I have it, I love it.
I have it, don't like it.
I MUST have it.
Not going to bother.
There is no option for being completely undecided. Either you already own an iPad and love/hate it, you want one desperately, or you don't want one at all.
Group pressure? It's not like he's offering us drugs and we'll make fun of the pussy who is too chickenshit to try them.Originally Posted by EyeKhan
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
I'm almost too chickenshit to respond to that!
(Heh, never thought I'd have a legitimate opportunity to use that one.)
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
If I had to take a 30 minute+ each way train commute to work every day then I might be very tempted to go for this. I can't see any other major reasons for it though. Since I drive, that rules that one out.
God, that 'I don't have a cellphone' thing still exists in the US ? The people I hang out with have AT LEAST one cellphone. The question isn't if you need one, but who goes on which line.
Congratulations America
My father doesn't have one. But he's 73 and a tight wad.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
House only 5000 sq ft?
BWAHAHAHAhahahaa
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Look kids!
Uncle Hit-and-run is back again!
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Seriously, popping up here after a while to do this isn't cool. The folks complaining seem to recognize this and I have to agree with them -- please don't troll here like this.
So he has to do another 4500+ words to explain his return, now? I know communities thrive on drama but come on people, just let the guy post if he wants to post
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Glad to see you haven't abandoned your committment to being a dick.
or
So much for fresh starts?
or
Save your money, or get a better job, and you can have a big house too some day?
or
Just being misunderstood again, because in real life people actually like you?
or
I dunno, I can't think of anything else and its not important. Is it?
EDIT: What was this thread about again? Aw damn, he got away with it!
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
My dad actually doesn't have one. Not sure why, but I think he likes being unreachable when not at home or at work.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
Hey! I have a cell phone. Not turned it on since sometime in January. It's a simple pay-as-you-go phone, just for emergencies. Not only do I not like texting, I don't like feeling tied to a phone (or a computer for that matter). Just so someone can call me while driving or I'm away from home? No thanks. It's ENJOYABLE to not be reachable 24 hours a day.
However, my kids have cell phones, so they can feel connected to both parents even when we're separated. I do wish the school wouldn't rely so much on instant contact, though. The nurse called home first and left a message, then called the ex's cell and left a message, then called the emergency contact neighbor. Because ten minutes had passed, and he had a sore throat.
Apple's not even trying to hide the fact that they want control of every aspect of the user's experience. Blocking java and flash was a dick move, theres no argument there.
So if you're a java or flash programmer, and want to compile your program for the iphone, Apple has a new developer agreement like reads like this: FUCK YOU.
Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 04-09-2010 at 11:43 AM.
We're getting multitasking on the iPhone (and iPad etc)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8610610.stm
I read somewhere that the multitasking is a bit limited, though obviously now they are catching up on some of the functionality limitations.
The advertising program they announced bugs me for the reasons Ominous brought up -- they are trying to use their install base to build an ad network. Competition in advertising is good, as it keeps prices down and helps drive innovation and (in some cases) better ads. I'm not saying Apple shouldn't do what they are trying to do. But Apple's model seems to encourage the creation of closed proprietary apps with ad revenue, instead of helping publishers make money from mobile content on the open mobile web. It's another of those "pretty and closed" vs "freewheeling and open" things.
A glorified, tasteless example of manipulative marketing, designed to set the thralls of Apple consumerism into another buying orgy.
Tmobile doesn't work worth a shit up here in covington bumb fuck Georgia.
Its nice!
If you go back through Atlanta, let me know how it goes. Got a friend coming to visit at the end of the month and she's on the same carrier but is worried about not having signal.
He doesn't, but dropping in to post in an oldish thread with a personal attack about something that came up weeks ago is...well, low.
It was a stupid post but not unusually so, and I'm particularly at loathe to just willy-nilly agree to the noises made about his recent posting as if they're some kind of valid criticism of ']['ear's contributions; people are mostly just 'tee hee look he's posting when he said he wouldn't'.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
If Tear makes himself look like a tit due to his actions, leave him to it. Further more, if you actually believed he was leaving in the first place, then some of you are not as smart as i once thought.
I'm not concerned with him coming back -- of course he was going to come back. The issue is when a fight/taunt from one thread begins to irrelevantly spill over into other threads. Because then it just sucks everyone's attention and derails threads with stupidity.
I thought this sub-forum was for derailing towards stupidity
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
There's usually a train-track that can be followed toward the stupid though.
Tear's sudden post there wasn't on that track, it was an old and rusty diesel engine sitting on a unused, weed-ridden sideline as the shiny stupid train went careering past.
Trolling, in other words. I agree with Dread.
Judegeliebter
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
That is not even a real wordJudegeliebter
You jumped in here, on your 4th post ever, to say that?That is not even a real word
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Selling like hot cakes in the US then. The rest of us plebs have to wait till end of May.Apple is to delay the international release of its touchscreen tablet computer, the iPad, by a month.
It will now launch the device around the world at the end of May, and will begin accepting pre-orders on 10 May.
In a statement the company blamed demand for the device in the US, which it said had been "suprisingly strong".
When the iPad launched in the US, 300,000 units were sold on its first day. Apple claims it delivered 500,000 in the first week of its release.
"Demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks," said Apple.
The first iPad models are selling for between $499 and $829 (£328 to £545) in the US. They have wi-fi but not 3G connectivity.
Or not.
Cool marketing anyway, create scarcity of your own product and people will feel a bigger urge to buy it.
I have a phone with two turkish lines, and a second phone with a dutch line. I think I have 6 phonenumbers all of which I use on a regular basis. But a lot of people don't know that because I have a pretty good system for tunneling calls through to where I am.
Congratulations America
Why on earth do you want to carry around two 'dedicated' phones? Let alone have need for 6 different phone numbers? How many lives are you leading, anyway? Is it really worth all that hassle just to keep A from knowing about B? Or is that part of the thrill?
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