Would be cool if GoG got into the tablet game and released games for iOS and Android Devices

I still don't get why everyone posts on GOG about GoG. I've never even heard of GoG.

Lexor alt?

Are you serious?

No, you just reminded me of this thing that Lexor used to do. For a while he made it his personal mission to admonish everyone who wrote "GoG" instead of "GOG".

This has made me fat in the ole pants dept for some reason. I realize yes, you could get this or that, but I'm liking this atm. And yeah machines with your minority report and biofeedback type interfaces will replace most PC and laptops in the future. Some guy driving a DeLorean told me that.

I remember when this demo vid was released...

Multi-Touch Interaction Experiments

We were all like, "Yeah... this is the way it's going."

I even remember some early 80s when some IT company (could be HP or whatever) was marketing (and launching?) a business computer where you didn't have any silly mouse, but a touchscreen monitor! Wow! So I guess it had icons or something which you "clicked" by raising your arm and touching the screen, or something.

As we know, it never took off, but Apple introduced (=copied the idea) using a mouse as a pointer device, and later that became the de-facto standard for graphic user interfaces.

I presume a mouse was much more comfortable than keeping your hand raised in order to do anything, when you were working 8 hours per day in front of a computer. And cheaper to manufacture too.


Anyway, back to tablet bashing. I forgot to tell probably my biggest peeve with tablets: they are TOO personal. It seems rather impractical to share the usage of a tablet, ie. having several user accounts. It seemed to allow me to create several accounts side by side, but at least I couldn't conveniently find out how to swap between them (or is that even possible). E.g. I wanted to go to Android market to buy a copy of two games ("Battleheart" and "Zombieville USA"), but I didn't find out how to do that with my account, not my gf's.

When I tried to remove my gf's Google account from the device, it said some apps are connected to it, so I'd have to restore the device to factory defaults in order to remove the account and any data. I didn't dare to do that because I was unsure what are all the "data" it was going to remove, all the installed apps too???

Hence, I didn't dare to buy anything from Android Market (or "GooglePlay" as it is called now) because I had no idea whose account they would be locked, or would they be locked. Maybe some Android expert here can fill me in.

Now I'm thinking that maybe I should just create a shared dummy Google account which would be used in all our (future?) Android devices, and used for purchasing anything from GooglePlay.

While I'm still interested into the tablet, buying a Windows netbook or laptop for the same price seems to just make more sense to me now. It is less restricted, more multipurpose, and better suited to be used by more than one person in the household.

With smartphones this is less of a problem, I consider them as personal devices where each member in the household has his/her own anyway. Tablets, weeeell...

By the way, did this guy have big glasses and a boyish look? It could well be it was Bill G., visiting you from the past, year 2008:

http://justanothermobilemonday.com/Wordpress/2008/02/23/bill-gates-latest-dumb-prediction/

I agree with that guy, the only cases where I probably wanted to use voice activation etc. are GPS navigation while driving (because my hands are tied), or an interstellar space fight against an alien race mothership (because it is cool: "Photon torpedoes... away!!!").

And those only if the voice recognition works 100% reliably, I wouldn't want to enter the wrong address to the navigator, or start a battleship self-destruct sequence by mistake.

Given how even humans speaking the same language frequently misunderstand each other (heard the correct words, but interpreted them wrongly), or hears something different to what the speaker tried to say (perhaps due to mumbling or a background sound, but the listener thinks they heard correctly), I'm not sure a computer would do much better.

But as all beginning programmer-wannabes know, there is a high chance that the designer of the system got lazy and didn't think the whole sequence fully through, hence he forgot with his multiple nested if-then-else algorithms to take into account the special cases where the computer e.g. simply does not recognize what you are saying. Hence, the self-destruction procedure would start anyway.

That's a real life example from my work a few months ago even if it was not related to a self-destruction system. Fortunately I caught the simple programming error another guy had made because in certain special cases (ie. there would some unexpected error when it tried to detect the type) it would have lead to the system going haywire. Damn, the amateurs we have working here...