[MPlayer-users] Movie plays on local laptop screen, but not on beamer

[Michael TD Nelson]

On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 14:24 +0200, Lucas van Braam van Vloten wrote:
> However, when I connect a beamer to the VGA port I don't
> see anything. 

Just for reference, I'm a native English speaker. In case anyone else is
confused, I think that the meaning of the word 'beamer' which you intend
is what we usually call a (video) projector. 

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I know of two native English uses of the word 'beamer':

1. Slang for a car made by 'BMW'.

2. Slang for a ball bowled in cricket which flies directly at the
batsman's head, without bouncing. It is dangerous, illegal, and it
usually happens by accident when the ball slips out of the bowler's hand
early.

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I have only heard the word 'beamer' used to mean a projector once
before...

I was on training at IBM in Germany. The German instructor and I had
just been chatting about his (English) Massey Ferguson tractor engines,
and my (German) Volkswagen cars, so when he mentioned his 'beamer', I
thought he was talking about a German car...

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I've just looked this up to make sure I'm not just talking nonsense:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer

I find this page quite interesting. It seems that there is also an
outdated slang interpretation - an IBM employee (like me!)

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Sorry for the bandwidth waste... I just find languages and words very
interesting.

Regards
Michael