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MiscellaneousFiles

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If you want to find acting work... there's an app for that!

Probably.

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New Way Of Decay

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Hmmm, I have the rigid functionality of an iphone and can't make calls. You could use sykpe but only if Apple license it for the OS because it's a closed platform for development without apples tools. I don't have the most standard network adapters unless you plug me into my dock (available separately) I have a form of HDMI proven to be faulty with my current OS. My screen is not the right shape for media, my main selling point. I can't be used as a HDD, because itunes is my software port for file handling. I cost a mere $500 unless of course you want to be able to transfer files to me, which you will need otherwise you'll be using a wireless device bound to a dock at home, so really I cost a grand actually. I'm not good at the only things I can do.

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Waynster

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quote:
Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
Also... does this iPad work as a Phone? That might be a dealbreaker for me. I'd be seriously tempted to buy one if I could walk around the street with that propped on my shoulder, yelling into a speaker six inches away from my mouth, like Dom Joly.

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Guys at B3ta already are on it.

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Waynster

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I did watch the BBC's introduction and after reviewing the Apple rep's comments have come up with the following:
  • It is gorgeous
  • The Screen - is gorgeous
  • It is gorgeous

Gorgeous doesn't sell it to me I am afraid. iPhone - great, but this just seems like a clumsy oversized version for Nathan Barley-esque tossers to sit on street corners, shouting loudly into the 3G app and generally asking for people to despise them.

I'm sure it will sell very well

[ 28.01.2010, 08:33: Message edited by: Waynster ]

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MiscellaneousFiles

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I went to see The Prodigy in concert at the Bournemouth International Centre last night. Before they came on, we were treated to a support act called Foreign Beggars one of whom did some pretend drum noises with his mouth - Boom-bada-chika-boom, boom-bada-chik-brrrrrrr and that sort of thing - while the other gentleman said "yeah" over and over again.

Eventually, The Prodigy appeared on stage and played some songs that you might have heard of, like Firestarter and Out of Space, which were in the charts during the '90s. The music was rather loud and I think quite a lot of people got headaches. Luckily there was a man walking through the audience selling pills. I asked him if he had any cocodamol, but he gave me a funny look and then pushed past me in a rather rude manner. It was a good night though. After asking the audience why he couldn't hear us, everybody clapped and cheered lots. Maxim said that Bournemouth was the "motherfucking place to be", which was rather sweet of him, as it actually seemed like a bit of a hole. iHad a very enjoyable evening.

8/10

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Cherry In Hove
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I'm sure you're sad to hear that they're ripping down the Imax cinema in Bournemouth. Seems like a good idea just as 3D cinema could be becoming popular.
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Kanye West
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the ipad doesn't seem so good. Perhaps they decided they had to release it now to catch the wave, before it was fully developed.
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I think everyone's missing the most important part of this.
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It's got built in magic

*awed silence*

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Tilde
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I had an ipod touch for about a month and a half. It was good while it lasted. I enjoyed being able to hook up to the wifi network in my house. Casually check emails and look at websites from my sofa, during episodes of shows I did not like or adbreaks of shows i did like.

I liked the games too, they were all cheap and the ones I downloaded were all very playable. It was convenient to turn the touch on, choose a game, play for a minute or maybe 10 minutes, then put it back in my pocket until the next time I had a few minutes to kill.

I suppose the ipad would sit on a coffee or occasional table within arms reach from the sofa, and I could do the same sort of thing, except with no need to strain eyes or zoom in and out. That would be alright I guess.

Since i broke the ipod touch though, I've missed it a bit, but it's not so bad really. I couldn't really imagine the need to use an ipad would be so great that I would spend £500 on it.

I wouldn't take it out on a train, but then people take laptops so maybe I'm just paranoid. It could be good for parents who need to shut their kids up for a while - on a car journey, on a holiday rainy day or waiting for a flight at an airport.

The touch was very easy to use so people with limited computer knowledge might like the ipad as a device in their home for emails and web surfing.

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quote:
Originally posted by Tilde:
I had an ipod touch for about a month and a half. It was good while it lasted. I enjoyed being able to hook up to the wifi network in my house. Casually check emails and look at websites from my sofa, during episodes of shows I did not like or adbreaks of shows i did like.

I think I'd go mad checking emails every fifteen minutes. Most of what goes into my personal account is spam - the only email account I have that's worth checking often is my work email address, and checking that every time there's an ad break... euurgh.

Does anyone find that having easy access to their personal email is actually quite destructive to their spare time? I tend to find that when the laptop's on (yes! Tilde and Rooster will be glad to know we currently have two computers!), I wander over to it, check email, check facebook, here, imdb. Usually find there's nothing new. Wander off. Repeat. It stops me from making a conscious decision to do something else with my free time. Even if that thing is playing a computer game or listening to some songs it's preferable to just idling away an hour checking websites that haven't really updated.

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MiscellaneousFiles

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Rumour has it that Apple are planning to launch a larger version called the BodyForm, or something...
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quote:
Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles:
iHad

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MiscellaneousFiles

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Shut up ralph.
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Waynster

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quote:
Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
Does anyone find that having easy access to their personal email is actually quite destructive to their spare time? I tend to find that when the laptop's on (yes! Tilde and Rooster will be glad to know we currently have two computers!), I wander over to it, check email, check facebook, here, imdb. Usually find there's nothing new. Wander off. Repeat. It stops me from making a conscious decision to do something else with my free time. Even if that thing is playing a computer game or listening to some songs it's preferable to just idling away an hour checking websites that haven't really updated.

I know exactly what you mean by this - my laptop takes permanent residence on the couch and I am constantly checking mail, FB and the like often to the point of distraction from the conversation I am having with my flatmate or the film I am watching. Often whilst enjoying a movie, something completely irreverent will appear on the screen and I spend the next 30 minutes on Wikipedia looking up all and sundry about some benign topic which will serve nothing more than my idle curiosity.

Internet - scourge of my life at times...

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I have to make sure computers are as far away from me as possible if I'm supposed to be watching a film. Given any opportunity, I'll start playing *Gimme Friction Baby, and won't stop until the computer is physically taken away from me.

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dance margarita
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if they dont take the internet off my mobile phone soon i may never be able to concentrate on just doing one thing for any period of time longer than five minutes ever again. this is a form of hell for me. i was very fond of my attention span, i miss it horribly.

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Wow, it's like a vision of the future.

I've got my portable wireless telephone, and my slender television almost like a picture frame. It's like living in space, as predicted in the 1970s, or on an exciting episode of Tomorrow's World.

All that's missing is the jetpack so I can fly to work on the moon like they promised me.

Where's my iJump, you Futuristic Technology people? I don't want a Segway, they don't fly!

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I don't see how having what is effectivly the iphone softwear on this is a good idea. surly it would have been much better having OSX on it and it effectivly being a touch screen laptop.

Please tell me it at least has a USB socket for pen drives/ add ons etc...

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