John Smith wrote:
On 8/3/2010 1:25 PM, Michael Coslo wrote:
John Smith wrote:

No it isn't. I don't want to take calls on my television. The XYL will
talk for hours with friends. Seems like a bad thing to tie the TV up for
that time. I don't want my telephone to be my computer either, or listen
to my music on my telephone.


Only a damn fool would make a phone call on their TV, or even think
about it. But, if the case is you and the wife can't afford seperate
hand-helds/netbooks, well, get a better job!

So how does your Television/radio/phone/stereo work exactly? If a person
using the phone at the same time as another person trying to watch TV
and another wanting to listen to music isn't going to conflict, I'm not
sure what will. You be the one that suggested we should be buying
singular devices and plug dongles into them.



It's for the same reason that I don't want to keep my frozen meat in my
car. A whole lot of us prefer our devices to be purpose built instead of
the myriad of compromises in having all in one instruments. History has
shown that all in one devices tend to perform poorly or mediocre at best
in all their functions.


Again, only a damn fool would think about keeping food in their
palm-top/ereader/netbook, or even think about it.

Hmm, I have to imagine you're deliberately missing that analogy.


Hmmm, my computer is
not a printer, but an external printer hooked up workes just fine. My
computer is not a netcard, but a USB dongle netcard works just
fine--plugged in, my computer is not a TV, but an USB dongle HD TV works
fine--plugged in, etc. In fact, I have never noticed any problems with
them running all at once. Perhaps you need new hardware.

As you will. My purpose built hardware has one huge advantage. A lot of
people have a whole lot of trouble keeping their computers running. I
spend a lot of time as my friends and family's Tech support guy.

Explain how having a PC, with all it's security issues and other
problems, like updates that knock it out of commission, is going to be a
superior alternative to a television that you turn on, or a phone you
pick up and use. When your computer is zombified or halted due to all
the spyware on it, it will take down everything that is attached to it.
After that, we have to worry about turning our Televisions, which at
this time have a 15 year lifespan, into the 3 or 4 year lifespan of
PC's. I can just see children waiting patiently while Dad reformats and
reinstalls the system software because the computer got hosed and no one
is getting anything on the television.

So people are going to have to become IT weenies so they can watch TV?
Good luck with that one.


They kind of remind me of the Escalade SUV/Pickup trucks. Horrible
pickup truck, poor SUV, and ugly as sin.


Never seen wheels, steering wheel, gearshift, headlights, etc. on a
palm-top/ereader/netbook/laptop/computer. This sounds more of mental
condition and/or drugs.

Whoosh. Another analogy about devices that try to be more than one
thing. A television is not a telephone is not a cell phone is not a
stereo system. One could be pressed into service as all of the above,
and at the same time - but it takes a pretty good argument to say it
will perform as well as the separate devices.


It is time to end the stone age of electronics!

I want faster, better looking, and higher performance. I don't want
all-in wonders, which are always compromises.


Must be boring never using any USB or ported peripherals, as your post
indicates! Try it, you will find that "all-in-one-wonders" are great!

Have got no idea how you got the idea that I don't use USB devices.

- Mike -