Comment Re:But that begs the question... (Score 1, Informative) 303
Of course. The internet (not unlike everything else) tastes like chicken.
Bill Gates: iPad Users Are Frustrated They Can't Type Or Create Documents 618
An anonymous reader writes "While Apple views the tablet and PC markets as two separate entities, Microsoft takes the opposing view. During a CNBC interview this morning, Gates continued to toe the party line insofar as he praised the benefits of Microsoft's tablets and Windows 8 while explaining that iPad users are frustrated because they have trouble typing and creating documents. 'With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated, they can't type, they can't create documents. They don't have Office there. So we're providing them something with the benefits they've seen that have made that a big category, but without giving up what they expect in a PC.'"
Comment Re:"Immeasurable Impact"?? (Score 1) 212
You're right. But the article isn't about the Creationist Museum...
Comment Re:"Immeasurable Impact"?? (Score 1) 212
"Immeasurable impact on issues surrounding technology". Not "inventions".
As a "good guy", Google's contribution to any part of many peoples lifestyles with regard to the technology used is indisputable. (Google search > competition, Android market share > competition, Chrome performance and stability > competition, NaCL, Play store, etc etc. They're not perfect, but they are certainly usable and viable, and often better, alternatives to their competitors.)
As a "bad guy", Google's stereotypical credo of "do no evil", after they've gained such weight in the technology world, is coming into question (most recently? see CISPA).
Together, these certainly form a kind of impact, and given Google's ubiquity in a lot of peoples' lives, an immeasurable one.
Comment Re:Slashdot is being abused... apk (Score -1, Offtopic) 244
Where does this scripted brainfart come from anyways?
Comment Jury-built? (Score 1) 102
You must mean jury-rigged, or jerry-built. Pick one!
Comment Classic Blunders (Score 1) 245
It's the most famous of the classic blunders, you insensitive clod.
Comment Re:I know what it's for. (Score 1) 496
Just wait until Google Neural Interface is on the market. We don't need no steenking glasses!
Comment Re:Hypocrisy (Score 1) 893
No there won't.
Comment Should be BMI, not weight (Score 1) 587
I'm 6'5", and I don't approve this message.
Comment Sensationalism (Score 1) 104
BlackBerry 10 Can BBM Anything You're Watching, Even Grandma's Crocheting Videos
BlackBerry 10 Can BBM Anything You're Watching, Even Game of Thrones
BlackBerry 10 Can BBM Anything You're Watching, Even Kittens
BlackBerry 10 Can BBM Anything You're Watching, Even Sesame Street
BlackBerry 10 Can BBM Anything You're Watching, Even LARPing
"Porn" obviously has more weight to garner clicks, so let's resort to sensationalizing the headline in order to make a buck.
Comment Threads (Score 1) 628
Now's a good time to rewatch Threads, and lament the possibility that these asshats might have nukes, and might somehow be insane enough to use them.
Comment Cloud (11 hits) (Score 1) 53
So the word "cloud" appears 11 times in the article, and in each case, is used in a context in which it comes off as a buzz-word or in an SEO-optimized fashion.
What I'd like to know is, how does it fit into the "cloud" paradigm?
- Does it somehow better handle streamed texture and shader content, thus making my "cloud gaming experience" feel more fluid?
- Is the chipset designed to integrate with next-gen tablets and smartphones, which would typically be "cloud gaming experience"-devices?
- Will it better handle next-gen games typically offered as a "cloud gaming experience" (think recent SimCity and worse)? OR...
- Is it simply being released at a time where "cloud gaming experience" is a convenient marketing buzzword, intended to generate sales among the unwashed masses?
Comment Your ideas... (Score -1, Offtopic) 36
...are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
