Are you in Congress? Because that rationale of yours is impressive.
Somebody: I can only get one kind of broadband access. You: Well, that's your fault for living in the sticks. Why don't you use one of these other options, most of which are available to me, and because I am the center of the universe, must also be available to you. Somebody: The one option available to me on your list sucks. You: Well, then you should get something else, shouldn't you!
Magical.
I live within the city limits of a major metropolitan area, smack in the middle of a large residential district. I have one broadband option at my house, other than satellite (which, although useful, does not work for me).
Well, I'm sure Palm hopes you're right. Good luck with that. For me, powerbook+good Treo imap client (which, by the way, Palm did NOT supply) is plenty good.
Heck, maybe they even made Documents To Go not an utter crap-fest. It's possible.
I don't know who you're arguing with. Who is talking about DVDs? Are you saying that Hawkins didn't say that it wasn't fast enough for video? Call me insano-guy, but I'm guessing he's got more time on the machine than you do.
You seem to think it's going to be the best thing since sliced bread. Cool! Maybe you're right. Palm sure could use a hit, because my Treo 700p is not it. (Where's my maintenance release, Palm?)
Me? I like my 12" Powerbook just fine. Sleep works great. It's not that heavy. It's far far FAR more capable than Foleo.
and it's got a DVD drive. Because I know how important that is to you...I guess.
I've been chasing that bug around. There's something that happens to PCs sometimes where you can't click the X to close Excel. I think it's some weird interaction with GroupWise, but I haven't been able to isolate it.
"But for people who are literary enthusiasts there are books that are objectively better"
Really? Objectively better? How do you figure?
"and these are largely agreed-upon by literary enthusiasts the world over."
Oh, you mean that there's a convention that decides what is or is not "good literature", and they all write papers to each other about those books, and look down their noses at other books.
When I read "Great Gatsby", I thought I was in the presence of a pretentious oaf. When I read "Lolita", I thought I was in the presence of a very disturbed mind.
"Genius"? Well, OK, but I'm still not inviting either of them over for dinner.
I'm thinking about organizing my 60gb music collection onto a 40gb device by dragging and dropping.
Now I'm laughing uproariously, and going into iTunes to use its database and smart playlists to manage the collection, automagically, and dynamically.
Drag and drop is a misfeature. Sure, it's a nice buzzword, but having used iTunes I can't even imagine going backwards. Then again, some people still use the paper card catalog at the library, so I guess there's that.
I'll assume that gestures work better on your device than they do on any device I've ever used. Glad that's workin' for ya.
"Government services don't have the overhead of profit."
You're not trying to pretend that government services don't have any overhead, are you? Frankly, I'd rather overhead went to profit than to waste and bureaucrazy. (Wow, what a convenient typo that was...)
You really think that somebody who has gotten screwed by Sony in the past isn't going to think really hard before plunking down $700 on one of their BluRay players?
Sure, the PS3 fans bought a bunch, but I wonder how many movies they've bought...
I think that the insurgent forces in Iraq are a clear and present danger to the Iraqi government. I think that insurgent forces in other countries could be clear and present dangers to the governments of other countries.
The reason Iraq and Vietnam were so problematic was that they were not purely military conflicts. (No conflicts are PURELY military, of course, but wars between nation-states tend to be quite different from putting down indigenous guerrilla campaigns.)
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Are you in Congress? Because that rationale of yours is impressive.
Somebody: I can only get one kind of broadband access.
You: Well, that's your fault for living in the sticks. Why don't you use one of these other options, most of which are available to me, and because I am the center of the universe, must also be available to you.
Somebody: The one option available to me on your list sucks.
You: Well, then you should get something else, shouldn't you!
Magical.
I live within the city limits of a major metropolitan area, smack in the middle of a large residential district. I have one broadband option at my house, other than satellite (which, although useful, does not work for me).
Well, I'm sure Palm hopes you're right. Good luck with that. For me, powerbook+good Treo imap client (which, by the way, Palm did NOT supply) is plenty good.
Heck, maybe they even made Documents To Go not an utter crap-fest. It's possible.
*blink blink*
I don't know who you're arguing with. Who is talking about DVDs? Are you saying that Hawkins didn't say that it wasn't fast enough for video? Call me insano-guy, but I'm guessing he's got more time on the machine than you do.
You seem to think it's going to be the best thing since sliced bread. Cool! Maybe you're right. Palm sure could use a hit, because my Treo 700p is not it. (Where's my maintenance release, Palm?)
Me? I like my 12" Powerbook just fine. Sleep works great. It's not that heavy. It's far far FAR more capable than Foleo.
and it's got a DVD drive. Because I know how important that is to you...I guess.
Well, Hawkins invented the thing, and he said: "We think it's too slow...we'll do it in the future."
"Enough to do movie playing etc"
Really? Because Hawkins seemed to say that Foleo wouldn't be good at movie playback.
I'm still trying to figure out what it will be good at. Haven't come up with anything yet...
That's a fair question. Is it meaningful to talk about a "satellite" if the period is tremendously long?
Insert squishy linguistic notions here. : )
I'm not sure I'd consider something on a parabolic or hyperbolic orbit to be a "satellite".
Spacecraft? Absolutely.
Long range...satellite?
I think we might be having vocabulary issues.
Well argued.
By "well argued", I mean "not argued at all". That's what I call objective.
Glad that works for you. It's a total non-feature for me. So we can both get what we want, and market wins, yeah?
I've been chasing that bug around. There's something that happens to PCs sometimes where you can't click the X to close Excel. I think it's some weird interaction with GroupWise, but I haven't been able to isolate it.
"Feeling good is selfish"
Why?
"But for people who are literary enthusiasts there are books that are objectively better"
Really? Objectively better? How do you figure?
"and these are largely agreed-upon by literary enthusiasts the world over."
Oh, you mean that there's a convention that decides what is or is not "good literature", and they all write papers to each other about those books, and look down their noses at other books.
Sounds real objective to me.
When I read "Great Gatsby", I thought I was in the presence of a pretentious oaf. When I read "Lolita", I thought I was in the presence of a very disturbed mind.
"Genius"? Well, OK, but I'm still not inviting either of them over for dinner.
Right, because most of my books are printed on glossy paper.
That said, carbon offsets are a stupid idea, unless you own a company that sells carbon offsets.
I'm thinking about organizing my 60gb music collection onto a 40gb device by dragging and dropping.
Now I'm laughing uproariously, and going into iTunes to use its database and smart playlists to manage the collection, automagically, and dynamically.
Drag and drop is a misfeature. Sure, it's a nice buzzword, but having used iTunes I can't even imagine going backwards. Then again, some people still use the paper card catalog at the library, so I guess there's that.
I'll assume that gestures work better on your device than they do on any device I've ever used. Glad that's workin' for ya.
Stupid people in the majority who disagree with you. How could they?
The law SHOULD make sense, and SHOULD be just. Man does not exist to serve the Law, the Law exists to serve Man.
"the only way you need privacy is if you live in a world of idiots and irrational people"
Are you implying that you DON'T live in such a world? What color is the sky there?
Do you understand why some people believe that ruining somebody else's country for our own convenience is a bit, well, unconscionable?
"Government services don't have the overhead of profit."
You're not trying to pretend that government services don't have any overhead, are you? Frankly, I'd rather overhead went to profit than to waste and bureaucrazy. (Wow, what a convenient typo that was...)
You really think that somebody who has gotten screwed by Sony in the past isn't going to think really hard before plunking down $700 on one of their BluRay players?
Sure, the PS3 fans bought a bunch, but I wonder how many movies they've bought...
Well golly, since you say so...
I think that the insurgent forces in Iraq are a clear and present danger to the Iraqi government. I think that insurgent forces in other countries could be clear and present dangers to the governments of other countries.
The reason Iraq and Vietnam were so problematic was that they were not purely military conflicts. (No conflicts are PURELY military, of course, but wars between nation-states tend to be quite different from putting down indigenous guerrilla campaigns.)
I was refuting this statement: "Any organized group with that level of firepower is not a credible threat to the government."
You were making a completely different statement, which I think is just dandy. Good luck with that.