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Holy iPad Slayer! Company Releases World's First Christian Tablet
Velcroman1 writes "Steve Jobs worshippers need not apply. But if you're looking to get in God's good graces, or you're simply in the market for a family-friendly tablet, you may want to check out Family Christian's Edifi. Billed as the world's first Christian tablet, its genesis came with the inevitable intersection of technology and religion, according to Brian Honorable, a technology supervisor at Family Christian, the group that sells the tablet. 'We wanted to be able to offer our customers the ability to use our Holy Bible application, which has 27 different English translations of the Bible,' Honorable said."
Pretty sure Moses did it first!
Or do all 10 commandments fit on to one tablet this time?
Arranged them as a cross. That would have awesome.
Bonus: it folds up into a cube. Then the goths would make "hellraiser" jokes and the Christians wouldn't get it
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
quoting:
"The battery is actually stronger than everybody else out there on the market.â
if we feed the christian pad to a Li-Ion, will the romans return again, do you think?
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Ha ha ha. the inevitable intersection of technology and religion. Lol.
It has flash, and will show you porn - but only hetero, in the missionary position.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Family Christian is essentially a bookstore, and this is their "Nook" or "Kindle." I'm a little surprised they are big enough to do that, but it's attractive that they are offering an android tablet comparable to the Kindle Fire, for $50 less. That could be pretty useful, regardless of religion.
My Dad and I shopped at the predecessor to Family Christian Stores years ago, when the name was changed from "Christian Bookstores" to "Christian Stores." We joked that you could go there and buy a Christian, and that obviously enslavement of Christians and throwing them to the lions had returned. I guess our humor probably isn't typical Christian humor. Mainly I think we were annoyed that the book selection shrank and the rest of the space was taken up with artwork and stuff.
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
At first glance I thought "Christian Tablet" referred to a drug you could use to become Christian.
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Capacitive touch screen suck at precision.
Resistive touch screens are awesome for precision. If I wanted a tablet for writing or drawing, I'd be stupid to opt for a capacitive touch screen over a resistive touch screen.
RIM has a patent on a hybrid resistive-capacitive touchscreen, which is really the best of both worlds. Finger fondling capacitive screen, cheap stylus friendly resistive touch screen. The Galaxy Note uses a more feature-rich Wacom digitizer which is awesome. It's a shame that they're the only company that understands how useful a stylus can be on a slab.
To answer Steve Jobs' question, "Who wants a stylus?": just about everybody. (No, those fat fake rubber finger "stylus" things don't count. They don't even come close.)
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Here are the specs when compared to the Nook Color, Nook Tablet, and Kindle Fire. https://img.skitch.com/20120622-umkafxaic4gwhdr26samdnd1h.jpg
"Eden?"
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What would happen if you held it upside down? A Satan pad?
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From the summary: "But if you're looking to get in God's good graces, or you're simply in the market for a family-friendly tablet,..."
Sorry, but Christian != "family-friendly." There is nothing "friendly" about brainwashing and indoctrinating your children into a superstitious, fearful, dogmatic, and guilt-obsessed worldview. Conversely, there is nothing intrinsically "unfriendly" about being non-Christian--i.e., it is a fallacy to imply that Christians have some kind of exclusive claim on being more wholesome or moral than others, simply by being Christian.
Oh, and one more thing: this whole article is just a thinly-veiled slashvertisement.
As a man who considers himself Christian, I'm saying the same damned thing.
Chalk it up to a scam angle used to push out crap tablets.
(besides, if you want a bible on an iPad that bad, well: go get one - there's like a bajillion of them in there!)
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
here ya go: http://www.biblegateway.com/
no registration necessary!
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky
Engraving is free........much like being a penis
Sigs are for losers....oh wait...damnit
Nothing would happen, unlike your tablet that erases itself when you turn it upside down.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
I can see a big advantage to this: if it's been baptized by total immersion then I needn't worry about dropping it in the bath!
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Umm, why are we giving what is almost certainly a crappy piece of equipment with a marketing tie in to a bizarre cult the time of day? Someone who is dumb enough or deluded enough to buy one of these they certainly isn't reading slashdot. If people want to go off and read their weird, nonsensical stories about invisible friends in the sky, fine. But this certainly isn't news for nerds nor is it stuff that matters.
I guess it would be done sooner or later. Thats the power of free software/open source. If you don't like it, write your own version. Looks a lot like android. So we now have Android Christian edition, in addition to Ubuntu Christian Edition.
I can firmly say as an unbeliever I won't be buying one, but I as long as they share their source code, I wish them well.
Not if you take your bath in holy water, because your ordinary secular water will probably damage its holy spirit. You can easily tell, if it starts smoking, that's the holy spirit escaping and it's a good thing it won't work anymore because it's not blessed anymore.
Of course you got warranty, though, you can claim it in the afterlife.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Speaking of pushing crap, I have noticed something odd over the years:
Christianity and White Supremacists both have the same problem of attracting youth, and both Christian and White Supremacist music generally sucks.
On the Christian side you could say Sam Phillips and Jars of Clay weren't bad, but Sam Phillips 'left' Christian music before her biggest albums.
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And on the White Supremacist side, there's,,,, ? Anyone? I don't know any, except maybe that David Allen Coe 2-album weirdness.
(If there is any other genuinely talented acts of either genre, feel free to mention them)
Well, I'm not sure about that, you know that old joke: A priest, a gay guy and a pedo go into a bar and orders a drink...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
One of my favorite sites.
Whenever you need to take a Bible quote out of context to tick the religious guys off, you may rest assured that there is a version that makes whatever point you're trying to make.
Proof?
It's in the bible that Jesus was a Pedo. No, really. Just read Matt. 19:14, King James: "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven."
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Hey, I had a hard day and I come here to unwind, and I've had more laughs in the few minutes reading this than I had all day during the meetings!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I used to listen to some christian rock when I was a kid.
There was some good stuff out there. Whitecross had a couple albums I really liked - they fit into the glam rock scene that was popular before the grunge bus ran everyone over. Petra had some good stuff if you like keyboard-heavy REO Speedwagon type stuff. Mortification was a christian band, although I could never make out the lyrics - growling death metal wasn't my thing. A lot of people liked Stryper, but I never got into them. There was more, but it's been twenty years.
My parents bought me a DC Talk CD once, but since I wasn't into rap I can't really comment on the quality. Kinda Run-DMCish, IIRC, but I'm no expert.
There's a christian station in our town, and it plays "comtemporary christian" music. Easy listening type stuff, generally. I couldn't stand it then, and I can't stand it now.
I imagine there's still a market for christian rock groups, and if nothing's changed, there's probably some good stuff out there. It's a good niche for the right group. You probably won't find any Jimi Hendrixes or Randy Rhoads in there, but you might find a Joe Perry or a Kip Winger.
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach either, do tech support.
The skinhead culture started in the early 60s, when reggae and rocksteady were big in Britain. For whatever reason, the culture adopted the music and the style and fused it with their working class fashion. At the time, there was nothing inherently racist about skinheads. That happened in the 70s and early 80s, mostly fueled by racist ideas of foreigners stealing jobs in what was a depressed economy. It was this racist form of skinhead that was imported into the U.S. Most people in the US only equate the term with white supremacists.
By the way, the British film This Is England does a pretty great job of covering the early 80s skinhead scene, and is just a really good film in general.
where's the revised standard version?
Sigh.
I suppose mainline protestantism is truly dead.
Oh well. There's always atheism.
This tablet was perfectly created a week ago as-is on the developer's desk, it did not evolve over years like the iPad.
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And only properly married, monogamous couples.
There is a large movement that everything in the world is the boggeyman or Satan in disguise. So it's only safe to buy stuff if you can't be tempted by bad things. This company is a large Christian book seller and publisher, just catering to their market.
The people that would buy this wouldn't set foot in Barnes and Noble anyway because the have all sorts of "unholy" books there, even books about SEX. They certianly wouldn't be going to Amazon (on their 56k dial-up).
The RSV is under copyright, but available and distributable online. It is considered to be heresy by the fundamentalists, since the more accurated translation doesn't feed their biases. That's what the GP was taking a stab at.
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
As silly as this is, it's actually pretty neat to see a Christian organization putting out a) technology with b) multiple English translations of the bible. Maybe it'll help a few of the more ignorant Christians realize that the King James version is not the one allegedly handed down by god.
Most don't fit into the easy listening category, and are worth checking out as well done christian music in their various styles:
Daniel Amos/DA, The Lost Dogs, The Choir, The 77s/Seventy-Sevens, Rez/Ressurection Band, Glass Harp, early Sixpence None The Richer
Because they did a good job artistically (IMHO) they didn't achieve the # mentions of Jesus per song quota to get as much radio play as many of artists that wound up defining the genre for most people.
Note that in DA's case, they change musical styles (well) with the times, so pick an album from a time period you are happy with.
I'm not Christian, but Take 6 is an unabashedly Christian group that also happens to be a very critically acclaimed (10 Grammys) and are pretty fantastic even to my sinful atheist ears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcg9OV8ZVuI&feature=related
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Looking at your list, I would guess you know where I'm talking about if I said my hometown was Bushnell, IL.
Some highlights I caught this year:
77s & The Violet Burning had great sets
Steve Taylor screening Blue Like Jazz and doing a Q&A.
The Choir doing all of Chase The Kangaroo for the very last show
I'm going to miss that place.