iPad usefulness?
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From: Chris Ridd on 31 Mar 2010 08:48 On 2010-03-31 12:29:06 +0100, Ben Shimmin said: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk>: >> Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: >>> Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net>: >>>> I think I have never seen any website requiring Flash to buy things. >>> >>> Check out Adobe's store (I'm not even joking)! >> >> Yes, that is the only place I have seen a store that needed it! >> >> Mind you, that is a horrible store, and not just because of flash. > > The prices aren't great either. (I was disgusted last night when I > saw the pricing for Flash Builder...) Well you can now encode three things at once [1], can't you? So paying 3 times the price seems perfectly reasonable :-) [1] all I've seen is a sentence about it on macnn. I/they could be mistaken about this. -- Chris
From: Bella Jones on 31 Mar 2010 08:56 David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > Peter Ceresole wrote: > > > > No, but plenty of my friends have. The ones that are good cooks have all > > bought proper cookers as well- they had to. > > Not if they actually were good cooks... > > Maybe they just need to read the instruction manual. I have no instinct for cooking. None. I came home yesterday having not eaten a hot meal in a week, due to avoiding cost of Cote d'Azur restaurants. Thought I would knock a little something together and it was a disaster. I mean, edible, but... The good news was, though, that although I ate bread and cheese all day every day while I was there, I actually managed to lose two pounds! \o/ This must be down to all the walking, carrying heavy camera bag. -- bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk
From: Graeme on 31 Mar 2010 08:56 In message <1jg7w9t.dwe79gpgdbxN%andy(a)templeman.org.uk> andy(a)templeman.org.uk (Andrew Templeman) wrote: > Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > In message <1jg7rhe.yazdi91jdy3xtN%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> > > peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: > > > > > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > Unfortunately it is hard to answer that one at the moment as the iPad > > > > isn't out. There is a risk that you won't be able to update it > > > > without plugging it in, but until someone actually has one, there > > > > isn't a way to say for sure, everything is just speculation > > > > > > Okay, thanks Woody. I was wondering about updates if she didn't have > > > another machine, but I presume that Apple will have sorted that out, as > > > the iPad is much more of a 'computer' than an iPhone, and people are > > > much more likely to have it as their sole device. > > > > The description claims it needs a computer running a minimum of Snow > > Leopard! Rules it out for me as I have a PPC :-( > > says 10.5.8 on http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ > Confusion on my part then, could have sworn it specified Intel Macs. Apologies for the duff information. I can reconsider my options. NB I have a colleague who claims to have one already! -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 31 Mar 2010 09:06 On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:22:34 +0100, me32(a)privacy.net (R) wrote: >zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >> Well, not always the iPad - but nevertheless I reckon "uncomputers" - >> computers that feel like appliances - will become the norm, and real >> computers will become the thing that only "specialists" use, or the >> thing you're forced to use at work and hate with a passion. > >This seems like nothing less to me than a concerted attempt to >control the consumer and as such is a terribly retrograde move. > >In effect, we are being told we are too dumb to use the liberating >technology known as the computer and we should use devices >made for the passive consumption of content produced by others. Complete disagreement. We're being given the option to choose an uncomputer if we want it. It's an addition to the range, not a replacement. Cheers - Jaimie -- "If apathy and manipulation aren't strengths, I don't know what is" - Zadok, 1/0
From: Woody on 31 Mar 2010 09:07
R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > Well, not always the iPad - but nevertheless I reckon "uncomputers" - > > computers that feel like appliances - will become the norm, and real > > computers will become the thing that only "specialists" use, or the > > thing you're forced to use at work and hate with a passion. > > This seems like nothing less to me than a concerted attempt to > control the consumer and as such is a terribly retrograde move. > > In effect, we are being told we are too dumb to use the liberating > technology known as the computer and we should use devices > made for the passive consumption of content produced by others. For 99% of people who are using them, are they liberating technologies? I don't think they really are, in fact if anything they can be just the oposite, especially in a workplace. The internet, that is fairly liberating, but it is not stopping you from using that, and now the governments have got interested in it, it won't be long before that is removed. I mean people spend all their time critisizing china, and then australia goes and puts in something almost as bad. It wont be long before we have the same under the old 'child protection' and 'copyright infringement' rules. I don't think the computer is the liberation. -- Woody |