http://portableone.com/
Check out their MX series and add the $399 option for the transreflective display. While pricey, its a great display and should give you what you need.
Only down side is that the resolution is a bit low.
It was worth seeing just for the scene with Captain Picard downing some of Guinan's real deal.
Prior to that, I always thought of Picard as a sissy frenchman.
Doing the same thing at my place, except I use a windows PC and file sharing through that to get to my xbox.
It works great since the xbox has good component output connections with 1080i resolution capability.
The only downside is that it can't handle WMV9 HD files that require a lot of processing power. Hopefully a hacked xbox 360 will come along that can do this:)
It is possible to find companies that value QA Engineers...but its a big mistake to think that these jobs are safer from offshoring.
I had a similar experience to yours when I was given a QA Engineer role right out of school at J.D. Edwards. My team was doing automated testing so I got my scripting/programming fix while still being in the QA umbrella. Many of my colleagues had been doing QA for 10 years+ and were relatively safe and happy in their jobs. Hours were reasonable and they enjoyed a certain level of job security. They only downside was that there were no raises (not even inflationary) for 3 straight years. In hindsight, this should have been a red flag for most of the employees.
Their world was shocked into reality when a rival company, Peoplesoft bought J.D. Edwards and began outsourcing QA jobs by the droves. Rather than go through a costly layoff with severances, the company chose to freeze hiring and replace any workers who left with offshore resouces.
The whole situation got even worse when Oracle bought Peoplesoft a few months later. Then the hammer fell and there was a massive layoff across all three QA organizations. All resources that were let go were replaced with offshore teams.
The only groups that avoided the Oracle and Peoplesoft axes were the developer groups. They had minimal fallout because they could maintain the existing userbase much more effectively than any offshore teams.
The moral of the story is, don't stay in QA...no matter how nicely they may treat you, at the end of the day your skills are more expendable than any developer and you will ALWAYS get the shaft when the outsourcing horn is blown.
I left my testing role within 6 months of the first buyout. After 4 years of trying to escape testing, I am finally a full fledged.NET Developer in my current company and have been for the past 6 months.
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http://portableone.com/ Check out their MX series and add the $399 option for the transreflective display. While pricey, its a great display and should give you what you need. Only down side is that the resolution is a bit low.
It was worth seeing just for the scene with Captain Picard downing some of Guinan's real deal. Prior to that, I always thought of Picard as a sissy frenchman.
Doing the same thing at my place, except I use a windows PC and file sharing through that to get to my xbox. It works great since the xbox has good component output connections with 1080i resolution capability. The only downside is that it can't handle WMV9 HD files that require a lot of processing power. Hopefully a hacked xbox 360 will come along that can do this :)
It is possible to find companies that value QA Engineers...but its a big mistake to think that these jobs are safer from offshoring. I had a similar experience to yours when I was given a QA Engineer role right out of school at J.D. Edwards. My team was doing automated testing so I got my scripting/programming fix while still being in the QA umbrella. Many of my colleagues had been doing QA for 10 years+ and were relatively safe and happy in their jobs. Hours were reasonable and they enjoyed a certain level of job security. They only downside was that there were no raises (not even inflationary) for 3 straight years. In hindsight, this should have been a red flag for most of the employees. Their world was shocked into reality when a rival company, Peoplesoft bought J.D. Edwards and began outsourcing QA jobs by the droves. Rather than go through a costly layoff with severances, the company chose to freeze hiring and replace any workers who left with offshore resouces. The whole situation got even worse when Oracle bought Peoplesoft a few months later. Then the hammer fell and there was a massive layoff across all three QA organizations. All resources that were let go were replaced with offshore teams. The only groups that avoided the Oracle and Peoplesoft axes were the developer groups. They had minimal fallout because they could maintain the existing userbase much more effectively than any offshore teams. The moral of the story is, don't stay in QA...no matter how nicely they may treat you, at the end of the day your skills are more expendable than any developer and you will ALWAYS get the shaft when the outsourcing horn is blown. I left my testing role within 6 months of the first buyout. After 4 years of trying to escape testing, I am finally a full fledged .NET Developer in my current company and have been for the past 6 months.
http://www.simpleticket.net/ Its written using Ruby on Rails :)