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  1. Re:Why? on Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps · · Score: 1

    There's a ten inch multi-touch screen on my Asus Transformer. Which presently runs Windows 8.1 and soon will run ten.

    It's an x86 PC in tablet form. And considerable cheaper than an equivalent Ipad. And it runs a real OS, not one that is deliberately crippled.

  2. Re:Why? on Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps · · Score: 1

    And Windows 10 tablets.

    The x86 based 8.1 tablets are really nice and rather inexpensive. I am hoping they will prove to be iPad killers.

  3. Re:that sort of works on The Next Generation of Medical Tools May Be Home-brewed · · Score: 1

    What amuses me is that most medical conditions and illnesses that laymen are told that they have are just Latin language translations of the symptoms. Once you understand that, when a doctor pronounces that somebody has a particular 'illness' you just say 'duh, yeah, tell me more than the symptoms.'

  4. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 1

    We lived in the big city, where sign maintance was a high priority at gas stations. They were always changing the price per gallon sign from 26.9 to 27.9 and at that same time keeping an eye on that loose 'e'.

  5. Re:The next big scare on Apple's Next Frontier Is Your Body · · Score: 1

    Healthcare is a serious matter. The benefit from wearing a health monitor can only be fairly dispensed if all participants in the 'plan' are in compliance and wearing their health monitor.

  6. Re:Most growth in Apple was in China on Alibaba Looks To Rural China To Popularize Its Mobile OS · · Score: 2

    Apple probably sells almost no units to the rural poor in China.

    Steve would bristle at the idea.

  7. Re:The next big scare on Apple's Next Frontier Is Your Body · · Score: 1

    The non-removable Apple Watch begins blinking when you need to make a visit to the doctor. After 24 hours it starts beeping. Shortly thereafter it also beacons over a cellular link so the attendants can easily locate you.

    This is entirely necessary. Healthcare has a social cost, and you need to be socially responsible about your health, citizen.

  8. Re:This is why people get ticked @ apple products on Apple's Next Frontier Is Your Body · · Score: 1

    I can understand the excitement, in the same way that BMW or Lexus enthusiasts might get excited over a new model--

    Wrong. I hate to keep having to say this. Apple is a Buick class company, in a Chevy world. They aren't any kind of BMW or even Lexus.

  9. Re:Idea likely started with Jobs on Apple's Next Frontier Is Your Body · · Score: 1

    I think given his health problems he would have been rather big on ways to understand disease better so that his could have been prevented much earlier.

    Jobs was the kind of guy to consult his guru first regarding health problems. Or various other alternative-medicine corn-eating billed critters. That's part of what killed him.

  10. Re:This never works on Microsoft, Chip Makers Working On Hardware DRM For Windows 10 PCs · · Score: 2

    That's storage, which scales to infinity. Screen resolution is something you look at all at once. To put it another way, you'd never run all 10tb of whatever is contained on your hard drive array all at once. At most the typical user accesses an 8-10gb file at any one time.

  11. Re:The video does not test full water resist claim on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 1

    IPX7? Is that some trademarked Apple 'standard'? If it's an actual Standard, why doesn't Apple have their own variant with a cute name? 'Thumblenitter' or something stupid like that would be alright.

    I'm more worried about what happens when you plunge your hand in a can of Crisco, and I'm sure Tim Cook worries about that, too. But whatever.

  12. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 1

    You're supposed to put your iPhone in a big thick case. They're only about fifty bucks and there's a hole cut out on the back so the Apple log shows. Because that's also important.

  13. Re:Yes, BTLE is very low power. on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 1

    Does it remind you when it's time to be happy?

    You shills are seeming a little nervous about this one.

    Has Apple laid an egg?

  14. Re:Many small solutions through a day on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 1

    But there are many small uses which aggregate to form a model, different for each person, of how a smart watch can be useful to them.

    Or so Apple hopes. I, on the other hand, hope the egg on their face leaves a stain. And that they don't slip and fall in a big pool of their marketing slick.

  15. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 1

    That's cool. So I can say 'hey siri' and your watch will go nuts on you. Great entertainment value. Maybe with a good fart app on your phone I can say 'hey siri, make his phone fart' and you won't even need to take it out of your pocket.

  16. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 0

    Better yet:

    "Ah, it's nice that my phone is turned off and I left it at home."

    But you go ahead and keep track so you know whether you need to scamper off to read a text or not. I'm glad there are people like you who have shitty jobs that require that of you. Somebody has to do that stuff, I guess.

    When I was growing up, Mobile was the brand name of a gas station.

  17. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 1

    Somebody at work told me he heard that Apple is refusing to accept Apple Watch apps from developers who sell the same apps for Pebble. Apparently Pebble (we already know Samsumg is in this category) is the New IBM for the mac people.

    I remember when word got out to the rabid elements of the Mac community that the first OEM IBM hard drives were spotted in Powerbooks. Fun times.

  18. Re:Into the Black on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 1

    So the point in ordering one was to hail around to the other people on Slashdot who bought one, too? Maybe an app can be developed to beacon other people who bought iWatches when you pass in the street.

    Wise purchase! Very wise!

  19. Re:Bad Context on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 1

    They can melt down the gold case a year from now when it's an obsolete model of the iWatch. That should bring enough to at least pay the accrued interest on the debt they assumed.

  20. Re:I love my Packard Bell on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 2

    Packard Bell had roots in the Consumer Electronics business. If you want to look at real wonders of mechanical wonkery, open up Stereo Receivers from the 80's.

  21. Re:My Packard Bell was invaluable on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    I have my Acer Aspire One upgraded to 8GB of memory, and it's a little champ. Not a fast system by any means, but it goes anywhere I want a 'real' PC, i.e. to workbenches in the field for embedded controller development. The 8GB upgrade that I did isn't 'supported' but it works great, and I have Virtual Box and a handful of virtual machines on board, too.

  22. Re:Dell, HP, Panasonic on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    It isn't an agreement if you never, ever, agree to it. So you're not violating an agreement.

  23. Re:Dell, HP, Panasonic on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    Hell, even back in the day I ran Mac games (i.e. Shufflepuck Cafe) on my PC using the Executor Mac emulator.

    I wouldn't advise trying to run x86 software on a 68xxx Mac though. Bochs could probably be ported over. I should probably try that on the SE/30 I have here that runs NetBSD... Naw...

  24. Re: Dell, HP, Panasonic on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    Ooops, Asus Transformer.

    I love my Acer hardware (desktop and laptop) but Asus is pretty good, too.

  25. Re: Dell, HP, Panasonic on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 2

    The Windows RT hardware is orphaned and on it's way to death. Like Windows NT on Alpha and PowerPC (I am one of the only persons I know who ever ran Windows NT 4 on PowerPC. I only did it to say I did, there was NO software to install on it)

    The new crop of x86 chips from Intel are making screaming nice tablets possible at the same price point the RT hardware aimed at. Who would be stupid enough to buy an RT Surface when you can go to Walmart and buy an Acer Transformer with an x86 chip it it running Windows 8.1 for under $400?

    RT is dead, dead. And Windows on low priced Tablets is coming on stronger than most partisans here on Slashdot will acknowledge.