What DO you use then? OpenOffice is great but few use it, Word format is, well, Word and as we all know, finky, JPEGs and PNGs are not really suited for text display...
You don't need Acrobat Reader to use PDFs. I use OS X's Preview and happily stay away from the 50MB crap Adobe calls a PDF reader.
Well, the plane can detect a change in cabin pressure. But why won't the autopilot descend? Think of the children! OK, really, it is because if you are flying over the Himalayan mountain range and the plane does an emergency decent to 5,000 feet you have a 0 chance of survival. But if you stay at 30,000 feet your body can still recover somewhat to allow you to descend to a suitable altitude.
And decaring an emergency and landing at the nearest airport would raise hell. Clearing airspace, rerouting aircraft to safe areas, determining where the plane will come in on, and then once on the runway dealing with it there. Possibly but extremely hard-- if there is a midair by two planes clearing out of the way of a jet that auto-declared an emergency, you can bet it won't happen again.
I realize there isn't a way to provide what the OQO can, but the price is probably debatable. We don't really know how much they cost to manufacture, design, market, etc. And the speed issue is an issue because if you had bothered to read, the Crusoe processor is not comparable clock-for-clock to an AMD. They suck. Voice recognition software has issues because it cannot run itself, the OS, and the program to place the text into, at the same time.
Being heavier and larger isn't always a bad thing. More heft can provide a more solid feel, a more secure grip. It isn't a bad thing all the time. And most Toughbooks are about ~$1700 for the semi-rugged to ~$4000 for the fully rugged versions for 3x the power, 50% more battery life, larger screen, more RAM, etc.
And the speed issue? It wouldn't replace a laptop in that department, and for $2000 it isn't worth it to only have it to look up information in a database. There are cheaper ways of doing it.
The Do-Not-Call was nice. Telemarketers dropped off considerably, but the biggest annoyance was that a collage printed our home number by mistake. (People still leave messages)
But faxes are more annoying. The fax machine is pretty loud, and it is going so often that unless someone is going to send a fax, there is no paper left in the fax. That saves a lot of money and paper. Also the ink is saved too. The Do-Not-Call list was an overall success. Now let's apply that to faxes.
They do have integrated handles for a reason, you know. And that OQO thing, considering its size, would get dropped more-- think of all the times you drop your cell phone, PDA, MP3 player, etc. Not healthy for that thing.
And the Curoso (spelling?) processors are slow as hell. They can't handle voice-recognition (they barely handle Windows XP) and a 850MHz model I played with couldn't play a H.264 movie without stuttering. Voice recognition is something that more doctors are doing and these won't be able to handle it based off of my experiences. Do they even have a mic-in?
"The photo sequence, taken off Japan's Ogasawara Islands in September 2004, shows the squid homing in on the baited line and enveloping it in "a ball of tentacles.""
The DNA testing to make sure it was a real giant squid or what?
OS X's Keychain seems to have attracted a fair number of users... I don't know what most of my passwords are-- my Mac does however. AES-128 encrypted and backed up whenever I want to to another Mac.:-)
No, healthcare right now is working fine on their touchscreen tablets. This is too single-purpose and with a 3 hour battery life won't make it through rounds at a hospital.
The Toshiba Toughbooks have drawn eyes because they can take abuse. Doctors abuse their computers-- I know. I've seen what happens to their equipment. But Toughbooks, with internal WiFi and a touchscreen PLUS a powerful Pentium-M work very very nicely. You can toss a Toughbook into your briefcase and open it again after dropping the briefcase down some stairs and tossing it under a desk. This thing wouldn't last a week.
I was pretty excited. I could buy a bunch of old graphics cards and get decent performance out of them instead of needing to buy an ultra-expensive top-of-the-line card now, and I could slowly replace my older cards as I had the cash to get better performance. Well, looks like this is a great idea, shitty execution.
This would have been great. But ATI failed to deliver. The people like me who game every once in a while would have loved this-- we could get great frame rates without top-end cards, and we would happily buy a medium-range card (sub-$100 but over $50) for good game performance. Oh, well.
You poor thing... I can't believe what you've gone through...
Windows Movie Maker turns movies into crap. Using ffmpegX (GUI front-end for ffmpeg and mplayer) you can make H.264 versions of your movies. What does this mean? It means movies don't loose quality and can be 3 times smaller than WMV files.
Windows Movie Maker is a sham. It doesn't do anyone any good. ffmpeg and mplayer actually are worth a damn in terms of quality. Oh, and they're free and cross platform. Always a plus.
All I want for Christmas is twice as much bandwidth
All I want for Christmas is twice as much bandwidth
That's what I asked Saint Nick for!
(Please Santa! I want more than 400Kbps up! Serving pictures 50KB at a time hurts my teeth!)
The iPod Nano was sent back in time due to a reality distortion wormhole where the iPod Mini designers thought that it was pretty friggin' awesome, but then as they were eating the Nano it was zapped backwards in time AGAIN to where the TR-1 designers were sitting around causing them to design their device after a half-eaten iPod Nano!!!!!111oneoneoneoneonetwo.
Version 1: Sits there
Version 1.1: Has limited mobility ~
Version 4: Moves in two directions. Left and Right. Damnit.
Version 4.0.1: Rotated lifter. Moves up and down.
~
Version 7: Plays elevator music in MP3 format
Version 8: Moves along rope ~
Version 9: Plays OGG files now
Version 10: By eliminating the "WAIT 30" command we have increased speed by 30x ~
Version 15: Now can read network drives for MP3, OGG, WAV, and AIFF files to play
Version 16: Has sensor to look out for birds. Damn PETA.
Version 17: Auto-updating kernel. We think.
Version 18: Robot goes up.... Robot goes down.... Robot goes up.... Robot does down...
Hitler rose to power because people wanted him to come to power. Digital computers, space, blah blah blah. Hitler put a radio in every household-- so that he could tell them what he wanted, when he wanted. The people were in a state where $1 billion marks couldn't buy bread. Hitler offered a way out. Desperate people will believe what you tell them.
Hitler was an evil man. But he was also very smart. He went with what the people wanted, and gave them it-- the return to Germany's former prestige.
The Gonenator was going to equip a million homes with solar power-- give major discounts to the people that did it, etc. But at the last second the unions stuck a sentence that said that only union employees could do the installation. Arnold killed it. Pity... it would have been the equivalent of having built a new nuclear power plant.
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You don't need Acrobat Reader to use PDFs. I use OS X's Preview and happily stay away from the 50MB crap Adobe calls a PDF reader.
What kinda geek are you?
And decaring an emergency and landing at the nearest airport would raise hell. Clearing airspace, rerouting aircraft to safe areas, determining where the plane will come in on, and then once on the runway dealing with it there. Possibly but extremely hard-- if there is a midair by two planes clearing out of the way of a jet that auto-declared an emergency, you can bet it won't happen again.
Nah, we just tell Marketing to get moving...
Serious liquid-cooling? Ooooh... a pan of oil would work nicely, just pump it through some dry ice to keep it cold. [/sarcasm]
Then why do I still get them?
Being heavier and larger isn't always a bad thing. More heft can provide a more solid feel, a more secure grip. It isn't a bad thing all the time. And most Toughbooks are about ~$1700 for the semi-rugged to ~$4000 for the fully rugged versions for 3x the power, 50% more battery life, larger screen, more RAM, etc.
And the speed issue? It wouldn't replace a laptop in that department, and for $2000 it isn't worth it to only have it to look up information in a database. There are cheaper ways of doing it.
But faxes are more annoying. The fax machine is pretty loud, and it is going so often that unless someone is going to send a fax, there is no paper left in the fax. That saves a lot of money and paper. Also the ink is saved too. The Do-Not-Call list was an overall success. Now let's apply that to faxes.
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http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/09/star_wars_luca
And the Curoso (spelling?) processors are slow as hell. They can't handle voice-recognition (they barely handle Windows XP) and a 850MHz model I played with couldn't play a H.264 movie without stuttering. Voice recognition is something that more doctors are doing and these won't be able to handle it based off of my experiences. Do they even have a mic-in?
"The photo sequence, taken off Japan's Ogasawara Islands in September 2004, shows the squid homing in on the baited line and enveloping it in "a ball of tentacles.""
The DNA testing to make sure it was a real giant squid or what?
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mrgorsky.htm
Status? False.
I'll handle it like a responsible money-starved, doohicky-starved, Slashdotter! Trust me with it!
OS X's Keychain seems to have attracted a fair number of users... I don't know what most of my passwords are-- my Mac does however. AES-128 encrypted and backed up whenever I want to to another Mac. :-)
The Toshiba Toughbooks have drawn eyes because they can take abuse. Doctors abuse their computers-- I know. I've seen what happens to their equipment. But Toughbooks, with internal WiFi and a touchscreen PLUS a powerful Pentium-M work very very nicely. You can toss a Toughbook into your briefcase and open it again after dropping the briefcase down some stairs and tossing it under a desk. This thing wouldn't last a week.
-Apple is dying
-*BSD is dying
-This is the year of Linux on ____
This would have been great. But ATI failed to deliver. The people like me who game every once in a while would have loved this-- we could get great frame rates without top-end cards, and we would happily buy a medium-range card (sub-$100 but over $50) for good game performance. Oh, well.
Windows Movie Maker turns movies into crap. Using ffmpegX (GUI front-end for ffmpeg and mplayer) you can make H.264 versions of your movies. What does this mean? It means movies don't loose quality and can be 3 times smaller than WMV files.
Windows Movie Maker is a sham. It doesn't do anyone any good. ffmpeg and mplayer actually are worth a damn in terms of quality. Oh, and they're free and cross platform. Always a plus.
All I want for Christmas is twice as much bandwidth
All I want for Christmas is twice as much bandwidth
That's what I asked Saint Nick for!
(Please Santa! I want more than 400Kbps up! Serving pictures 50KB at a time hurts my teeth!)
Carl Sagan? Wasn't he the Butt Headed Astronomer? Bah, those wimpy lawyers...
Duh.
Version 1: Sits there
Version 1.1: Has limited mobility
~
Version 4: Moves in two directions. Left and Right. Damnit.
Version 4.0.1: Rotated lifter. Moves up and down.
~
Version 7: Plays elevator music in MP3 format
Version 8: Moves along rope
~
Version 9: Plays OGG files now
Version 10: By eliminating the "WAIT 30" command we have increased speed by 30x
~
Version 15: Now can read network drives for MP3, OGG, WAV, and AIFF files to play
Version 16: Has sensor to look out for birds. Damn PETA.
Version 17: Auto-updating kernel. We think.
Version 18: Robot goes up.... Robot goes down.... Robot goes up.... Robot does down...
Hitler was an evil man. But he was also very smart. He went with what the people wanted, and gave them it-- the return to Germany's former prestige.
The Gonenator was going to equip a million homes with solar power-- give major discounts to the people that did it, etc. But at the last second the unions stuck a sentence that said that only union employees could do the installation. Arnold killed it. Pity... it would have been the equivalent of having built a new nuclear power plant.