[Sussex] We can screen it! - portable projector

[Macdonald-Wallace, Matthew J]

Fair play, I know what you mean, its the difference between looking at
source code and thinking, "Yeah, that'll do it..." and compliing it and
thinking "S**t, I missed out a semi-colon in there somewhere" I guess... :o)

Matt

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Dobson [mailto:SDobson at manh.com]
>Sent: 04 April 2003 13:58
>To: 'sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk'
>Subject: RE: [Sussex] We can screen it! - portable projector
>
>
>Matt
>
>On 04 April 2003 at 13:27 Macdonald-Wallace, Matthew J wrote:
>> >> Your welcome to come round and try it on your laptop if you'd 
>> >> like.  I will try in on MPlayer on my Beast - though this may
>> >> not be a fair representation (brute force ;) ).
>> >
>> >I've not seen any problems with mplayer on my 1.2 GHz lappy.  It
>> >has reported that the machine wasn't powerfull enough a couple of
>> >times but it worked fine.  Even when I was compiling in the back-
>> >ground.  Okay - I've nothing like the power of Beast but then 
>> >mine.
>> 
>> Mplayer will work on my machine, 833MHz intel P3, 128Mb Ram, 
>> Gladiator and The MAtrix work a treat! ;o)
>
>If it can cope then you don't need that much CPU power to decode
>the data streams coming off the media.  In fact for most home users
>the CPUs around now are more than up to the average work load that
>Mr., Mrs, and John Q. Public would place on them.
>
>The need for grunt is over for most people.  It is only sick people
>like Geoff that need multi CPU systems.
>
>My reason for wanting to try it out was to absolutely sure that my
>set up would support it.  That there are no surprises.  Going to a 
>meeting with a brilliant OHP presentation is all very well if that
>site has an Over-Head Projector.
>
>It saves a lot of embarrassment if we check _first_ that everything
>works.  I speak from many, many demos of new code in front of clients.
>Those that have done it know why I don't trust one little bit the
>statement "It should work".  I'll accept nothing less than "It
>does work."
>
>Steve
>
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