Great. I have little use for a netbook. So....netbook sales are dropping? Anecdata doesn't cut it.
Except that you didn't understand what I wrote. Let me explain it in simpler words: I have no little use for an iPad, I have never said sales of it are dropping or won't go up because of what I decided to buy. My statement still stands: in my opinion the majority of iPad sales are not coming out of possible Netbook sales.
If you are assuming that the iPad took 25% of the netbooks market I bet you're wrong. I'm willing to bet that most of those people were not planning to buy a netbook in the first place. Maybe, I could grant that iPad owners had in mind to buy an electronic book reader, to the iPad might have taken sales away from Amazon and Sony.
I have little use for an iPad, but I just bought less than a month ago a Netbook (Asus Eee PC 1005PCB) and totally love it. It's powerful enough to play all those lame Facebook Flash games, LOL, and actually plays all DivX video without a glitch, something my other crappy HP laptop with 2X core can't do. Battery lasts about 11 hours with normal use and about 7-8 hours watching video. I tried typing on an iPad and couldn't stand it, but I do travel writing and blogging and I don't have a problem typing on my Netbook.
So, as far as I'm concerned Netbooks are alive and well.
Great! Just like the stupid Region Protection of DVD and BD. What about all the honest people like myself who buy original movies in other countries because they can speak the language?
I use it on my netbook and it's a huge speed improvement over IE or FF, but it still lacks RSS and that annoys me.
I do love that it can kill the non-responsive Flash app without crashing, FF all it does is crash... a lot.
Pretty ludicrous statement this Steve Jobs makes. Is he keeping all the porn website off the iPhone as well? In that case the iPhone is not porn-free so stop throwing mud at Android. I choose freedom.
I was never really into Farmville and Mafia wars, but I don't think they use flash.
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Oh but they are... and so are Restaurant City, Pet Society, FishVille, Treasure Island, Hotel City, Treasure Madness, Brain Buddies... etc. Completely Flash (which crashes a lot on Firefox).
mentions some of the advantages of ICE, including being weather-tested to work from -5 to 160 degrees F (-20 to 71 C),
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That point is moot: how many people drive with the temperature inside their car being -20C or 71C? All you have to do is bring the iPad inside the house after your trip.
>If these idealistic fools were on the boards of large corporations, those corporations would shortly find their profit margins disappearing, their stock plummeting,
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That is such a HUGE bullshit. You're telling me that there's no common ground to be found? You're saying that if Exxon-Mobil (for example) makes 2 Billion dollars profit instead of 30 than there will be severe repercussions in the world? You need to get your Total-Capitalistic ideas out of your ass and look at how the world, including the United States (where I live), is going. Your ideas are only based on the fact that you live a comfortable life, because if you were a poor person in, say, China you would not be so greedy.
Yours are not ideas everyone can agree on because they are extreme.
Actually that would be an interesting idea, permitting is not taught by some UFO nazi like Brad Steiger (author of: The Philadelphia Experiment) who believes there's an underground civilization living under the poles based on the fact that icebergs are made of fresh water, which must be coming from underwater rivers and if there are underwater rivers there are people there (logical, huh?).
My main concern would be that the religious community would not be taking lightly the teaching about UFO in school. You know, anything that could get you a little more open minded and open to the idea that we don't know everything could be a risk for a religious society.
I read the title as "Warp Drive shipping with Star Trek":)
Anyway, already have the movie on BD... and I fell asleep on the plane 20 minutes into watching "GI Joe" - most boring movie of the year. Thanks Paramount, though, usually I don't sleep on a flight.
In Italy is worse than that, if you are a foreign tourist you cannot buy a SIM. Simple as that. To buy one you are required to provide your social security number card. I didn't have mine a few years ago while visiting and I had to return with my mother so that she could purchase it for me on her name.
I still prefer a real book. Apart from the obvious (the pleasure of holding a book) I really don't see why I should pay for a digital copy the same amount I pay for a hard copy which has a higher overhead cost. The end cost is actually higher for the digital copy if you factor the cost of the reader, battery recharge, etc.
DRM is just another drop in the ocean of unfair practices, when I buy a real book I can store it wherever I want, what can't I do the same with a digital copy?
... after watching the videos I'd like to have one, but Apple price policy really pisses me off: $139 more for the models with a 3G chip (plus monthly plan) when a 3G chip costs between $5 and $9 (the most expensive one).
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The iPad is a iPhone with a big screen and without the capability of making phone calls... or video chat for that matter.
Great. I have little use for a netbook. So....netbook sales are dropping? Anecdata doesn't cut it.
Except that you didn't understand what I wrote. Let me explain it in simpler words: I have no little use for an iPad, I have never said sales of it are dropping or won't go up because of what I decided to buy. My statement still stands: in my opinion the majority of iPad sales are not coming out of possible Netbook sales.
If you are assuming that the iPad took 25% of the netbooks market I bet you're wrong. I'm willing to bet that most of those people were not planning to buy a netbook in the first place. Maybe, I could grant that iPad owners had in mind to buy an electronic book reader, to the iPad might have taken sales away from Amazon and Sony.
So, as far as I'm concerned Netbooks are alive and well.
Great! Just like the stupid Region Protection of DVD and BD. What about all the honest people like myself who buy original movies in other countries because they can speak the language?
I use it on my netbook and it's a huge speed improvement over IE or FF, but it still lacks RSS and that annoys me. I do love that it can kill the non-responsive Flash app without crashing, FF all it does is crash... a lot.
If the message says "We are at peace... Always" I'm going to freak out!
you only get about 1 kilobit per second of transfer out at Pluto.
Sounds like DSL speed in the United States...
How can they possibly hope to decode alien language if they can't decode their own technology?
PS: Does he keep porn off MacOS, too?
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Oh but they are... and so are Restaurant City, Pet Society, FishVille, Treasure Island, Hotel City, Treasure Madness, Brain Buddies... etc. Completely Flash (which crashes a lot on Firefox).
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That point is moot: how many people drive with the temperature inside their car being -20C or 71C? All you have to do is bring the iPad inside the house after your trip.
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That is such a HUGE bullshit. You're telling me that there's no common ground to be found? You're saying that if Exxon-Mobil (for example) makes 2 Billion dollars profit instead of 30 than there will be severe repercussions in the world? You need to get your Total-Capitalistic ideas out of your ass and look at how the world, including the United States (where I live), is going. Your ideas are only based on the fact that you live a comfortable life, because if you were a poor person in, say, China you would not be so greedy. Yours are not ideas everyone can agree on because they are extreme.
And they say being gay doesn't have benefits... :-p
My main concern would be that the religious community would not be taking lightly the teaching about UFO in school. You know, anything that could get you a little more open minded and open to the idea that we don't know everything could be a risk for a religious society.
Anyway, already have the movie on BD... and I fell asleep on the plane 20 minutes into watching "GI Joe" - most boring movie of the year. Thanks Paramount, though, usually I don't sleep on a flight.
In Italy is worse than that, if you are a foreign tourist you cannot buy a SIM. Simple as that. To buy one you are required to provide your social security number card. I didn't have mine a few years ago while visiting and I had to return with my mother so that she could purchase it for me on her name.
In Soviet Russia the government decides how many atoms to make
Israel, as per their usual policy, has never admitted nor denied to have nuclear weapons.
I still prefer a real book. Apart from the obvious (the pleasure of holding a book) I really don't see why I should pay for a digital copy the same amount I pay for a hard copy which has a higher overhead cost. The end cost is actually higher for the digital copy if you factor the cost of the reader, battery recharge, etc. DRM is just another drop in the ocean of unfair practices, when I buy a real book I can store it wherever I want, what can't I do the same with a digital copy?
... after watching the videos I'd like to have one, but Apple price policy really pisses me off: $139 more for the models with a 3G chip (plus monthly plan) when a 3G chip costs between $5 and $9 (the most expensive one).
Another product from the iSue You company
And then finally the theoretical research might start bringing some good old mechanical advances... warp drive?
Strings vibrating at different frequencies.
It's been forty-five years. Now why do I remember that?
Some memories just never die