The surface pro actually has a pro grade pen digitizer built right in. It is an amazing artists tool. It sells for less than an equivalent pro device (Digitizer on LCD screen), only it's an entire computer and not just a screen you attatch to another computer. Microsoft accidentally invented the best digital artist's tool to come in a long time, and doesn't even know it.
I'm perplexed: this is the first time ever that anyone said anything that made me consider getting a Surface!
Sounds like you want a modern Nokia... but the TRUE Nokia, how it would be now if the Microsoft plant hadn't destroyed the company. So, you want a Jolla.
Nope, nothing you said makes Ender's Game mainstream. It's well regarded in the sci-fi niche, but it had no TV show, cartoon, video game, anything to make it mainstream (a comic book series barely counts).
They got a socialist president. Not saying the guy alone changes everything, but it's a sign of a shifting mentality: they had it with Murrica trying to boss them around, and just don't give a fuck anymore.
The idea behind set-top boxes is reasonable: a simple cheap device for people who have little use for a full-blown PC. But they used to be so extremely limited in matters of processing power, storage, customizability... to the point that they were not good enough even for those people. Now look at any Android mini-PC that you can get off eBay for $50, it's something completely different. I guess we finally got to the point where set-top boxes can be made good enough and cheap enough.
By that reasoning, maybe WebTV was the reason why they didn't give the Xbox a web browser until last year... something the Sega Dreamcast had out of the box, back in 1999.
There are three durable Sci Fi franchises and geek culture would be lost without them: Dr Who, Star Trek and Star Wars.
Is Star Wars even science fiction? Lucas himself called it a "space fantasy". One might say it often feels closer to Lord of the Rings than to Star Trek.
Funny that this doesn't mean what people think it means.
The words were taken from the Gettysburg Address, where Lincoln asked his listeners to resolve that "this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom." Except that in the Gettysburg Address, "under God" didn't modify "this nation" but the following phrase, "have a new birth of freedom." In Lincoln's time, "under God" was a common idiom that meant "with God's help" or "the Lord willing." -- NPR
So yeah, it means: "One nation, hopefully." See how stupid the whole thing is?
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The surface pro actually has a pro grade pen digitizer built right in. It is an amazing artists tool. It sells for less than an equivalent pro device (Digitizer on LCD screen), only it's an entire computer and not just a screen you attatch to another computer. Microsoft accidentally invented the best digital artist's tool to come in a long time, and doesn't even know it.
I'm perplexed: this is the first time ever that anyone said anything that made me consider getting a Surface!
pretty much everything you want in a dog
If you don't mind your dog being fugly...
I really don't care about insane high resolutions, but I'd love to get movies on 60 fps.
You can't go wrong with "Free as in Freedom 2.0" and "Free Software, Free Society". Both are just a little over 200 pages, and available as free PDFs.
What makes this better than any of the countless similarly priced Android-based media players out there?
They should have called it "Monkey Island - the movie".
Indeed, the script for POTC was reused from the cancelled Monkey Island animated movie.
On the contrary: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
If you want a phone with Meego, wait for the Jolla. It's the closest you will ever get.
Sounds like you want a modern Nokia... but the TRUE Nokia, how it would be now if the Microsoft plant hadn't destroyed the company. So, you want a Jolla.
So your position is that because there's nothing about it produced by Hollywood yet, it isn't mainstream.
Exactly. Mainstream means: mr. Average Joe has heard of it.
Nope, nothing you said makes Ender's Game mainstream. It's well regarded in the sci-fi niche, but it had no TV show, cartoon, video game, anything to make it mainstream (a comic book series barely counts).
They got a socialist president. Not saying the guy alone changes everything, but it's a sign of a shifting mentality: they had it with Murrica trying to boss them around, and just don't give a fuck anymore.
The idea behind set-top boxes is reasonable: a simple cheap device for people who have little use for a full-blown PC. But they used to be so extremely limited in matters of processing power, storage, customizability... to the point that they were not good enough even for those people. Now look at any Android mini-PC that you can get off eBay for $50, it's something completely different. I guess we finally got to the point where set-top boxes can be made good enough and cheap enough.
By that reasoning, maybe WebTV was the reason why they didn't give the Xbox a web browser until last year... something the Sega Dreamcast had out of the box, back in 1999.
I guess he meant "descends".
Hey, Metroid Prime was very good.
(MP2, not so much, they really fucked up the pacing.)
There are three durable Sci Fi franchises and geek culture would be lost without them: Dr Who, Star Trek and Star Wars.
Is Star Wars even science fiction? Lucas himself called it a "space fantasy". One might say it often feels closer to Lord of the Rings than to Star Trek.
News for nerds, stuff that mattered a long time ago.
You mean that's not the official title?!
Disney hasn't had a single original idea since the ink dried on Steam Boat Willy.
Are you implying that Steamboat Willy was original? Nope! It was a parody of Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill Jr.
It's a stupid-editors-don't-even-check-spelling box.
That'd mean getting rid of Islam... and I can't see a downside here.
Funny that this doesn't mean what people think it means.
The words were taken from the Gettysburg Address, where Lincoln asked his listeners to resolve that "this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom." Except that in the Gettysburg Address, "under God" didn't modify "this nation" but the following phrase, "have a new birth of freedom." In Lincoln's time, "under God" was a common idiom that meant "with God's help" or "the Lord willing." -- NPR
So yeah, it means: "One nation, hopefully." See how stupid the whole thing is?
It does, in fact it'd be an incentive to make square screens.
The correct measurement is the area: multiply width and height.