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Apple unvails the "Ipad"
January 27, 2010 at
10:17 AM
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I think its kind of ugly 
And the name is stupid.
Its litteraly just a really big iphone. Looks almost comical.
No word on price yet.
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And the name is stupid.
Its litteraly just a really big iphone. Looks almost comical.
No word on price yet.
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Last Edited by ajkam
January 28, 2010
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05:45 AM
There was a madtv skit about the Ipad can someone please post it?
HERE YOU GO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8
HERE YOU GO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8
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I'm being dead serious, I've thought about getting one, but have talked myself out of it several times because I don't see it as being very useful. Convince me otherwise.
It has USB and media card capability.
I don't use a kindle, but many colleagues do.
Several advantages to a book:
Many, many free titles.
Low cost paid books.
Download a book anytime, anywhere.
Can share books with a few select people.
Very light e-mail and twitter potential.
No fees, no subscriptions.
Carry 100 books with you for less than 1 lb.
For some school uses, low cost text books.
Did I say many, many free titles?
Disadvantages:
note taking requires the cursor and keyboard, but is doable.
no touch screen.
i'm not sure anyone should take anything you say seriously if that's the case.
Several advantages to a book:
Many, many free titles.
Low cost paid books.
Download a book anytime, anywhere.
Can share books with a few select people.
Very light e-mail and twitter potential.
No fees, no subscriptions.
Carry 100 books with you for less than 1 lb.
For some school uses, low cost text books.
Did I say many, many free titles?
Disadvantages:
note taking requires the cursor and keyboard, but is doable.
no touch screen.
The "low cost" books can usually be purchased for the same price as the actual book itself (see Amazon, BN)
When is anyone in dire need to have a book immediately? (meaning, on a regular basis; not extreme circumstances)
Sharing - got me there - $300 to share though?
Email/Twitter: ummm, okay.
There shouldn't be fees/subscriptions to begin with (where is there one? Again, regular books don't carry "fees/subscriptions" so it's a "straw man" benefit
Why would you ever need to carry 100s of books with you at one time?
The "benefit" to e-readers lies in the fact that:
(a) it's "cool"
(b) being made to feel you need one
etc
But seriously, spending $300 for something to let you buy books. It's not like you spend $300 and get to put $300 of books on it as part of the purchase. You could go buy $300 in books and save the initial $300.
do you folks actually re-read books? do you really have THAT MUCH free time?
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it isn't like steve jobs promised that it would be anything different. if you got your hopes up and thought it was going to be something that it isn't, get over it.
christ.
i mean, people are still buying 360s over ps3s. now that's something i don't get.
The "low cost" books can usually be purchased for the same price as the actual book itself (see Amazon, BN)
When is anyone in dire need to have a book immediately? (meaning, on a regular basis; not extreme circumstances)
Sharing - got me there - $300 to share though?
Email/Twitter: ummm, okay.
There shouldn't be fees/subscriptions to begin with (where is there one? Again, regular books don't carry "fees/subscriptions" so it's a "straw man" benefit
Why would you ever need to carry 100s of books with you at one time?
The "benefit" to e-readers lies in the fact that:
(a) it's "cool"
(b) being made to feel you need one
etc
But seriously, spending $300 for something to let you buy books. It's not like you spend $300 and get to put $300 of books on it as part of the purchase. You could go buy $300 in books and save the initial $300.
It was not. I don't even own Amazon stock.
You don't have to buy one.
Somebody asked a question, and I answered it.
Have you checked the free titles? And the 20,000 public domain books? A quick search reveals:
Kindle Public Domain Books – Top 50
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. #5.
Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know. #7.
The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Strategy. #8 in the Kindle Store.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. #11.
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells. Sales Rank: 15.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. #16.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. #18.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. #19.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. #23.
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Sales Rank: 26.
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. #27
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. #28.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. #30.
The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Sir James Knowles. #33.
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Sales Rank: 35.
Dracula by Bram Stoker. #37.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irvin. #38.
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne. Sales Rank: 41.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. #42.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. #46.
Shepp's Photographs of the World by Daniel B. Shepp, James W. Shepp. Sales Rank: 47.
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. #48.
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. #49.
White Fang by Jack London. Sales Rank: 50.
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. #62.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Sales Rank: 63.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Sales Rank: 67.
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. Sales Rank: 68.
The Swiss Family Robinson or Adventures in a Desert Island by Jonathan David Wyss. Sales Rank: 75.
The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting. Sales Rank: 81.
The Man who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton. Sales Rank: 82.
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. Sales Rank: 84.
The Life and Most Suprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Sales Rank: 90.
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Sales Rank: 106.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. #109.
History of Egypt, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria – Volume 3 of 12 by Gaston Maspero. Sales Rank: 118.
Persuasion by Jane Austen. Sales Rank: 129.
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. #136.
365 Foreign Dishes. Sales Rank: 137. Very short, hard recipes.
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. #138.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. #139.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. #143.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. #144.
The World's Greatest Books Volume 1. #145.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher. #152 in the Kindle Store.
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas. Sales Rank: 164.
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau. Sales Rank: 165.
Edgar Allen Poe's Complete Poetical Works. #166.
The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling. #167.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments. Sales Rank: 174.
You may not want a book at any moment in time, but some folks might be stuck somewhere and really want a book lest they go nuts because they're so bored. Some people like to read, a lot.
You might be OK carrying one book, but some people like to carry 200-300 books with them, and read some of them at the same time.
Kindle is not for everyone. I don't own one and I don't care to. But I am open minded enough to know that some people do. Sheesh.
one book is all anyone needs... THE BIBLE!
Sticking with my iPod Touch and Macbook.
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Sticking with my iPod Touch and Macbook.