Microsoft will get the most traction with Windows 8 on laptops and desktops with touch screen displays augmenting a normal keyboard. After using tablets for a while, I've recently felt the urge in some circumstances to reach up from the keyboard to swipe or pinch the display while using my laptop and desktop. Apple may have to play catch up, if touch displays become common outside the tablet format.
As you say, consoles cost way more than the Apple TV ($99). They also tend to be a lot bigger and have fan noise. Now say you want streaming media to four TVs in a household. That cost difference becomes a problem. The solution is a very small, very silent puck for under $100. Welcome to Roku. $50 to $99, same form factor (almost exactly) as Apple TV. The advantage of Roku is they push their SDK for third party apps as whoring hard as possible to everyone possible. Apple is mired in their desire to have tight control over content.
Mike Rowe was also in the "World's Dirtiest Man" episode of the show Curiosity. At one point he was with a food inspector at a fish market. The inspector picked some worms out of fresh fish on camera. Mike asked "So those are bad?". The inspector replied no, that was perfectly normal. They then had Mike eat some sushi and they shoved an endoscope down his throat to try and catch the worms being digested.
The moral to the story: if it is biological, someone will stick it in their pie hole. Also: study hard so you don't have to endure the abuses Mike does.
That's the great thing about Romney as a presidential candidate: there are so many choices. I like moderate Mitt! I like severely conservative Mitt, with Spock's beard accessory! Collect them all!
If pro-choice Mitt met pro-life Mitt, would there be an antimatter explosion?
...some new "cool" way for people who hardly know each other can hang out and feel part something that doesn't involved sex, drugs, alcohol or smoking something.
Hey kids! Jesus is cool. Father Ted will now do a Christian rap.
When I was in college (UT Austin), I would have appreciated a ban in tests. The splort, splort, splort sounds were distracting and the large styrofoam glasses left at desks full of saliva, snot and tobacco were unappealing.
if you find yourself getting any significant amount of energy from regenerative braking, then you are an awful driver who is a hazard to yourself and others.
If you drive in a hilly area you get significant energy from braking on the downhill sections (to obey speed limits and maintain control of the vehicle). If you drive a street with many stop lights, you get significant energy from braking to avoid running red lights. Your sweeping, untrue and insulting statement is born of some personal prejudice and not facts.
If something works for Apple, there is no reason for Microsoft to ignore it.
I can understand Microsoft may be frustrated with partners not following through on a long term strategy. They had success establishing their own gaming console, maybe they can do the same with tablets and phones. It's not like there is a huge base of third party manufacturers in these categories already using Microsoft products to piss off.
The DPreview camera review is what should have been posted than the usual Gizmodo anti-apple trolling to generate page views...
And yet the unbiased and very informative post by sasparillascott still got some down mods. The anti-Apple hysteria has closed the minds of many to rational discussion of facts.
turn-by-turn routing... Something standalone GPS units and Google Maps have had for years.
Which is exactly why Apple chose to invest in their own map data and software: they could not come to an acceptable agreement with their direct competitor to allow them to offer this feature. Apple made the right decision. When they catch up in a year they will be in a better place and consumers will have more choice. Win, win.
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Microsoft will get the most traction with Windows 8 on laptops and desktops with touch screen displays augmenting a normal keyboard. After using tablets for a while, I've recently felt the urge in some circumstances to reach up from the keyboard to swipe or pinch the display while using my laptop and desktop. Apple may have to play catch up, if touch displays become common outside the tablet format.
Hey, why not just embed the RFID tags in them subdermally
Didn't they do that in Futurama? No strip naked and get on the probulator!
...redesign it to only have 3 wheels (2 in the front, 1 in the back).
That would make it unstable around Mr.Bean.
Anyone versed in GTR here to help?
When the heart rules the mind
One look and love is blind
When you want the dream to last
Take a chance forget the past
Seasons will change
You must move on
Follow your dream
As you say, consoles cost way more than the Apple TV ($99). They also tend to be a lot bigger and have fan noise. Now say you want streaming media to four TVs in a household. That cost difference becomes a problem. The solution is a very small, very silent puck for under $100. Welcome to Roku. $50 to $99, same form factor (almost exactly) as Apple TV. The advantage of Roku is they push their SDK for third party apps as whoring hard as possible to everyone possible. Apple is mired in their desire to have tight control over content.
That is the real reason Apple TV is not popular.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Carousel for renewed enthusiasm. No, it is not a programming language.
Mike Rowe was also in the "World's Dirtiest Man" episode of the show Curiosity. At one point he was with a food inspector at a fish market. The inspector picked some worms out of fresh fish on camera. Mike asked "So those are bad?". The inspector replied no, that was perfectly normal. They then had Mike eat some sushi and they shoved an endoscope down his throat to try and catch the worms being digested.
The moral to the story: if it is biological, someone will stick it in their pie hole. Also: study hard so you don't have to endure the abuses Mike does.
That's the great thing about Romney as a presidential candidate: there are so many choices. I like moderate Mitt! I like severely conservative Mitt, with Spock's beard accessory! Collect them all!
If pro-choice Mitt met pro-life Mitt, would there be an antimatter explosion?
...some new "cool" way for people who hardly know each other can hang out and feel part something that doesn't involved sex, drugs, alcohol or smoking something.
Hey kids! Jesus is cool. Father Ted will now do a Christian rap.
What about smokeless tobacco products?
When I was in college (UT Austin), I would have appreciated a ban in tests. The splort, splort, splort sounds were distracting and the large styrofoam glasses left at desks full of saliva, snot and tobacco were unappealing.
...fancy poo-conveyor.
iPoo - crap differently
Legal: iPoo employs patented "pinch" gesture innovations.
if you find yourself getting any significant amount of energy from regenerative braking, then you are an awful driver who is a hazard to yourself and others.
If you drive in a hilly area you get significant energy from braking on the downhill sections (to obey speed limits and maintain control of the vehicle). If you drive a street with many stop lights, you get significant energy from braking to avoid running red lights. Your sweeping, untrue and insulting statement is born of some personal prejudice and not facts.
I guess God must be a woman... with astronomical tits.
She could be a Farmville player. That disqualifies you to run even a fry cooker.
If something works for Apple, there is no reason for Microsoft to ignore it.
I can understand Microsoft may be frustrated with partners not following through on a long term strategy. They had success establishing their own gaming console, maybe they can do the same with tablets and phones. It's not like there is a huge base of third party manufacturers in these categories already using Microsoft products to piss off.
Apple Acknowledges iPhone 5 Camera Flaw
Mike: Joe beats his wife! OMG!
Carl: Joe, why did you beat your wife?
Joe: I did not beat my wife.
Mike: Joe acknowledges beating his wife!
The DPreview camera review is what should have been posted than the usual Gizmodo anti-apple trolling to generate page views...
And yet the unbiased and very informative post by sasparillascott still got some down mods. The anti-Apple hysteria has closed the minds of many to rational discussion of facts.
A nun, a gardener, and a housepainter walk into a bar...
Samsung is too busy innovating... Apple has gone insane.
Well, we know whose side you are on. The Samsung as saint and Apple as devil meme is very popular on /. so you should get some nice modding.
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicket this way comes.
Stop this shit.
What are you trying to hide? I'm not saying you are part of a global conspiracy, I'm just asking questions.
People are talking about Glenn Beck :-P
Shhhh! Don't give Rupert Murdoch and ideas.
turn-by-turn routing... Something standalone GPS units and Google Maps have had for years.
Which is exactly why Apple chose to invest in their own map data and software: they could not come to an acceptable agreement with their direct competitor to allow them to offer this feature. Apple made the right decision. When they catch up in a year they will be in a better place and consumers will have more choice. Win, win.
It's no more crazy than any other religion. Once you cross the magic man in the sky line, the other differences are trivial.