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Thursday, January 28
More Thoughts on the Ipad
I could live with the lack of 'ports' on this device, just as I do with the other Apple products I own. I've no complaint about buying their proprietary cables. I've got them for my Itouch. I've got them for video out on my Imac. It would be nice if I didn't have to buy them in the first place, but at least there is a workaround.
What kills this tablet is the lack of a proper BROWSER. No Flash support is insane (even if I'm way more of a Mac fanboy than a Flash enthusiast). It's out there in abundance on the web. You can't just 'ignore' it on a full sized device that people will be using to surf with.
Above and beyond the incomprehensible omission of Flash, the iPad practically screams anti-convergence at a time when the public is literally BEGGING for it.
All other complaints aside, would it have killed them to put a PHONE in it?! It wouldn't cannibalize Iphone sales, it would supplement them.
The lack of multitasking is often cited as a 'haters' complaint, but not so much if all you're trying to do is keep Skype running in the background while surfing or watching a movie.
All that said, I was prepared for a $1000 iProduct. Totally primed. You might even say iPrimed. Plenty of pre-release publicity generated in that direction had already softened a lot of us up, and I'll bet we'd all be forking over our thousand bucks today (instead of rehashing the latest corporate example of New Coke) IF Apple had done the following:
1. Put a real O/S on it.
2. Given us the camera WE ALL BEGGED FOR.
3. Made it a quarter inch thicker for even more battery. I'm not knocking ten hours, but 15-20 hours would have been TRULY groundbreaking (and it's not like you can swap batteries on Apple portables). I know it adds weight, but anything under the weight of my Asus eee701 netbook (2.2 lbs) wouldn't be a strain IMHO. Also see groundbreaking again.
4. Integrated pico LED projector.
5. A mobile phone
How much do these enhancements add to construction costs?
1. Apple already owns the greatest O/S on the planet, so that's a freebie.
2. Web cams can't add more than a few bucks to production.
3. The beefier battery at their wholesale price? Is fifty bucks a fair guess?
4. The pico LED projector? Nikon has already embedded one in a 12mp digital camera (Nikon's S1000pj) at a RETAIL price of $360. Is half that amount a generous amount to project onto the iPad production costs?
5. Mobile phone. Nada. Assuming you buy a cell equipped version then the phone part is software Apple has already developed.
All that extra hardware adds about $250 to the cost of construction. Apple can then add another $250 profit......and voila, we have the makings of a truly innovative $1000 product that Apple can still get rich off of.
The fantasy 'recap':
Apple releases Ipad (stupid name that I guessed the day before they announced*--but I digress) at the $1000 price point. Haters and Microsofties (redundant?) come out of the woodwork screeching about the high price. BTW, the aforementioned scenario requires no stretch of the imagination and is a fairly defacto complaint on any Apple release. Such tripe could be easily ignored by pointing out the truly GROUNDBREAKING convergence of a laptop, cell phone, e-reader and projector for under a $1000 that might be able to claim an honest 15 hour run-time between charges.
Instead, we're offered a totally stripped down bit of kit that won't even surf the web properly, and we're' supposed to be excited that it starts at under $500!?!? Meanwhile back on planet Earth, Microsoft Courier Youtube views are skyrocketing and every exec at HP is sprouting wood over the imminent release of the HP Slate.
This iProduct is much like the iObama presidency. What could have been versus the overwhelming disappointment of what actually is.
Enjoy.
I could live with the lack of 'ports' on this device, just as I do with the other Apple products I own. I've no complaint about buying their proprietary cables. I've got them for my Itouch. I've got them for video out on my Imac. It would be nice if I didn't have to buy them in the first place, but at least there is a workaround.
What kills this tablet is the lack of a proper BROWSER. No Flash support is insane (even if I'm way more of a Mac fanboy than a Flash enthusiast). It's out there in abundance on the web. You can't just 'ignore' it on a full sized device that people will be using to surf with.
Above and beyond the incomprehensible omission of Flash, the iPad practically screams anti-convergence at a time when the public is literally BEGGING for it.
All other complaints aside, would it have killed them to put a PHONE in it?! It wouldn't cannibalize Iphone sales, it would supplement them.
The lack of multitasking is often cited as a 'haters' complaint, but not so much if all you're trying to do is keep Skype running in the background while surfing or watching a movie.
All that said, I was prepared for a $1000 iProduct. Totally primed. You might even say iPrimed. Plenty of pre-release publicity generated in that direction had already softened a lot of us up, and I'll bet we'd all be forking over our thousand bucks today (instead of rehashing the latest corporate example of New Coke) IF Apple had done the following:
1. Put a real O/S on it.
2. Given us the camera WE ALL BEGGED FOR.
3. Made it a quarter inch thicker for even more battery. I'm not knocking ten hours, but 15-20 hours would have been TRULY groundbreaking (and it's not like you can swap batteries on Apple portables). I know it adds weight, but anything under the weight of my Asus eee701 netbook (2.2 lbs) wouldn't be a strain IMHO. Also see groundbreaking again.
4. Integrated pico LED projector.
5. A mobile phone
How much do these enhancements add to construction costs?
1. Apple already owns the greatest O/S on the planet, so that's a freebie.
2. Web cams can't add more than a few bucks to production.
3. The beefier battery at their wholesale price? Is fifty bucks a fair guess?
4. The pico LED projector? Nikon has already embedded one in a 12mp digital camera (Nikon's S1000pj) at a RETAIL price of $360. Is half that amount a generous amount to project onto the iPad production costs?
5. Mobile phone. Nada. Assuming you buy a cell equipped version then the phone part is software Apple has already developed.
All that extra hardware adds about $250 to the cost of construction. Apple can then add another $250 profit......and voila, we have the makings of a truly innovative $1000 product that Apple can still get rich off of.
The fantasy 'recap':
Apple releases Ipad (stupid name that I guessed the day before they announced*--but I digress) at the $1000 price point. Haters and Microsofties (redundant?) come out of the woodwork screeching about the high price. BTW, the aforementioned scenario requires no stretch of the imagination and is a fairly defacto complaint on any Apple release. Such tripe could be easily ignored by pointing out the truly GROUNDBREAKING convergence of a laptop, cell phone, e-reader and projector for under a $1000 that might be able to claim an honest 15 hour run-time between charges.
Instead, we're offered a totally stripped down bit of kit that won't even surf the web properly, and we're' supposed to be excited that it starts at under $500!?!? Meanwhile back on planet Earth, Microsoft Courier Youtube views are skyrocketing and every exec at HP is sprouting wood over the imminent release of the HP Slate.
This iProduct is much like the iObama presidency. What could have been versus the overwhelming disappointment of what actually is.
Enjoy.
Tuesday, January 5
Ben Pavone, California Lawyer, Refuses To Pay Bank Of America Credit Card, Threatens To Sue
For all the naysayers and bank supporters. Eat this: http://far
Enjoy.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Thursday, December 31
Rush Limbaugh Hospitalized: Taken To Hospital In Hawaii After Reported Chest Pains
May he die and rot in hell. If praying for his death would help any, I'd have bloody knees. Same goes for all the rightwing torture fanatics. They may seek their forgiveness in the afterlife. They'll get none from me.
Enjoy.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Wednesday, December 16
Merry American Christmas
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Exactly what is a reasonable distance to keep a loaded pistol from a 12-year-old boy?
Sunday, November 15
Powerful Mythos Over Trivial Eros
I am not a gay Catholic at Mass. I am a Catholic. The issue of eros is trivial in the face of consecration, prayer and meditation.
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Trivial? Me thinks Mr. Sullivan may not be doing it properly.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
Friday, March 13
Storm Trooper Shoots Unarmed Kid
Paramilitary force against an unarmed college student smoking dope in his apartment. Free the weed. Stop the hate. Regulate.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
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Thursday, March 12
Cops For Pot
This will undoubtedly free the rest of the police and criminal justice system to tell the truth about the abuse of power created by outlawing the most amazing medicinal and industrial plant in the history of man. The emperor is naked.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
Sergeant Fired After Criticizing "War on Drugs," Now Reinstated SEATTLE, WA -- A Mountlake Terrace police sergeant who was fired after publicly criticizing the "war on drugs" has reached an $812,500 settlement in a lawsuit he filed against the city and police department, among others. “In an open society, people on the front lines of the criminal justice system have an ethical duty to speak out on controversial social and legal issues that affect the public we serve," said Sgt. Wender, a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a 10,000-strong organization representing police, prosecutors, judges and others who fought on the front lines of the "war on drugs" and who now want to legalize and regulate drugs. "The public has a fundamental right to know which laws and policies are effective, and which ones aren’t; and they should expect that their police officers will speak the truth even when it isn’t popular or comfortable to do so.
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Wednesday, February 11
Priorities
Surely you jest?
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Tuesday, January 27
You Don't Say?
This is just starting to get good.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
UN official: Enough evidence to prosecute Rumsfeld for war crimes
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Monday, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak told CNN's Rick Sanchez that the US has an "obligation" to investigate whether Bush administration officials ordered torture, adding that he believes that there is already enough evidence to prosecute former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.Sunday, January 25
Another Drug Related Death?
Not from overdose, but from improper sale and distribution, and the issues that result when dealing in such contraband.
Doesn't have to be this way. Pot should be legalized and sold through proper channels. It's all about harm reduction. Why are we at war with a plant that, by it's own devices, harms no one? Obama, are you listening?
Enjoy.
Doesn't have to be this way. Pot should be legalized and sold through proper channels. It's all about harm reduction. Why are we at war with a plant that, by it's own devices, harms no one? Obama, are you listening?
Enjoy.
DANVILLE, Calif. -- olice arrested a 15-year-old boy in Oakland early Friday morning in connection with the fatal shooting of Danville resident Rylan Fuchs on Tuesday night, the local police chief announced at a news conference. Fuchs, who would have graduated from San Ramon Valley High School in June, was shot once in the neck on the front porch of his family's home in the 1000 block of El Captain Drive at about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday. The 17-year-old student died at John Muir Medical Center early Wednesday morning, Contra Costa County sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee said.
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