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asked the 19 year old If she was able to have a device the size of your cell phone that connected to your eyewear that at a press of a button would turn any eyewear you’re wearing into a 3D monitor and the device was able to perform as fast or faster than you laptop and ran programs would she want that? well she said, of course sounds great...are you building a protype by chance? :mad:

Anyone ever want to put Steve B on the Empire State building with a bunch of seagulls, or maybe just an over sized sunburned one out in the middle of a desert somewhere...?

http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-brief/70889-windows-8-blamed-for-poor-pc-sales Microsoft killed the person computer...okok it dosn't quite fit into the Radio star song...but.

The one player in the house of cards that I left out was Google, which they have manage to create an app for just about anything that doesn’t need approval from a device manufacturer. Basically the dream of the all in one concept can be blamed on generational development where my generation was happy with the easy to manage and add on to desk top tower systems, which even those have become smaller and more powerful over my years. My wife’s is ten years younger me and her generation comes with a completely different idea of nice which would be considered the mini tower system that can fit on a mini desk that has a slightly uncomfortable min office chair to go with it, however she doesn’t like miniskirts to my dismay. The nineteen year old daughter would be the all-in-one generation who is happy with the cloud, and a number of different devices to serve her purposes, right down to this new thing called Google glass that would complement all her devices because they all use the Google os, and that is who the other two pc manufactures are competing against which could only be described as a something of an abnormality when it comes to being a cross over OS because of who provides it isn’t a manufacturer rather a service provider that has manage to touch every aspect of life that their users live. The goal it appears to be for all three to provide service to Geordi La Forge from the show Star Trek: The Next Generation, which the all the device including the visor only needs the star ship, in this case the all to infamous cloud which currently has a wire connected to it somewhere in the communication system that the cloud needs to provide this service. I find it ironic that I thought of Geordi La Forge from the show, Star Trek: The Next Generation because it is that next generation that is now making me sound like an old man, to them it is cool to me it is quit strange. This next generation lives in a transparent world which could be looked at as a fish bowl, their whole world is somewhere on display for all to see and depending on where it is, sometimes only controlled by the six degrees of separation but still viewable to the whole world, I like my privacy which the next generation doesn’t care. The next generation could care a less and about a simulation of any kind, games to them are something that is now live and with friends using their cell phones that uses apps and not programs, which they play these game throughout the day, even at work. Which the operating system for the next generation is the transformation Microsoft is trying to become which they are about 5 years behind Google os and they are burden by their devices, where the competition isn’t burden by a device because Google adapts to a device and Google’s os is extremely flexible where as windows 8 isn’t, which being flexible and adaptable is what the next generation will want and Microsoft will fail miserably much the same as Kodak did.

Watching Microsoft at the current moment is like reliving my past experience over 20 years ago working at Kodak, think where Kodak was 20, 25 years ago in the camera and Film industry and look back at the missteps Kodak took over the years and see where they are now, and back then back when I worked at Kodak their future hinged on one moment that to me is frozen in time, the day they gave away the first digital camera because they couldn’t get their prototype to take a picture that had the same clarity as their film camera. Back then it was some simple stuff to fix but they couldn't or wouldn't follow through with trying to advance the research for it choosing to instead to continue with film, I still have the article (I think) in a box somewhere where the new ceo of Kodak back then said the film camera would never die....ever, well. Somewhere, for some reason someone at Microsoft looked at Apple and saw the type of monk sire business model they have and figured out how to make a new Microsoft that would mimic that, has anyone been watch Apple latly, seems their stock is taking a turn also which I would have to assume people have caught on to the IPod version 1 won't run the apps that the iPod version 3 will and if they own the IPod 1 they have to ~upgrade to the IPod version 3 or...the Four, they have to, they have to buy a new device from apple to continue the life style they have adapted to, which the hard sell for photographers back twenty, twenty five years ago was you’re not going to use costly film that you have to have developed you just going to use this device called a memory card and your computer. I work back then at Kodak and I was part of the first ‘group’ to ever to be laid off from the company, and our layoff was a staged to gain sympathy from the local community with a motto for the ones who still worked there to work harder, it didn’t matter. When I left, I went back into trucking as a owner operator, carrying a NEW top of the line digital camera, which some of the thousands of pictures I took across the country can still be seen on the internet and I have them backed up mostly with CD’s full of picture I took and on Skydrive , which none of them had to be processed and that is what killed Kodak. I live next door to Kodak Park, which has been chopped up and cut up in sections and now houses a Ménage à trois of different companies, even a RV dealership, and I have watched the buildings that where there get demolished to relive their tax burden by returning the space to green area and the kick in the shins was they sold the machine I worked on to Fuji and the broker I was leased to shipped it, and I hauled it to the pier to be put on a ship. Digital wasn’t what killed Kodak, Kodak slit it own throat when they stop listing to their customers choosing to instead to try to please their investors, which again you might want to take a look at Apple, think of Microsoft and keep in mind the slippery slope Kodak took and where they ended up. Microsoft has made some rather embarrassing decisions since the epic announcement that they had to write off a rather huge bad investment which in doing so they chose to dump some of their titles they had and they chose to continued to some other tiles further, which I can’t understand why giving the times and the current headlines in the news, someone hasn’t turned to them with a camera and a microphone and asked them, “seriously what are you thinking”. Then again I am sure they would responded that the need for the title they are developing will never, ever end…just like film, but with a wider more deadlier ending. If you look at Win-8 I cannot help but to see the connection to Apple and the shared concept between the devices and the product line apple has, which Microsoft is trying to mimic, yet they still like Kodak did, chose to head down that path without listen to the customer while they put on the show like a three dollar side show girl for their investors. The slow death of Microsoft is inevitable, and the Head of the board of directors couldn’t care enough to try to save it what he built, choosing to instead to try to save the world.

I picked up on this at the beginging of the month and worried that history was going to repeat itself.... Microsoft Announces Non-Cash Accounting Charge July 02, 2012 REDMOND, Wash. — July 2, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will take a non-cash, non-tax-deductible income statement charge for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012 for the impairment of goodwill in its Online Services Division segment, mostly related to its 2007 aQuantive, Inc., acquisition. Under accounting guidelines, companies are required to conduct an annual goodwill impairment test for each business unit. Goodwill arises in an acquisition when the fair value paid for a business exceeds the value of the identifiable net assets. The goodwill in the Online Services Division was substantially the result of the 2007 acquisition of aQuantive. As a result of its 2012 impairment review, Microsoft has determined that a write down of its Online Services Division goodwill of approximately $6.2 billion is required. Bing search share in the U.S. has been increasing, revenue per search (RPS) has been growing, MSN is the No. 1 portal in 29 markets worldwide and the company’s partnership with Yahoo! has continued to expand geographically. While the Online Services Division business has been improving, the company’s expectations for future growth and profitability are lower than previous estimates. Microsoft completed its acquisition of aQuantive on Aug. 13, 2007, in an all-cash transaction valued at just over $6.3 BILLION . While the aQuantive acquisition continues to provide tools for Microsoft’s online advertising efforts, the acquisition did not accelerate growth to the degree anticipated, contributing to the write down. Microsoft does not expect this accounting write down to affect its ongoing business or financial performance. Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

I have been haveing a GREAT time with the Logitech Extreme 3D pro with flight, which you can "program" the stick to the keycomands of the game.