You didn't quite go far enough. "Taking your TV while you are on vacation" now seems to be referred to as a "home invasion robbery" as often as not. Before that it was "taking your TV while you slept". Which was diluted from the original "they broke in, threatened you with guns, duct-taped you to a chair, and stole the TV while you watched".
Just like having your credit card number copied by a waitress who uses it to purchase stuff on ebay is now called "identity theft".
If "quality" means "good enough for facebook" or "your mom will love it" then yeah, $200 is a fair number.
I, like many I'm sure, have taken a few amazing photos with crap gear (like a plastic 35mm thrift store find). I've also had my share of lousy photos with expensive gear (like a month's salary DSLR). But I've never had a better-than-mediocre photo come out of mediocre gear.
At least, I hope not. Tablets and e-readers provide two wildly different reading experiences. I can't stand reading for very long on a tablet, but I'll read for hours on my e-ink device. The wife feels the same, she also has both (a kindle and a fire, she's an amazon fangirl) and uses them for very separate purposes.
If they'd come out with a less artifact-ey e-ink screen with even 8 bit color I wouldn't even want a tablet. I could totally live without video on a handheld device, but color magazines/comics would be nice.
The only thing to do is change their prices. TFA even says "If Amazon and Barnes & Noble are smart, they will cut their respective tablets by $50, pricing the Kindle Fire at $149 and the Nook Tablet at $199."
Did anyone else notice that BN has, wait for it, dropped the price of the Nook Color and the tablets? I (and probably countless others) got a bulk mail last night. Nook tablets now start at $179 and the 16GB is $199. Hell, the BN website still says "get 16GB for only $50 more" and "get 8GB and save $50", even though it's now only a $20 difference.
Amazon will almost certainly do something similar shortly.
Because he waited until his kid was 13 to teach him how to be a geek.
My six year old is pissed I won't let him have his own soldering iron yet. I told him when he can get the spring-post and/or snap terminal circuits built right the first time, then he can solder stuff.
Ya, they did this last year when Southern California was on fire. All the pretty pictures of the San Bernardino mountains (next to my house) were from a NASA UAV. It was picking out the hotspots for the planes and choppers flying out of the Hot Shots place at San Bernardino Int'l Airport down the street.
Until you get people who answer those questions thusly:
Steak vs Salad: Beer Blonde vs Brunette: Redhead Pepsi vs Coke: Rum Car vs Bicycle: More people should skip to their destination Mac vs PC: I'm a luddite, you insensitive clod!
Will this things support closed captioning? Our (wife and I) biggest complaint about Netflix's streaming movies is the lack of captioning, since neither one of us can hear worth a damn.
They've been "working on" captioning as long as the Mac version...
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You didn't quite go far enough. "Taking your TV while you are on vacation" now seems to be referred to as a "home invasion robbery" as often as not. Before that it was "taking your TV while you slept". Which was diluted from the original "they broke in, threatened you with guns, duct-taped you to a chair, and stole the TV while you watched".
Just like having your credit card number copied by a waitress who uses it to purchase stuff on ebay is now called "identity theft".
If "quality" means "good enough for facebook" or "your mom will love it" then yeah, $200 is a fair number.
I, like many I'm sure, have taken a few amazing photos with crap gear (like a plastic 35mm thrift store find). I've also had my share of lousy photos with expensive gear (like a month's salary DSLR). But I've never had a better-than-mediocre photo come out of mediocre gear.
At least, I hope not. Tablets and e-readers provide two wildly different reading experiences. I can't stand reading for very long on a tablet, but I'll read for hours on my e-ink device. The wife feels the same, she also has both (a kindle and a fire, she's an amazon fangirl) and uses them for very separate purposes.
If they'd come out with a less artifact-ey e-ink screen with even 8 bit color I wouldn't even want a tablet. I could totally live without video on a handheld device, but color magazines/comics would be nice.
The only thing to do is change their prices. TFA even says "If Amazon and Barnes & Noble are smart, they will cut their respective tablets by $50, pricing the Kindle Fire at $149 and the Nook Tablet at $199."
Did anyone else notice that BN has, wait for it, dropped the price of the Nook Color and the tablets? I (and probably countless others) got a bulk mail last night. Nook tablets now start at $179 and the 16GB is $199. Hell, the BN website still says "get 16GB for only $50 more" and "get 8GB and save $50", even though it's now only a $20 difference.
Amazon will almost certainly do something similar shortly.
... So what else is in it? ...
99 pounds of petroleum plastic.
Segway: Stealing the last particle of human dignity from rent-a-cops worldwide.
Rent-a-cops? Hell, the real cops have em around here. Like we needed more reasons to laugh at the police in SoCal.
Sometimes I wonder if Apple is a religion or just some company that makes tech products.
What do you mean you "sometimes wonder"? Seems pretty obvious it's a religion...
He's frozen. And once we find the cure for cancer we're gonna thaw him out and he's gonna be PISSED!
You know how pissed off he's gonna be? Ever taken a cold shower? Multiply that by fifteen million times, that's how pissed off the Duke's gonna be.
I know nothing about Nagios. But whatever you do, it should be displayed via R2 Unit
...cannabis (THC) may help retard onset of senility.
Been telling people that for years...
Because he waited until his kid was 13 to teach him how to be a geek.
My six year old is pissed I won't let him have his own soldering iron yet. I told him when he can get the spring-post and/or snap terminal circuits built right the first time, then he can solder stuff.
Based off the screenshots, the desktop looks to me like a bloody faceprint on a cave wall.
Or is it significant of "Bang Head Here" when configuration works like 8.04?
For some reason I saw "Lego Warhammer Patch"...
"how loud do you think an injured rapper would have to raise their voice before people gave them medical attention? "
Um... Who cares?
Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes, of course.
I have my son's birthday tattooed in binary on my right forearm. I don't think I have a picture online anywhere though.
00110011
00110001
00110111
00110000
00110010
Ya, it's the ascii chars of his birthday, not "real" binary numbers.
Ya, they did this last year when Southern California was on fire. All the pretty pictures of the San Bernardino mountains (next to my house) were from a NASA UAV. It was picking out the hotspots for the planes and choppers flying out of the Hot Shots place at San Bernardino Int'l Airport down the street.
"Last time I ventured into second life I searched for 'Beach' and was treated to a picture of a girl fingering herself."
Yet if that were to happen to you in First Life you probably wouldn't complain.
Until you get people who answer those questions thusly:
Steak vs Salad: Beer
Blonde vs Brunette: Redhead
Pepsi vs Coke: Rum
Car vs Bicycle: More people should skip to their destination
Mac vs PC: I'm a luddite, you insensitive clod!
I hope I'm not the only one who heard Homer Simpson in my head when I read "Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)".
So the time left on the Landing Countdown timer on the front page is about 13.5 minutes longer than the timer on the (broken) Tracking page.
Will this things support closed captioning? Our (wife and I) biggest complaint about Netflix's streaming movies is the lack of captioning, since neither one of us can hear worth a damn.
They've been "working on" captioning as long as the Mac version...
Ya, it's piracy's fault that music sales dropped 3.5 billion in seven years.
I'm sure that the cost of gasoline doubling in that same time had nothing to do with people buying fewer CDs.
Little concerned about it though. Rob-U-Cab doesn't sound like a very nice thing...
So, does one have to purchase 1.5 Vista licenses?