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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by eCat » Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:49 am

I'd like to get an ipad
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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by Bklyn » Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:06 am

Even though I am staunchly anti-Apple, personally, I bought my wife an iPad this past February. I must admit, it's really good (and keeps her off my laptop...fucking it up and whatnot). The battery life is insane.

I will get one of the non-Apple ones (with Flash) once I figure which one is worth it. I finally found an mp3 player I liked (Zune Plantinum) and Microsoft immediately got out of the game afterwards. Maybe my next one will be a Creative product.
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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by hedge » Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:57 am

Anybody ever heard of Levono? Logan emailed this to me, I think I'm going to get it...

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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by hedge » Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:58 am

Just when I'm getting a new computer, it's going to be obsolete...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/2 ... lswindows8
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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by Red Bird » Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:54 am

They keep changing Operating Systems so they can keep adding billions to Bill's net worth. I love how they describe it as "re-imagined." A hundred years from now, when they're coming out with Windows 50, they'll claim it's re-re-reimagined. (Reimagined will be a word by then)

At some point these new Operating Systems stop being enhancements and start just being novel.

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Post by aTm » Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:04 pm

I didnt read much of that at all, but just by seeing the pictures, I can tell you that it looks like there is a real practical reason for that upgrade and not just a bullshit money grab. It looks a lot like the current MS phone OS which is for touch based devices. The mouse is going to be going away soon in favor of touch screens. If thats Windows 8, it looks like a step toward touch screen based OS.
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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by Jungle Rat » Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:27 pm

Good thing I already have a touch screen (although I would rather lean back in my chair and use the mouse).

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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by Red Bird » Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:34 pm

Touch screens get all gooey if you serf and eat peanut-butter crackers at the same time.

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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by Jungle Rat » Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:35 pm

Mine gets sticky for other reasons.

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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by Red Bird » Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:37 pm

I can imagine.

I'm sure they'll think of many improvements to justify new OS after new OS, but there is a law of diminishing returns. AT some point, they're not increasing functionality but merely pushing a kind of techno fashion.

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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by Red Bird » Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:43 pm

Eventually, they'll implant the I-pad or blackberry or whichever is most appropriate right into your head. At a glance I'd think that would slow the evolution of these things down a bit, but then I think of how people act, and I realize this wouldn't be much of a hindrance either. They'll probably just have little doors put in their skulls.

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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by Red Bird » Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:47 pm

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by Saint » Mon Jun 06, 2011 12:25 am

I don't like touch screens because they get all yucky in no time. and cleaning grout out of a mouse is still one of my favorite things to do

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Post by AlabamAlum » Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:11 am

I'm okay with touchscreens on phones. I like to lazily click through things at home, though.
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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by AugustWest » Wed Jun 08, 2011 6:34 pm

watch a space shuttle turn night into day. freakin badass.

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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by Jungle Rat » Wed Jun 08, 2011 6:55 pm

Sweet

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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by Red Bird » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:19 pm

Cool video.

Cling to those memories because after the next launch, the US is out of the manned space flight launch business. None knows when we'll see another American manned vehicle and it could be decades before someone launches something as big a a space shuttle again.

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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by Red Bird » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:24 pm

When I was little I wanted to go to Mars. Now, not so much.

When you consider the space sickness, all the hours drifting through the vastness of space, crowded into a tin can with maybe 6 other people, who pretty quick will start hating each other, the boredom, eating everything through a straw, going to the bathroom in a tube and sleeping in a floating sack, (OK that last one might be cool), it might be more comfortable to stay here and let Buck Rogers fly through space.

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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by AugustWest » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:47 pm

I'd leave tomorrow given the chance.


that's one way to collect money for nasa
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Re: MIT Engineers

Post by Red Bird » Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:28 pm

I'd love to see other, sturdier, more accommodating people go.

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