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Posted by Jay G. on 06/14/06 12:02
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:25:27 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:21:15 -0500, "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> Gave us:
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>>On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:15:31 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:28:52 -0500, "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> Gave us:
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>>>>I'm not the one that said cell phones are PCs that "just happen to contain
>>>>communications hardware."
>>>
>>> ebay item numbers:
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>>> 9738769751
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>>> 9740112208
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>>> 9738652730
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>>Wow, a PDA cell phone. My world view is shattered. It's a whole paradigm
>>shift, outside the box. Or, I already knew about them.
>>
>>Calling a PDA a PC is laughable already. However, what you said was that
>>any cell phone that could check email was a PC that "just happens to
>>contain communications hardware." Which is really, really silly.
>>
>>Incidentally, the first and third ebay items don't have keyboards. So
>>according to your requirements for PCs to have keyboards in order to count,
>>they don't count as PCs.
>
> Wrong, dumbfuck. They are touchscreen and a full keyboard comes up on
> said screen.
That's not an actual keyboard though, that's a simulated keyboard brought
up in software. My DVD Recorder brings up such a keyboard when I want to
entire titles for programs or for the disc. Does that make it a PC?
Oh! My 8-bit Nintendo brought up a keyboard on the screen too, does that
make it a PC?
> They are specifically made for email reading and authoring.
So are Blackberries. Are those PCs?
-Jay
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