Re: Electronic devices

2010-10-20 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I'm going to get iLife11 tomorrow! Garageband looks sweet along with all those iMovie enhancements On Oct 20, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Maureen wrote: >> I currently have: iPod classic, non-smart cell phone, broken laptop, >> portable a

Re: Electronic devices

2010-10-20 Thread Cameron Childress
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Maureen wrote: > I currently have:  iPod classic, non-smart cell phone, broken laptop, > portable audio recorder, palm pilot > > What I want is one device that will handle all those functions without > weighing 10 pounds. http://gizmodo.com/5668810/new-macbook-ai

RE: Electronic devices

2010-10-18 Thread Eric Roberts
nday, October 18, 2010 11:58 AM To: cf-community Subject: RE: Electronic devices I got the 360 because at the time it was the only device that had netflix... Eric ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.am

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2010-10-18 Thread Sisk, Kris
AM To: cf-community Subject: RE: Electronic devices I got the 360 because at the time it was the only device that had netflix... Eric ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/

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2010-10-18 Thread Eric Roberts
I got the 360 because at the time it was the only device that had netflix... Eric -Original Message- From: Sisk, Kris [mailto:ks...@gckschools.com] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 1:16 PM To: cf-community Subject: RE: Electronic devices Either would be true, but I was talking about

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2010-10-18 Thread Sisk, Kris
Either would be true, but I was talking about the 360 and Halo 3. -Original Message- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 10:14 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Electronic devices Actually, I don't. Did you mean a lto of people bought ori

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2010-10-18 Thread Scott Stroz
t Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 10:07 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Electronic devices > > No one bought a 360 to play Halo. Halo was a game for the original > Xbox. I Halo 3 was the first of the series designed for the 360. > >

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2010-10-18 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Scott Stroz wrote: > No one bought a 360 to play Halo. Halo was a game for the original > Xbox. I Halo 3 was the first of the series designed for the 360. I bought an XBox to play Halo2, but never bought a 360. -Cameron ... ~~~

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2010-10-18 Thread Sisk, Kris
Yeah, you know what I meant though. :P -Original Message- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 10:07 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Electronic devices No one bought a 360 to play Halo. Halo was a game for the original Xbox. I Halo 3 was the

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2010-10-18 Thread Scott Stroz
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Sisk, Kris wrote: > >>The 360 has been the best selling console for the last 4 months. > It gained enormous market share in the face of the incumbents, > Nintendo and Sony and did so by pulling people from those platforms. > > Only Halo saved it. The number of pe

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2010-10-18 Thread Sisk, Kris
>The 360 has been the best selling console for the last 4 months. It gained enormous market share in the face of the incumbents, Nintendo and Sony and did so by pulling people from those platforms. Only Halo saved it. The number of people who bought a 360 just to play Halo is just scary. >Previo

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2010-10-18 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Vivec wrote: > They were doing well from the days of the original Xbox too. > They entered a market dominated by Sony and were able to carve a solid > piece of the pie that only grew > with the introduction of the 360 vs the PS3. Don't forget Microsoft's last ha

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2010-10-18 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Sisk, Kris wrote: > ErmMicrosoft didn't 'get it right' with Xbox360. I think I'd measure success by market share and shat direction that share is going. X360 may not have the most dominant system out there, but it does have respectable market share and is no

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2010-10-18 Thread Vivec
Well you know what I mean :-) They were doing well from the days of the original Xbox too. They entered a market dominated by Sony and were able to carve a solid piece of the pie that only grew with the introduction of the 360 vs the PS3. On 18 October 2010 10:40, Robert Munn wrote: > The orig

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2010-10-18 Thread Robert Munn
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Vivec wrote: > > The 360 has been the best selling console for the last 4 months. > It gained enormous market share in the face of the incumbents, > Nintendo and Sony and did so by pulling people from those platforms. > > Previously, Microsoft never had any exper

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2010-10-18 Thread Vivec
The 360 has been the best selling console for the last 4 months. It gained enormous market share in the face of the incumbents, Nintendo and Sony and did so by pulling people from those platforms. Previously, Microsoft never had any experience in the console business, or even much in the Game dev

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2010-10-18 Thread Sisk, Kris
f they'd done that). But yeah, by all reports Windows 7 mobile looks to be Microsoft's redemption in the mobile market. -Original Message- From: Vivec [mailto:gel21...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 4:28 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Electronic devices I would w

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2010-10-17 Thread Ray Champagne
I hope they bring back the stylus. That was the shizz. Sent using a tiny keyboard. Typos imminent. On Oct 17, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Vivec wrote: > >> >> I would wait a bit until the Windows 7 phones hit the market before >> buying right

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2010-10-17 Thread Robert Munn
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Vivec wrote: > > I would wait a bit until the Windows 7 phones hit the market before > buying right now. > > All signs point to Microsoft pulling another Xbox360 with these phones > and actually getting it right! > I am never going back to a Windows phone. I he

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2010-10-17 Thread Eric Roberts
[mailto:camer...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 1:12 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Electronic devices On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Eric Roberts wrote: > Some of the reviews I have seen for the Win7 phones have been pretty > promising.  I had a Treo with 5 and 6 and wa

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2010-10-17 Thread Cameron Childress
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Eric Roberts wrote: > Some of the reviews I have seen for the Win7 phones have been pretty > promising.  I had a Treo with 5 and 6 and was less than impressed.  It > wasn't bad...I just felt that Palm could have done better and Windows could > have done more.  I

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2010-10-17 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
So does that mean it will going for hd DVD vs blueray? Sent from my iPhone On Oct 16, 2010, at 4:28 AM, Vivec wrote: > > I would wait a bit until the Windows 7 phones hit the market before > buying right now. > > All signs point to Microsoft pulling another Xbox360 with these phones > and ac

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2010-10-17 Thread Judah McAuley
ill prolly be sticking with Android. > > -Original Message- > From: Vivec [mailto:gel21...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 5:28 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Electronic devices > > > I would wait a bit until the Windows 7 phones hit the mark

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2010-10-17 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
So does that mean it will going for hd DVD vs blueray? Sent from my iPhone On Oct 16, 2010, at 4:28 AM, Vivec wrote: > > I would wait a bit until the Windows 7 phones hit the market before > buying right now. > > All signs point to Microsoft pulling another Xbox360 with these phones > and ac

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2010-10-16 Thread Eric Roberts
ginal Message- From: Vivec [mailto:gel21...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 5:28 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Electronic devices I would wait a bit until the Windows 7 phones hit the market before buying right now. All signs point to Microsoft pulling another Xbox360 with

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2010-10-16 Thread Vivec
I would wait a bit until the Windows 7 phones hit the market before buying right now. All signs point to Microsoft pulling another Xbox360 with these phones and actually getting it right! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology

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2010-10-15 Thread Medic
October 15, 2010 1:49 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Electronic devices > > > Pretty much any smart phone would do all those things - though, nto > sure how good of a 'laptop' replacement it would be. > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Maureen wrote: >

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2010-10-15 Thread Eric Roberts
Go with the Droid... -Original Message- From: Maureen [mailto:mamamaur...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 2:31 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Electronic devices My youngest Sprout works for Apple, so I am leaning toward Apple products but IPad has no phone. Partner has

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2010-10-15 Thread Eric Roberts
Droid has a C64 emulator :-D -Original Message- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 1:49 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Electronic devices Pretty much any smart phone would do all those things - though, nto sure how good of a 'l

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2010-10-15 Thread Eric Roberts
Any smartphone...I would recommend one of the Android phones. It has a mp3 player, a phone, digital recorder, and can do whatever a palm like device can do...as well as a pretty good camera (for a phone anyhow). I have the Moto droid and I love it. Droid X looks pretty awesome...all under 10 lb

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2010-10-15 Thread Jacob
, 2010 12:43 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Electronic devices I looked at some of the Netbooks yesterday. They just seem like old tech to me for some reason. Most of the coding I do these days is done on my desktop, but occasionally a bug will surface when I'm away from home and it would be

Re: Electronic devices

2010-10-15 Thread Maureen
I've been coding on a laptop with touch pad for about 15 years. Doesn't bother me at all. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Sisk, Kris wrote: > > Heck, I don't even like coding on a laptop. At least not without an > external keyboard.

RE: Electronic devices

2010-10-15 Thread Sisk, Kris
Heck, I don't even like coding on a laptop. At least not without an external keyboard. -Original Message- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:camer...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 2:31 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Electronic devices You really aren't going to

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2010-10-15 Thread Maureen
I looked at some of the Netbooks yesterday. They just seem like old tech to me for some reason. Most of the coding I do these days is done on my desktop, but occasionally a bug will surface when I'm away from home and it would be nice to be able to code and upload a quick fix. Guess I could ge

Re: Electronic devices

2010-10-15 Thread Cameron Childress
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Maureen wrote: > Problem with continuing to use a laptop is the doctor doesn't want me > carrying anything that weighs more than five pounds - combine laptop > with purse full of other electronics and I'm over the limit pretty > quick. I think you are going to ha

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2010-10-15 Thread Rick Root
Android phones are pretty nice, I'm a fan of my HTC Droid Eris except it's slow (only like a 350mhz processor). Problem solved with the HTC Droid Incredible (1ghz) But, like others have said.. no smart phone is really suitable as a laptop replacement and neither is an ipad. If you need to work.

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2010-10-15 Thread Cameron Childress
No - the phone provides the 3G connection and shares it with the iPad over wifi. You just need the wifi version of iPad. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Maureen wrote: > If I did that I wouldn't need the 3G version of the iPad, right? > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jerry Johnson wrote:

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2010-10-15 Thread Cameron Childress
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Maureen wrote: > I mostly use the laptop for surfing the web, or recording audio at > remote events.  Wish there was an Eclipse app so I could do coding on > the iPad. You really aren't going to want to do any coding on the iPad. Even if you could get a program

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2010-10-15 Thread Jerry Johnson
exactly. and the amount you save easily pays for the droid. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Maureen wrote: > > If I did that I wouldn't need the 3G version of the iPad, right? > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jerry Johnson wrote: > > > > Maureen, > > > > An iPad wifi paired with a Dro

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2010-10-15 Thread Maureen
If I did that I wouldn't need the 3G version of the iPad, right? On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jerry Johnson wrote: > > Maureen, > > An iPad wifi paired with a Droid as a hotspot creator is a great pair. They > complement each other well.

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2010-10-15 Thread Maureen
Problem with continuing to use a laptop is the doctor doesn't want me carrying anything that weighs more than five pounds - combine laptop with purse full of other electronics and I'm over the limit pretty quick. Also, the hard drive crashed in my laptop, and while I had new drive put in it, it i

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2010-10-15 Thread Casey Dougall
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Jerry Johnson wrote: > > Maureen, > > An iPad wifi paired with a Droid as a hotspot creator is a great pair. They > complement each other well. Yup, and a laptop tethered to the iPhone works well too :-) ~~

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2010-10-15 Thread Jerry Johnson
Maureen, An iPad wifi paired with a Droid as a hotspot creator is a great pair. They complement each other well. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Maureen wrote: > > My youngest Sprout works for Apple, so I am leaning toward Apple > products but IPad has no phone. Partner has offered to buy

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2010-10-15 Thread Sisk, Kris
Just about any smart phone currently on the market should be able to replicate all those functions except the laptop. Depending on what you'd use the laptop for it might do that to. Otherwise a netbook or smallish notebook might be your best bet. -Original Message- From: Maureen [mailto:

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2010-10-15 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I think that Skype works with the ipad. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Maureen wrote: > > My youngest Sprout works for Apple, so I am leaning toward Apple > products but IPad has no phone.  Partner has offered to buy me a Droid > X on his cell phone account, so that is also a possibility.  I a

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2010-10-15 Thread Larry C. Lyons
My problem exactly. Our carrier is Verizon, and so I'm leaning towards getting an iPad. However it would take some justification if there's no app I can use for coding. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Maureen wrote: > > I mostly use the laptop for surfing the web, or recording audio at > remote

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2010-10-15 Thread Maureen
My youngest Sprout works for Apple, so I am leaning toward Apple products but IPad has no phone. Partner has offered to buy me a Droid X on his cell phone account, so that is also a possibility. I am such a late adapter in new technology I don't know what half these devices will do. On Fri, Oct

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2010-10-15 Thread Larry C. Lyons
You can get a keyboard for the iPad now. From what I understand its can also be used as a usb adapter. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > iPad can't really replace a phone.  But if you wanted to keep the > non-smart phone, an iPad can replace the others. > > Don't plan

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2010-10-15 Thread Maureen
I mostly use the laptop for surfing the web, or recording audio at remote events. Wish there was an Eclipse app so I could do coding on the iPad. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Bruce Sorge wrote: > > The HTC EVO is very nice if u want to switch to Sprint. The HTC incredible > is nice for Ver

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2010-10-15 Thread Scott Stroz
I have an iPhone and have had no issues with it. Looking to get one of the Samsung Galaxy phones in the coming months. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Maureen wrote: > > Well, yeah..but there are a lot of smart phones out there.  Any > specific model you would recommend? > > On Fri, Oct 15, 201

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2010-10-15 Thread Cameron Childress
iPad can't really replace a phone. But if you wanted to keep the non-smart phone, an iPad can replace the others. Don't plan on doing work on the iPad, but for consuming information it's great. Producing data, not as much, unless it's simple email... -Cameron On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:25 PM,

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2010-10-15 Thread Bruce Sorge
The HTC EVO is very nice if u want to switch to Sprint. The HTC incredible is nice for Verizon. My EVO does all of these things, but it is not a replacement for a laptop. However, with the office app I have I can do word and Excel easily. I can tether to my laptop for internet at work. sent from

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2010-10-15 Thread Larry C. Lyons
How about an iPad. Or an Android version of the iPad. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Maureen wrote: > > I currently have:  iPod classic, non-smart cell phone, broken laptop, > portable audio recorder, palm pilot > > What I want is one device that will handle all those functions without > weigh

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2010-10-15 Thread Casey Dougall
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Maureen wrote: > Well, yeah..but there are a lot of smart phones out there. Any > specific model you would recommend? > iPhone of course hehehe ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! h

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2010-10-15 Thread Maureen
Well, yeah..but there are a lot of smart phones out there. Any specific model you would recommend? On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > Pretty much any smart phone would do all those things - though, nto > sure how good of a 'laptop' replacement it would be. > > On Fri, Oct

Re: Electronic devices

2010-10-15 Thread Scott Stroz
Pretty much any smart phone would do all those things - though, nto sure how good of a 'laptop' replacement it would be. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Maureen wrote: > > I currently have:  iPod classic, non-smart cell phone, broken laptop, > portable audio recorder, palm pilot > > What I want