At home? Yes. Other than doing some audio editing once or twice every couple of weeks I don't want to dink around with a computer.
I sit at a computer 8-9 hours a day doing CAD, and graphics work. When I'm at home I'd rather be playing music, listening to music, doing restoration work on my old Jaguar, or running off to one of the many local waterways to kayak.
I'm neither dense nor trolling. Simply replying to your words. So this time I'll reply to the whole sentence, instead of just the part that made you sound dense. And emphasize the part that you bring up now.
You can't even put things to read on it without third party software and a ridiculous sync process in iTunes.
To me that means that you think the only way to put info on the thing is through a wired sync. From now on before you accuse someone of being dense or a troll, maybe you should go back and make sure that you wrote what you meant to say.
I have an iPad. I'm using to enter this post. I also have an iPod touch that I used for about a year for web surfing and reading e-books.
It's not meant to be a replacement for a full on computer. In fact when it was officially announced, and people trashed it as an overgrown iPod Touch my first thought was, "Great. Just what I was hoping for."
As far as needing
third party software and a ridiculous sync process
to add something to read. You're just wrong. I can download books from Amazon, or the book section of the iTunes store straight off of Wi-Fi or 3G on to the iPad.
I rarely use my home commuter for anything other than as an HTPC anymore. It fulfills my home commuting needs nicely. While at work I have a very powerful desktop to do my job. At home I have a tablet that allows me to surf, do personal email, and read books in any room, or on my deck, or in the parking lot.
I'm guessing that if you're building a whole new aircraft with both high speed, and lower fuel consumption in mind. You're not going to use the less efficient of two engine designs that are available to you.
Due to the Doppler effect, the number of o's in the word "Whoosh (nominal spelling)" depends on the height above the observers head that the joke passed.
Are you serious? While he might not be writing the code, or designing the circuits. The products that come from his company, first come his mind.
It's all about vision and drive. You can have all the skills in the world. But if you don't have the ability to think up a use or application for those skills you might as well be talking to yourself under an overpass somewhere.
If you're collecting data you probably plan to use it. Now if you go to the data set to put it to use you'll see that there is more stuff there than you expected. So how can you say "I didn't know that I had all these snippets of traffic on the network I was sniffing."?
The medical, and inventory control fields are some of the places where tablets have been used successfully in the past. One of the main reasons was they weren't used as general computing devices. But instead they were setup to do task specific things.
If you think about it. Why would a tablet being used as a patient record/history need to be able to be a general use computer?
While home automation, and education general use computing is useful. There is nothing about current tablets that stop them from being used for those things. There are developers writing software to just that. Your rant goes against the logical use in the other fields you mention.
Not quite true. Apple's beef with Nokia is that they were ignoring the "Non-Discriminatory" part of RAND.
Nokia wanted to have Apple not only pay the "Reasonable" fees that they were collecting from other mobile phone makers. But also wanted Apple to license patents it holds to them as part of the bargain.
And then the little blonde girl said, "Hey this BumpTop! I can use this." As she navigates to the virtual front door and locks it just in time to keep the velociraptor out.
First of all, thanks for not taking a flamethrower to me for my reply. I don't often make posts like that because I don't like getting vitriol in response to trying to have a dialog.
Fair enough. I still anxiously look forward to a time when no generation is left alive that grew up without a computer in the home.
That won't make too a big difference. I'm 46 and didn't grow up with a computer in the house. Unless you want to count the Pong machine (No really that's all it did was play Pong). And I'm very much a technophile, and do mechanical design. My son is 21 and there was always computers around as he grew up. Yet he has no interest in the complexities of computers, only the application of them.
He can sit down in front of Garage Band on his Mac at home, or whatever software they use at the studio where he works and create incredible music, and audio effects. But if something goes wrong, he's done working until somebody else fixes it. He doesn't know how to fix the problem, and doesn't want to know. The computer is a tool for him to do what he wants to do. A means to an end, not an end to itself.
Agreed...but needing it to be the equivalent of Duplo blocks is ridiculous. You have to move up to regular Legos at SOME point.
The counter to what I said about my son is this. A simple device like an iPad could be the gateway drug for some people, young and old alike. Not every junkie starts out on heroin.
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Watching how they walk immediately after treatment would show if there was an effect. Now how they quantify it I don't know.
They receive money from advertisers when they put their content on TV.
At home? Yes. Other than doing some audio editing once or twice every couple of weeks I don't want to dink around with a computer.
I sit at a computer 8-9 hours a day doing CAD, and graphics work. When I'm at home I'd rather be playing music, listening to music, doing restoration work on my old Jaguar, or running off to one of the many local waterways to kayak.
I think that a couple of IPA's had something to do with it as well.
I'm neither dense nor trolling. Simply replying to your words. So this time I'll reply to the whole sentence, instead of just the part that made you sound dense. And emphasize the part that you bring up now.
To me that means that you think the only way to put info on the thing is through a wired sync. From now on before you accuse someone of being dense or a troll, maybe you should go back and make sure that you wrote what you meant to say.
I have an iPad. I'm using to enter this post. I also have an iPod touch that I used for about a year for web surfing and reading e-books.
It's not meant to be a replacement for a full on computer. In fact when it was officially announced, and people trashed it as an overgrown iPod Touch my first thought was, "Great. Just what I was hoping for."
As far as needing
to add something to read. You're just wrong. I can download books from Amazon, or the book section of the iTunes store straight off of Wi-Fi or 3G on to the iPad.
I rarely use my home commuter for anything other than as an HTPC anymore. It fulfills my home commuting needs nicely. While at work I have a very powerful desktop to do my job. At home I have a tablet that allows me to surf, do personal email, and read books in any room, or on my deck, or in the parking lot.
Lighten up Francis!
So what you're saying is that if iPad had HDMI out you'd buy one?
I would say that it shouldcbe a goo idea in order to be considered "innovative."
Or classic muscle cars.
I'm guessing that if you're building a whole new aircraft with both high speed, and lower fuel consumption in mind. You're not going to use the less efficient of two engine designs that are available to you.
Due to the Doppler effect, the number of o's in the word "Whoosh (nominal spelling)" depends on the height above the observers head that the joke passed.
What do your kids think about your 2nd wife who is their age?
Are you serious? While he might not be writing the code, or designing the circuits. The products that come from his company, first come his mind.
It's all about vision and drive. You can have all the skills in the world. But if you don't have the ability to think up a use or application for those skills you might as well be talking to yourself under an overpass somewhere.
Probably because you managed to say something deemed to be pro-Apple, and something that slighted Linux in the same sentence.
You're right he didn't. But he did drive a team to develop one that can actually be used.
If you're collecting data you probably plan to use it. Now if you go to the data set to put it to use you'll see that there is more stuff there than you expected. So how can you say "I didn't know that I had all these snippets of traffic on the network I was sniffing."?
The medical, and inventory control fields are some of the places where tablets have been used successfully in the past. One of the main reasons was they weren't used as general computing devices. But instead they were setup to do task specific things.
If you think about it. Why would a tablet being used as a patient record/history need to be able to be a general use computer?
While home automation, and education general use computing is useful. There is nothing about current tablets that stop them from being used for those things. There are developers writing software to just that. Your rant goes against the logical use in the other fields you mention.
No. It's not. I dare you can find one instance where either Apple or Jobs states that the purpose of the iPad is to replace anything.
The only people who say that are the ones who don't like the idea of the iPad for any purpose.
I think your multi-touch is a little touchy.
Not quite true. Apple's beef with Nokia is that they were ignoring the "Non-Discriminatory" part of RAND.
Nokia wanted to have Apple not only pay the "Reasonable" fees that they were collecting from other mobile phone makers. But also wanted Apple to license patents it holds to them as part of the bargain.
Bloggers are the new pamphleteers?
Yeah right. Like reading and posting on /. is such a good example of intelligence and time management.
And then the little blonde girl said, "Hey this BumpTop! I can use this." As she navigates to the virtual front door and locks it just in time to keep the velociraptor out.
That won't make too a big difference. I'm 46 and didn't grow up with a computer in the house. Unless you want to count the Pong machine (No really that's all it did was play Pong). And I'm very much a technophile, and do mechanical design. My son is 21 and there was always computers around as he grew up. Yet he has no interest in the complexities of computers, only the application of them.
He can sit down in front of Garage Band on his Mac at home, or whatever software they use at the studio where he works and create incredible music, and audio effects. But if something goes wrong, he's done working until somebody else fixes it. He doesn't know how to fix the problem, and doesn't want to know. The computer is a tool for him to do what he wants to do. A means to an end, not an end to itself.
The counter to what I said about my son is this. A simple device like an iPad could be the gateway drug for some people, young and old alike. Not every junkie starts out on heroin.