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<News> - Holy cow, check out Microsoft Surface!
Zero_Hour:
--- Quote from: shardian on May 30, 2007, 04:41:03 pm ---Yeah, and I bet users will be seeing plenty of this too:
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Now that was funny.
I know I'm cursing myself saying it, but I haven't seen a BSOD since I went to Vista RC2 (now running Ultimate), last fall. (where's the fingers crossed emoticon when you need one?)
jediz:
As usual Microsoft is way behind - This was first in use at Encom by Ed Dilinger. I guess after Flynn took over Encom the technology was buried.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: jediz on May 30, 2007, 05:52:21 pm ---As usual Microsoft is way behind - This was first in use at Encom by Ed Dilinger. I guess after Flynn took over Encom the technology was buried.
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Well they really aren't behind, it's just nobody has the marketing power they do so until m$ adopts a tech, it doesn't get released. the only exception being the ipod. ;)
The cost seems like an issue to me.... maybe it's the display itself that makes it so expensive, but the tracking system could be done for a little bit of nothing.
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 30, 2007, 06:37:23 pm ---The cost seems like an issue to me.... maybe it's the display itself that makes it so expensive, but the tracking system could be done for a little bit of nothing.
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Yeah and just like all other touch screen technology it'll break down! ..... Touch screen arcade fruit machines are the right royal pain in the rear!! Trust me I'm the poor B'stard that has to fix the damned things when they pack up.
Maybe Microstuffed invented a surface that repells greasy finger marks as well as can't be scratched, while they were designing it :laugh2: It's pretty, but like so much technology and even like games, just because it looks good doesn't make it playable or useable.
Tell me this.... How many of you have a coffee table that doesn't have the newspaper, a couple of books, the tv guide and the tv and dvd remotes on it.... as well as mabee a fruit bowl and a half eaten bar of chocolate. Not to mention the coasters for the coffee mugs..... Who wants a whomping great monitor there insead of all the useful stuff we use the coffee table for.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on May 30, 2007, 09:39:06 pm ---Tell me this.... How many of you have a coffee table that doesn't have the newspaper, a couple of books, the tv guide and the tv and dvd remotes on it.... as well as mabee a fruit bowl and a half eaten bar of chocolate. Not to mention the coasters for the coffee mugs..... Who wants a whomping great monitor there insead of all the useful stuff we use the coffee table for.
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I was thinking the same thing. Great, now I can have a pile of virtual crap on the screen underneath the real pile of crap.
Maybe it will sense all the junk, try to communicate with it and when it finds that it can't, nag you until you clean it off...
RandyT
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