Comment Re:Makes sense. Somebody is buying Nanos still. (Score 1) 193
Not as good? That really depends on what you need it for. If all you want is to able to play music or listen to audio books why do you need a pocket computer?
Not as good? That really depends on what you need it for. If all you want is to able to play music or listen to audio books why do you need a pocket computer?
Yep. we've moved some of our apps to web-based clients to save a few thousand dollars in development and we end up spending millions in network upgrades to support clients in rural areas.
Most people here are too young to remember that "PC" used to mean "IBM Personal Computer Model 5150". "PC" has become a generic term.
I use my PCs (well, one's a workstation, but that's not important right now) about 85% of the time and my tablet about 15% of the time. Most of what I do on computers can't be done on a tablet. (Until they can squeeze Xeon chips and 24GB of RAM into a tablet, that is.)
My wife is the opposite. Her usage is 85% tablet and 15% PC. But she doesn't do the same things I do.
(This excludes times spent on computers at work as I have no choice in that area.)
So I can't type on my iPad at all? Shit. What the hell does this virtual keyboard thingie do then?
Idiot.
The simple truth is that most people don't do any "content creation" above blog entries, tweets, etc on their full-sized computers. So why single out the iPad? Or do you just have a hard-on for bashing Apple?
It's not always about not paying for things. Some people have fetishes for... well, let us just say illegal things. In some places frontal nudity would count. Other places you're talking pictures featuring pyrohomonecropedobestiality.
I thought that was Bill Cosby.
The box it's shipped in has the product name on it. That lets thieves know exactly what they are stealing, and spoils any surprise it might have had as a gift. Great jorb, Amazon.
Gotta love quantum news posts: meaningless and meaningful at the same time, like a newspaper written by Schroedinger's Cat.
Because my Mac Pro can take a lo more than 16GB.
"The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, papers, and EFFECTS, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Right there.
I already have an iPad, so I'm not all that interested in a Kindle Fire. For all that I like my iPad, the one place it is lacking is reading books. Yes, you can, and there are a lot of apps to do it. But the glare and the weight gets to you after a while. Having read books on a Kindle I'm very interested in the Kindle Touch. Even if the touchscreen tech isn't on par with the iPad (and for that price it would be hard for Amazon to pull that off) I like the idea of not having to fish around for buttons.
Some have life. Some have, will have, or have had, intelligent life. On some of those worlds they haven't invented radio yet. On some they abandoned radio a long time ago. On some they will never make it that far. Some have died out long ago, leaving only their remains. Some have yet to evolve. Some are there, right now, but are too far away to be detected. At the scales we're talking about we may never meet anyone else before we go extinct.
My employer hasn't even moved to Window 7 yet.
Yeah, real funny, newbie.
You will have many recoverable tape errors.