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The $2,000 iPad
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| 3/31/11
| Brett Arends
Posted on 03/31/2011 7:36:01 PM PDT by harpu
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To: wrench; HiTech RedNeck
In case you werent around then, we went to the moon, designed nuclear bombs, built the Hoover Dam, and thousands of other feats we cant seem to figure out how to do today. And all these accomplishments were done without all these look at me, I am important toys.
After reading your "back in the good old days" screed on technology, I got the impression you are contacting us on FR via one of these beauties. (The computer, not the chick.)
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posted on
03/31/2011 9:39:45 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: buccaneer81
Not when you’re texting while driving and crash into someone. Some people can’t even handle just talking on it while driving.
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posted on
03/31/2011 9:51:54 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Lazlo in PA
Ha! It’s easy to knock old technology, but it kept a lot of people employed and got work done for those that used them! :)
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posted on
03/31/2011 9:54:29 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: doc11355
Can the pad fit into the case face up?
To: harpu
This is one of the stupidest articles I’ve ever read! I’m buying as many things as I can now, because the coming hyper-inflation is wiping out my money holdings. I’m also investing, but I don’t know if the stock market will keep pace with inflation. Buy metals, tangible goods, arms, and property. By the way, I’m typing this on my iPad. Buy one now, it might cost $2000 next year after inflation starts roaring away.
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posted on
03/31/2011 10:05:03 PM PDT
by
roadcat
To: harpu
So under this logic, why would you buy anything more than the extreme minimum? EVERYTHING you buy translates into 4-5 times its ‘cost’ in several years, so shouldn’t you be waiting to buy, well, just about everything?
To: Secret Agent Man
No knock to old tech from me. I have a 1978 Panasonic Omnivision in my bar I use just for kicks. First VHS machine for the masses. It plays tapes so clear you would think they are DVD's. Cost someone a fortune when it was new. New car money. I just was poking fun at the posters cranky attitude toward the new stuff. One never knows if it a good tech or not for many years down the road where we can see what it did for us.
Mine has deluxe simulated woodgrain on the front.
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posted on
03/31/2011 10:22:14 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: Secret Agent Man
Not when youre texting while driving and crash into someone. Some people cant even handle just talking on it while driving.Agree 100%. I was referring to incidents like when my wife's cousin had chest pain driving on the freeway from Cincinnati to Columbus. He was able to pull over, the Ohio Highway patrol and a squad got to him in ten minutes. Lifeflight flew him to Columbus where he had successful emergency bypass surgery.
To: roadcat
Buy one now, it might cost $2000 next year after inflation starts roaring away.No kidding. If you're in the market for a new TV, get the $500 42" right now. It's going way up soon.
To: USNBandit
I bought an iPod touch for one of my kids and just got an iPad 2 for the others. My main purpose is so I can video chat with them when I'm on the road. That is worth way more than $2k to me.
Absolutely. The flip side of that is when my associates contact me at all hours to discuss a technical problem. No Mr. Project Leader we do not need to video conference from my dang hotel room at 2:00 in the morning! ... yes i know it is only 4:00 PM at the office....
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posted on
03/31/2011 10:56:36 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
To: wrench
Piffle
Sorry, dear luddite. The world is changing around you.
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posted on
03/31/2011 11:07:39 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: tacticalogic
Have you used an iPad? If not, st_u...
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posted on
04/01/2011 12:19:18 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!!)
To: harpu
What a completely moronic piece. What the author said about iPad could be said about anything that costs anything.
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posted on
04/01/2011 2:46:29 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: FightforFreedomCA
ok, Ill ask, whats a glow-worm bubble-head??? glow-worm = nuke
bubble-head = submariner
To: harpu
This is such 1990’s thinking. By next Christmas, this guy’s investments probably won’t be worth jack, and he’ll be out of a job.
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posted on
04/01/2011 3:30:02 AM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
To: TXnMA
Have you used an iPad? If not, st_u...I work at a fairly large financial institution. Some of our program developers write mobile apps for our customers. We have two of them (and a couple of Macs) we use to do QA testing on. I think they've been used more for playing Angry Birds than anything else.
To: Breto
Boys have toys; men have tools, men have equipment.
Sorry little boy.
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posted on
04/01/2011 3:41:05 AM PDT
by
metesky
(My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
To: backwoods-engineer
By next Christmas, this guys investments probably wont be worth jack, and hell be out of a job.But by then that $500 iPad can probably be had for $150. The bad news may be that it could cost him 4-5 times that for a decent data plan for a year.
To: tacticalogic
Of course, you could get the free Go To My PC app for iPad and use it that way. Or you could begin a campaign to convince the many Fortune 500 companies, the DOD, and medical professionals that they are wasting their time and money by extensively using iPads.
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posted on
04/01/2011 4:29:31 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: tacticalogic
By next Christmas,... But by then that $500 iPad can probably be had for $150.
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Or he could chose to use the $150 to buy a tankfull of gasoline...
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posted on
04/01/2011 4:37:21 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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