You already have a Windows 7 license? Awesome, you'll be able to put that on your new touch enabled laptop and use it's inbuilt touch capabilities too. The future has never looked brighter for you:-)
Relax! I'm sure you'll be able to install your favourite version of Linux on it, and then cry about how the hardware makers won't release open source touchscreen drivers for you even though you don't want to use it.
You mean like I fork out for hardware that has USB 3 ports even though I only own USB 2 hardware??? No wonder I'm broke and spend all my time lurking on slashdot.
Exclusive touch is bad on a device with room for another input device.
Also just as bad are those touch machines that also come with someone who holds a gun to your head and tells you to keep your hands of all alternative input devices. I'm sure all the machines we're talking about will be of that variety.
I heard that Duke Nukem Forever is going to feature in game AI that surpasses human intelligence and that it will indeed be shipping on a holographic disk.
No you can't. If IE is "uninstalled" explorer doesn't know how to handle a URL properly and (from my slightly dodgy memory) presents you with an error dialog.
Just like George Lucas had "reasonable" success. He'd certainly earned enough money that he didn't need to do the Star Wars prequels. So the fact that he did them is part of the reason they were so...hang on...something is wrong with this train of thought
Have you considered Microsoft's MED-V which is part of the Desktop Optimization Pack that Microsoft provide to enterprise customers to combat exactly the problems you described in your post?
Actually, there is a drop down arrow that is always next to the "Next" button at the top, to the left of the address/breadcrumb bar. It drops down and shows you every part of the current path as a selectable option. This IS consistently placed and (for me at least) is much more usable than the address bar itself.
More likely the content providers would have modified your system for you and we all know how well letting Sony install stuff on your machine has worked out in the past.
That's cool to know. So MS are not hugely off the mark on this one. With some judicious tweaking they could potentially get it down to the same memory footprint.
Can someone please tell me how much extra memory enabling something like Compiz takes on a Linux system. I'm genuinely interested to know. Running Server 2008 the DWM process which manages that stuff in Windows takes around 700-800kb with all the eye candy turned off and increases to 25-26mb with most of the aero glitz turned on.
Currently in Win7 Beta this process is sitting at around 16Mb with EVERYTHING turned on. This seems like a fairly trivial amount of memory to me so I'm interested to know how much more efficient the Linux alternatives are. Likewise, if anyone has information about OSX I'd be keen to see that too.
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You already have a Windows 7 license? Awesome, you'll be able to put that on your new touch enabled laptop and use it's inbuilt touch capabilities too. The future has never looked brighter for you :-)
I hope someone mods this as off-topic. There's far too much common sense in these comments to be a part of this thread!
Relax! I'm sure you'll be able to install your favourite version of Linux on it, and then cry about how the hardware makers won't release open source touchscreen drivers for you even though you don't want to use it.
You mean like I fork out for hardware that has USB 3 ports even though I only own USB 2 hardware??? No wonder I'm broke and spend all my time lurking on slashdot.
Exclusive touch is bad on a device with room for another input device.
Also just as bad are those touch machines that also come with someone who holds a gun to your head and tells you to keep your hands of all alternative input devices. I'm sure all the machines we're talking about will be of that variety.
Mass adoption means a drop in price point.
We're talking hardware here, not software, not Windows. Try to stay on topic....oh...this is /. As you were.
It's nice to have there as an option if you want it, if you don't care for it, don't use it.
I've always wanted to say this....you must be new here
I heard that Duke Nukem Forever is going to feature in game AI that surpasses human intelligence and that it will indeed be shipping on a holographic disk.
...allowing my mouse to manipulate me...
You live in Soviet Russia right???
What if you randomised the virtual keyboard layout each time it was displayed?
No you can't. If IE is "uninstalled" explorer doesn't know how to handle a URL properly and (from my slightly dodgy memory) presents you with an error dialog.
So where does that leave those of us trading in Flanian Pobble Beads?
Excellent reasoning...
Just like George Lucas had "reasonable" success. He'd certainly earned enough money that he didn't need to do the Star Wars prequels. So the fact that he did them is part of the reason they were so...hang on...something is wrong with this train of thought
I think what we really need here is some Netcraft figures, just so we can truly confirm it.
You've confused me. How do you leave your USB stick or external drive connected to a box you DON'T have physical access too?
Have you considered Microsoft's MED-V which is part of the Desktop Optimization Pack that Microsoft provide to enterprise customers to combat exactly the problems you described in your post?
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Actually, there is a drop down arrow that is always next to the "Next" button at the top, to the left of the address/breadcrumb bar. It drops down and shows you every part of the current path as a selectable option. This IS consistently placed and (for me at least) is much more usable than the address bar itself.
Surely you're not calling the creditibility of an article summary posted by kdawson into disrupute!!! I've never seen such audacity
I don't think any OS has completely solved the problem of users.
There, fixed that for you
More likely the content providers would have modified your system for you and we all know how well letting Sony install stuff on your machine has worked out in the past.
That's cool to know. So MS are not hugely off the mark on this one. With some judicious tweaking they could potentially get it down to the same memory footprint.
Much of which is held by the OS and/or the GUI.
Can someone please tell me how much extra memory enabling something like Compiz takes on a Linux system. I'm genuinely interested to know. Running Server 2008 the DWM process which manages that stuff in Windows takes around 700-800kb with all the eye candy turned off and increases to 25-26mb with most of the aero glitz turned on.
Currently in Win7 Beta this process is sitting at around 16Mb with EVERYTHING turned on. This seems like a fairly trivial amount of memory to me so I'm interested to know how much more efficient the Linux alternatives are. Likewise, if anyone has information about OSX I'd be keen to see that too.