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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?
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..."
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.)
Required reading for internet skeptics
Here are the specs when compared to the Nook Color, Nook Tablet, and Kindle Fire. https://img.skitch.com/20120622-umkafxaic4gwhdr26samdnd1h.jpg
"Eden?"
Mod me down, I shall become more off-topic than you could possibly imagine.
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.
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.
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,
Step 1: email suppliers found via alibaba
Step 2: get one of them to produce for you a branded tablet
Step 3: Prophet!
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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.
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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