You would think that a very large group of lawyers who spend their time suing everyone would know the difference between stolen music and infringed copyrights.
Copyright infringement isn't theft. This constant mislabeling is really, really annoying.
What the heck is the point of a phone that can't send text messages?
I was always under the impression that phones were made to make and recieve voice calls. It's not an instant messenger/camera/pda/toaster/kitchen sink, it's a goddamn phone.
- a killer app or suite of apps for any one vertical market
just about anything adobe makes fits this market. drawing with a pen is a heck of a lot more natural and intuitive than drawing with a mouse/trackpoint/glidepoint/trackball. - a distinctly "better" interface than laptop PCs for any market
again, the pen thing kicks the crap out of any other interface when it comes to any form of design. - a cost point that makes them a worthwhile investment. In particular, the Windows OS+tablet interface and the hardware requirements to run them blows the cost out too much
I don't see the cost to be all that unreasonable. Check out the cost of an average wacom tablet in the same area as the screen size of one of these laptops. Now check the cost for a wacom with a built in lcd. Now tell me $3000 ain't that bad a deal when you could pay the same price for just the "screen" without the built-in computer. - a much simpler interface. Current tablets are too complex for current non-PC users to use
manipulating objects with your hands is by far easier to grasp than using a keyboard. If you want to open an application, poking at it seems a lot more intuitive than moving a mouse around on a desk until an arrow on the screen hits the icon. from my experience, xp tablet edition is essentially xp with doubleclick mostly disabled and a handwriting application; i can't see how this would be harder to use than any normal computer.
tablets aren't aimed at the general market, they're aimed at people who would want that sort of thing: designers. i do a lot of photoshopping, and i can't stand normal tablets, i feel it's a lot more intuitive for what i'm drawing to be underneath the pen than on a screen away from where i'm drawing. hybrid tablets are absolutely amazing for this kind of thing.
most people don't hear about them, because panasonic doesn't sell in normal retail channels, but check out the panasonic toughbook cf-18. you could run that thing over with a freaking semi and it'd keep on going.
I'm confused as to the components of this system. Exactly how does a matrix-orbital lcd make your games run faster?
Oh wait, it's just for looks. So, basically this isn't about performance, it's about who'se got the largest computer testicles.
Yea, that's right, I'll own you with my duron 900 with no 3d accell in software mode, onboard S3, baby.
I've never owned top of the line hardware, nor do I plan to. My most advanced system is a duron 950 with a gig of ram and a 3dfx voodoo5 5500. I use it for photoshop and MAME. And you know what? It cost me all of $500 in components when I built it.
Now really, do I need to see a 2048x1536 advertisement on an 800x800 browser? I mean, I don't even want to know how long a flashing, annoying animated gif would take to load if it were that large.
Thank god for mozilla. I haven't seen a popup in months.
Although it says we have to hunt down the spammers and take them to court for the $10 per message, for those of us that are willing to go through the trouble, that's like, over a hundred bucks a day!
It's better than having a full time job! I love it!
interesting. i read through all 34 pages that they sent to that site, and all their example figures for their supposed invented document browser looks exactly like windows 3.1.
golly, why didn't they just go sue microsoft first? they chose their test case as one that doesn't even fit the patent?
their patent is for a document browser, not a document. a webpage is a document. so is the navigation bar of a webpage. the closest thing to webpages i can think of that would fit this patent would be the tabbed browsing in mozilla, or bookmarks. bookmarks existed long before this patent.
"Hey Bob... you know those drives we picked up from the military deal? You haven't formatted them yet... right? Well, I know we need more space for porn, but I was just reading the news..."
Wow, that has got to be the worst arrangement of misc. pictures I have ever seen. None of the pictures there are even closely related. In no way does the person show how it would be possible to link a tesla coil of that size to his pc, and in the next picture, of the pc in front of the industrial fan, it has a power supply (oh wait, didn't he say he needed to remove that?)
Amusing for the overclocking crowd, but even more amusing if you believe it.
> But it would be fairly obvious from the location bar in the broswer that the URL was not paypal.com.
Actually, it takes very little knowledge of javascript to fool the browser into changing the status bar text. window.status I believe. If one were anal, like myself, either turn off javascript completely, or copy the link location into a text editor first.
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You would think that a very large group of lawyers who spend their time suing everyone would know the difference between stolen music and infringed copyrights.
Copyright infringement isn't theft. This constant mislabeling is really, really annoying.
What the heck is the point of a phone that can't send text messages? I was always under the impression that phones were made to make and recieve voice calls. It's not an instant messenger/camera/pda/toaster/kitchen sink, it's a goddamn phone.
- a killer app or suite of apps for any one vertical market
just about anything adobe makes fits this market. drawing with a pen is a heck of a lot more natural and intuitive than drawing with a mouse/trackpoint/glidepoint/trackball.
- a distinctly "better" interface than laptop PCs for any market
again, the pen thing kicks the crap out of any other interface when it comes to any form of design.
- a cost point that makes them a worthwhile investment. In particular, the Windows OS+tablet interface and the hardware requirements to run them blows the cost out too much
I don't see the cost to be all that unreasonable. Check out the cost of an average wacom tablet in the same area as the screen size of one of these laptops. Now check the cost for a wacom with a built in lcd. Now tell me $3000 ain't that bad a deal when you could pay the same price for just the "screen" without the built-in computer.
- a much simpler interface. Current tablets are too complex for current non-PC users to use
manipulating objects with your hands is by far easier to grasp than using a keyboard. If you want to open an application, poking at it seems a lot more intuitive than moving a mouse around on a desk until an arrow on the screen hits the icon. from my experience, xp tablet edition is essentially xp with doubleclick mostly disabled and a handwriting application; i can't see how this would be harder to use than any normal computer.
tablets aren't aimed at the general market, they're aimed at people who would want that sort of thing: designers. i do a lot of photoshopping, and i can't stand normal tablets, i feel it's a lot more intuitive for what i'm drawing to be underneath the pen than on a screen away from where i'm drawing. hybrid tablets are absolutely amazing for this kind of thing.
most people don't hear about them, because panasonic doesn't sell in normal retail channels, but check out the panasonic toughbook cf-18. you could run that thing over with a freaking semi and it'd keep on going.
I'm confused as to the components of this system. Exactly how does a matrix-orbital lcd make your games run faster?
Oh wait, it's just for looks. So, basically this isn't about performance, it's about who'se got the largest computer testicles.
Yea, that's right, I'll own you with my duron 900 with no 3d accell in software mode, onboard S3, baby.
I've never owned top of the line hardware, nor do I plan to. My most advanced system is a duron 950 with a gig of ram and a 3dfx voodoo5 5500. I use it for photoshop and MAME. And you know what? It cost me all of $500 in components when I built it.
This has got to be the most amazing discovery ever! I hope that more funding is put into research like this.
Also, 'duh.'
bittorrent is downloading 3k, uploading 14 on this.
then again i'm also downloading matrix reloaded at 6:11 torrent.
I'm on a 640/256 line.
Now really, do I need to see a 2048x1536 advertisement on an 800x800 browser? I mean, I don't even want to know how long a flashing, annoying animated gif would take to load if it were that large.
Thank god for mozilla. I haven't seen a popup in months.
As a colorado resident that recieves more than 100 unsolicited emails per day, I'd have to say that this is a godsend.
the actual bill link is here.
Although it says we have to hunt down the spammers and take them to court for the $10 per message, for those of us that are willing to go through the trouble, that's like, over a hundred bucks a day!
It's better than having a full time job! I love it!
interesting. i read through all 34 pages that they sent to that site, and all their example figures for their supposed invented document browser looks exactly like windows 3.1.
golly, why didn't they just go sue microsoft first? they chose their test case as one that doesn't even fit the patent?
their patent is for a document browser, not a document. a webpage is a document. so is the navigation bar of a webpage. the closest thing to webpages i can think of that would fit this patent would be the tabbed browsing in mozilla, or bookmarks. bookmarks existed long before this patent.
stupid greedy bastards.
If you want your interface in runes, I wrote up a runic font (based off ultima's runes, since it had all 26 characters from the alphabet.)
? prodID=40960 .
It can be found on palmgear, http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm
"Hey Bob... you know those drives we picked up from the military deal? You haven't formatted them yet... right? Well, I know we need more space for porn, but I was just reading the news..."
When you boycott the **AA, you're supporting PIRACY!
Seriously, if you boycott them, they'll blame the lowered sales on piracy and buy our rights away even more.
Isn't this country great?
Thank god the RIAA shut down Napster and stopped piracy.
idclip? that is *so* doom 2. Don't you remember the days of idspispopd?
Wow, that has got to be the worst arrangement of misc. pictures I have ever seen. None of the pictures there are even closely related. In no way does the person show how it would be possible to link a tesla coil of that size to his pc, and in the next picture, of the pc in front of the industrial fan, it has a power supply (oh wait, didn't he say he needed to remove that?)
Amusing for the overclocking crowd, but even more amusing if you believe it.
> But it would be fairly obvious from the location bar in the broswer that the URL was not paypal.com.
Actually, it takes very little knowledge of javascript to fool the browser into changing the status bar text. window.status I believe. If one were anal, like myself, either turn off javascript completely, or copy the link location into a text editor first.