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Not Real

Since when have "Not Real" halted the progression of armchair pontifs?

"Alchemy Ventures" are the 'thing' responsible for the origin and continued paradigm shift; the nut within the shell; Venus on a Half-shell with a side of chips.

Consider a boy as using a shell to pour seawater into a little hole. When he's asked what he is doing, he replies, “I am emptying the sea into this hole.”

Skunkworks attracts, err, more skunks? For it is not by work alone, by which we are skunked. And they PlaysForSure.

The art of transmuting leads to goals, has too long made a clean slate of bulleting pragmatamnesiacs.

You'll stay at home and you'll be alone, so why be lonely?
Slippin' away, sittin' on a pillow, swotting up the leaves of a 3 rings binder,
as the residivists spew the hacktivism of the Grand Old Propagandists'
reality bites from a Fox News, hounded, waiting for the death panels to come.

You must take a tablet and get on cloud 9. Change your portrait to landscape.

If you are doing the work it is more important than any tablet you might hold. It is that you are carving your own path through the intellectual information and finding your own direction within a system.

Would Moses come down from {where was he from?} without his tablets to break? I think not; it should be oblivious.

Would Daniel have ventured into the fiery Dragons' Den, had he not had the Boxerballs to do so?

And you lot that complain about the font must have an agenda to carry out a personal verdana!

posted by : Egré Goré, 23 September 2009 Complain about this comment
Not real

You realise that's not a real device, don't you?
Just look at the video
- it's not a 'fake' - it never claims to be real
- it's just a product concept mock-up...

Whether or not it becomes a real product is anyones guess, but MS have always been good at these product mock-up
- remember the Origami project??

posted by : Phil, 23 September 2009 Complain about this comment
Looks good to me

I have to say that if it comes out anything like the sample shots then it looks both very clean / stylish and a very usable machine - whilst still being small enough to still fit into a handbag. Depending on the cost I'd be interested - but it doesn't look like it's going to be cheap...

posted by : Stacy, 23 September 2009 Complain about this comment
@D

I have Times Roman, theirs more than one type of times in that font family. Looser!

posted by : Billy G, 23 September 2009 Complain about this comment
Hardly A Secret

This has hardly been a secret, Ken Hinckley of Microsoft blogged about this almost a year ago, showing off an early software version referred to as Codex.

As for tablets being "expensive and hardly worth the effort" that is a stereotype commonly spewed by those who have never bought or used one. There are a number of inexpensive tablets just as there are inexpensive laptops, and just like laptops the best devices (giving the best user experience) are often more expensive. Once you have used a decent tablet its hard to think about going back to just a laptop.

posted by : cybertactix, 23 September 2009 Complain about this comment
Messages?

To add to the confusion about fonts, "courier" is not just a font name, but also "a person or company employed to deliver messages, packages and mail. Couriers are distinguished from ordinary mail services by features such as speed and security... etc.".
Why the derisive, half-defined jab from the outset of your article?

posted by : David, 23 September 2009 Complain about this comment
Font

Come on NF, get the basics right here. Since when is Times-Roman a Font? It's Times New Roman.

posted by : D, 23 September 2009 Complain about this comment

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