Posts by Gary54

Rumors have it that the new iPad with have a teletransporter! Who needs video conferencing when you can instantly transport yourself and talk to the person .. in person! Making telephones obsolete overnight!

You have to pay a filing fee. Then the defendant has to pay fees. Then there are hearing fees for use of the courtroom. Every time a motion is filed, there is a fee. Win lose or draw, whether its in the suit that the defendant pays the...

wore off pretty fast on that one

They were touting how speedy the browser was .. using a dual core processor. In a tablet? More powerful processors of any given generation typically use more power. Why would anyone be surprised at battery life issues?

a great internet search engine. Does anyone have a better one? Apple?

someone is going to be suing Apple et all in the eastern District of Texas for patent infringement for building computers for gawds sake. Or for using aluminum. Maybe even the english language? I wonder just much the Eastern District...

what Spotify does than iTunes?

IBM diddled around too much and should have ported all its software and and made over its desktop line based on PPC. The CHRP platform wound up being a joke because nobody but Apple made use of it. If they had promoted their own damn...

Quote: Originally Posted by gctwnl I don't recall Microsoft ever having been able to port NT to a big-endian architecture like PowerPC (maybe in the lab, halfway, but not commercially). I do remember that the HP PA-RISC architecture,...

watching all these guys scramble to play catch up. People have been kicking around how to do a successful tablet for how many years now? And like .. they are going to cook something competitive up in a few months? Yeah. Right.