God I love it when someone pulls up an earlier thread and makes someone else eat crow.He, who only 10 hours earlier, within a thread related to the Apple Tablet declares:
The sheer hypocrisy - becomes more profound by the hour.
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God I love it when someone pulls up an earlier thread and makes someone else eat crow.
I love the irony that he responded with another off-topic and predictable post.
But, we're stuck in an infinite loop here, so /EOT.
God I love it when someone pulls up an earlier thread and makes someone else eat crow.
More entertaining, he not only eats crow, he crows about it afterward.
I love the irony that he responded with another off-topic and predictable post.
But, we're stuck in an infinite loop here, so /EOT.
You initiate the off-topic post.
You're called on your typical hypocrisy.
You're defense is that the response was off-topic.
Priceless.
More entertaining, he not only eats crow, he crows about it afterward.
You initiate the off-topic post.
You're called on your typical hypocrisy.
You're defense is that the response was off-topic.
Priceless.
And you think you are right. Priceless. Which is the hypocrite? the one that calls someone else a hypocrite while being a hypocrite? or the one that doesn't seem to care about being called a hypocrite?
edit: ^ doesn't make any sense. carry on. : |
Too bad I'm not the hypocrite here.
You're quite right about that - your rant makes no sense at all.
I assume he means the following - but somehow he failed to comprehend that I didn't initiate the OT, but was commenting on the previous post:
Better hope the display is sweat-resistant.
I hope Ballmer does the moonwalk when he introduces it.
The obsession of Windows users with Apple customers is truly baffling. There are only a few rational explanations:...
The obsession of some Apple users with Microsoft's CEO is truly baffling. There is no rational explanation.
My post is OT, but it's following the topic of an OT tangent that I did not start.
At first glance yesterday I thought Windows 7 solitatire was being transmitted wirelessly to the display. That is until second glance that I saw the Gnome logo. I for one welcome our wireless HDMI display tablet overlords. Eventually...Another tangent that I joined, but did not start
I wonder what the problem is with Solitaire if it creates such ire to mention it.
The Lenovo Hybrid is a step in the direction that I want. I was rather impressed that it pulled the URL of the page you were viewing over to the tablet's browser in seconds. You don't have to give up x86 and your keyboard. You can go to your slick ARM Linux with multitouch on the fly. You don't lose your browsing experience either.
Another tangent that I joined, but did not start
Oh no?
You clearly got the ball rolling on that one.
KnightWRX's original post was primarily focused on the new Lenovo Hybrid laptop/tablet, with a mere reference to solitaire.
You, in effect, initiated this off-topic tangent:
Have you tried Solitaire under Windows 7 - it really is a game changer!
Your claim to have merely joined this off-topic episode is purely comical.
Small minds, unable to understand that a bad pun like calling a new version of Solitaire a "game changer" (with a smiley, no less) means that the post was a joke....
If you really want to get those guys riled, just say "floppy drive" (and then duck).
Smilies are serious business.
Lenovo still appears to be aiming for the ultraportable market instead of the netbook one. The size is small but you get CULV Core 2 Duo. Intel is really crippling the Atom platform with the DMI and PCIe nonsense. If I was looking for anything Atom based it would be a HP Mini 311. ION gives you enough power for video playback even on the big screen and it's portable.
The Acer Revo comes close at $199 for an ION LE nettop but XP is so 2001. The newer builds of XBMC with the improving GPU video playback acceleration are of interest. It's all about low power HD playback now and supporting MKV.
A tablet will replace my Macbook Air. I don't need it to be smaller than the Air necessarily. I'll own it to capture notes and experiences more organically.
Granted the front-page has an article on Qualcomm's inability to produce GSM/CDMA chips I doubt we will have 3G access from AT&T or Verizon. WiFi will be our savior and it will be feasible as the FCC opens up more under the current administration.
Gesture Learning Curve
Whilst waving my hands tonight in front of a sensor-driven paper towel dispenser, I thought this is how the new tablet will work -- by mid-air gestures as well as on the screen. We'll enlarge images by pulling in the air, shrink them with a quick finger pinch above the screen, brush documents away, pull them out of the air, and like magicians, point to a spot for instant actions.
The learning curve may also be for the machine, figuring out how to read my mind.
Whilst waving my hands tonight in front of a sensor-driven paper towel dispenser, I thought this is how the new tablet will work -- by mid-air gestures as well as on the screen. We'll enlarge images by pulling in the air, shrink them with a quick finger pinch above the screen, brush documents away, pull them out of the air, and like magicians, point to a spot for instant actions.
The learning curve may also be for the machine, figuring out how to read my mind.
Sounds like a bad idea to me. The object you want to interact with is on the screen - it's far easier to just touch it. If I have a paper on my desk, it's easier to move it by touching it then by pointing at it (assuming I had telekinesis). Fitt's Law and all that.
Now MSI gets in on the tablet action
Another nice product :
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/msi-dualscreen-e-reader-hands-on/
From other shots, the bottom screen can do a virtual keyboard, giving us yet again a tablet/e-reader with laptop ergonomics, except in a different form factor than Lenovo's offering.
Maybe waiting for 2 weeks after CES wasn't such a hot move on Apple's part.
EDIT :
Haha, Microsoft fails again. A Power outage delayed their presentation and the PCs came back up in recovery mode :
I hope CES bolted the chairs to the ground.
Another nice product :
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/msi-dualscreen-e-reader-hands-on/
From other shots, the bottom screen can do a virtual keyboard, giving us yet again a tablet/e-reader with laptop ergonomics, except in a different form factor than Lenovo's offering.
Maybe waiting for 2 weeks after CES wasn't such a hot move on Apple's part.
EDIT :
Haha, Microsoft fails again. A Power outage delayed their presentation and the PCs came back up in recovery mode :
I hope CES bolted the chairs to the ground.
Another nice product :
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/msi-dualscreen-e-reader-hands-on/
From other shots, the bottom screen can do a virtual keyboard, giving us yet again a tablet/e-reader with laptop ergonomics, except in a different form factor than Lenovo's offering.
Maybe waiting for 2 weeks after CES wasn't such a hot move on Apple's part.
Hardware looks pretty, but I don't think people will choose tablets for the hardware. Win 7 is not optimized for touch.
Really, why would they pimp it like crazy then ?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/touch
Seriously, I have a strong distaste for Microsoft as much as the next guy, but Apple doesn't have some sort of exclusive competency on touch screens, and touch screens have been around for way longer than Apple has used them.
EDIT : there, we go, it's official, the HP slate (that's its name too.. crazy, Apple is sure not to go with iSlate now...) :
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/the-hp-slate/
Looks boring as heck to me, like a giant iPod touch :
Who needs another mp3 player? Who needs another smart phone? Who needs a tablet?
Two of these questions have been answered. Wait 'till the end of the month.
It's the device you need when you don't want your computer. The device for all other media.
And for good measure, I'll toss in Alex Lindsay's suggestion from MacBreak Weekly - the only device a student needs - text book, tests, workbook, attendance, study diary need I go on? Sadly, I don't think it will be that much of a computer, but you never know
Two of these questions have been answered. Wait 'till the end of the month.
It's the device you need when you don't want your computer. The device for all other media.
And for good measure, I'll toss in Alex Lindsay's suggestion from MacBreak Weekly - the only device a student needs - text book, tests, workbook, attendance, study diary need I go on? Sadly, I don't think it will be that much of a computer, but you never know
They can pimp it all they want. As long as on-screen elements are less than 40px on a side (more or less - depends on dpi, of course), it ain't optimized for touch. Even if they got the OS right (and I see lots of tiny widgets on my work windows machine), 3rd party apps are all wrong, with tiny little things that need to be tapped, rows that are too small, scroll lists without inertia, etc.
Really, why would they pimp it like crazy then ?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/touch
Seriously, I have a strong distaste for Microsoft as much as the next guy, but Apple doesn't have some sort of exclusive competency on touch screens, and touch screens have been around for way longer than Apple has used them.
EDIT : there, we go, it's official, the HP slate (that's its name too.. crazy, Apple is sure not to go with iSlate now...) :
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/the-hp-slate/
Looks boring as heck to me, like a giant iPod touch :
You should try a Win7 touch screen system. The resolution independence lets you blow up the elements to touch size quite easily.
Doesn't that screw up the layout? Do you have to do it manually? What happens if I am running software with hardcoded bitmap elements (which, I imagine, most software still uses)
Old software that hardcodes UI elements arw still an issue, but overall the experience is pretty good. The OS controlled buttons and menus can be enlarged to usable sizes.
Totally off topic, but I can't resist
You need to quantify lost time in $ for your boss. Do it properly. How many hours x how many people and how much it costs in wages, lost sales or whatever get's their attention. Then they might do something about it.
That XP is getting a bit long in the tooth now. Nobody should have to put up with that. It must be seriously impacting everyone's productivity. And maybe yours or others if they spend time fixing everyone else's problems. Add it all in. See if you get a result.
We had a situation where a contractor was doing -serious- amounts of number crunching on the oldest/slowest computer in the place. No amount of whinging about how he needed a new computer worked until someone toted up his wasted time (@ $2000 a day), then surprise, surprise - he had a newest/fastest computer the very next day. Computers and even systems cost 'dick' next to people's time.