Yeah, I recall thinking that was one of the downsides when I saw the demo (others being: no plans at the time to include it in larger laptops, not all that convenient use pen input and keyboard simultaneously (I can't write very well on a vertical surface).
Maybe this OS extension married with the Banias setup? Yeah... I'd want one of those.
I went to a Tablet PC presentation at in June, at the ASEE Conference in Montreal.
At the end, they let us mess around with the Acer model, and I found the results to be very, very good.
I'd never use it for text input, but for sketches or adding sketches to class notes (I'm at an engineering college- never know whether to take notes on laptop or on paper) it would be great.
Anyway, I've gone on a bit of a tangent, but the point I was trying to make was that we could verify for ourselves that it was not rigged by trying it.
Lockheed has already spent a considerable sum. In fact, if you bothered to carefully read the article, you would have noticed Lockheed Martin has offered to pay half that amount if NASA picks up the other half. Lockheed Martin is a business. If they overspend they can't just tax the people more, instead they run out of money and have to start laying off more people. I think it's fair that Lockheed look for the government to contribute a bit more in this partnership.
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Yeah, I recall thinking that was one of the downsides when I saw the demo (others being: no plans at the time to include it in larger laptops, not all that convenient use pen input and keyboard simultaneously (I can't write very well on a vertical surface).
Maybe this OS extension married with the Banias setup? Yeah... I'd want one of those.
I went to a Tablet PC presentation at in June, at the ASEE Conference in Montreal.
At the end, they let us mess around with the Acer model, and I found the results to be very, very good.
I'd never use it for text input, but for sketches or adding sketches to class notes (I'm at an engineering college- never know whether to take notes on laptop or on paper) it would be great.
Anyway, I've gone on a bit of a tangent, but the point I was trying to make was that we could verify for ourselves that it was not rigged by trying it.
At least this would mean we get to see Jar Jar die thousands of times, hundreds of ways.
Or if you encrypt the files, could you use the DMCA to prevent them from going through your files?
Lockheed has already spent a considerable sum. In fact, if you bothered to carefully read the article, you would have noticed Lockheed Martin has offered to pay half that amount if NASA picks up the other half. Lockheed Martin is a business. If they overspend they can't just tax the people more, instead they run out of money and have to start laying off more people. I think it's fair that Lockheed look for the government to contribute a bit more in this partnership.