(Acer Iconia A500 16GB WiFi)
I saw one at Best Buy yesterday. Looks pretty nice.
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I am looking to buy a tablet.......................What are your experiences?
by finallysomepride ini'm looking to purchase a 10" tablet & are seriously considering the acer iconia 16gb.
price has alot to do with it au$355.
i don't need 3g as i have portable wifi & i don't want the extra month cost.
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Do you suffer witrh colitis or candida? What helps me.
by Dogpatch instomach problems?.
okay i know it sounds cheezy.
but hopefully those of you who suffer these digestive problems won't just rely on your doctor's advice.
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I've been on heartburn meds going on...geez....it has been years and years. I'll guess 8.
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I am looking to buy a tablet.......................What are your experiences?
by finallysomepride ini'm looking to purchase a 10" tablet & are seriously considering the acer iconia 16gb.
price has alot to do with it au$355.
i don't need 3g as i have portable wifi & i don't want the extra month cost.
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I take that back, the Tegra 3 is available in the Asus Transformer Prime that will launch at the beginning of November!
And I forgot to mention that Tegra 3 is actually a 5 core system. It has a funky extra core that helps keep idle power consumption low.
Very nice looking tablet and the performance should be amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp6MZupUq78
It should retail for under $400 US. We'll have to wait and see.
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I am looking to buy a tablet.......................What are your experiences?
by finallysomepride ini'm looking to purchase a 10" tablet & are seriously considering the acer iconia 16gb.
price has alot to do with it au$355.
i don't need 3g as i have portable wifi & i don't want the extra month cost.
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Some of the android tablets are quite sluggish.
And some of the inexpensive ones have very poor touch screens. The problem is the hardware, not Android.
Make sure your new tablet has a dual core CPU. My Ipad 1 is a single core A4 and can't keep up. The Ipad 2 is much better, with a dual core A5---the same as the new iPhone 4s. Apple owns 70% of the tablet market.
The majority of the good non-Apple tablets are running Nvidia Tegra 2s, which have excellent performance. Next year we will see quad-core Tegra 3 tablets. The dual core Texas Instruments OMAP tablets run well too, but 70% of the non-Apple tablet market runs on Tegra, and the integrated GPU is very good, since that is Nvidia's specialty.
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I am looking to buy a tablet.......................What are your experiences?
by finallysomepride ini'm looking to purchase a 10" tablet & are seriously considering the acer iconia 16gb.
price has alot to do with it au$355.
i don't need 3g as i have portable wifi & i don't want the extra month cost.
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I have an iPad.
However, Amazon is releasing a new tablet for US $199, but the screen is only 7". They will have a 10" version soon.
The Motorola Xoom is available for close to what you are willing to pay, and it should be high-quality. The same goes for HP's Touchpad, but that runs WebOS, not Android. I've handled the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and it is excellent, but it is priced beyond your range.
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Further proof of no real message in OCCUPY
by free2beme ini went by a protest today.
someone was holding a sign to "stop big banks now," basically saying they agree with the government taking control of the banks and what they do.
next to this person, was a person holding a sign that said, "make marijuana legal!
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Yep, pretty much. A perpetrator, brainwashed, uninformed,.........................that's about it.
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Further proof of no real message in OCCUPY
by free2beme ini went by a protest today.
someone was holding a sign to "stop big banks now," basically saying they agree with the government taking control of the banks and what they do.
next to this person, was a person holding a sign that said, "make marijuana legal!
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I'm sorry, but my bigger disgust is at the normal seeming folks right here, who don't seem to give a hoot that their rights are being usurped by the mega corps every day.
Your rights are being usurped by your government.
Tea Partiers are tools. They are working for the very masters we ought to be fighting to take back our democracy.
OWS are tools. They are working for the very masters we ought to be fighting to take back our freedom.
The occupation should be in DC, not Wall Street. I have said this many times.
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Further proof of no real message in OCCUPY
by free2beme ini went by a protest today.
someone was holding a sign to "stop big banks now," basically saying they agree with the government taking control of the banks and what they do.
next to this person, was a person holding a sign that said, "make marijuana legal!
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Burn I challenge you to look up Naomi Wolfs story of arrest, and tell me you somehow disagree with her.
From you that is a joke. I'll paraphrase your response to a question on a recent thread about a California city fining homeowners for peacefully assembling on their own property.
"Does this mean a person could not hold a meeting on a sidewalk?"
Apparently not if there is a special event and the sidewalk is cordoned off.
Good luck NYC!
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Further proof of no real message in OCCUPY
by free2beme ini went by a protest today.
someone was holding a sign to "stop big banks now," basically saying they agree with the government taking control of the banks and what they do.
next to this person, was a person holding a sign that said, "make marijuana legal!
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Sigh.........................and on and on and on. Now show me anyone in the movement who ostracized these people.
There were infiltrators and whackos, and the demonstrators did what they could to prevent that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4bpgnkNN7Q
Ready made signage:
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Further proof of no real message in OCCUPY
by free2beme ini went by a protest today.
someone was holding a sign to "stop big banks now," basically saying they agree with the government taking control of the banks and what they do.
next to this person, was a person holding a sign that said, "make marijuana legal!
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What matters is the debate...the Great Drumming Debate of 2011.
Last night's General Assembly meeting in Zuccotti Park was "one of most contentious ever," in large part due to a heated debate over whether the drummers at Occupy Wall Street should be given $8,000 from the movement's coffers to buy more drums and equipment. It seems some of the drums were stolen or vandalized, and the drummers asked the General Assembly to help them regroup. "We have worked for you! Appreciate us,"one drummer told the crowd, but the appeal was denied, and the Huff Post's Craig Kanalley tweeted, "Drummer who didn't get money from GA tonight now yelling, cursing at members of GA." Meanwhile, another member of the drum corps was lashing out at the Community Board meeting.
"I am an occupier, I am a drummer, and, despite what they say, I am also a human being," Ashley Love, a young member of the OWS People of Color Working Group, told the packed Community Board meeting last night.
http://gothamist.com/2011/10/21/drummers_at_occupy_wall_street_dema.php
“[The high school] couldn’t teach,” explained Josh Nelson, a 27-year-old occupier from Nebraska. “And we’ve had issues with the drummers too. They drum incessantly all day, and really loud.” Facilitators spearheaded a General Assembly proposal to limit the drumming to two hours a day. “The drumming is a major issue which has the potential to get us kicked out," said Lauren Digion, a leader on the sanitation working group.
But the drums were fun. They brought in publicity and money. Many non-facilitators were infuriated by the decision and claimed that it had been forced through the General Assembly.
“They’re imposing a structure on the natural flow of music," said Seth Harper, an 18-year-old from Georgia. “The GA decided to do it ... they suppressed people’s opinions. I wanted to do introduce a different proposal, but a big black organizer chick with an Afro said I couldn’t.”
To Shane Engelerdt, a 19-year-old from Jersey City and self-described former “head drummer,” this amounted to a Jacobinic betrayal. “They are becoming the government we’re trying to protest," he said. "They didn’t even give the drummers a say ... Drumming is the heartbeat of this movement. Look around: This is dead, you need a pulse to keep something alive.”
The drummers claim that the finance working group even levied a percussion tax of sorts, taking up to half of the $150-300 a day that the drum circle was receiving in tips. “Now they have over $500,000 from all sorts of places,” said Engelerdt. “We’re like, what’s going on here? They’re like the banks we’re protesting."
All belongings and money in the park are supposed to be held in common, but property rights reared their capitalistic head when facilitators went to clean up the park, which was looking more like a shantytown than usual after several days of wind and rain. The local community board was due to send in an inspector, so the facilitators and cleaners started moving tarps, bags, and personal belongings into a big pile in order to clean the park.
But some refused to budge. A bearded man began to gather up a tarp and an occupier emerged from beneath, screaming: “You’re going to break my fucking tent, get that shit off!” Near the front of the park, two men in hoodies staged a meta-sit-in, fearful that their belongings would be lost or appropriated.
Daniel Zetah, a 35-year-old lead facilitator from Minnesota, mounted a bench. “We need to clear this out. There are a bunch of kids coming to stay here.” One of the hoodied men fought back: “I’m not giving up my space for fucking kids. They have parents and homes. My parents are dead. This is my space.”
Other organizers were more blunt. “If you don’t want to be part of this group, then you can just leave,” yelled a facilitator in a button-down shirt, “Every week we clean our house.” Seth Harper, the pro-drummer proletarian, chimed in on the side of the sitters. “We disagree on how we should clean it. A lot of us disagree with the pile.” Zetah, tall and imposing with a fiery red beard, closed debate with a sigh. “We’re all big boys and girls. Let’s do this.” As he told me afterwards, “A lot of people are like spoiled children." The cure? A cold snap. “Personally, I cannot wait for winter. It will clear out these people who aren’t here for the right reasons. Bring on the snow. The real revolutionaries will stay in -50 degrees.”
“When cleanups happen, people get mad,” Glaser said. “This is its own city. Within every city there are people who freeload, who make people’s lives miserable. We just deal with it. We can’t kick them out.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/10/occupy_animal_farm_the_organiz.html
Looks like their little socialist project is having some trouble. But more importantly, drummers are people too, and no one should impose a structure on the natural flow of music! The drummers are the ones that earn the money and they are getting penalized for it. WTF is up with all that drum REGULATION? And TAXES? C'mon people! That is just like the BANKS!
Lulz. Comedy GOLD!
