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Ultimate Yuppie Device
10/15/06 | self

Posted on 10/15/2006 9:00:31 AM PDT by tomzz

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To: tomzz
as if they had a secretary translating from Brooklynese to English as she typed.

Wow!

Will it translate political blovation into English as well?

21 posted on 10/15/2006 9:23:02 AM PDT by null and void ("It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."--Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
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To: null and void

Political bloviation has no content, so you'd just get a blank page.


22 posted on 10/15/2006 9:24:55 AM PDT by Tax-chick (If you believe you can forgive, you're right. If you believe you can't forgive, you're right.)
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To: null and void
Vid camera, sure; I don't see why you'd need a laser pointer.

To give you an idea of the sort of use you could put such a thing to if it could run applications, a friend had some free airplane tickets and dragged me off to Utah a couple of years ago where they had a late season on cow elks, and we actually saw some cow elks, but the closest we ever got was about 550 yards at about a 12 degree down angle with about a 10 mph crosswind. Obviously, since nobody on the East coast practices anything like that or even remotely like that, we simply chalked that trip up to experience.

Now, there actually are exterior ballistics programs for PDAs, and if we'd had THAT with us, we could have taken the 550 yard downangle shot in the crosswind, and probably made it.

23 posted on 10/15/2006 9:27:10 AM PDT by tomzz
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To: PaxMacian

Or, they sell you crap you don't want.

I'm wierd, but I don't want or need a camera, games, fancy ring tones, the ability to watch tv or listen to music. I don't need it to be ultra small, thin, or made of moon rock. I don't even use text messaging.

I just want it to be able to get and keep a signal most places I go, not have to charge it every day, and sync with my Mac and my address books. That's all.
I'd even give up the sync, ability for the first two.

Or, if you do puta camera on it, make it a USEFUL camera, like the ones you can get in Japan. The ones we get here are useless, take up far too much battery power, and clutter up the phone.

I'm tired of devices trying to do everything, but can't do simple things well.


24 posted on 10/15/2006 9:29:07 AM PDT by ByDesign
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To: tomzz
I am so happy with my device that just makes phone calls.

Don't need a camera, already have those.
Don't need Internet on my phone, can't FReep while driving.
I don't need GPS. I just make a call and my wife is more than happy to tell me where to go.
I don't need text messaging. My wife never gets laryngitis.

25 posted on 10/15/2006 9:30:03 AM PDT by sinclair (Democrats, it's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.)
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To: Tax-chick

Good point.


26 posted on 10/15/2006 9:31:48 AM PDT by null and void ("It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."--Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
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To: TADSLOS
All I want to know is...where's my flying car?

Your flying car is currently for sale on eBay. The latest bid is just over two million dollars for the M400X Skycar VTOL Prototype Aircraft from Moller.

Better act fast! Less than four days are left before the bidding closes.

27 posted on 10/15/2006 9:32:09 AM PDT by dpwiener
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To: tomzz
Now, there actually are exterior ballistics programs for PDAs, and if we'd had THAT with us, we could have taken the 550 yard downangle shot in the crosswind, and probably made it.

Not unless you also had a laser rangefinder.

As ranges get longer, they get harder to estimate, and bullet drop per yard gets higher and higher.

28 posted on 10/15/2006 9:33:23 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: sinclair

So that's where my ex went...


29 posted on 10/15/2006 9:33:41 AM PDT by null and void ("It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."--Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
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To: tomzz

If you're from Brooklyn, please, just stay there.
Use the subway map and forget the GPS.


30 posted on 10/15/2006 9:37:41 AM PDT by JoeSixPack1 ( Press "2" to disconnect until you have learned to speak English)
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To: Popocatapetl

That does exist. I heard a blurb about it last week. Check Clark Howard's website. I think it is marketed in Canada at the moment.


31 posted on 10/15/2006 9:50:13 AM PDT by doodad
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To: CurlyDave
>Not unless you also had a laser rangefinder.

Those are cheap now, and everybody has em.

32 posted on 10/15/2006 9:51:09 AM PDT by tomzz
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To: gorush
"...and don't forget diabetes, lumber moisture, pregnancy and AIDS test modes."

What? No tire gauge? Everything should have a tire gauge on it.

33 posted on 10/15/2006 10:01:39 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary (Bukhari:V1B1N6 “Just issue orders to kill every Jew in the country.”)
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To: tomzz
I've got one, right here.


34 posted on 10/15/2006 10:06:16 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Popocatapetl

I'll second that.


35 posted on 10/15/2006 10:16:48 AM PDT by fella (Respect does not equal fear unless your a tyrant.)
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To: tomzz

The device you describe can probably be made with today's technology. Unfortunately, it will be expensive, and hence the market for it will be small. :P


36 posted on 10/15/2006 10:29:01 AM PDT by Frohickey
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37 posted on 10/15/2006 10:29:43 AM PDT by So Cal Rocket
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To: tomzz

And small enough to replace your Tongue Stud!

Pray for W and Our Troops


38 posted on 10/15/2006 10:32:44 AM PDT by bray (Voting for the Rats is a Death Wish)
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To: tomzz

You have just about a year or maybe two to wait for your phone. It's on its way.


39 posted on 10/15/2006 10:43:59 AM PDT by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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See these links. What you want is on its way, and sooner than you think:

http://www.wirelessweek.com/article/CA508718.html?text=scansoft&stt=001

http://pcworld.com/article/id,115273-page,1/article.html


40 posted on 10/15/2006 10:47:42 AM PDT by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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