The quote in the summary about not wanting press to link to the pre-sale site is a bit out of context. The full quote makes slightly more sense:

Fusion Garage’s financial situation is a mess, and it is inappropriate for press to recommend to people to pre-buy a CrunchPad. The company has not yet hired an attorney to respond to our lawsuit. We believe they do not have the cash flow to do so. When the device goes on pre sales today, linked to from scores of gadget and press sites, they will suddenly have cash flow to defend themselves. What they won’t have is cash flow to build the devices. We believe it is irresponsible for press to link to the pre-sale site without disclosing this to readers.

That is so 1999. Quantum dot technology is where it is at these days: http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina64.htm

Don't want to believe me? Fine, I can be ok with that.

I guess that means you should go off and argue with all the folks on wikipedia though: "a Nyquist frequency just larger than the signal bandwidth is sufficient to allow perfect reconstruction of the signal from the samples". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_frequency#The_aliasing_problem

Please, anti-aliasing filters are often nothing more than a low-pass filter with the transition band ending at the nyquist frequency. I wonder why?

I know I'm nit picking here but there is too much damn pseudo science that gets thrown around by people talking about audio that it is a pet peeve of mine.

It sounds like you know just enough sound theory to use the right buzz words in the right places without having a full understanding of what they actually mean.

Aliasing isn't an issue as you approach the nyquist frequency, it is an issue when you pass it.

Using a low pass filter just below the nyquist frequency wouldn't "affect the harmonics" it would remove harmonics above the cut-off frequency. The fundamental and lower harmonics would be just fine.

Whether those high frequency harmonics would actually affect the timbre of the sound in an audible way is an entirely different question...one which I can find conflicting studies on. Either way your speakers aren't going to be able to reproduce those high frequency harmonics anyway so the whole issue is moot.

Thanks for the interesting read for somebody who's "mastering" experience is limited to leveling my own mix for my crappy speakers for the shit that I make myself (read: never leaves my room).

Since you mentioned it, in case you didn't know, 99% of MS doesn't dogfood TFS internally either. The defacto source control mechanism is a system called source depot which shares a lineage with perforce.

Why are you skeptical? That is exactly what a malicious process would do in that case.

I had the exact same thought.

I believe a quote from the video was even something to the extent of "this is a good option to the Toughbook for people who needed the extra processing power".

I should add, I'm not trying to disagree with you if you say you wouldn't be able to use something like this. Obviously you would know best.

I just mean to put forth that something need not be a perfect ideal solution for 100% of the population in order to be a "good thing". Having used a FingerWorks TouchStream for a while (which had very similar controls) it was awesome and I really hope something similar can become more mainstream/heavily adopted.

If your pinky is weak you can always stick out your index finger instead.

That isn't true actually. There are many people suffering from RSI where typing is a particularly painful experience.

I personally don't find holding my pinky up very tough. No idea how it would feel after doing it all day long though...

There was a time in our history where people couldn't type either. That didn't stop typewriters and the keyboard from taking off though.

I've had the same experiences. I went from netbeans/visual studio to vim with a few appropriate plugins because it was faster and easier to manage large sets of open documents.

I realize that this isn't an exact comparison though. The whole point of being in netbeans/visual studio/vim is to type so being able to keep your hands on the keyboard 100% of the time is a huge win which makes up for me having to look up various commands to type on the keyboard.

I think the four finger pinch would involve your thumb, which isn't that bad.

Their multi-touch wall and multi-touch workstation are in exactly the configurations that the 10/GUI video puts forth as being unusable.

Personally, I feel that it largely failed because it attempted to replace a keyboard with a device that had no tactile feedback. Despite my best efforts I could never get anywhere close in typing speed (and my error rate went WAY up).

However, the actual multi-touch navigation improvements were awesome. Part of the reason I tried so damn hard to learn to type well on it (and I never could) was because of all the other benefits it offered.