You're skipping a few steps in the serf to educated middle class progression.
A major one is having the time to be educated. It's why there's those pesky child labor laws. When a kid is stuck in a sweatshop for 18 hours a day they aren't able to get an education outside of what is necessary to do their tasks. Make it impossible to send your kid off somewhere for some extra income then sending them off for education is a lot more palatable.
Improved agricultural techniques (more food for less work) was a necessary precursor to the rise of the middle class.
If you don't need USB/HDMI/SD ports/slots having them adds size or decreases the space available for something you will use, like the battery.
"My point being, 99% of consumers, if given the choice, would choose a tablet other than the ipad. But since they're not given a choice, the joke is on them."
"I'm just hoping for an honest discussion."
Good thing you told me since I wouldn't have guessed so otherwise.
But you do apparently have the internet, through which one can view their shows.
For someone who trots out his "I don't watch TV and therefore am better than you" sign as often as you do you either are very bad at doing feigned ignorance well or are doing willful ignorance very well.
When I want pretty pictures I go a cliff side and view the petroglyphs and then I blow it up so no one else can appreciate it like I did. Out snob that. I'm not trying to be a snob, I just don't want to be left out of all the snobbery.
"The last thing they want is the end-user installing software, so they take steps to disable functionality. They want you to have a pseudo-smartphone, it looks neat, costs a lot, racks up the data charges...but isn't a general-purpose computer.
This is at odds with what we all thought Android promised us: a real OS for our tiny computers that would let us treat the carrier like any other ISP."
A less sinister reason could be that they don't want masses of rogue smartphone programs run by people who can't comprehend what it means to play nice with a common resource mucking up the network.
Want to be able to run whatever the hell you want? Get some frequencies from the FCC, set up your own carrier and make damn sure it doesn't screw with the existing network. Just because phones are starting to get enough horsepower to run antivirus and firewall software does not mean that they should have to.
There are restrictions on what can be driven on public roads. You might be pissed that you can't drive your homemade jalopy but I'm happy that I don't have to worry about dodging it when a wheel falls off at interstate speeds.
The rotating screen is a cool idea but the screen itself looks as thick as an iPad, the upper half looks thicker yet and the bottom half about the same as the top making for one chunky looking device.
Given all the griping about the iPad's weight I wonder how much battery they could pack in with all that extra hardware.
Ya, since they really don't want to actually be able to use information in the reports, reports are there just to make busy work for the clerks.
Codenames? Well, if you're supposed to be reading those reports you'll have to have a list and guess what? The list will get leaked right alongside the document.
What better time to go on a crime spree then when you've got an international conspiracy as a defense and you're already blackmailing some very powerful players with a very public deadman's switch?
Get in over your head and odds are the CIA will (covertly) bail you out if you get in any danger of physical harm.
"The reason why the Ipad sold well is that people are willing to spend extra money to get an Apple. Partly due to fashion (they are 'cooler') and partly due to anti-virus fears, and partly due to a hatred of Windows."
I was willing to give the iPad a try because it was from Apple. Not for fashion, not for virus fears, not because I hate MS. Because the iPod touch, a pmp, was the best damn pda I had run across yet. I've gone through PalmOS and WinCE in various iterations trying to find a pda that was usable. The old PalmOS devices held the title of usable until their limitations caught up with them and the market for programs for them dried up. The WinCE devices were little better than novelties. The Touch, not even marketed as a pda, was the best of all of them.
Was the iPad going to be a scaled up iPod Touch? I hoped so. I was not disappointed.
"Of course there are other options and apps out there which can hack together this functionality"
It's called GoodReader and it is hardly a hack.
"where you expect the functionality and it isn't there"
Download the app to do it and the functionality will be there. Or do you complain that a netbook can't do something if it doesn't come pre-installed with the program to do it as well?
"I fear will never be resolved is the lack of a stylus" unless you go out and buy one and then the problem is resolved. Penultimate works quite well. Given the touch resolution of the touch screen on the iPad you'll never get it down to single pixel as it will discard such small contact points as noise.
Getting rid of Beck would be like getting rid of Hitler, you risk having someone competent replace him after giving the followers a martyr and renewed (frothing mad) fervor.
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You're skipping a few steps in the serf to educated middle class progression.
A major one is having the time to be educated. It's why there's those pesky child labor laws. When a kid is stuck in a sweatshop for 18 hours a day they aren't able to get an education outside of what is necessary to do their tasks. Make it impossible to send your kid off somewhere for some extra income then sending them off for education is a lot more palatable.
Improved agricultural techniques (more food for less work) was a necessary precursor to the rise of the middle class.
If you don't need USB/HDMI/SD ports/slots having them adds size or decreases the space available for something you will use, like the battery.
"My point being, 99% of consumers, if given the choice, would choose a tablet other than the ipad. But since they're not given a choice, the joke is on them."
"I'm just hoping for an honest discussion."
Good thing you told me since I wouldn't have guessed so otherwise.
If you call it "sequestering someone's carbon" then you do get the tax credit.
So you didn't know who they were but knew they were on cable and don't watch domestic TV but according to post (#33637932):
"Now I substitute it with Chicago's Progressive Talk radio streamed over the net, plus MSNBC.com streams of Rachel Maddow"
you watch MSNBC online?
Stewart and Colbert are mentioned in foreign news, and I doubt MSNBC has neglected mentioning them.
But you do apparently have the internet, through which one can view their shows.
For someone who trots out his "I don't watch TV and therefore am better than you" sign as often as you do you either are very bad at doing feigned ignorance well or are doing willful ignorance very well.
Guilty until proven innocent is traditional for males accused of sex crimes in America.
When I want pretty pictures I go a cliff side and view the petroglyphs and then I blow it up so no one else can appreciate it like I did. Out snob that. I'm not trying to be a snob, I just don't want to be left out of all the snobbery.
No link to goldline?
At least they aren't recruiting tech support people. Basic technical aptitude and a burning desire to see all of humanity die, slowly and painfully.
AAA, UAL, or UAA?
It's hard to turn a profit on a movie that cost $200,000,000 to make when you've sold it to a shell company for $1.
Mucking around with percentages is a perfectly cromulent way of making a point despite what the numbers say.
"The last thing they want is the end-user installing software, so they take steps to disable functionality. They want you to have a pseudo-smartphone, it looks neat, costs a lot, racks up the data charges...but isn't a general-purpose computer.
This is at odds with what we all thought Android promised us: a real OS for our tiny computers that would let us treat the carrier like any other ISP."
A less sinister reason could be that they don't want masses of rogue smartphone programs run by people who can't comprehend what it means to play nice with a common resource mucking up the network.
Want to be able to run whatever the hell you want? Get some frequencies from the FCC, set up your own carrier and make damn sure it doesn't screw with the existing network. Just because phones are starting to get enough horsepower to run antivirus and firewall software does not mean that they should have to.
There are restrictions on what can be driven on public roads. You might be pissed that you can't drive your homemade jalopy but I'm happy that I don't have to worry about dodging it when a wheel falls off at interstate speeds.
The rotating screen is a cool idea but the screen itself looks as thick as an iPad, the upper half looks thicker yet and the bottom half about the same as the top making for one chunky looking device.
Given all the griping about the iPad's weight I wonder how much battery they could pack in with all that extra hardware.
Did journalist not fit in the twitter feed or were they going for "journo sounds like urinal"?
Do you run AutoCAD solely from the DVD or do you install a copy on your machine?
Ya, since they really don't want to actually be able to use information in the reports, reports are there just to make busy work for the clerks.
Codenames? Well, if you're supposed to be reading those reports you'll have to have a list and guess what? The list will get leaked right alongside the document.
What better time to go on a crime spree then when you've got an international conspiracy as a defense and you're already blackmailing some very powerful players with a very public deadman's switch?
Get in over your head and odds are the CIA will (covertly) bail you out if you get in any danger of physical harm.
"The reason why the Ipad sold well is that people are willing to spend extra money to get an Apple. Partly due to fashion (they are 'cooler') and partly due to anti-virus fears, and partly due to a hatred of Windows."
I was willing to give the iPad a try because it was from Apple. Not for fashion, not for virus fears, not because I hate MS. Because the iPod touch, a pmp, was the best damn pda I had run across yet. I've gone through PalmOS and WinCE in various iterations trying to find a pda that was usable. The old PalmOS devices held the title of usable until their limitations caught up with them and the market for programs for them dried up. The WinCE devices were little better than novelties. The Touch, not even marketed as a pda, was the best of all of them.
Was the iPad going to be a scaled up iPod Touch? I hoped so. I was not disappointed.
"Of course there are other options and apps out there which can hack together this functionality"
It's called GoodReader and it is hardly a hack.
"where you expect the functionality and it isn't there"
Download the app to do it and the functionality will be there. Or do you complain that a netbook can't do something if it doesn't come pre-installed with the program to do it as well?
"I fear will never be resolved is the lack of a stylus" unless you go out and buy one and then the problem is resolved. Penultimate works quite well. Given the touch resolution of the touch screen on the iPad you'll never get it down to single pixel as it will discard such small contact points as noise.
Just keep telling yourself that and some day it might be 'truth'.
Amazon was given the green light to sell drmless to better compete with iTMS, which had become too dominant for the RIAA's liking.
And car makers are stuck bundling an engine with their cars.
You should have to tow your new chassis off the lot to your garage to drop an engine of your choice in.
Software doesn't have numbers that make it easy to dismiss as lame.
Obviously the Nomad was the most popular pmd because it had the best numbers.
Getting rid of Beck would be like getting rid of Hitler, you risk having someone competent replace him after giving the followers a martyr and renewed (frothing mad) fervor.
Is there a way to get just the former or is it a package deal?