The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => The Computer Room => Topic started by: The Moan Ranger on July 27, 2010, 07:50:56 PM
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Currently I am house sitting for me bruv.
His (or rather his wife's) compootah has a very large touch screen with which you can can do all the things simply by touching the relevant bit of the screen (apart from typing...) that you would do with a mouse. All very flashy, but personally, I still prefer using a mouse. Any of you lot tried one?
Thanks apc!
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I had the chance to play with one of these a while back.
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fglobal%2Fsurface%2Fen%2Fus%2FPublishingImages%2Fbuy2.png&hash=1cfca6c84dffb0ae31d1a3501e2e8980ba3b80dc)
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspx
If they ever get around to building this into a TV they could have a hell of an all in one media centre. Just don't let the kids loose on it.
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Does it need 2 threads?
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He's got the shakes
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Currently I am house sitting for me bruv.
His (or rather his wife's) compootah has a very large touch screen with which you can can do all the things simply by touching the relevant bit of the screen (apart from typing...) that you would do with a mouse. All very flashy, but personally, I still prefer using a mouse. Any of you lot tried one?
Thanks apc!
Does punching seven bells out of it with me fists on a regular basis count, usually after one of Nicks' posts?
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I was around when HP launched the HP 150 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-150) touch screen computer, oh many many years ago... Oh Wiki tells me it was 1983...
It was shite then and I suspect shite now... the problem was that you still had to move your fingers from screen to keyboard to type... and the screen got covered in shite... noooo:
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the screen got covered in shite...
... and Tippex
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the screen got covered in shite...
... and Tippex
And Tippex... lol:
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Daughter used one yesterday ~ To take her driving theory test.
She said it was filthy and yucky and she didn't want to have to touch it.
Oh and she failed by 2 points. ::)
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My eldest nephew failed his last year (the first time) ~ gave him quite a reality shock ::)
Have you tried it? I didn't do much better on the test CD or whatever it was redface:
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Daughter used one yesterday ~ To take her driving theory test.
She said it was filthy and yucky and she didn't want to have to touch it.
Oh and she failed by 2 points. ::)
So she doesn't know everything then point:
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Do you want to try telling her that?
I did ........ angry041: angry041: angry041: Explode:
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My eldest nephew failed his last year (the first time) ~ gave him quite a reality shock ::)
Have you tried it? I didn't do much better on the test CD or whatever it was redface:
I passed them both 100% (Hazard perception and Theory)
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Do you want to try telling her that?
I did ........ angry041: angry041: angry041: Explode:
I am sure her failure is part of a learning process for her
::)
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Oh No ~ It is all the fault of the person who bought her the book to study and the practice CDs and that would be .......................
You guessed it. ME!
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs1.postimage.org%2F60VA0.gif&hash=750787cead2f5a59bb3f6804f3a3d05c08ea4d37) (http://www.postimage.org/)
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SO when is the retest? Sinister:
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My eldest nephew failed his last year (the first time) ~ gave him quite a reality shock ::)
Have you tried it? I didn't do much better on the test CD or whatever it was redface:
I passed them both 100% (Hazard perception and Theory)
evil:
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My eldest nephew failed his last year (the first time) ~ gave him quite a reality shock ::)
Have you tried it? I didn't do much better on the test CD or whatever it was redface:
I passed them both 100% (Hazard perception and Theory)
evil:
Sorry but I have been driving since 1965.
My job in sales meant I drove in excess of 80K miles a year (my company car used to be changed every 9 months as I maxed out the lease deal every time) I bloody well should be able to pass their tests.
If it is any consolation I would without doubt fail any practical driving test as I have every "bad habit" that experienced drivers suffer from.
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Is it available on-line...? We should all take it like! eveilgrin:
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Dunno ~ It comes included in the fee for driving lessons ~ oh and the test costs £31 if I remember rightly.
PS A quick Google reveals loads of "Free Practice" sites but they all seem to wqant you to sign up/join up/commit to paying fopr lessons etc before they let you try the tests. I should add the test changes every time you do it. They don't ask the same questions or show the same things on the screen to each person so you have to know your theory and Hazard Perception stuff. They are changing the test in September. Unlike the discs from the Driving School the actual test is harder and involves gauging the level of hazard as you approach it ........which the discs don't. It is, she tell me, very different doing the test on touch screen to doing it with the mouse.
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Anyhoo...back to the touch-screen thingy.
This one is also HP (TouchSmart) and seems quite good if you use the HP software that goes with it. However, for this forum it is, TBH, shite.
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Anyhoo...back to the touch-screen thingy.
This one is also HP (TouchSmart) and seems quite good if you use the HP software that goes with it. However, for this forum it is, TBH, shite.
The more things change the more they stay the same eh?