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No I am not confusing it with titanium, I know what titanium is.
Pure magnesium is pretty nasty flammable stuff.
However Magnesium Alloys can be relatively strong (otherwise we wouldn't make car wheels out of them!) From wiki: The strength –to-weight ratio of the precipitation-hardened magnesium alloys is comparable with that of the strong alloys of aluminum or with the alloy steels
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AKA, the Windows iPad.
Actually, years ago they had this giant multi-touch table they called Surface. It was something like $10,000+. Hard Rock in Las Vegas had one. Looks like they're doing different form factors now.
I do love that marketing video though; I don't even know what it does and I want one.
And I just tried to go to Surface.com (as indicated in the video), but it redirected me to Microsoft.com/Surface/ and gave me "Unexpected error occured". Which is funny, because this is the second time I've seen them misspell "occurred".
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Typical Microsoft…
Claim it's new and different… it's not.
Demo crashed.
Over designed.
Fairly ugly.
Not available for months.
No definite pricing.
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Typical smoke and mirrors only difference after you buy it you need to smoke one.
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I wonder if the TSOD (Touch Screen Of Death) will also be the newest product output from Microsoft? Just a thought.
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BSOD, TSOD - we all SOD togeth...
Oh wait - nevermind.
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OK, but where do you plug in the mouse?
/ravi
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USB port ... or use the cover touchpad
Steve
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Spec sheet now available [^]
Steve
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2 OS for the same tablet ?
OVER-ENGINEERED!!!
Watched code never compiles.
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Looks like a tablet designed by someone who sees a PC in everything, the result is likely to be the worst of both. Ballmer is really killing this company. And to recycle the name for that coffee-table sized touch screen thing no one wanted from several years ago - I would have thought that name a jinx, and in any case expected something more creative than that.
Bet the stock drops a buck tomorrow.
[edit] just looked at the specs WTF is VaporMg? Who thinks that is a GOOD Trademark name? Sounds like a cross between VaporWare and an extinct British sports car! [/edit]
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them." Eric Hoffer
"The failure mode of 'clever' is 'a**hole'" John Scalzi
"Only buzzards feed on their friends" Patrick Dorinson
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Windows 8 on a tablet.
I'm struggling to see what the big announcement was. The whole point of Windows 8 was to create an OS that worked well on tablets and phones.
Just a pity they forgot about PCs and laptops...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I watched the "Analyzing Malware with SysInternals tools" video you have on one of your news letters the other day, the presenter didn't have a lot of fun with Win8. He was all over the place trying to find his open presentations and demos.
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Microsoft isn't actually manufacturing these new tablets itself.
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Who does manufacture their own things now a days?
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Open source vendor GeekNet is turning a new page in the SourceForge story today with a proposal to the Apache Software Foundation to accept the Allura software platform within the ASF as a new Incubator project. [ITworld]
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"The computer is capable of calculating in one hour what otherwise would take 6.7 billion people using hand calculators 320 years to complete if they worked non-stop."
Link[^]
A faster infinite loop.
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ahem,
next thread down
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I confess I didn't read the post. I thought it was about the new product from Nathan's[^].
/ravi
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Yes, but what if you bought everyone a faster hand calculator?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Ouch. Quit messing with my s-l-o-w brain.
/ravi
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I don't think the calculator is the bottleneck here...but if you bought everyone faster hands the results might improve
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And what if you made them use a faster hand calculator in each hand?
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FootCalc.
/ravi
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See? Now we're talking. Parallelisation.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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