Technology Thread.

[Lord Kangana]

In your answer to BWFCi just up there (wheres the up arrow on the keyboard?)

[Lost Leopard Spot]

In your answer to BWFCi just up there (wheres the up arrow on the keyboard?)

Usually a shift up from 6

[Lord Kangana]

Ahah!

There ^

[thebish]

In your answer to BWFCi just up there (wheres the up arrow on the keyboard?)

but - as far as I can see - you still haven't told GG not to buy one. you've simply said she is a lesser human being...

[Gooner Girl]

well clearly i am a lesser human being but i don't care as hubby got me one and i love it. Happy to be a lesser human being if it means i have my ipad!

[thebish]

well clearly i am a lesser human being but i don't care as hubby got me one and i love it. Happy to be a lesser human being if it means i have my ipad!

i thought it was supposed to be for christmas????

[Gooner Girl]

well clearly i am a lesser human being but i don't care as hubby got me one and i love it. Happy to be a lesser human being if it means i have my ipad!

i thought it was supposed to be for christmas????

He told me i should have it now in the hope he might get the pc back and not have to use the old slow laptop. Who am i to argue?

[thebish]

well clearly i am a lesser human being but i don't care as hubby got me one and i love it. Happy to be a lesser human being if it means i have my ipad!

i thought it was supposed to be for christmas????

He told me i should have it now in the hope he might get the pc back and not have to use the old slow laptop. Who am i to argue?

that's very sad on many levels... can you not wait until christmas day to open your presents????

[Gooner Girl]

well clearly i am a lesser human being but i don't care as hubby got me one and i love it. Happy to be a lesser human being if it means i have my ipad!

i thought it was supposed to be for christmas????

He told me i should have it now in the hope he might get the pc back and not have to use the old slow laptop. Who am i to argue?

that's very sad on many levels... can you not wait until christmas day to open your presents????

Yes. I can. I didn't ask for it early.

[Montreal Wanderer]

well clearly i am a lesser human being but i don't care as hubby got me one and i love it. Happy to be a lesser human being if it means i have my ipad!

i thought it was supposed to be for christmas????

He told me i should have it now in the hope he might get the pc back and not have to use the old slow laptop. Who am i to argue?

that's very sad on many levels... can you not wait until christmas day to open your presents????

Yes. I can. I didn't ask for it early.

Then surely you should have refused when it was offered.

[Gooner Girl]

that's very sad on many levels... can you not wait until christmas day to open your presents????

Yes. I can. I didn't ask for it early.

Then surely you should have refused when it was offered.

I could have but he was keen for me to open it. Not that its any of you twos business anyway.

[Montreal Wanderer]

that's very sad on many levels... can you not wait until christmas day to open your presents????

Yes. I can. I didn't ask for it early.

Then surely you should have refused when it was offered.

I could have but he was keen for me to open it. Not that its any of you twos business anyway.

You're right, so I won't mention apostrophes either.

[Gooner Girl]

that's very sad on many levels... can you not wait until christmas day to open your presents????

Yes. I can. I didn't ask for it early.

Then surely you should have refused when it was offered.

I could have but he was keen for me to open it. Not that its any of you twos business anyway.

You're right, so I won't mention apostrophes either.

Get lost.

[bobo the clown]

... &, of course, you'll have to have SOMETHING to open on Christmas Day ....

Poor show. Very 'Home Counties' really.

You should feel guilty with every press of a button on the thing until the real day.

[Worthy4England]

... &, of course, you'll have to have SOMETHING to open on Christmas Day ....

Poor show. Very 'Home Counties' really.

You should feel guilty with every press of a button on the thing until the real day.

Given it's the season of goodwill to all MEN, surely the PC should have been "surrendered" anyhow, on the basis that Santa MIGHT bring an iPad for Christmas?

[Annoyed Grunt]

... &, of course, you'll have to have SOMETHING to open on Christmas Day ....

Poor show. Very 'Home Counties' really.

You should feel guilty with every press of a button on the thing until the real day.

No buttons though......

[Montreal Wanderer]

Yes. I can. I didn't ask for it early.

Then surely you should have refused when it was offered.

I could have but he was keen for me to open it. Not that its any of you twos business anyway.

You're right, so I won't mention apostrophes either.

Get lost.

And Merry Christmas to you.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Can anyone point out a single benefit of owning a ipad to me, at all?

I think the best way to describe it, Bruce, is that one can 'lean back' with an iPad in a way that most people don't find comfortable/safe with a laptop. You mentioned that your laptop was on the coffee table - if you're perfectly happy with that and don't value browsing the Internet, playing a game or reading an ebook/newspaper lying back on the couch, or in bed, or on the tube or another train with limited space, then maybe an iPad isn't for you.

I know I'll get rinsed for this, but over the last year I've built up quite a lot of knowledge on the paintings of the National Gallery, to the extent that I have started giving tours to family and friends that they enjoy having and I enjoy conducting. One thing I am doing more and more of is downloading images on my iPad to incorporate into the tour, be it to show them a related painting I have seen in another gallery, or a photo of the actual site when it's a landscape... that sort of thing. I think this would be very difficult to do satisfactorily with anything other than a tablet device, though I appreciate it's a fairly narrow application I have just described.

[Bruce Rioja]

You mentioned that your laptop was on the coffee table - if you're perfectly happy with that and don't value browsing the Internet, playing a game or reading an ebook/newspaper lying back on the couch, or in bed, or on the tube or another train with limited space, then maybe an iPad isn't for you.

Definitely not for me then, PB. Call me an old fashioned fuddy duddy but I love physically turning the pages of a good book and investing myself into it. I fear that were I to own a tablet I'd find books all too disposable in much the same way that people started burning CDs for one and other that they may or may not like (I also love reading the sleeve notes on CDs). I'm writing this at the PC in the boxroom whilst having my music on. I just prefer it this way (well, more so when Bruce's Bodega's open but it's a little early for that ) If I really (though rarely) feel the need to browse something right there and then then I use my phone.
Ipads strike me as being clunky and not easy to cart around whereas my laptop fits into its shoulder bag.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

You mentioned that your laptop was on the coffee table - if you're perfectly happy with that and don't value browsing the Internet, playing a game or reading an ebook/newspaper lying back on the couch, or in bed, or on the tube or another train with limited space, then maybe an iPad isn't for you.

Definitely not for me then, PB. Call me an old fashioned fuddy duddy but I love physically turning the pages of a good book and investing myself into it. I fear that were I to own a tablet I'd find books all too disposable in much the same way that people started burning CDs for one and other that they may or may not like (I also love reading the sleeve notes on CDs). I'm writing this at the PC in the boxroom whilst having my music on. I just prefer it this way (well, more so when Bruce's Bodega's open but it's a little early for that ) If I really (though rarely) feel the need to browse something right there and then then I use my phone.
Ipads strike me as being clunky and not easy to cart around whereas my laptop fits into its shoulder bag.

When it comes to books, I don't second guess myself with worries about how my valuing of them will change. But one thing I have noticed is that I just cannot get into any kind of fiction on an iPad. A few times I have downloaded classics because they are out of copyright (life of author plus 70 years) and therefore free, and haven't enjoyed the reading experience on the iPad. On the other hand, I read a small physical copy of The Great Gatsby recently and really enjoyed it.

Things are different with newspapers and magazines though - there's no better way of reading the Economist than on the iPad.

In terms of portability - I find that the iPad is considerably lighter than any laptop I have ever owned and have what looks like a very small laptop shoulder bag to carry it and other miscellany around in.