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Vogue Short Bus Pole Dancers	Posted - 2011.04.02 16:28:00 - [1] Apple recently has created a new trend in high tech consumerism. Not about releasing new technology.. just because it is new technology but presenting established technology concepts in packaging to trendy consumers (Who don't have geek level understanding of computer technology history) that is flattering and appealing. Apple's ring fencing is annoying - get consumers inside Apples product biosphere and they stay there buying more Apple services and products. But on a business level it works and I am sure Sony are jealous as they failed trying the same thing to an extent. What is rank arrogance is Apple banning Adobe Flash on its Ipads. As far as monopolistic software companies go Adobe is very benign. Apple has some balls doing this. I use youtube a lot and would not go anywhere near any product that did not support flash. .................................................. Fortress Of Solitude
Vogue Short Bus Pole Dancers	Posted - 2011.04.02 17:07:00 - [2] Ah ok. My mum and her fella has an ipad and they said it did'nt support flash. .................................................. Fortress Of Solitude
Vogue Short Bus Pole Dancers	Posted - 2011.04.02 22:44:00 - [3] The Ipad is a tablet computer packaged well. But it is not a new idea. Microsoft released Windows XP tablet edition but it was a turkey. The MS Office division refused to support it. Tablet computers have been used in some hospitals for years. Apple does innovations in usability but does not really push new tech. What is exciting is the Google Chrome C-48 laptop. It is what a laptop should be more like. It has no hard drive just Chrome OS that loads very quickly and uses Google's cloud application suite to provide sufficient basic desktop productivity apps and a web browser. It has 9 hours of battery life. It has not been released to the general public just students for a proof of concept evaluation. I have wondered why technology company's dont extend the core usability of smart phones. You have a pocket sized device with typically a 500mhz ARM CPU that can do what a ten year old desktop PC can do. With a widget of some sort you could connect it to a flatscreen TV with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse and hey presto you can browse the web, run apps. Then you have a internet, PC appliance by plugging your smartphone into a ACME docking platform. There are two things I really hope materialize soon into consumer products. One is a plastic sheet that is a display that can be rolled or folded up to fit into the pocket. HP have done some research into this area by 'printing' oleds onto bendy materials. The other is a keyboard membrane that inflates from a flat surface. So from a tablet PC you press on flat screen and on a portion of the screen a tactile keyboard 'inflates'. .................................................. Fortress Of Solitude
Vogue Short Bus Pole Dancers	Posted - 2011.04.06 21:12:00 - [4] Google is releasing an app for Android phones that lets users stream their music collection. As 3G costs get cheaper this concept will really take off. What would be nice is 3G smartphones that can stream internet radio stations. I listen to AH.FM and it would be good if I could listen to that when I am out and about. .................................................. Fortress Of Solitude
Vogue Short Bus Pole Dancers	Posted - 2011.04.10 20:44:00 - [5] Originally by: Miso Hawnee Amiga > All /thread When I was a kid I used to drool at the Amiga A500 that cost ú399 in the late 80's. My parents got an Amiga A600 in 1992 for ú199. But the A600 was just a slimine A500. The UK Commodore MD called the A600 'complete and utter screw-up'. Last year I got an Amiga A1200 and pimped it with aacceleration card and a 4GB flash card - hard disk. Amiga's were based on the Motorola 68xxx series which were superior to Intel's x86. But the PC won out from office use and vast economies of scale. The original IBM PC was a naff design. And typical of a lot of computer company's that have died out such as Commodore, Digital, etc is that their product placement and evolution was off the mark. The Amiga 1200 was not a ground breaker like the A500 was in terms of CPU power and the emerging PC VGA graphics system was superior to the Amiga 1200 AGA graphics. I play the odd game on the A1200. I got Amiga Doom to work on it Tried Amiga Quake but my accelerator card only has 8MB and not the 16MB minimum for it. I mentioned earlier in the thread why not use a smartphone like hardware platform for a web tv. In the USA there are some products for this such as the Roku box that streams Netflix, NBA, UFC and other internet TV streaming services. Samsung is looking into web tv's and Google is looking to adopt its Android OS for web tv. The biggest problem with TV is trying to get TV and other media corporations on board that are worried about their advertising delivery being nerfed. Roku is offering targeted advertising. But when Tivo boxes recording can skip advertising the genie is already out of the bottle. Though the internet is a two way street. US TV media company's have captive markets outside the USA. I would be interested in purchasing some US TV products. Problem with web tv's is that users will be on the upgrade treadmill like they are with PC's. But I suppose it would be less of a problem if the web tv box is separate from the TV. I am rambling on about web tv's as its the next big area of innovation in a thread about Apple, the supposed innovator, who don't innovate tech but do good product placement of existing tech. .................................................. Fortress Of Solitude
Vogue Short Bus Pole Dancers	Posted - 2011.04.11 20:47:00 - [6] What is interesting is that Microsoft said it will support ARM and other 'system on a chip' manufacturers. This is microsoft spread betting. I have not used their mobile OS but It will be intriguing how Microsoft tries to scale to ARM CPU's. I am instinctively pessimistic given Microsoft's past endeavors including embedded Windows NT 4. Everyone has seen an information screen at an airport, train station, on a vending machine or ATM with a BSOD. But have you ever seen in the past an IBM OS2 embedded crash screen? On my first PC a 486SX 25 with 4 MB I ran MS-DOS 6.22 with Windows 3.1 on top. It did the job. I learned MS-DOS quickly. I also tried Slackware Linux on it. I was amazed how stable Slackware was and how powerful its 32-bit OS was. But I did not persist with Slackware Linux as there were no games for it other than Doom. I can get around in Linux ok but some aspects of Linux is just annoying. It's a shame no company has released a comprehensive GUI for it that takes away Linux->Unix's complexity that Mac OS did but also allow the user to dig deeper if they wanted to. .................................................. Fortress Of Solitude

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