How religious zealots are born...
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The following was captured from an in-house im client. Obviously one of these two need more sleep...
(3:25:48 PM) John:kindle
(3:25:55 PM) John:I want a linux terminal kindle
(3:26:04 PM) William:pshh, I'll take a custom PC
(3:26:20 PM) John:have you heard though
(3:26:29 PM) John:the kindle is actually a linux kernal
(3:26:36 PM) William:nope, didn't hear that
(3:27:14 PM) John:yeah they have a port on the back that can back hacked to allow a terminal come up and you can enable the other stuff....
(3:27:21 PM) John:then you have free 3g fro mamazon.....
(3:27:39 PM) John:and a working linux terminal that has a B&W E-ink screen
(3:27:45 PM) William:meh, still not amused
(3:27:55 PM) William:yes, it is very cool
(3:28:02 PM) William:I just don't think I would use it very much
(3:28:12 PM) William:for me it isn't a good fit
(3:28:16 PM) John:a tablet that runs linux has free interweb and runs for 14+ days at a time....
(3:28:30 PM) John:are you crazy?
(3:28:34 PM) William:it isn't a tablet
(3:28:41 PM) William:you can't write on it
(3:28:50 PM) John:but it has a full keyboard, you can
(3:29:09 PM) William:no, tablet means pen and handwriting recognition
(3:29:26 PM) William:last time I checked kindle doesn't do that
(3:30:11 PM) William:so it is a linux terminal with free interwebs
(3:30:18 PM) William:that can't play videos
(3:30:24 PM) John:no tablet means something you can hold that is in the form factor of no hinge
(3:30:36 PM) John:oh but it can, it has linux on it.....
(3:30:37 PM) William:ok, than my phone is a tablet
(3:30:55 PM) John:you could install the whole ubuntu interface with an apt-get command and ave a full OS
(3:31:07 PM) William:with b&w screen
(3:31:09 PM) John:with free internet...
(3:31:20 PM) William:I'd rather have a netbook and piggy back on wifi's
(3:31:25 PM) John:yea its B&W, but you can see it no matter how sunny it is
(3:31:33 PM) William:psh
(3:31:43 PM) John:the kindle is lost on you
(3:31:48 PM) William:indeed it is
(3:31:50 PM) John:a poor soul....
(3:32:01 PM) John:he will never know the glorious enlightenment
(3:32:07 PM) William:If anything I would get one for what it was meant to do
(3:32:09 PM) John:kindle oh mighty kindle
(3:32:15 PM) William:lol
(3:32:26 PM) William:you gonna buy one with book money?
(3:32:28 PM) John:let him burn in the fire that started with your mightly kindle
(3:32:43 PM) John:oh glorious redeaming kindle....
(3:32:56 PM) William:gonna buy one instead of textbooks?
(3:33:00 PM) John:no
(3:33:15 PM) John:I can't find my textbooks online, so I won't be able to... next co-op
(3:33:30 PM) John:I'll get the kindle 3 or 4 or whatever they are up to
(3:33:34 PM) William:lol
(3:33:43 PM) William:I think it will phase out
(3:34:03 PM) William:or they will drastically improve it
(3:34:19 PM) William:one or the other is going to happen
(3:35:01 PM) John:I think it will start a fire.... its gunna light it up.......
(3:35:05 PM) John:catcha fire
(3:35:11 PM) William:lol
(3:35:19 PM) John:it is just the kindling to start it....
(3:35:27 PM) John:the next will be called the inferno
(3:35:27 PM) William:a ha ha ha
(3:35:54 PM) John:and soon there after..... world wide book burnings as they are scanned in....
(3:36:04 PM) William:you ever watch a show called man versus food?
(3:36:14 PM) John:the inferno comes with built in book incinerator scanner
(3:36:28 PM) William:than there will be firemen to start fires, not end them
(3:36:31 PM) John:and it runs on carbon dioxide
(3:36:51 PM) John:.....every human must have one cause CD became more plentiful then air
(3:36:59 PM) William:the true Fahrenheit 451
(3:37:00 PM) William:lol
(3:37:06 PM) John:and then the virus called sprinkle starts....
(3:37:15 PM) William:lolz
(3:37:19 PM) William:hold on here
(3:37:27 PM) John:and then it creates the mother virus called waterfall.... and all the inferno and kindles die
(3:37:28 PM) William:have you seen a show call man vs food?
(3:37:35 PM) John:taking their humans with them
(3:37:39 PM) William:omg
(3:37:39 PM) John:but I will live on
(3:37:42 PM) John:I will live on
(3:37:43 PM) William:give it up
(3:37:45 PM) John:I will live
(3:37:46 PM) William:shut up
(3:37:48 PM) John:lol
(3:37:56 PM) William:have you seen man vs food
(3:38:04 PM) John:what? no I only love kindle
(3:38:28 PM) William:it is an awesome tv show which you need to download once you have the interwebs again
(3:38:38 PM) John:does it come on the kindle?
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btk is not amused
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John is clearly retarded, poor soul. William might be, too, I just don't care enough to read more than half of this crap.
TRWTF is "free Internet". Either John is so retarded he doesn't realize the Kindle is locked-down to Amazon's service only or Amazon is so retarded they don't lock down access to their service only.
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I'm not 100% familiar with the kindle, but isn't the screen some e-paper type stuff that has a refresh rate of a second or something. I mean sure, getting linux to run on <random hardware device> is always cool to see, but besides that, it sounds less then useless.
Besides, kindle 2 costs USD 299, put in a extra 100 and just buy a decent netbook. And unless you live in some backwater country mobile internet is cheap as hell, so just get an unlimited data subscription for a few bucks a month and your done.
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@stratos said:
I'm not 100% familiar with the kindle, but isn't the screen some e-paper type stuff that has a refresh rate of a second or something. I mean sure, getting linux to run on <random hardware device> is always cool to see, but besides that, it sounds less then useless.
Besides, kindle 2 costs USD 299, put in a extra 100 and just buy a decent netbook. And unless you live in some backwater country mobile internet is cheap as hell, so just get an unlimited data subscription for a few bucks a month and your done.
I wish an unlimited data connection in the US was a few bucks a month. I pay $60 for 5GB /month, which is pretty standard.
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@stratos said:
Besides, kindle 2 costs USD 299, put in a extra 100 and just buy a decent netbook. And unless you live in some backwater country mobile internet is cheap as hell, so just get an unlimited data subscription for a few bucks a month and your done.
Maybe he only likes black and white porn. Those aren't very common, the b/w screen will help.
(Note to self: never use an in-house IM client without encryption)
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@morbiuswilters said:
I wish an unlimited data connection in the US was a few bucks a month. I pay $60 for 5GB /month, which is pretty standard.
I pay that for cable with unlimited transfer @ 8Mbps in Dallas.
I'd die before I'd accept metered Internet access... I'd chew through that 5GB in under a day.
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@joe.edwards said:
@morbiuswilters said:
I wish an unlimited data connection in the US was a few bucks a month. I pay $60 for 5GB /month, which is pretty standard.
I pay that for cable with unlimited transfer @ 8Mbps in Dallas.
I'd die before I'd accept metered Internet access... I'd chew through that 5GB in under a day.
It's about the same for me too (florida).
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@joe.edwards said:
@morbiuswilters said:
I wish an unlimited data connection in the US was a few bucks a month. I pay $60 for 5GB /month, which is pretty standard.
I pay that for cable with unlimited transfer @ 8Mbps in Dallas.
I'd die before I'd accept metered Internet access... I'd chew through that 5GB in under a day.
Wireless and wired broadband access are completely different: uses, target market and costs. I've been looking at getting a 3G dongle for Internet access while out and about (looking at a $AU30 per 2GB prepaid plan), but I won't be getting rid of my ADSL2+ at home (where I do tend to use about 100GB/month). The wireless data networks have less bandwidth in them compaired to wired networks as they have to share a 5 or 10 MHz chunk of spectrum between everyone in a cell.
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@joe.edwards said:
@morbiuswilters said:
I wish an unlimited data connection in the US was a few bucks a month. I pay $60 for 5GB /month, which is pretty standard.
I pay that for cable with unlimited transfer @ 8Mbps in Dallas.
I'd die before I'd accept metered Internet access... I'd chew through that 5GB in under a day.
This is mobile wireless we're talking about (EV-DO, to be precise). In addition to that, I pay $70 /month for unmetered 20/3 cable for my home connection.
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@derula said:
(Note to self: never use an in-house IM client without encryption)
Glad I wasn't the only one...
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@DescentJS said:
@morbiuswilters said:
<div style="AOL">me too!</div> What're ya'll's overage rates? fucking ridiculous the overpriced anal-rapage we allow those bastards to get away with.I wish an unlimited data connection in the US was a few bucks a month. I pay $60 for 5GB /month, which is pretty standard.
It's about the same for me too (florida).
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You should go to Japan, there is a lot of comics published black and white there. Some does involve sexual activities.
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It got pretty funny at the end. Hard to believe two people actually had this conversation. It was meant to be read and enjoyed.
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@henke37 said:
You should go to Japan, there is a lot of comics published black and white there. Some does involve sexual activities.
OMG! Send me teh nudez plz!
