Deja-vu
Just needs to be able to spin things around to cover the keys in tablet mode and we're back to Microsoft's tablet-pc form factor.
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I liked hand tuning config.sys and autoexec.bat. With enough tweaks you could get more than 640k base memory available if you didn't need graphics. If I remember correctly it was just a matter of creating an upper memory block in the video video address space, which since it started at 640k DOS was smart enough to recognise it could use. I may even still have a boot floppy configured that way somewhere.
I can't remember where (some TV program) but I once saw a fuller version of the 20 year theory. Its not 20 years from now. Its 20 years from when we start spending real money on the problem. The same program pointed out we currently spend more on novelty ringtones.
The journey time from London to New York is measured in hours, but only once you get on a plane. If you insist on swimming then its going to be longer.
So one isn't any smaller (needs a tray), and the other can't be made compatible (contacts wrong).
If only they'd have the sense to combine the best of both: Doesn't need a tray, but can go in a tray for compatibility. Or better still realise the sim is already small and there's a benefit (*) to them all being the same size and easily interchangable and just leave things alone.
(*) problem is the benefit is to the customer, not the manufacturer
100ms sounds short, but its a meaningful time to a fast typist, say 120wpm. Based on a standardised 5 character word thats 600 characters per minute, or 10 characters per second, i.e. 100 ms per character. That'd mean they weren't getting any feedback on whether a keypress registered until they'd normally already be typing the next one.
Now whether anyone can actually type that fast without a proper keyboard with moving parts is another matter. However part of the problem might be that what little feedback mechanism there is can't keep up.
Yes, various things you could have picked before the squishy stig. E.g.
- One of those torches that live in your lighter socket, and so won't be flat in an emergency.
- A wired iPod/mp3 solution. E.g. something from Connects2.
- A socket splitter so the other gadgets aren't fighting for the same socket.
- Does anyone do cable management systems for cars? Also useful with many plug-in gadgets.
In fact even a headrest mounted coat hook would have been better than a squishy stig.
A floppy disk drive? Luxury! Some of us dreamed of a disk drive while waiting for tape (ordinary audio cassettes), which then gave errors 80% of the way through loading on the system it was designed for. No doubt someone else will come along with tales of punched tape to continue this...
Tablets only replace PCs in the same way that a microwave replaces an oven, hob and grill. A tablet, like a microwave, is smaller and requires less ability to use, but far less capable. Some might be happy with just the more limited device, some will see the newer device as a useful addition to the traditional tools, others will want to avoid the new-fangled stuff as much as possible. At the extreme there will even be some who see the appeal of going back to the basics of an open fire or typewriter.
Indeed. As an experiment I once created a small town (more of a hamlet really) where the only option was to use the train. The sims claimed there wasn't any way to get to work. This was SC4, the original was rather different where the answer to traffic problems was indeed to delete all roads, only have rail and just ignore the lack of road capacity messages.
Or a desktop monitor.
As for the aux display the feature all tablets lack and the one that will persuade me to buy one is HDMI *input*. Software solutions is fine for a computer, but I'd like to use it with any arbitary device with video output but only a tiny screen.
True the desktop has been threatened by the laptop for a while, but now the laptop is under fire from tablets I wonder if we're going to see recovery in desktop sales. Certainly a 10% growth in sales isn't inconsistent with that theory. A laptop has always been a compromise between power and portability. If for some (many?) people a tablet is sufficient for their portable requirements then why choose a compromise machine for when they need power? If they're now only needing more than a tablet for tasks where they'd have likely docked a laptop on a desk then forgetting about a laptop and returning to a cheaper and/or more powerfull desktop makes a lot of sense.
Well it depends. A replacement laptop comes with a new keyboard, mouse substitue and monitor built in. A replacement desktop can use the ones you already have, making them effectively free. OK a first desktop or additional desktop has an overhead, but I suspect most are replacements.
Well Hamiltons trains through wormholes in the commonwealth books was instant from one planet to another. Made a nice change for the few spaceships to be a novelty because they were mostly redundant, shame he de-emphasised the trains in favour of more standard SF hyperdrives in the second set of books.
The Silfen paths though, they definately went at the speed of plot.
In my case they're wrong. My next PC will arrive in a multitude of separate boxes containing my exact choice of components, which I'll then assemble and install whatever OS I feel like at the time. I'm pretty sure it won't be Windows 8.
Lets see about combining the plots of those:
One is a film about a theme park where the attractions get out of control and start killing people, based on a book by Michael Crichton. The other is a film about a theme park where the attractions get out of control and start killing people, based on a book by Michael Crichton.
Shouldn't be too hard...