More streaming is a better deal on Netflix than media because of the de facto limits they put on DVD by throttling. Netflix made the right deal, for me. It's nice to see the "classic" films on my queue come up with the blue "play" button.
So on the other hand I'm sure Netflix will get a lot of forgettable titles. Warner Bro.'s has put a lot of effort into digitizing their extensive library for archival purposes and therefore it won't be any skin off of WB's back to give them tons of crap nobody's really interested in.
Agreed also true in the sense they could also bundle more games with it. For instance, I got my 40Gb with a $100 gift card to a large international retailer.
Off Metacritic.com, the same games have higher scores for the 360 and average top 20 games are 2 percent better.
Generally, me thinks (and this is no secret) the developers just hate Sony and their hardware.
Um...last time I checked my most of my peers in my department were foreign born and depending on the list US universities dominate the top 25-100 spots. I have had professors from Bell, Watson and Ge labs and they are doing well in academia. I'd propose that PRIVATE labs could not compete with the OPENNESS of academic institutions when it comes to basic research and early development.
Talk to some people in academia about their views of the efficiencies of pseudo-government labs like Sandia (Lockheed) or Oak Ridge. The simple fact is that you could have a graduate student do as half as good of a job as a trained technician for a quarter of the money. Plus they don't have to conform to OSHA standards.
Looking at power consumption of LCD's by laptops as percentage of total power consumption it isn't much for most modern laptops (5-0.5 watts versus 50-20 whats for a system under moderate load) and its going down on average with LED backlights becoming more common. It Using this sort of black and white only mode only really makes sense for ultra low power system.
That being said, it would be killer on a laptop with an embedded SplashTop.
If you look at all the projected lifetimes of Fe-LiNiO3 devices, which I guess is they system they are talking about in their glorified press releases, they are supposed to be around 100 years at operating temperatures! Compare that to the 30 some years of DVD-R media!
Though it still isn't as good as some chalcogenide based phase change materials which are predicted to last for 100's of years, it is important step in keeping our data around.
Agreed, the whole reinventing the desktop thing turned people off to the box. However, XFCE does works well out of the box with a few YUM installs.
They shouldn't have pushed Sugar and come up with as an option decent-though-nerfed X windows implementation which 3rd World Nations would see as familiar enough (i.e. ASUS EEE). The fact that petty dictators could have complete control over the software would also be a big selling point.
I think that is a great critique. For that reason, why isn't there a simple FreeDos distribution to play old abandon-ware DOS games and text based word processing? I'm sure a decent web browser could also be implemented.
Graphical interfaces are unnecessary for the basics. People are so often hung up on making things look pretty. Even then minimalist attempts result in abominations like Sugar.
/I have had good luck with the Fedora 7 core and XFCE though. Flash still sucks.
I currently have the Yahoo! subscription service and will probably not renew my subscription since they got sold to Rhapsody. Let my remind everybody that Rhapsody is owned by RealPlayer.
I think these format wars will be moot in a few years due to the rise in Streaming Hi-Def.
Has anybody else used NetFlix Watch Instantly with a good connection? To me the video and sound look better than DVD. They also coming out with set-top boxes this year. Sure its DRM laden with a crummy selection, but it cost nothing on top of the normal service.
IBM has been trying to do this for years, except back then they called them "atom clusters." These researchers probably only get good memory effects around liquid helium temperatures, too.
I don't think the blogger wrote a good write up. The MS flunky said, ""We asked the OLPC to add a slot for an internal SD card that will provide the 2 Gbytes of extra memory," " Thats a big difference, although the SD slot now is pretty well hidden, maybe the concern is that the SD cards will get lost if they are loaded externally.
I also think they want 3 GB total, which is what my experience has told me is reasonable for a XP install (2 GB for OS and Office(TM) alone with 1 GB for expansion).
On the other hand, how hard is it to replace an on-board 1 GB chip with a 4 GB one in the production sequence? Is the memory addressing hardwired into the controllers or something?
The Mars Sojourner rover and landing system cost something like $65 million in hardware. Total development was $150 million. While the total project cost $280 million. Compared to the Viking missions of $3.5 billion each, adjusted for inflation, there is cause to show NASA is being conscience of costs nowadays. [Source:Wikipedia.org] Also, because the bulk of cost is R&D, launch and support, it makes no sense to cheap out on the hardware area in the final prototype.
Also, the trick is to land this thing. It took the Russians something like 12 tries before they managed to soft land a probe on the moon due largely to lack of processing power. Now thanks to rampant trillions of US military-industrial-complex spending anybody has the processing power necessary to land a probe on mars for pennies.
Minus fancy graphics and drives, that would put the performance of these guys at about original XBox levels. Which is interesting because neither Intel nor MS bitched about those being underpowered and useless./I have a PII 450 laptop which runs XP and word just fine.
I believe most continental countries in Europe (Germany for sure) require all Adults to carry an state issued ID. (You also don't have a right to search with out probable cause in most. Also, you are required to report your place of residence (even if its a hotel) w/ passport number to Interpol in the EU.)
In the US, your are required to give your name and address to police on demand and lying to Police is a misdemeanor. If you want to work in the US you need a Social Security Card.
And many of the Founding Fathers were so wise and great they kept slaves.
Windows CE was originally brought up as an OS for OLPC. The Negreponte turn them down. Windows Mobile, the current incarnation is very Vista-esque as well. Maybe we'll see an MS version in the commercial release or maybe a PalmOS.
Food is not a problem, distribution is. An educated population is essential to a stable government which isn't oppressive. Zimbabwe is a prime example of what happens when an oppressive government breaks down when the population isn't educated. The India on the other hand is doing fine and guess why. The prime difference is in India the colonial masters bothered to develop a educational system.
otherwise they are going to have to get their hardware/software monopoly busted. Then they'll have to make it available for X86 and they'll have to start dealing with all that crappy hardware out there just like MS. That and they'll have to keep people from pirating the software resulting in draconian limitations. If they have such a great OS then the FTC should snap the unfair advantage Apple has over Microsoft.
Origin is dead. Chris Roberts is too busy making big block busters.. who knew after Wing Commander: The Movie. They totally killed the series with Prophesy and Privateer 2.
If you are a WC fan try playing X3: Reunion its a lot like privateer and pretty. Got good reviews and its cheep off Steam./Good to see there are still WC fans around. Privateer was da poop.//Lucas Arts can suck it! I want my Loom 2 and MI 5!
That would be about right for the current generation of e-paper products and less than the other Linux web tablets (i.e. Nokia). Not to mention more powerful than both./My first laptop didn't have as good of specs as the X0 (133 mhz, 32 mb ram, 9 in. lcd, 500 mb hd, no CD drive) and you didn't hear Intel or Microsoft bitch about it having "inferior hardware" back then. Ran everything I needed it to up until '02.
that they could do this with sea turtles? I guess thats why we're looking at their natural predators. I think some Limies proved the theory with rats some time ago to.
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I also have had problems with applications constantly breaking for stupid reasons which for as good as Ubuntu might be, they can't help.
More streaming is a better deal on Netflix than media because of the de facto limits they put on DVD by throttling. Netflix made the right deal, for me. It's nice to see the "classic" films on my queue come up with the blue "play" button.
So on the other hand I'm sure Netflix will get a lot of forgettable titles. Warner Bro.'s has put a lot of effort into digitizing their extensive library for archival purposes and therefore it won't be any skin off of WB's back to give them tons of crap nobody's really interested in.
Agreed also true in the sense they could also bundle more games with it. For instance, I got my 40Gb with a $100 gift card to a large international retailer.
Off Metacritic.com, the same games have higher scores for the 360 and average top 20 games are 2 percent better.
Generally, me thinks (and this is no secret) the developers just hate Sony and their hardware.
Um...last time I checked my most of my peers in my department were foreign born and depending on the list US universities dominate the top 25-100 spots. I have had professors from Bell, Watson and Ge labs and they are doing well in academia. I'd propose that PRIVATE labs could not compete with the OPENNESS of academic institutions when it comes to basic research and early development.
Talk to some people in academia about their views of the efficiencies of pseudo-government labs like Sandia (Lockheed) or Oak Ridge. The simple fact is that you could have a graduate student do as half as good of a job as a trained technician for a quarter of the money. Plus they don't have to conform to OSHA standards.
Looking at power consumption of LCD's by laptops as percentage of total power consumption it isn't much for most modern laptops (5-0.5 watts versus 50-20 whats for a system under moderate load) and its going down on average with LED backlights becoming more common. It Using this sort of black and white only mode only really makes sense for ultra low power system.
That being said, it would be killer on a laptop with an embedded SplashTop.
If you look at all the projected lifetimes of Fe-LiNiO3 devices, which I guess is they system they are talking about in their glorified press releases, they are supposed to be around 100 years at operating temperatures! Compare that to the 30 some years of DVD-R media!
Though it still isn't as good as some chalcogenide based phase change materials which are predicted to last for 100's of years, it is important step in keeping our data around.
Maybe a little background is in order:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jsnyder/
Using x86 processors more or less like controlers?
Or Grim Fandango 2 on the list. Sigh...
Agreed, the whole reinventing the desktop thing turned people off to the box. However, XFCE does works well out of the box with a few YUM installs.
They shouldn't have pushed Sugar and come up with as an option decent-though-nerfed X windows implementation which 3rd World Nations would see as familiar enough (i.e. ASUS EEE). The fact that petty dictators could have complete control over the software would also be a big selling point.
I think that is a great critique. For that reason, why isn't there a simple FreeDos distribution to play old abandon-ware DOS games and text based word processing? I'm sure a decent web browser could also be implemented.
/I have had good luck with the Fedora 7 core and XFCE though. Flash still sucks.
Graphical interfaces are unnecessary for the basics. People are so often hung up on making things look pretty. Even then minimalist attempts result in abominations like Sugar.
I currently have the Yahoo! subscription service and will probably not renew my subscription since they got sold to Rhapsody. Let my remind everybody that Rhapsody is owned by RealPlayer.
I think these format wars will be moot in a few years due to the rise in Streaming Hi-Def. Has anybody else used NetFlix Watch Instantly with a good connection? To me the video and sound look better than DVD. They also coming out with set-top boxes this year. Sure its DRM laden with a crummy selection, but it cost nothing on top of the normal service.
After reading the article, it sounds like a good system. Still, nothing all that new about it.
IBM has been trying to do this for years, except back then they called them "atom clusters." These researchers probably only get good memory effects around liquid helium temperatures, too.
I don't think the blogger wrote a good write up. The MS flunky said, ""We asked the OLPC to add a slot for an internal SD card that will provide the 2 Gbytes of extra memory," " Thats a big difference, although the SD slot now is pretty well hidden, maybe the concern is that the SD cards will get lost if they are loaded externally.
I also think they want 3 GB total, which is what my experience has told me is reasonable for a XP install (2 GB for OS and Office(TM) alone with 1 GB for expansion).
On the other hand, how hard is it to replace an on-board 1 GB chip with a 4 GB one in the production sequence? Is the memory addressing hardwired into the controllers or something?
The Mars Sojourner rover and landing system cost something like $65 million in hardware. Total development was $150 million. While the total project cost $280 million. Compared to the Viking missions of $3.5 billion each, adjusted for inflation, there is cause to show NASA is being conscience of costs nowadays. [Source:Wikipedia.org] Also, because the bulk of cost is R&D, launch and support, it makes no sense to cheap out on the hardware area in the final prototype.
Also, the trick is to land this thing. It took the Russians something like 12 tries before they managed to soft land a probe on the moon due largely to lack of processing power. Now thanks to rampant trillions of US military-industrial-complex spending anybody has the processing power necessary to land a probe on mars for pennies.
Minus fancy graphics and drives, that would put the performance of these guys at about original XBox levels. /I have a PII 450 laptop which runs XP and word just fine.
Which is interesting because neither Intel nor MS bitched about those being underpowered and useless.
I believe most continental countries in Europe (Germany for sure) require all Adults to carry an state issued ID. (You also don't have a right to search with out probable cause in most. Also, you are required to report your place of residence (even if its a hotel) w/ passport number to Interpol in the EU.) In the US, your are required to give your name and address to police on demand and lying to Police is a misdemeanor. If you want to work in the US you need a Social Security Card. And many of the Founding Fathers were so wise and great they kept slaves.
Windows CE was originally brought up as an OS for OLPC. The Negreponte turn them down. Windows Mobile, the current incarnation is very Vista-esque as well. Maybe we'll see an MS version in the commercial release or maybe a PalmOS.
Food is not a problem, distribution is. An educated population is essential to a stable government which isn't oppressive. Zimbabwe is a prime example of what happens when an oppressive government breaks down when the population isn't educated. The India on the other hand is doing fine and guess why. The prime difference is in India the colonial masters bothered to develop a educational system.
otherwise they are going to have to get their hardware/software monopoly busted. Then they'll have to make it available for X86 and they'll have to start dealing with all that crappy hardware out there just like MS. That and they'll have to keep people from pirating the software resulting in draconian limitations. If they have such a great OS then the FTC should snap the unfair advantage Apple has over Microsoft.
Origin is dead. Chris Roberts is too busy making big block busters.. who knew after Wing Commander: The Movie. They totally killed the series with Prophesy and Privateer 2. If you are a WC fan try playing X3: Reunion its a lot like privateer and pretty. Got good reviews and its cheep off Steam. /Good to see there are still WC fans around. Privateer was da poop. //Lucas Arts can suck it! I want my Loom 2 and MI 5!
That would be about right for the current generation of e-paper products and less than the other Linux web tablets (i.e. Nokia). Not to mention more powerful than both. /My first laptop didn't have as good of specs as the X0 (133 mhz, 32 mb ram, 9 in. lcd, 500 mb hd, no CD drive) and you didn't hear Intel or Microsoft bitch about it having "inferior hardware" back then. Ran everything I needed it to up until '02.
that they could do this with sea turtles? I guess thats why we're looking at their natural predators. I think some Limies proved the theory with rats some time ago to.