Portable Quotations

Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.

We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

I was mugged when I was 12. I had a portable radio, and I ran into this building and these two guys came in and hit me, busted me up and took the radio. After that I was very paranoid and I started taking kung fu and karate. But I didn't want to fight.

A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.

The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power.

My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.'

I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.

Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.

We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure hygienic and sanitary housing and lounging areas, not to mention clean air, sunshine, and exercise.

We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.

Montgomery College is well over capacity. They are bringing in portable buildings to help keep up with the growth.

One of the problems with portable computers is that they are not always on your network. This lets the administrator install the software without having to worry about which systems have it installed and which don't.

PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.His light estate, if neither he did make it Nor yet its former guardian forsake it, Is portable improperly, I take it. --Worgum Slupsky

Portable generators are responsible for other injuries such as electrical shock injuries, or even burn injuries that get caused from refueling a hot engine.

On Monday morning, one or two teachers in the portable came in and they noticed fleas jumping up off the carpet as they walked in. They were on the outside (mats) as they walked into the door.

My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba diving. Back in the 1940s when he tested out his invention which allowed humans to swim freely in the ocean with a portable air source for the first time in history, very little of the ocean had been explored let alone captured on film.

One of the things we've always strived to do was position this as a new portable entertainment device that obviously plays games, but has so much more to offer,

Now, they are designed in such a way that Class D amplifiers for portable devices don't require output filters ? although very high power Class D amps (10 W to 20 W and up) still need them.

Revenue share for portable devices would be very small compared to this business.

If we don't build new schools outlined in the bond issue, we will have to put the projected 7,500 students expected in the next four years in existing classrooms and portable buildings,

When training in India, I have to fill my car with equipment and even a portable massage table.

Mobile computing is moving from the fringe to the mainstream. Portable computers are becoming the primary PC.

Software sales have traditionally been dominated by console games, but the situation changed dramatically towards the end of the year, and games for portable devices overwhelmed console games.

Half of (the dilemma) has been caused by technological advancements and affordable portable technology, ... and the other half has been the corporatization of radio. It has taken away from the excitement of diversity, that every market was so different.

Business intelligence continues its proliferation across the enterprise and we have witnessed the evolution as BI has made its way out of the back office and onto the shop floor, the home office, and the sales field. For the past 30 years we have provided customers with cutting-edge technology and innovative strategies to support organizational success. The advent of portable business intelligence builds on our pioneering spirit and commitment to customer requirements.

But the reason VI will be adopted by all the application writers is that once you write an application in VI, it's portable to almost any platform, and all the real databases are already VI-enabled,

There is going to be TV, there's going to be a broadband component, video-on-demand and portable devices. There's are all of these technologies out there where fans will consistently grow and consume content, and we're going to provide Mountain West content in every way possible and connect with fans in a very different way.

Our record results reflect customers' investments in expanded capacity to meet increasing semiconductor demand and in advanced technologies to provide more powerful, portable and affordable semiconductors.

PC-based entertainment takes a major step forward in 2006 with Windows Vista. HD cable support, same-day access to first-run shows, new relationships with leading companies such as MTV, and unprecedented PC gaming -- not to mention today's extended experiences offered through Xbox 360 and portable devices -- will all come together in Windows Vista to create an all-in-one entertainment experience unlike any other.

National is the leader in ceramic speaker driver technology for portable devices. The LM4962 and LM4953 integrated drivers allow manufacturers to create credit-card-thin handsets or add additional features to designs because the chips save space and reduce power consumption. This enables longer battery life and talk time.

National's Class D audio amplifier portfolio continues to meet our customers' design requirements for great audio performance in small, low- power, low-heat portable applications. Our new LM4673 mono Class D amplifier comes in a tiny, 0.4 mm-pitch micro SMD package to save space in manufacturers' designs. The stereo LM4674 Class D amplifier also provides great board-space efficiency for stereo applications.

I think it will sell well. The current DS has sold well for such a clunky portable device, so users are going to like the smaller version even better.

Today?s disclosure is a logical extension of the commitment of console makers to empowering parents. I am proud that each console maker has taken the initiative to give power to the parents, offering technology not available for DVD players or even portable music players that will allow parents to control the entertainment their children access.

Unfortunately, the ear buds are even more likely to cause hearing loss than the muff-type earphones that were used on Walkman and portable CD players.

I would like to think of my own status as what you called 'citizen of the world' or a 'citizen of a portable world,' if not of the world.

We could go bargain basement, with portable classrooms, but we felt this permanent building made more sense.

Micro fuel cells are years away from commercial deployment, but considerable R&D is underway funded in part by the military to power portable communications equipment in the field.

Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experiences, on and off the desktop. You don't even have to go to Facebook or Twitter to experience Facebook and Twitter content or to share third-party web content with your Twitter and Facebook friends.

We had made this decision well over a year ago. We believed in portable video back then.

The problem with hydrogen is that it is not a very portable fuel.

We want to grow where consumers are going and we want to follow consumers, ... We know consumers are eating more snacks and more portable food. We want to capture that and what we have needed up to now was a powerful distribution system.

There are two revolutions taking place. One revolution is taking place in the living room with high definition, bigger and wider screens. The second revolution is portable television.

The question is whether they can make it hip. It has to be more than just a portable Xbox and has to take it to the next design level, and that will take a lot of dollars.

There are areas of the city where they intermittently have problems, ... It's strange. Sometimes one portable goes out and the other doesn't. It's baffling.

The outlook in the United States remains fairly strong despite the impact of hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma and rising fuel costs on consumer confidence. Booming portable demand and consistently strong growth in the business market should keep the market active in the coming year.

We believe both consumers and corporations will have increased data storage needs as the digital world continues to take root. Whether it's portable media players or devices that can archive years worth of emails, data storage hardware has become an essential part of everyday life. As a result, we have favorable recommendations on a number of companies in this area.

We don't know the number of students for next year, but when we do, we'll determine if more portables are needed at each school. We will create campus maps with all potential future portable sites. We'll then bring ideas by the board so that they can see what the plan is.

XM introduced several new products that could help it enter the portable digital music player market. The wearable units have a significantly improved user interface, have smaller form factor, and could offer enhanced signal reception.

The real story for 2005 was the incredible expansion of portable gaming.

The real story for 2005 was the incredible expansion of portable gaming. The GBA continued to realize stellar sales, and the introduction of the (Nintendo) DS and PSP to the market brought older gamers to the portable format.

While next generation HD players are in final assembly, and movies are being mastered, the AACS architects are ensuring consumers can enjoy the HD picture, sound and robust portability potential of AACS without any further delays. Much more than just HD movies, AACS delivers new consumer interactivity, portability and feature enhancement after purchase on a scale like no other consumer digital entertainment system can. AACS represents a cross-industry team of chip, consumer electronics, PC designers and content creators, all dedicated to enriching the consumer's home and portable entertainment experience.

We should see interesting performance jumps at very low power. The biggest bang for the buck should be in portable video.

Words give you a medium, if you will, and make your message part of the human thought process. Words are as portable as the human being who hears them.

We're going to see some type of portable device that offers some PDA elements but is very consumer-focused, and that means more entertainment functionality.

With the Internet and the ability to download onto portable devices, what reps are able to do marketing-wise to expose music is completely unlimited by the imagination. You can use anything to turn people on to music.

With the market for Portable Media Player (PMP) semiconductors essentially doubling to $6.4 billion in 2009, the stakes in the portable video-processing market are high.

We're expecting to see a lot more foot traffic than usual, ... Trash bins and portable toilets will be available.

We feel that passenger use of portable electronic devices on aircraft should continue to be limited for the safety of all concerned.

We're in a fight for survival here. Maybe we just need to fight back harder, come out blazing, not wither away and die. D-cinema can do it, for a number of reasons, but because d-cinema is an enabling technology for 3-D. Digital 3-D is a revolutionary form of showmanship that is within our grasp. It can get people off their butts and away from their portable devices and get people back in the theaters where they belong.

Through our strong strategic customer relationships, we've learned that portable consumer storage markets not only require a very small and thin form-factor, but they also require low power storage solutions rugged enough to meet the stringent consumer usability requirements.

Electric blankets, portable heaters, insulating, all that type of winterizing, weatherizing (items) are selling early this year. Electric space heaters seem to be taking off early this year, too.

We're talking about being able to put tens of thousands of hours of video on portable devices.

We're the largest portable toilet company operating in Lee County. We have a little over 8,000 of them and I don't have any inventory of any kind.

As the demand for portable digital music and video grows, mobile device manufacturers will need ample storage capacities. Small form factor drives such as Seagate's ST1.3 provide a cost effective, high capacity storage solution for these device manufacturers compared to other storage alternatives.

The study's findings suggest that the average person can do a lot to improve their health through diet. People interested in lowering their cholesterol should probably acquire a taste for tofu and oatmeal, keeping in mind that portable alternatives fit best with a modern lifestyle. Save the experimenting for the evening, when you have more time to prepare more complicated meals.

The survey sent out with taxpayer dollars has many parents scared about their children's future. The threats include increasing class size to maximum levels, the addition of portable trailers for children, and the very hollow threat of year-round schools.

We've ordered small portable pumps to put out there temporarily to move the standing water to No Name Lake. We've been pumping since early June and our lakes are fine. We have capacity to handle a couple inches of rain.

We've indicated time and again, we expect our service and technology to be widely available in portable products and we continue to explore opportunities to do that. These incidents don't have any impact on those plans.

The water surrounded the houses, and they brought their portable generators inside.

The XM Passport is a tiny little tuner that is going to make a big impact on satellite radio. Millions of home, car, and portable products will use the XM Passport as the gateway to XM Satellite Radio. It's a passport to the whole world of music, sports, talk, and entertainment choices available on XM. This is a major breakthrough for XM in terms of offering customers portability, affordability, and convenience.

The XM Passport is a whole new audio format, in the same way that CDs and MP3s are audio formats. You can take a CD from the stereo to the car, or take an MP3 file from the computer to the portable player. With the XM Passport, you can take XM from one product to the next to listen. It goes wherever you go.

With PSP being a portable product, our target is what we consider to be urban nomads.

We've heard from groups that it's too expensive to use portable stages.

We've had portable message signs up for weeks, but regardless how much advance notice you give people, projects like this always seem to catch motorists off guard.

Bring market forces to bear on health care insurers. Creating a health care 'exchange,' one of the better ideas included in House Bill 3200, creates affordable, accessible and portable insurance for millions of Americans.

Both in terms of form factor and functionality, it's somewhere between a laptop computer and a sort of portable media player or high-end PDA. I think that we may see some software developed for it that will establish it as a more unique option, but as of today, it's just a smaller, keyboard-less, notebook.

Offering Garmin car navigation in Dollar and Thrifty rental vehicles is an ideal fit for everyone involved. Dollar and Thrifty can provide their customers with a convenient and easy-to-use navigation device, and Garmin is able to expose thousands of potential customers to its popular portable GPS navigator.

The portable MP3 player category has seen the most growth in popularity and Apple has been a very important driver of that.

Demand for portable MP3 players is booming, as more and more consumers get acquainted with their stylish form factors and digital audio functionality.

A laptop computer controlled the system and logged the data. While we looked primarily at wireless phones, we also discovered that emissions from other portable electronic devices were problematic. We feel that passenger use of portable electronic devices on aircraft should continue to be limited for the safety of all concerned.

Although the use of Doppler technology isn't new, the novel aspect of our vein finder is the system's design, which makes it both portable and economical.

QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.He extracted from his quiver, Did the controversial Roman, An argument well fitted To the question as submitted, Then addressed it to the liver, Of the unpersuaded foeman. --Oglum P. Boomp

Russell has been an innovator in customized total-fund overlays that combine multiple strategies in one efficient, powerful and highly integrated package. More fund fiduciaries are considering Russell's total overlay solution to enhance performance, reduce risk, ease administration and implement cutting-edge strategies such as portable alpha.

Schools already invest in computers for pupils and have more IT equipment than ever before. But children need access to computers both at school and at home. That's whey we need to see an increase in portable technologies that can be used beyond the classroom and at school.

This is designed for portable navigation systems or handheld GPS receivers, where people can sync to the network server once a week and after that they don't have to work about getting data from satellites. Start-up times will go from 1-to-2 minutes to less than ten seconds.

In many ways, I do view portable media players as a technology in search of a market. If I'm carrying music with me, chances are I want to carry something that's a little smaller than a personal music player.

I had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks - Cars/'Candy-O,' Ramones/'Road To Ruin,' Cheap Trick/'Heaven Tonight' and the first Devo record. I don't remember skating without music.

does not have any particular expertise in constructing or installing portable classrooms or other temporary structures.

Do not leave your portable CD players, your purses or your wallets on the front seats of your cars. That's an open invitation. These burglars are just looking for opportunities.

The next (revision) will make it more portable by making it available for other people to modify it to fit their needs.

The larger trend is the combination of using the Internet as an advertising vehicle and then portable devices as a way of extending that presence.

The Internet browser and other added functionality of the firmware 2.0 upgrade will further enhance the user experience beyond the unprecedented portable to entertainment already provided by PSP, ... By allowing consumers to wirelessly surf the Web, personalize their PSP and access and share new audio, video and image formats, PSP continues to evolve the entertainment experience out of the home and reaffirm its position as the must-have product of the year.

The Internet browser and other added functionality ... will further enhance the user experience beyond the unprecedented portable entertainment already provided by PSP.

The inventory problems that plagued the first half of the year have been largely erased and we expect the market to perform better in the next six months with improved demand for low-cost and portable PCs.

In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.

I have worked three major earthquakes in my career ... I've always encouraged people to have at least five days of water, food -- canned goods, or food you can add water to (oatmeal, soups, dehydrated foods), flashlights, a battery operated radio, camping gear, a propane portable stove and medication.

Because of all the excitement surrounding the trip, and the change in routine, it's easy to set one of those small items down somewhere and lose it. Because most people don't put identifying information on portable electronics, even if someone with good intentions finds one, the owner has little chance of seeing the item again. But there is something you can do to turn the tide in your favor.

Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.

Apple will continue to be a force in portable music and video, and desktop innovation.

The bottom line is this -- the real-time clock and DRM software make it possible for ZVUE users to legally acquire any video off the Internet that's DRM-compatible. It's that simple. As a result, the ZVUE is the world's only portable media player priced under $100 that supports DRM and delivers legal media to go for on the go consumers.