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From: Pd on 30 Jan 2010 05:02 Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: > On 28/01/2010 15:29, Sara wrote: > > In article<D.Gray-DB627A.14564628012010(a)nntp-serv.cam.ac.uk>, > > Dorian Gray<D.Gray(a)picture.invalid> wrote: > > > >> In article<1jd19la.nao7t61cm97zoN%peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid>, > >> peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote: > >> > >> Pd, as usual your post is restrained and well-put. It must be time > >> consuming to write such posts, which try to educate without being > >> patronizing. > > > > I see them as the epitome of the well-crafted put down complete with > > carefully crafted patronisation. I wish I had such a skill. > > But but but... he replies to loads of my posts?!!? Sorry, Bruce who? -- Pd
From: Rowland McDonnell on 1 Feb 2010 09:07 Sara <saramerriman(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > Dorian Gray <D.Gray(a)picture.invalid> wrote: > > > peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote: > > > > Pd, as usual your post is restrained and well-put. It must be time > > consuming to write such posts, which try to educate without being > > patronizing. > > I see them as the epitome of the well-crafted put down complete with > carefully crafted patronisation. I wish I had such a skill. I see them as gratuitous rudeness, totally out of order. People like Pd are a major social problem in my book. I despise Pd because of his consistently shitty behaviour towards others. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 1 Feb 2010 09:07 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > > > No doubt if I get an iPad, it will > > > require a different driver from anything I have in any set I've bought > > > so far. > > > > A chisel? > > You mean a Birmingham screw driver. Where I come from, a Brummagen or Manc screw driver's a hammer. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 1 Feb 2010 09:07 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > A few, a /very/ few, are honest. I suppose Stephen Fry's one of them - > > > but still, are his views really worth paying attention to in this case, > > > at this time? <shrug> > > > > Maybe not, but his views are certainly worth listening to as he has > > actually used an iPad, and many others haven't. > > Quite. What do you mean, `quite'? I don't see that there's a lot of point paying attention to anyone's views of the gadget for a bit, not unless you're seriously interested in buying one. Al this wittering about what part it'll play in the society of the future and how come it got developed - you know, I've read precisely *NO* iPad opinions that aren't flatly factually incorrect in some fashion. <shrug> They can't get their basic facts right, so their extraplotations are even worse cobblers than usual. I suppose I'm interested from a sociological point of view - how come all this fuggin crab gets written at all, where these wrong ideas come from, and so on. But one thing I've noticed is a disdain for ARM in a lot of cases - curious. I get the idea that these US commentators don't believe it's real because it's not American or Japanese, you know? Yurrupeen, and so small and silly and worthless and obviously Apple's in full control of the CPU because Apple wants that. So these people seem to be telling me. Except that I see The Steve just using the industry standard commodity part, as per usual. Use an ARM because it's the best processing power per watt for *that* job, as every fule kno, which is why the bloody things are everywhere. <shrug> Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Woody on 1 Feb 2010 09:25
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > A few, a /very/ few, are honest. I suppose Stephen Fry's one of them - > > > but still, are his views really worth paying attention to in this case, > > > at this time? <shrug> > > > > Maybe not, but his views are certainly worth listening to as he has > > actually used an iPad, and many others haven't. > > *WHY* are his views worth listening to, just because he's used one of > the things? Becasue someone who has used something has a better knowledge of what something is like to use over someone who hasn't used it. As I am broadly (but not entirely) in agreement on his opinion of other devices he and I have used, I find his opinion has merit as to how I would find the device. -- Woody |