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Post subject: Is Bigger Always Better?
 Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 11:31 PM
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You bet it is! 
When my comp went down this morning I was in P/O'd, since I do everything on this. School and home. The kids corrupted Windows on their PC, so we had 2 computers out of commission. My daughter Mary left me her EBook tonight in case I couldn't get this one working.
(She's costume designer for the school play, opening tonight)
Damn, that's a tiny computer.
How the hell do people use those things?
Not only are my fingers too big to type on the tiny keyboard, I'd about go blind if I had to use that for any extended amount of time.......
So yeah bigger is better....... |
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Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 11:45 PM
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| I'm using the other comp we have since my comp decided it couldn't reboot. So my daughter's boyfriend is taking the tower home with him so he can check on it. He says he may be able to fix it. I'm hoping it will work by next Monday when he is supposed to bring it back. We'll see. |
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Posted: Mar 12, 2010 - 01:30 AM
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Nowdays, when I'm looking up a phone number,
I set the phone book aside(useless to me) and
punch it up on the net.....so I can see it 
Bigger fonts are better............. 
AGREED! |
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Posted: Mar 12, 2010 - 03:42 AM
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| OH...ahhhh...ummmm...I see some CAMELS on your desk |
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Posted: Mar 12, 2010 - 03:55 AM
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| littlestar wrote: | | OH...ahhhh...ummmm...I see some CAMELS on your desk |
Hey Capt...
Just want to say you probably don't need me helping you out here
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Posted: Mar 12, 2010 - 04:03 AM
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The way things have been going on around here, I'm surprised I haven't picked up that habit again...(but yet again, it has been over 30 years for me)
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Posted: Mar 12, 2010 - 04:41 AM
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Gosh, even my little Palm VX (dinosaur) has an attachable keyboard that is full size. I used it to take class notes in college.
My work computer is a table model with duel monitors. I couldn't work with a lap top or just one monitor. |
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Posted: Mar 12, 2010 - 04:34 PM
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Are those stickers on the netbook?
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Posted: Mar 12, 2010 - 10:03 PM
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Yeah, she stuck little flowers all over it .... 
How embarrassing. Teenagers.
And yes, those are my Camels..... |
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Posted: Mar 13, 2010 - 01:10 PM
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Well, I had a whole different answer planned when I saw your topic title........
I like a full sized one, that's for sure. Using those tiny little things would take me forever, and it is hard on the eyes.
Hmmm, I guess that's the same answer I was going to give when I first read the title..........   |
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Posted: Mar 13, 2010 - 06:06 PM
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With the advent of nanotechnology, it's the other way around:
Smaller is always better.
This applies to computers...
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first Turing-complete general purpose electronic computer, was completed in 1946 and cost $500,000. It had a 680 square foot footprint, 5 million hand-soldered joints, weighed 30 tons and voraciously consumed 150 kW of power, which fed its 17,468 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors and 10,000 capacitors.
If you like large computers, ENIAC fits the bill.
But its processing power was abysmal. Modern PC processing power tops ENIAC by at least six orders of magnitude. With computers, FLOPS trump size.
ENIAC is the distant past. What about the not so distant future?
When Moore's Law moves us from integrated circuit petaflops into quantum computing yottaflops, things become interesting:
The Singularity arrives.
Leaving you, me and Kevin Flynn with a multitude of nanobot' options.
| Catt wrote: | | Well, I had a whole different answer planned when I saw your topic title........ |
Excellent point!
With nanobot computers, technically and anatomically, smaller is always better.
Paraphrasing Bette Davis:
"Fasten your seatbelts, everyone, it's going to be a bumpy ride." |
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Posted: Mar 13, 2010 - 06:24 PM
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| My nephew's comp just died too. He keeps frying his motherboards with too much intensive gaming. |
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Posted: Mar 13, 2010 - 07:11 PM
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| Catt wrote: | Well, I had a whole different answer planned when I saw your topic title........
I like a full sized one, that's for sure. Using those tiny little things would take me forever, and it is hard on the eyes.
Hmmm, I guess that's the same answer I was going to give when I first read the title.......... |
ROFL!!!
OMG Catt, you had me laughing so hard I got tears in my eyes..... |
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Posted: Mar 13, 2010 - 07:33 PM
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| Catt wrote: | | and it is hard on the eyes. |
Stop putting it there...SHEESH...do I havta show ya everything....snigger |
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Posted: Mar 13, 2010 - 08:41 PM
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