Post #327,519
6/7/10 6:35:48 PM
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So who's going to get a new iphone
"Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand"
Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
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Post #327,521
6/7/10 6:48:21 PM
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not me
every other year, so I'll get the iPhone 5 next summer.
Now that they're making 300+ ppi displays, wonder how long until monitors and laptop screens get better - we've been stuck around 100 for far too long. When I was running OS/2 I ran a 19" Sony at 2048x1536, about 142 ppi, and it was sweet - made OS/2's lack of anti-aliased fonts a non-issue. Of course trying to hit the window controls became a tad difficult, but both Apple and Microsoft have the beginnings of resolution independence in place.
http://en.wikipedia....tion_independence
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Post #327,522
6/7/10 7:11:04 PM
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Waiting till they increase storage
I'm getting closer and closer to the 32GB limit on my 3GS. And if they offer some kind of subscription/streaming iTunes (or if Rhapsody improves theirs so it's actually usable offline/while driving) I'll definitely want that extra space.
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Post #327,525
6/7/10 7:52:08 PM
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My wife, probably. :-P
Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #327,528
6/7/10 8:06:49 PM
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It sounds nice, but I don't want AT&T.
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Post #327,544
6/8/10 7:22:38 AM
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Currently in-contract until this time next year...
...and then, probably yes.
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Post #327,572
6/8/10 1:39:28 PM
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Probably...
Never.
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Post #327,579
6/8/10 8:06:32 PM
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:-D
I was going to post along the same lines, but never quite got a round tuit...
Wade.
Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
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Post #327,640
6/9/10 3:16:36 PM
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buy one here
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
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Post #327,670
6/9/10 9:09:21 PM
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Why am I surprised that search works?
Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
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Post #327,584
6/8/10 9:18:45 PM
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one of these days I will have to buy a cell phone
have been without for almost a year and dont miss the damn thing at all
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Post #327,599
6/9/10 4:38:46 AM
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I have 3 now.. pikers.
*Old* -- like a year, say? castoffs of friends. Cute little buggers , icon infested with nested functions to do all sorts of stuff. The clocks always show right time and cute indicators for sig. strength.
'Course the most recent one, teensy enough to fall out of any pocket, says -- 'SIM card registration failed' --
Sounds ominously unwilling to advance to any dial-tone like state. Bloody Nokia somethingorother.
Fortunately the 2 others (in car) are older (one with analog, still == stronger signal in these parts, depending.
These appear not to care They are, apparently, quite functional for their ONE REAL PURPOSE:
Calling 911 at 3AM, should the wheels fall off. Alas, I can never 'test' the alleged fact that ALL services must take 911, even if unregistered: I accept that the dial tone is an infallible precursor that, probably. It. Would.
The monthly price is Right, and I can flip-open one and pretend to be one of the Illuminati, anytime. No added fee. Perfect consumer products, these! I must disassemble one soon.
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Post #327,854
6/11/10 8:28:04 PM
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I'm in.
Bought my 3GS outright last year for that reason, will do the same with the 4.
They said I was gullible ... and I believed them
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Post #328,248
6/18/10 11:05:48 PM
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Mark Morford thinks there's more to it
http://www.sfgate.co...1/notes061110.DTL
Sex death apocalypse iPhone 4
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, June 11, 2010
There I was, calmly ogling Steve Jobs' shinyperfect new baby like a junkie rabbit at a carrot factory in SaladTown, happily swooning over its graceful industrial design and everstunned at the tiny slab's explicit lickability and amazing capabilities.
How easy to get caught up in the sheer madhouse magic of it all, the gyroscopes and voice activators, antennae and compasses, multiple cameras and 5,000 sensors designed to recognize when you might be hanging upside down from a banyan tree at midnight, suddenly needing to shoot high-definition video of a wild giraffe stampede whilst checking World Cup scores while live video-chatting with your wife in France while pricing out a flight to Singapore while doing, um, 2,000 other rather ridiculous things you could never have imagined in a million years back on the day you were born.
And I'm thinking, sweet insanity of life, what wonderful/nefarious creatures are we? How can we keep doing this in the face of all that? How is it that we can keep creating such beauty and cool wonder in the midst of meltdown and pain? What sort of desperate dance is this? Are we spinning faster and faster toward doom? Ecstasy? Both? Are they really the same thing? Aha.
[. . .]
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Post #328,281
6/20/10 3:18:06 AM
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No takers, eh?
Wrong forum, I wot.
I'll try a different tack.
I could almost see voting for Palin in 2012 on the grounds that this sorry ratfucking excuse for a republic, this savage, smirking, predatory empire deserves her. Bring on the Rapture, motherfuckers!
-- via RC
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Post #328,282
6/20/10 9:29:28 AM
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I let it slip through. Thanks for the ping. A good read.
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Post #328,284
6/20/10 11:10:14 AM
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IRLRPD
Any minute now, solar power and French fry grease, nanotechnology and organic microlending neurobiological hemp-powered oil-eating magic bacteria will take over and make it all better. Right?
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Drew
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Post #328,286
6/20/10 11:39:59 AM
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multitasking to no end? not sure of the point
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Post #328,374
6/22/10 1:00:14 AM
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If I had to put it in one sentence, believe he said..
In the final analysis, everything depends on ... everything else.
(That's why they call him,) --Ashleigh Brilliant
I could almost see voting for Palin in 2012 on the grounds that this sorry ratfucking excuse for a republic, this savage, smirking, predatory empire deserves her. Bring on the Rapture, motherfuckers!
-- via RC
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