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From: John Navas on 5 Jul 2010 01:25 On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:23:30 -0400, in <3vq236lgj545ugps1gnflgdpjubs4pjdnr(a)4ax.com>, tony cooper <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:13:34 -0700, John Navas ><spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: >>THE HORSE IS REALLY STINKING NOW!!! ;) >And yet you keep galloping back. I'm just trying to figure out how to get it out of the bar! :) -- John Buying a dSLR doesn't make you a photographer, it makes you a dSLR owner. "The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it." -Ansel Adams
From: tony cooper on 5 Jul 2010 01:26 On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:13:57 -0700, John Navas <spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: >On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:32:03 -0400, in ><pvn236thjol16jjbifu1sahm5airhk2ng6(a)4ax.com>, tony cooper ><tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > >>On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:19:27 -0700, John Navas >><spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: >> >>>On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:51:08 -0400, in >>><fcl236pkbdr20l179bqh8vib0hc9otgamc(a)4ax.com>, tony cooper >>><tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >>> >>>>On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:43:48 -0700, nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> >>>>wrote: >>> >>>>>that's even sillier than before. the *main* purpose of a car is to go >>>>>someplace. >>>> >>>>And the main purpose of a phone is to make and receive telephone >>>>calls. >>> >>>The main purpose is whatever the owner wants it to be. >>> >>>>>however, as a mobile >>>>>internet device or a portable music/video player, it can't be beat. >>>> >>>>Well, then, call it a "mobile internet device" or a "portable >>>>music/video player". Don't call it a phone if is isn't a phone. >>>> >>>>What you have is a butterfly that you are still calling a caterpillar >>>>just because it started out as a caterpillar. >>> >>>So are you now down to arguing semantics and labels? ;) >> >>It's always been about that. ... > >Roger that. Semantics and labels are important. If you want someone to hand you a knife, you don't ask for a fork. You use the right label. -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
From: nospam on 5 Jul 2010 01:34 In article <2eo236lha9arr3og13llfvm8p4t94qke3n(a)4ax.com>, tony cooper <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > >call it whatever you want. it's still useful without phone service. > > I don't argue with that. All those wonderful things you've listed are > certainly useful for some people. > > Me, I want a phone. that's why they make both. :) i have a flip phone for calls, since as a phone, it's much, much better, but for email and web browsing, it sucks. > One of the other smokers had this device that did all the things > you've talked about. (And functioned as a phone) He showed me this > screen where all of his frequent contacts showed up on the screen as > little blue dots in their present location. Some sort of GPS > function, I suppose. > > I asked him how he used this feature. He said he never had, but it > was there for him when he wanted it. Now that's fine for him, but if > I wanted to know where my wife was at any given time I'd call her on > my old phone-calls-only Nokia and ask her. Seems like it would serve > the same purpose. > > I can think of a use for it, though. If someone had a > girlfriend/wife/boyfriend/husband that they suspected of cheating, the > blue dot would give them away if it was matched with another blue dot. there are a number of apps that can do that, one of which is <http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html> > I don't worry about that with my wife, though. I would just worry > when her blue dot was at Neiman-Marcus or Nordstrom's or > Bloomingdale's. that's another issue :)
From: nospam on 5 Jul 2010 01:44 In article <amp236t1v60ahpdtob8ts0j5vthtnrbj27(a)4ax.com>, tony cooper <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > I'd call the iPhone an "iPhone" because that's the brand name for it. > I'd call the Android an "Android" because that's the brand name for > it. (Although I keep reading that as "adnoid") android is the operating system, but there are a few android phones that capitalize on that, such as the droid, droid incredible and droid x. > Generically, though, I wouldn't call them phones unless they were used > as phones. smartphones.
From: John Navas on 5 Jul 2010 01:56
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:26:00 -0400, in <v3r236te2rnkaaf2arsh3n9iket99h41h1(a)4ax.com>, tony cooper <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:13:57 -0700, John Navas >>Roger that. >Semantics and labels are important. If you want someone to hand you a >knife, you don't ask for a fork. You use the right label. Can't you just let us bury the horse?! IT'S REALLY STINKING!!! -- John "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." --Gene Spafford |