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Level1Death on 08 March 2012

Good job on this one.



 

 

 

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Marks on 08 March 2012

Yowzaa, paper is kicking the shit out of the iPad.



TWRoO on 08 March 2012

I give this thread:



Salnax on 08 March 2012

On a serious note, I just got tired of poorly constructed "Nintendo is domed" articles, so I decided to make my own.



Love and tolerate.

sethnintendo on 09 March 2012
Salnax said:
On a serious note, I just got tired of poorly constructed "Nintendo is domed" articles, so I decided to make my own.


It was pretty damn good.  You aren't the only one tired of hearing about Apple taking over hand helds.  I have to forget about them completely and not let them annoy me.  Pretty much I just need to stop listening and responding to stupid articles written by stupid people.  Considering I believe most video game analyst/ "journalist" don't know shit about the video game industry then there is basically no reason for me to ever respond to a video game news story ever again. I just need to avoid them and have fun playing games because they obviously just want hits and to piss people off.  They can go fuck themselves.



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sethnintendo on 09 March 2012
spurgeonryan said:
Thread in a thread time!

Should Apple go into the paper business?


10 dollars for 100 sheets of paper



famousringo on 09 March 2012
highwaystar101 said:

This has reminded me of something that happened a couple of months ago. I was at a seminar and there was a guy in the row in front of me who was taking notes on an iPad. We had to sign a register, which we passed round.

When the register reached the guy with the iPad he turned to the man behind him and asked to borrow a pencil. The man handed him a pencil and the guy with the iPad said (quite sincerely) "Thanks, I don't carry pens any more because I write everything on my iPad"

I thought "well done, you've replaced the useful £1 pen with a less useful £500 iPad" /sarcasm. It's not something you should say with pride.


And in exchange, all he got were notes that are easily copied, edited, stored, transferred, searched and backed up. Oh, the folly!

Seriously, paperless offices cost less and are more productive. Tablets are the biggest advancement towards the paperless society since email. That registry could have easily been replaced by an electronic form, and then it too could have been easily copied, edited, stored, transferred, searched and backed up.



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highwaystar101 on 09 March 2012
famousringo said:
highwaystar101 said:

This has reminded me of something that happened a couple of months ago. I was at a seminar and there was a guy in the row in front of me who was taking notes on an iPad. We had to sign a register, which we passed round.

When the register reached the guy with the iPad he turned to the man behind him and asked to borrow a pencil. The man handed him a pencil and the guy with the iPad said (quite sincerely) "Thanks, I don't carry pens any more because I write everything on my iPad"

I thought "well done, you've replaced the useful £1 pen with a less useful £500 iPad" /sarcasm. It's not something you should say with pride.


And in exchange, all he got were notes that are easily copied, edited, stored, transferred, searched and backed up. Oh, the folly!

Seriously, paperless offices cost less and are more productive. Tablets are the biggest advancement towards the paperless society since email. That registry could have easily been replaced by an electronic form, and then it too could have been easily copied, edited, stored, transferred, searched and backed up.

I'm all for a paperless office that works, but taking notes in a technical seminar is far more easily done with a pen and paper.

Even so, why not carry an tablet AND a pen?

The pen is not obsolete, it hasn't been replaced. It still does a lot of things that tablets just aren't commonly used for yet.

That said, I still plan out ideas with a pencil and paper before I build a computer program, write a document or or build some hardware. Maybe I'm just old fashioned



saicho on 09 March 2012

we need to start buy iPads to save the trees!



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

Plezbo on 09 March 2012

Guys, the casual reading market has pretty much jumped on paper, from magazines to news journals, fashion periodicals to scientific writings, paper is really winning this fight. Plus, the pixel count on paper, UNREAL, friggin unreal.