You aren't paying attention. According to the geniuses in this thread, a) there are no standard outlets on a C-17 worthy of charging an iPad, and b) you can't charge an iPad off the USB port of a laptop. Therefore, not only is it unpossible to charge an iPad on a C-17, but also, ALIENS!
First, stop making sense. I too flew on the C-17 many times and plugged my laptop right into the outlets, but don't let our anecdotes get in the way of a good nerd fight. Secondly, haven't your read in this thread already that you can't charge an iPad off a USB port alone...duh!
Actually the iPad can't be charged off a USB port, it doesn't have the 10W of power required.
Um yeah. I keep seeing this but that doesn't mean it's true. I haven't plugged my iPad into anything OTHER than my Macbook's USB port for a year now. If it's not charging, then that's one helluva battery.
And now if you'll circle back to the start of the discussion you'll see that a converter does have to be specially made because you aren't going to find a standard household powerpoint on a military aircraft.
And you'd be wrong. The C-17 has several "standard household powerpoints" conveniently located at the feet of the passengers seated in the "jump-seats". I'm sure there are even more on the flight deck.
Crickets? Seriously? How many USB ports does the average laptop have? Let's be conservative and say two. In that case, I can find probably 10 USB ports on every C-17 flight (one laptop per officer on board, probably more with the enlisted flight crew).
I used to fly Charleston - San Francisco several times a year on a C-17 back in the mid-90s. I charged my Power Book the entire way. If I remember correctly, there was an outlet every few feet along the side (the flip down seats that come down from the sides of the fuselage) that charged our consumer electronics just fine.
I was in the military and the military grade batteries for our gps devices and night vision were pitiful. I think soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen would be overjoyed to have an electronic device that actually functions for more than a couple of hours per charge for once.
They already "rug-idize" iPads. There are plenty of third party kits and there are plenty of special forces and vanilla infantry units that use iPads/Android tablets in the field already.
Yeah, they'll never find a place on a C-17 to charge an iPad. And as if the flight time of a C-17 is longer than the battery life of a fully charged iPad?
I'm not saying that the iPhone isn't a good phone, but it has no physical keyboard. Many employees use their phone for answering email; to me the iPhone seems like it would really inconvenient for use in this manner.
Hello 2007,
I'm glad to see you are still around complaining about the lack of physical keyboards. It seems the market has spoken and is in disagreement with your assessment. Now if you would kindly return to complaining about the lack or right mouse buttons on Macs or claims of "security through obscurity", the slashdot world will all be right again.
The latest Blackberry ads proudly claim "we want a tool, not a toy". Um yeah, no.
If your tool actually did anything that the Android and iOS toys don't do, you might have a point. But since the toys do everything your tool does, but even better, your company is on the brink of extinction.
So there's a lot of movies never released on DVD. Are they also not released on in-demand or Netflix or on iTunes? Personally, I think the DVD will take as long/longer to kill off than the VHS.
Yeah, I was thinking exactly this. It's not like they just pour the live recording right into the vinyl. If vinyl had some sort of magic properties and mastering weren't important, hell, I'd run out and buy a bunch of blank vinyls and invent some software to burn my iTunes library directly to this superior medium.
"Enforcing office hours" is the pinnacle of micromanagement. Most software companies I've been around pay salaries. With a salary comes the expectation that you will be at work during core hours (generally 10am-4pm) and you'll work at least 8 hours, or as much time as it takes to complete your work.
People who are checking up to make sure you are at your desk by 9:00 sharp as opposed to 9:03 have no place in a modern organization.
Nobody wants to work for a place like that. The fact that so many corporations still operate this way probably has something to do with our current economic environment.
It's a good business model because they sold 15 million iPads last quarter and nobody cares how many of those were for enterprise. There's another market called "consumer" that Apple is doing quite well in.
Yes I use a part of a disk for timemachine. I use one disk for 4 timemachine partitions (for four Macs). It's not as hard as you are trying to bait me into arguing. By the way, what is the Windows equivalent of Timemachine again?
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What if this was the decline/death of impersonal giant chain stores, and nothing to do with brick-and-mortar business models?
Hopefully chain restaurants will follow...
You aren't paying attention. According to the geniuses in this thread, a) there are no standard outlets on a C-17 worthy of charging an iPad, and b) you can't charge an iPad off the USB port of a laptop. Therefore, not only is it unpossible to charge an iPad on a C-17, but also, ALIENS!
I seriously doubt you could even measure the fuel savings of kicking 70 pounds off a C5 or C17.
You've never met a Load Master, or had to go through a Load Master's course, have you?
In any case, the iPad battery juice lasts longer than the pilots-can-stay-awake juice.
With standard outlets, you could have gone to the BX and bought one of those cheapie dorm microwaves and brought it with you.
First, stop making sense. I too flew on the C-17 many times and plugged my laptop right into the outlets, but don't let our anecdotes get in the way of a good nerd fight. Secondly, haven't your read in this thread already that you can't charge an iPad off a USB port alone...duh!
Actually the iPad can't be charged off a USB port, it doesn't have the 10W of power required.
Um yeah. I keep seeing this but that doesn't mean it's true. I haven't plugged my iPad into anything OTHER than my Macbook's USB port for a year now. If it's not charging, then that's one helluva battery.
And now if you'll circle back to the start of the discussion you'll see that a converter does have to be specially made because you aren't going to find a standard household powerpoint on a military aircraft.
And you'd be wrong. The C-17 has several "standard household powerpoints" conveniently located at the feet of the passengers seated in the "jump-seats". I'm sure there are even more on the flight deck.
Or, wait for this because it's really novel....
You could charge your iPad before you get on board since C-17s don't fly longer than a full iPad battery charge lasts.
Crickets? Seriously? How many USB ports does the average laptop have? Let's be conservative and say two. In that case, I can find probably 10 USB ports on every C-17 flight (one laptop per officer on board, probably more with the enlisted flight crew).
I used to fly Charleston - San Francisco several times a year on a C-17 back in the mid-90s. I charged my Power Book the entire way. If I remember correctly, there was an outlet every few feet along the side (the flip down seats that come down from the sides of the fuselage) that charged our consumer electronics just fine.
I was in the military and the military grade batteries for our gps devices and night vision were pitiful. I think soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen would be overjoyed to have an electronic device that actually functions for more than a couple of hours per charge for once.
They already "rug-idize" iPads. There are plenty of third party kits and there are plenty of special forces and vanilla infantry units that use iPads/Android tablets in the field already.
Yeah, they'll never find a place on a C-17 to charge an iPad. And as if the flight time of a C-17 is longer than the battery life of a fully charged iPad?
That's called capitalism. Without demand, Apple has had no reason to have done so yet.
And yet they are still growing.
The danger of the internet is anybody can say whatever they want, regardless of the facts.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=RIM+declining&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Gee, I wonder where Apple is going to ever find the resources to develop a FIPS 140-2 capable device. Will $40 billion cover it?
I'm not saying that the iPhone isn't a good phone, but it has no physical keyboard. Many employees use their phone for answering email; to me the iPhone seems like it would really inconvenient for use in this manner.
Hello 2007,
I'm glad to see you are still around complaining about the lack of physical keyboards. It seems the market has spoken and is in disagreement with your assessment. Now if you would kindly return to complaining about the lack or right mouse buttons on Macs or claims of "security through obscurity", the slashdot world will all be right again.
Sincerely,
Humanity
The latest Blackberry ads proudly claim "we want a tool, not a toy". Um yeah, no.
If your tool actually did anything that the Android and iOS toys don't do, you might have a point. But since the toys do everything your tool does, but even better, your company is on the brink of extinction.
So there's a lot of movies never released on DVD. Are they also not released on in-demand or Netflix or on iTunes? Personally, I think the DVD will take as long/longer to kill off than the VHS.
Yeah, I was thinking exactly this. It's not like they just pour the live recording right into the vinyl. If vinyl had some sort of magic properties and mastering weren't important, hell, I'd run out and buy a bunch of blank vinyls and invent some software to burn my iTunes library directly to this superior medium.
"Enforcing office hours" is the pinnacle of micromanagement. Most software companies I've been around pay salaries. With a salary comes the expectation that you will be at work during core hours (generally 10am-4pm) and you'll work at least 8 hours, or as much time as it takes to complete your work.
People who are checking up to make sure you are at your desk by 9:00 sharp as opposed to 9:03 have no place in a modern organization.
Nobody wants to work for a place like that. The fact that so many corporations still operate this way probably has something to do with our current economic environment.
It's a good business model because they sold 15 million iPads last quarter and nobody cares how many of those were for enterprise. There's another market called "consumer" that Apple is doing quite well in.
Yes I use a part of a disk for timemachine. I use one disk for 4 timemachine partitions (for four Macs). It's not as hard as you are trying to bait me into arguing. By the way, what is the Windows equivalent of Timemachine again?