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Originally Posted by xxxxts View Post
The problem is, I can't think of a scenario that this would ever be needed. If you were the most extreme coder in the world, that was your livelihood, you would be carrying around a bag with a full computer to work on and not tinkering with a device (while going blind).
You know, you sound exactly as some of the teachers I used to have at elementary school, that would not allow me to sit squatted on my chair with the argument they could not imagine anyone wanting to sit like that and hence sent me out of the classroom.

And to give you just one example of why my n900 is a fine machine: For my work (TD of a telecom company), during a board meeting, we were discussing the production costs of personalized audio messages on telecom products. At some point, I pulled out my phone to demonstrate the possibility of converting audio files on the fly by utilizing ffmpeg to create asterisk files. Simply using my terminal it took me a couple of minutes to create a personalized asterisk message from an audio recording I had taken during the meeting. I saved my own job during that meeting and saved the company a lot of money.
 

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