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From: nospam on 23 Mar 2010 14:42 In article <vq1iq5luma5rl8gk01bs4mm0v4dqk0pmnq(a)4ax.com>, chrisv <chrisv(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > Ye Gods, you are fscking *stupid*. and you are rude, obnoxious and incapable of intelligent debate.
From: Enkidu on 23 Mar 2010 14:44 nospam wrote: > the point is that if you don't fill the space you have, there's little > need to have additional storage. plus people don't want to fuss with a > pocket full of cards. > No the problem is that you can't load anything on the device from the additional storage devices. -- Enkidu
From: chrisv on 23 Mar 2010 14:46 nospam wrote: >In article <4d1iq55r1l3qpv8kncqvv22tgeiuipo3mp(a)4ax.com>, chrisv ><chrisv(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > >> >take an economics class sometime. >> >> I have, idiot. Take your own advice. > >apparently you slept through it. Ironic, since it's you who are making a jackass of yourself on these issues. >> Idiot. At issue was the keyboard, and your idiotic claim that "it's >> only overpriced if nobody buys it". > >so how many have they sold? Irrelevant to the point, idiot. >> >and that different people have different needs. >> >> Evasion of my point noted. > >it's not evasion at all. it's a fact. It's an irrelevant "fact", idiot. >not everyone wants what you think they should need. Didn't say they did, idiot. >that's why there are a variety of devices available, >all with different feature sets. The iPad looks to be a general-purpose computing device to me, idiot, and thus should have USB ports. >> >that must be why the kindle has usb ports. oh wait, it doesn't. >> >> The Kindle is merely an e-reader, idiot, not the muli-function device >> that the iPad is. > >but the kindle could do so much more, had amazon not crippled it. Amazon did not "cripple it", idiot. They designed it for a single purpose. OTOH, the iPad is designed to be multi-purpose. >of course, it's not apple who crippled it, so it's perfectly fine. Illogical, idiot. >you're a hypocrite. You're an idiot, and a liar, too.
From: Peter Köhlmann on 23 Mar 2010 14:51 nospam wrote: > In article <slrnhqht5l.mm4.jedi(a)nomad.mishnet>, JEDIDIAH > <jedi(a)nomad.mishnet> wrote: > >> > the kindle doesn't have usb ports either. why aren't you slamming >> > that? >> >> The kindle isn't being portrayed as anything more than a book >> reader. > > one of the main features of the ipad is ebooks, which is why there's > apple's ibookstore, along with amazon and barnes&noble. > >> The Kindle also doesn't have an office suite planned for it. > > so amazon is constraining what you do with the kindle, but somehow it's > perfectly acceptable. hypocrisy at its finest. Amazon does not attribute all kinds of capabilities to its machine. It is a eBook reader. And for that task, it is *better* than the iPad. Too bad that the iPad isn't doing anything particularly well -- You're not my type. For that matter, you're not even my species
From: Peter Köhlmann on 23 Mar 2010 14:53
nospam wrote: > In article <vq1iq5luma5rl8gk01bs4mm0v4dqk0pmnq(a)4ax.com>, chrisv > <chrisv(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > >> Ye Gods, you are fscking *stupid*. > > and you are rude, obnoxious and incapable of intelligent debate. For having an "intelligent debate" one needs intelligence on all sides. You as a fanboi cult member don't qualify -- I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person. |