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Turn Your iPad Into a Star Trek PADD

Posted by samzenpus on from the assimilate-this! dept.

A new app from CBS interactive can help you figure out the trouble with tribbles once and for all. Star Trek PADD for iPad includes all the official data on ships, aliens, technologies, an episode guide, and uses a Starfleet-like interface. Live long and prosper.

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  1. Still not a PADD by Lanteran · · Score: 1, Insightful

    PADDs are proper computers- they can run arbitrary code.

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    1. Re:Still not a PADD by Ephemeriis · · Score: 4, Insightful

      PADDs are proper computers- they can run arbitrary code.

      You sure about that? I thought the acronym stood for Personal Access Display Device.

      I was under the impression that they were used almost exclusively to display information... Maybe some basic data-entry capabilities. Something along the lines of a modern-day ereader.

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    2. Re:Still not a PADD by Kethinov · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Jake Sisko wrote novels with PADDs on DS9.

      I'm with the GP on this one. I'm sure the creative intent was that PADDs on Star Trek were programmable, rootable, and so on. Otherwise known as real computers.

      Why? Because it was Star Trek, not 1984. I doubt the Federation exerted Orwellian control over its citizens' portable computers like Apple does today in the real world.

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  2. How much did these guys pay by joebok · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How much did these guys pay to have their ad appear as a slashdot story? I guess the future is here - the line between ad and content is gone! Or was it already and I just didn't notice until now?