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Turn Your iPad Into a Star Trek PADD
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.
Awesome. Now I can conclusively prove that I have no life!
Can I just yell out the word "computer!" and then tell it how to advance the plot of this week's storyline?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Five bucks = expensive? Dude, I'm out of work, and if I had an iPad (HA! If I could AFFORD one!) I would have already downloaded this app. Five lousy bucks is NOT "expensive". The iPad? Yeah, *THAT* is expensive.
Willie...
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?
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.
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." -Oscar Wilde
"The app costs $4.99"
Hey wait a minute I thought currency was outdated by the PADDs were out?!
You have to pay in bitcoins.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Trekkers are more normal? I have never, ever heard the term used like that.
The real usage goes like this: Trekkies are hopeless Star Trek nerds. Trekkers are Star Trek nerds who are so hopeless, they're even hopeless nerds when it comes to discussing the terminology used to describe hopeless Star Trek nerds.
I always thought the main difference was that those who think they're actually accomplishing something by being a fan (i.e., denoted by "trekker") are the sadder of the lot. At least trekkies can admit "hey, this is just something I'm into." Anyone who calls himself a trekker is taking himself way too seriously.
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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.
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!