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From: nospam on 27 Mar 2010 21:24 In article <slrnhqt9s1.2tl.jedi(a)nomad.mishnet>, JEDIDIAH <jedi(a)nomad.mishnet> wrote: > Wifi is insecure, slow and unreliable. nonsense, and you can use vpn if you're that paranoid. > Then there's that whole "standard of the month" nonsense. Have > they finalized the most recent one yet? Have they started working > on the next one? long ago.
From: nospam on 27 Mar 2010 21:24 In article <92n287-rss.ln1(a)spanky.localhost.net>, Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Apparently, Apple is offering an adapter which provides USB and SD > connectors. Presumably this means they think USB and SD support are > important enough to offer them. they're important to some people, but apple doesn't think there are enough of them to warrant putting into the device. whether that's true or not remains to be seen. if apple sells zillions of the adapters, then obviously there's a demand and the next model might have a built in slot. if they don't sell that well, then apple's decision to leave them out was wise.
From: Kelsey Bjarnason on 27 Mar 2010 21:18 nospam wrote: > In article <hoa7mf$ot4$12(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Chris Ahlstrom > <ahlstromc(a)launchmodem.com> wrote: > >> > Apple does. They've done this thing called "market research," with focus >> > groups and surveys and stuff like that. You, on the other hand, have >> > just your half-assed opinion. >> >> Where does Apple do all this "research"? Outside Apple stores? > > why does it matter where they do the research? Well, let's see: If I'm doing a study on whether I should set up a store in town selling Adult products, notably kink-friendly toys and the like, should I do my market research at: a) The local church b) The local play party c) The local play party and several other adult-oriented events Since you need to ask the question, presumably you think the local church would be an ideal place for such research. You can't be that stupid, can you?
From: nospam on 27 Mar 2010 21:35 In article <dbn287-33t.ln1(a)spanky.localhost.net>, Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Apple does. They've done this thing called "market research," with focus > >> > groups and surveys and stuff like that. You, on the other hand, have > >> > just your half-assed opinion. > >> > >> Where does Apple do all this "research"? Outside Apple stores? > > > > why does it matter where they do the research? > > Well, let's see: > > If I'm doing a study on whether I should set up a store in town selling > Adult products, notably kink-friendly toys and the like, should I do my > market research at: > > a) The local church > b) The local play party > c) The local play party and several other adult-oriented events > > Since you need to ask the question, presumably you think the local > church would be an ideal place for such research. that's one of the more creative comebacks i've seen in a while. > You can't be that stupid, can you? nope. but apparently you are. go learn about doing actual market research.
From: Kelsey Bjarnason on 27 Mar 2010 21:48
[snips] nospam wrote: > In article <hobnu6$4if$00$2(a)news.t-online.com>, Peter K�hlmann > <peter-koehlmann(a)t-online.de> wrote: > >> Thats fine. Please list the makes of cameras which will connect to the >> iPad via WiFi > > any camera with an eye-fi card, any nikon or canon dslr with a wifi > attachment, and there are some compact digicams with wifi too, with > more coming in the future. So, your response to "where the hell is the bog-standard USB support?" is to either buy a completely pointless, easy-to-lose adapter whcih has no reason for existing, or to replace perfectly good existing equipment with new equipment, just to work around Apple's inability to provide bog-standard USB support. Well, they have you trained well. "When in doubt, buy." Meanwhile, the wife's netbook costs less, does more, and can actually use the USB mouse, USB keyboard, USB cameras, USB external drive, USB printer, SD cards and other such devices we already have. Oh, and it has 160GB storage on board, not just 64GB or less. And it doesn't need some half-assed add-on just to provide SD and USB support. And it has a proper keyboard. And cam. And support for external monitor. And supports any audio or video format you throw a codec at it for (thanks to the likes of VLC, that means pretty much anything.) And supports flash. And has a proper widescreen aspect ratio. And lets you run apps from wherever, not just Apple's store - with Apple's apparent penchant for banning apps for dubious reasons. I'm sure there's _some_ use for an iPad out there, but it's sheer lack of functionality compared to a more sensibly-designed product, coupled with its crippling lack of even the most basic expected connectivity options, strikes me as a really, really bad way to go. It's about like making an iPhone ten times the size, taking away the actual phone part and concluding you have a miracle. Well, if enough of these sell to make it worthwhile, maybe you do. |