Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I take your point, Mark, and I never have ANYTHING pllugged into my ears all day long. There's something going on where you're expected not to have an internal life - where reflecting and just THINKING is somehow not what someone should be doing. Somehow it's a cult of music or a cult of video or (worse) a cult of talking on the blankety-blank cell phone while driving through parking lots, busy city streets, etc. It drives me NUTS. I find the iPhone attractive because I want internet connectivity and access to information. When I'm driving I want to be able to phone ahead and get a place to stay, find out about traffic, etc. I don't do this WHILE I'm driving, but while my wife is. Or she does it while I do - or we would if we could. The iPhone looks like a big win in this regard. Adam On 1/13/07, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > On 1/10/07 3:21 PM, "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> typed: > > > Quote in court documents by Jim Allchin, the soon-departing co- > > president of Microsoft's Platform Products & Services division: "I > > would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft." > > > > Larry Z > > > > > There are a lot of people at the Microsoft campus using Macs I recall > reading in an article so it must but true. > Microsoft office and lots of other stuff are also made for Macs from that > source > So Gates and Jobs had been getting along better would be the thing. > > But with all the money Steve is making from the IPods with everyone > ordering > music right from him and the credit card number automatically in there with > the music stores all closing down had got to be getting to Bill. > > He wants his own pipeline into the teenagers and other peoples wallets that > Steve has got. But too little too late. > > Cell phones though I can live without. I think cell phones should be very > small and not do other stuff. And not be implanted on your ear all day. > It makes regular Geeks look like James Bond. > > How many LUGsters have Bluetooth phones on the ears all day and night? > > I'm agin it. > > The song of the Bluetooth > http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/jorbis/JOrbisPlayer.php?path=Blue+whale+ > atlantic2.ogg&wiki=en > > > > Mark Rabiner > New York, NY > 40?47'59.79"N > 73?57'32.37"W > > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >