Ever see Wing Commander? There's a bit where two space ships are hunting for each other, sort of like a submarine movie. The guys on one ship are talking in hushed tones as if the other guy's going to pick them up on their sonar or something.
I have watched a LOT of scifi over my life time and only once have I ever actually seen sound depicted in space. (Bonus points if anybody knows who the big offender was.)
Bingo. Apple's wireless keyboard does the trick just fine. I have a dock for my iPad and one of these keyboards. I have it listening for email for me. Sometimes the desktop is busy, too busy even for an email response. I just turn to the iPad and respond. When I go home, the iPad comes come, the keyboard does not. On a side note, my laptop hasn't joined me at the office in quite a while.
I do think, though, that there's more attention being paid here to the creation of documents and not enough on the display of them instead. What's nice about a tablet is that it travels very lightly to meetings. It's great for little notes and small edits, and that's why Office on it would be useful.
I'm not a fan of trying to force the iPad or any other tablet to be something it's not good at. Their strength is they are lightweight and quick to resume. Believe it or not, a TabletPC does not actually improve on a plain old laptop very much..
Then buy a bluetooth keyboard for when you have to do hardcore typing.
Or just do what everybody in the real world does and create the doc on a desktop, send it to the iPad for viewing. The primary purpose of ANY document is to be read, not to be written into.
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Did you know that the word 'obligatory' came from the Greek God Obligatius who, on occasion, would entertain Zeus with stand-up philosophy? One night he told an off-color joke about Rhea, it made all the gods laugh except for one. Zeus was so angry he punished Obligatius by making him tell the same joke over and over again until he can find somebody who'll laugh at it. To this day, he still wanders the earth saying "640k should be enough for everybody!"
The problem is that it solves the antenna issue, but causes the phone to be the wrong size for every docking connector made for the phone, including all "compatible" and official Apple accessories when installed.
This is NOT true. I've had an Apple supplied bumper from day one and have NEVER taken it off.
No on is arguing that other companies don't use said "worse sweatshops".
Actually, yes they pretty much are.
But your complete denail that anything is wrong with the way your favorite phone company is doing business is at best self decieving and at worst contemptable
I didn't deny anything about the treatment of the Foxconn employees. The point is that you guys don't give a shit about the workers. You want to have something to bitch at Apple fanboys about. Want proof?
If we ignore it and say it's OK...
Fascinating. So what started this thread? A list of other companies who are also using Foxconn. Now why would this list be interesting? So you can rake those companies over the coals, too. Who said 'let Apple get a free pass on this''? Nobody.
It is very telling that you think it's either about roasting Apple or just being silent about it. Which... in turn leads to giving a green flag to any other businesses who use psuedo-slave labor to produce their product.
..and you don't have a better haircut than me.
That's okay, I didn't say I love my phone. Though you just told me you hate mine.
And let's reverse the situation, how are you helping them by not doing anything ?
Just to be clear, I'm not suggesting doing nothing. I'm saying a boycott is counter-productive. Just getting public attention talking about it is causing Apple to react. The only problem I see now is.. it's just Apple reacting.
Now I have a question for you, are you willing to buy an Apple iProduct after all of this ?/quote?
YES. The real question is if I'll buy a product from anybody else. The reason for this is they're moving ahead and starting to get changes done there. If they announced raises at the Foxconn plant for their assembly work and their profits went up as a result, guess what'd happen!
APPLE is under scrutiny, not Foxconn. Everybody else is staying mum about it. Where's Microsoft coming out and saying "oh yeah, we're doing this too!" Mmm?
Believe the one with the issues. Seems to me that even the best factory in the world would have problems during the crunch mode just before a major product launch.
Oh, please. They get singled out because some guy with a better haircut than you said he loves his phone.
Deny it if you like but this 'they have the highest margins' rationale only came up recently, curiously around the time it came out that the workers working on iProducts are treated better.
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Now, how do you think they recorded those sounds in outer space if there was no sound?
It's funny that you think Luke Skywalker can hear John Williams' musical score.
summary: aliens show up, detect no FTL drives on earth, conclude we'll be an easy target...
An easier target would be a planet that has no civilized life on it at all.
I've seen sound depicted in Star Trek and Star Wars, not to mention hundreds of other shows and movies.
Can you show me a Star Wars clip of a character reacting to a sound from space?
Am I missing some major potential social or environmental benefit to doing this?
You mean besides knowing yet another way we can undo some of the damage we've caused to this planet?
What do you do with movies if you don't go see them?
Ever see Wing Commander? There's a bit where two space ships are hunting for each other, sort of like a submarine movie. The guys on one ship are talking in hushed tones as if the other guy's going to pick them up on their sonar or something.
Nope.
I have watched a LOT of scifi over my life time and only once have I ever actually seen sound depicted in space. (Bonus points if anybody knows who the big offender was.)
Why did you only read half of my post?
Um, yeah, rdr^2.
No -- because we'd have to wait over two years for iPad 5 until the hardware was fast enough to run Messysoft bloatware.
Hey man, you accidentally clicked on the Slashdot tab. Youtube is one tab over.
because viewing PDFs... Constitutes "real work" now, it seems.
Why do people assume that documents are write-only?
I can't imagine you'd want to be doing a lot of text input on it, would you?
No but you could do a lot of text reading. My tablet has gone with me to several meetings just because it can view PDFs.
Leave the keyboard at the 'office'..
Bingo. Apple's wireless keyboard does the trick just fine. I have a dock for my iPad and one of these keyboards. I have it listening for email for me. Sometimes the desktop is busy, too busy even for an email response. I just turn to the iPad and respond. When I go home, the iPad comes come, the keyboard does not. On a side note, my laptop hasn't joined me at the office in quite a while.
I do think, though, that there's more attention being paid here to the creation of documents and not enough on the display of them instead. What's nice about a tablet is that it travels very lightly to meetings. It's great for little notes and small edits, and that's why Office on it would be useful.
I'm not a fan of trying to force the iPad or any other tablet to be something it's not good at. Their strength is they are lightweight and quick to resume. Believe it or not, a TabletPC does not actually improve on a plain old laptop very much..
Then buy a bluetooth keyboard for when you have to do hardcore typing.
Or just do what everybody in the real world does and create the doc on a desktop, send it to the iPad for viewing. The primary purpose of ANY document is to be read, not to be written into.
Did you know that the word 'obligatory' came from the Greek God Obligatius who, on occasion, would entertain Zeus with stand-up philosophy? One night he told an off-color joke about Rhea, it made all the gods laugh except for one. Zeus was so angry he punished Obligatius by making him tell the same joke over and over again until he can find somebody who'll laugh at it. To this day, he still wanders the earth saying "640k should be enough for everybody!"
When did noticing legal standard business practices suddenly become the realm of conspiracy theory?
When proof is requested and the response is a speech about how you shouldn't believe it isn't true.
He broke in through the window, now my house needs $xxx for a security system which protects windows as well, and its all his fault
Is your house a mansion with lots of valuables lots of people are dying to steal from you?
Apple denied the problem at first, so they wanted it to sound like a big scandal for eyeballs.
The problem is that it solves the antenna issue, but causes the phone to be the wrong size for every docking connector made for the phone, including all "compatible" and official Apple accessories when installed.
This is NOT true. I've had an Apple supplied bumper from day one and have NEVER taken it off.
No on is arguing that other companies don't use said "worse sweatshops".
Actually, yes they pretty much are.
But your complete denail that anything is wrong with the way your favorite phone company is doing business is at best self decieving and at worst contemptable
I didn't deny anything about the treatment of the Foxconn employees. The point is that you guys don't give a shit about the workers. You want to have something to bitch at Apple fanboys about. Want proof?
If we ignore it and say it's OK ...
Fascinating. So what started this thread? A list of other companies who are also using Foxconn. Now why would this list be interesting? So you can rake those companies over the coals, too. Who said 'let Apple get a free pass on this''? Nobody.
It is very telling that you think it's either about roasting Apple or just being silent about it. Which... in turn leads to giving a green flag to any other businesses who use psuedo-slave labor to produce their product.
..and you don't have a better haircut than me.
That's okay, I didn't say I love my phone. Though you just told me you hate mine.
And let's reverse the situation, how are you helping them by not doing anything ?
Just to be clear, I'm not suggesting doing nothing. I'm saying a boycott is counter-productive. Just getting public attention talking about it is causing Apple to react. The only problem I see now is.. it's just Apple reacting.
Now I have a question for you, are you willing to buy an Apple iProduct after all of this ?/quote?
YES. The real question is if I'll buy a product from anybody else. The reason for this is they're moving ahead and starting to get changes done there. If they announced raises at the Foxconn plant for their assembly work and their profits went up as a result, guess what'd happen!
APPLE is under scrutiny, not Foxconn. Everybody else is staying mum about it. Where's Microsoft coming out and saying "oh yeah, we're doing this too!" Mmm?
Believe the one with the issues. Seems to me that even the best factory in the world would have problems during the crunch mode just before a major product launch.
Oh, please. They get singled out because some guy with a better haircut than you said he loves his phone.
Deny it if you like but this 'they have the highest margins' rationale only came up recently, curiously around the time it came out that the workers working on iProducts are treated better.