All the models, including the $499 one, include WiFi. The only differences among the models are the flash memory size, the 3G support, and the GPS (included only in the ones that have 3G support).
Re:Hitler doesn't care about iPad
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Subtitles do whatever your player device or software decides on doing. If someone wanted to be obnoxious they could patch their favorite player to make them pan, spin, flash, whatever...
-- A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
This one was pretty tame. The best I've ever seen was the Hitler rant about the balance in Company of Heroes. Fit the scene like a glove. I think you can still enjoy it without having played the game.
Especially if you have even the most basic knowledge of German.
The most spoken native language in Europe, language of 4th largest economy (and #2 in exports, half of whole EU, just behind China...but not so much as the US). Studied by 2/3 of Japanese students; *.de is the second domain after *.com; 1 in 10 books is published in German...
Why would anybody want to have even a basic working skill of that, eh?
-- One that hath name thou can not otter
Re:They all suck
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Total number of native and secondary speakers of top languages. 1. Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion) 2. English (480 million) 3. Spanish (320 million) 4. Russian (285 million) 5. French (265 million) 6. Hindi/Urdu (250 million) 7. Arabic (221 million) 8. Portuguese (188 million) 9. Bengali (185 million) 10. Japanese (133 million) 11. German (109 million)
Just because you live next to Germany and it makes sense to you, it doesn't mean it makes sense to everyone.
"Primary", where did you get that idea from? More like 3rd; and with mild sleep deprivation.
Anyway, disregarding all mentioned and generally applicable benefits of (even small) German familiarity - it makes those Hitler Youtube remixes much less "enjoyable"; would make them less widespread perhaps. That gotta has value...
I think your'e making a bigger deal of the german speaker aspect than there is to make. My father is half german, spent a good chunk of his childhood in german. Now, ok, he lives in england, and didn't really pass on german to us, but he speaks german (and frence + latin). He found one of these Downfall remixing about something or other, and found it as funny as hell.
Perhaps, to be more precise, it's more about how long such fad can go on. Sure, even native speakers can be amused about such remixes...few times (especially when talking about remixes of the same footage).
The Downfall scene is brilliantly acted, you don't need to speak the language to feel the emotion pouring out. Making it a great backdrop for the text of your rant, on top of that the Hitler element makes it a piss take too. Until some better 'rant' scene comes along, I think Downfall remixes are here to stay.
Unfortunatelly it's possible, I guess, that this cheapens the scene, the film. Yes, OTOH it's quite likely that Untergang remixes brought many viewers to the movie proper, giving it greater potential influence; it might more then make up for what I percieve as cheapening (plus, while using humor to cope with horrible things is understandable, I guess it's a bit scary to me that so many people might need to escape like that in this case)
There's a heck of a lot more to the use of a language than the raw number of native speakers. Example, honestly, which of these would you rather learn? Italian or Tamil? Korean or Marlathi? German or Bengali? I'm not trying to diminish the importance of those languages, they're important too, but you've got to consider economic, scientific, cultural, ect. significance a language has as well as how many people speak it, and in those terms German ranks very high. In other words, you're wrong. German is very important, no matter who you are or where you live, especially on the internet.
I disagree; I'm in my third semester of German, which admittedly isn't much (right now I'm planning on building my vocab by reading Max und Moritz), but even though I can pick out bits of what they're saying I still think some of them are pretty funny. This one is my favorite.
Yeah, I guess that is also true; the same thing applies to Hindi, but still, that won't help you any if you want to read something on paper or without a site without getting 'my hovercraft is full of eels,' or if you want to stray off into the more native places in Germany/Austria/German Switzerland. I'm not saying that there aren't considerable reasons to choose another, like Arabic or Portuguese, just that I think it balances out enough to make German also a very good choice. I admit I'm a bit biased here though, since I'm a one of the people who likes languages and cultures and that stuff and would prefer get into the nitty gritty of the places where the more important languages are spoken rather than expect anyone else to speak English for me, even for things like German or Hindi. I'm in my third level of German class now and have taken a number of others.
You should learn English first; it would suit you better to figure out how your current primary works than starting on other languages.
It appears to me that you do not have a multilingual background, since your post was rather misinformed. Learning another language in addition to your native tongue only serves to improve your understanding of your native tongue. This has been researched and I speak from experience, as I'm the parent of two bilingual children. Languages do not compete over space in the brain, they support each other.
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Re:Even Hitler has a problem with iPad fascism
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jedidiah
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It's sad when "software freedom" comes to mean that you can install any 3rd party software you want on your device and are able to put whatever data you choose on or off the device.
Give these iPads teeth and have them hovering about like an old Herbie movie and you've got Stallman's recurring nightmare.
-- A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
With Apple making so many bone-headed moves recentlty, it makes me wonder: Could Jobs have received a Microsoft liver???
-- Only his tendency toward a dazed stupor prevented him from screaming aloud.
Wont be a problem finding one
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Its just a phone blow up to 8", not much functionally. Soon as the word gets out No Usb, Weird OS (all their windows programs will not work), no flash (no web games, youtube or facebook & myspace apps) and about 10 other things people will forget about it.
Dude, don't you know. . .
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Fantastic+Lad
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Ignorance mixed with a feeling of superiority makes everything seem funny.
Ironically, conceited and ignorant people acting on their conceit and ignorance are often a joke in and of themselves. -A sad joke, but a joke nonetheless.
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The Ipad has a starting price of $499.00. With additional features such as WiFi and 3G support the price is set at $829.00 -- a sort of maxipad.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Subtitles do whatever your player device or software decides on doing. If someone wanted to be obnoxious they could patch their favorite player to make them pan, spin, flash, whatever...
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
I wish I could watch this on my iPad :(
This one was pretty tame. The best I've ever seen was the Hitler rant about the balance in Company of Heroes. Fit the scene like a glove. I think you can still enjoy it without having played the game.
May the Maths Be with you!
Especially if you have even the most basic knowledge of German.
The most spoken native language in Europe, language of 4th largest economy (and #2 in exports, half of whole EU, just behind China...but not so much as the US). Studied by 2/3 of Japanese students; *.de is the second domain after *.com; 1 in 10 books is published in German...
Why would anybody want to have even a basic working skill of that, eh?
One that hath name thou can not otter
It's sad when "software freedom" comes to mean that you can install any 3rd party software you want on your device and are able to put whatever data you choose on or off the device.
Give these iPads teeth and have them hovering about like an old Herbie movie and you've got Stallman's recurring nightmare.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
With Apple making so many bone-headed moves recentlty, it makes me wonder: Could Jobs have received a Microsoft liver???
Only his tendency toward a dazed stupor prevented him from screaming aloud.
Its just a phone blow up to 8", not much functionally. Soon as the word gets out No Usb, Weird OS (all their windows programs will not work), no flash (no web games, youtube or facebook & myspace apps) and about 10 other things people will forget about it.
Ignorance mixed with a feeling of superiority makes everything seem funny.
Ironically, conceited and ignorant people acting on their conceit and ignorance are often a joke in and of themselves. -A sad joke, but a joke nonetheless.
-FL
Pretty lame actually. This is actually much better: http://www.johnmortell.com/2009/09/04/hitler-responds-to-all-those-downfall-clips/