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Liese S. - Aug 19, 2011 5:33:13 pm PDT #17575 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Well, my ota stations are pretty limited. I mean, I think I have the one where I get a plain blue background with the local news scrolling over it in white type. (I should possibly investigate this further. In New Mexico I was further out, and got nothing.)

And I don't have a separate Tivo. My Tivo is the Directivo, and therefore, tied to my satellite subscription.

Downloading is not better than streaming, except that if I can carry my phone to somewhere that I get free wifi, like the library or coffeshop or whatnot, I could download there and then carry it home and hook it up to the projector.

Buying on iTunes would work, I think, but a) android based, rather than apple based, and b) yeah, trying to save money, so it probably would cost more overall.

DCJensen - Aug 20, 2011 6:58:52 am PDT #17576 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

So, HP has Killed their new Touchpad and is discounting the 16 GB to $99 and the 32 GB to $149.

I wonder what OS can be hacked onto it?

Typo Boy - Aug 20, 2011 11:22:10 am PDT #17577 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Centurylink has moved from offering only a 1.6 MPS speed in my area to offer a 6-7 mps speed in my area (7 nominal, as low as 6 in practice.) That is more than fast enough for email, telephone over the net, and non-video pages (I think). True? But if I want to watch youtube, or want to disconnect my cable and start doing TV and movies over the internet with netflix and hulu and such, I suspect it will be a bit slow with skips and pauses . True?

Zenkitty - Aug 20, 2011 11:37:13 am PDT #17578 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

DCJ, I'm on HP's website right now trying to buy a TouchPad, and their site is slow as molasses and keeps telling me there's no memory. They must be getting hammered.

Typo, I tried CenturyLink's internet and found it was noticeably slower than my Comcast connection. FWIW

Rob - Aug 20, 2011 12:03:32 pm PDT #17579 of 25501

It would be very easy to run Android on it. Both are based on Linux and the Linux bits are open source.

I am very sad about the death of webOS.

Amy - Aug 20, 2011 12:18:34 pm PDT #17580 of 25501
Because books.

So if you buy one of those, you have to put an OS on it?

Rob - Aug 20, 2011 1:54:13 pm PDT #17581 of 25501

It comes with an os, webOS [link] , but it's not an OS that's ever likely to have many apps.

Zenkitty - Aug 20, 2011 1:57:31 pm PDT #17582 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

There's talk that some magic-wielding folk are creating an Android Honeycomb for use on it.

§ ita § - Aug 20, 2011 1:58:50 pm PDT #17583 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I thought HP was stopping the HW, not the software, And that they were going to try and get someone else to pick up the hardware slack.

Amy - Aug 20, 2011 2:16:42 pm PDT #17584 of 25501
Because books.

Thanks, Rob.

I don't even have an iPhone, or an Android, so I'm pretty clueless about apps anyway.

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