Phil Cook v2 wrote:
> into just the one dongle; and secondly it doesn't tell you if the USB 
> slot is powered (judging by the questions and answers on the page the 
> answer is no it's not). Ah Apple so sleek and well designed ;-)

It's not powered, and it *only* talks to something serving pictures. Want 
music on your iPad? Don't consider putting it on an SD chip and importing 
it. For that matter, don't consider writing anything to the SD chip either.

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    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> no way to put music on it without buying it
> 
>   Btw, what do you base this on? 

All my complaints were predicated on "without a real computer to connect it 
to."  You can't import music into the itunes library on the iPad, from what 
I can tell. You would have to import it into iTunes on a laptop then sync it 
to your iPad.

I would also suspect without evidence that music you bought on the iPad 
iTunes client wouldn't sync to any other device, for that matter.

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> All my complaints were predicated on "without a real computer to connect it 
> to."  You can't import music into the itunes library on the iPad, from what 
> I can tell. You would have to import it into iTunes on a laptop then sync it 
> to your iPad.

  You seem to be pretty fixated with this "you need a computer to transfer
any personal data from/to the iPad". Yeah, you do. So what? The iPad is not
a laptop, as has been repeated many times.

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Warp wrote:
>   You seem to be pretty fixated with this "you need a computer to transfer
> any personal data from/to the iPad". Yeah, you do. So what? 

My original post was along the lines of "My Dad's computer is broken. I was 
thinking of buying him an iPad to replace it. That won't work, because he'll 
still need a real computer."

Why are you giving me crap for making this observation?

I say "Without a computer, you can't do X."  You quote the second half of 
the sentence and answer "Well, of course you can, with a computer. Why are 
you so down on the iPad?"

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Warp wrote:
>   So it's a multimedia platform.

It's a digital consumption machine.

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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> >   Nothing stops anyone from making a word processor or spread sheet for
>> >   the
>> > iPad either. In fact, Apple is encouraging people to do so.
> 
>> Yeah, great, until you want to print your document out. :-)
> 
>   Actually since iPhone programs can make http requests, one could devise
> a system where you send the document to your PC via http, and have the PC
> print it out... Contrived, but entirely possible.

The Internet Printing Protocol is based on HTTP, and there are printers that 
support it directly (but more likely you'd be talking to CUPS or something 
like that)...

And iPhone programs can make arbitrary TCP/IP connections anyway.

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On 20/05/2010 7:12 PM, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>>    So it's a multimedia platform.
>
> It's a digital consumption machine.

It's a $$$ consumption machine. ;-)

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On Thu, 20 May 2010 21:32:56 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 20/05/2010 7:12 PM, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>>    So it's a multimedia platform.
>>
>> It's a digital consumption machine.
> 
> It's a $$$ consumption machine. ;-)

Best answer so far. ;-)

Jim

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On 20/05/2010 10:40 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2010 21:32:56 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>
>> On 20/05/2010 7:12 PM, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>> Warp wrote:
>>>>     So it's a multimedia platform.
>>>
>>> It's a digital consumption machine.
>>
>> It's a $$$ consumption machine. ;-)
>
> Best answer so far. ;-)
>

Cynical, moi? :-D

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	Stephen

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On Fri, 21 May 2010 06:18:46 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 20/05/2010 10:40 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 May 2010 21:32:56 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> On 20/05/2010 7:12 PM, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>>> Warp wrote:
>>>>>     So it's a multimedia platform.
>>>>
>>>> It's a digital consumption machine.
>>>
>>> It's a $$$ consumption machine. ;-)
>>
>> Best answer so far. ;-)
>>
>>
> Cynical, moi? :-D

LOL

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