One thing I am regularly being asked about by business users is a device that can output PowerPoint presentations to a projector, but with the unit being smaller than a laptop and bigger than a PDA - the users want something low-cost (around £300-£400 max), but with the business functionality they need: ie: ability to check and send mail, Web browse (we use SugarCRM, a Web-based CRM package), do some simple word processing and, of course, display PowerPoints. It doesn't need to be a full PC, but needs to fit the requirements.
The ideal unit size would be 1/2 laptop (ie: A5 paper size footprint) - something like the good old HP Jornada 820.
The sticking point is the usual compromise between size, cost and functionality - miniature laptops will do but come in at around £800-1300+, other 'specialist' devices (some of the Psion range) are being phased out and then it's back to PDAs - we did once use an iPAQ 3970 with CF jacket and a VGA out card but the PowerPoint functionality wasn't too hot and you end up carrying round a separate keyboard if you want to to any level of WP beyond quick notes.
The Pepper Pad isn't a working solution from the specs (no VGA output - only composite (of which I am wary when it comes to projector interfacing due to degraded image quality), but it has spurred me to poll the/. collective's wisdom to see whether there is anything out there worth considering?
I did have a quick loop at the PSP (you can store PPTs as a series of linked JPEGs), but the proposed keyboard attachment seems to have been iced and I cannot see any form of external video interface.
Anything spring to mind guys?
Thanks
PS: 'Guys' is taken to be non-gender specific as I understand some of the/. crowd are (shock!) not male!
Maybe a slip-up - do a Digg search for 'primidi' (his blog site) and see how many 'different' people have submitted stories to Digg linking to that site (I counted 18). Surely Roland isn't posting under numerous different account names? I'm shocked, SHOCKED!
Anyone care to recall the happy days of analogue modems and the pre-ratified 'standards': Courier HST, K56flex, X2 and all that?
It must be difficult to take the time to ratify standards when the manufacturers are forcing themselves out of the starting gate to meet customer 'I want it now' expectations.
Buying a 'pre-n', wifi enabled laptop with Blu-ra..er..HD-D...er...whatever... is the true mark of someone living on the bleeding edge.
I programmed an old Radio Shack learning remote control with the IR key fob for a the Sales Director's 7-series BMW (about 15 years ago) and really used to piss him off by re-unlocking the car in the car park from my desk as he tried to lock it when he arrived at work.
My comments came from my experience with but graduates and Apprentices where I worked and had to manage them - my route to work was similar to yours - left at 16, did a 4 year electronics engineering apprenticeship with the first year at college doing a mix of electrical, electronics and mechanical engineering followed by three years of mentoring and coaching in the workplace. I ended up in R&D (visual systems for flight simulators) and then went into IT - straight in as a Tech Support Manager specialising in Netware (this was 1986). I ended up founding my own training and consulting group (still going) before dciding I wanted to get my hands dirty again, so I am now managing the IT infrastructure for an organisation with 30 offices in the UK - having fun with VoIP at the moment!
That's too generalised - I have seen some graduates (in Electronic Engineering and also in Computing) who 'have the theory' but were totally useless in the real world as they had never practised their art in the 'real world'. In contrast, I have seen college-level students who completed a mix of classroom work and work experience and ended up with 'only' a 'higher certificate' (UK) that could run rings round the grads.
Certs can be the 'icing on the cake'. but provable practical experience can win hands down.
I can imagine Mr Moorer is a real chick-puller at parties:
"Hey, I invented this really really famous sound - it goes like...well..actually I have it here on my iPod, or you can come back to my place to hear it on my home theatre if you want? Here take this copy on CD, it's free..."
The CIA has followed up the public announcement that there is a typo in the encrypted message by asking people to stop sending them their old hi-fi speakers for recycling since the decrypted message does *NOT* read "all your bose are belong to us".
...'The-most-senior-media-executive-to-realise-tha t-watching-movies-on-a-2"-screen is-stupid-stupid-stupid' (the 'wake up and smell the coffee') award is held over until next year as no nominees have been put forward.
No, but by shouting encouraging words at it through a strategically-placed mini-speaker, it may be persuaded to run faster - the terms for this is over-coaxing.
It's a dilemma - I have seen sites where the thin client server has been compromised and so you lose everything anyway - but at least you only have to rebuild one system.
Who comes out better - the Europeans who get hammered with 220V suckiness 50 times a second, or the Yanks who 'only' get 110V of grief, but 60 times a second?
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One thing I am regularly being asked about by business users is a device that can output PowerPoint presentations to a projector, but with the unit being smaller than a laptop and bigger than a PDA - the users want something low-cost (around £300-£400 max), but with the business functionality they need: ie: ability to check and send mail, Web browse (we use SugarCRM, a Web-based CRM package), do some simple word processing and, of course, display PowerPoints. It doesn't need to be a full PC, but needs to fit the requirements.
/. collective's wisdom to see whether there is anything out there worth considering?
/. crowd are (shock!) not male!
The ideal unit size would be 1/2 laptop (ie: A5 paper size footprint) - something like the good old HP Jornada 820.
The sticking point is the usual compromise between size, cost and functionality - miniature laptops will do but come in at around £800-1300+, other 'specialist' devices (some of the Psion range) are being phased out and then it's back to PDAs - we did once use an iPAQ 3970 with CF jacket and a VGA out card but the PowerPoint functionality wasn't too hot and you end up carrying round a separate keyboard if you want to to any level of WP beyond quick notes.
The Pepper Pad isn't a working solution from the specs (no VGA output - only composite (of which I am wary when it comes to projector interfacing due to degraded image quality), but it has spurred me to poll the
I did have a quick loop at the PSP (you can store PPTs as a series of linked JPEGs), but the proposed keyboard attachment seems to have been iced and I cannot see any form of external video interface.
Anything spring to mind guys?
Thanks
PS: 'Guys' is taken to be non-gender specific as I understand some of the
Maybe a slip-up - do a Digg search for 'primidi' (his blog site) and see how many 'different' people have submitted stories to Digg linking to that site (I counted 18). Surely Roland isn't posting under numerous different account names? I'm shocked, SHOCKED!
Anyone care to recall the happy days of analogue modems and the pre-ratified 'standards': Courier HST, K56flex, X2 and all that?
It must be difficult to take the time to ratify standards when the manufacturers are forcing themselves out of the starting gate to meet customer 'I want it now' expectations.
Buying a 'pre-n', wifi enabled laptop with Blu-ra..er..HD-D...er...whatever... is the true mark of someone living on the bleeding edge.
I programmed an old Radio Shack learning remote control with the IR key fob for a the Sales Director's 7-series BMW (about 15 years ago) and really used to piss him off by re-unlocking the car in the car park from my desk as he tried to lock it when he arrived at work.
My comments came from my experience with but graduates and Apprentices where I worked and had to manage them - my route to work was similar to yours - left at 16, did a 4 year electronics engineering apprenticeship with the first year at college doing a mix of electrical, electronics and mechanical engineering followed by three years of mentoring and coaching in the workplace. I ended up in R&D (visual systems for flight simulators) and then went into IT - straight in as a Tech Support Manager specialising in Netware (this was 1986). I ended up founding my own training and consulting group (still going) before dciding I wanted to get my hands dirty again, so I am now managing the IT infrastructure for an organisation with 30 offices in the UK - having fun with VoIP at the moment!
That's too generalised - I have seen some graduates (in Electronic Engineering and also in Computing) who 'have the theory' but were totally useless in the real world as they had never practised their art in the 'real world'. In contrast, I have seen college-level students who completed a mix of classroom work and work experience and ended up with 'only' a 'higher certificate' (UK) that could run rings round the grads.
Certs can be the 'icing on the cake'. but provable practical experience can win hands down.
In other news, Amway announces it is to relocate its World HQ to Bosnia.
Just offer to fly her over then - you can probably afford it!
Analysing his traffic patterns...
That guy has way too much time on his hands...Oh wait..
8 tits in a tyte?
2 killertits is known as a Pandora
2 Megatits is known as a Morgan
I can imagine Mr Moorer is a real chick-puller at parties:
"Hey, I invented this really really famous sound - it goes like...well..actually I have it here on my iPod, or you can come back to my place to hear it on my home theatre if you want? Here take this copy on CD, it's free..."
Think Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters!
The CIA has followed up the public announcement that there is a typo in the encrypted message by asking people to stop sending them their old hi-fi speakers for recycling since the decrypted message does *NOT* read "all your bose are belong to us".
New crimes on the statute books:
Yawning in public
Attempted cough
...'The-most-senior-media-executive-to-realise-tha t-watching-movies-on-a-2"-screen is-stupid-stupid-stupid' (the 'wake up and smell the coffee') award is held over until next year as no nominees have been put forward.
Watch it, I think SCO has copyright on that!
...Is your door lead lined? Are you a vampire? Try keeping the coffin door open a bit when you are lying down!
Mind you, I know the feeling - I can be making a call sat down on my sofa at home and I move my head 2 inches and I've lost the signal.
Nope, it's "Does it run Linux?' closely followed by them imagining a beowulf cluster of those.
They will give you the source on request - but then they have to kill you.
No, but by shouting encouraging words at it through a strategically-placed mini-speaker, it may be persuaded to run faster - the terms for this is over-coaxing.
"Booooooo!" was probably first said many tens of thousands of years ago so you've missed that one.
You probably need to make up a new word - for example, let me be the first to say "Ghaslespruthmeep"
It's a dilemma - I have seen sites where the thin client server has been compromised and so you lose everything anyway - but at least you only have to rebuild one system.
CTRl-Z usually
Who comes out better - the Europeans who get hammered with 220V suckiness 50 times a second, or the Yanks who 'only' get 110V of grief, but 60 times a second?
Bring back DC!! Oh, they are!
Don't wish to moan but I submitted this story yesterday and it was rejected - pah!
Rumour has it that this is going to be turned into a challenging console game: "Duke Fusion Forever"