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From: george on 15 Jun 2010 13:43 On Jun 15, 7:02 pm, "tim...." <tims_new_h...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > "george" <gpolkow...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > > news:4d312db2-339c-4c79-a987-b97f80dea0a3(a)k39g2000yqd.googlegroups.com... > On Jun 14, 3:11 pm, erilar <dra...(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > ----snipped-------------------- > > > SOME kind of travel discussion . Want to discuss some great castles? I > > have some new candidates I collected during two weeks in Germany this > > spring. > > OK, let's here about them. I'm always looking for new places to > visit. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > There are some great ones in CZ, have you been? > > tim No, I've never been to the Czech Republic, but there's hundreds around where we llive in Stuttgart, most in ruins, so I've barely been able to start vísiting them although I assemble books about them. George
From: d4g4h4 on 15 Jun 2010 15:18 erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > In article <1jk3b79.fvjzwu1hc9grsN%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk>, > d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote: > > > tim.... <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > "erilar" <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote in message > > > news:drache-0F6D7D.17005113062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.e > > > xample.com... > In article <87k9jsFo8hU1(a)mid.individual.net>, > > > > "tim...." <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > >> why do you need an app? > > > > > > > > It's an iPad. > > > > > > How is that an answer? > > > > > > Surely it has an internet browser (the website shows it with one) > > > > > > http://images.apple.com/uk/ipad/home/images/hero_20100127.png > > > > And of course if you tap on the multimedia content on that site? The > > computer says no. There's a funny ipad ad at the bus stop near here with > > someone's finger hovering over the 'multimedia' content link on the > > guardian site. :) > > Sorry, but I don't know quite what you're referring to. Flash web content. > News videos? I > almost never watch them. I get my moving news on TV. And if I wanted > to watch something like that, I'd be much more likely to use my laptop. Why? The ipad is lighter and more portable, and with a screen size not so far away from that of most laptops. If the ipad's manufacturers actually bothered to support flash, it would be a pretty good alternative to a computer for many people. I would have bought one for my mum, for instance. -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)
From: Tom P on 15 Jun 2010 18:34 erilar wrote: > In article <r4qb169bd6ls2llbl5anj6m7th05asnona(a)4ax.com>, > Sterling Fellow <invalid(a)invalid.com> wrote: > >> i have been trying to find some, even this thread seems to be about >> ipads or something. > > Sorry about that; new enthusiasm. But I started this because I wanted > SOME kind of travel discussion . Want to discuss some great castles? I > have some new candidates I collected during two weeks in Germany this > spring. > I guess the problem that you are addressing is that there is no discussion here about travel, which requires that the people who actually travel around Europe discuss it. I suppose I am guilty because in the last 6 weeks I've been to Valencia, London, Bamberg and Nuremberg, but I never felt the need to discuss the fact. T.
From: d4g4h4 on 15 Jun 2010 18:38 Tom P <werotizy(a)freent.dd> wrote: > I suppose I am guilty because > in the last 6 weeks I've been to Valencia, London, Bamberg and > Nuremberg, but I never felt the need to discuss the fact. Until now. -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)
From: Tom P on 15 Jun 2010 18:42
David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote: > Tom P <werotizy(a)freent.dd> wrote: > >> I suppose I am guilty because >> in the last 6 weeks I've been to Valencia, London, Bamberg and >> Nuremberg, but I never felt the need to discuss the fact. > > Until now. > .. meaning that a discussion newsgroup is an oxymoron? |