Posts by giovanni tiso
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you cannot dismiss it as being on the same level as a Stuff poll.
And yet, watch me do just that. It's asinine. It would still be asinine if they had interviewed everyone in the whole world.
(It's a consumer research firm that conducted this "psychological study". And you can tell by the fact that only a consumer research firm would have "selfish elite" and "independent geek" as psychological profiles. It's a load of rubbish.)
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It's at the splendid level of insight of the Stuff poll last week in which not desiring to purchase an iPad was simply not an option.
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In this mode, it's essentially a netbook, but with a portrait screen orientation -- which it seems to me is not so good for tasks, but much better for both reading and writing.
How fast is it, to do those laptoppy tasks? Because my eee with its 1.6 Ghz and 1GB of RAM frankly is pretty damn slow.
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You can't use it as a phone, so no.
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FWIW, if you need a keyboard for your iPad, the Apple keyboard dock costs $119 and works very well.
The Apple case that folds out into a wee angled stand would have been useful, but no one had them for sale last week.
So once you get those extra bits and perhaps an external drive and some ports (could they be integrated in the keyboard?) you would have a device with the capabilities of a proper laptop but that can be taken apart for different levels of portability? That would be very nice. I'm still trying to get rid of a line item in The Future, you see.
(And what about your iPhone? Could the iPhone be docked as a 3G modem into the iPad? In The Future, I mean.)
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But if you'd typed "I'm or" and it figured 'You've started a sentence with I'm, this is the second word and starts with or, so based on your previous writing, I'll suggest originally as the word you would like me to autocomplete by pressing tab
Really, I've seen various autocomplete applications and they are the most irritating thing in the world. Bar Refaeli. (Ach, see, I was going to write "Bar none". Bloody thing.)
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But we're talking about ipads today. Which isn't primarily a instrument for writing. Which doesn't come with a keyboard and this is an issue people have with the machine.
That's fine, but if somebody comes here and says "the iPad is the future", then I'm going to have to go back to "the future doesn't have a keyboard? FU, future". It seems to me that it's more likely, with a little less pomp, to be a future. More specifically, the future of portable devices, sitting somewhere between a smartphone and a laptop, or a digital photo frame and a potted plant. Hopefully the former.
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Bearing in mind of course that in the US, the Kindle's connectivity is free. So you're not paying for data, but you can only use that connection to buy books from Amazon.
But if you're at home connected through your wireless router when you buy a Kindle title you're on the same boat as an American consumer? That's pretty flash. I mean I can't envisage absolutely having to buy a book while I'm on the bus.
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My point is, typing was a skill you learnt solely for the purpose of interfacing with your computer. It's a skill that we have to learn because of the limitations of the interface.
No. Really, it isn't. It's nice we have GUIs which mean we no longer have to ask the computer to do things in words, but one of the main functions of a computer is writing. And okay, you don't need a lot of it for browsing or tweeting, so maybe you can get by with a touch screen keyboard. But a lot of my browsing does actually involve a lot of writing. Being on PAS, for one thing.
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Things like most people only use a very small subset of the total English language, and have a distinctive grammar and phrasing style. So a device can learn it's owner's writing patterns to make autocompletion a far more powerful too
God, that sounds like an absolute nightmare. And all of my posts on PAS would start with "I'm originally from Italy, and..."
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I figured it would simply use the iTunes transaction engine, but you actually need to have an Amazon customer account. I'll let you know how that goes.
That sounds promising. I mean, if you happen to have bought a kindle with the same price structure of the real thing than that's a pretty big leap in value for the machine right there.