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Comment: Re:And... (Score 1) 618

I will go out on a limb and say that every single office that creates content will need a normal PC with a normal input. Touch has been there forever in blue collar jobs: restaurants, car service.

The only revolution we see related to touch is entertainment and mobile computing. Tablets are pretty convenient when you watch movies and browse internet in bed and smartphones are convenient for doing the same in the subway.

All other areas are pretty much unaffected.

Comment: This is going one of those laws that nobody follow (Score 1) 433

It has been that way since the dawn of times. 13 years ago two of my buddies bought luxury SUVs, one of them got it with GPS that would not even allow you to touch itself unless you turn off your vehicle. The other one got GPS that could not care less.

This is going one of those laws that nobody follows and hard to enforce...

Comment: Re:Didn't they get the memo? (Score 1) 628

by mapkinase (#43323351) Attached to: North Korea Declares a State of War

>If you go soft, you'll be assassinated

This is bullshit. HIstory knows plenty of cases when useless dictators led life full of weaknesses and have not been assassinated for that reason

Now, interfering with others' manipulation of you, that would get you certainly killed.

This is a baseless speculation.

Transportation

1967 Gyro-X Car To Be Restored 140

Posted by Unknown Lamer
from the future-sure-is-cool dept.
Zothecula writes "Back in 1967, California-based Gyro Transport Systems built a prototype vehicle known as the Gyro-X. The automobile had just two wheels, one in front and one in the back and, as the car's name implies, it utilized a built-in gyroscope to remain upright when not moving. Although its developers hoped to take the Gyro-X into production, the company went bankrupt, and the one-and-only specimen of the car became an orphan. For much of the past 40-plus years, that car has passed from owner to owner, its condition deteriorating along the way. Now, it's about to be restored to its former (weird) glory."

Comment: Re:A nuclear first strike... (Score 1) 369

by mapkinase (#42994751) Attached to: Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies

Not even jokingly. I am in bewilderment for several years now about how this nice pair is not nuked by TPTB, creators are not in Guantanamo and users are not jailed for 20 years to life for anti-American activities.

Forget about Pirate Bay, streamers, etc. I am sure those two inconspicuous guys inflicted over the years more damage to internet biz than all the rest of the public enemies combined. I find it funny how industry spent so much energy fighting VHS and TiVo in the past and yet not single pip was given about ADP and NS. This is a true Internet miracles, /.-ers, indeedio.

Seriously, if push comes to shove and those two get squashed, I am considering giving up Internet. I have been happily TV-less internet-only for about 10 years now and from time to time I get to feel a nasty piece of slime of ADP-less, script-infested, seizure-inducing Internet on somebody else's computer, and blargh...

I will be going back to books, ladies and gentlemen.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one. -- Marcus Procius Cato

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