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From: nospam on 30 Apr 2010 21:56 In article <Xns9D6ADA9E097C2noonehomecom(a)74.209.131.13>, Larry <noone(a)home.com> wrote: > > the tightly designed/tuned A4. > > Is that why it's got TWO batteries in parallel? the display is what uses up the power. with the screen off it can play audio for 140 hours. let's see your netbook do *that*.
From: JF Mezei on 30 Apr 2010 22:13 Larry wrote: > Excellent! Show me one playing DivX movies from > alt.binaries.movies.divx...We'll wait. The ipAd is optimized to run x.264 content. It has hardware support for this and this ends up using a lot less power. Movies with other compression techniques end up using a lot more power on the iPad.
From: Alan Baker on 30 Apr 2010 22:18 In article <3kxyersi7p4k$.12svwy3yosvt4.dlg(a)40tude.net>, Edwin <thorne25(a)juno.com> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:39:54 -0600, Lewis wrote: > > > In article <siegman-3DEF12.11491930042010(a)sciid-srv02.med.tufts.edu>, > > AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > > > >> 2) Lets Apple retain rigorous control over the marketing of media > >> content that is intended for and goes into the device. (Same second > >> sentences as preceding paragraph.) > >> > >> 3) Lets Apple enforce whatever DRM restrictions it or other large media > >> firms want to bribe Congress into passing. > > > > These are utter bullshit. The iPad (and iPhone) will play whatever media > > you want to throw at them. > > I want to throw Flash media at them. It's inability to play Flash has nothing to do with DRM. > > > They do not require DRM anything to play > > media. > > So what does "jailbreaking" mean again? Again: nothing to do with DRM. > > > Unlike your television, for example. > > Since when does television need DRM? You might want to "check very carefully" the subject of HDMI... -- "The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" -- "I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone "It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X) '[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' -- 'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM) 'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)
From: Wes Groleau on 30 Apr 2010 22:42 On 04-30-2010 17:29, Your Name wrote: > Besides, anyone actually wanting a tablet Mac OS X machines can already buy > one from the ModBook people ... but I doubt the sales figures are very > impressive. Seems there's an average of on a day being dropped on eBay. I surmise they're from people who would rather use fingers than stylus. On the other hand, they seem to be selling at much higher prices than I expected. -- Wes Groleau Obama Changing “Latin” Policies http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1515
From: Your Name on 30 Apr 2010 23:53
In article <300420102156150758%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article <Xns9D6ADA6D31925noonehomecom(a)74.209.131.13>, Larry > <noone(a)home.com> wrote: > > > Great! I want to load 10 movies off alt.binaries.movies.divx in DivX > > format, and a couple of Xvids, and play them for the kids in the car! > > wait. > > you have kids? Good God!!! NNnnnnnnnooooooooo....!!!! Quick, someone in America call Social Services before they become mini Loser Larrys and spread the contamination even further!! :-O |