ur a doctor qed
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
sike! me too
― randy e. bugler (jeff), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
Harvey Dent, he's at it again!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/live-from-the-apple-tablet-latest-creation-event/
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
starting in 17 minutes
From that engadget post:
9:42AM Okay! We're in our seats and there's some Dylan playing on the sound system!9:11AM Overall the mood is really jovial right now. It's basically a party in the U.S.A.
9:11AM Overall the mood is really jovial right now. It's basically a party in the U.S.A.
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
Well, now I know not to read that coverage.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
basically a party in the U.S.A.
― his power told him (about the fish) (gbx), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
new board motto
I hope the home button isn't in the middle of the tablet, as has been shown in all the mock ups; it makes sense on the iphone (where the thumb lands innit) but wouldn't on a tablet (on the same principle)
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.justin.tv/#r=y6Ire8c
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
where is the best coverage going to be?
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh shit, didn't know TWiT was doing a live show. thanks cozen!
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
Exciting updates from Ars Technica:
There's a chair and table on stage
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
not on verizon that's for sure
xxpost
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
gorenography
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
here we go!
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'm wayyyyyy too fucking excited
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
you can hear Jobs speaking on the Justin.tv link
http://www.justin.tv/#r=uGgAhEQ
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
ipad
― stet, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
omg 'iPudding' who saw it coming
― schlump, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
there it is
― his power told him (about the fish) (gbx), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
more bezel than screen
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol at the billionaire laying into "cheap laptops"
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
Every page and irc channel just crashed right now
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
ibezel
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
holding the internet in yr hands
LOL
― his power told him (about the fish) (gbx), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
in fairness, cheap laptops are terrible things
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
you write on the screen with chalk or sharp stones
― schlump, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
If that's a real Facebook page she's about to get far too much attention.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol NYT and Chad Ocho Cinco screengrabs
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
"What this device does is extraordinary. You can browse the web with it."
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
did they put fm radio in the iphone yet
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
Steve demoing unit while sitting on couch.
I hear that can get you arrested.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
'today we are going to unveil a revolutionary new product... flush headphone jack & fm radio in iphone'
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol @ this on the gizmodo live blogging/apple event page:
Jason Chen: Steve Jobs is on stage, and he looks about the same as we last saw him (kinda skinny, but not unhealthily skinny).
― i am just sitting here playing cafe world baby (Nijoli), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
From the Engadget live page
10:16AM We're basically just watching Steve casually browse. This is odd.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
"It's so much more intimate than a laptop."
jerking off JUST GOT REAL
― schlump, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
is this big enough to have a webcam feed of someone else going, and to have it fill the whole screen, and then to walk down the street holding it up like the head is your head
― schlump, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
All those augmented reality apps are going to be interesting now.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
getting srs dsi xl vibes off this thing
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
would def love to have one of these for school---they are going to nail the collegiate market
― his power told him (about the fish) (gbx), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
iTunes interface looks very nice
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
ebooks going to be awesome on this. already do a shitload of reading on instapaper and eucalyptus but they're just a bit too small
― stet, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
praying he announces adding ebooks to iTunes
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
anyway, population density absolutely impacts Australia because you have most people living in concentrated areas, meaning more efficient use of cell towers, plus you are also talking about a population that is 15 times smaller than the US so it shouldn't be THAT surprising that you can build a cheaper network there
the biggest factor iirc is getting the network out there in the first place. no problem rigging up a handful of 850 mhz cells through e.g. alice springs and no problem making money there, but linking that to the rest of the network and maintaining acceptable data speeds is costlier per capita in those regions.
indigenous communities are a whole different story though: recently some colleagues went out to wtf creek in the middle of buggery plains and saw first hand how bad landline internet speeds were there, much less any sort of reliable cell network.
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 23 May 2013 23:59 (3 days ago) Permalink
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-may-22-2013/tax-men---apple
― markers, Friday, 24 May 2013 02:34 (2 days ago) Permalink
"my point was more that the type of person who wears watches these days is more likely to be the kind of person who does so as a status symbol, not as a utility"
really?? i wear a watch because i need to know the time and i hate pulling my phone out. it's a cheapie digital, and i have three of them because i kept misplacing them, getting a new one, and then finding them.
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Friday, 24 May 2013 05:53 (2 days ago) Permalink
500 MB of data a month? I go through a GB every day or so
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Friday, 24 May 2013 14:36 (2 days ago) Permalink
they should really go old-timey and make a digital watch that looks like a gold Moneybags-style pocket watch with chain but it communicates via bluetooth to your phone, which also has the time on it. do you see, man!
― Nhex, Friday, 24 May 2013 14:42 (2 days ago) Permalink
re the possible usecases of such a watch -not new and i think it got posted already, but it still contains some valid points throughout:http://kfury.com/what-an-apple-watch-is-good-for
― the europan nikon is here (grauschleier), Friday, 24 May 2013 15:16 (2 days ago) Permalink
What's missing from the discussion of profitability of setting up cell towers is that there are tons of places in the US where a single tower serves far fewer than the "10,000" discussed above. Where my parents used to live in rural Michigan, I had service in a tiny radius, in which there were maybe 30 or 40 houses - 50 absolute tops - it was in the woods - and the roads were very low traffic. But AT&T provided service to that tiny population, and there are many, many more like it.
― Je55e, Friday, 24 May 2013 16:51 (2 days ago) Permalink
isn't there some law on the books mandating access to rural areas? I thought it only applied to landlines though
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 24 May 2013 16:54 (2 days ago) Permalink
i guess it isnt a new thing but its still seems stupid:
Are people going to be talking into these things or just poking at them and squinting?
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Friday, 24 May 2013 17:24 (2 days ago) Permalink
itamagotchiwatch
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 May 2013 17:28 (2 days ago) Permalink