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OT: The F*cking Science Thread

I think Microsoft might be back in the game with this Surface tablet. just including the detachable keyboard itself is a stroke of minor genius, and I think it might just kick the Ipad's ass all around.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/28/technology/mobile/microsoft-surface/index.html

EW YORK (CNNMoney) -- When it unveiled its Surface tablet, Microsoft pulled off something increasingly rare in the tech world: a true surprise.
Even notoriously tight-lipped Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) can no longer keep details of its iGizmos from reaching the public ahead of the company's carefully crafted launch events.

Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) knew that if Surface details leaked out, the consequences could be disastrous. For the first time ever, it planned to bypass its PC manufacturing partners and directly compete with them. Also, Microsoft was extremely late to the tablet game. Tipping off rivals like Apple could have set Microsoft back even further.
That's why the company went to extreme -- sometimes painful and often hilariously excessive -- lengths to keep Surface a secret.
The development team worked in a secured building dubbed "The Vault." When choosing a name for the team -- a Microsoft custom -- the group picked "WDS," an acronym that stood for absolutely nothing. It was the winner of a contest held to pick the most obscure, nonsensical name -- one that could never be linked back to Surface.....
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It all depends on Windows 8. That can help restore Microsofts share of the market, or speed up their plummet.
 
windows 8 is an awkward hybrid. don't like it on a computer....but it might just work best on a tablet.
 
Also waiting for the next generation gaming console. Hoping the Playstation 4 comes out sometime in the not too distant future. Best guess I can find seems to be possibly Christmas 2013.
 
the iPad has been inferior to a TON of android tablets for ages. They bring out a limited, underpowered product and then don't improve it for a year or more. pathetic.
 
Habspatrol said:
Also waiting for the next generation gaming console. Hoping the Playstation 4 comes out sometime in the not too distant future. Best guess I can find seems to be possibly Christmas 2013.
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If it helps, it's predicted that the big 3 will all have their next gens out by feb '14.
 
johnunit said:
the iPad has been inferior to a TON of android tablets for ages. They bring out a limited, underpowered product and then don't improve it for a year or more. pathetic.
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to be honest, my samsung android tablet sucks balls too. I still believe tablets are the future, but the ones I've used have been pretty much useless.

if the surface is as good as it looks, it will dominate, IMO.
 
zeke said:
to be honest, my samsung android tablet sucks balls too. I still believe tablets are the future, but the ones I've used have been pretty much useless.

if the surface is as good as it looks, it will dominate, IMO.
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I'm not a fan of any of them as they sit really, but the ipad is the weakest of the bunch in terms of specs.
 
johnunit said:
If it helps, it's predicted that the big 3 will all have their next gens out by feb '14.
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Damn... that makes it worse. Now I'll have decisions to make. I think the PS4 will be the way to go though. I love the idea of free online gaming.
 
In a much anticipated news teleconference broadcast online today, NASA scientists announced that the Curiosity Rover has not found any evidence of methane on Mars. Roughly 95 percent of methane in Earth's atmosphere comes from organisms, so if the rover had found any of this gas, it would have been incredible evidence of yet-to-detected microbial life on the planet. Scientists said they were not particularly surprised with the result.

The rover can detect methane in quantities greater than just a few parts per billion. Though it is certainly possible that trace methane exists at a level lower than that, such tiny amounts would not indicate the presence of life as more abundant quantities would. The amount, NASA said, "could be zero."
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Damn.
 
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