I find PDF to be epic fail on everything. Maybe it isn't irritating to read if you send it to a publishers and have them print and bind it for you? Give me.txt and let me size and wordwrap it as it suits the display device (or window) i am using at that moment.
At least one SD or microSD socket, 12V input jack so i can run it from a car battery without a voltage adapter, usb sockets( a real nice and easy to implement feature would be a compartment to plug a usb stick in inside the tablet and leave it there ), 3.5mm headphone and microphone jacks, upgradable standard ram, wifi, bluetooth...
Actually, I can do most stuff i want to on my old laptop, so taking that as a start I want a 1GHz x86 processor, XGA resolution, AC97, 512Mb laptop without the keyboard and with a touchscreen. Forget the hard disk and optical disk drives, let me boot from USB, make a little compartment inside for 3 usb sticks to be plugged in, supply one usb stick with an OS on and let me supply my own sticks with my content. Ideally, the architecture should be conventional enough to boot Knoppix from the usb.
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To clarify, it was thrown in the cupboard in disgrace as it was defective by design, intentionally difficult to configure ( before the outraged shrieks of 'But the Apple config software is a dream to use and has such beautiful fonts!', you could use any machine with tcp/ip and a browser to configure it if it had a web based config. ) and so is last on the list of devices to use. We were not defeated by the hurdle of assembling a box and installing and patching an operating system in order to configure a widget, we were disgusted that this artificial hurdle was ever created.
I can ask if he wants to give you it, but not if we have to install vista to get iTunes to run so we can purchase a label printing app and order special Apple styrofoam chips to package it with. Post offices, we are fine with using. Do we need to find a special Apple post office? Would that entail buying an apple laptop and an iPad and getting a GPS Apple-post-office-finding app? Is there an app for that?
iPad, iShmad. I am willing to wait until a tablet comes out that does what I want. Or (more unlikely) until Apple decide that it will allow the things I want to do with a tablet to be done.
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Heh, recently a friend was given an airport express thing (one of those little white boxes that plug directly into an electrical outlet) and we spent a few hours port scanning it and dicking around trying to make it work before we gave up and looked online at the manual. Guess what? Instead of a web interface like my 1998 D-Link hub, you have to configure it with some apple software which itself only runs on certain OS versions. 'How quaint' he said as he threw it into the back of the cupboard.
It reminded me of my crappy nokia phone. To flash the thing you have to use nokia's flash-o-tron app which only works on xp sp3. Once you get hold of that setup and perform the actions you find it loses your phone's settings (although it claims to have saved and restored them) and the new flashed software is still as crappy as the old version.
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Hehe, I used MS office at home until i tried to flow text across several pages. It crapped out after a suspicious number of jumps, 8 or 16 or something so i said 'fuck this, if i am going to use buggy software, I shall use OPEN buggy software!' and off I flounced to open office. The people who praise MS Office are often the ones who email me a single lolcat picture embedded in a powerpoint(less) file or a 10 item grocery list as an excel worksheet.
Gandhi only got anywhere because of the good nature of his opponents. Look how far hunger strikes got against Stalin (Stalin abolished hunger strikes. The number of days on hunger strike were added to your sentence, if you starved yourself to death, good riddance).
Okay, so the creator gets it to look how he wants, but the recipient might not care for the layout at all. I, for one, detest white space, big font sizes and superfluous little graphs.
How's this for a crazy idea, concentrate on putting in lots of new, useful information (and tag it appropriately) and let the browser do the layout according to its screen area and user's preferences?
Since government leaks information almost as quickly as it burns tax dollars, it will also enable criminals (for whatever evil reasons) to track LAW ABIDING citizens.
Am I too late to patent a device which blocks this to limit wear and tear on starter motors? Think of the traffic jams caused by cars whose starter motors have failed. Think of the recovery and repair bills for those stricken vehicles. Think of the children waiting vainly for parents who are stranded miles away.
Can't they just do what governments and big companies do? Say 'golly gosh, all that got accidentally shredded, we have launched an internal inquiry whose results will remain secret' ?
WTF? In five years, with luck, youtube may be smooth on my 12" laptop. For a 50" screen I would guess at maybe 70 years, at the current rate of progress.
3,964k here, XP Home SP3. Hey, I typed 'the cat sat on the mat' into it and it dropped right back to 400k then back up to 752k. Odd. Maybe the more text i put in, the smaller the memory footprint? Oh, now it is at 1,012k before I could type anything else in. Hmm, maybe I should wait for the memory use to fluctuate before I hit save and thus economise on disk space?:-)
I don't think i need all of Smalltalk's power for my robotic turtle, he just needs to rotate, move forward and raise or lower his pen. Is there a high-level language suitable for him?
The most annoying thing about the bean-counting mentality is the creation of beans to count. For example, in the NHS it is really difficult to do stats on patient care as each case is different so the beancounting management impose additional paperwork or data entry tasks to create countable beans. Hooray! Suddenly more 'data' for layers of management to fight amongst themselves with, at only the cost of reduced patient care due to reduced medical (as opposed to clerical) time available to the medical staff. The medical staff know the beans are pointless for improving healthcare, the management only went to PHB university so don't know or care that the beans cannot help patients, beans are for counting, if enough beans become available, the bureaucracy can demand to be expanded to cope.
Employing additional nursing staff instead of beancounting staff is just a crazy pipe dream.
Yeah, like the music industry can afford expensive lawyers after losing trillions of dollars per day to teh pirates. Those lawyers will have been on less than minimum wage.
I ran quake 4 and doom 3 , half-life and battlefields 2 and 2142 and various command and conquer versions on win2000, you insensitive clod! Granted, I had to wrestle a couple of them on because the installers were written by retards, but still. Win2000 is still the one true operating system!
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I find PDF to be epic fail on everything. Maybe it isn't irritating to read if you send it to a publishers and have them print and bind it for you? Give me .txt and let me size and wordwrap it as it suits the display device (or window) i am using at that moment.
At least one SD or microSD socket, 12V input jack so i can run it from a car battery without a voltage adapter, usb sockets( a real nice and easy to implement feature would be a compartment to plug a usb stick in inside the tablet and leave it there ), 3.5mm headphone and microphone jacks, upgradable standard ram, wifi, bluetooth...
Actually, I can do most stuff i want to on my old laptop, so taking that as a start I want a 1GHz x86 processor, XGA resolution, AC97, 512Mb laptop without the keyboard and with a touchscreen. Forget the hard disk and optical disk drives, let me boot from USB, make a little compartment inside for 3 usb sticks to be plugged in, supply one usb stick with an OS on and let me supply my own sticks with my content. Ideally, the architecture should be conventional enough to boot Knoppix from the usb.
To clarify, it was thrown in the cupboard in disgrace as it was defective by design, intentionally difficult to configure ( before the outraged shrieks of 'But the Apple config software is a dream to use and has such beautiful fonts!', you could use any machine with tcp/ip and a browser to configure it if it had a web based config. ) and so is last on the list of devices to use.
We were not defeated by the hurdle of assembling a box and installing and patching an operating system in order to configure a widget, we were disgusted that this artificial hurdle was ever created.
I can ask if he wants to give you it, but not if we have to install vista to get iTunes to run so we can purchase a label printing app and order special Apple styrofoam chips to package it with. Post offices, we are fine with using. Do we need to find a special Apple post office? Would that entail buying an apple laptop and an iPad and getting a GPS Apple-post-office-finding app? Is there an app for that?
iPad, iShmad. I am willing to wait until a tablet comes out that does what I want. Or (more unlikely) until Apple decide that it will allow the things I want to do with a tablet to be done.
Heh, recently a friend was given an airport express thing (one of those little white boxes that plug directly into an electrical outlet) and we spent a few hours port scanning it and dicking around trying to make it work before we gave up and looked online at the manual. Guess what? Instead of a web interface like my 1998 D-Link hub, you have to configure it with some apple software which itself only runs on certain OS versions. 'How quaint' he said as he threw it into the back of the cupboard.
It reminded me of my crappy nokia phone. To flash the thing you have to use nokia's flash-o-tron app which only works on xp sp3. Once you get hold of that setup and perform the actions you find it loses your phone's settings (although it claims to have saved and restored them) and the new flashed software is still as crappy as the old version.
Hehe, I used MS office at home until i tried to flow text across several pages. It crapped out after a suspicious number of jumps, 8 or 16 or something so i said 'fuck this, if i am going to use buggy software, I shall use OPEN buggy software!' and off I flounced to open office. The people who praise MS Office are often the ones who email me a single lolcat picture embedded in a powerpoint(less) file or a 10 item grocery list as an excel worksheet.
I'll take that wager as I have googled Gerry Adams .
Gandhi only got anywhere because of the good nature of his opponents. Look how far hunger strikes got against Stalin (Stalin abolished hunger strikes. The number of days on hunger strike were added to your sentence, if you starved yourself to death, good riddance).
Okay, so the creator gets it to look how he wants, but the recipient might not care for the layout at all. I, for one, detest white space, big font sizes and superfluous little graphs.
How's this for a crazy idea, concentrate on putting in lots of new, useful information (and tag it appropriately) and let the browser do the layout according to its screen area and user's preferences?
Since government leaks information almost as quickly as it burns tax dollars, it will also enable criminals (for whatever evil reasons) to track LAW ABIDING citizens.
Am I too late to patent a device which blocks this to limit wear and tear on starter motors? Think of the traffic jams caused by cars whose starter motors have failed. Think of the recovery and repair bills for those stricken vehicles. Think of the children waiting vainly for parents who are stranded miles away.
Can't they just do what governments and big companies do? Say 'golly gosh, all that got accidentally shredded, we have launched an internal inquiry whose results will remain secret' ?
Well, it DOES actually work. I would never hang around a demonstration, carry a chair leg or seek Brazilian citizenship.
WTF? In five years, with luck, youtube may be smooth on my 12" laptop. For a 50" screen I would guess at maybe 70 years, at the current rate of progress.
3,964k here, XP Home SP3. Hey, I typed 'the cat sat on the mat' into it and it dropped right back to 400k then back up to 752k. Odd. Maybe the more text i put in, the smaller the memory footprint? Oh, now it is at 1,012k before I could type anything else in. Hmm, maybe I should wait for the memory use to fluctuate before I hit save and thus economise on disk space? :-)
I don't think i need all of Smalltalk's power for my robotic turtle, he just needs to rotate, move forward and raise or lower his pen. Is there a high-level language suitable for him?
The most annoying thing about the bean-counting mentality is the creation of beans to count. For example, in the NHS it is really difficult to do stats on patient care as each case is different so the beancounting management impose additional paperwork or data entry tasks to create countable beans. Hooray! Suddenly more 'data' for layers of management to fight amongst themselves with, at only the cost of reduced patient care due to reduced medical (as opposed to clerical) time available to the medical staff. The medical staff know the beans are pointless for improving healthcare, the management only went to PHB university so don't know or care that the beans cannot help patients, beans are for counting, if enough beans become available, the bureaucracy can demand to be expanded to cope.
Employing additional nursing staff instead of beancounting staff is just a crazy pipe dream.
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Not for me, if the context is microsoft I always think 'fistula' and 'exploder'.
Yeah, like the music industry can afford expensive lawyers after losing trillions of dollars per day to teh pirates. Those lawyers will have been on less than minimum wage.
Back when I was using Vista, I .. Oh, wait, this is the wrong end of the thread.
I ran quake 4 and doom 3 , half-life and battlefields 2 and 2142 and various command and conquer versions on win2000, you insensitive clod! Granted, I had to wrestle a couple of them on because the installers were written by retards, but still. Win2000 is still the one true operating system!
Way back when I had Windows for Workgroups, installing Win 95 borked my machine. Had to replace everything except the monitor, mouse and keyboard.
Hah, you are pathetic, I last twice as long. Well, including getting undressed before and the wheezing fit afterwards. And getting dressed again.