Posted on 01/11/2010 9:18:20 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
This old laptop has a year or two left in it.. next time. ;-)
at least I may have a TV to support it.
Too Funny!
And I spent some time in Santa Fe....so it doesn’t surprise me .
Great Tourista Place ...wierd to actually live there.
That may be ok for soccer but when guys have the ball under them and no light source can get in there ... the idea in soccer is to boot the ball where in football you keep it. The only way would be a wireless signal ...
Passive feedback is the solution. Arm the goal line and place something in the lining of the football which triggers the sensors in the goal line, something which would not be found in the players’ or officials’ equipment. ... or not.
That sounds about right ... now it’d be great to apply it to football ...
With CES over, can tablet PCs live up to all the hype?
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Jan. 11, 2010, 2:24 p.m. EST
Technology-industry executive showed off their newest table wares to varying degrees of excitement.
A report from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on new family-friendly technology. Video courtesy of Fox Business Network.
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer got a ho-hum reaction as he showed off a new H-P Slate tablet, while executives from Dell Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!dell/quotes/nls/dell (DELL 14.80, -0.05, -0.34%) gave a look at what they called a tablet-concept device that features with a 5-inch screen.
Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. /quotes/comstock/15*!nvda/quotes/nls/nvda (NVDA 18.22, -0.33, -1.78%) boasted of the 500 engineers it took to design that company's new Tegra microchip, which Nvidia claims will revolutionize the capabilities of tablet devices.
Then there was Apple Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!aapl/quotes/nls/aapl (AAPL 209.42, -2.56, -1.21%) -- or rather, there wasn't Apple, which didn't attend CES but is expected to introduce a tablet Mac of its own, as soon as the end of the month.
Indeed, Apple's shadow led some analysts to assert that no one would even be talking about tablets were it not for the anticipation over what the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has planned.
The popularity and success of the iPhone in launching a new wave of smartphones is considered a prime example of why rivals need to get into the tablet market before Apple comes out with a device that could have consumers thinking any other tablet is second-best. See story on how company is working on a tablet.
"You can talk about new tablets and applications, but it's still not enough to make anyone forget Apple," said David Daoud, analyst with IDC.
Another question facing any company looking to get into the tablet-PC market is whether the hype coming out of CES will amount to acceptance among consumers and translate into real sales. It's an issue that has dogged tablet PCs for years.
It is a shame the US economy had to go bonkers. The market may not be as lucrative as one would imagine. The way things are going the common joe and jane will be more worried about feeding themselves and families and having enough money for gasoline to drive to work, verse having extra to buy these new systems. And with credit tightening. Less people will be in the market for these new generation gadgets, and advanced PC.
Thanks Ernest. I don’t care about wireless, I want to be able to walk up to my built-in food replicator and say, “hot turkey sandwich with swiss and kraut” and have it appear. ;’)
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