February 8, 2010

[o] posted by sebastard : Feb 08 (14 hours, 9 mins ago.) (ignore) NEW

Now I want to play Outrun.

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[o] posted by GiantFNRobot : Feb 07 (1 day, 6 hours ago.) (ignore)

I hope that's real

That's the final straw. From now on, I refer to my heritage as "Prussian"

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 posted by sebastard : Feb 06 (2 days, 9 hours ago.) (ignore)

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[o] posted by sebastard : Feb 05 (3 days, 15 hours ago.) (ignore)

I'll race you there!

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 posted by odyssey : Feb 05 (3 days, 15 hours ago.) (ignore)

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[o] posted by SassyLeo : Feb 04 (4 days, 10 hours ago.) (ignore)

LOL

Amazing!

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[o] posted by scarecrow704 : Jan 31 (8 days, 12 hours ago.) (ignore)

holy shit! reminds me of this.

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[o] posted by jar : Jan 29 (10 days, 4 hours ago.) (ignore)

wicked!! it's interesting to think that our first radio signals haven't even gotten out of the Milky Way yet!

But maybe they've reached Xenu.

Tom Cruise protects me!!

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 posted by jar : Jan 29 (10 days, 11 hours ago.) (ignore)

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[o] posted by jar : Jan 29 (10 days, 11 hours ago.) (ignore)

I think Top Gear has been on at least half of those...

Actually, I'm pretty sure they've only done The Stelvio Pass and The Road Of Death. Which means there's lots of great spots for future road trips.

I've been on the Los Caracoles Pass. Totally fun. Surprised the McKenzie river in NWT didn't make it on. In the winter, roads are closed and transport trucks drive on it's frozen surface (really fast too) instead. Did a few spinouts on it for fun.

Like this?

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 posted by sebastard : Jan 28 (11 days, 10 hours ago.) (ignore)

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[o] posted by sebastard : Jan 27 (12 days, 9 hours ago.) (ignore)

Under powered, Locked in software, No Flash support, 3G connectivity based on carrier specific plans (if you pay the extra for 3G). This pretty much sounds like the ultimate web surfin' device. Puke.

iPad from 2 years ago

^^ yeah if I end up getting this thing, I would get a Wifi-only version and only after I knew for sure that it was jailbreakable.. otherwise it just seems like too much of a lock-in, as you put it.

^^ Reminds me of another (exceptionally) funny Mad TV Apple spoof from a few years back: iRack.

After watching the video on apple.com I could see how this device could be really fun and useful, but I'd only consider it if it ran around $300 and had +100gb of memory. And some USB ports. Basically if it could compete with my netbook, which seems to be the posiioning for it.

the 3G units come unlocked. no flash: i noticed that too [demo were done with os 3.2 for iPAD only. we'll just have to wait till summer for OS 4]. a good reson for designs&developers to learn to develop FOR this class of device. beside it's just flash...learn some new methods.

'As a demo platform..' sebs comment--that's exaclty what i would like to see in this platform. i'm very interested in what apps will be created for development. i shutter to think that a xampp-type app would be the only way...

form macrumors.com
"File Sharing. A shared file directory is provided that will mount on your Mac or PC. This is presumably how files such as iWork documents will be transferred to and from the iPad. iPad applications will be able to access this shared directory."

Yeah this thing is just a bigger iPhone really.. It's not a self-contained computer, and that sucks.

Can I plug an iPod or iPhone into it and sync? I'm guessing not. Which means if I am going anywhere on a trip with this thing, I still need to bring my laptop. Unless all I need to do is finger paint some numbers into a spreadsheet..

we'll just have to wait and see what will be possible when it's released...and how it may progress. if enough [people like us as geeky web people] really want to work from this platform (during travelling....a weekend away) apps for it will come along.

i have actually thinking the is a perfect device for my other half--as a general computer user who email, plays come online games...some general text editing--this device could replace his laptop completely today.

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[o] posted by sebastard : Jan 26 (13 days, 14 hours ago.) (ignore)

I really like the previous one.

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[o] posted by GiantFNRobot : Jan 25 (14 days, 1 hour ago.) (ignore)

We're #1!! we're %1!!

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[o] posted by sebastard : Jan 25 (14 days, 9 hours ago.) (ignore)

ahem, welcome to the social, bill.

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 posted by jar : Jan 25 (14 days, 9 hours ago.) (ignore)

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[o] posted by matt : Jan 23 (15 days, 21 hours ago.) (ignore)

Sounds simple, but the UI is really confounding. Fail.

There's seems to be a strange homogeneity in content being imposed here. Until I clicked on an illustration of a robot I was getting photo sets whose content modality was basically defined by a state of undress and a vitamin B deficiency. Even after the robot click, the cast of Twilight managed to start creeping back into the photo sets. I like the idea though.

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[o] posted by jar : Jan 23 (16 days ago.) (ignore)

That's pretty cool!

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[o] posted by sharky : Jan 22 (17 days, 12 hours ago.) (ignore)

PROTIP^^

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[o] posted by sebastard : Jan 21 (18 days, 4 hours ago.) (ignore)

I like that

Would be better as a kindle kozy

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[o] posted by sebastard : Jan 19 (20 days, 14 hours ago.) (ignore)

awesome!

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