Wireless is SLOW.

Some server on the other side of your home router is even slower.

You're dining on dirt but just too stupid to realize it.

You really have no taste. Throwing money around doesn't give you taste or class.

I have an iPod2 that refuses to die.

The bias against spinny storage is just mindless iCult nonsense. Reality was revised by the Ministry of Truth so that the masses don't realize that they're being conned.

More storage on a 10 year device from the same company?

double plus unpossible!

> Besides content consumption, that is...

Are you joking?

An Ultrabook can do far more in that area. It can do everything a tablet can do plus all of the services that may not have an "app", or those services that may need Flash (or even Silverlight), and it can handle all of the formats that an iPad can't.

HELL. You could use that Ultrabook as an AirVideo or Plex server to make your iPad less lame.

It is not "very easy". Nor is it terribly efficient.

It's only even remotely comparable only if you've gotten beyond "hunt and peck" with a real keyboard.

No. Never mind the streaming. Print physical copies of stuff. Then sell those with the rest of the trinkets all of those islands try to sell you.

Wives can go to the jewelry shops and husbands can go to the Antiguan version of Virgin Megastore.

The US doesn't have to "own" the hurricane.

They can just sit back and let nature do it's thing and then ignore Antigua afterwards.

Except gambling is illegal in the US.

Or rather, the US is not some sort of Soviet style hegemony.

Saying that gambling is legal in the US is much like saying it's legal in Europe or Africa. People tend to forget that the "States" part of "The United States" actually are distinct political entities.

In some regards they are even more independent than the members of the EU (ironically enough).

If the feds tried to impose upon the States what Bonn wants to impose upon Spain or Greece, there would be another civil war.

That's not even getting into the whole VICE aspect of the situation.

Given the nature of the modern global conglomerate, this may already be the case. Once you bother to look at the situation, you may find that there are fewer American parent companies to take advantage of here.

Yeah. It sounds like we've been at war since the mid-90s.

Not really.

Although it does say something about people that like to pretend that they are Photoshop users.

I am sure that the professional artists that actually use Photoshop and don't just talk about Photoshop aren't nearly as thick.

On the other hand, switching from current Photoshop to ancient Photoshop is going to going to have much of the same issues. You're still attempting Herculean feats just to avoid learning a different app to manipulate data in an open format.

You're creating a house of cards just to avoid running a native tool.

Linux can do likewise.

Microsoft is just crap. They've been a monopoly vendor too long. Being immune from market pressures has dulled their engineering skills. They got lazy because they could.

Actually, Linux was doing it first. If anything, it's Windows that's copying Linux. There's a lot of things like that. People just assume that the 800lb gorilla is the originator. It's some sort of consumer "hyena law".

It doesn't matter what nonsense that you try to come up with to make touch sound better. It simply lacks precision or control.

It really is the Fisher Price of interfaces.

> The advantage of H265 (and H264) to end users is clear. Tiny, extremely energy efficient, hardware circuits can handle the video decoding

That's all well and good, but that's supposed to be what the advantages of h264 are and we've already got that and tons of legacy equipment and content.

On the other hand, most people are going to be hard pressed to notice any reason to want 4K given that BluRay is already a tough sell with anything much beyond a 1:1 viewing distance to screen size ratio.