right, all you technophiles!!! the only reason u ddont have a $100 laptop is because th eentire coroporate capatalist world would come to a halt, the same reason the 100mile a gallon caburator is not there anymore.. its because "sit on my tight arse and make negative comments" people like you dont want it bad enough!!!
right so TATA makes the $2500 car, and also makes (or rather owns as in can run to the ground while the west looks o, but wont) Jaguar and Landrover and owns Tetley tea, and Corus steal.. so I'd treat it with a bit of scabooosh!!! ok.. $10 laptop.. is dooable.. squeeze the supply chain and you'll get it.. heck.. i bet u guys were the ones who believe the $499 EEPC was a myth as well.. make up sleepy head!!
Well, I dont know about being third world, but to put things in perspective, India has been independent for roughly 61 years, compared to USA (1776 i think, not sure so dont crucify me), well roughly over 200 years!!! Same for nearly every country you'd wanna compare it to. Agree being developed is not all about gadgets and jets. But its more about the way people look at their own country. I have'nt seen an Indian outside India moan about their country, but Americans will go on about the war, and Brits go on about how Nu labour sucks and the EU is a waste!! Truley these are problems of a developed country.
There are a lot of problems in India, and well that makes what has been achieved even more extraordinary, besides making the most commercial sense!!
Quick one on the bullet DVR. Its a remake-rebadge of a similar product. It costs roughly $280 from there. The MPEG 2 codec is a CSW file, so it wont work direct off the card. It needs to be converetd to an AVI by the included software. Other wise its a cracking piece of kit. The MPEG4 codec is very well implemented, and at 6000kbps, the difference between the Mpeg2 and Mpeg 4 quality is negligible. This will do any format, PAL or NTSC. Various other accessories for this include an ON/OFF remote which can be wired or @415Mhz wireless and ofcourse the Laptimer kit. The cards supported so far are upto 8GB. Also this DVR supports standard LANC in. SO if anyone has an old sony camcorder with a LANC controller, eat your heart out. Also note that wrt MPEg4 encoding bitrates above 4000-5000kbps will deliver no noticable difference if the codec has been implemented properly. Also note that MPEg4 is only defined as a stream and decoder, encoder implementations are upto individual manufacturers. So a MPEG4 implementation by one manufacturer might be totally different to another. Always check the quality yourself before buying it. Regarding playback etc. Well the chasecam, which I have used as well, is a good piece of kit. But you have to go through a lot of menus etc to get playback to work. Not ideal when yu are driving a car. Anyone want more info on this let me know. We are resellers for this kit (not the bullet cam, the original stuff from the OEM).
Teleeye.com has been offering this for over a year now. have a look at it if some is very serious. You can use any standard ca,era, dont think HD is supported yet. Cieffe italy also do an encoder which can be controlled from any smartphone or PDA. Nettuno mini or infact any of their encoders can connect to any standard PTZ camera and can be controlled.
Looks nice, slightly big, full of features!!! Battery does look beefy and full of juice. HP website says $599 for the smaller (but equally feature packed) IPAQ610 Business Navigator. Wonder if Navigator and Messenger are meant to be different in any way!!! (except for the screen orientation)
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right so TATA makes the $2500 car, and also makes (or rather owns as in can run to the ground while the west looks o, but wont) Jaguar and Landrover and owns Tetley tea, and Corus steal.. so I'd treat it with a bit of scabooosh!!! ok.. $10 laptop.. is dooable.. squeeze the supply chain and you'll get it.. heck.. i bet u guys were the ones who believe the $499 EEPC was a myth as well.. make up sleepy head!!