Comments on: How small? How beautiful? http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2007/06/05/how-small-how-beautiful/ because it alliterates, and some blogs are journalism Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:37:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Daniel Walker http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2007/06/05/how-small-how-beautiful/comment-page-1/#comment-29517 Daniel Walker Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:24:16 +0000 http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2007/06/05/how-small-how-beautiful/#comment-29517 Might not an alternative be possible, based around using PCs as readily-available dumb terminals? I'm thinking of devices like the Wizpy portable music player, that can be used as either a stand-alone device, or plugged into an PC and booted into a complete image of the user's operating system and files. Clearly, these devices need input and output systems of their own, but since most portable devices are now, effectively, hard drives (or their solid-state equivalents), why not give them the functionality and capability of a full computer harddrive, without actually putting them inside a computer? Then, you can just hijack the better screen and input peripherals of the nearest available computer, whenever you find one within reach? Might not an alternative be possible, based around using PCs as readily-available dumb terminals? I’m thinking of devices like the Wizpy portable music player, that can be used as either a stand-alone device, or plugged into an PC and booted into a complete image of the user’s operating system and files.

Clearly, these devices need input and output systems of their own, but since most portable devices are now, effectively, hard drives (or their solid-state equivalents), why not give them the functionality and capability of a full computer harddrive, without actually putting them inside a computer? Then, you can just hijack the better screen and input peripherals of the nearest available computer, whenever you find one within reach?

]]> By: williamt http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2007/06/05/how-small-how-beautiful/comment-page-1/#comment-29428 williamt Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:11:03 +0000 http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2007/06/05/how-small-how-beautiful/#comment-29428 One of the things I like about the present Ipod is that I can control all the functions without needing to look at it, I can pause things, adjust the volume, move forward and back through the current track podcast, I don't even need to take the thing out of the soft case because the scroll wheel still works through the fabric. Very useful if you are out and about and actually need to look where you're going. P.S. Yours is the second blog where Google Reader appears to have stopped recognising new items in your RSS feed (in your case since mid-February), which puzzles me. Having deleted and reinstated it things are now OK. One of the things I like about the present Ipod is that I can control all the functions without needing to look at it, I can pause things, adjust the volume, move forward and back through the current track podcast, I don’t even need to take the thing out of the soft case because the scroll wheel still works through the fabric. Very useful if you are out and about and actually need to look where you’re going.

P.S. Yours is the second blog where Google Reader appears to have stopped recognising new items in your RSS feed (in your case since mid-February), which puzzles me. Having deleted and reinstated it things are now OK.

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