Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-31 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 31/05/07, Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Greenwood wrote: > > On 30/05/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What do you think? > >> > >> http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ > > > > I think that website is unusable on a 1Mb Broadband connection! > > > > The reaction time

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-31 Thread Chris Wright
Neil Greenwood wrote: > On 30/05/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What do you think? >> >> http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ > > I think that website is unusable on a 1Mb Broadband connection! > > The reaction time can be measured with my watch! I'm afraid I didn't > get very far wi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-30 Thread Ian Pascoe
g! E. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Pope Sent: 30 May 2007 19:55 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this? On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 13:16 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: > What do you think?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 30/05/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you think? > > http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ I think that website is unusable on a 1Mb Broadband connection! The reaction time can be measured with my watch! I'm afraid I didn't get very far with watching it. Hwyl, Neil. -- ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-30 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 13:16 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: > What do you think? > > http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ > The result of a few years and a few million USD spent by the largest software company on the planet, and comparable with efforts done by individuals within the community. Jeff Han

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-30 Thread Andrew Gee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From what I've seen of the iPhone, it's a bit like their multi touch system too. Andrew Gee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.webspot.co.uk > Chris Rowson wrote: >> Just checking out The Register and I found an article about MS's new >> product. Microso

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-30 Thread Simon Elliott
Chris Rowson wrote: > Just checking out The Register and I found an article about MS's new > product. Microsoft Surface. Credit where credit's due - I think it > looks pretty uber! If they've patented the concept behind this, it'd > be hard to compete in a lot of applications in the future > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-30 Thread Michael Wood
Chris Rowson wrote: > Just checking out The Register and I found an article about MS's new > product. Microsoft Surface. Credit where credit's due - I think it > looks pretty uber! If they've patented the concept behind this, it'd > be hard to compete in a lot of applications in the future > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-30 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 at 13:16:42 Chris Rowson wrote: > Just checking out The Register and I found an article about MS's new > product. Microsoft Surface. Credit where credit's due - I think it > looks pretty uber! If they've patented the concept behind this, it'd > be hard to compete in a lot o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-30 Thread luxxius
Chris Rowson wrote: > Just checking out The Register and I found an article about MS's new > product. Microsoft Surface. Credit where credit's due - I think it > looks pretty uber! If they've patented the concept behind this, it'd > be hard to compete in a lot of applications in the future > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-30 Thread Alec Wright
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 13:51 +0100, Gary Kearley wrote: > /me wants to see one with a BSOD :-) I was just thinking exactly the same thing! -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-30 Thread Gary Kearley
SteVe Cook wrote: > I think it's a touch screen! It's not even that, the blurb says it is a screen controlled by cameras etc, nothing about touch sensitivity[1] but that kinda conflicts with other parts of the site [2] looks nice, sounds terrible... /me wants to see one with a BSOD :-) [1] htt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-30 Thread SteVe Cook
Chris Rowson wrote: > Just checking out The Register and I found an article about MS's new > product. Microsoft Surface. Credit where credit's due - I think it > looks pretty uber! If they've patented the concept behind this, it'd > be hard to compete in a lot of applications in the future > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-30 Thread Jim Kissel
Chris Rowson wrote: > Just checking out The Register and I found an article about MS's new > product. Microsoft Surface. Credit where credit's due - I think it > looks pretty uber! If they've patented the concept behind this, it'd > be hard to compete in a lot of applications in the future >

[ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-30 Thread Chris Rowson
Just checking out The Register and I found an article about MS's new product. Microsoft Surface. Credit where credit's due - I think it looks pretty uber! If they've patented the concept behind this, it'd be hard to compete in a lot of applications in the future What do you think? http://www.