Anyone who's grown up around people with substance abuse problems already knows this. Everyone I know with drug issues started out with alcohol issues.
Not as good? That really depends on what you need it for. If all you want is to able to play music or listen to audio books why do you need a pocket computer?
Yep. we've moved some of our apps to web-based clients to save a few thousand dollars in development and we end up spending millions in network upgrades to support clients in rural areas.
So I can't type on my iPad at all? Shit. What the hell does this virtual keyboard thingie do then?
Idiot.
The simple truth is that most people don't do any "content creation" above blog entries, tweets, etc on their full-sized computers. So why single out the iPad? Or do you just have a hard-on for bashing Apple?
It's not always about not paying for things. Some people have fetishes for... well, let us just say illegal things. In some places frontal nudity would count. Other places you're talking pictures featuring pyrohomonecropedobestiality.
The box it's shipped in has the product name on it. That lets thieves know exactly what they are stealing, and spoils any surprise it might have had as a gift. Great jorb, Amazon.
"The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, papers, and EFFECTS, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
I already have an iPad, so I'm not all that interested in a Kindle Fire. For all that I like my iPad, the one place it is lacking is reading books. Yes, you can, and there are a lot of apps to do it. But the glare and the weight gets to you after a while. Having read books on a Kindle I'm very interested in the Kindle Touch. Even if the touchscreen tech isn't on par with the iPad (and for that price it would be hard for Amazon to pull that off) I like the idea of not having to fish around for buttons.
Some have life. Some have, will have, or have had, intelligent life. On some of those worlds they haven't invented radio yet. On some they abandoned radio a long time ago. On some they will never make it that far. Some have died out long ago, leaving only their remains. Some have yet to evolve. Some are there, right now, but are too far away to be detected. At the scales we're talking about we may never meet anyone else before we go extinct.
I don't have an iPhone because I won't do business with either AT&T or Verizon and my iPad doesn't fit in my short pocket. So, yes, I still have an iPod. Hell, my wife has both as well. (To be fair, mine's a Touch and her's is a Nano.)
Who had Firewire? Mac users. iTunes didn't even run on Windows when the iPod came out. Apple didn't even think about Windows users until USB 2 was the norm on PCs.
Yep. My work still as not upgraded to Windows 7. We have too many in-house products that are not (yet) certified to run reliably in 7, and we don NOT have the option of just rolling it out and hoping for the best. Hell, we still have a few web-apps that run exclusively on IE 6.
Many people don't get that upgrading for personal use and upgrading in the enterprise are two completely different beasts.
For me it's not worth the extra cost. And extra $127.00 (US) for a service I'm going to need a few times a year? With a crippled data plan? Sorry, but my smartphone comes with a data plan more generous than either AT&T or Verizon can offer. Especially considering their ridiculous limits on WiFi hot-spotting. Make the device within the actual cost difference of the chips and give me a reasonable data plan and I'll think about it.
We tried the reasonable approach. We've tried being respectful. We've tried being nice. What did we get? People trying to shove their religious beliefs into our science classes and laws.
And it's funny that you take offense at the "bearded man in the sky" jab. Because that is exactly what most Christians believed for the vast majority of the existence of the Christian religion. It is only since the rise of science that God has degenerated from a concrete visage into a nebulous idea.
When has any religion been worthwhile? At best religion is guesswork, an attempt to make sense out of the world around us with little knowledge of how things actually work. At worst, religion is a tool to control the masses and put money, food, and power into the hands of the priests.
The problem is that the Religious Right has tried to conflate the "trust" aspect of "faith" with the religious aspect of "faith". Their purpose is to try and trick people into thinking that science is just another religion. "Faith" has become a loaded word and really should not be used in this context.
They don't have to. It doesn't make any difference to the result. If a falling object always accelerates at the same rate it doesn't matter if it is caused by natural processes or the hand of an invisible god. The results are the same and the practical applications remain the same. Science isn't about proving that God/gods/fairies/Santa is not running the show. It's about showing how the show works.
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Are you kidding? Office 97 was more than I ever needed. WordPad with a spell checker is more word processor than most Word users need.
Anyone who's grown up around people with substance abuse problems already knows this. Everyone I know with drug issues started out with alcohol issues.
Not as good? That really depends on what you need it for. If all you want is to able to play music or listen to audio books why do you need a pocket computer?
Yep. we've moved some of our apps to web-based clients to save a few thousand dollars in development and we end up spending millions in network upgrades to support clients in rural areas.
So I can't type on my iPad at all? Shit. What the hell does this virtual keyboard thingie do then?
Idiot.
The simple truth is that most people don't do any "content creation" above blog entries, tweets, etc on their full-sized computers. So why single out the iPad? Or do you just have a hard-on for bashing Apple?
It's not always about not paying for things. Some people have fetishes for... well, let us just say illegal things. In some places frontal nudity would count. Other places you're talking pictures featuring pyrohomonecropedobestiality.
I thought that was Bill Cosby.
The box it's shipped in has the product name on it. That lets thieves know exactly what they are stealing, and spoils any surprise it might have had as a gift. Great jorb, Amazon.
"The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, papers, and EFFECTS, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Right there.
I already have an iPad, so I'm not all that interested in a Kindle Fire. For all that I like my iPad, the one place it is lacking is reading books. Yes, you can, and there are a lot of apps to do it. But the glare and the weight gets to you after a while. Having read books on a Kindle I'm very interested in the Kindle Touch. Even if the touchscreen tech isn't on par with the iPad (and for that price it would be hard for Amazon to pull that off) I like the idea of not having to fish around for buttons.
Some have life. Some have, will have, or have had, intelligent life. On some of those worlds they haven't invented radio yet. On some they abandoned radio a long time ago. On some they will never make it that far. Some have died out long ago, leaving only their remains. Some have yet to evolve. Some are there, right now, but are too far away to be detected. At the scales we're talking about we may never meet anyone else before we go extinct.
My employer hasn't even moved to Window 7 yet.
Yeah, real funny, newbie.
1/10. Obvious troll is obvious.
*snicker*
I don't have an iPhone because I won't do business with either AT&T or Verizon and my iPad doesn't fit in my short pocket. So, yes, I still have an iPod. Hell, my wife has both as well. (To be fair, mine's a Touch and her's is a Nano.)
Who had Firewire? Mac users. iTunes didn't even run on Windows when the iPod came out. Apple didn't even think about Windows users until USB 2 was the norm on PCs.
That and the version they did come out with, 5.2 for Windows, was crap. By the time they did come out with a good version it was way too late.
Yep. My work still as not upgraded to Windows 7. We have too many in-house products that are not (yet) certified to run reliably in 7, and we don NOT have the option of just rolling it out and hoping for the best. Hell, we still have a few web-apps that run exclusively on IE 6.
Many people don't get that upgrading for personal use and upgrading in the enterprise are two completely different beasts.
For me it's not worth the extra cost. And extra $127.00 (US) for a service I'm going to need a few times a year? With a crippled data plan? Sorry, but my smartphone comes with a data plan more generous than either AT&T or Verizon can offer. Especially considering their ridiculous limits on WiFi hot-spotting. Make the device within the actual cost difference of the chips and give me a reasonable data plan and I'll think about it.
We tried the reasonable approach. We've tried being respectful. We've tried being nice. What did we get? People trying to shove their religious beliefs into our science classes and laws.
And it's funny that you take offense at the "bearded man in the sky" jab. Because that is exactly what most Christians believed for the vast majority of the existence of the Christian religion. It is only since the rise of science that God has degenerated from a concrete visage into a nebulous idea.
When has any religion been worthwhile? At best religion is guesswork, an attempt to make sense out of the world around us with little knowledge of how things actually work. At worst, religion is a tool to control the masses and put money, food, and power into the hands of the priests.
The problem is that the Religious Right has tried to conflate the "trust" aspect of "faith" with the religious aspect of "faith". Their purpose is to try and trick people into thinking that science is just another religion. "Faith" has become a loaded word and really should not be used in this context.
They don't have to. It doesn't make any difference to the result. If a falling object always accelerates at the same rate it doesn't matter if it is caused by natural processes or the hand of an invisible god. The results are the same and the practical applications remain the same. Science isn't about proving that God/gods/fairies/Santa is not running the show. It's about showing how the show works.
How about a three-digit Slashdot nerd who told them he wanted one?