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From: Martin on 14 Jun 2010 07:07 On 14/06/10 12:49, BP killed my turtle wrote: > On Jun 12, 5:47 pm, erilar <dra...(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: >> What happened to "travel" topics here lately? >> >> -- >> Erilar, biblioholic medievalist >> >> http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo > > Runge will be back from Buenos Aires soon....I look forward to his > trip report.... Posthumous hopefully.
From: erilar on 14 Jun 2010 09:09 In article <87m91dFihqU1(a)mid.individual.net>, "tim...." <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > In the old order world of being charged by connection time I can see that > people might want to read offline to save connection costs, but with > connections charged by megabytes nowadays that isn't going to make any > difference, or am I missing something? How about not ALWAYS being within wi-fi range? -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: erilar on 14 Jun 2010 09:11 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. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: erilar on 14 Jun 2010 09:16 In article <hv4qdd$jjc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Martin <martin(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 14/06/10 00:08, erilar wrote: > > In article <hv25m0$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. OK 8-) I like to sit back in an easy chair to read, which is a lot less comfortable with my laptop in my lap than with something more like a news magazine. Furthermore, I can read OFFline when I'm out of reach of my home network sitting out in the yard. Yes, this sounds odd, I know, but with reinforced concrete slab walls and a lot of dirt surrounding and covering most of the house, the network is only accessible indoors. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: erilar on 14 Jun 2010 09:20
In article <1jk1sa2.j1zxmed6diyfN%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk>, d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote: > 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. What's flash for? It's apparently for something I haven't wanted to use on the iPad. The iPad is also a whole library; I don't need flash to download an incredible assortment of totally free books I needn't make a 20-mile round trip to the library for. Eventually the gas savings ought to contribute a little to ameliorate the price 8-) And then there's travel, which brings us back on topic! -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo |