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It's fucking hilarious that these same idiots claiming that the possible presence of a rifle justified the massacre will also jump up and down in the US demanding the right to carry guns openly at schools, churches, bars, and airplanes.
So let me get this straight -- your claim is that an unarmed person rendering aid to wounded people on the ground makes the good Samaritan a "legitimate target" undeserving of sympathy when he gets mowed down by gunfire from a helicopter?
I'll try to keep that in mind if I ever see you struggling at the scene of an accident.
2. being openly armed in Iraq is not an act of war.
The crazy thing is half these people bitching that one of the Iraqis had a weapon probably also raise hell about the second amendment here every chance they get.
Watch the fucking video. Then come back and tell us what you think.
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I get this, I really do, but I don't see how it is unique to the iPad. This is true for the Kindle, for example. And the Zune. And just about any net-aware appliance I can think of that doesn't run Linux. And the thing is, hackers who want to do something cooler with the device will figure out how, and Apple will probably mostly look the other way like they have with people putting osx on whiteboxes or jailbreaking iphones. They're not going to openly encourage hackers, but they're also not wasting their resources going after them. In the meantime they are building a device to do the things that they think are cool, and they have a really great app store model for developers to create tools to do their own thing with it. Sure, they have stupid PG-13 rules and annoying reviews of all apps, but those who want to write other apps still do, and the damn thing was jailbroken on day one, so anyone who wants a tricked out ipad with naked pics on their apps and whatever else can certainly still have it. And for the rest of us, if we like the apps that we can find at the app store, what's the big deal? Nobody is stopping you from developing anything you want to.
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Huh? Apple has stayed out of the netbook market so you assume this is a netbook? They've stayed out of the refrigerator market too; shall I start a review complaining that it does a shitty job of storing food?
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I have a solution to your problems: don't buy one.
Counterpoint: Try to read a book on the Kindle - in the dark. Reliance on an external light source is a defect, not a feature.
At least until someone invents some sort of incandescent bulb device that can provide such external light when necessary. I realize that sort of advanced technology is still centuries off...
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But he noted that the iPad isn't usable even for grandmas. Lets face it, you have to use keyboard every now and then to use web or to do basically anything. That's not going to change until we have good speech recognition.
Or at least until someone invents a keyboard that works without wires, maybe through bluetooth? Nah, that will take centuries, what am I thinking....
Also if the iPad weights too much even for a guy without your hands getting sore, how can a grandma keep it in hand?
We're talking about CmdrTaco here, not a regular guy. 1.5 lbs? Get to the gym.
Fancy graphic designers and such that like Apple products also need Flash because thats what they develop for and is the de facto standard. But there's no support for Flash or any of the Adobe products. Therefore it's useless for that group too.
Yeah I'm sure you won't be able to read PDFs at all on this thing.
It's not good for business, as theres it weights a lot, doesn't run multiple IM and chat programs at the same time (when you want to login to MSN, you have to get off Skype), and it doesn't support MS Office.
Yep, I don't know how anyone can get any business work done without being distracted with multiple chat windows opening on any machine they use. Even photocopiers come equipped with multiple simultaneous chat clients these days; what was Apple thinking! And yeah there's no support for Office, that's why you can read Word and Excel documents flawlessly on the iphone.
It's not good for homes as theres no multiple user accounts.
Yes because every home user should also have leet sysadmin skills.
Who is iPad aimed at then?
Nobody, following your impeccable logic. I guess you're right, they won't sell any of these things!
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Except you're doing the same but in reverse. Like CmdrTaco in this review, missing the point completely. Seriously, let me write a review about how my Nissan Sentra fails as a "pc replacement." I mean, why are people still comparing this to a netbook? It's not a netbook. And the iphone/ipod touch app store has been out long enough for people to have understood by now that these devices are all about the third party apps. Those of you whining about the lack of keyboard or the lack of chat applications just don't get it. Which is fine -- just don't buy one. But whining about the lack of a keypad (when any bluetooth keyboard will work)? If they gave us a keypad you'd be whining that it's too small and limits your choices. The lack of ichat? There's like 50 chat clients on the app store already! How many do you need? And if they gave us ichat you'd be complaining about lock-in.
What I really don't understand is the obsession with this device among people who claim not to want it or like it. I mean, seriously, I don't waste my time writing page after page about why I wouldn't buy the Zune. It's not for me, I don't bother with it, I shrug and move along. But for some reason people can't leave the ipad alone. And they'll call me the fanboy. (And I don't even have one, fwiw).
yeah -- kindle *hacking*. As in, the device is not enabled to do this from the get-go, just like the iPad. As in, someone needs to "break" into it, just like someone figured out how to do with the iPad on day one. So this is not a good reason to bitch about Apple's lack of openness, which is what started this thread.
Besides, I'd hate to imagine actually trying to *use* an xterm over e-ink -- I mean, it would be handy to have it around on the device but only for emergencies. Have you watched e-ink refresh before?
Uh-huh. Try reading a book on the iPad -- at the beach.
Don't get me wrong, I think the iPad will be great. But it's not an e-reader. The problem with e-ink is that it's not a mature technology. Apple is playing it smart here - stay out of the e-ink business until you can have color, or at least monochrome at a speed that is acceptable, and without that annoying "screen flash" as pixels rearrange when you turn pages. Once you can do that I think Apple will jump in and we'll see iPads with eink options (or perhaps some other kind of e-ink display appliance, maybe even a usable web browser). Why should Apple release an e-ink device that is just as annoyingly slow as all the others out there, when they can wait until all the tech is in place and jump in at the last minute with a device that gets it right, and then take credit for having practically invented the e-reader, the way they did with the mp3 player and the smartphone?
is that we may wind up accepting such monitoring without it being punitive at all. We're already seeing far too much of that sort of thing by government for investigative purposes as well as by private companies for marketing purposes. I agree with you, but it isn't going to be the punishment-for-child-molestation angle that starts us down the slippery slope.
But the flaws aren't unique to Apple, the story isn't about Apple, and it's not about "Apple fanboys." It's about security flaws found in every major browser. So the AC is right, the cliches have nothing to do with the story here.
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It's fucking hilarious that these same idiots claiming that the possible presence of a rifle justified the massacre will also jump up and down in the US demanding the right to carry guns openly at schools, churches, bars, and airplanes.
So let me get this straight -- your claim is that an unarmed person rendering aid to wounded people on the ground makes the good Samaritan a "legitimate target" undeserving of sympathy when he gets mowed down by gunfire from a helicopter?
I'll try to keep that in mind if I ever see you struggling at the scene of an accident.
1. an AK-47 is not an RPG.
2. being openly armed in Iraq is not an act of war.
The crazy thing is half these people bitching that one of the Iraqis had a weapon probably also raise hell about the second amendment here every chance they get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0
I'm looking at that exact second and don't see anything that looks anything like a weapon. 4 people, which one is brandishing the grenade launcher?
I've watched the video and I'm sorry but I thought those were weapons in their hands as well.
You're either a liar or an idiot.
Watch the fucking video. Then come back and tell us what you think.
I get this, I really do, but I don't see how it is unique to the iPad. This is true for the Kindle, for example. And the Zune. And just about any net-aware appliance I can think of that doesn't run Linux. And the thing is, hackers who want to do something cooler with the device will figure out how, and Apple will probably mostly look the other way like they have with people putting osx on whiteboxes or jailbreaking iphones. They're not going to openly encourage hackers, but they're also not wasting their resources going after them. In the meantime they are building a device to do the things that they think are cool, and they have a really great app store model for developers to create tools to do their own thing with it. Sure, they have stupid PG-13 rules and annoying reviews of all apps, but those who want to write other apps still do, and the damn thing was jailbroken on day one, so anyone who wants a tricked out ipad with naked pics on their apps and whatever else can certainly still have it. And for the rest of us, if we like the apps that we can find at the app store, what's the big deal? Nobody is stopping you from developing anything you want to.
Huh? Apple has stayed out of the netbook market so you assume this is a netbook? They've stayed out of the refrigerator market too; shall I start a review complaining that it does a shitty job of storing food?
I have a solution to your problems: don't buy one.
Counterpoint: Try to read a book on the Kindle - in the dark. Reliance on an external light source is a defect, not a feature.
At least until someone invents some sort of incandescent bulb device that can provide such external light when necessary. I realize that sort of advanced technology is still centuries off...
But he noted that the iPad isn't usable even for grandmas. Lets face it, you have to use keyboard every now and then to use web or to do basically anything. That's not going to change until we have good speech recognition.
Or at least until someone invents a keyboard that works without wires, maybe through bluetooth? Nah, that will take centuries, what am I thinking....
Also if the iPad weights too much even for a guy without your hands getting sore, how can a grandma keep it in hand?
We're talking about CmdrTaco here, not a regular guy. 1.5 lbs? Get to the gym.
Fancy graphic designers and such that like Apple products also need Flash because thats what they develop for and is the de facto standard. But there's no support for Flash or any of the Adobe products. Therefore it's useless for that group too.
Yeah I'm sure you won't be able to read PDFs at all on this thing.
It's not good for business, as theres it weights a lot, doesn't run multiple IM and chat programs at the same time (when you want to login to MSN, you have to get off Skype), and it doesn't support MS Office.
Yep, I don't know how anyone can get any business work done without being distracted with multiple chat windows opening on any machine they use. Even photocopiers come equipped with multiple simultaneous chat clients these days; what was Apple thinking! And yeah there's no support for Office, that's why you can read Word and Excel documents flawlessly on the iphone.
It's not good for homes as theres no multiple user accounts.
Yes because every home user should also have leet sysadmin skills.
Who is iPad aimed at then?
Nobody, following your impeccable logic. I guess you're right, they won't sell any of these things!
Except you're doing the same but in reverse. Like CmdrTaco in this review, missing the point completely. Seriously, let me write a review about how my Nissan Sentra fails as a "pc replacement." I mean, why are people still comparing this to a netbook? It's not a netbook. And the iphone/ipod touch app store has been out long enough for people to have understood by now that these devices are all about the third party apps. Those of you whining about the lack of keyboard or the lack of chat applications just don't get it. Which is fine -- just don't buy one. But whining about the lack of a keypad (when any bluetooth keyboard will work)? If they gave us a keypad you'd be whining that it's too small and limits your choices. The lack of ichat? There's like 50 chat clients on the app store already! How many do you need? And if they gave us ichat you'd be complaining about lock-in.
What I really don't understand is the obsession with this device among people who claim not to want it or like it. I mean, seriously, I don't waste my time writing page after page about why I wouldn't buy the Zune. It's not for me, I don't bother with it, I shrug and move along. But for some reason people can't leave the ipad alone. And they'll call me the fanboy. (And I don't even have one, fwiw).
After a day of heavy usage, I felt a little sore.
Methinks Cmdr Taco needs to get to the gym more often....
yeah -- kindle *hacking*. As in, the device is not enabled to do this from the get-go, just like the iPad. As in, someone needs to "break" into it, just like someone figured out how to do with the iPad on day one. So this is not a good reason to bitch about Apple's lack of openness, which is what started this thread.
Besides, I'd hate to imagine actually trying to *use* an xterm over e-ink -- I mean, it would be handy to have it around on the device but only for emergencies. Have you watched e-ink refresh before?
Uh-huh. Try reading a book on the iPad -- at the beach.
Don't get me wrong, I think the iPad will be great. But it's not an e-reader. The problem with e-ink is that it's not a mature technology. Apple is playing it smart here - stay out of the e-ink business until you can have color, or at least monochrome at a speed that is acceptable, and without that annoying "screen flash" as pixels rearrange when you turn pages. Once you can do that I think Apple will jump in and we'll see iPads with eink options (or perhaps some other kind of e-ink display appliance, maybe even a usable web browser). Why should Apple release an e-ink device that is just as annoyingly slow as all the others out there, when they can wait until all the tech is in place and jump in at the last minute with a device that gets it right, and then take credit for having practically invented the e-reader, the way they did with the mp3 player and the smartphone?
Well if you can't handle being made fun of by someone you call a "fanboi," by all means, go buy one!
Guess what? I'll still make fun of you, not because you don't have an iPad, though. Just because you're a fucking douche.
Since it's from Japan, I assume multi-tentacled monsters can have sex with it, and it will be on the market in three months.
FTFY
yikes, even based on this short list I drew up from memory the isearch domain name is hot!
you memorize things like "connection timed out; no servers could be reached"?
Why in the world would I want that?
It's quite possible that you don't want it. Here's a thought: don't buy one! What's the big deal?
is that we may wind up accepting such monitoring without it being punitive at all. We're already seeing far too much of that sort of thing by government for investigative purposes as well as by private companies for marketing purposes. I agree with you, but it isn't going to be the punishment-for-child-molestation angle that starts us down the slippery slope.
given how bad the movie was, they knew it would win the award as early as 2002.
why?
hahaha stupid homophones.
No, I don't mean sidekicks.
professors think they are gods of there classrooms and can demand paper copies.
We also think we can demand proper spelling. Now bow before me!
But the flaws aren't unique to Apple, the story isn't about Apple, and it's not about "Apple fanboys." It's about security flaws found in every major browser. So the AC is right, the cliches have nothing to do with the story here.