At least this spares several suicidal Chinese factory slaves from having to do it.

So, he cobbled together a Windows 7 tablet. How is that an iPad?

Those look like cheap chinese flatback crystals. Not Austrian crystal rhinestones. Well, ya get what you pay for.

Also, she love him rong time.

No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.

//Actually, pretty damn impressed he pulled this off.

RexTalionis: There's a massive markups in China for all electronics imported into the country. My cousin told me that if they were to buy a computer in China, it's a little less than double the price we'd pay for a comparable computer in the US.

They dont want imported stuff cutting into the rampant black market, grey market, complete and total theft of intellectual property, trademark and copyright material - and if you call them on it, it's an act of war.

That's how I got my job.
My boss found out I had loaded windows on my apple II.
The Apple II I built from scratch.
Needless to say, although I'm grateful for the job,
Being customer service for a software publishing company that leases tools is frustrating, if not ironic.

But I don't mind the money.

Relatively Obscure: Ed Willy: At least this spares several suicidal Chinese factory slaves from having to do it.

They aren't slaves. They can leave any time they like; the window's right there.

RexTalionis: billybobtoo: Also, she love him rong time.

Chinese doesn't have problems with the 'l' and 'r' sounds! That joke was stupid even when properly used, but it's a whole new level of stupid when it's wrongly used.

Most people see Asian as being one race and never think of the cultures being different, much less their languages. (new window) . That said, yes, the R and L thing is especially stupid considering the Chinese are perfectly fine with it.

She sounds fat

That's some geeky romance there.

CSB: the key for our access point is basically a short mash note to my partner. I can genuinely say I'm broadcasting my feelings for her.

Does she really have that nice/big of an iJina?

Great book.

DamnYankees: RexTalionis: billybobtoo: Also, she love him rong time.

Chinese doesn't have problems with the 'l' and 'r' sounds! That joke was stupid even when properly used, but it's a whole new level of stupid when it's wrongly used.

As someone who speaks Chinese...yes, they do. The L an R sound in Chinese is very, very similar and easy to confuse.

Maybe in some of the dialects. Not in Mandarin. L and R are perfectly distinct.
/Chinese

Zombie Steve Jobs is consulting his patent attorneys.

DamnYankees: Yes, in Mandarin. Granted, in some regions the distinction is greater than others, but "perfectly" distinct surely not.

Let it go.
You are arguing with at least two actual native speakers.

bingethinker: Ed Willy

At least this spares several suicidal Chinese factory slaves from having to do it.
The suicide rate at Apple's factories is less than in the general population.

But go on parroting that lie like the brainwashed douchebag that you are.

When you consider that Foxconn only hires employees in perfect health in their 20's, purposely excluding those that are suffering from terminal illnesses, old age, or depression, the suicide rate is incredibly high*.

*also excluding the nets they have outside the windows to catch all of the jumpers

DamnYankees: Cubicle Jockey: DamnYankees: Yes, in Mandarin. Granted, in some regions the distinction is greater than others, but "perfectly" distinct surely not.

Let it go.
You are arguing with at least two actual native speakers.

I'm fluent. I can only speak from experience.

My late grandmother-in-law, who only spoke mandarin, could never pronounce my name, Drew. I don't speak any Chinese beyond 1, 2, 3, but I'm guessing there is no 'dr' sound?

Already Been Done: Broke Dad Makes Son PlayStation 2 For Christmas (new window)

I built a computer for a girlfriend once, long ago. I also installed Windows on it. I sure didn't farking tell her it was a Mac though. Why is the word 'iPad' anywhere on this article? He built her a tablet.

PlatinumDragon: That's some geeky romance there.

CSB: the key for our access point is basically a short mash note to my partner. I can genuinely say I'm broadcasting my feelings for her.

Perhaps you mean the SSID.

beer4breakfast: I built a computer for a girlfriend once, long ago. I also installed Windows on it. I sure didn't farking tell her it was a Mac though. Why is the word 'iPad' anywhere on this article? He built her a tablet.

It's Chinese Makintosh OXS Leon.

bingethinker: Ed Willy

At least this spares several suicidal Chinese factory slaves from having to do it.
The suicide rate at Apple's factories is less than in the general population.

But go on parroting that lie like the brainwashed douchebag that you are.

Is that why Foxconn employees have to sign a contract stating they won't kill themselves, Twinkle Toes?

/Hopefully you haven't signed that same contract, Sparky.

And I'm sure it was 1/4 the usability of an iPad.

I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: bingethinker: Ed Willy

At least this spares several suicidal Chinese factory slaves from having to do it.
The suicide rate at Apple's factories is less than in the general population.

But go on parroting that lie like the brainwashed douchebag that you are.

Is that why Foxconn employees have to sign a contract stating they won't kill themselves, Twinkle Toes?

/Hopefully you haven't signed that same contract, Sparky.

i thought most people turned Bingey off. I keep him around b/c it's entertaining now.

vudukungfu: That's how I got my job.
My boss found out I had loaded windows on my apple II.

Different architecture, precompiled binaries, etc. If I put a motherboard in a 2 liter bottle, it doesn't mean I loaded Windows on Dr. Pepper.

So he put an Apple logo on a tablet converted laptop that runs Windows 7......
Who gives a shiat? Stop pandering to the farking retarded hipsters that use Apple products because they are it

schief2: Dude's in China. If he wanted a cheap knockoff iPad, why didn't he just go down to the store?

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A co-worker just came back from China. He said he saw a tablet that had an iPad shell but an Android OS on it. Said he was able to talk the guy down in price to $100 and would have bought it there wasn't so much lag when testing the software.

I'm fruent. I can onry speak from expelience.

Just in case some here don't know... That works out to $125, if you take the chinese money spent and purchase USD. That doesn't mean it cost $125 to build it; China deliberately devalues its currency so that bringing money IN to China is fiscally sound but taking it OUT is not.

meatofmystery: RexTalionis: billybobtoo: Also, she love him rong time.

Chinese doesn't have problems with the 'l' and 'r' sounds! That joke was stupid even when properly used, but it's a whole new level of stupid when it's wrongly used.

Most people see Asian as being one race and never think of the cultures being different, much less their languages. (new window) . That said, yes, the R and L thing is especially stupid considering the Chinese are perfectly fine with it.

They are all Chinamen to me.

Or has love lost its creative power over here in the West?

No, we've just got a mainstream tech media that does farking nothing but report about farking iProducts.

I'd like to see 1, just 1 farking article in something like CNET about the stuff that's being done with 3d printing or arduino boards. Not pre-packaged Apple gadgets, or how many copies of Angry Birds are being sold or Black Friday.

I'm sure that the Jan edition of Make will have tech valentines.

MrEricSir: And I'm sure it was 1/4 the usability of an iPad.

Actually, he loaded Windows 7 on it. So it probably only has 20/4 the usability of an iPad.