2nd April 2010, 11:50 AM
I think one day ABF will create a new society, "Amish II: Electric Boogaloo", which is like the Amish except it's permanently locked into the 1980's instead of the 1800's.
Yes that is the best name for a way of life you've ever heard.
The iPad... Not really interested. It's odd, I've seen all those Pads in Star Trek all the time, and they seemed cool, but now I just don't care. One day maybe, once they iron out the various issues with digitally distributed books (compressing my library from shelves onto a single pad would be a great convenience, and I doubt I'd ever go back to the paper format after that), but not today. As of right now, it's nothing more than an inflated iPod Touch, and I didn't bother with that either.
Even the Star Trek pads have standard controls instead of just a touch screen.
It's awesome that we live in an age where we can seriously compare and contrast the feature sets of real world tech with frickin' STAR TREK tech. For example, Star Trek "communicators" are hilariously outdated now.
Yes that is the best name for a way of life you've ever heard.
The iPad... Not really interested. It's odd, I've seen all those Pads in Star Trek all the time, and they seemed cool, but now I just don't care. One day maybe, once they iron out the various issues with digitally distributed books (compressing my library from shelves onto a single pad would be a great convenience, and I doubt I'd ever go back to the paper format after that), but not today. As of right now, it's nothing more than an inflated iPod Touch, and I didn't bother with that either.
Even the Star Trek pads have standard controls instead of just a touch screen.
It's awesome that we live in an age where we can seriously compare and contrast the feature sets of real world tech with frickin' STAR TREK tech. For example, Star Trek "communicators" are hilariously outdated now.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)