No USB ports on Ipad!
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From: Tim Smith on 28 Mar 2010 13:51 In article <ucq287-l6v.ln1(a)spanky.localhost.net>, Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Here's a trivial example: photos. Take the digital cam with you > (because the iPad has no cam at all, let alone a decent one). Take > pictures. Problem: cam's display is tiny. Simple solution: either plug > the cam's USB cable into the netbook and transfer files that way, or pop > out its SD card, pop it into the netbook, and pop in a new card. > > This makes it trivial to review the photos on a screen large enough to > make out details, figuring out which shots to retake if need be, and so > forth. > > So, let's see... plug the cam's USB cable into... oh, wait, you can't - > no USB connector. You plug the camera's USB cable into the iPad camera adaptor, which plugs into the iPad. > > Okay, fine, pop out its SD card and plug it into... oh, wait, you can't > - no SD reader. You plug the SD card into the iPad SD reader, which plugs into the iPad. -- --Tim Smith
From: Kelsey Bjarnason on 28 Mar 2010 16:55 nospam wrote: > In article <p0a387-90a.ln1(a)spanky.localhost.net>, Kelsey Bjarnason > <kbjarnason(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> The same is true of many Windows users, comparing what they get for the >> price to what they could get with LGX, BSD and the like. > > you mean by not being able to run mainstream software? yea that's a > bonus alright. Oh, my, another one. Here's a hint, numbnuts: it ain't the tool that matters, it's the job. I know the Windroids seem too stupid to figure that out, apparently the Apple Fanbois are, too. >> It's almost like it's a status issue: "Yeah, I *know* I paid way too >> much for this, and if I want to get it to actually do anything, I need >> to pay still more... but isn't that the point, that I can flaunt just >> how much money I'm spending to get that level of functionality?" > > so what linux app offers the same functionality of photoshop cs5 (or > even cs4)? it sure the hell isn't the gimp. Exactly how many people _use_ CS4 - and need the features it offers that GIMP doesn't? I have no issue at all with people buying CS5 - or any other app - if that app is what they actually need. If it's *not*, however - if GIMP will do everything they need, say - then paying for CS is simply a pointless waste of money - the "Look how much I'm paying to get the same functionality" bit. And doing that is, indeed, stupid. It's only justification is as a status symbol - showing how much you paid to get the same functionality someone else got cheaper.
From: Kelsey Bjarnason on 28 Mar 2010 16:12 nospam wrote: > In article > <9651680b-51dc-496e-b757-b6297b8382ca(a)q23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, > MuahMan <muahman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have a Dell monitor that has an 11-1 card reader. My laptop 13-1 >> card reader. reads them all except CF cards I believe. Only my >> Prosumer Canon 50D uses it though. Even my new 7D has gone SDHC. > > how many types of cards do you have? 1? maybe 2? > > do you really think apple should have put a card reader in the ipad > that can read 13 types of cards? Considering that support for this sort of thing is effectively free these days, why not? Oh, yeah - because then you can't charge users for expensive but pointless addons.
From: Kelsey Bjarnason on 28 Mar 2010 16:31 [snips] nospam wrote: >> We actually have a TomTom for that. And, surprise, surprise, the >> netbook _and_ the TomTom together cost about as much as the higher-end >> MaxiPad - yet do a lot more. > > obviously, convenience is not high on your list. two separate devices > which weigh a lot more than 1.5 pounds and no augmented reality > functionality, so it actually does *less*. You're claiming that a GPS system *plus a netbook* do *LESS* than a MaxiPad? Okay, remainder of post snipped. You've gone *totally* retarded.
From: Kelsey Bjarnason on 28 Mar 2010 18:30
nospam wrote: > In article <4m2387-525.ln1(a)spanky.localhost.net>, Kelsey Bjarnason > <kbjarnason(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> My machine regularly has a USB wireless mouse, an external drive (which >> >> happens to be eSata, but supports USB), and a 16Gb USB key hanging off >> >> it. >> > >> > doesn't sound like a laptop. nice try though. >> >> Don't care what it sounds like - it's a laptop. And when it goes mobile >> with me, those devices generally all go with it. > > you carry all that stuff wherever you go?? No, I don't. No more than you'd take your MaxiPad to, say, the swimming pool. I do take my laptop with me wherever I expect I'll be needing it, or in many cases where I expect I'll have to do significant waiting and the like - in which case, I take the laptop, two USB keys (one for data, one for security), the mouse, and often the external drive. Oh, and yeah, there's usually an SD card in the laptop, plus one or two spares in pockets, in the laptop case, etc. The wife, when she takes her netbook with her, typically takes mouse, USB key, and one or more SD cards. > nope. i made an assertion based on several years of seeing people in > public and what they do with their computers. just the other day at the > airport and on the plane, nobody had anything plugged into their > laptops, other than a power cord (and only sometimes). Bizarre. Most places I go, people _do_ have mice, thumb drives, the lot. >> Actually, they _often_ have such devices. USB mice, because >> I'm far from the only one who hates the track pads. USB thumb drives, >> because transferring data via stick is endlessly more efficient in many >> cases. > > you haven't used good trackpads then. there are some shitty ones, and > there are some very good ones. I see you can't read. You should learn sometime. I already explained my laptop has a particularly nice trackpad, but it suffers the same basic problem they all do - it's a trackpad. When you learn to read, re-read that bit, let it sink in, *then* spew your bullshit. >> Actually, the trackpad in my laptop is particularly nice. > > i thought you hated them. I do. I don't like Windows, either, but that doesn't prevent me noticing that Win2K was a significant improvement over Win95, now does it? Gods, you Apple Fanbois are morons. >> So, yeah, sorry, having USB is a definite feature, and *not* having it >> is about as brain-dead as you can get - unless you're after additional >> coin by charging for additional devices to fix your own damned design >> flaws. > > which still doesn't answer the question on what would you do with a > mouse on a device that has no cursor and is designed for touch. So, you're saying, in essence, that the "fix" for the crippled I/O is to cripple the UI to compensate. Yeah, well, great. I'll pass. I'll stick with a netbook which is cheaper, does more, is more flexible, and doesn't require me to spend still more to get even the most basic standard functionality out of it - and which doesn't tie me to an app store run by someone who has apparently adopted Islamc fundamentalist ideologies in regards to what's allowed to be published. You go right ahead and pay for that, though. And pay more for the adapters. And finance the bizarre cult mentality behind the app bans. Be a good little Fanboi. I won't stop you. |