On 2016-10-09 15:57, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 10/09/2016 08:54 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-10-09 03:44, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 10/08/2016 05:10 PM, David T-G wrote:
I happen to have gotten some good 64G AData thumb drives recently, but I'm seriously interested in some 512G or even 1T cards for easily-swapped data storage.
At the 1T mark it might be simpler to get a boxed 'portable drive'.
Beyond 64G I think I would buy a hard disk, either rotating rust or flash, what's the name now... ssd?
WOW! That's some pretty cool technology to get a thin piece of rotating rust to fit in the slot on my tablet.
I was thinking of external devices via USB. And laptops, I forgot the tablet. But the thing is, I do not trust 128 gig cards or sticks. Anyway, my tablet does not accept them.
But that's just consumerland.
The future applications of tablets in medicine and engineering and finance are going make them into not just Tricorders but will demand not only LAN/hospital/clinic level network access but will need their own on-board databases and reference libraries.
In engineering there are already applications where a tablet and a a google-glasses like HUD visualizations for maintenance in areas where there is no network, and have a huge set of engineering diagrams, maintenance manuals for all the possible equipment and scenarios.
Mmm, yes...
While the s/h market is overloaded with these devices they aren't completely useless.. I know a guy who buys them up, strips them and installs them in cars, not just as dashboard devices but in the back of head-rests as 'entertainment devices' for the back-seat passengers. The lack of memory doesn't matter as they are wire-networked to the console which has, among other features, a DVD player. This started, for him, as a home project, but a fried saw it and said 'cool' and word got out. It's now a business and on a larger scale.
Interesting.
There are other uses for these old junkers. You can see a variety of 'maker' projects from things like front door camera&screen with wifi so that you can view callers on your phone even if not in the house, through to adding sophisticated 'control panels' in all manner of devices making them very sophisticated "IoT" things.
Ah, not here. To place a camera that records and forwards images from outside your home you need registration with the police, or the data protection agency. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)