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In Reply To #1
Gotta be my Smart TV with my Xbox kinect.
With only internet I have damn near limitless movies and TV shows through Amazon Prime and Netflix in full 3d on a TV the size of my old bed... and it really wasn't expensive.
The same tv lets me "flick" web pages from my phone to it, and push movies from my laptop directly to it wirelessly.
Then I can turn on my Xbox and yell at it to do things... how freekin awesome is that!
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I believe that phone size is just something you get used to. I now find the keyboard on the iPhone quite small.
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fett
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In Reply To #47
I also find the keyboard on my smartphone quite small, but that has more to do with my gigantic sausage fingers
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In Reply To #47
I used to have a Samsung Blackjack back in 2007 and hated it. It's smaller than most smartphones nowadays but it stuck out like a brick in my pockets, and I was glad to see it replaced after 2 years.
Short person = small pants = smaller pockets.
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Management wrote: Then I can turn on my Xbox and yell at it to do things... how freekin awesome is that! Unless you leave it on the dashboard while you're chatting to your mrs, and then it starts searching bing for bizarre shit it is guessing you have said. I wouldn't mind about the bizarre shit, but bing? Eurgh.
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In Reply To #50
I lol'd
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In Reply To #50
You'd have to be careful with what you'd searched before...
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De Chelonian Mobile.
"Mountains rise and fall, and under them the Turtle swims onwards. Empires grow and crumble, and the Turtle Moves. Gods come and go, and still the Turtle Moves.
The Turtle Moves!"
The Turtle moves...
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In Reply To #50
Dear Bing,
Stop it. Just...stop it.
Yours,
Everyone Ever
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Dracion
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CoyoteExile wrote: In Reply To #50
Dear Bing,
Stop it. Just...stop it.
Yours,
Everyone Ever Although the Translations it gives are amusing...
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De Chelonian Mobile.
"Mountains rise and fall, and under them the Turtle swims onwards. Empires grow and crumble, and the Turtle Moves. Gods come and go, and still the Turtle Moves.
The Turtle Moves!"
The Turtle moves...
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Tablets and smartphones blow me away. I mean, it's literally stuff out of Star Trek that made little Darric go, "OH MAN, THE FUTURE IS GOING TO BE AWESOME."
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In Reply To #55
Still waiting on my replicator, transporter and holodeck...
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In Reply To #56
Well, the transporter's a tricky one, but the other two are achievable with current tech. 3D printers will spit out just about anything with the right raw materials, up to and including a house.
And if 2pac can come back from the dead by hologram I'm sure you could create a holodeck equivalent if you threw enough money at it.
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Yep, holograms are presently doable, they're just not photo-real and they're prohibitively expensive. All we need now is the processing power for rendering, and AI for characters - it's the latter that's going to take a long time. ;\
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In Reply To #58
And also, hard light.
3D printing though, that will be amazing within a few years.
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Oh right, that. Hrm. In Trek, anything touched on the Holodeck is replicated or force fielded. So, we could maybe get there!
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