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From: Mocassin joe on 1 Apr 2010 23:49 "Ezekiel" <Me(a)Not-there.com> wrote in message news:hp397d$qut$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > > "Mocassin joe" <joemocasanto(a)aol.com> wrote in message > news:v99tn.35069$Ht4.15725(a)newsfe20.iad... > > > Oh look. It's sock puppet Joe. Someone who never existed on usenet until a > couple of weeks ago suddenly appears out of nowhere. > > A real life example of what the definition of a "troll" is. Accusations buy a known troll. How droll.
From: Wes Groleau on 2 Apr 2010 00:31 On 04-01-2010 01:41, nospam wrote: >> 6. RS232 into my routers > give me a break. can you think of anything more obscure? and why would > you be accessing your routers when out and about? If I actually still had anything online that required RS232 to access, I guarantee I wouldn't be plugging a netbook into them unless I was in the same room! He said iPad couldn't do ten percent of the things a Netbook could do, then listed one and a half. To prove that one and a half is ten percent, I asked him to list 13.5 more. He managed to come up with nine things a hypothetical Netbook could do, but really had to scrape for the last two. Now I see my math was wrong. If you allow that those nine things (plus 1.5) are all things a Netbook can do, then if there is one that an iPad can't do, then the point is made that iPad can't do ten percent. The fact that it _can_ do several of the others is irrelevant-- he was able to state something it can't do and show that it was ten percent. The fact that no one wants to do some of them is also irrelevant-- it was not demanded that they be something folks would want to do. How about a few more things a netbook can do that an iPad can't? - require you to open it before you use it. - require you to use a smaller keyboard (iPod's keyboard is too big; no challenge) - run Windows (shudder) - have four times as many virus scanners to choose from - run Internet Explorer six (shudder) - run Windows Media Player (yawn) I hope the puppy enjoys his netbook. But why the dog is parked in this manger, I don't know. I guess I should give equal time and list things an iPad can do that a netbook can't: - run without Windows (OK, scratch that, it can do Linux) - recharge from a USB port Wow, short list. Or could it be that I don't know, since I don't have either device? -- Wes Groleau "Would the prodigal have gone home if the elder brother was running the farm?" -- James Jordan
From: nospam on 2 Apr 2010 00:38 In article <hp3rvh$mhv$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > I guess I should give equal time and list things an iPad can do > that a netbook can't: > > - run without Windows (OK, scratch that, it can do Linux) the ipad can do linux? how do you figure that? > - recharge from a USB port > > Wow, short list. Or could it be that I don't know, since > I don't have either device? there's quite a bit more that an ipad can do that a netbook cannot. don't forget that it has a gps, compass, accelerometer and a 3g radio. a netbook has none of that. even if you get a data card for a netbook it is going to be saddled with a contract, whereas the ipad is pay as you go (and cheaper monthly too).
From: Wes Groleau on 2 Apr 2010 09:51 On 04-02-2010 00:38, nospam wrote: > <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > >> I guess I should give equal time and list things an iPad can do >> that a netbook can't: >> - run without Windows (OK, scratch that, it can do Linux) > > the ipad can do linux? how do you figure that? Read my lips^H^H^H^Hmind: running without Windows isn't something a netbook can't do >> - recharge from a USB port >> >> Wow, short list. Or could it be that I don't know, since >> I don't have either device? > > there's quite a bit more that an ipad can do that a netbook cannot. > > don't forget that it has a gps, compass, accelerometer and a 3g radio. I am not yet prepared to agree that an iPad has a compass. My iPhone is advertised as having a compass, but it doesn't work. GPS: There is GPS hardware available that can be put into a Macbook. So, I have to allow the BOTD that there might be a netbook somewhere that has something similar. Accelerometer: My Macbook and my HP laptop have primitive accelerometers, so again, BOTD. > a netbook has none of that. even if you get a data card for a netbook > it is going to be saddled with a contract, whereas the ipad is pay as > you go (and cheaper monthly too). To change the subject (since this thread was pretty much a waste of time since, oh, about five minutes before the starting post), I had been considering getting a used iPhone to replace both my dead iPod and my unacceptable-customer-service T-mobile. I figured if I got a used one without a contract I could persuade AT&T to support it for a month and then I could decide whether their service is tolerable. It turns out however, that paying the typical price on eBay is more expensive than buying a new one and then breaking the contract! -- Wes Groleau Hostility to TPRS http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1596
From: nospam on 2 Apr 2010 09:55
In article <hp4so8$89c$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > I am not yet prepared to agree that an iPad has a compass. > My iPhone is advertised as having a compass, but it doesn't work. it might be defective. find out what's wrong and get it fixed. |