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May they keep Ballmer in place as long as it takes!
And, AppleSuxLeo, yeah, that's what we need, a Windows running piece of hardware to show off a virtual earth program. Oh wait, that's a PC already. But it's round, you say? What a waste.
"Yeah Butthead. Heh ha heh heh."
Seriously ... this sounds like one of the hair-brained ideas that Bill would have vetoed from the get-go. I can't believe MS is actually wasting money on this.
Would you care to explain why you believe this article about this system should instead be about bloat, malware, etc? I mean really- you're way off base there.
For example, I read last week an article about Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible now being available on iTunes. Surprisingly, they didn't spend the entire article about iPhone issues, MobileMe failures, or security holes in OS X that are still unaddressed and unpatched by Apple. The article didn't even bring that up. But why would there be? It was about about iTunes and not anything else.
What does this say about you? Are you so focused in your hatred for all things Microsoft that you completely neglected to read the article?
You know, some people may gripe and complain that Apple is too secretive and doesn't give enough information about what they are doing. But at least when they do start to tell people, they actually have not only a working product, but one that is shippable now (or in the very near future) and one that actually has a target audience and a direction.
I don't mind Microsoft spending the time and money doing advanced research, but please don't waste my time with it until you are ready to bring it to market and explain how it's going to make my life "better" if I had one. I don't have time for pipe dreams and vaporware.
1. What a waste of time and effort when MS has so much more it needs to get done.
2. Reporters and commentators out to watch out, and I even heard the presenter do it, but 'MultiTouch' is a trademark of Apple, Inc!
3. Presenter, however, never said it worked with touch; he just said it was multitouch as does the article. This device is not touch sensitive in any way. It uses infrared imaging to determine the placement and movement of hands (and I suppose other body parts).
- by ralfthedog July 30, 2008 11:07 AM PDT
- Are the images projected from inside or out? How about the scanners?
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