I've got a lot of foreign friends, the one thing they have in common is that they consider us delusional for believing that bicycles are not pedestrians.
I'm not sure why this was modded flamebait. There's a point to be made here. I've lived in Downtown Portland and traveled a lot as both a pedestrian and a driver. I have to say this: I would MUCH rather dodge bicycles on the sidewalk than hit one with my car. It's not that cyclists are stupid, it's that they are so overwhelmingly out-classed that any collision is frightening. I'd rather have the fear of colliding with a cyclist while crossing a street than living with the guilt of accidentally paralyzing somebody who wobbled into my path. That's one of the key reasons why bicycles on the road are so frustrating. It's like being a waitress while she's carrying four drinks on a tray and a bunch of kids are running around wild playing.
This reminds me of a conversation I caught once. A PC Gamer said the only game a Mac user can play is Warcraft. A Mac user angrily replied "That's not true! We have Myst, too!"
In your definition, someone who spends weeks playing Dominions online is not serious...
Ah, no. In my definition, they're a serious Dominions player.
Jumping from genre to genre is more a sign of the causal gamer.
No, it's not. It's the sign of somebody who likes to play games, not play a game. Console != casual. People have that impression because consoles are easier to acquire.
There are really few good games that don't make it to PC.
Actually, there are a lot of great games that'll never make it to PC. This is something a serious gamer knows that a PC Gamer isn't aware of.:P
That doesn't strike me as a 'serious gamer'. The people I've met that I'd call 'serious gamers' have a number of different consoles and play across a number of different genres. Somebody who says "I dont play consoles, strictly PC" is a "Serious PC Gamer".
Every few months I have this dream that I go to a book store and find a new Calvin and Hobbes book that has been 15 years in the making. Each comic is rendered in full color using water-colors. The layout for each comic is tuned, not for the newspaper it would have been printed in, but to the story that he's trying to tell. Each comic was written based on inspirations he found over the last 15 years, ensuring that the final comic would be the best of the best of the best and not just some skimpy idea rendered to make a deadline. Each time I go to the store and find this, I open it up and it starts with a series of Calvin's snowmen and a poem. I then put the book into it's bag and drive home. As soon as I get home and get the bag out.. *bam* I wake up.
I wish they had asked him what he thought of the Adult Swim version of his strip. I wonder if he would have balked at the initial silliness of it, or pondered it for a bit and said "you know... that's exactly how Calvin would be treated these days".
I wish tethering 'just worked'. My phone has an unlimited data connection, wifi, and bluetooth. Data doesn't interfere with the phone's ability to make/receieve calls. My GPS should be talking to my phone to get traffic info. My DS or PSP should be asking my phone for a net connection so I can play on-line. My laptop should be able to talk to my phone for a net connection if nothing's around. My camera should talk to my phone to auto-upload pics to my FTP site. Then we wouldn't need a 'game phone' or whatever.
Your definition of 'run' is being stretched a bit to find that irony.
Overrated? Really? Okay. Obviously somebody with a mod-point didn't understand what I was saying, so I will be clearer. It takes two hours to boot. To say you are 'running OSX on a Nokia phone' is not all that different from saying "I can brick my Nokia phone for two hours". At the end of the day, you're not doing anything productive with OSX on either platform. It is so crappy, in fact, that the iPhone OS's basis in OSX is actually a lot more meaningful and destroys the 'irony' of that statement.
Sorry to suck the fun out of the statement, but the use of the word 'run' is being stretched to make that irony seem meaningful.
Thats not the case if you use a high-fraternity flux capacitor. I've heard the prazatonic implementation of intergalactical space bizanium will allow you to propate the quadraceptic meld process down to 0.2nm.
You know, that's a bizarre occurance. Slashdot takes down sites so much the name has become a verb. Yet, nobody reads the article before posting. How do so many geeks manage that? I mean, I post my knee-jerk reactions to a site, but at least I have the courtesy to not cost them bandwidth.
Along with the things the iPad is poorly suited to that netbooks are well suited for, this is why I believe the idea posited in TFS of the iPad displacing netbooks rather than -- assuming it succeeds -- coexisting alongside them is not particularly credible.
That really hinges on what the masses really buy netbooks for. I seriously seriously seriously doubt the majority of them are buying them as machine replacements. Reality may disagree with me, but I think they're mainly purchased for web-browsing on the go. And again, this is just opinion here, but I think that's also why both the iPhone and iPod Touch have been successful despite the offerings of the competition.
I'm having trouble seeing how an iPad would kick a netbooks butt at browsing the web, viewing quicktimes, or reading docs.
It's all display. A netbook, at best, is half-display. It also has an OS and apps tuned to its configuration all the way down to the application level. Somebody browsing with Safari's touch-interface is going to run circles around the guy trying to use a trackpad, for example. The netbook you mentioned is short 168 pixels vertically and it's running a browser not specifically designed to fit in that context.
As I write this, though, I'm realizing that my sense of scale of how big a netbook and an iPad in relation to each other is probably skewed. Is your netbook's display roughly the size of the Tablet's? If so, I may have shot one of my own points in the foot. Oh well.:)
Thanks for the info. I wish I could say I've had such a pleasant experience with XP and standby.
For iPhone, the two things for which a computer with iTunes is required that I see as basic functionality are, IIRC, (1) initial activation of some functionality, and (2) -- which I'm more sure of -- OS updates. From what I've heard, the iPad will be similarly dependent on iTunes, thus the Mac and Windows system requirements on the iPad tech specs. Its not a constant dependency, but its something that makes an iPad not viable as the only computer for a user.
I have to admit, I don't really understand where you're coming from, here. First, the OS updates are infrequent. Honestly, they're not typically that big of deal, either. They're optional. If you're going to make that a requirement, then what about updating your netbook to Windows 7? You're not doing that without a computer, either. I'll concede, though, that an urgent security update would indeed be obnoxious. However, this hasn't really happened, yet. *fingers crossed*
Second, I'm not sure where this 'only computer' requirement came from. It's not something Apple's pushing, and frankly, I don't see why a netbook would be held to that standard. It's neat that on a fundamental level a netbook can do what your desktop does. Now maybe my requirements for a computer are steeper than most, but between the low-res screen, lack of storage, and its running on a low-power CPU, I can't imagine somebody getting a netbook and going "yep, that'll be my only computer!" That's not what you'd buy a netbook or a tablet for. You'd buy either because you have a need where a portable device would work. If you need a keyboard to take notes in a meeting, blammo, netbook. If you need to read docs, browse the web, view quicktimes etc (which would help me at my job), the iPad would potentially kick its butt. (Actually this brings up a point in your favor: If I have to sync the stupid thing just to get a quicktime on it, that blows goats. FFS Apple, put an SD slot in it!)
This is too much like the Kindle vs. Netbook debate a few months ago. I see room for both.
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I've got a lot of foreign friends, the one thing they have in common is that they consider us delusional for believing that bicycles are not pedestrians.
I'm not sure why this was modded flamebait. There's a point to be made here. I've lived in Downtown Portland and traveled a lot as both a pedestrian and a driver. I have to say this: I would MUCH rather dodge bicycles on the sidewalk than hit one with my car. It's not that cyclists are stupid, it's that they are so overwhelmingly out-classed that any collision is frightening. I'd rather have the fear of colliding with a cyclist while crossing a street than living with the guilt of accidentally paralyzing somebody who wobbled into my path. That's one of the key reasons why bicycles on the road are so frustrating. It's like being a waitress while she's carrying four drinks on a tray and a bunch of kids are running around wild playing.
This reminds me of a conversation I caught once. A PC Gamer said the only game a Mac user can play is Warcraft. A Mac user angrily replied "That's not true! We have Myst, too!"
I'd say that person cant make their mind up.
They like gaming in general. They're a gamer.
In your definition, someone who spends weeks playing Dominions online is not serious...
Ah, no. In my definition, they're a serious Dominions player.
Jumping from genre to genre is more a sign of the causal gamer.
No, it's not. It's the sign of somebody who likes to play games, not play a game. Console != casual. People have that impression because consoles are easier to acquire.
There are really few good games that don't make it to PC.
Actually, there are a lot of great games that'll never make it to PC. This is something a serious gamer knows that a PC Gamer isn't aware of. :P
Yes.
That doesn't strike me as a 'serious gamer'. The people I've met that I'd call 'serious gamers' have a number of different consoles and play across a number of different genres. Somebody who says "I dont play consoles, strictly PC" is a "Serious PC Gamer".
I wasn't aiming for funny. Just pointing out that despite what Mel Brooks says, a comedian is not a philosopher.
Every few months I have this dream that I go to a book store and find a new Calvin and Hobbes book that has been 15 years in the making. Each comic is rendered in full color using water-colors. The layout for each comic is tuned, not for the newspaper it would have been printed in, but to the story that he's trying to tell. Each comic was written based on inspirations he found over the last 15 years, ensuring that the final comic would be the best of the best of the best and not just some skimpy idea rendered to make a deadline. Each time I go to the store and find this, I open it up and it starts with a series of Calvin's snowmen and a poem. I then put the book into it's bag and drive home. As soon as I get home and get the bag out.. *bam* I wake up.
I'll never forgive Bill for this torturous dream.
I wish they had asked him what he thought of the Adult Swim version of his strip. I wonder if he would have balked at the initial silliness of it, or pondered it for a bit and said "you know... that's exactly how Calvin would be treated these days".
I didn't realize 'serious gamer' meant "gamer who only plays first-person shooter games".
His being a comedian proved him wrong. Fractured logic == funny.
(Note to everybody about to hit 'reply': Yes, the 'irony' of my post was intentional.)
It's funny how out-of-shape nerds that OD on Dr. Pepper and Cheetos and avoid outdoor activities often support survival of the fittest.
I wish tethering 'just worked'. My phone has an unlimited data connection, wifi, and bluetooth. Data doesn't interfere with the phone's ability to make/receieve calls. My GPS should be talking to my phone to get traffic info. My DS or PSP should be asking my phone for a net connection so I can play on-line. My laptop should be able to talk to my phone for a net connection if nothing's around. My camera should talk to my phone to auto-upload pics to my FTP site. Then we wouldn't need a 'game phone' or whatever.
This is news for nerds, remember?
Right, and which group of people is going to scour the interwebs looking for Super Bo... Big Game commercials?
Your definition of 'run' is being stretched a bit to find that irony.
Overrated? Really? Okay. Obviously somebody with a mod-point didn't understand what I was saying, so I will be clearer. It takes two hours to boot. To say you are 'running OSX on a Nokia phone' is not all that different from saying "I can brick my Nokia phone for two hours". At the end of the day, you're not doing anything productive with OSX on either platform. It is so crappy, in fact, that the iPhone OS's basis in OSX is actually a lot more meaningful and destroys the 'irony' of that statement.
Sorry to suck the fun out of the statement, but the use of the word 'run' is being stretched to make that irony seem meaningful.
Your definition of 'run' is being stretched a bit to find that irony.
Thats not the case if you use a high-fraternity flux capacitor. I've heard the prazatonic implementation of intergalactical space bizanium will allow you to propate the quadraceptic meld process down to 0.2nm.
Just like over-inflating a balloon....
You know, that's a bizarre occurance. Slashdot takes down sites so much the name has become a verb. Yet, nobody reads the article before posting. How do so many geeks manage that? I mean, I post my knee-jerk reactions to a site, but at least I have the courtesy to not cost them bandwidth.
Why do you feel the need to bitch and moan about every little thing like you are somehow entitled to everything being your way?
Beacuse the word 'Insightful' appears next to their name when they write that stuff.
How does Hulu play on your N800? How about from the cellular data connection?
Agreed.
from the im-wearing-you-down-baby dept.
I mean really, use your head.
Input: typically ears or eyes, or fingers if you are blind.
Output: fingers (written) or mouth (oral)
Processor: brain
Then you hike up your pants, knock something expensive over, and go "Did I do thaaaat?"
Uh.. the seven best Linux calculators...? Okay, I take it back, can we go back to the Apple news please?
Stop opening my door! The download is done!!
Along with the things the iPad is poorly suited to that netbooks are well suited for, this is why I believe the idea posited in TFS of the iPad displacing netbooks rather than -- assuming it succeeds -- coexisting alongside them is not particularly credible.
That really hinges on what the masses really buy netbooks for. I seriously seriously seriously doubt the majority of them are buying them as machine replacements. Reality may disagree with me, but I think they're mainly purchased for web-browsing on the go. And again, this is just opinion here, but I think that's also why both the iPhone and iPod Touch have been successful despite the offerings of the competition.
I'm having trouble seeing how an iPad would kick a netbooks butt at browsing the web, viewing quicktimes, or reading docs.
It's all display. A netbook, at best, is half-display. It also has an OS and apps tuned to its configuration all the way down to the application level. Somebody browsing with Safari's touch-interface is going to run circles around the guy trying to use a trackpad, for example. The netbook you mentioned is short 168 pixels vertically and it's running a browser not specifically designed to fit in that context.
As I write this, though, I'm realizing that my sense of scale of how big a netbook and an iPad in relation to each other is probably skewed. Is your netbook's display roughly the size of the Tablet's? If so, I may have shot one of my own points in the foot. Oh well. :)
Thanks for the info. I wish I could say I've had such a pleasant experience with XP and standby.
For iPhone, the two things for which a computer with iTunes is required that I see as basic functionality are, IIRC, (1) initial activation of some functionality, and (2) -- which I'm more sure of -- OS updates. From what I've heard, the iPad will be similarly dependent on iTunes, thus the Mac and Windows system requirements on the iPad tech specs. Its not a constant dependency, but its something that makes an iPad not viable as the only computer for a user.
I have to admit, I don't really understand where you're coming from, here. First, the OS updates are infrequent. Honestly, they're not typically that big of deal, either. They're optional. If you're going to make that a requirement, then what about updating your netbook to Windows 7? You're not doing that without a computer, either. I'll concede, though, that an urgent security update would indeed be obnoxious. However, this hasn't really happened, yet. *fingers crossed*
Second, I'm not sure where this 'only computer' requirement came from. It's not something Apple's pushing, and frankly, I don't see why a netbook would be held to that standard. It's neat that on a fundamental level a netbook can do what your desktop does. Now maybe my requirements for a computer are steeper than most, but between the low-res screen, lack of storage, and its running on a low-power CPU, I can't imagine somebody getting a netbook and going "yep, that'll be my only computer!" That's not what you'd buy a netbook or a tablet for. You'd buy either because you have a need where a portable device would work. If you need a keyboard to take notes in a meeting, blammo, netbook. If you need to read docs, browse the web, view quicktimes etc (which would help me at my job), the iPad would potentially kick its butt. (Actually this brings up a point in your favor: If I have to sync the stupid thing just to get a quicktime on it, that blows goats. FFS Apple, put an SD slot in it!)
This is too much like the Kindle vs. Netbook debate a few months ago. I see room for both.