my diamond shoes, they are a-pinching

[mimesere]

Due to a lot of very good luck, I get to buy a new toy! and I have settled on the ipad*. So, NATURALLY, this means that I get to go through the bluray collection and try to find the ones that have digital copies that I can download and then pop on that bad boy. So far:

STAR TREK! YAY! SHERLOCK HOLMES! YAY! UP! YAY! etc etc etc.

But no love from Iron Man. That was also one in which we were saddened by the lack of commentary. :(

I also managed to duplicate about 80% of my comfort books in some kind of digital format**. Plus I tore through Project Gutenberg to find books like the Oz series which I've wanted forever and the Austen novels and some other stuff.

I'm very excited. The boything got a new computer (for SC2 and D3 when they come out) and I get my shiny. Now I just need to find some way to skin the thing to look like a PADD and I'll be all set. Though failing that, I may just stencil DON'T PANIC on the cover and be done with it.

*I know all the arguments as to why I shouldn't get one, but when it comes right down to it, I don't mind the closed Apple ecosystem, I don't mind not being able to tinker with parts, and I do want to support a company that I think is one of the best there is at coming up with form factors that are elegant, simple to use, polished, and which don't break on me constantly. And I know that I should wait for gen2, but gen1 does what I currently would like for the form factor to do and fills a niche that I have been wanting to fill since the Kindle and Sony Reader were launched but which do more than unitask.

**I'm all for paying for things to support their producers. However, I draw the line at having to pay for an extra copy of something I have already paid for. Also, if I can't find something to buy it, OH WELL.

Comments

[dafnap.livejournal.com]

I think I have a recording of the live commentary they did for Iron Man awhile back, somewhere, lemme dig it up...

(so, so jealous of the iPad, homg. I think you automatically become an ensign in Starfleet upon purchase, right? It's in the fine print somewhere...)

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

eeee yay commentary!

And I am very excited about the ipad. I just want it to get here already. Stupid delayed shipping.

[slashkilter.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9NP-AeKX40&feature=player_embedded

Just saw that on the flist, it is a good argument for the iPad. I'm not sure about the lack of flash-player - so many homepages use them and they always annoy me anyway, so it would've been nice to not have to wrestle with that. The Boy mostly complains about the lack of a proper ("grown-up") operating system, but tbh I think he'll have to live with getting used to a mobile OS.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I'm not so worried about the lack of flash player, because mostly I use flash for youtube (already has an app), hulu (I believe they're working on it, though it remains to be seen if they go to a subscription model), and Netflix (which is technically silverlight, but which ALSO has a streaming app). So there's that.

And I think using a mobile OS vs a full OS is...inspired, given the history of the tablet form factor. Time will tell, I guess. But I'm very excited :)

[slashkilter.livejournal.com]

He's a programmer type and doesn't like that you cannot write programms for the platform directly as with a regular OS. You'd have to write an app and get that approved via apple before being able to work with it - though I'm actually not sure whether that's true or whether there's a workaround. We haven't really done enough research on it yet.