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Will You Buy an Apple iPad?
Post 302391432 by Neo on Monday 1st of February 2010 10:02:50 AM
02-01-2010
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I read (somewhere on the net) that LCD displays do not make good eBook readers and are nearly unreadable in sunlight. This was confirmed by reborg and his discussion earlier. Then, I read more about this and how inferior LCD displays (like in the iPad) are for ebook reading.
Of course that does not matter to those who love Apple products. They prefer an inferior Apple product to a superior product by another company. For me, since I don't need an ebook reader in the sunlight, I'm OK with an LCD ebook reader, as I read in cars, planes, "that special library where the bathtub is" and my bed.
What bothers me the most is the lack of USB support and the fact that I will be locked into certain telco companies and cannot use just any SIM card for GPRS if I need it.
Apples needs to open up, IMHO.
At least the iMac has a unix/darwin BSD core, that is great.
It is time for Apple to do the same thing with the iPad and make it more interoperable and with a replaceable battery.
Also, I agree the price is too high. $499 is only bare bones entry.
On the other hand, I still might buy an "unlocked" version
Of course that does not matter to those who love Apple products. They prefer an inferior Apple product to a superior product by another company. For me, since I don't need an ebook reader in the sunlight, I'm OK with an LCD ebook reader, as I read in cars, planes, "that special library where the bathtub is" and my bed.
What bothers me the most is the lack of USB support and the fact that I will be locked into certain telco companies and cannot use just any SIM card for GPRS if I need it.
Apples needs to open up, IMHO.
At least the iMac has a unix/darwin BSD core, that is great.
It is time for Apple to do the same thing with the iPad and make it more interoperable and with a replaceable battery.
Also, I agree the price is too high. $499 is only bare bones entry.
On the other hand, I still might buy an "unlocked" version
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procmeter3-lcd
PROCMETER3-LCD(1) General Commands Manual PROCMETER3-LCD(1) NAME
procmeter3-lcd - A system monitoring program with LCDproc display. SYNOPSIS
procmeter3-lcd [-h|--help] [--rc=<filename>] [--...] [...] DESCRIPTION
ProcMeter Displays one or more pieces of information about the operating system and other resources. Most of the information that is dis- played comes from the /proc filesystem. The program is modular and very configurable. OPTIONS
The command line options are described below. -h Provides a help message listing the available outputs. This will be different for different computers depending on the Linux kernel version that is being used and the hardware/software that is configured. --rc=<filename> Load the specified .procmeterrc file in stead of the searching in the usual places. --... A list of configuration file options that will override the values in the .procmeterrc file. The format of these options is (for example) --LCD.host=localhost which is equivalent to the entry in the .procmeterrc file of [LCD] host = localhost All spaces around the equal sign must be removed and if spaces are required in the value on the right hand side then quotes must be used around the entire command line option. ... A list of names of outputs that are to be displayed. This can include any of the outputs that are available (see the -h option). For the CPU usage is in a module named Statistics with an output named CPU and there are graph (-g), text (-t) and bar (-b) options. To display the CPU usage graph you would use the command line option Statistics.CPU-g USAGE
When started the program will display on an attached LCD display using the LCDd daemon program (from http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net). The outputs that are displayed are those from the command line and those from the .procmeterrc configuration file. MODULES
The modules that are available for procmeter3-lcd are described in the procmeter3_modules(1) manual page. SEE ALSO
procmeterrc(5) procmeter3_modules(1) AUTHOR
Andrew M. Bishop 1998-2007 July 3, 2010 PROCMETER3-LCD(1)