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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on January 23, 2009, 04:30:18 PM
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Oh my. More computer stuff from the primitives.
If one didn't know better, one would think the primitives are materialistic.
But the primitives say they aren't, so one has to take their word for it.
onehandle (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-21-09 09:36 PM
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Apple trounces Wall Street estimates
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Shares of Apple Inc. jumped 9% in after-hours trading Wednesday, after the computer and electronics maker blahblahblah
Most of this is the primitives picking on the fearless primitive (not copied-and-pasted here; too much of it, and it detracts from the main actress) because the fearless primitive isn't impressed by what's new, what's hip, what's cool, what's trendy, what's with it.
kristopher (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-21-09 09:45 PM
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2. I'll tell my wife
We did our part with two new laptops for the twins in college. I told her it was painful, but necessary for the economy...
Atman (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-21-09 10:22 PM
Response to Reply #2
11. Our son's school "included" a MacBook Pro with tuition.
I couldn't bear to ask what the actual markup was. But our son was happy.
cryingshame (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 12:29 PM
Response to Reply #11
30. may I ask what school? It's understandable if you'd prefer not to say.
Atman (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 08:16 PM
Response to Reply #30
41. Full Sail University in Orlando
21-month accelerated bachelors degree program.
Atman (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-21-09 09:46 PM
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4. Apple will be out of business in few months.
Oh, sorry...that's just what all of my non-Apple-using friends have been telling me since 1987 or so.
Atman (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 08:18 PM
Response to Reply #38
42. Seek professional help, man
Good god. Are you for real?
Fearless (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-23-09 11:30 AM
Response to Reply #44
45. Did I say that?
Atman (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-23-09 11:51 AM
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46. Yeah, pretty much
Repeatedly.
You have a problem with Macs, obviously. Or, more likely, you have a problem with anything that you deem "trendy." Some people are just contrarians. If it's popular, they will hate it just because of it's popularity. Embrace your contrarianism. The rest of us really could give a shit what you think.
Atman (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-23-09 11:57 AM
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47. As I pointed out in one of my other posts, the Apples are actually CHEAPER than most iPods and iPhones are not at all expensive when compared to other brands. When my LG phone died, I looked to replace it with an iPhone. The iPhone was WAY CHEAPER than virtually every other phone with comparable features. The caveat? You have to pay full price, it's not subsidized by the phone company like every other phone is. Even then, the subsidized price of most comparable phones (which, face it, there really are none) was at least as much, and often more, than the iPhone. People just tend to glom onto popular mythology in formulating their opinions.
Atman (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-21-09 10:18 PM
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10. True story...my LG/AT&T phone died in December...(Apple haters are stupid morans).
We don't have land lines. My wife and I were in Florida for a family function when my LG phone fell into someone's drink (hey, it was a good wedding). We HAD TO replace the phone. We have no land line...the number is on my business card, etc.
I looked at it as an opportunity...I could finally get an iPhone. You know, that insanely expensive trendy device that costs a brazillion dollars and is only used by leather-clad trendy hipster types who only love the brand but don't care about the tech? You know...them.
Funny thing is, to buy an iPhone at full retail price would have cost me $200 or $300. Wow. Sounds expensive, right?
Erickson and Blackberry and a dozen other brands I can't remember, had similar phones for $500-600. And more. But I NEVER see any threads about them on DU. Why is that?
My wife wouldn't let me get the iPhone a week before Christmas. It turns out she had already special-ordered an engraved iPod Touch for me for Christmas. (The iPod touch is an iPhone without the phone).
So...why don't you Apple haters post about the $600 phones from other vendors? What's your ****ing problem? Why is it cool when other vendors sell expensive phones, but heresy when Apple sells 'em with twice the features for half the price?
Fearless (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-21-09 11:20 PM
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12. Tear, tear...
And so on.
You sure like to dish it out, but you sure can't take it.
Atman (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 09:14 AM
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25. What the hell are you talking about?
What didn't I "take," and what am I "dishing out?" Did you just learn about emoticons or something? Jeebus. Lighten the f*ck up, man.
Atman (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 09:13 AM
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24. I love the iPod Touch
I still baby it a bit, though. My old 4th gen iPod was a tank, I took it everywhere -- including snowboarding. But the Touch seems almost fragile. I'm not crazy about that big glass screen in my pocket. But it IS way cool. The wifi is awesome. I have the snow reports for all the Vermont mountains at my fingertips. And I've dl'd some pretty fun games, something I didn't think I'd get into. In fact, it seems that playing music is the think I use it for least! (My old one was 30gb, the touch is only 16gb, so I had to pare down my playlist).
Atman (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 08:25 PM
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43. My old iPod got dropped on pavement, dropped in snow, deep frozen...
...it never died. I was feeling slighted; everyone else was on their fourth iPod, I still had my first one, and it wouldn't die. Some of you will laugh. It not that I wanted it to die. Except for that I did! I had no real reason to get a new one if my old one worked fine. I snowboarded with it, fell on it with my full body weight many times, and it never died. Finally, maybe four-five months ago, the hard drive started clicking...then, as these things tend to go, it refused to boot up. Not a dead battery...the dreaded "This device is seriously ****ed up...go to apple.com for information" message. It never ran again.
But this new one...I'm holding a whole damn computer in my palm. With a big glass screen. And I'm going to snowboard with that in my chest pocket? I dunno. Might be time to find a "classic" (generational, not brand) iPod on e-Bay!
Hmmmm. Pedro Picasso skis in Vermont. I was under the impression that because of his tastes, and his wife's pocketbook, they went to St. Moritz.
The sparkling husband primitive hollers up from the commode in the basement:
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 06:24 PM
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40. Whoa! How cool is THAT?
Like I said, sometimes it's difficult to remember that the primitives aren't greedily materialistic.
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I thought some phones were waterproof enough to withstand that? I wouldn't know. Some cheap digital cameras advertise themselves as waterproof up to 10 feet. I thought phones were of similar standard? Maybe he had one of the older models?
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I thought some phones were waterproof enough to withstand that? I wouldn't know. Some cheap digital cameras advertise themselves as waterproof up to 10 feet. I thought phones were of similar standard? Maybe he had one of the older models?
I dunno, but if it's new, trendy, cool, with it, hip, Pedro Picasso seems to have it.
No concern about the "carbon footprint" there; I'm sure my own is that of a hummingbird, while Pedro Picasso's is the size of Lake Michigan.
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I thought some phones were waterproof enough to withstand that? I wouldn't know. Some cheap digital cameras advertise themselves as waterproof up to 10 feet. I thought phones were of similar standard? Maybe he had one of the older models?
They are. I've dropped mine in coffee and salt water. Rinsed it off in fresh (so no residue), dried them dor a day and they come back. Pedro just likes to use up resources that could be going to those less fortunate.
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My wife has an iTouch but I just got the new Samsung Omnia.
(http://www.mobilegazette.com/handsets/samsung/samsung-omnia/samsung-omnia-combo-1.jpg)
It is essentially a Windows Mobile imitation of the iPhone. It doesn't do things quite as well, but it is close and beats the heck out of my prior PDA/Phone.
And it is very cool and the latest and greatest non-Apple Phone/PDA.