Wi-Fi only ?

Tom Littleton wrote:
"Ken Fortenberry" wrote:
What the hell ? The long-awaited iPad Apple Tablet was
unveiled today in Frisco. There was a lot of speculation
about which carrier Apple would choose, AT&T or Verizon.
The answer: neither. Huh ?

I don't get it. There is absolutely no embedded 3G at all ?
This is beyond weird.

Color me disappointed, and I'm the kind of nerdy dweeb who
*lives* to buy new Apple gadgets.

maybe I'm neither nerdy, nor dweebish enough, ...

You've already explained it.

but explain why the **** I
would even wish to pay 5-600 bucks for that thing. Whee! I can read a book
on it, and interactively at that. What a great leap forward for literacy in
an ever-dumbed-down populace. Just great!

It's the latest and greatest ! If you have to ask why you'd
want one, you wouldn't want one.

--
Ken Fortenberry

On 2010-01-27 17:43:39 -0500, "Tom Littleton" said:


"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
...
What the hell ? The long-awaited iPad Apple Tablet was
unveiled today in Frisco. There was a lot of speculation
about which carrier Apple would choose, AT&T or Verizon.
The answer: neither. Huh ?

I don't get it. There is absolutely no embedded 3G at all ?
This is beyond weird.

Color me disappointed, and I'm the kind of nerdy dweeb who
*lives* to buy new Apple gadgets.

maybe I'm neither nerdy, nor dweebish enough, but explain why the **** I
would even wish to pay 5-600 bucks for that thing. Whee! I can read a book
on it, and interactively at that. What a great leap forward for literacy in
an ever-dumbed-down populace. Just great!
Tom

I can read a book on it? Shhhheeesh. Maybe Wolfgag will buy me one.
I'd like to read a book some time.

On Jan 27, 6:25*pm, David LaCourse wrote:
On 2010-01-27 17:43:39 -0500, "Tom Littleton" said:







"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
...
What the hell ? The long-awaited iPad Apple Tablet was
unveiled today in Frisco. There was a lot of speculation
about which carrier Apple would choose, AT&T or Verizon.
The answer: neither. Huh ?

I don't get it. There is absolutely no embedded 3G at all ?
This is beyond weird.

Color me disappointed, and I'm the kind of nerdy dweeb who
*lives* to buy new Apple gadgets.

maybe I'm neither nerdy, nor dweebish enough, but explain why the **** I
would even wish to pay 5-600 bucks for that thing. Whee! I can read a book
on it, and interactively at that. What a great leap forward for literacy in
an ever-dumbed-down populace. Just great!
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Tom

I can read a book on it? *

No. You can't.

Shhhheeesh. *Maybe Wolfgag will buy me one.

Hold your breath.
*
I'd like to read a book some time.

Too late. Wouldn't do you any good.

Moron.

Pig.

g.

On Jan 27, 4:43*pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:

maybe I'm neither nerdy, nor dweebish enough, but explain why the **** I
would even wish to pay 5-600 bucks for that thing. Whee! I can read a book
on it, and interactively at that. What a great leap forward for literacy in
an ever-dumbed-down populace. Just great!
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Tom

I stole this comment from another forum. I'm sure there are rebuttals,
but it pretty well sums up my thoughts:

"Just yesterday I was looking at my iPhone thinking "Hmmm, I wish this
thing didn't fit in my pocket and couldn't make phone calls." Then I
looked over to my netbook and couldn't help but feel it would benefit
from losing the keyboard and being made of 50% glass.

Finally apple gives me what I wish."


Dan
(Who still really likes actual books. My own little Luddism, I guess.)

"Daniel-San" wrote in message
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On Jan 27, 4:43 pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:

maybe I'm neither nerdy, nor dweebish enough, but explain why the **** I
would even wish to pay 5-600 bucks for that thing. Whee! I can read a book
on it, and interactively at that. What a great leap forward for literacy
in
an ever-dumbed-down populace. Just great!
Tom

I stole this comment from another forum. I'm sure there are rebuttals,
but it pretty well sums up my thoughts:

"Just yesterday I was looking at my iPhone thinking "Hmmm, I wish this
thing didn't fit in my pocket and couldn't make phone calls." Then I
looked over to my netbook and couldn't help but feel it would benefit
from losing the keyboard and being made of 50% glass.

Finally apple gives me what I wish."


Dan
(Who still really likes actual books. My own little Luddism, I guess.)

One of my proessors has the Kindle and she loves it. says she can download
books, PDFs, and many other documents. I t looks fragile and cumbersome to
me, but I could see the benefit in having multiple books on a device and the
ability to download academic journals to a relatively light electronic
device.

On the other hand, I like real books myself and I just cannot afford to buy
all of the fancy gadetry available today!

Op

On Jan 27, 8:40*pm, "Mark Bowen" wrote:
"Daniel-San" wrote in message

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On Jan 27, 4:43 pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:



maybe I'm neither nerdy, nor dweebish enough, but explain why the **** I
would even wish to pay 5-600 bucks for that thing. Whee! I can read a book
on it, and interactively at that. What a great leap forward for literacy
in
an ever-dumbed-down populace. Just great!
Tom

I stole this comment from another forum. I'm sure there are rebuttals,
but it pretty well sums up my thoughts:

"Just yesterday I was looking at my iPhone thinking "Hmmm, I wish this
thing didn't fit in my pocket and couldn't make phone calls." Then I
looked over to my netbook and couldn't help but feel it would benefit
from losing the keyboard and being made of 50% glass.

Finally apple gives me what I wish."

Dan
(Who still really likes actual books. My own little Luddism, I guess.)

One of my proessors has the Kindle and she loves it. says she can download
books, PDFs, and many other documents. I t looks fragile and cumbersome to
me, but I could see the benefit in having multiple books on a device and the
ability to download academic journals to a relatively light electronic
device.

On the other hand, I like real books myself and I just cannot afford to buy
all of the fancy gadetry available today!

Op

SWMBO's got a Kindle and loves it. She reads a ton of fiction and
loves the convenience. For me, the poblem with one of those is that
there are very few academic books available, even fewer older works.

From what I've read (admittedly not very much) the Kindle is
restricted to a proprietary format (tho I'm sure there are hacks
available for the computorially intrepid,) but the Sony Reader is a
bit friendlier to varied formats. One of my fellow bums...err...grad
students has the Sony jobbie and downloads lots of stuff from Google
books and other free sites.

Dunno. Maybe someday, but it's gone be a while before I consider
buying one of these gizmos.

-Dan
(Plus, I like to vandalize books. Underlining, starring, etc. is key
to the process for me.)

I've been an Apple user for over 30 years, and I've made a fortune on
Apple stock, but the jury is out on the iPad. It remains to be seen
whether consumers feel they need or want such a thing, cool though it
is. I'll probably get one on the second or third product cycle. One
thing Apple is brilliant at is planning upgrades.

BTW, here's an hilarious golden-oldie spoof on Apple's product
introductions, the iRack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mCCYLC-4xA

On Jan 28, 11:34*am, Daniel-San wrote:
On Jan 27, 8:40*pm, "Mark Bowen" wrote:





"Daniel-San" wrote in message

...
On Jan 27, 4:43 pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:

maybe I'm neither nerdy, nor dweebish enough, but explain why the **** I
would even wish to pay 5-600 bucks for that thing. Whee! I can read a book
on it, and interactively at that. What a great leap forward for literacy
in
an ever-dumbed-down populace. Just great!
Tom

I stole this comment from another forum. I'm sure there are rebuttals,
but it pretty well sums up my thoughts:

"Just yesterday I was looking at my iPhone thinking "Hmmm, I wish this
thing didn't fit in my pocket and couldn't make phone calls." Then I
looked over to my netbook and couldn't help but feel it would benefit
from losing the keyboard and being made of 50% glass.

Finally apple gives me what I wish."

Dan
(Who still really likes actual books. My own little Luddism, I guess.)

One of my proessors has the Kindle and she loves it. says she can download
books, PDFs, and many other documents. I t looks fragile and cumbersome to
me, but I could see the benefit in having multiple books on a device and the
ability to download academic journals to a relatively light electronic
device.

On the other hand, I like real books myself and I just cannot afford to buy
all of the fancy gadetry available today!

Op

SWMBO's got a Kindle and loves it. She reads a ton of fiction and
loves the convenience. For me, the poblem with one of those is that
there are very few academic books available, even fewer older works.

From what I've read (admittedly not very much) the Kindle is
restricted to a proprietary format (tho I'm sure there are hacks
available for the computorially intrepid,) but the Sony Reader is a
bit friendlier to varied formats. One of my fellow bums...err...grad
students has the Sony jobbie and downloads lots of stuff from Google
books and other free sites.

Dunno. Maybe someday, but it's gone be a while before I consider
buying one of these gizmos.

-Dan
(Plus, I like to vandalize books. Underlining, starring, etc. is key
to the process for me.)

Well, unfortunately not one of us on this forum is a member of the
demographic who has any influence on Apple's marketing strategies.
We're not SUPPOSED to have a clue about the appeal of iPhones, iPods
or IPads.

These types of mobile data/communication devices are as comfortable to
our kids as TV was to us (and as unfamiliar to our kid's parents as TV
was to our parents).

--riverman

On Jan 27, 9:34*pm, Daniel-San wrote:



-Dan
(Plus, I like to vandalize books. Underlining, starring, etc. is key
to the process for me.)

Sacrilege!

giles
who NEVER writes in books.....but dogears thousands of pages to mark
passages for future reference. numerous experiments have revealed
virtually no clues as to why particular pages are so marked.....but
they are left that way in the doubtless vain hope of some future
revelation.

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:01:15 -0800 (PST), Daniel-San
wrote:

On Jan 27, 4:43*pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:

maybe I'm neither nerdy, nor dweebish enough, but explain why the **** I
would even wish to pay 5-600 bucks for that thing. Whee! I can read a book
on it, and interactively at that. What a great leap forward for literacy in
an ever-dumbed-down populace. Just great!
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Tom

I stole this comment from another forum. I'm sure there are rebuttals,
but it pretty well sums up my thoughts:

"Just yesterday I was looking at my iPhone thinking "Hmmm, I wish this
thing didn't fit in my pocket and couldn't make phone calls." Then I
looked over to my netbook and couldn't help but feel it would benefit
from losing the keyboard and being made of 50% glass.

Finally apple gives me what I wish."


Dan
(Who still really likes actual books. My own little Luddism, I guess.)

When I first heard about it, I thought, "Well, Jobs has a brain tumor, too, I
guess...about the size of a Newton..." But then, I got to thinking about it
(and Ken's burning desire somewhat confirms it) - it really is appropriately
named...it's just the thing for drippy ****s...and it certainly ought to, um,
dampen the used market...

Just what I want - a $600USD cutting board that I can read a cookbook on...

Back to the woods with a "sheesh,"
R

PS - What do hockey goalies and Polish women have in common? They both change
pads after three periods...