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Comments on: HP and Tandberg trumpet lifesize video conferencing

Brilliant illustration 

Posted Wednesday 8th October 2008 18:27 GMT

What's the point in having a bunch of identical drones in the ad. Those people might as well smear some vaseline on a mirror and prop it in front of themselves while making a phone call. Also its creepy when someone goes to all the trouble of wearing a suit and then doesn't put on a tie.

@Sean 

Posted Wednesday 8th October 2008 22:24 GMT

Ok, what gives. Have you lost your glasses behind the monitor or are you doing mind bending drugs.

1. All indentical? Oh I get it, your black and think white honkies all look the same.

2. Suits without ties? All the guys in the picture I'm looking at have ties on. The rest of them... they're WOMEN. Perhaps you should get out more.

3. suits without ties=creepy? Definitely stick to the Disney channel and NEVER watch a John Carpenter film, or come to that the Wizard of OZ.

Brilliant illustration II 

Posted Thursday 9th October 2008 06:03 GMT

Stop

None of these drones has a pen or a paper to actually do some *work*. I'll stick with phone conferences, thanks. I can walk around, have a fag and even enjoy a booze. Try that with HALO.

Telepresence, we know. 

Posted Thursday 9th October 2008 09:04 GMT

It worked well enough in Seasons 4, 5 and 6 of '24' in the 'Telepresence' suit in the Whitehouse bunker - courtesy of Cisco. Maybe '24' was Cisco's sandbox.

does this mean i can fart in meetings now? 

Posted Thursday 9th October 2008 13:42 GMT

Pirate

no smell, eheh!

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