Correct, changing it to 'approximately as much' has virtually no bearing on the fact that Apple had their designs copied by someone else and that they copied someone else's designs.
Continue in your failure to see the forest for the trees. No-one else who has read it has felt the need to take 'as much' quite as pedantically as you have, normal people would make the fair assumption that it could mean 'approximately as much' and that this has virtually no bearing on the statement whatsoever.
Now, if you can say: "The radius of the corners is identical on both, and two of its three dimensions are identical, and the material they used is identical", etc, you can make a pretty darned good case.
Case for what? Using the term 'as much'? Substitute 'approximately as much', not so hard is it pedant?
You're trying to pin this failure on me and it isn't working. "As much" requires an apples to apples comparison and you haven't provided that. This is not my failure.
Your failure to simply just directly object to the use of 'as much' most certainly is your failure. If you had've just said that in the first place i could have rectified it for the pedant with 'approximately as much' or 'similarly as much' given my experience.
I mean if you believed that both iPad and Tab look alike and that the AppleTV and the WD Elements look alike then this conversation would have no purpose other than you arguing over the definition of the term 'as much'.
The GPL is a reaction to the madness of copyright in the software world
Well no it isn't, it's about the ability to view the source code so one can modify and change it, that's how it differs from BSD-style licenses. Even if you remove copyright someone can still make changes and distribute them only in binary form without giving you access to the source code, the focus of the GPL is on getting access to the source code.
Let's try this again, I'm clearly writing far too many words and you can't comprehend them, given your failed attempt at 'translation'. You would say that it is true that a Tab looks very much like an iPad but that it is not true that an AppleTV looks very much like a WD Elements?
Don't try to sell music, sell CDs and use the MP3s as advertising.
Who would buy CDs? Why spend money on a less convenient medium? Sales of CDs hasn't necessarily dropped because of piracy, it's that people use services like iTunes and Zune to buy music because it's way more convenient. If you don't have to pay for mp3s then that's even more of a reason not to buy CDs.
What I can or cannot see is not at issue. You made the claim, now support it. I'm not doing your homework for you.
It's supported by the obviousness of simply looking at it. You say: Yes, that would be because the Tab looks very much like an iPad.
Yet for some reason you're going to these desperate and ridiculous lengths to suggest that my assertion that the 'AppleTV looks very much like the WD Elements' is not correct and that you need some detailed specifics on how they look alike because for some reason you are unable to see it just by simply looking at the 2 devices.
Are you that impaired that you needed someone to point out how the Tab and iPad look alike? Or did you figure that out yourself? If you figured it out for yourself then why are you having so much difficulty figuring out how the AppleTV and WD Elements look alike?
I realize you are really busy calling an Android Tablet owner an Apple Apologist and compiling a list of all those design elements Apple stole from WD, but you really should stop and look at what an Apple TV that predates the WD Elements by two years looks like.
I did look at the earlier ones, they look nothing like the current one, yet the current one looks very much like a WD Elements. Original AppleTV, then came the WD Elements, then the next AppleTV.
But you said I've never seen one, so I'll still require detailed descriptons of Apple's specific ripoffs.
If you require detailed descriptions it means you can't see the similarities in the devices themselves, and if you claim you can't see them in the devices themselves you are being deliberately obtuse because no-one with the gift of sight could be that stupid.
Are you saying you cannot see the obvious design elements that have been copied? You really cannot see them and need them explained to you?
So.... you're saying Apple copied WD but really cannot list how. Bummer, I wanted to hear about this.
errr...look at the devices? Pretty obvious, wouldn't think anyone need the differences listed. But of course I did list them, but here they are again:
The same radius on the rounded corners, the same glossy edge, the same textured top and bottom, the embossed logo, the same color.
Apple's complaint was that Samsung duplicated 25 details of the iPad. If you wish to claim that Apple did exactly the same, you have to produce a similar list. So let's see it!
The design, fool. Here's what you wrote and what i responded to: Yes, that would be because the Tab looks very much like an iPad.
And the AppleTV looks very much like a WD Elements. Samsung copied Apple and Apple copied WD...yet in the mind of an apologist the latter could not possibly be true.
You said it's the same as the tablet case. So get to listin'!
Not identical, like saying the ipad and tab look the same, it's not implying they look identical. You would say that the AppleTV design is not copied from the WD Elements?
Great! Let's see the 25+ details Apple obviously copied, WD has a case! Can't wait to hear about this.
Why do there have to be 25+? Is that some magic legal number? I think not. But the clear and obvious fact is that Apple copied the AppleTV design from WD so it's pretty damn hypocritical to launch into lawsuits when someone copies their designs. But their are people who actually would suggest that it's ok for Apple to copy designs from others but not ok for others to copy designs from Apple, an obvious logical fallacy and clear sign of bias.
Haven't been able to? This is the first time you've asked!
Well your response so far has been 'no it isn't'.
If you insist.Really, though, I don't see why I even need to bother. It's not like you mentioned 25 similarities between WD and the Apple TV.
If you looked at the 2 devices you'd see the similarities, the same radius on the rounded corners, the same glossy edge, the same textured top and bottom, the same embossed logo. It's almost exactly the same design, just a slightly different shape and size, just like the iPad Vs the Tab.
The details Samsung copied from Apple aren't vague, they were very specific about it... but we already know that because we actually read the article, right?
Absolutely, but it would be monumentally ignorant - or some Apple bias - to ignore the simple fact that the Apple TV takes all its design cues from the WD Elements. I'm not saying either is wrong or right, Samsung probably did copy Apple, but just that it would show clear bias - or ignorance - if one were to suggest Samsung copied Apple's iPad design for their Tab but that Apple didn't copy the WD Elements design in the case of the Apple TV. Just looking at them it's blindingly obvious.
I thought the obvious time you've put into such a detailed post at least deserved a reply to confirm that did read it, and yes it does reaffirm that we are indeed on the same page;)
How so? You haven't been able to explain how the comparisons differ, because of course the same design element comparisons apply in both cases.
Yes, if you look for the the word Samsung or look at a JPG that's head-on of the device it's easy to spot. When it's just sitting on the desk, seen at a typical angle, you would have trouble. There's a reason the list of complaints is as long as it is.
How can you miss it? It's right there on the front in capital letters, not to mention it's a different shape. If you did the same thing with a WD Elements and an Apple TV you get the same issue, there is a difference in shape and logo.
No, it looks very much like an iPad as in one can be confused for the other.
Like i said, it looks as much like an ipad as an Apple TV looks like a WD elements. You have to ignore the differences is shape, logos and buttons/connectors but it's the same comparisons.
If you don't believe that despite the fact that Samsung's lawyers couldn't distinguish between the two, then take it from a guy who has both.
Pretty sure they did didn't they? I certainly haven't had any trouble, i mean for one thing they are different size and shape, and one of them has a button on the front where the other has the word 'Samsung' emblazoned on it. If you look at it from the back it's even clearer.
Yes, that would be because the Tab looks very much like an iPad.
It looks as much like a iPad as an Apple TV looks like a WD Elements. Naturally in both cases the different devices have different sizes, shapes, logos and buttons/connectors.
I just surf to my collection of 720p DVD handbrake rips and play.
And that's another example of why you still need a computer, you can't create handbrake rips on your ipad.
My Infrant NAS shoots the video_TS data to my mac running VLC, the mac figures out how to play it and VLC streamer pulls the transcoded video from VLC.)
Well that involves having a Mac.
2. What do you have to sync with itunes to run VLC exactly? I don't know or understand exactly what you are meaning and am curious. Please explain if you have the time.
With apps in itunes you can add files to apps that support it, in the 'Apps' tab of your device, at the bottom there is a 'File Sharing' option which will show you all the apps that support adding files to them, you can then choose the app and select a bunch of files to add to it.
Firstly, how many movies does one need to take on a trip? And can't you stream something? There is so much media to stream using the iPad. Most of my handbrake movies only take a gig and if I want to carry a few movies with me I would load them strait on the iPad and not lug around an extra drive. But I digress....
I do a lot of international business trips, which means lots of hotels and flights and plenty of downtime. I take my macbook air instead of my ipad because i can just plug a USB drive with all my movies in, i don't have to pick and choose which ones i want before i leave, i can take them all.
Once again I don't have experience as far as movies and documents on USB. I would agree a person should be able to load a disk with movies and whatever else they might need. It is a pain that this can't be done without jailbreaking.
Fair enough.
It wasn't my point to say that there aren't limitations, but rather that I haven't really found much that for me personally is hard to navigate in my day to day use of the iPad. My personal use to this point has not been impinged upon much by the limitations of the iPad, and I suspect that most of the average users don't have much of a problem in their day to day use either.
A lot of people run into annoyances such as these, of course it's not that they can't be overcome, it's just that the limitations make an otherwise trivial task a real pain. But then again I gave my mum an ipad and for her uses it's fine, she uses the camera connection kit to get photos on there and aside from the net and reading she doesn't have that much use for a computer so an ipad suits her fine.
I also believe that all such limiting issues as you laid out so well, will eventually be non-issues in the near future and are mostly non-issues currently if you are willing to jailbreak.
Hopefully, because the ios5 untethered jailbreak took a few months to come out, which is annoying if you have to choose between new OS features and having the jailbreak.
For me and my experience so far, the iPad does work well for what I have needed it for. Once I bump into more issues I may become more perturbed, but I haven't yet.
Each to their own, it all depends on your uses i suppose.
6. Here are a couple things I found on deleting all of the camera roll photos. Yep you are definitely right to be annoyed.... they really need a "Delete All" option or an easy way to select large chunks of photos and videos for deletion.
It's a simple thing, something that would be a non-issue without the limitations placed on the device. You're right, it's a tedious task that can't be easily accomplished without a PC.
I suspect this problem will go away with successive generations and with more jailbroken apps that add the functionality folks desire. I was pleased to be able to stream my video_TS DVD's from my Infrant ReadyNAS.
Whether it's a PC or a NAS that has the capability to do the heavy lifting doesn't really matter, it's another device to do the transcoding. I use a netgear readynas and that supports transcoding.
I have to use VLC streamer, but it does work. It is only a matter of time before VLC runs natively on Jailbroken iOS devices and then I won't need VLC Streamer.
There was (is?) VLC on iOS devices, but you still had to sync through itunes.
iFile from Cydia App Store allows you to upload and download files... no need for itunes. I'm sure there are others apps for most everything you want to do.
Before you were saying you didn't need to hack anything, now you're talking about jailbreaking, which is a far cry from 'just works'.
I don't really spend much time plugging drives and such into my machines anymore. Almost everything I do is now over the network on Wireless-N devices. My photos and videos can be piped to my iPad using my EyeFi SD Card.
That's great until you're not at your home network, or any trusted network for that matter.
Yes you do, because that's only to sync photos and videos (of a narrow set of specific formats) with your ipad, if you don't have enough internal storage to copy them over then you're boned and it doesn't work for other kinds of data. If i have a bunch of HD movies on a usb drive - because they don't fit on the device - that i want to take with me to say watch on the plane or in the hotel or whatever i can't do that with an ipad. Or if someone has given me documents on a usb stick? Again no go.
Yes... the iPad in its current form has some limitations which is why certain people need to jailbreak.
Which is what the GGP meant about hacking.
I think you may find jailbreaking your machine useful and then perhaps you could do more of the kinds of things you want right now. But if you don't want to there are lots of current options and more arriving all the time to help with the kinds of things you are describing.
Well i still haven't found a way to delete all of the camera roll photos or filter and delete videos or open files directly from USB, pretty sure that last one isn't even doable with a jailbreak.
You might check around though for each of the issues you seem to be having, you may be surprised by what you find.
As far as I know the processor isn't the limiting factor with iPads. And it seems that the iPad 3 is going to be even more capable with a quad core GPU gaming becomes pretty viable for those who are interested in such things.
I would say the extra GPU power is required just to maintain the same level of performance. When you have 4x the amount of pixels you naturally look to 4x the power to drive them.
I dont need a PC to make the iPad work either. For most folks... aka my kids or my grandma, the iPad does enough of what they need to be all the heavy lifting they need. Your milage may vary, but I suspect you don't actually own one to compare anything with or have a use for one. To each his own.
Well i own one and the problem is that it is limited by content formats and size, i can't just plug in external storage and use it, i have to access non-local content through itunes running on another computer, and even then sometimes i need to run another media server to transcode content because the ipad can't play it.
Or if i have data on a USB stick, say a video i've been given or a bunch of photos or a document, how do i get that on the ipad? Not exactly easy, i need a PC to do it.
There's also a bunch of niggling annoyances that would be trivial to overcome if not for the locked-down nature of the device, for example deleting all photos in the camera roll, you either need to sync it to a PC and then deselect them and sync it back or delete them one-by-one...which is annoying when you have hundreds. Or how do you delete the videos you've taken? You can't filter the camera roll by video/photo so you have to scroll through the whole roll looking for the video icons.
Not saying it's a bad device but the locked-down appliance nature of it makes trivial things impossible or just far more of a PITA than they should be.
...Roku has an app store, but there's something to be said about mirroring - ipad now, and this summer, your desktop.. so in reality, you will be able to get amazon and hulu via apple tv, by mirrioring your mac on your TV.
What do you need apple tv for then? Just connect your device to your TV. Why mirror my mac on my tv through apple tv when i can just go directly to the tv?
Well he asked the question, 'what cause?' And what definition of a 'movement' do they fit?
To simply have a safe venue by which to vent anger and frustration without reprisal.
But there has been reprisal, in case you missed it there have been many arrests and even a case where one member turned into an FBI informer.
The members that make up "anonymous" are from all walks of life, country, religion, race, and culture. You name it.
Hang on, you were saying they were anonymous, now you profess to know they come from all walks of life, country, religion, race and culture. How can you possibly know that?
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Correct, changing it to 'approximately as much' has virtually no bearing on the fact that Apple had their designs copied by someone else and that they copied someone else's designs.
Continue in your failure to see the forest for the trees. No-one else who has read it has felt the need to take 'as much' quite as pedantically as you have, normal people would make the fair assumption that it could mean ' approximately as much' and that this has virtually no bearing on the statement whatsoever.
Now, if you can say: "The radius of the corners is identical on both, and two of its three dimensions are identical, and the material they used is identical", etc, you can make a pretty darned good case.
Case for what? Using the term 'as much'? Substitute 'approximately as much', not so hard is it pedant?
You're trying to pin this failure on me and it isn't working. "As much" requires an apples to apples comparison and you haven't provided that. This is not my failure.
Your failure to simply just directly object to the use of 'as much' most certainly is your failure. If you had've just said that in the first place i could have rectified it for the pedant with 'approximately as much' or 'similarly as much' given my experience.
I mean if you believed that both iPad and Tab look alike and that the AppleTV and the WD Elements look alike then this conversation would have no purpose other than you arguing over the definition of the term 'as much'.
You would say that it is true that a Tab looks very much like an iPad but that it is not true that an AppleTV looks very much like a WD Elements?
Nope.
So just to be clear you say this device and this device do not look alike but this device and this device look alike. Correct?
The GPL is a reaction to the madness of copyright in the software world
Well no it isn't, it's about the ability to view the source code so one can modify and change it, that's how it differs from BSD-style licenses. Even if you remove copyright someone can still make changes and distribute them only in binary form without giving you access to the source code, the focus of the GPL is on getting access to the source code.
Let's try this again, I'm clearly writing far too many words and you can't comprehend them, given your failed attempt at 'translation'. You would say that it is true that a Tab looks very much like an iPad but that it is not true that an AppleTV looks very much like a WD Elements?
Don't try to sell music, sell CDs and use the MP3s as advertising.
Who would buy CDs? Why spend money on a less convenient medium? Sales of CDs hasn't necessarily dropped because of piracy, it's that people use services like iTunes and Zune to buy music because it's way more convenient. If you don't have to pay for mp3s then that's even more of a reason not to buy CDs.
What I can or cannot see is not at issue. You made the claim, now support it. I'm not doing your homework for you.
It's supported by the obviousness of simply looking at it. You say:
Yes, that would be because the Tab looks very much like an iPad.
Yet for some reason you're going to these desperate and ridiculous lengths to suggest that my assertion that the 'AppleTV looks very much like the WD Elements' is not correct and that you need some detailed specifics on how they look alike because for some reason you are unable to see it just by simply looking at the 2 devices.
Are you that impaired that you needed someone to point out how the Tab and iPad look alike? Or did you figure that out yourself? If you figured it out for yourself then why are you having so much difficulty figuring out how the AppleTV and WD Elements look alike?
I realize you are really busy calling an Android Tablet owner an Apple Apologist and compiling a list of all those design elements Apple stole from WD, but you really should stop and look at what an Apple TV that predates the WD Elements by two years looks like.
I did look at the earlier ones, they look nothing like the current one, yet the current one looks very much like a WD Elements.
Original AppleTV, then came the WD Elements, then the next AppleTV.
But you said I've never seen one, so I'll still require detailed descriptons of Apple's specific ripoffs.
If you require detailed descriptions it means you can't see the similarities in the devices themselves, and if you claim you can't see them in the devices themselves you are being deliberately obtuse because no-one with the gift of sight could be that stupid.
Are you saying you cannot see the obvious design elements that have been copied? You really cannot see them and need them explained to you?
So.... you're saying Apple copied WD but really cannot list how. Bummer, I wanted to hear about this.
errr...look at the devices? Pretty obvious, wouldn't think anyone need the differences listed. But of course I did list them, but here they are again:
The same radius on the rounded corners, the same glossy edge, the same textured top and bottom, the embossed logo, the same color.
Apple's complaint was that Samsung duplicated 25 details of the iPad. If you wish to claim that Apple did exactly the same, you have to produce a similar list. So let's see it!
The design, fool. Here's what you wrote and what i responded to:
Yes, that would be because the Tab looks very much like an iPad.
And the AppleTV looks very much like a WD Elements. Samsung copied Apple and Apple copied WD...yet in the mind of an apologist the latter could not possibly be true.
You said it's the same as the tablet case. So get to listin'!
Not identical, like saying the ipad and tab look the same, it's not implying they look identical. You would say that the AppleTV design is not copied from the WD Elements?
Great! Let's see the 25+ details Apple obviously copied, WD has a case! Can't wait to hear about this.
Why do there have to be 25+? Is that some magic legal number? I think not. But the clear and obvious fact is that Apple copied the AppleTV design from WD so it's pretty damn hypocritical to launch into lawsuits when someone copies their designs. But their are people who actually would suggest that it's ok for Apple to copy designs from others but not ok for others to copy designs from Apple, an obvious logical fallacy and clear sign of bias.
Haven't been able to? This is the first time you've asked!
Well your response so far has been 'no it isn't'.
If you insist.Really, though, I don't see why I even need to bother. It's not like you mentioned 25 similarities between WD and the Apple TV.
If you looked at the 2 devices you'd see the similarities, the same radius on the rounded corners, the same glossy edge, the same textured top and bottom, the same embossed logo. It's almost exactly the same design, just a slightly different shape and size, just like the iPad Vs the Tab.
The details Samsung copied from Apple aren't vague, they were very specific about it... but we already know that because we actually read the article, right?
Absolutely, but it would be monumentally ignorant - or some Apple bias - to ignore the simple fact that the Apple TV takes all its design cues from the WD Elements. I'm not saying either is wrong or right, Samsung probably did copy Apple, but just that it would show clear bias - or ignorance - if one were to suggest Samsung copied Apple's iPad design for their Tab but that Apple didn't copy the WD Elements design in the case of the Apple TV. Just looking at them it's blindingly obvious.
I thought the obvious time you've put into such a detailed post at least deserved a reply to confirm that did read it, and yes it does reaffirm that we are indeed on the same page ;)
I don't care either, because I'm just going to pirate if I they keep doing this sort of thing.
What sort of thing?
And like I said, no, it's not.
How so? You haven't been able to explain how the comparisons differ, because of course the same design element comparisons apply in both cases.
Yes, if you look for the the word Samsung or look at a JPG that's head-on of the device it's easy to spot. When it's just sitting on the desk, seen at a typical angle, you would have trouble. There's a reason the list of complaints is as long as it is.
How can you miss it? It's right there on the front in capital letters, not to mention it's a different shape. If you did the same thing with a WD Elements and an Apple TV you get the same issue, there is a difference in shape and logo.
No, it looks very much like an iPad as in one can be confused for the other.
Like i said, it looks as much like an ipad as an Apple TV looks like a WD elements. You have to ignore the differences is shape, logos and buttons/connectors but it's the same comparisons.
If you don't believe that despite the fact that Samsung's lawyers couldn't distinguish between the two, then take it from a guy who has both.
Pretty sure they did didn't they? I certainly haven't had any trouble, i mean for one thing they are different size and shape, and one of them has a button on the front where the other has the word 'Samsung' emblazoned on it. If you look at it from the back it's even clearer.
Yes, that would be because the Tab looks very much like an iPad.
It looks as much like a iPad as an Apple TV looks like a WD Elements. Naturally in both cases the different devices have different sizes, shapes, logos and buttons/connectors.
I just surf to my collection of 720p DVD handbrake rips and play.
And that's another example of why you still need a computer, you can't create handbrake rips on your ipad.
My Infrant NAS shoots the video_TS data to my mac running VLC, the mac figures out how to play it and VLC streamer pulls the transcoded video from VLC.)
Well that involves having a Mac.
2. What do you have to sync with itunes to run VLC exactly? I don't know or understand exactly what you are meaning and am curious. Please explain if you have the time.
With apps in itunes you can add files to apps that support it, in the 'Apps' tab of your device, at the bottom there is a 'File Sharing' option which will show you all the apps that support adding files to them, you can then choose the app and select a bunch of files to add to it.
Firstly, how many movies does one need to take on a trip? And can't you stream something? There is so much media to stream using the iPad. Most of my handbrake movies only take a gig and if I want to carry a few movies with me I would load them strait on the iPad and not lug around an extra drive. But I digress....
I do a lot of international business trips, which means lots of hotels and flights and plenty of downtime. I take my macbook air instead of my ipad because i can just plug a USB drive with all my movies in, i don't have to pick and choose which ones i want before i leave, i can take them all.
Once again I don't have experience as far as movies and documents on USB. I would agree a person should be able to load a disk with movies and whatever else they might need. It is a pain that this can't be done without jailbreaking.
Fair enough.
It wasn't my point to say that there aren't limitations, but rather that I haven't really found much that for me personally is hard to navigate in my day to day use of the iPad. My personal use to this point has not been impinged upon much by the limitations of the iPad, and I suspect that most of the average users don't have much of a problem in their day to day use either.
A lot of people run into annoyances such as these, of course it's not that they can't be overcome, it's just that the limitations make an otherwise trivial task a real pain. But then again I gave my mum an ipad and for her uses it's fine, she uses the camera connection kit to get photos on there and aside from the net and reading she doesn't have that much use for a computer so an ipad suits her fine.
I also believe that all such limiting issues as you laid out so well, will eventually be non-issues in the near future and are mostly non-issues currently if you are willing to jailbreak.
Hopefully, because the ios5 untethered jailbreak took a few months to come out, which is annoying if you have to choose between new OS features and having the jailbreak.
For me and my experience so far, the iPad does work well for what I have needed it for. Once I bump into more issues I may become more perturbed, but I haven't yet.
Each to their own, it all depends on your uses i suppose.
6. Here are a couple things I found on deleting all of the camera roll photos. Yep you are definitely right to be annoyed.... they really need a "Delete All" option or an easy way to select large chunks of photos and videos for deletion.
It's a simple thing, something that would be a non-issue without the limitations placed on the device. You're right, it's a tedious task that can't be easily accomplished without a PC.
7. Here is a way to delete videos (video app) without iTunes: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2393960?start=0&tstart=0
Sorry i probably wasn't very clear
I suspect this problem will go away with successive generations and with more jailbroken apps that add the functionality folks desire. I was pleased to be able to stream my video_TS DVD's from my Infrant ReadyNAS.
Whether it's a PC or a NAS that has the capability to do the heavy lifting doesn't really matter, it's another device to do the transcoding. I use a netgear readynas and that supports transcoding.
I have to use VLC streamer, but it does work. It is only a matter of time before VLC runs natively on Jailbroken iOS devices and then I won't need VLC Streamer.
There was (is?) VLC on iOS devices, but you still had to sync through itunes.
iFile from Cydia App Store allows you to upload and download files... no need for itunes. I'm sure there are others apps for most everything you want to do.
Before you were saying you didn't need to hack anything, now you're talking about jailbreaking, which is a far cry from 'just works'.
I don't really spend much time plugging drives and such into my machines anymore. Almost everything I do is now over the network on Wireless-N devices. My photos and videos can be piped to my iPad using my EyeFi SD Card.
That's great until you're not at your home network, or any trusted network for that matter.
You don't need a PC if you have the camera connection kit for $29 bucks. USB adapter and SD card adapter. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC531ZM/A
Yes you do, because that's only to sync photos and videos (of a narrow set of specific formats) with your ipad, if you don't have enough internal storage to copy them over then you're boned and it doesn't work for other kinds of data. If i have a bunch of HD movies on a usb drive - because they don't fit on the device - that i want to take with me to say watch on the plane or in the hotel or whatever i can't do that with an ipad. Or if someone has given me documents on a usb stick? Again no go.
Yes... the iPad in its current form has some limitations which is why certain people need to jailbreak.
Which is what the GGP meant about hacking.
I think you may find jailbreaking your machine useful and then perhaps you could do more of the kinds of things you want right now. But if you don't want to there are lots of current options and more arriving all the time to help with the kinds of things you are describing.
Well i still haven't found a way to delete all of the camera roll photos or filter and delete videos or open files directly from USB, pretty sure that last one isn't even doable with a jailbreak.
You might check around though for each of the issues you seem to be having, you may be surprised by what you find.
That's what i've done, no-go.
As far as I know the processor isn't the limiting factor with iPads. And it seems that the iPad 3 is going to be even more capable with a quad core GPU gaming becomes pretty viable for those who are interested in such things.
I would say the extra GPU power is required just to maintain the same level of performance. When you have 4x the amount of pixels you naturally look to 4x the power to drive them.
I dont need a PC to make the iPad work either. For most folks... aka my kids or my grandma, the iPad does enough of what they need to be all the heavy lifting they need. Your milage may vary, but I suspect you don't actually own one to compare anything with or have a use for one. To each his own.
Well i own one and the problem is that it is limited by content formats and size, i can't just plug in external storage and use it, i have to access non-local content through itunes running on another computer, and even then sometimes i need to run another media server to transcode content because the ipad can't play it.
Or if i have data on a USB stick, say a video i've been given or a bunch of photos or a document, how do i get that on the ipad? Not exactly easy, i need a PC to do it.
There's also a bunch of niggling annoyances that would be trivial to overcome if not for the locked-down nature of the device, for example deleting all photos in the camera roll, you either need to sync it to a PC and then deselect them and sync it back or delete them one-by-one...which is annoying when you have hundreds. Or how do you delete the videos you've taken? You can't filter the camera roll by video/photo so you have to scroll through the whole roll looking for the video icons.
Not saying it's a bad device but the locked-down appliance nature of it makes trivial things impossible or just far more of a PITA than they should be.
...Roku has an app store, but there's something to be said about mirroring - ipad now, and this summer, your desktop.. so in reality, you will be able to get amazon and hulu via apple tv, by mirrioring your mac on your TV.
What do you need apple tv for then? Just connect your device to your TV. Why mirror my mac on my tv through apple tv when i can just go directly to the tv?
There is a cause and there is a movement.
Well he asked the question, 'what cause?'
And what definition of a 'movement' do they fit?
To simply have a safe venue by which to vent anger and frustration without reprisal.
But there has been reprisal, in case you missed it there have been many arrests and even a case where one member turned into an FBI informer.
The members that make up "anonymous" are from all walks of life, country, religion, race, and culture. You name it.
Hang on, you were saying they were anonymous, now you profess to know they come from all walks of life, country, religion, race and culture. How can you possibly know that?