Microsoft Origami To Play Halo 44
Gamasutra reports on elements of the Microsoft project code-named Origami, which has been revealed through some snooping to be a tablet PC. The device is shown playing Halo indicating there is likely to be some gaming aspect to the product. From the article: "Previous to the appearance of the DigitalKitchen video, Bill Gates had discussed a mobile PC concept at a conference in Seattle last year, where a non-working device called the Ultra Mobile 2007 was shown. At the time, Gates indicated that the device should have an 'all-day' battery life, weigh less than a pound and cost between $500 and $800. Microsoft has indicated it will unveil more details of the Origami Project 'in the coming weeks'."
Er... Halo? (Score:1, Informative)
I hate to disappoint you, but that's [gamasutra.com] certainly not the Halo I'm used to...
video on youtube (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Halo? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:All day? (Score:2, Informative)
First it was 15 inch monitors where actually 14-inches.
This is true only of CRTs, but LCDs (such as the ones used in most Windows Mobile devices such as the device of The Article) are measured directly in visible image size.
120GB hard-drives arn't actually close to an actual 120GB.
First of all, hard disk drives are labeled as 120 GB as opposed to 120 GiB [wikipedia.org]. Unlike the situation with tons, a metric gigabyte is smaller. At least it's not as bad as it was in the 3.5" floppy era, where a "2.0 MB" high-density diskette could hold only 1440 KiB due to inefficient MFM recording techniques used by PC drives.
Second, your operating system needs some space to store metadata. Feel free to devise a file system that stores metadata more compactly while maintaining expandability of files.