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Apple rip-off of another Star Trek idea
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Ship Engineer   Joined: 10 Jul 2006, 01:00 Posts: 5130 Location: Space is disease and danger, wrapped in darkness and silence! 
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| 27 Jan 2010, 22:28 |
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Klingon Honor Guard   Joined: 22 Apr 2005, 01:00 Posts: 1527 Location: UK
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They really mean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFNQE_TzQNI
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| 29 Jan 2010, 15:31 |
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Evil Romulan Overlord of Evil - Now 100% Faster!   Joined: 02 Dec 2004, 01:00 Posts: 7392 Location: Returned to the previous place.
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It might be a rip-off, but my interest is piqued. Matress wants one!
...Incidentally, so does his boss...for work purposes of course... _________________ "Anyone without a sense of humour is truly at the mercy of the rest of us." |
| 31 Jan 2010, 16:28 |
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Ship Engineer Joined: 10 Jul 2006, 01:00 Posts: 5130 Location: Space is disease and danger, wrapped in darkness and silence!
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| 31 Jan 2010, 17:39 |
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Captain  Joined: 24 Sep 2005, 01:00 Posts: 1387
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The iPad bugs me. It's a giant ipod touch, without anything special about it. You can get tablets at similar sizes (but not thickness, alas) with a full fledged OS and Processor. If HP or Dell or IBM or anyone else released something like this running 7, I'd be very very interested. But the iPad is crippled, both in hardware and software. There isn't even any USB!
oh, and the name is ridiculously bad. _________________ Hello! |
| 31 Jan 2010, 18:09 |
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Chief Software Engineer   Joined: 11 Aug 2005, 01:00 Posts: 2688
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Nemitor_Atimen wrote: The iPad bugs me. It's a giant ipod touch, without anything special about it. You can get tablets at similar sizes (but not thickness, alas) with a full fledged OS and Processor. If HP or Dell or IBM or anyone else released something like this running 7, I'd be very very interested. But the iPad is crippled, both in hardware and software. There isn't even any USB! oh, and the name is ridiculously bad. The problem with tablet PCs is that they're a poor form factor. Traditional operating systems and software are too complex to operate conveniently without a keyboard and mouse. Apple's idea is that for casual users, iPhone/iPod Touch apps are more user-friendly. A little kid or an old person could pick up an iPad and start using it with little or no training. Power users like us have no need for such a device, though. I for one am glad that I don't feel compelled to drop $850 on one of those things--I could buy a lot of other stuff for that kind of money  ._________________ Lead Developer of Star Trek: Supremacy 253,658 lines of code and counting... |
| 01 Feb 2010, 06:24 |
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8 of 9, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 001   Joined: 17 Dec 2009, 01:47 Posts: 249 Location: Le Canada
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Well put, Mike. And @Matress, I simply see no reason why Matress would want an Ipad
 . It looks nice, but it simply doesn't have the capabilities of the Ipod Touch. Oh well, there's my two cents._________________ We are the Borg. Prepare to be assimilated. Your creative distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your creative minds will adapt to service us. Resistance is, and always has been, humorous.  May... now with expectedly warm weather! |
| 02 Feb 2010, 15:32 |
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Evil Romulan Overlord of Evil - Now 100% Faster! Joined: 02 Dec 2004, 01:00 Posts: 7392 Location: Returned to the previous place.
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Wait a few years and you will see that the Star Empire had great plans for the Ipad. Of course it will be too late by then...
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| 02 Feb 2010, 19:08 |
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8 of 9, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 001 Joined: 17 Dec 2009, 01:47 Posts: 249 Location: Le Canada
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Of course. However, in the meantime, you could enlist spies to... acquire... an Ipad. Oh wait, that might look suspicious
 . And yes, in a few years, I'm sure whatever plans the Senate of Matress has will be obsolete, and new plans will have to be made...  _________________ We are the Borg. Prepare to be assimilated. Your creative distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your creative minds will adapt to service us. Resistance is, and always has been, humorous. May... now with expectedly warm weather! |
| 03 Feb 2010, 01:37 |
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Genetically Altered Manual Labourer   Joined: 17 Aug 2009, 01:31 Posts: 2083 Location: Passed out on the floor after math mistake discovered by Hawking
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I wish they would spend more time making a deal with Verizon to have the iPhone. As far as the iPad, I do like the simple design. I understand it does have an input jack for a keyboard. Bashir
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| 05 Feb 2010, 15:38 |
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Evil Romulan Overlord of Evil - Now 100% Faster! Joined: 02 Dec 2004, 01:00 Posts: 7392 Location: Returned to the previous place.
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Yeah, i've been reading up on it and it does have a keyboard jack. I'd like to know if it'll be a USB one though. If it is, all you would need is the one USB port to connect up your keyboard, camera, phone, charger...anything.
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| 05 Feb 2010, 23:43 |
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