01-15-2018, 09:27 AM | #151 |
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Yup, 2 in 1's are the new tablet. Some of their keyboards detach, some fold back. With something that thin, I think I'd rather have the fold back style -- it would still probably be thinner than many tablets alone.
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01-15-2018, 10:01 AM | #152 |
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No matter what shiny new tech geegaw you dream up, it ends up sounding like a Zeppelin Airline Fleet in retrospect.
However, I dare to hope that the conformity and lack of privacy (Corporations and FSB/GCHQ/NSA don't love you. Really.) of social media and e-Shops will anger people to the point where they just start turning off and disconnecting. I see the internet as a spent force, like network TV: it will become the playground of home shopping, religious extremists, and snake oil salesmen. We need something new or perhaps something old. Most likely, though, we're gonna nuke ourselves by accident and there won't be any (e)readers. EDIT: I won't feel better if we nuke ourselves intentionally. |
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A 2-in-1 is a one of those laptops where the keyboard can fold all the way back. That's just me, I guess. |
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01-15-2018, 12:02 PM | #155 | |
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For reference, read Betty White's books. They have always sold things on TV. Do you really think the Price is Right is not just an hour long commercial? As to the religious: broadcast TV is required to do so many hours of public service to keep their license. Here they tend to pick Sunday mornings. The home shopping is not new either, even as a kid I remember send just $4.99+$1.99 shipping and handling to PO Box 12345, Somewhere California to get the latest Ronco product. |
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You are thinking of networks and broadcasting. The internet hasn't fallen completely into the salesmen's clutches yet, but it is on the way. |
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01-15-2018, 01:50 PM | #157 | |
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I don't have to read about the early days. When I asked a TV executive why we have ads, I was answered ads are how they paid for the programming. The internet is not always right. I will believe people that actually worked in it. The other guy said Network TV, he didn't say paid TV. Every show I have seen from the 50's always mentioned a household product or 3. Westinghouse was a big sponsor. Now they weren't always commercials as we know them, but products have always been mentioned. Though even I would admit, there are way too many commercials these days. Oh and must be nice to have a job that you can play on the internet and get paid for working. |
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Also, you are confusing networks and their rules with radio/television. They aren't the same thing. There is no law saying there has to be so many commercials an hour, or any commercials whatsoever. |
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Or excuse me: "and now a word from our sponsor." What would you call it? Oh and he had a thing against pelvises. |
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As a laptop the thing is really nice but as a drawing device it needs to be on a table. Sitting in my easy chair, which is how I use my tablet for drawing, the thing is ungainly and inconvenient and heavy and thick I had been saving for a Microsoft Surface when this went on sale so I got it. It was a mistake. Laptops are laptops. Two in ones with folding keyboards are also laptops. You can use them as tablets and I guess sometimes that's convenient but mostly it's not. Barry |
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That broadcast was done by The Mercury Theater on the Air, a radio show with no sponsor. There had been a lot of such shows up till then. They were called Sustaining Shows by the networks because they were thought to enhance the network's reputation and the network paid their bills. After that the show's name changed to "The Campbell Playhouse", sponsored by Campbell's Soup. Other sustaining shows found sponsors not long after as well. There had been advertising before that but that's when it became the main thing. So blame Orson Welles. It's all his fault. Another effect of that show, according to that article, was to convince Hitler, and later the rest of the world, of the value of propaganda. Barry |
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01-15-2018, 03:55 PM | #164 |
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In the early TV shows and in the radio shows before them ads were often included within the storyline of the show itself. This was especially true of comedy shows where a friend would drop by and start telling the characters about a new product he'd discovered (which he also had discovered last week) .
The FCC ceased to allow that in the late 1950s, I think. They began requiring that the show break for a commercial and that it not be embedded as part of the story. Barry |
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Based on your experience with the 2-in-1, I'm interested to know whether the Surface still appeals to you or have you now gone off the whole idea of a super-tablet? |
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