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Comment: New Nano? (Score 3, Insightful) 579

by Gothic_Walrus (#33440942) Attached to: Apple Announces New iPods, iTunes 10, Social Network, AppleTV

Did anybody want a touchscreen Nano? Better yet, what good does a touch screen that's about an inch and a half square do anybody? I have a feeling that my stupidly large hands would be completely unable to operate the new Nano, and I know I can't be alone there.

This seems like a design regression. I know that touchscreens are sexier than the old wheel was, but was there really anything wrong with the old Nano design that warranted throwing it out entirely?

Comment: Re:Is the summary somewhat misleading, or TFA? (Score 2, Informative) 217

by Gothic_Walrus (#31392356) Attached to: ABC Pulls Channels From Cablevision

For what it's worth, the Wall Street Journal article says "ABC television stations" and mentions that the deal between Disney and Time Warner covers the cable stations as well as the broadcast network.

That's still not a clear-cut answer, but my guess would be that they were all pulled but ABC gets the lion's share of attention because the Oscars are tonight.

Comment: Re:abc is not reasonable (Score 3, Insightful) 217

by Gothic_Walrus (#31392320) Attached to: ABC Pulls Channels From Cablevision

i dont think people care the much about losing abc.....

The millions of people who watch Lost and Grey's Anatomy would beg to differ. So would everyone who's planning to watch the Oscars tonight.

It may not be your cup of tea, but it's kind of stupid to say that people don't care about losing one of the major national broadcast networks.

Comment: What's wrong with netbooks? (Score 4, Interesting) 1010

by Gothic_Walrus (#31273430) Attached to: iPad Will Beat Netbooks With "Magic"

What's wrong with netbooks?

I got one for $300 a few months ago, and it does pretty much everything I'd ask it to. Office applications, internet, chat (and it does have a webcam and microphone, something I believe the iPad doesn't), and it even does (some of) the games on my Steam account. Not to beat a dead horse, but it doesn't hurt that the netbook has a faster processor, four times the storage of the biggest iPad, Flash, and USB support, either.

I'm not going to deny that the iPad can do things my netbook can't and that it's a much sexier piece of hardware, but I don't think there's anything intrinsically wrong with "the netbook experience."

Let's organize this thing and take all the fun out of it.

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