys a computer with jack shit software available for it)
in 1985 it was a 1024k (ramworks II) Apple IIe with 5.25 floppy, 3.5 inch floppy, 10 meg profile, and letter quality printer, yea it was 8 bit, yea it didnt play dumb games on our TV, but it was a workhorse
I didnt see the effort, this time around, where did they advertise, QST? oh ok wow so the dying ham radio hobby market in a magazine I may thumb through if I happen to need to take a dump at my dad's house...
There are a large number of hobby electronics people, myself included, and yet I had totally forgotten they came back out with kits until today. They choose a overfilled niche market inside of an overfilled niche market, put next to no effort into it, and I shed a tear why?
wow that's amazing considering it would run fine on a 25mhz 286! (not doom though, doom is pretty drag ass on an average 386, its passable on a DX40)
"a remake of a classic Apple II game, 'Return to Castle Wolfenstein.'"
first, wrong game
second, classic is very debatable, most people didn't know it existed until well after wolf3d, including myself, and I have owned and apple II since 1985 to present
just cause its old, its not automatically a classic
its a mental disorder, not a disease
but disease is much easier for people to handle, that means there is something causing it, not that there is something wrong with you.
thats why your 1+ watt LED's usually come attached to a chunk of metal (unless you got them from china, then its metal painted plastic)
just dont go crying when they see that picture of you smoking a blunt
Forgive me if I take the testimony of a abused user more or less saying "this sucks less"
sudo apt dont install ubuntu, I have better things to do than fuck around getting a UI that doesnt suck
don't upload everything to a "service" without having a backup, if it really means anything to you...
"Gamemaker can do anything!"
fine go make me a full 3D space shooter MMORPG
I will have the choice of Windows with a shitty ass tablet/phone UI or Linux with a shitty ass tablet/phone UI
THANK GOD!
I have no clue, though I , and everyone else here, knows, gamemaker sucks ass
yea thats a great plan to get a lawyers wallet a bit fatter while offering the people a coupon for a free happy meal
well jeez it was just such an original forward thinking item that no one could have ever come up with ARM+touchscreen+android during all this time they have been dragging nuts getting around to it
ugh yea ok BUT in less than half the time that 3D printers have been out personal computers went from nerds in garages to a mega industry where people were buying them up as fast as they can make them.
3D printers are NOT the next computer revolution, its already proven that, its more akin to the Laser Disc, its around, a very small subset of people will use it, and maybe in 30 years it may become the DVD if they can bring the cost and size down, and make the quality not suck.
sounds like an awful lot of thought and effort just to avoid solder paste
now? I gave away a 800mhz P3 with 512 megs of ram 3 years ago, sure its not a credit card, but it was a pizza box
just cause you make it small does not mean its the only thing available
(ps waiting on my pi)
arguably there has not been all that much innovation in the tech world except size and storage, your innovation was new in the late 70's
IMITATE:
"Now documents filed by Apple in a court case show the US firm acknowledges him as the father of the iPod.
The computer giant even flew Mr Kramer to its Californian headquarters to give evidence in its defence during a legal wrangle with another firm, Burst.com, which claimed it held patents to technology in the iPod and deserved a cut of Apple’s £89billion profits.
Two years ago, Mr Kramer told this newspaper how he had invented and built the device in 1979 – when he was just 23.
His invention, called the IXI, stored only 3.5 minutes of music on to a chip – but Mr Kramer rightly believed its capacity would improve.
His sketches at the time showed a credit-card-sized player with a rectangular screen and a central menu button to scroll through a selection of music tracks – very similar to the iPod.
He took out a worldwide patent and set up a company to develop the idea.
But in 1988, after a boardroom split, he was unable to raise the £60,000 needed to renew patents across 120 countries and the technology became public property."
INNOVATE:
iTunes
LITIGATE:
"In March 2007, Apple opposed a trademark application by startup Sector Labs, which sought to register "Video Pod" as a mark identifying goods associated with a video projector product. Apple argued that the proposed mark was merely "descriptive" and should be denied because the registration would cause a likelihood of confusion with Apple's pre-existing "iPod" marks"
DISINTEGRATE: ... there is no chance he is coming back. Apple will be dead just over a decade from now, nothing more than a shell name for another mega-corp to consume.
Apple historically has done nothing but floundered in the market with its high prices and total arrogance to customers, this works while Steve Jobs is in charge becuase the quality of the next product makes you totally forget your 1 year old 1200$ computer just got made totally useless by an OS update, or archatecture change, but without Jobs at the helm this ideology simply does not work, as the real world comes crashing down, and managers of the estate are focused on maximizing profit without the brilliance of the comapnies founders. There is only one problem on this Jobs outting
um cept dad already stated that he is not into comic books and the kid is wild about spiderman, RTFS genius
I actually have most of those
Read him spiderman since he likes it