Now here I am many birthday candles later with another new "tablet":
It's a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0).
We're breaking ground tomorrow on a new custom home and it looks like I'll be spending a fair amount of my semi-retired time on-site. From what I'm told a "tablet" is the new clipboard, the universal symbol that says, "Don't ask me to actually DO anything. I'm just a supervisor."
So far my impression is it's very intuitive, which is good because if it wasn't, this old Neanderthal would simply be the proud owner of a Samsung Rock. I had an early iPad and didn't care for it because it was too big to lug around. This is about the size of a Kindle.....juuuuust right.
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If you're on the waiting list for a new iPhone 5 your wait just got a little longer. It seems that last night there was a big riot at one of the Foxconn factories in China that makes components for Apple:
The plant employs 79,000 workers and it took 5,000 riot police to restore order. The facility is closed for at least today. If there's a silver lining in this (for the US) it's that Chinese workers are getting restless and demanding better pay and working conditions. Maybe we'll see a few of those outsourced jobs start to come back home?
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The TV news (?) this morning was all abuzz about who wore what to the Emmy Awards last night. What caught my eye/ear was they kept saying "....and it looked like she was wearing Jimmy Choo shoes."
So how can you tell? Is there some identifying logo on there somewhere? I mean, if you're wearing the shoes, and your foot is covering the name, how would anyone know? I guess in glitzy Hollywood this is a big status symbol, but where I'm from this just screams, "Look at me! I just dropped a THOUSAND bucks on a pair of shoes. How dumb am I?" I wanna know who Jimmy Choo's VP Sales/Marketing is. He's good. Really good!
Guess I'd better go do something constructive. Have a good day everyone.
S
A lot of those stars I don't think actually pay for anything; they get stuff for free so people see them in it, which is probably why they endure all that "who are you wearing?" crap.
ReplyDeleteI've held out on a tablet because I still have my netbook which works better for writing than trying to type on a screen. I'm sure there are keyboards you can get but then I've got to lug that around too whereas the netbook I just open it and I can get to work.
#1. Happy birthday
ReplyDelete#2. Let me remind you...YOU RETIRED!
#3. Good point and observation on the China riot
#4. See #3 on the shoes.
I didn't know how that worked, PT, but it does make sense. It's probably pretty cheap advertising.
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Joe....Yes, I am retired, but I told my brother I would help him during the early stages of construction....foundation, framing, mechanicals, etc. After that he should be able to handle things by himself. I had planned on doing SOMETHING after retirement anyway, just to have something to do. Might as well be this.
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Who knows? I carry around an Ipod touch if I have to make little notes...Sort of like having a sticky pad I guess....
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Bobby
Mrs. C. bought me an i-Pad so I could read books on it, but so far all I do is read blogs and leave comments. If I ever get back to handling a real book I hope I can remember how it works.
ReplyDeleteI loved my little netbook, but the keyboard flaked out on me so I got a regular sized laptop. I just didn't see the sense in getting a tablet since I don't have any kind of data plan & I mainly used the netbook to read books & blogs :)
ReplyDeleteYou know, I have NO IDEA how they tell whose shoes are whose. The only ones that I can usually say for sure are crocs & birkenstocks. Ha!
I've had a Blackberry Playbook since last December. It's like having an overgrown iPod. I use it to surf off the Wi-Fi at the Toucan and to bore folks with my photos :-)
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, I got the same tablet for my wife, she loves it and you are right the size is just about the same as my kindle.
ReplyDeleteLike you I don't see how they can tell who is wearing what shoes, sounds like an ad campaign to me.
Happy belated birthday and congratulations on your new high-tech toy. I have an iPad and mostly use it for emails and Facebook on the go and as an e-reader. When I switched to a "real" book after reading e-books, I found myself tapping on a word to look up the definition.
ReplyDeleteDuh.