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Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 584 Location: Lebanon, Virginia, USA
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject: Son of 'The Newton'?
I've heard tell that Steve Jobs is planning a big January announcement of the return of the Newton, or rather, the launch of a new presumably iPhone-type product that will bear that moniker. Anybody else catch wind of this?
And speaking of unpleasant odors, what about the 'revolutionary' new Amazon.com e-reader, Kindle. I think it's hilarious that not only does the thing's name sound like 'kindling,' but also that the marketeers at the big A apparently had this in mind all along! Eeedjits!
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Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 584 Location: Lebanon, Virginia, USA
Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 6:24 am Post subject:
Newton is just too good a name to leave lying around, especially since most people seem to have forgotten or be unaware of the original bomb.
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Bruce H. Russell, II
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-Quote of the moment:
--“If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake, I drink your milkshake! Thhhhht! I drink it up!” -Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood.
Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 584 Location: Lebanon, Virginia, USA
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:32 am Post subject:
Good ideas, all. No thoughts on kindle? When I think of this product, I think of things like the Hindenberg and the boy band I tried to start with the other kids from the chess club.
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Bruce H. Russell, II
bhr3s@yahoo.com
-Quote of the moment:
--“If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake, I drink your milkshake! Thhhhht! I drink it up!” -Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood.
Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 159 Location: Pittsburgh
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:37 am Post subject:
The Kindle seems like something of a one trick pony to me. can only download content (and isn't there a restriction on where? like... Amazon, or something? did we already cover that? I don't know, I'm still woozy). The price on the ebooks are ridiculously high - ten bucks per book when you can get bundles of 5 for $15 and free content from Baen books free library. (Seriously people: March Upcountry. Baen has tons of military space operas)
Cool that you can read it on a sunny day, strange that you can't read it in the dark. One of the features I like on my ancient PDA.
I was approached by an air host as I sat reading my ebooks on a very very old Dell PDA who wanted to talk gadgets. He told me about a wicked sweet set up he had - newish PDA, wireless compatible, and he could run skype on it! Any country, any wi-fi - boom. Calls anywhere in the world. I'd rather use my $400 to set myself up something like that.
Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 584 Location: Lebanon, Virginia, USA
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:21 pm Post subject:
Yeah, I think the single use device is doomed for the scrapheap of history, there to take it's place alongside such relics of the past as 'Soviet Communism,' and 'the French doing anything worthwhile.' The iPhone and it's ilk are where it is all headed.
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Bruce H. Russell, II
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-Quote of the moment:
--“If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake, I drink your milkshake! Thhhhht! I drink it up!” -Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood.
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