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€uroMeinke · 08-01-2011, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex

Define "REAL COMPUTER"

I'm thinking blinking lights and punch cards - oh and a desire to enslave humans for our own good.

€uroMeinke · 08-01-2011, 12:36 PM

You know, watching a lot of 60's scifi recently, I think google is what the computer was expected to do for us in the future - answer random questions with authoritative responses. Everything else is gravy.

Cadaverous Pallor · 08-01-2011, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

You know, watching a lot of 60's scifi recently, I think google is what the computer was expected to do for us in the future - answer random questions with authoritative responses. Everything else is gravy.

VM

Ghoulish Delight · 08-01-2011, 12:46 PM

I've always said, if the internet were nothing but IMDB, I'd STILL happily pay $30/month for it.

Alex · 08-01-2011, 05:42 PM

If I'm hearing you right, you don't so much want a "real computer" as you want a tablet device that is Windows based and supports all the software that Windows supports?

Because as computing devices, for the most part the current crop of tablets and netbooks have the power to run your software, it is just that for the most part nobody particularly wants them to. This is not to say you're wrong in what you want, but you aren't too likely to get it in a broadly adopted platform.

mousepod · 08-02-2011, 07:22 PM

You can edit pretty much anything in iMovie, but I don't think that Apple will release an ad that says "just rip your DVDs and transfer the files to your iPad for easy manipulation!"

Read between the lines.

innerSpaceman · 08-02-2011, 07:58 PM

Ah, wink wink, gotcha, say no more.

Alex · 08-02-2011, 09:11 PM

I'm curious, do you think computers existed in 1993?

innerSpaceman · 08-03-2011, 07:44 AM

Sure they did. Ah, DOS, how I miss thee.

Alex · 08-03-2011, 08:08 AM

But that couldn't have been a computer. It didn't let you edit movies.

08-01-2011, 12:36 PM	#2
€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	You know, watching a lot of 60's scifi recently, I think google is what the computer was expected to do for us in the future - answer random questions with authoritative responses. Everything else is gravy. __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	I've always said, if the internet were nothing but IMDB, I'd STILL happily pay $30/month for it. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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08-01-2011, 05:42 PM	#5
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	If I'm hearing you right, you don't so much want a "real computer" as you want a tablet device that is Windows based and supports all the software that Windows supports? Because as computing devices, for the most part the current crop of tablets and netbooks have the power to run your software, it is just that for the most part nobody particularly wants them to. This is not to say you're wrong in what you want, but you aren't too likely to get it in a broadly adopted platform.
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08-02-2011, 07:22 PM	#6
mousepod You broke your Ramadar! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,635	You can edit pretty much anything in iMovie, but I don't think that Apple will release an ad that says "just rip your DVDs and transfer the files to your iPad for easy manipulation!" Read between the lines. __________________ "Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly" - Walt Disney
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innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Ah, wink wink, gotcha, say no more.
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08-02-2011, 09:11 PM	#8
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I'm curious, do you think computers existed in 1993?
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08-03-2011, 07:44 AM	#9
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Sure they did. Ah, DOS, how I miss thee.
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08-03-2011, 08:08 AM	#10
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	But that couldn't have been a computer. It didn't let you edit movies.
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