iPad charging on a Mac depends upon the age of the Mac. More recent Macs have USB ports capable of delivering the amount of power the iPad demands, older ones do not.
Wesley: Feng Shui. Gunn: Right. What's that mean again? Wesley: That people will believe anything. Actually, in this place, Feng Shui will probably have enormous significance. I'll align my furniture the wrong way and suddenly catch fire or turn into a pudding.
'Conviction (1)'
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NoiseDesign - Aug 22, 2011 11:01:45 am PDT #17610 of 25505
Our wings are not tired
Jessica - Aug 22, 2011 4:04:55 pm PDT #17611 of 25505
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Speaking of aging Macs, I think my laptop may be dying. The screen looks like it has gaslights along the bottom of it and the number 5 on the keyboard has gone all wonky.
(I suppose I could always have the screen repaired, if it came to that. This machine is not that old!)
Sophia Brooks - Aug 23, 2011 4:01:05 am PDT #17612 of 25505
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Is there any way to make excel display freactions instead of decimals?
I am doing a patternmaking spreadsheet for my students where it calculates how long to make certain lines. It works perfectly in the metric system (but I have no metric rulers, however of course I just get freaky decimals that you have to convert in your had. Usually we try to be accurate to a 16th of an inch, so rounding doesn't help too much (unless I can get it to somehow round to 16ths and have a conversion table, rather than have it round to all sorts of odd measurements you do not find on rulers)
Tom Scola - Aug 23, 2011 4:02:44 am PDT #17613 of 25505
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 23, 2011 4:17:05 am PDT #17614 of 25505
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
This is wonderful!!!!
Tom Scola - Aug 23, 2011 8:35:51 am PDT #17615 of 25505
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Jon B. - Aug 23, 2011 8:37:51 am PDT #17616 of 25505
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
That is hilarious and awesome.
§ ita § - Aug 23, 2011 8:38:44 am PDT #17617 of 25505
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They seriously did that? That's so cool.
Jessica - Aug 23, 2011 9:03:42 am PDT #17618 of 25505
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh, awesome. I hope they win.
§ ita § - Aug 23, 2011 10:28:02 am PDT #17619 of 25505
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love this sequence of product codenames:
Earlier this year, Nvidia (NVDA) shared its Tegra roadmap, indicating that its quad-core chips will be also be shipping in smartphones as early as the first part of 2012. Nicknamed "Kal-El," this system-on-a-chip is said to be five times faster than the Tegra 2 processor, which is used in many current top-of-the-line smartphones and tablets. Next in line is the "Wayne" series (yes, Nvidia has a superhero thing going on with its chips), which the company says will be 10 times faster than the Tegra 2, followed by the "Logan" (50 times faster!) and finally the "Stark" (75 times faster!).
Though, really, I'd have put Logan at the bottom of the pack. Or the top.