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From: d4g4h4 on 13 Jun 2010 18:09 erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > In article <1jk1105.dmmv3tqx1utcN%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk>, > d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote: > > > The iPad is a pretty useless device for most news video content though. > > But I have this old-fashioned habit of preferring to READ my news rather > than watch little videos anyway 8-) Then you've got quite an expensive newspaper in the ipad. My gripe here is that apple are promoting this as having a web browser, when it's fundamentally broken by not supporting flash. It would drive me nuts. -- (*) 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: d4g4h4 on 13 Jun 2010 18:10 erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > In article <1jk1m9u.13u9z94do5ia7N%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk>, > d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote: > > > I use an app for BBC news which is useful as it downloads news stories > > so you can read them online. > > I discovered I can also read whatever was on it while on line stays > there when it's out of wi-fi space. I meant offline. -- (*) 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: Sterling Fellow on 14 Jun 2010 04:30 erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> said: >What happened to "travel" topics here lately? i have been trying to find some, even this thread seems to be about ipads or something. -- Sterling Fellow
From: Martin on 14 Jun 2010 04:47 On 14/06/10 00:08, erilar wrote: > In article <hv25m0$h91$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Martin <martin(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > >> Why not use your PC? > > I don't have one if you're using that term in its modern limited sense, > as I suppose you probably are. Nowadays it just means M$-enslaved to > those of us with other systems 8-) I have three sizes/generations of > computers and none uses that _________ I am using Open Suse Linux 11.2 and have no problems accessing the BBC website and other news websites.
From: tim.... on 14 Jun 2010 04:48
"erilar" <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote in message news:drache-0F6D7D.17005113062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.example.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 tim |