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The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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gonna ship 1 to this thread

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The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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Coffee Jones posted:

Fishmech owns

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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j/k that dude is a human being

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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Janin posted:

I'm not claiming it's been unsuccessful, merely that it's not useful.

Name one thing a tablet form factor gets you? Especially considering its numerous negatives:

1. no keyboard = no typing more than a paragraph

2. compact and small = very hot

3. fragile, exposed screen = have to buy a separate protective case, bag, etc

4. hideously expensive

1. get better fingers

2. lol lol

lolol

3. i threw mine in my carry on bag and flew coast-to-coast with it, no problem

4. stop being poor

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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i don't know if any of you fags are being good americans and watching the super bowl, but there was a laughably derivative commercial for the xoom (a laughably derivative tablet)

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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maniacdevnull posted:

for the first 15 seconds i thought it was an ad for the dc subway

oh i didn't notice anyone freebasing

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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haveblue posted:

tTo activate Wifi functionality on this device, a minimum of 1 month data subscription is required.

haha wtf

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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ok which of you is this

e: thanks, attachments.

Only registered members can see post attachments!

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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Janin posted:

my guess: this is verizon's way of getting back at apple for not releasing a cdma ipad yet

cdma ipad was announced a month ago dude

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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congrats on missing the point idiot

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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Amethyst posted:

Why. Why are giant corporations so stupid

step 1) go to business school (do not study, just party with your "bros")
step 2) put on a suit and get hired at A Company
step 3) work your way up via your bros and their bros
step 4) make decisions only in the form "if we charge X dollars more for product/feature Y, we will make Z more profit [assuming consumers are dumb enough to buy it]"

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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remember when all the dumb faggots said linux netbooks were iPad-killers?

now it's linux tablets

lmfao

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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adds up specs numbers
divide by price

this is your COMPUTER VALUE FACTOR

this is what morons have been arguing in the macs-v-pcs debate for several years now; it was wrong for that domain, it's wrong for the mobile domain too.

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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drat i haven't thought about that show in awhile
fuckin' miss it

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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(1) Apple has miniature Apple Stores within many Best Buy locations and this is where iPads are sold (holy loving poo poo, Apple Product sold in an Apple Store, alert the loving authorities)

(2) Best Buy is paying for those iPads; no one gets iPads for free.

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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bestbuy is actually pretty awesome if you want to buy the things they sell at good prices hth

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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lol it's a store, fags

i know for some of you going out in the bright, scary world and handing money to a human being to buy goods is too much, but for the rest of us it's pretty great. and for zero dollars you get a reward zone card that gives you free money once in awhile, yay

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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fishmech posted:

lol @ this

spergmech where do you buy your dvds and xbox controllers

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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qirex posted:

also there's like 20 people in the car so it's actually going 60

lmao

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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janin thank you for obliterating any lingering disappointment that i had over google not hiring me. now that i see what kind of person gets picked to be a googler, i feel much better about myself.

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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Janin posted:

rate = data quantity / time

if there's more data in less time, the rate is higher

these are elementary maths

janin there is really no essential difference between this retarded assertion and me driving my car from point a to point b, then someone pushing the marker for point b closer to a, and me claiming i just went FASTER.

or like you moving the goalposts....

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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or you could say it's like the difference between velocity and momentum...

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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janin if i pad out every file with 20 megs from /dev/urandom, does that REDUCE my transfer rate?

please be sure to qualify your answer and show your work

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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Janin posted:

it would download at normal speed for that file, then go at 5 kB/s for the last 20 megs

but what if the actual file was compressed????

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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Janin posted:

the thing is, yosposters are arguing that the speed of a connection is defined by how many bits per second are sent/received over the physical wire.

that is literally the definition of connection speed

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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Janin posted:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBelT-Xi1CY

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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Janin posted:

I assume it's random data, but have never checked.

so then is it a TRUE transfer rate measurement or is it something else?!??!


this is some time cube four corner earth poo poo, jani.

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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hahahahahaha "real data" A AAAAAHHHhahahahahahhahahaha

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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nice speeds, scrub

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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Sneaking Mission posted:


The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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Janin posted:

nah, I bought a galaxy tab because I'm not poor, and it works perfectly.

lmao

we janin... janin... and i hope ya like janin, too

The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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Janin posted:

I wouldn't touch android

this is a policy that has never gone out of fashion

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The Evan
Nov 29, 2004

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Anatole posted:

wait $600 is a weeks paycheck?

android is for poors