A 40" LCD is far from $10,000 even now. List prices for these LCD's are around 6-7,000, and if you can get any kind of deal $4,500 isn't out of the question (I just bought one last week for that price).
I don't know who actually made the monitor, but I bought a computer from a company called Cybermax back in 99. I still use the case, power supply, and monitor. The thing is a 17" that does 1600x1200 at 85Hz. Amazingly good, especially considering how old it is. Maybe the company went out of business because their costs were too high.
A couple of people have mentioned capacitive and resistive touch sceens. There is a better solution than both of these, a technology called Surface Acoustic Wave. It offers a longer life than capacitive, better accuracy than resistive, and IIRC. In fact, capacitive is in general better than resistive on all fronts, but SAW is not only longer lasting, it allows use without skin contact, i.e. by someone wearing gloves.
The 2 big names in touch are 3M (microtouch), and Elo. The both provide about the same services, and you'd have to have a relationship with them to decide which was better, I think.
There are new technologies on the horizon that will surpass SAW, but I've yet to get my hands on a demo unit.
It is not a mistake. The novel was lost. You could search back on slashdot to find where (some guys garage IIRC), and has only recently been published.
And many CADD workers are used to the standard button, not a little scroll wheel. I'd guess that many of these people don't care about browsing the web, either.
I actually work at a large corporation where this is the case for many clients of mine, and I've had a lot of trouble finding a simple 3-button mouse for them.
We source our PC's from Dell, and they have 0 3-button mice on their website, and my sales representative could only find 1 that they would resell to us.
I'll agree with the author that this seems like a trend, and not necessarilly a good one.
Essentially, it was a PDA with voice recognition implanted into the dash. The demoed voice recognition seemed to do a rather good job as well, when asked questions like, "Tell me what the weather is like", and "give me directions to Treasure Island". I'm not sure what level of connectivity they had.
All in all, it doesn't seem like a bad idea. Many have PDA's etc., and as the artical says, it makes sense for them to interface with the car.
Obviously, I don't think we'll see actual automobile related functions running on windows any time soon.
Oh, and there were a couple LCD's implanted in the back of the front seats so that you could play Xbox in the back.
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A 40" LCD is far from $10,000 even now. List prices for these LCD's are around 6-7,000, and if you can get any kind of deal $4,500 isn't out of the question (I just bought one last week for that price).
Ummm... no. Physics is math.
I don't know who actually made the monitor, but I bought a computer from a company called Cybermax back in 99. I still use the case, power supply, and monitor. The thing is a 17" that does 1600x1200 at 85Hz. Amazingly good, especially considering how old it is. Maybe the company went out of business because their costs were too high.
A couple of people have mentioned capacitive and resistive touch sceens. There is a better solution than both of these, a technology called Surface Acoustic Wave. It offers a longer life than capacitive, better accuracy than resistive, and IIRC. In fact, capacitive is in general better than resistive on all fronts, but SAW is not only longer lasting, it allows use without skin contact, i.e. by someone wearing gloves.
The 2 big names in touch are 3M (microtouch), and Elo. The both provide about the same services, and you'd have to have a relationship with them to decide which was better, I think.
There are new technologies on the horizon that will surpass SAW, but I've yet to get my hands on a demo unit.
Eddie Izzard is the funniest man? alive.
It is not a mistake. The novel was lost. You could search back on slashdot to find where (some guys garage IIRC), and has only recently been published.
And many CADD workers are used to the standard button, not a little scroll wheel. I'd guess that many of these people don't care about browsing the web, either.
I actually work at a large corporation where this is the case for many clients of mine, and I've had a lot of trouble finding a simple 3-button mouse for them.
We source our PC's from Dell, and they have 0 3-button mice on their website, and my sales representative could only find 1 that they would resell to us.
I'll agree with the author that this seems like a trend, and not necessarilly a good one.
Essentially, it was a PDA with voice recognition implanted into the dash. The demoed voice recognition seemed to do a rather good job as well, when asked questions like, "Tell me what the weather is like", and "give me directions to Treasure Island". I'm not sure what level of connectivity they had.
All in all, it doesn't seem like a bad idea. Many have PDA's etc., and as the artical says, it makes sense for them to interface with the car.
Obviously, I don't think we'll see actual automobile related functions running on windows any time soon.
Oh, and there were a couple LCD's implanted in the back of the front seats so that you could play Xbox in the back.
no. their is plural. the singular is one's. (technically, 'his' is indefinite.)
They have a tool specifically for this problem, mentioned earlier: sysprep
And what candidate is based on whitehouse.com? I should have voted for her.
My alma mater uses it. It's free, pretty, fast, and has a ton of slap on/plug in modules for adding functionality.
After reading Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, with that review posted on /. a bit ago, one might instead decide to chisel all information on stone.