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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    I don't doubt that fairly soon traditional clicky-key keyboards will be gone but I don't think multitouch interfaces will become a popular replacement

    I disagree.

    I predict a better implementation of haptic.

    perhaps a haptic that only responds in certain areas.

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    The thing is, it isn't if it works or doesn't work, it's how I tend to write.


    Though, I shouldn't knock it till I've tried it, I guess.

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    If dudes can shred on fretless bass, on-screen keys are fine.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2009
    Stale wrote: »
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    I don't doubt that fairly soon traditional clicky-key keyboards will be gone but I don't think multitouch interfaces will become a popular replacement

    I disagree.

    I predict a better implementation of haptic.

    perhaps a haptic that only responds in certain areas.

    what is haptic

    speak words I understand

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    haptic feedback is tactile feedback for faggots

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Like the Blackberry Storm, only, not utter shit


    force feedback touchscreen



    or you know, you could have spent 1.4 seconds and looked on google

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    what's with netbooks

    who needs a smaller laptop when they have a bigger laptop

    just seems like pointless nerd/corporate decadence

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2009
    why do i need a bigger laptop when I have this handy small one

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2009
    Stale wrote: »
    Like the Blackberry Storm, only, not utter shit


    force feedback touchscreen



    or you know, you could have spent 1.4 seconds and looked on google

    That's 1.39 seconds too many

    by the time I finished typing haptic I would have hey look a quarter

    t Fallout I don't need a big laptop, I just need something to word process and internet on while I'm at school

    I don't particularly want to haul around a full size laptop either

    Thus a netbook is a good fit

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  • unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    my laptop fits in my binder for school, is very light, has great battery life and looks awesome
    I don't want a bigger one at all

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  • SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    it weighs 2 pounds, is tiny, and does everything I need it to do with very little fuss

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    that's gay

    i hate things that are small

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2009
    thats what she said



    heyoooo

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  • SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    fallout stop quoting your girlfriend

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    i saw a penis joke coming from so far away that i dodged before i even made that post

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2009
    in your defense i hate things that are small too

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    i want a netbook but i dont really need one

    i did just get an iphone though that shit's hot

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    hello, and welcome to 2007

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Stale wrote: »
    hello, and welcome to 2007

    bet he didn't pay $600 for it

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2009
    i paid like 150 texas for mine

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  • DeathPrawnDeathPrawn Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    robothero wrote: »
    i paid like 150 texas for mine

    yeah, but 150 texas dollars is like 600 normal dollars.

    cause everything's bigger in texas mirite?

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  • Bendery It Like BeckhamBendery It Like Beckham Hopeless Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    DeathPrawn wrote: »
    robothero wrote: »
    i paid like 150 texas for mine

    yeah, but 150 texas dollars is like 600 normal dollars.

    cause everything's bigger in texas mirite?

    no

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  • DeathPrawnDeathPrawn Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Darn.

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    i want a netbook but i dont really need one

    i did just get an iphone though that shit's hot

    Buy me a netbook, and I'll buy you beer or smokes or something. Whatever it is you kids trade for.

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Hands On with Asus' Disney Netbook
    Asus' newest EeePC is no ordinary netbook. The EeePC MK90, which goes on sale Wednesday exclusively at Toys 'R' Us, also goes by the name "Disney Netpal." In parent mode, the system look like any average Windows XP PC. But in child mode, Disney-branded programs and themes dominate.
    The Disney browser and e-mail client both employ a "white list" strategy, meaning they only allow kids to access approved sites or send and receive e-mail from pre-approved sources. In the browser, there is no address bar, just a Favorites button for navigating to sites. Parents can add sites to the Favorites list by clicking the Parental Control button and entering a password.

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Heads up to folks that have been interested in trying out the Windows 7 Release Candidate, the cutoff date for downloading it is today, so if you haven't already, I'd recommend grabbing it while you can.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2009
    OK so I bought my USB drive and I created a bootable with unetbootin and I popped it in and turned on the acer and it booted into Windows what the fuck

    What do I do here

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  • unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    while it's turning on, before it even shows the XP logo mash escape and f2 a bunch so that it boots off the usb

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2009
    I hit F2 but the menu it opens to just changes the boot order? I think?

    Wait once I boot into UNR will it install to my HD so I can just choose my boot order or do I have to have the USB in every time

    I'm trying not to be retarded but it's really hard right now

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    It should give you the option to go directly to a hard drive install, boot the live image, or boot the live image to fuck around in and then install from there.

    There must be an age threshold for people who don't innately know how to manage their bootup.

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  • unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I think wiggin's older than me, smart hero held my hand through the whole process and I'm grateful for that

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2009
    It should give you the option to go directly to a hard drive install, boot the live image, or boot the live image to fuck around in and then install from there.

    There must be an age threshold for people who don't innately know how to manage their bootup.

    I have literally never done this except for when I tried it on the desktop and just ran wubi and then ended up uninstalling and repairing my MBR because it was too much of a pain in the ass to do wireless with the desktop running Ubuntu

    The netbook though does it just fine (I'm in it now)

    But yeah I've always just used windows, never really fucked around with it

    I'm kinda liking UNR though! I may keep it!

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I think wiggin's older than me, smart hero held my hand through the whole process and I'm grateful for that
    "Mash escape and F2" kinda makes that clear.

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  • unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I dunno I think you're on a different brand of netbook and it might be a different key to get it to give you a "what should I boot off of" prompt

    if it helps I was pressing buttons before the screen even turned on

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Me Too! wrote: »
    It should give you the option to go directly to a hard drive install, boot the live image, or boot the live image to fuck around in and then install from there.

    There must be an age threshold for people who don't innately know how to manage their bootup.

    I have literally never done this except for when I tried it on the desktop and just ran wubi and then ended up uninstalling and repairing my MBR because it was too much of a pain in the ass to do wireless with the desktop running Ubuntu

    The netbook though does it just fine (I'm in it now)

    But yeah I've always just used windows, never really fucked around with it

    I'm kinda liking UNR though! I may keep it!
    Yeah, I don't expect you to know or anything. Just kinda musing about where the cutoff is for people who didn't constantly have to dick around in the BIOS and with boot chains and all that even for every day shit, not just major overhauls.

    Kinda like how kids growing up now will largely never play videogames with a wired controller.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2009
    I think the most I ever had to do was sometimes I would switch my very first PC to DOS so I could run a couple programs

    Fuckin' Jazz Jackrabbit, hell yeah

    I think I'm going to install this to my HD now, if worse comes to worst I'll just remove it and repair my MBR if I end up not liking it

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2009
    Ahhhh shit

    What happens if I tell the installer to try to unmount partitions

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2009
    Forget that post now

    I'm at the "prepare partitions" screen and I have no idea how to set this up now so that I can dual boot

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I'm leaving work right now. Maybe SH is around?

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2009
    Nah

    And I shot him an IM a bit ago too and nothing yet

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