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Comment Re:Ditch the smartboard (Score 1) 96

First, please check out what a Cintiq is.
I didn't know that the Surface has a built-in digitizer, but anyhow, a Cintiq will be better in any case, just because you can connect it to whatever you choose and have different choices of size, as well as run it with any program you'd like, be it OneNote or something entirely else.

Comment Re:Ditch the smartboard (Score 0) 96

Smartboards are like Apple computers.

(You obviously don't have a lot of experience with OS X.)

If you want to tinker [...] Surface Pro 2 [...]

[interactive whiteboards] are about as useful in a classroom as an iPad

Yeah... right... So, in your opinion, the superior solution is a Surface Pro? Really?!

You can totally use even an iPad, load it up with the right apps and hook it up to a projector to achieve the same or an even better experience than you are describing, like with almost any other device.
What would actually be an improvement is something like a Wacom Cintiq (or their much cheaper predecessors) to give you more control over your drawing, but what platform you use (Linux/Windows/Mac) matters only inasmuch as you should feel comfortable with it.
Incidentally, the interface that gets out of the way and let's you get stuff done the most is (a well configured) Linux and/or Mac.

Comment Re:PLEASE! (Score 2) 241

I wasn't aware that I had a problem until my Joomla and Wordpress websites became unstable several months ago.

What? You were not aware that Joomla and Wordpress are being cracked wide open on a regular basis?
It's almost the same as:

U: "Hi, I am running windows."
A: "And?"
U: "I have a problem..."
A: "You already said that."

Comment Re:Jailbreak (Score 1) 336

I wasn't talking about mobile payment, but access to the tech (which is available to devs through private APIs anyway). A jailbreak will just make other uses available, which will probably appear in iOS 8.1 or 9, or whatever.
Think invisible QR codes and stuff.

Comment Re:Level of Abstraction (Score 1) 132

Since I generally present the things I do as the things they are, I'd probably think that it's kind of cool, but that's where it stops.
In fact, if I'd have come up with a way to put the non-printed parts in the car in place via conveyor belt or robot arm, or another way of actually assembling the car automatically, before making a show out of printing a shell, then I'd think it's cool.
These guys went for WOW-ing the sheeple and VCs instead.
Did I mention that I dislike (marketing) bullshit in a (quasi-) serious setting?
I'd be proud if I would have come up with a fully functioning prosthetic arm driven by a brain-computer interface that costs a few thousand bucks, vs. the ~6-digits that are paid usually. This is just like the original facebook to me: nothing special, just existing things refitted to make a profit.

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