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Originally Posted by fms View Post
Yes, but my computer was off. How could it download the podcasts?
I wasn't talking about your computer, but it takes no time to download a podcast, so maybe your computer could download while you were having a drink before leaving the house?

Originally Posted by fms View Post
We have transmitters in the subway, as well as in the countryside. No 3G yet, but GPRS and EDGE are there. I find it difficult to imagine an urban place that does not have these nowadays.
Sorry I didn't define 'in the middle of the countryside' as an urban place. The rest of the places have 3G, but not in the tunnels and subways.

Originally Posted by fms View Post
So, you basically need a separate webpage to navigate podcasts? Umgh.
huh? Of course you don't. It is an audio file. You listen to it.

Originally Posted by fms View Post
Why is it that every time somebody has to defend utterly purposeless things, the "choice" argument comes up? Yea, you obviously have a choice and it is good to have a choice, no argument here. The argument is about whether this particular choice is any better than other choices.
because it isn't utterly purposless to many people. To many people it is the only viable choice.
Why is it when some people don't like something they can't understand how it is better to someone else?