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JudasIscariot: Well it's either my PC or my net connection but that QuakeLive thing ran like a slideshow for me and wouldn't finish the 10 minute match ....after 10 minutes......

I tried it on my dad's Tablet PC and couldn't get it to run, either. That's probably because his computer's a piece of junk, though. It crashes every hour.
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JudasIscariot: Well it's either my PC or my net connection but that QuakeLive thing ran like a slideshow for me and wouldn't finish the 10 minute match ....after 10 minutes......
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TheCheese33: I tried it on my dad's Tablet PC and couldn't get it to run, either. That's probably because his computer's a piece of junk, though. It crashes every hour.

As is with all Tablet PCs... why Bill Gates said it was the future is beyond me.
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TheCheese33: I tried it on my dad's Tablet PC and couldn't get it to run, either. That's probably because his computer's a piece of junk, though. It crashes every hour.
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michaelleung: As is with all Tablet PCs... why Bill Gates said it was the future is beyond me.

he'd seen them on star trek, the original series had them, they ome with a huge sylus. I think tabbies are perfectly fine in concept, what they need is to merge them with netbooks so they're small & light enough to be portable but large enough to actually do work on unlike a PDA.
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michaelleung: As is with all Tablet PCs... why Bill Gates said it was the future is beyond me.
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Aliasalpha: he'd seen them on star trek, the original series had them, they ome with a huge sylus. I think tabbies are perfectly fine in concept, what they need is to merge them with netbooks so they're small & light enough to be portable but large enough to actually do work on unlike a PDA.

they just need to make 200 Ghz comps already ....tired of living in the slow as hell present...it's almost 2010 and Uplink PROMISED 200Ghz processors and 80 gigs of RAM....WTH Future??
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TheCheese33: I tried it on my dad's Tablet PC and couldn't get it to run, either. That's probably because his computer's a piece of junk, though. It crashes every hour.
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michaelleung: As is with all Tablet PCs... why Bill Gates said it was the future is beyond me.

What do you expect of a guy who estimated PC programs to never require more than 640KB of RAM?
we were supposed to have flying cars 9 years ago and I've not even gotten one that goes on the ground yet
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Aliasalpha: we were supposed to have flying cars 9 years ago and I've not even gotten one that goes on the ground yet

Screw flying cars. I want a PC i don't have to worry about for the next 10 years ....
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michaelleung: As is with all Tablet PCs... why Bill Gates said it was the future is beyond me.
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Aliasalpha: he'd seen them on star trek, the original series had them, they ome with a huge sylus. I think tabbies are perfectly fine in concept, what they need is to merge them with netbooks so they're small & light enough to be portable but large enough to actually do work on unlike a PDA.

I think it's an awful concept. PDA applications are written for a small screen with a lot of attention paid to where buttons are located, which size they have to be and so on. PC programs on the other hand, are not. Hell, the OS alone takes up a significant part of the available screen real-estate. And while applications could be written with a special small-screen interface, requiring developers to do so actually removes the only reason for actually having a small-size, touch only device running an OS it's not meant to run.
I'll take a PDA/decent-size-notebook combo any time over an Origami or whatever they call it now.
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Aliasalpha: we were supposed to have flying cars 9 years ago and I've not even gotten one that goes on the ground yet
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JudasIscariot: Screw flying cars. I want a PC i don't have to worry about for the next 10 years ....

Get a 286 then. Never have to worry about it being stolen because it's useless, never have to worry about tweaking it to run modern software because it can't...
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JudasIscariot: Screw flying cars. I want a PC i don't have to worry about for the next 10 years ....
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Aliasalpha: Get a 286 then. Never have to worry about it being stolen because it's useless, never have to worry about tweaking it to run modern software because it can't...

Bah! I want a 20286 .....
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Aliasalpha: Get a 286 then. Never have to worry about it being stolen because it's useless, never have to worry about tweaking it to run modern software because it can't...
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JudasIscariot: Bah! I want a 20286 .....

Z-X-8-1 !!! Z-X-8-1 !!! Z-X-8-1 !!! Z-X-8-1 !!!
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Aliasalpha: he'd seen them on star trek, the original series had them, they ome with a huge sylus. I think tabbies are perfectly fine in concept, what they need is to merge them with netbooks so they're small & light enough to be portable but large enough to actually do work on unlike a PDA.
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hansschmucker: I think it's an awful concept. PDA applications are written for a small screen with a lot of attention paid to where buttons are located, which size they have to be and so on. PC programs on the other hand, are not. Hell, the OS alone takes up a significant part of the available screen real-estate. And while applications could be written with a special small-screen interface, requiring developers to do so actually removes the only reason for actually having a small-size, touch only device running an OS it's not meant to run.
I'll take a PDA/decent-size-notebook combo any time over an Origami or whatever they call it now.

Oh I do think that software would have to be purpose written, after all it's not like they just hammer desktop apps onto a PDA (well not have them WORK anyway, the less said about mobile media player the better). It'd have to be recognised as a unique device rather than just a different type of laptop
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JudasIscariot: Bah! I want a 20286 .....
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hansschmucker: Z-X-8-1 !!! Z-X-8-1 !!! Z-X-8-1 !!! Z-X-8-1 !!!

no no no, he said COMPUTER
Post edited February 02, 2009 by Aliasalpha
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hansschmucker: Z-X-8-1 !!! Z-X-8-1 !!! Z-X-8-1 !!! Z-X-8-1 !!!
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Aliasalpha: no no no, he said COMPUTER

And what do you think a ZX81 is? A microwave?
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hansschmucker: I think it's an awful concept. PDA applications are written for a small screen with a lot of attention paid to where buttons are located, which size they have to be and so on. PC programs on the other hand, are not. Hell, the OS alone takes up a significant part of the available screen real-estate. And while applications could be written with a special small-screen interface, requiring developers to do so actually removes the only reason for actually having a small-size, touch only device running an OS it's not meant to run.
I'll take a PDA/decent-size-notebook combo any time over an Origami or whatever they call it now.
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Aliasalpha: Oh I do think that software would have to be purpose written, after all it's not like they just hammer desktop apps onto a PDA (well not have them WORK anyway, the less said about mobile media player the better). It'd have to be recognised as a unique device rather than just a different type of laptop
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JudasIscariot: Bah! I want a 20286 .....
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hansschmucker: Z-X-8-1 !!! Z-X-8-1 !!! Z-X-8-1 !!! Z-X-8-1 !!!
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hansschmucker: no no no, he said COMPUTER

I said a computer that runs on ELECTRICITY....not the handcrank model heheheh ...
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Aliasalpha: no no no, he said COMPUTER
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hansschmucker: And what do you think a ZX81 is? A microwave?

I thought it was a crash simulator that had been re-branded as a computer as a marketing ploy. You know, like how the mac is really a gay-tester rebranded as a computer...
Don't knock handcranks though Judas, have you seen this steampunk laptop? How fucking gorgeous is that? It's MADE to play Arcanum on!