Scoble’s boring, Tom says, but Phillip ruins it with 3D RSS reader

I so can’t wait for MacWorld, but aren’t you gonna catch the keynote? Crossing my fingers for a new intel MacMini! Do you own a mac?

I so can’t wait for MacWorld, but aren’t you gonna catch the keynote? Crossing my fingers for a new intel MacMini! Do you own a mac?

I don’t have one, but Channel 9 owns one. My son is hoping for a new iBook. We’ll see.

I don’t have one, but Channel 9 owns one. My son is hoping for a new iBook. We’ll see.

If they make the screen better I’d consider it, but to compare the 1024×768 on the iBook at the moment to my M200, I just can’t do it. They are beautiful though.

If they make the screen better I’d consider it, but to compare the 1024×768 on the iBook at the moment to my M200, I just can’t do it. They are beautiful though.

Jorgen: I agree. But I would have a hard time giving up the Tablet functionality. Not to mention the Media Center integration. And all the other stuff that Windows is.

If all I wanted to do was Web, email, and podcasts like my son, I guess I could do it easily enough, though.

Jorgen: I agree. But I would have a hard time giving up the Tablet functionality. Not to mention the Media Center integration. And all the other stuff that Windows is.

If all I wanted to do was Web, email, and podcasts like my son, I guess I could do it easily enough, though.

I agree, being in school with a tablet can’t be compared with being in school with a normal laptop. Just the ability to draw models and drawings, and the ability to use it on the move, on the bus and such makes it the ultimate tool.

I would recommend anyone who is buying a PC for school to get themself a tablet, it’s just the ultimate solution. And I think that MS should push this forward even more then they do at the moment, it would surtenly shut up those who say that there is no use for the tablet, all the guys I know who has one, love it.

I agree, being in school with a tablet can’t be compared with being in school with a normal laptop. Just the ability to draw models and drawings, and the ability to use it on the move, on the bus and such makes it the ultimate tool.

I would recommend anyone who is buying a PC for school to get themself a tablet, it’s just the ultimate solution. And I think that MS should push this forward even more then they do at the moment, it would surtenly shut up those who say that there is no use for the tablet, all the guys I know who has one, love it.

Ouch, Scoble, that’s a low blow. If all you wanted to was web, email, and podcasts you guess you could scrape by with a Mac? You should let the 37 Signals guys know that, because obviously they’re just on the wrong path by doing all their development work on Powerbooks. Don’t tell Virginia Tech that either with their XServe super computer.

The day I don’t have to use Cygwin on a Windows machine to get decent command line functionality is the day I give Windows a legitimate shot again. Come on Scoble, go tell BillG and SteveB that we want a nice native command line to ship with Vista!

Ouch, Scoble, that’s a low blow. If all you wanted to was web, email, and podcasts you guess you could scrape by with a Mac? You should let the 37 Signals guys know that, because obviously they’re just on the wrong path by doing all their development work on Powerbooks. Don’t tell Virginia Tech that either with their XServe super computer.

The day I don’t have to use Cygwin on a Windows machine to get decent command line functionality is the day I give Windows a legitimate shot again. Come on Scoble, go tell BillG and SteveB that we want a nice native command line to ship with Vista!

Larry: yeah, you’re right. I get a little sensitive about all this pro-Mac stuff.

Larry: yeah, you’re right. I get a little sensitive about all this pro-Mac stuff.

The Tablet PC really can’t be beaten for a college student.

Tablet + OneNote = one very productive student (which, for me anyway, translated into more free time).

Also, it was great having someone ask me for the notes they missed in a class and being able to e-mail it to them (diagrams intact).

In fact, as much as I love having the tablet functionality in meetings and such - living in Visual Studio as much as I do, I don’t think I get as much benefit from it as I did when I was a student.

The Tablet PC really can’t be beaten for a college student.

Tablet + OneNote = one very productive student (which, for me anyway, translated into more free time).

Also, it was great having someone ask me for the notes they missed in a class and being able to e-mail it to them (diagrams intact).

In fact, as much as I love having the tablet functionality in meetings and such - living in Visual Studio as much as I do, I don’t think I get as much benefit from it as I did when I was a student.

I do use OneNote, but you should try GoBinder aswell, a great product for students.

I do use OneNote, but you should try GoBinder aswell, a great product for students.

Tablet PCs are the coolest type of computer ever. Hands down. There are so many things you can do with them that you couldn’t do with any other type of computer. I’m an aspiring artist, and a programmer who wants to take advantage of the unique features of the Tablet PC for software interfaces, but a Tablet PC is too expensive for my meager budget.

If Microsoft wants Tablet PCs to be more widespread, they need to help make it so that they are closer to the price of a laptop with similar CPU/graphics/other normal specs, rather than 1 1/2x the price. Until that time, the majority consensus will be, as I’ve heard many times from various people: “Tablet PCs are great, but my, are they expensive!”

Tablet PCs are the coolest type of computer ever. Hands down. There are so many things you can do with them that you couldn’t do with any other type of computer. I’m an aspiring artist, and a programmer who wants to take advantage of the unique features of the Tablet PC for software interfaces, but a Tablet PC is too expensive for my meager budget.

If Microsoft wants Tablet PCs to be more widespread, they need to help make it so that they are closer to the price of a laptop with similar CPU/graphics/other normal specs, rather than 1 1/2x the price. Until that time, the majority consensus will be, as I’ve heard many times from various people: “Tablet PCs are great, but my, are they expensive!”

Well, am I the only one who sees a different problem with tablets? Most tablets I have seen have a battery span of a few hours?

But besides that, I want that Minority Report kind of of working with information. I want to push information, drag and drop them at my convinience with agent which pop up the good stuff - stuff I consider good.

And it seems to me, we need some more young people to get their hands back on something like a Make magazine. A friend of mine said once: If you are young today, which fun is it if everything is built so perfect, built for “throw away but don’t open!”?

How do we have kids get the same vibe as the people who today do cool stuff did back then?

Besides, geeks today should have more than enough old gadgets they can give away …

Well, am I the only one who sees a different problem with tablets? Most tablets I have seen have a battery span of a few hours?

But besides that, I want that Minority Report kind of of working with information. I want to push information, drag and drop them at my convinience with agent which pop up the good stuff - stuff I consider good.

And it seems to me, we need some more young people to get their hands back on something like a Make magazine. A friend of mine said once: If you are young today, which fun is it if everything is built so perfect, built for “throw away but don’t open!”?

How do we have kids get the same vibe as the people who today do cool stuff did back then?

Besides, geeks today should have more than enough old gadgets they can give away …

Scoble, I would give a lot to see you in one of those dancing IPod commercials. Maybe “Start Me Up,” or is that too old school?

Scoble, I would give a lot to see you in one of those dancing IPod commercials. Maybe “Start Me Up,” or is that too old school?

Larry,

>The day I don’t have to use Cygwin on a Windows machine to get decent command line functionality is the day I give Windows a legitimate shot again.

Will MSH - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSH_(shell)2 - count? As a non-linux user I can’t do the comparison myself, but it seems to me to be serious redesign and reimplementation of the command line, finally treating it as a strategic Windows resource.

Larry,

>The day I don’t have to use Cygwin on a Windows machine to get decent command line functionality is the day I give Windows a legitimate shot again.

Will MSH - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSH_(shell)2 - count? As a non-linux user I can’t do the comparison myself, but it seems to me to be serious redesign and reimplementation of the command line, finally treating it as a strategic Windows resource.

It’s not that PC’s can’t do interesting things, and I’ve got nothing but love for PT, he’s done amazing work over at MAKE, it’s that Apple makes the interesting really quite cool. I think you’re just really oversensitive that by default what you’re doing isn’t cool, Robert.

Oh, and the defensiveness?

Not cool.

It’s not that PC’s can’t do interesting things, and I’ve got nothing but love for PT, he’s done amazing work over at MAKE, it’s that Apple makes the interesting really quite cool. I think you’re just really oversensitive that by default what you’re doing isn’t cool, Robert.

Oh, and the defensiveness?

Not cool.

Sony’s Reader supports RSS. I have the hots for Sony Reader now, the first real eBook system, looking like And even if Tablets get price parity, 95% of the mainstream doesn’t know they exist, and even iif they knew they existed, impossible trying to purchase one without jumping thru complicated hoops.

Make is maybe not ‘boring’, but it’s all geek hack and odd sort DIY tricks of zero practical value usually. Niche of a niche audience. More pt’s marketing branding spazz gone loopy, but there’s a small market for that, so whatever makes him and his readers happy.

Sony’s Reader supports RSS. I have the hots for Sony Reader now, the first real eBook system, looking like And even if Tablets get price parity, 95% of the mainstream doesn’t know they exist, and even iif they knew they existed, impossible trying to purchase one without jumping thru complicated hoops.

Make is maybe not ‘boring’, but it’s all geek hack and odd sort DIY tricks of zero practical value usually. Niche of a niche audience. More pt’s marketing branding spazz gone loopy, but there’s a small market for that, so whatever makes him and his readers happy.

So it’s 3-D right? If he points it up who’s feed does he get?

So it’s 3-D right? If he points it up who’s feed does he get?

Christopher: the Sony reader is pretty darn interesting.

Oh, and Nicole, the Lenovo Tablet PC gets five hours of battery life, Buzz Bruggeman reports.

Christopher: the Sony reader is pretty darn interesting.

Oh, and Nicole, the Lenovo Tablet PC gets five hours of battery life, Buzz Bruggeman reports.