With the iPhone they had an innovative product, one worth copying, but people who buy iPads do so because they're Apple's new thing...
It's an attractive thought, afterall it's fashionable to think that Apple has some unearthly power to summon money out of the masses, but that's not what's happening. Lots of people have iPhones and iPods. The vast majority of those people love surfing from the couch and purchasing interesting/fun apps. A number of people I've personally encountered told me that they wished they had a bigger version of the iPod Touch. Now that's anecdotal, I'll concede that, but they basically described the iPad. When you purchase apps from Apple, you're allowed to install them on all of your iOS devices. So the risk of getting an iPad and it turning out to be useless is pretty low. There's a difference between "oooo new Apple thing!" and "hmm I really do like this device, now they've got one that has a bigger screen... can't wait to see what I can do with that!"
With that said, I'll tell you one thing about the numerous iPad users I've encountered that partially supports your point: I watched a number of them spend a couple of weeks bringing their iPad to work trying to figure out how to elevate it above being a toy. It's difficult to fit it in when we've got desktops with 30" monitors and laptops. They knew the iPads were effectively big iPod Touches, but they didn't know at the time of purchase just what to use it for. On that note, I've seen a number of people buy cheap netbooks and do the same thing. Heh.
Heh. I'm sorry, I tried to use simple words so you could understand. But, hey, if you are going to defend a self-named group that stabbed you in the back by complaining about name-calling (you terrorist!), maybe I shouldn't give you as much credit.
On a more civil note, I'm sorry so many people call your group by the name you chose for yourselves that stuck in a negative context after hurting the country.
LOL. Nope, didn't just learn about that sad argument tactic..
Ah... that explains how you're so skilled at wielding it. So when are we going to get to the 'content'? Heh.
And another LOL to you for continuing to make @bonch's point.
Apparently ignorance is not only bliss, it's also knee-slappingly funny! Read his 'point' again, then read mine.
And like I said, if you insist that I am Anony, I can't stop you. But you would still be wrong. It IS quite amusing that you can conceive of no other truth than that. In my experience, that usually means the accuser is guilty of the accused behavior.
It matters that it is considered an insult, no matter how derived. And since it is a gross reference to a sex act, it is not polite, despite how it may have come to be.
Never said it was polite.
When insults rather than content are used in political discussions, the natural assumption is that the insulter has no content.
You don't say? Did you discover this after this little line of debate started?
As you can see, I am perfectly capable of replying with my own login.
Anything to make it look like more than one person agrees with you, right?
Do you mind if I use your post as an example in the next discussion on Slashdot where one poster complains about the overuse of RAM by Windows technologies such as SuperFetch and the other claims that unused RAM is wasted RAM?
Your argument is going to be "here's an unlikely scenario you could run into that proves you are wrong"...?
It matters how the term came about, deadcrow, and it matters how it stuck. If you are not going to educate yourself on the topic you probably shouldn't be rushing to their defense. Afterall, you are screwed by their actions, too.
The problem is the people who give them power and elect representatives from that party.
Yeah, if only the people had voted for those that promised they were honest folk whose only motivation was to clean up this country instead of those whose campaigns mainly comprised of "we're only looking out for our own interests!"
Hey, you worked out how to use a question mark! Very nice!
Still, though, you skipped the 'think about it' part. In the context of malware, do you really not see the difference between a one-time install and a machine where somebody browses the web all day?
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With the iPhone they had an innovative product, one worth copying, but people who buy iPads do so because they're Apple's new thing...
It's an attractive thought, afterall it's fashionable to think that Apple has some unearthly power to summon money out of the masses, but that's not what's happening. Lots of people have iPhones and iPods. The vast majority of those people love surfing from the couch and purchasing interesting/fun apps. A number of people I've personally encountered told me that they wished they had a bigger version of the iPod Touch. Now that's anecdotal, I'll concede that, but they basically described the iPad. When you purchase apps from Apple, you're allowed to install them on all of your iOS devices. So the risk of getting an iPad and it turning out to be useless is pretty low. There's a difference between "oooo new Apple thing!" and "hmm I really do like this device, now they've got one that has a bigger screen... can't wait to see what I can do with that!"
With that said, I'll tell you one thing about the numerous iPad users I've encountered that partially supports your point: I watched a number of them spend a couple of weeks bringing their iPad to work trying to figure out how to elevate it above being a toy. It's difficult to fit it in when we've got desktops with 30" monitors and laptops. They knew the iPads were effectively big iPod Touches, but they didn't know at the time of purchase just what to use it for. On that note, I've seen a number of people buy cheap netbooks and do the same thing. Heh.
Heh. I'm sorry, I tried to use simple words so you could understand. But, hey, if you are going to defend a self-named group that stabbed you in the back by complaining about name-calling (you terrorist!), maybe I shouldn't give you as much credit.
On a more civil note, I'm sorry so many people call your group by the name you chose for yourselves that stuck in a negative context after hurting the country.
HTML and JS probably *are* the best tool for *this* job. Which is basically scripting.
And if Microsoft is following the lead of Google Docs....
LOL. Nope, didn't just learn about that sad argument tactic..
Ah... that explains how you're so skilled at wielding it. So when are we going to get to the 'content'? Heh.
And another LOL to you for continuing to make @bonch's point.
Apparently ignorance is not only bliss, it's also knee-slappingly funny! Read his 'point' again, then read mine.
And like I said, if you insist that I am Anony, I can't stop you. But you would still be wrong. It IS quite amusing that you can conceive of no other truth than that. In my experience, that usually means the accuser is guilty of the accused behavior.
Anonymous Coward much?
You sure are protesting a lot. ;)
Is that really how they think, or do they think "we need n thousand soldiers in our army"?
I do not know the answer, but I don't think they subscribe to the same line of thought that a corporate entity would use.
It matters that it is considered an insult, no matter how derived. And since it is a gross reference to a sex act, it is not polite, despite how it may have come to be.
Never said it was polite.
When insults rather than content are used in political discussions, the natural assumption is that the insulter has no content.
You don't say? Did you discover this after this little line of debate started?
As you can see, I am perfectly capable of replying with my own login.
Anything to make it look like more than one person agrees with you, right?
If we can have drone aircraft, why not drone humvees?
Driving on a road requires way faster response times and feedback than flying through the air. Believe me, they would LOVE to have drone Hummers.
I don't know how much one of these costs but if it saves two soldiers it can have a huge ROI.
Only if that means they have a smaller army instead of giving that soldier some other task to perform.
Do you mind if I use your post as an example in the next discussion on Slashdot where one poster complains about the overuse of RAM by Windows technologies such as SuperFetch and the other claims that unused RAM is wasted RAM?
Your argument is going to be "here's an unlikely scenario you could run into that proves you are wrong"...?
But I also remember downloading stuff from the usenet alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.*....
Hah I remember everybody denying they looked at porn.
Mine was using Archie to find porn - back then, they were all stills, in the snow, uphill, both ways!
My favorite definition of Broadband: "Now your porn can move!"
It matters how the term came about, deadcrow, and it matters how it stuck. If you are not going to educate yourself on the topic you probably shouldn't be rushing to their defense. Afterall, you are screwed by their actions, too.
Hi deadcrow!!
Pity you're unaware of how the 'teabagger' term came about, otherwise you could have come up with an apples to apples comparison.
You seemed to have missed the part about it being a juvenile insult.
And you missed the part where they coined the term themselves.
The problem is the people who give them power and elect representatives from that party.
Yeah, if only the people had voted for those that promised they were honest folk whose only motivation was to clean up this country instead of those whose campaigns mainly comprised of "we're only looking out for our own interests!"
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True, but in this case, this non-story is just a chance to let everybody bring in their Three Laws jokes.
Unfortunately these locks still happily open the door when fired on by a blaster.
I'll concede that if I had personally been bitten by him there's a damn good chance I'd agree with you.
Ah, you got my point. Thank you and have a good weekend.
Hey, you worked out how to use a question mark! Very nice!
Still, though, you skipped the 'think about it' part. In the context of malware, do you really not see the difference between a one-time install and a machine where somebody browses the web all day?
Routers, webservers, etc don't have a human driving them. Think about it.
Well, I'll put it this way: I wouldn't want my taxes paying for his jail cell for that long.
um, no. finding methane confirms the presence of methane, we hope it IS indicative of life
FTFY.
Interesting. Isn't the presence of methane indicative of life?
It will be after we ET find life in the presence of methane.
Yeah, thanks for illustrating my point. Heh.