[ivox3]

I smash iPhones like roaches.

I can't stand em. I can't stand the people with them. They're evil little devices that innocently package themselves as ultratechno life improving micro-engineering that's harmless and cute. It's not cute. People think devices like this expand and simultaneously simplify their life and on the surface it appears to do just that. What it mostly does is expand your life into an amalgam of newly created pseudo-productivity. In life you can basically do one of two things at any moment. You can either take a step towards yourself or take a step away from yourself. This kind of tech can be subversive in that it perpetually keeps you from ever identifying fom any true sense of self because it creates the illusion that without this 'extension' .. you would be less than you are should you be without it.

The caveat here is that it's not impossible to extract quality usage from the technology of iPhones and the like, ..but my fear is that most people are ignorantly seduced into expanding their life into further areas of extraneous activity that amounts to substantial nothingness -- a pseudo-productivity. Which, ..in my opinion is one very large step away from the self.

Careful what you adopt as religion and religion it has become, ie., technology in general. The un-funny thing is that people don't know they're adopting anything.

[end rant]

I ask all iPhone owners one question : " Can you go back to living without one ? " We all know the anwer....

You see, your thing is that because you own one, ... you immediately perceived a personal attack and shut down a greater comprehension of what I was saying. That's not what was happening here --- it was a rather just a scathing critique of the less than discerning culture of technology adoption. And furthermore, ..just because you've roped your mom into this equation doesn't add any weight to your issue by adding in the sacred nature of family. If you said it was your drug dealer who needed email help, .. would the benefit be any greater or less ? And no, .. I am not implying in any way whatsoever that you have one of those ..... simply getting crafty with some semantics, ..that is all.

[cgbeige]

so what's your take on white people's dancing?

[Bubbaloo]

[KurtS]

So many references to Wall-E lately, guess i'll have to watch it.

I've downloaded it to my Iphone!

[b-kandor]

Hi Chris, yep I have an iphone - but I agree with what you say - the thing about me is I use my iphone for exactly 2 things - phone calls and checking my email when I'm away from the office. I do have a few 'utility' apps like the inclinometer and stuff like that but after the first week of owning it it became just like any other cell phone (except without the tactile button feeling). And yes, I could certainly live without it quite happily!

[cgbeige]

not me - it saved my ass tonight. I was clicking like an idiot in mxstudio trying to get it to render a region unsuccessfully (most annoying bug ever) and I had to leave since my GF was waiting. Logged in and started the render from the gym.

[Maximus3D]

Hehe, these iPod toons are so funny!

http://www.cagle.com/news/iPhone07/main.asp

/ Max

[big K]

funny site Maximus ! good cartoons !

ivox,

I can't stand the people with them

so this is not personal?
and

... you immediately perceived a personal attack and shut down a greater comprehension of what I was saying.

as far as i understood cgbeige he wasn´t feeling attacked - he only tried to argue that he has some benefits of the iphone he wouldn´t have without it.

i have an iphone - i didn´t feel offended - and i agree to most of what you said.
i only find the "i don´t like you, but don´t take it personal" attitude quite surprising.

michael

[big K]

So many references to Wall-E lately, guess i'll have to watch it.

I've downloaded it to my Iphone!