Comments for Tech Talk at ShieldsGroup http://techtalk.shieldsgroup.com A Place to Share Tech Discoveries Thu, 27 May 2010 23:46:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Eight Problems with my iPad… by steve http://techtalk.shieldsgroup.com/2010/04/eight-problems-with-my-ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-546 steve Thu, 27 May 2010 23:46:07 +0000 http://techtalk.shieldsgroup.com/?p=97#comment-546 Yep. Apples have become like refrigerators -- when they stop working, you toss them. I'd say toasters, but they are not priced like toasters. As with toasters and refrigerators, their end users are what ham's used to call, "Appliance Operators." :) Yep. Apples have become like refrigerators — when they stop working, you toss them. I’d say toasters, but they are not priced like toasters.

As with toasters and refrigerators, their end users are what ham’s used to call, “Appliance Operators.” :)

]]> Comment on Eight Problems with my iPad… by alacy http://techtalk.shieldsgroup.com/2010/04/eight-problems-with-my-ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-544 alacy Thu, 27 May 2010 21:24:28 +0000 http://techtalk.shieldsgroup.com/?p=97#comment-544 From Cory Doctorow A design that shows palpable contempt for the owner If you can’t open it, you don’t own it. Screws not glue. The original Apple ][+ came with schematics for the circuit boards, and birthed a generation of hardware and software hackers who upended the world for the better. If you wanted your kid to grow up to be confident, entrepreneurial, and firmly in the camp that believes that you should forever be rearranging the world to make it better, you bought her an Apple ][+. From Cory Doctorow

A design that shows palpable contempt for the owner
If you can’t open it, you don’t own it. Screws not glue. The original Apple ][+ came with schematics for the circuit boards, and birthed a generation of hardware and software hackers who upended the world for the better. If you wanted your kid to grow up to be confident, entrepreneurial, and firmly in the camp that believes that you should forever be rearranging the world to make it better, you bought her an Apple ][+.

]]> Comment on The Care and Feeding of Lithium-ion Batteries by steve http://techtalk.shieldsgroup.com/2010/05/the-care-and-feeding-of-lithium-ion-batteries/comment-page-1/#comment-543 steve Thu, 27 May 2010 21:15:36 +0000 http://techtalk.shieldsgroup.com/?p=112#comment-543 That's a good article. Thanks, Allen. That’s a good article. Thanks, Allen.

]]> Comment on The Care and Feeding of Lithium-ion Batteries by alacy http://techtalk.shieldsgroup.com/2010/05/the-care-and-feeding-of-lithium-ion-batteries/comment-page-1/#comment-542 alacy Thu, 27 May 2010 20:43:19 +0000 http://techtalk.shieldsgroup.com/?p=112#comment-542 I have had this corp laptop for about 4 years, battery still last a couple of hours. I read something similar to this when I got, maybe even this actual article. http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm Allen I have had this corp laptop for about 4 years, battery still last a couple of hours. I read something similar to this when I got, maybe even this actual article.
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm

Allen

]]> Comment on What does HP’s purchase of Palm mean? by ShieldsGroup… » Blog Archive » An iPad Alternative… from HP http://techtalk.shieldsgroup.com/2010/04/what-does-hps-purchase-of-palm-mean/comment-page-1/#comment-537 ShieldsGroup… » Blog Archive » An iPad Alternative… from HP Wed, 26 May 2010 13:20:36 +0000 http://techtalk.shieldsgroup.com/?p=109#comment-537 [...] few days ago I posted that HP had purchased Palm, leading me to believe that they saw a future in the Palm Pre phone giving competition to the [...] [...] few days ago I posted that HP had purchased Palm, leading me to believe that they saw a future in the Palm Pre phone giving competition to the [...]

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