A portable DVD player will have a battery life of atleast 2.5 hours which is plenty long enough to watch an entire movie. A laptop that is playing a movie WILL NOT get more than an hour of play time. Buying a second battery will help but will cost $100 - $200 for most laptops which is a significant portion of the cost of the portable DVD player. One suggestion I have is check to see if the airports you are flying into and out of have Rental companies that will rent DVD players, extra batteries and DVD movies for a very reasonable price, about $15 one way or $30 round trip with one or two movies. Even if you still buy yours, this is a cheap way to try out different models.
They have Eyeglasses with a camera in them like Mission Impossible (the good first movie, not the sucky second one). I would like Eyeglasses with a cellphone in them. Convienient, Hands Free, Earpiece stays where it is supposed to, and with these you could even surf the net. Since I wear glasses anyway, it would be ideal.
At least for right now, the glasses can be just a "head unit" for your phone which would remain a belt unit and interface either physically or wirelessly.
It would be the answer to most of the issues raised here:
- Web access, certainly, no problem.
- Anyone can reach you anytime, take your glasses off.
- Too close to head, non-issue if the actual phone was on a belt pack
- Two Phones, keep using two phones.
- one conventional, one glasses
- two different pairs of glasses
- One pair of glasses, two belt units, maybe one pair of glasses with two i/o ports
- Change Carriers, no problem, change glasses or belt units
- Lunch, no problem (but please hit mute)
- Crazy people on the street - Assume they are all crazy. You will be more right than wrong.
With this technology and the ability to cover an area of ~12 miles radius with each one of these, it seems that some company could quickly build a huge coverage area by putting these up on Cellular phone towers. Since most cells are smaller than a 12 mile radius, they would not even have to put it on every tower. Most people can use their cellular phones in their house, their office, the restraunt they eat lunch/dinner, etc; this makes it ideal and at 75+ Ghz your antennae would be very small since the element only needs to be about 4 millimeters in length you could make the entire antennae about the size of a fountain pen. You could travel with this and have a meter (software) to run while you swing the antennae about until you find signal and, voila, you have interenet connectivity. You won't be able to wander around or drive, but this seems like a minimal price to pay for high speed connectivity.
Hmm, could you build a tracking antennae mount that would fit in a hat;-)
Be sure to budget into the project your required trips off-shore to manage these people. At least once a month is a minimum, every two weeks is more like it. Plan on staying a week at a time. Hmm, 6 months = 26 weeks = 13 round trips... may be cheaper to just keep it here in the US.
I definetly agree! Writing code with a pen would not work at all. A large portion of my coding is copy-paste work, at the very least to be sure my variables are spelled correctly:-). Many times you want to repeat the same code group with only slight changes, if it is a large enough grouping, I create a function, but otherwise, it is copy-paste all the way.
Lemonade Stand was pretty cool, but how about IBC, no not the rootbeer, the game! International Bridge Contractors. Anyone know if this is on the web anywhere or what?
Andy
Vanderbilt University setup a site like this
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MIT's Bathroom Server
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Vanderbilt University put up a bathroom monitor page that turned out to be a page to monitor the number of people that would investigate such a page back in the mid '90s.
This is a grievous error! Advanced Perl Programming delves into the workings of Perl itself and is a must read for true users of Perl. The book starts off with references to data, complex data structures, and gets more technical as you go along. The lack of the Learning Perl and Learning Perl on Win32 books is not a down turn as they are seldom used for reference, but for learning. Once you have learned enough to proceed on your own, these books are a must have set. I have been anxiously awaiting this new addition to my kit.
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A portable DVD player will have a battery life of atleast 2.5 hours which is plenty long enough to watch an entire movie. A laptop that is playing a movie WILL NOT get more than an hour of play time. Buying a second battery will help but will cost $100 - $200 for most laptops which is a significant portion of the cost of the portable DVD player.
One suggestion I have is check to see if the airports you are flying into and out of have Rental companies that will rent DVD players, extra batteries and DVD movies for a very reasonable price, about $15 one way or $30 round trip with one or two movies. Even if you still buy yours, this is a cheap way to try out different models.
I just give them the following info:
George W. Bush Jr. (or Current US President)
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
202-456-1414
They have Eyeglasses with a camera in them like Mission Impossible (the good first movie, not the sucky second one). I would like Eyeglasses with a cellphone in them. Convienient, Hands Free, Earpiece stays where it is supposed to, and with these you could even surf the net. Since I wear glasses anyway, it would be ideal.
At least for right now, the glasses can be just a "head unit" for your phone which would remain a belt unit and interface either physically or wirelessly.
It would be the answer to most of the issues raised here:
- Web access, certainly, no problem.
- Anyone can reach you anytime, take your glasses off.
- Too close to head, non-issue if the actual phone was on a belt pack
- Two Phones, keep using two phones.
- one conventional, one glasses
- two different pairs of glasses
- One pair of glasses, two belt units, maybe one pair of glasses with two i/o ports
- Change Carriers, no problem, change glasses or belt units
- Lunch, no problem (but please hit mute)
- Crazy people on the street - Assume they are all crazy. You will be more right than wrong.
Andy Farnsworth
With this technology and the ability to cover an area of ~12 miles radius with each one of these, it seems that some company could quickly build a huge coverage area by putting these up on Cellular phone towers. Since most cells are smaller than a 12 mile radius, they would not even have to put it on every tower. Most people can use their cellular phones in their house, their office, the restraunt they eat lunch/dinner, etc; this makes it ideal and at 75+ Ghz your antennae would be very small since the element only needs to be about 4 millimeters in length you could make the entire antennae about the size of a fountain pen. You could travel with this and have a meter (software) to run while you swing the antennae about until you find signal and, voila, you have interenet connectivity. You won't be able to wander around or drive, but this seems like a minimal price to pay for high speed connectivity.
;-)
Hmm, could you build a tracking antennae mount that would fit in a hat
Andy
Be sure to budget into the project your required trips off-shore to manage these people. At least once a month is a minimum, every two weeks is more like it. Plan on staying a week at a time. Hmm, 6 months = 26 weeks = 13 round trips... may be cheaper to just keep it here in the US.
Are you still running a WANG mainframe? My Old PII 350 runs faster than that!
Yeah, and when you are caught, you will be charged with breaking federal regulations set by the FCC in addition to the other crimes.
I definetly agree! Writing code with a pen would not work at all. A large portion of my coding is copy-paste work, at the very least to be sure my variables are spelled correctly :-). Many times you want to repeat the same code group with only slight changes, if it is a large enough grouping, I create a function, but otherwise, it is copy-paste all the way.
Lemonade Stand was pretty cool, but how about IBC, no not the rootbeer, the game! International Bridge Contractors. Anyone know if this is on the web anywhere or what?
Andy
Vanderbilt University put up a bathroom monitor page that turned out to be a page to monitor the number of people that would investigate such a page back in the mid '90s.
"These modern kids don't know the simple joy of saving four bytes of page-0 memory on a 6502 box."
These modern kids don't know the simple joy of saving one byte of memory on Sinclair ZX-80.
These modern kids don't know the simple joy of saving one bit of memory on each character.
This is a grievous error! Advanced Perl Programming delves into the workings of Perl itself and is a must read for true users of Perl. The book starts off with references to data, complex data structures, and gets more technical as you go along. The lack of the Learning Perl and Learning Perl on Win32 books is not a down turn as they are seldom used for reference, but for learning. Once you have learned enough to proceed on your own, these books are a must have set. I have been anxiously awaiting this new addition to my kit.
Well, they have not told me to come back... yet. This actually made me grin, as apposed to the previous one.