Octorox said:
Am I the only one who thinks this looks fantastic and useful?
If you mean a personal phantom zone I can think of a number of uses for one of those but not if it's running Windees 7.
I own a 3GS but want to trade it in for a Nexus one am I crazy?
Nooo...of course not....you're perfectly norm..............OKAY...GET HIM!!!!!!
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sean wookie said:
I own a 3GS but want to trade it in for a Nexus one am I crazy?
No, you're not crazy. Whatever works for you man. I, however, LOVE my 3GS.
Octorox said:
sean wookie said:
I own a 3GS but want to trade it in for a Nexus one am I crazy?
No, you're not crazy. Whatever works for you man. I, however, LOVE my 3GS.
I love mine as well, but it is getting a bit expensive for me. If go on my family's plan with Verizon I'll just have to pay for the internet.
iPhone/iPod Touch = awesome, useful, sweet for on the go and simple internet reading.
However, my wife and I bought our netbook specifically to have something for her to sync her iPhone to. And it plays Flash. ;-)
If it was a MacBook with an iPhone interface, that'd be great, but since its just a massive iPhone with all of the limitations of that system, it doesn't make sense to have it big.
And I love Apple products!
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I'm currently typing on a rather old PowerBook G4 laptop.
When I purchased it, it was the only 17inch widescreen laptop on the market, I was moving to a small house, I didn't have room for a music system, a television or a large desk top computer and the laptop did everything I needed it to do.
It played my DVD's, my music, it got me on the internet, it stored my photos.
I have nothing against Apple products that are useful, aren't overpriced and the customer service is acceptable (OK I hate Apple) but I still love my G4.
Bingowings said:
I'm currently typing on a rather old PowerBook G4 laptop.
When I purchased it, it was the only 17inch widescreen laptop on the market, I was moving to a small house, I didn't have room for a music system, a television or a large desk top computer and the laptop did everything I needed it to do.
It played my DVD's, my music, it got me on the internet, it stored my photos.
I have nothing against Apple products that are useful, aren't overpriced and the customer service is acceptable (OK I hate Apple) but I still love my G4.
Customer service is better than anyone else but it still sucks. All customer service sucks...
Octorox said:
Bingowings said:
I'm currently typing on a rather old PowerBook G4 laptop.
When I purchased it, it was the only 17inch widescreen laptop on the market, I was moving to a small house, I didn't have room for a music system, a television or a large desk top computer and the laptop did everything I needed it to do.
It played my DVD's, my music, it got me on the internet, it stored my photos.
I have nothing against Apple products that are useful, aren't overpriced and the customer service is acceptable (OK I hate Apple) but I still love my G4.
Customer service is better than anyone else but it still sucks. All customer service sucks...
My laptop, though useful, started to give me electric shocks after a few months and blew my headphones while I was wearing them.
Eventually the speakers blew as well.
It took a year and a forest of paper to get the thing sorted out.
When they finally got the thing repaired they stole the Airport card out of it (that's right they took the Airport out without telling me).
I took the thing back only to get it returned again with a note attached to it calling me "an arse".
I've heard hundreds of stories like this.
Apple has one of the worst customer services I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with, especially when you consider how much I paid for the thing when it first came out.
With all the stories I've heard from Adywan, Bingowings, etc...I'm starting to wonder if most customer service reps in the U.K. are like Carol Beers, and if, in fact, she is not as exaggerated as I think. ;)
*cough*
Bingowings said:
Octorox said:
Bingowings said:
I'm currently typing on a rather old PowerBook G4 laptop.
When I purchased it, it was the only 17inch widescreen laptop on the market, I was moving to a small house, I didn't have room for a music system, a television or a large desk top computer and the laptop did everything I needed it to do.
It played my DVD's, my music, it got me on the internet, it stored my photos.
I have nothing against Apple products that are useful, aren't overpriced and the customer service is acceptable (OK I hate Apple) but I still love my G4.
Customer service is better than anyone else but it still sucks. All customer service sucks...
My laptop, though useful, started to give me electric shocks after a few months and blew my headphones while I was wearing them.
Eventually the speakers blew as well.
It took a year and a forest of paper to get the thing sorted out.
When they finally got the thing repaired they stole the Airport card out of it (that's right they took the Airport out without telling me).
I took the thing back only to get it returned again with a note attached to it calling me "an arse".
I've heard hundreds of stories like this.
Apple has one of the worst customer services I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with, especially when you consider how much I paid for the thing when it first came out.
wow thats pretty awful...
C3PX said:
Er hem...
I think the iPad is completely ridiculous and useless. They have taken everything practical about the iPhone/iTouch and turned it into something very impractical. It is really too bulky to be very portable, and it lacks much of the functionality and freedom you get from an actual laptop. So in the end, what demand does the iPad really meet? What reasons have Apple given us to opt for an iPad over an iTouch or a MacBook? I can't see any at all.
Save your money, go with a relatively inexpensive netbook (or even better for the Apple fan, save your pennies and grab a MacBook). I think the majority of the people buying the iPad will be those very same technology junkies with too much money on their hands who upgrade to the latest generation of iPhone the instant it is released. Most of the population will see the iPad as the cool but impractical and fairly useless piece of technology it is. It is like the tablet PC all over again... yeah, you don't see too many people at the airport with those do you? Because the tried and true laptop is just that much easier and practical to use.
My thoughts exactly. It seems almost like a SNL commercial - The Giant iPhone.
Something else that seems strange to me is the thought of an electronic device in place of a physical book. I get it for college classrooms, and in fact, I assume it will be how schools function in the next few years. It makes perfect sense. One device in place of an armload of textbooks. Students just get the address of the download site at the start of the school year or semester, and download the books for that course.
However, where a paperback book is concerned, I can't fathom the idea of wanting a device instead of a book. With a book, you can toss it in a suitcase or backpack, it always works, it's not fragile, and doesn't rely on an account, download capabilities, or electricity.
This is the book that I took on my last trip to Spain & France. That was a lot of flying, driving, packing & unpacking, etc. It took a beating, but it was available, convenient, and functional the entire time. In every imaginable situation on that trip, an electronic device would have been less convenient and, for me, I wouldn't have bothered.
That book? It should have gotten much more abuse out of sheer respect for other books which are actually good.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
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Anchorhead said:
...This is the book that I took on my last trip to Spain & France.... It took a beating, but it was available, convenient, and functional the entire time....
xhonzi said:
That book? It should have gotten much more abuse out of sheer respect for other books which are actually good.
Now, to be fair, he didn't actually say how the book was used.
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Anchorhead said:
Something else that seems strange to me is the thought of an electronic device in place of a physical book. I get it for college classrooms, and in fact, I assume it will be how schools function in the next few years. It makes perfect sense. One device in place of an armload of textbooks. Students just get the address of the download site at the start of the school year or semester, and download the books for that course.
It's already starting to get that way. The campus libraries at my university have a stock of Kindles with tons of books pre-loaded onto them that you can check out for a certain amount of time.
What is this 'library' you speak of? Don't you mean 'internet café'? :p and a bit of :(
Ripplin said:
:p and a bit of :(
:r
You always say that.
doubleofive said:
Is the book better than the movie?
I think so. Like most novels, it's more thorough than the film. Much more of the workings of Akator are explained and the characters are fleshed-out more. Also, it starts with the conquistadors. Filmed as the novel version, it would have been a deeper film. That said, it would have been crowding three hours long. That would be fine with me, but not everyone digs a three-hour movie. Besides, the films have never been deep, drawn-out affairs. They're pulpy homages to old movie serials.
While we're drifting off-topic, I should point out that I really liked the film. My dislike of Lucas' lying about Star Wars and how terrible the one prequel I saw was have zero affect on how I view his other work. My feelings regarding Lucas & all things Star Wars are completely separate from all things Indiana Jones. That's why you don't see me jumping on the "Lucas has destroyed everything he touches" hate wagon. I have no interest in punishing him or slamming him constantly - the way some people do around here. I have no problem separating the prequels & SEs from Indiana Jones - because they are separate.
Left unchecked, I think Lucas is a bad film maker. As part of a creative team, I think he's a great idea man. He is one third of the team that has created all four Indiana Jones films, not the destroyer of worlds that the prequel haters want to make him out to be.
I would wecolme new and good Lucas material with open arms. My dislike for Crystal Skull is not based on my hatred of the SW Prequels. I wanted to give Crystal Skull a shot- I thought it couldn't be as bad as people were saying... in my opinion- it was every lick as bad as they were saying.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
Anchorhead said:
While we're drifting off-topic, I should point out that I really liked the film. My dislike of Lucas' lying about Star Wars and how terrible the one prequel I saw was have zero affect on how I view his other work. My feelings regarding Lucas & all things Star Wars are completely separate from all things Indiana Jones. That's why you don't see me jumping on the "Lucas has destroyed everything he touches" hate wagon. I have no interest in punishing him or slamming him constantly - the way some people do around here. I have no problem separating the prequels & SEs from Indiana Jones - because they are separate.
Left unchecked, I think Lucas is a bad film maker. As part of a creative team, I think he's a great idea man. He is one third of the team that has created all four Indiana Jones films, not the destroyer of worlds that the prequel haters want to make him out to be.
To continue off-topic - this is all very well said and I agree. I thought Indy 4 could have been decent but had too many groan moments to properly enjoy. I've recently watched two fanedits of the film and I find it to be a worthwhile watch now.
Ipad? Pass. I have an 4th Gen ipod, a 2nd Gen shuffle, and a regular old style limited flip phone. I don't move around enough to need a portable device like an iphone or something similar.
TV's Frink said:
I thought Indy 4 could have been decent but had too many groan moments to properly enjoy.
Yeah, there are a few scenes I could have done without, but they're no worse than a few scenes in Temple & Crusade.
TV's Frink said:
... a regular old style limited flip phone. I don't move around enough to need a portable device like an iphone something similar.
Same for me. I have no desire to be connected constantly. I have a Razr because it's small. It can slip into my riding jacket and I don't even know it's there. I really just carry it for emergencies that may take place several hundred miles out. Truthfully, I seldom use the thing.
