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Title: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 05, 2010, 02:20:11 AM
it really is magical

:bow steve jobs, wizard extraordinaire :bow2
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Eel O'Brian on May 05, 2010, 02:24:09 AM
:(
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Human Snorenado on May 05, 2010, 02:25:06 AM
As we speak, an elite unit under orders from Ballmer is en route to your house.  By morning, it will be like you never existed.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Eel O'Brian on May 05, 2010, 02:25:49 AM
does it smell good

i like to think that it smells like fresh-baked tollhouse cookies
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on May 05, 2010, 02:49:42 AM
proof that old man prole is going senile, exhibit 2345.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Ichirou on May 05, 2010, 02:50:59 AM
iPad...better than sidehugging? :o
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Raban on May 05, 2010, 03:11:57 AM
I actually toyed around with one at Best Buy today. Better than the iPhone, and kind of neat, but not five-hundred mother fucking dollars neat.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on May 05, 2010, 06:20:17 AM
I actually toyed around with one at Best Buy today. Better than the iPhone, and kind of neat, but not five-hundred mother fucking dollars neat.

Prole makes around $200,000 a year.  $500 is chump change to him.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: huckleberry on May 05, 2010, 06:31:53 AM
I really enjoy mine....if only I could find a comfortable way to type on the fucker. No way in hell I am buying that ugly ass Apple case. (that should have came packed in).
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Ichirou on May 05, 2010, 08:38:29 AM
He wipes his assssss with five hundred dollas
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: bork on May 05, 2010, 09:00:42 AM
I actually toyed around with one at Best Buy today. Better than the iPhone, and kind of neat, but not five-hundred mother fucking dollars neat.

Eh.  New iPhones later this year will be the new hotness.  I still don't care 'cause I like the pocket size of the iPhone/iTouch. 
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: The Fake Shemp on May 05, 2010, 09:11:28 AM
It's not that great. I see Prole has fallen in love with that streamlined, ease-of-use Apple school of thought the older he gets.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Diunx on May 05, 2010, 11:04:44 AM
Prole :'(  next thing you know he is gonna start getting annihilated by the nintendo kids over at gaf.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Smooth Groove on May 05, 2010, 11:08:47 AM
Professor, do you ever get to write off tech gear as work related expenses because you work in that sector? 
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 05, 2010, 11:47:17 AM
nope, i've tried and my accountant said DO NOT DO THIS
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: BlueTsunami on May 05, 2010, 11:47:45 AM
Drinky is gonna have to buy the optional MacBook Pro to prop up his iPad when his hands get tired :smug
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Ichirou on May 05, 2010, 11:51:42 AM
How much money a year would you estimate you spend on electronics stuff, Prole?
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: BlackMage on May 05, 2010, 12:15:18 PM
How much money a year would you estimate you spend on electronics stuff, Prole?

more than I make  :'(
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: brob on May 05, 2010, 12:22:52 PM
I might actually make 100 dollars this month...  :hyper


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Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: BlackMage on May 05, 2010, 12:35:44 PM
I might actually make 100 dollars this month...  :hyper


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ew a poor!  :chicken
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Brehvolution on May 05, 2010, 01:06:01 PM
I got to play with a co-worker's iPad today. I like the youtube layout and the screen is ultra sharp. I may get the wifey one for her bday.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Raban on May 05, 2010, 01:10:22 PM
I might actually make 100 dollars this month...  :hyper


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ew a poor!  :chicken

:lol
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 05, 2010, 01:23:58 PM
How much money a year would you estimate you spend on electronics stuff, Prole?

i don't keep track of it :pimp
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Mr. Gundam on May 05, 2010, 01:50:55 PM
First time I ever used an iPhone was Cormac's in Japan. Pretty cool, but I'd rather not spend the money on one.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: CajoleJuice on May 05, 2010, 01:56:03 PM
The only reason I want one:

(http://i39.tinypic.com/244cj9w.jpg)
(http://i39.tinypic.com/w6teac.jpg)
(http://i42.tinypic.com/2yketd0.jpg)
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Mr. Gundam on May 05, 2010, 01:56:44 PM
That's awesome.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Brehvolution on May 05, 2010, 02:36:37 PM
You can watch live baseball games on that? cool
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: ManaByte on May 05, 2010, 04:21:06 PM
You can watch live baseball games on that? cool

Yup. You just need a MLB.tv subscription. They have the same app for iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, PC, and Mac.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Tieno on May 05, 2010, 04:22:18 PM
Wow, I never would have guessed Prole is a rich fucker, he doesn't even capitalize his sentences properly.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 05, 2010, 04:28:42 PM
Wow, I never would have guessed Prole is a rich fucker, he doesn't even capitalize his sentences properly.

He's so rich that he doesn't even have to care about proper grammar.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Ganhyun on May 05, 2010, 04:38:33 PM
:(

Goddammit, stop breaking my heart :(
If you want one you can go to Ar-Riyadh. A friend of mine found like 4 of them at some apple fanboy's store, for like 2,000 or 3,000 riyals.

I think that might be in reference to a post in a different thread where Cheebs acted like an ass about Eel's situation.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 05, 2010, 05:17:38 PM
Yeah, if I were rich like Prole I'd buy useless electronics all the time too. And gush about them to my poor friends, even if I don't really mean what I say.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Eel O'Brian on May 05, 2010, 06:55:18 PM
i will have one in the near future, and then we will be pad buddies

Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 05, 2010, 08:09:46 PM
:heart
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Smooth Groove on May 05, 2010, 08:12:41 PM
If I get one as well, can we be Pad Tri?
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Ichirou on May 05, 2010, 08:17:22 PM
What will you have to sell to be able to afford one, Eel? :(
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Eel O'Brian on May 05, 2010, 08:26:10 PM
selling my ipod touch and using whatever ebay money i have left over

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Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: BlackMage on May 05, 2010, 08:27:21 PM
im making an ipad program where you put your dick on the screen and it gives you the measurments
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Rman on May 05, 2010, 08:48:19 PM
Drinky, are you gonna review this thing on the Borecast?
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Ichirou on May 05, 2010, 08:53:00 PM
Review the iPad and Record of Agarest War too.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Smooth Groove on May 05, 2010, 08:53:56 PM
im making an ipad program where you put your dick on the screen and it gives you the measurments

or Iphone shuffle in your case:

(http://www.minorissues.be/wp-content/uploads/miv1/20070116-iPhoneshuffle_small.jpg)
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Brehvolution on May 05, 2010, 08:55:39 PM
Review the iPad while using it to broadcast your voice to the show.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Ichirou on May 05, 2010, 08:57:36 PM
im making an ipad program where you put your dick on the screen and it gives you the measurments

or Iphone shuffle in your case:

(http://www.minorissues.be/wp-content/uploads/miv1/20070116-iPhoneshuffle_small.jpg)


BlackMage eviscerated.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 05, 2010, 08:57:40 PM
i will be reviewing the ipad. i may even record from it!

i will not be playing agarest wars!
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Ichirou on May 05, 2010, 08:59:06 PM
i will be reviewing the ipad. i may even record from it!

i will not be playing agarest wars with my primary gamertag!

...fixed?
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 05, 2010, 09:11:45 PM
tangent: I would actually like a Twitter/Facebook/RSS-feed shuffle that only actually shows 1 out of 3 updates or something. I've thought about writing one as a plugin for some social app or another, but kinda don't want to deal with yet another plugin API.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Oblivion on May 05, 2010, 09:51:02 PM
An iPad, Prole? Really?



I mean, really?
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Saint Cornelius on May 05, 2010, 10:24:14 PM
Right on, fahgurt.  :-*
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 05, 2010, 10:25:21 PM
i am flat on my back streaming cronenberg's the fly right now to it

next up: lars von trier's antichrist
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Saint Cornelius on May 05, 2010, 10:30:00 PM
date night, i see?
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 05, 2010, 10:34:17 PM
on a wednesday?
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Saint Cornelius on May 05, 2010, 10:37:23 PM
-shrug-

my ex & I had thursday night date nights; dunno, it's possible.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: ToxicAdam on May 05, 2010, 10:43:23 PM
Once he bought the Wii it was all over. The Wii was the impulsive homosexual act in the bushes of the local park. The Ipad was just buying the membership at the gay bath house.

Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Cormacaroni on May 05, 2010, 10:48:24 PM
i am flat on my back streaming cronenberg's the fly right now to it

next up: lars von trier's antichrist

you bought the iHarness for jo'ing then?
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Smooth Groove on May 05, 2010, 10:49:11 PM
on a wednesday?

No sidehugs on weekdays?  Poor Janet.  :fbm
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Ichirou on May 05, 2010, 10:50:26 PM
:lol
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 05, 2010, 10:56:03 PM
-shrug-

my ex & I had thursday night date nights; dunno, it's possible.

i been married 13 years. we have a kid. weeknights she exercises until 9; i put the kid to bed and play vidjagames or watch movies. that's how we roll. sidehugging happens after 10.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Saint Cornelius on May 05, 2010, 10:56:42 PM
that's cool man. keep the fires burning!
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 05, 2010, 10:57:46 PM
but this is about WHY THE IPAD IS MAGICKAEL, not how i spend my suburban upper middle-class evenings
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Fresh Prince on May 05, 2010, 11:14:36 PM
smh, you're rich enough to be GOP now.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Ichirou on May 05, 2010, 11:18:57 PM
Nobody knows who Prole votes for when he's in that voting booth by himself. :shh
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Cormacaroni on May 05, 2010, 11:28:49 PM
but this is about WHY THE IPAD IS MAGICKAEL, not how i spend my suburban upper middle-class evenings

Tell us then! I'm sold on it already (just waiting for it to be released in Japan) but if there's anything cool that you've found that isn't widely known already, please let us know :)
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 05, 2010, 11:44:06 PM
hm, i've been discussing this with fellow ipadsexual tvc15, and we kinda agree that the ipad, like the wii, is NOT something for hardware geeks. however, UNLIKE the wii, it isn't made on the cheap and doesn't revolve around stupid gimmickry. it's a device for a specific lifestyle.

for me, it really works because it is a great, unobtrusive, slick form factor that works GREAT for casual web browsing, movie streaming, book/comic/manga reading, wiki plundering, and magazine/newspaper browsing. i already spend a great deal of time just reading and consuming information on the internet, and this is like the perfect convergence form factor and experience for INFORMATION CONSUMPTION -- in fact, it really feels like the ideal lifestyle device for me. it's my morning newspaper; it's my lunchtime teevee stream; it's my before-bed book or web crawl; it's my bored-at-the-parents manga session; it's my "let's play air hockey" or read winnie-the-pooh on the road moments with my daughter; it's my sunday afternoon couch-bound slog through the news of the week experience. i don't hafta be propped up in front of a keyboard; i can easily use it to show friends shiz; you can put it on its back and play little games with the kid or wife; it streams and plays movies like a champ; you can have it open next to you for convenient gamefaqqery or im chats with online pals. i find it so trememndously useful for the absurdly technophilic "always connected" way i conduct my life that i can't imagine why i was so down on it to begin with. it's made my netbook feel cumbersome and useless, by comparison.

my recommended apps:

ibooks
newsreaders for: nyt; usa today; bbc news; npr
wikipanion plus
civilization revolution
netflix
pages (for jotting down notes)
the built-in email client
im+
a bunch of simple games for the fam, like crosswords and word searches and air hockey
safari (really fast, surprisingly)
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: CajoleJuice on May 05, 2010, 11:54:32 PM
this is more earth-shattering to my worldview than the first time a girl intimated that she wanted to have sex with me
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 05, 2010, 11:56:54 PM
so this is the first time your weltanschauung is tested, then
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: MCD on May 05, 2010, 11:57:22 PM
it's my morning newspaper; it's my lunchtime teevee stream; it's my before-bed book or web crawl; it's my bored-at-the-parents manga session; it's my "let's play air hockey" or read winnie-the-pooh on the road moments with my daughter; it's my sunday afternoon couch-bound slog through the news of the week experience.

(http://i40.tinypic.com/2vs3i9d.jpg)
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Cormacaroni on May 05, 2010, 11:58:26 PM
cheers, prole!

It all makes perfect sense to me. The iPhone fills a similar niche in my life but I can really see the iPad being better for so many things. The haters just lack imagination.

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Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: CajoleJuice on May 05, 2010, 11:58:54 PM
so this is the first time your weltanschauung is tested, then

i expected more from you!

although i guess you tried to spice up the easy joke with another langauage
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 06, 2010, 12:06:43 AM
yes, $15/month for 250MB or $30/month unlimited. it is not tied to a contract, it's just a subscription.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Mandark on May 06, 2010, 12:08:04 AM
Damn it all, Prole.

I'd hardly given the iPad five minutes thought up to this point, and now I want one.  Desperately.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Smooth Groove on May 06, 2010, 12:09:57 AM
hm, i've been discussing this with fellow ipadsexual tvc15, and we kinda agree that the ipad, like the wii, is NOT something for hardware geeks.

Not at that price.  $750 for 32gb is a rip.  For that price, I'd rather have a 250gb SSD. 
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: CajoleJuice on May 06, 2010, 12:11:34 AM
You can tether the wifi iPad to your iPhone, if you have one, apparently.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Smooth Groove on May 06, 2010, 12:12:50 AM
What does 3G do for the ipad if you're not taking it outside the house?  
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 06, 2010, 12:13:40 AM
nothin'. however, i use it the most outside the house.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: chronovore on May 06, 2010, 12:14:44 AM
What does 3G do for the ipad if you're not taking it outside the house?  
It gets rid of surplus income.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Smooth Groove on May 06, 2010, 12:19:59 AM
nothin'. however, i use it the most outside the house.

That's why I don't wanna get married just yet.  Adult entertainment becomes such a hassle once you're no longer single. 
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Madrun Badrun on May 06, 2010, 01:01:50 AM
nothin'. however, i use it the most outside the house.

That's why I don't wanna get married just yet.  Adult entertainment becomes such a hassle once you're no longer single. 

Just marry a pornstar, then you will get to see his big black cock every night.  Problem solved.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 06, 2010, 01:20:26 AM
Damn it all, Prole.

I'd hardly given the iPad five minutes thought up to this point, and now I want one.  Desperately.

And with that, another check is mailed to the Prole household.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Diunx on May 06, 2010, 01:38:07 AM
hm, i've been discussing this with fellow ipadsexual tvc15, and we kinda agree that the ipad, like the wii, is NOT something for hardware geeks. however, UNLIKE the wii, it isn't made on the cheap and doesn't revolve around stupid gimmickry. it's a device for a specific lifestyle.

for me, it really works because it is a great, unobtrusive, slick form factor that works GREAT for casual web browsing, movie streaming, book/comic/manga reading, wiki plundering, and magazine/newspaper browsing. i already spend a great deal of time just reading and consuming information on the internet, and this is like the perfect convergence form factor and experience for INFORMATION CONSUMPTION -- in fact, it really feels like the ideal lifestyle device for me. it's my morning newspaper; it's my lunchtime teevee stream; it's my before-bed book or web crawl; it's my bored-at-the-parents manga session; it's my "let's play air hockey" or read winnie-the-pooh on the road moments with my daughter; it's my sunday afternoon couch-bound slog through the news of the week experience. i don't hafta be propped up in front of a keyboard; i can easily use it to show friends shiz; you can put it on its back and play little games with the kid or wife; it streams and plays movies like a champ; you can have it open next to you for convenient gamefaqqery or im chats with online pals. i find it so trememndously useful for the absurdly technophilic "always connected" way i conduct my life that i can't imagine why i was so down on it to begin with. it's made my netbook feel cumbersome and useless, by comparison.

my recommended apps:

ibooks
newsreaders for: nyt; usa today; bbc news; npr
wikipanion plus
civilization revolution
netflix
pages (for jotting down notes)
the built-in email client
im+
a bunch of simple games for the fam, like crosswords and word searches and air hockey
safari (really fast, surprisingly)
tl;dr: its a giant smartphone.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Ichirou on May 06, 2010, 01:42:40 AM
"The iPad...it was made for a specific lifestyle - MY lifestyle."
          /
:himu
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: T234 on May 06, 2010, 02:09:03 AM
nothin'. however, i use it the most outside the house.

That's why I don't wanna get married just yet.  Adult entertainment becomes such a hassle once you're no longer single. 

HEYYYYY
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on May 06, 2010, 06:35:59 AM
hm, i've been discussing this with fellow ipadsexual tvc15, and we kinda agree that the ipad, like the wii, is NOT something for hardware geeks. however, UNLIKE the wii, it isn't made on the cheap and doesn't revolve around stupid gimmickry. it's a device for a specific lifestyle.

for me, it really works because it is a great, unobtrusive, slick form factor that works GREAT for casual web browsing, movie streaming, book/comic/manga reading, wiki plundering, and magazine/newspaper browsing. i already spend a great deal of time just reading and consuming information on the internet, and this is like the perfect convergence form factor and experience for INFORMATION CONSUMPTION -- in fact, it really feels like the ideal lifestyle device for me. it's my morning newspaper; it's my lunchtime teevee stream; it's my before-bed book or web crawl; it's my bored-at-the-parents manga session; it's my "let's play air hockey" or read winnie-the-pooh on the road moments with my daughter; it's my sunday afternoon couch-bound slog through the news of the week experience. i don't hafta be propped up in front of a keyboard; i can easily use it to show friends shiz; you can put it on its back and play little games with the kid or wife; it streams and plays movies like a champ; you can have it open next to you for convenient gamefaqqery or im chats with online pals. i find it so trememndously useful for the absurdly technophilic "always connected" way i conduct my life that i can't imagine why i was so down on it to begin with. it's made my netbook feel cumbersome and useless, by comparison.

my recommended apps:

ibooks
newsreaders for: nyt; usa today; bbc news; npr
wikipanion plus
civilization revolution
netflix
pages (for jotting down notes)
the built-in email client
im+
a bunch of simple games for the fam, like crosswords and word searches and air hockey
safari (really fast, surprisingly)

I predict you'll sell it off within six months.

Sounds good though but there's no way I'd buy a first generation product.  I'll wait for the inevitable kinks to be smoothed out later.  As well as larger capacity, like 64-128 GB.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: huckleberry on May 06, 2010, 07:00:03 AM
If you "find" your books elsewhere you can use a program called Callibre to convert them.  It has worked pretty well so far.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: muckhole on May 06, 2010, 10:10:03 AM
i will not be playing agarest wars!

Still "busy" with the sepcial edition mouspad, eh? I guess you could just review that.  :-*

Seriously though, I'm curious to hear how reading a full book on this thing works out. I'm in love with my current eReader, and I do most of my reading in bed as I'm falling asleep. Dunno if I could hack it with a backlit screen.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: chronovore on May 10, 2010, 10:57:50 PM
Is most epaper reflective, rather than self-illuminating?
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Rman on May 10, 2010, 11:48:02 PM
No.  Think of a real book page.  That's pretty much all there is. 
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: naff on May 11, 2010, 01:52:21 AM
Is most epaper reflective, rather than self-illuminating?

Yeah I think so, no backlighting with e-ink/e-paper, just like a normal book. It really is just a kind of ink, in a screen made of some special material.
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 11, 2010, 01:59:57 AM
hm, i've been discussing this with fellow ipadsexual tvc15, and we kinda agree that the ipad, like the wii, is NOT something for hardware geeks. however, UNLIKE the wii, it isn't made on the cheap and doesn't revolve around stupid gimmickry. it's a device for a specific lifestyle.

for me, it really works because it is a great, unobtrusive, slick form factor that works GREAT for casual web browsing, movie streaming, book/comic/manga reading, wiki plundering, and magazine/newspaper browsing. i already spend a great deal of time just reading and consuming information on the internet, and this is like the perfect convergence form factor and experience for INFORMATION CONSUMPTION -- in fact, it really feels like the ideal lifestyle device for me. it's my morning newspaper; it's my lunchtime teevee stream; it's my before-bed book or web crawl; it's my bored-at-the-parents manga session; it's my "let's play air hockey" or read winnie-the-pooh on the road moments with my daughter; it's my sunday afternoon couch-bound slog through the news of the week experience. i don't hafta be propped up in front of a keyboard; i can easily use it to show friends shiz; you can put it on its back and play little games with the kid or wife; it streams and plays movies like a champ; you can have it open next to you for convenient gamefaqqery or im chats with online pals. i find it so trememndously useful for the absurdly technophilic "always connected" way i conduct my life that i can't imagine why i was so down on it to begin with. it's made my netbook feel cumbersome and useless, by comparison.

my recommended apps:

ibooks
newsreaders for: nyt; usa today; bbc news; npr
wikipanion plus
civilization revolution
netflix
pages (for jotting down notes)
the built-in email client
im+
a bunch of simple games for the fam, like crosswords and word searches and air hockey
safari (really fast, surprisingly)

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Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Cormacaroni on May 11, 2010, 02:05:31 AM
Just pre-ordered mine, wifi-only 32GB.  Think i'm gonna get a personal wi-fi thingy so I can use it with all my devices (laptops, iPhone etc) rather than 3G. May rethink that if the wifey wants one as well.
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Post by: chronovore on May 11, 2010, 09:14:59 AM
What is a "personal wi-fi thingie"?
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 12, 2010, 05:04:46 PM
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Post by: Oblivion on May 12, 2010, 06:47:57 PM
:rofl :rofl
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Post by: Raban on May 12, 2010, 06:55:04 PM
:lol
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 12, 2010, 07:28:05 PM
 :lol :lol :lol
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Post by: Great Rumbler on May 12, 2010, 07:36:20 PM
Two iPads?  :lol
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Post by: Brehvolution on May 12, 2010, 07:43:42 PM
 :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species
Post by: Reb on May 13, 2010, 04:09:24 PM
And so the seed was planted in Prole's mind...