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iChat at 35,000 ft
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I wonder how much he had to pay the airline per minute for that wireless internet connection...
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Lame ad.
It might have been more interesting if it wasn't an Apple employee just doing it for the hell of it.
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Originally posted by Turias:
I wonder how much he had to pay the airline per minute for that wireless internet connection...
$30 for the full flight, or$10 for 30 minutes.
$30 Not bad for a transatlantic flight.
I bet it was damn laggy.
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I would have played Everquest
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"HEY, LOOK! I'm.......not in first class "
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Does this mean we may soon have the first ever live broadcast of the mile high club???
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Oops!
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Originally posted by whiteboy:
Does this mean we may soon have the first ever live broadcast of the mile high club???
One can only hope
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It's actually kinda hard to believe that nobody's ever tried that yet.... hasn't broadband on airplanes been available for some time now?
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OS X: Where software installation doesn't require wizards with shields.
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The plane isn't a Boeing 777 (from the Apple Insider thread) but most likely an Airbus A340-600. I looked up flights from Munich to San Fran and the Airbus is the plane used on this route.
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That looks hella cool. Wish Continental had that.
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What airlines are offering WiFi BB on their flight now then??
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Soon we'll be out, amid the cold worlds strife,
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life
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whats so amazing? the fact that the planes have wifi? everything else is pretty standard really.
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Its useful if you haveto travel from the states to europe for example. a trans-atlantic light goes much quicker if you can own people on HALO for a few hours whilst ure traveling!!
11 hour flight are hell if you have nothing to do but if you have access to the net then you can waste a few more. I regularly waste huge amounts of time on the net.
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Originally posted by dodo_nutter:
Its useful if you haveto travel from the states to europe for example. a trans-atlantic light goes much quicker if you can own people on HALO for a few hours whilst ure traveling!!
11 hour flight are hell if you have nothing to do but if you have access to the net then you can waste a few more. I regularly waste huge amounts of time on the net.
i know that part, but i dont see how its such a leap in technology to put 802.11x on a plane. just seemed inevitable. and the video conferencing part- apple has already made that seamless. just seems like more of a lufthansa ad than anything.
*shrugs*
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Well you no apple....'we did this before anyone else'
Not the biggest leap in technology (im sure some1 will now shout at me for saying that it is damn hard getting WiFi to work in plane but...) all you have to do is stick a base station or 4 in a plane. Would have thought the hardest part was linking the plane to a server on the ground what with atmosphere disturbances etc but i suppose you are flying above most of that.
Its just a really good demonstration of a really great product (iChat)
It is damn cool though. (10 years ago...internet/video conferencing on planes?? would you believe it)
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Originally posted by dodo_nutter:
Its useful if you haveto travel from the states to europe for example. a trans-atlantic light goes much quicker if you can own people on HALO for a few hours whilst ure traveling!!
11 hour flight are hell if you have nothing to do but if you have access to the net then you can waste a few more. I regularly waste huge amounts of time on the net.
How many frames does Halo get on a PowerBook? 3? 4?
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