so the iToy Apps Store has opened...

At 13 Jul 2008 02:47:54 +0000 Larry wrote:

> I don't think there much difference between believing in Harry Potter and
> believing in the major moneyed religions, is there?


Not in my mind...

> Harry Potter doesn't constantly ask for money....only once.

Seven books, a half-dozen movies, countless toys...

Still cheaper than tithing, though.. ;-)

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At 12 Jul 2008 13:13:02 -0600 Oxford wrote:

> > > it's an entire
> > > multimedia architecture that makes the web & your apps come alive.
> >
> > That's marketing speak- translated into English, it's a media player
> > with
> > browser integration. So is WMP, Real, and to a lesser extent, Flash,
> > Silverlight, Shockwave, etc.
>
> no, you are just talking about the "player", not all the API's for Apps,
> that can be utilized once QuickTime is installed. It's an entire layer
> of software that makes the machine more colorful, play crisper videos,
> better sound, music integration, etc... throughout the entire OS.


Yes... just like Windows Media...

> > > check out some of the specs, windows has nothing like it...
> > >
> > > http://www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/technologies.html

Yeah, Windows has nothing like it...

....other than Windows Media...


> > Cupertino has you right where they want you, eh?
>
> i could careless about cupertino, i just like wonderfully designed
> products.
>
> someday you'll get a mac and see what everyone is talking about.

Or, at least what 6% of the computer buying public talks about...

On 2008-07-13, nospam <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Larry
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sure wish I'd taken a mini computer friend's advise and bought Microsoft
>> stock in 1967 when they had 12 employees in Billy's garage......Nuts.
>
> in 1967??? microsoft was founded in 1975. bill gates was still in
> high school in 1967, and there were no personal computers then either.

And they weren't a public company until 1985, so there wasn't
any Microsoft stock for sale to the public until then. And
Microsoft didn't have a garage. Hewlett-Packard had a garage,
Apple had a garage, Google had a garage, but Microsoft missed
that stage.

Dennis Ferguson

On Jul 13, 12:58*am, Todd Allcock <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Or, at least what 6% of the computer buying public talks about...

Actually Apple is similar to buying a Volvo, Mercedes or BMW; not
everyone can afford one but those that do understand why they are
worth it. I suspect these have less than 6% of the total car market.
Does anyone who purchased one of these cars and similar products worry
about it?

I doubt it, they have a life.

> check out some of the specs, windows has nothing like it...

But I can guarantee that they will in the years to come.

As usual, Apple leads...others just follow.

In article <[email protected]>,
Larry <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sure wish I'd taken a mini computer friend's advise and bought Microsoft
> stock in 1967 when they had 12 employees in Billy's garage...

1967? Have you ever gotten anything correct? You are an idiot. Funny
yes, but a complete idiot. Please keep posting.

anon <[email protected]> amazed us all with the following in news:anon-
[email protected]:

> In article
> <[email protected]>,
> 4phun <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Actually Apple is similar to buying a Volvo, Mercedes or BMW; not
>> everyone can afford one but those that do understand why they are
>> worth it
>
> Finally, someone speaks the truth!
>
> If some of these posters spent as much time looking for a job as they do
> with their jealous whining in this group they might be able to join us
> on the cutting edge of technology.
>

Cutting edge? Where?

anon wrote:
> In article
> <[email protected]>,
> 4phun <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>Actually Apple is similar to buying a Volvo, Mercedes or BMW; not
>>everyone can afford one but those that do understand why they are
>>worth it
>
>
> Finally, someone speaks the truth!
>
> If some of these posters spent as much time looking for a job as they do
> with their jealous whining in this group they might be able to join us
> on the cutting edge of technology.



You surely meant the bleeding edge.

Pass the Band-Aids and s'mores - for the camp-out (awaiting activation).

On 7/12/08 11:52 AM, in article [email protected],
"Larry" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Oxford <[email protected]> wrote in news:apony-4811C4.00004312072008
> @news.qwest.net:
>
>> that's why Macs are so much more usable on the web, while using a PC
>> running Windows or Linux is like watching 1970's TV in comparison.
>>
>> http://www.apple.com/imac/
>>
>
> ...as a stockholder, too bad their balance sheet doesn't agree with you.
>
Yeah, RIGHT!

On 7/12/08 11:55 AM, in article [email protected],
"Larry" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tim Smith <[email protected]> wrote in news:reply_in_group-
> [email protected]:
>
>> The
>> NIV is copyright 1973 for the Old Testament, and 1978 for the New
>> Testament.
>>
>
> Isn't that kinda irrelevant since it's about a superstition that is 2000
> years old without a shred of evidence to support it?
>
Yeah, RIGHT!

Moron...

On 7/12/08 11:56 AM, in article [email protected],
"Larry" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:22bf3699-ffeb-46b3-8905-
> [email protected]:
>
>> On Jul 11, 10:19*pm, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> App store my ass.....Monkey Ball....geez.
>>
>> "Monkey Ball", I thought they were downloading an account of Larry's
>> teenage years for some reason.
>>
>
> No, that would be "Doom"....(c;
>
No that would be "fling the feces"...

On 7/13/08 2:11 AM, in article 130720080011514609%[email protected],
"nospam" <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, Larry
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sure wish I'd taken a mini computer friend's advise and bought Microsoft
>> stock in 1967 when they had 12 employees in Billy's garage......Nuts.
>
> in 1967??? microsoft was founded in 1975. bill gates was still in
> high school in 1967, and there were no personal computers then either.
Don't let Reality get in Larry's way. The old fool said it - so it *IS*.
Resistance is futile. All your base belong to him.

On 7/13/08 9:14 AM, in article [email protected],
"anon" <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>,
> Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sure wish I'd taken a mini computer friend's advise and bought Microsoft
>> stock in 1967 when they had 12 employees in Billy's garage...
>
> 1967? Have you ever gotten anything correct? You are an idiot. Funny
> yes, but a complete idiot. Please keep posting.
But, somewhere a village is missing Larry...

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Todd Allcock posted:
> Actually the N8xx series Linux tablets are a niche product, aimed a small
> market. Being that they aren't phones at all (other than the ability to
> run IP telephony apps like Skype and Gizmo) they aren't positioned as
> competitors to the iPhone- Nokia sells phones for that. If Nokia's web
> tablet division disappeared from the face of the Earth tomorrow, Nokia
> probably wouldn't notice until September when their quarterly reports
> became past-due...

All correct.

> Having said that, the tablets are slick little mini-computers.

Indeed. It's a serious -- and quite affordable -- alternative to a Linux
laptop. It fits in a shirt pocket, has enough resolution that you don't
need to zoom in and out all the time like you do on an iToy, and is a
completely open platform. The task of porting software from other Linux
systems to it is generally little more than a recompile.

> I'd
> probably buy one just for giggles except that I don't have the time to
> delve into another platform, despite the fact that Larry's posts make it
> sound like an absolute hoot to tinker with.

You should consider it. It's quite addictive, especially once you set it
up with a bunch of community repositories (the Nokia one is pretty
sparse).

Last autumn, at a conference some PHB was bloviating about how mobile
devices would never be able to handle large mail folders ("large" being
"much more than 100 messages"). I decided that said PHB needed some
humble pills, so I proceeded to demonstrate opening, threading, and
scroll-viewing through a 55,000 message mailbox via IMAP on my N800 (no,
this was not with Nokia's stock mail client -- stuff that people with the
correct software on UNIX type systems (including Linux) do routinely.

I later repeated the same feat on a jailbroken iPod Touch. It's a bit
slower and clankier than the N800, but it could do it with the right
software (not Apple's Mail.app). The most significant weakness with the
iToy is the inadequate screen resolution and the on-screen keyboard that
consumes nearly half the available screen space. Also, the scroller in
Apple's API doesn't scale to views with 5-digit item counts (it's clanky
with just 3-digit ones!), so you have to provide your own.

> Except those of us without iPhones or iPods have no reason to install an
> 80MB media player and library app.

It was very hard for me to believe that anything could suck worse than
Windows Media Player until I encountered iTunes. iTunes violates Apple's
own human interface guidelines. Then there are all its wonderful "unknown
error (69)" error messages that announce your device being turned into a
brick.

-- Mark --

http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

Mark Crispin <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Then there are all its wonderful "unknown
> error (69)" error messages that announce your device being turned into a
> brick.
>

Hmm...didn't know about this. I find it humorous that this is error 69,
however....(c;

I always considered 69 a "lucky number", sometimes VERY lucky!