All the "Tablet Edition" features are built into regular Windows Vista and Windows 7.
I installed Vista on my standard tablet, and as soon as it picked up it was on a tablet, it gave me my on-screen keyboard, handwriting recognition, etc. features. It even had that stupid game where you could use the pen to draw lines and bounce balls around.
In short, it didn't go away, it just got rolled-in to the base product.
And in response to your negativity, I know a lot of pharmacists and nurses who will let you take their Windows tablets when you pry them from their cold, dead fingers... they were insanely popular in healthcare, when I worked in healthcare. (Around 2007.) Microsoft was (and likely still is) definitely building a product that had customers.
Even if my ISP gave me IPv6, and I had a router that supported IPv6, why would Google/Facebook assume that I'm telepathic to know that I need to type in "ipv6.google.com" to see their website? A normal user would just assume the site is broken, and it's broken due to switching to IPv6.
If they really supported IPv6, they'd put the AAAA record on google.com. What they're doing now is half-assing it, relying on the fact that anybody techy enough to adopt IPv6 at the moment is also techy enough to know Google uses an alternate DNS name for it.
Considering the limited number of IPv4 addresses, and the existence of technologies like NAT, what's wrong with treating the IP space like a real-estate market? (Basically the way we treat domain names now.)
(Isn't the word 'Unobtanium' one of those that the tech guys are supposed to replace with one of the super rare elements from the actual Periodic table...or actually use creativity in coining a proper element name that isn't so obviously a cop-out? Oh wait, they blew the budget on the CG so there were no tech-writers on staff to speak of. My bad.)
Given the tone of the speech, it's much more likely that the element has an actual name and he was saying "unobtanium" to emphasize how rare it was. I think that's a completely invalid criticism. (Unless you can prove that the writer was just being lazy.)
The point isn't that the movie includes the origin (although even that is stupid-- who wants to see a Superman movie but *doesn't* already know his origin?), but that the movies are *about* the origin. Show the origin in the film equivalent of 8 words (say, 1 minute), then move on and tell a story.
Or maybe Microsoft hates patents as much as any other software company, and the only reason they have such a large portfolio themselves is (rightly) to defend themselves against the likes of Eolas?
I mean, I don't like how US healthcare works, but I still have health insurance. You'd come by and tell me it's impossible for me to support healthcare reform, unless there's some crazy conspiracy.
And FIS stands for... International Ski Federation? Fiber Instrument Sales? Something about collections in Brazil? A nucleoid-associated protein in E. Coli?
Seriously, you can't just pull acronyms OUT OF YOUR ASS. If it's not in the top 3 results on Google, please define the fucking thing before using it.
Unless you don't give a shit whether anybody understands what you're talking about, in which case, carry on-- you're doing a good job.
Look, we Americans have no idea which UK newspapers are trash and which aren't. How about a quick reference? Or, even better, how about having fewer trash newspapers to start with?
The problem is here in the US, almost every newspaper makes a real effort-- there are about 3 that don't, and everybody knows their names. (And I believe the Weekly World News went online-only now anyway.)
I think what he's getting at is that Lotus Notes has about 50,000 features, none of which work right. Whereas Notepad has about 3 features, all of which work correctly.
Yes, BOTH Slashdot and the linked article are making the completely unsubstantiated claim.
Me saying that Slashdot is doing it doesn't imply that the linked article isn't also. I thought Slashdot was supposed to be full of smart people, why is this basic logic so hard to figure out?
What about all the donations GeoHot collected for his legal defense when he assured people he wouldn't settle out-of-court? Is he going to give them back?
I mean, no love for Sony, I hate those asses. But GeoHot's scamming people here, too.
Ever see that show with a British chef going in to some Alabama elementary school with a bunch of different (but common) vegetables and asking 3rd graders to identify them. Was really scary. A lot of these kids had never seen any food that wasn't processed. Now, wife and I were lucky that we both grew up 'ethnic' (I'm Chicano, she's white bread Kansas), with mothers who cooked and we were both trained as kids to cook as well. Fruits and veggies are standard fare in meals and for snacks in our house.
Thing is, there appears to be several generations in the U.S. that have lost touch with cooking and making meals.
I'd buy an iPad in a second if it didn't require that turd iTunes.
Any company that puts out such a gigantic bloated piece of shit like iTunes should *not* be talking about usability. Especially when their competitor (Microsoft's Zune software) is faster, more stable, and easier-to-use.
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It's a Gadget. XP doesn't have that feature.
You could just rent a Amazon EC2 instance, attach a cloud drive, and do your own encryption. Amazon couldn't decrypt it if they wanted to.
Of course they could potentially delete it, so there's still that risk.
Doesn't that already exist in the form of the Cintiq? Or was there an implied "and it has to be cheap?"
But yes, the market is definitely there. As evidenced by the... Cintiq.
All the "Tablet Edition" features are built into regular Windows Vista and Windows 7.
I installed Vista on my standard tablet, and as soon as it picked up it was on a tablet, it gave me my on-screen keyboard, handwriting recognition, etc. features. It even had that stupid game where you could use the pen to draw lines and bounce balls around.
In short, it didn't go away, it just got rolled-in to the base product.
And in response to your negativity, I know a lot of pharmacists and nurses who will let you take their Windows tablets when you pry them from their cold, dead fingers... they were insanely popular in healthcare, when I worked in healthcare. (Around 2007.) Microsoft was (and likely still is) definitely building a product that had customers.
Even if my ISP gave me IPv6, and I had a router that supported IPv6, why would Google/Facebook assume that I'm telepathic to know that I need to type in "ipv6.google.com" to see their website? A normal user would just assume the site is broken, and it's broken due to switching to IPv6.
If they really supported IPv6, they'd put the AAAA record on google.com. What they're doing now is half-assing it, relying on the fact that anybody techy enough to adopt IPv6 at the moment is also techy enough to know Google uses an alternate DNS name for it.
Considering the limited number of IPv4 addresses, and the existence of technologies like NAT, what's wrong with treating the IP space like a real-estate market? (Basically the way we treat domain names now.)
I'm one of those crazy guys who just wants my computers to work.
Me too, which is why I refuse to install iTunes. What a bloated, buggy, crashy mess.
(Isn't the word 'Unobtanium' one of those that the tech guys are supposed to replace with one of the super rare elements from the actual Periodic table...or actually use creativity in coining a proper element name that isn't so obviously a cop-out? Oh wait, they blew the budget on the CG so there were no tech-writers on staff to speak of. My bad.)
Given the tone of the speech, it's much more likely that the element has an actual name and he was saying "unobtanium" to emphasize how rare it was. I think that's a completely invalid criticism. (Unless you can prove that the writer was just being lazy.)
Here's Superman's origin in 8 words: http://fuckyeahgrantmorrison.tumblr.com/post/1043287938/fantomex-supermans-origin-4-panels-8-words
The point isn't that the movie includes the origin (although even that is stupid-- who wants to see a Superman movie but *doesn't* already know his origin?), but that the movies are *about* the origin. Show the origin in the film equivalent of 8 words (say, 1 minute), then move on and tell a story.
Or maybe Microsoft hates patents as much as any other software company, and the only reason they have such a large portfolio themselves is (rightly) to defend themselves against the likes of Eolas?
I mean, I don't like how US healthcare works, but I still have health insurance. You'd come by and tell me it's impossible for me to support healthcare reform, unless there's some crazy conspiracy.
And FIS stands for... International Ski Federation? Fiber Instrument Sales? Something about collections in Brazil? A nucleoid-associated protein in E. Coli?
Seriously, you can't just pull acronyms OUT OF YOUR ASS. If it's not in the top 3 results on Google, please define the fucking thing before using it.
Unless you don't give a shit whether anybody understands what you're talking about, in which case, carry on-- you're doing a good job.
Look, we Americans have no idea which UK newspapers are trash and which aren't. How about a quick reference? Or, even better, how about having fewer trash newspapers to start with?
The problem is here in the US, almost every newspaper makes a real effort-- there are about 3 that don't, and everybody knows their names. (And I believe the Weekly World News went online-only now anyway.)
... that doesn't sound easy at all.
Ok, so the obvious question is, how many "persons of concern" were there in 2010? Was the prediction right?
Why would you type all that without solving the mystery? I've tried googling myself, but I can't find the number... their website is awful.
Two points:
1) Unless Microsoft wrote the bad drivers, "bad drivers crash Windows" is not Microsoft's fault.
2) Remove the bad drivers, you idiot, if you're getting 10-15 bluescreens a week. WTF!
Except the toaster is better at email than Lotus Notes.
I think what he's getting at is that Lotus Notes has about 50,000 features, none of which work right. Whereas Notepad has about 3 features, all of which work correctly.
Hah, like Google Buzz where you could get 20 people to "like" the statement, "kittens are sure cute", then change it to read, "I support the KKK".
This system would enable epic trolling!
If they did floating windows like Paint.NET does nobody would complain. The problem isn't the concept, but their half-assed execution.
Yes, BOTH Slashdot and the linked article are making the completely unsubstantiated claim.
Me saying that Slashdot is doing it doesn't imply that the linked article isn't also. I thought Slashdot was supposed to be full of smart people, why is this basic logic so hard to figure out?
Plus there's absolutely no actual comparison between this system and the Kinect at the link. And yet Slashdot is confident that it "outdoes" Kinect.
The headline is just using Kinect as an attention-getter, when it really has very little to do with the story.
What about all the donations GeoHot collected for his legal defense when he assured people he wouldn't settle out-of-court? Is he going to give them back?
I mean, no love for Sony, I hate those asses. But GeoHot's scamming people here, too.
"This really impressive thing MS did 3 years ago? We made a ripoff of it! And it doesn't work right now!"
Exciting news.
Ever see that show with a British chef going in to some Alabama elementary school with a bunch of different (but common) vegetables and asking 3rd graders to identify them. Was really scary. A lot of these kids had never seen any food that wasn't processed. Now, wife and I were lucky that we both grew up 'ethnic' (I'm Chicano, she's white bread Kansas), with mothers who cooked and we were both trained as kids to cook as well. Fruits and veggies are standard fare in meals and for snacks in our house.
Thing is, there appears to be several generations in the U.S. that have lost touch with cooking and making meals.
Yeah... in Alabama!
I'd buy an iPad in a second if it didn't require that turd iTunes.
Any company that puts out such a gigantic bloated piece of shit like iTunes should *not* be talking about usability. Especially when their competitor (Microsoft's Zune software) is faster, more stable, and easier-to-use.