It doesn't take 4 hours. Mythbuntu took me about an hour or two to install and configure. I've dabbled in linux and use it as my desktop but I can't do more than some of the basics (well, basics for a geek. don't ask me to work with databases or programming languages, or anything tedious in the shell...).
MythTV is great for the mythical box. I intend to get some Beagleboards eventually, and stick MythTV on them. If the DSP works with FFMpeg agian (it works on and off between patches it seems), that makes it the best mythbox for me. Small, silent, uses SD cards for internal storage, and can do 720p. I might want something miniITX to be able to play N64 games and GTA: Vice City, along with other games like that... Even then I'm considering just using my PC when I want to do that. The beagleboard is almost perfect for video-only.
The only downside about it is lack of ethernet, and only a single USB port, even if it's USB-on-the-go. That means I've got to get a powered hub, and plug in an ethernet adapter (or USB wifi) and hope it gets the full 100mbps, and room for a bluetooth dongle (or better yet something for 10$ remotes) along with room for a keyboard/mouse (or I'll just try and find an inexpensive BT set...) for casual web browsing and possibly a near-full computer on the HDTV.
Again, the only downside is lack of ethernet, and possible the fact it's HDMI and S-Video (3.5mm in and out for audio); so I don't know quite know how to get audio-out to hook it up to my old CRT TV. Oh, lack of more USB ports too, but you can hardly blame the people for that; it's a 3"x3" board...
(MythTV is great. Your time is useless if you never want to see those shows again.)
Too bad barely anybody leaves their digital cable unencrypted, even the first 70 channels...
Which should be downright criminal to be honest. I could just stick in an analog tuner and record it. Why are you stopping me from watching it with digital?...
If you're going tablet, please please please put a slide-out keyboard! Tablets are nice and slide-out keyboards make them all the more flexible.
To be honest though, at that point it makes more sense just to have a PMP that can do Wifi and 3G... (what's the point of wireless N? unless you want to stream vids, but they'd be 480i/480p only...)
(I won't be buying spore until EA gives us an apology for being dicks. Until then I will likely not even touch it, and if I do pirate it, will unlikely buy it at all, or will just send a gift to Will Wright as a thanks. If it was just a limit of 5 installs, I would be yelling but might just buy the game (especially if it's limited installs that can be replenished and don't require EA). SecuROM is what pisses me off. Even if it might not affect me, it will affect plenty of people, and it's downright insulting to see EA think it rules your computer.)
(yeah that's right. since inception PCIE could run externally)
So you get your docking station. With a massive monitor of your choice, a whole bunch of USB ports (powered off the wall?), DVI-I (so you get both VGA and DVI-D/HDMI), maybe component (but a direct netbook-to-breakout-cable would be best). Give it a hard drive enclosure with optical drive slots (2+ of each), and these connect with eSATA right into the motherboard (like desktops do it, no silly cards). External PCI-E, so you can link up to a video card in an external enclosure, hooked up to the wall (but the docking station powers everything, not 18 wall warts, at least I hope...).
I don't think that's impossible. It just requires a fair amount of design work, to get everything to plug together. Then the only problem is the CPU. If you want PCIE graphics you want a fast CPU. And if you're running with a gaming card it's likely you want games. So you'd be stuck with a x86 CPU.
Unless you want to bribe Sun into getting you an ultra-low-power 3-core UltraSPARC package (2 being SPARCs) with a x86 "translation" core? (ie that core does what Transmeta tried doing, translates to SPARC so the other CPUs do the real work)
Well, I don't think this would be ever be useful, but if an ARM CPU (is ARM11 better than ARM9? what's with the naming?...) consumes 0.3W, and the Atom 4W (let's go to fantasy land and pretend the chipsets are the same at 4W), imagine having 12 cores. Something like the Cell does? You know, DSP and ARM and stuff. (I'm not too good with CPU archs...) And anyway, a few watts saved is a few watts saved... Plus, e-ink is getting cheap enough, why not use that? (or am I right in thinking conventional LCDs are better for fast-moving stuff?)
- VIA Nano 1.2GHz or 1.3GHz or better - 8GB SSD with option for 120GB HDD or bigger - 1GB of RAM or 2GB+ - VX800u (ULV) chipset - 8.9" screen (HP 2133) or even 10" screen (eee 1000) - Bluetooth standard - Wireless G/N - ExpressCard - Program for a free USB (or expresscard) 3G/GSM (by the way, what's the difference?) modem when you get a mobile internet plan. - Starts at 349$ if it's the 2133 with a 8.9" screen and the first stuff, 399$ for 10" model. Prices should climb fairly enough. - If it's the HP 2133, an option for a non-glossy screen please.
Oh, and SDHC card reader with unionfs/aufs built-in, and the default distro should be Zenwalk, Xubuntu, Foresight, or Debian, with a specialised interface (think Ubuntu Mobile) by default and an easily accessed "advanced" interface. An option for a touchscreen would be cool. So would be a 1280x768 LED-backed screen; but likely it would be 1280x768 CCFL or 1024x600 LED (again, what's better here?)
I wonder how fast that 120GB hard drive writes, and how fast that P4 is... (and bad choice of CPUs you insenstive clod!)
1gbps is interesting if you've got a whole bunch of stuff running together, but otherwise, is overkill. I can see Japan doing IPTV across the country. Then you can dig up all those cable lines and sell them to the americans or just sell the copper (they're copper lines too aren't they?) along with the phone lines you won't need anymore.
~20$ a month for 512kpbs down in Canada, plus 15% discount for having cable TV.
I'd rather have 1gbps and drop my cable plan, but it doesn't look like there's good stations on IPTV (the two CNNs are a must, as would be local channels, but I can get the local ones OTA).
Wait for a dual-core VIA Nano? The single-core version is likely similar to an Athlon 64 just at lower speeds...
Already the CN896 has PCIEx16 support. nVidia wants to get PCIEx16 as a popular option for VIA boards, hoping to have at least one last niche in case it needs money. (right now nvidia is getting abused by everyone, it's very likely they'd launch extremely-low-power cards and market them with miniITX to dig into a different market)
Yeah, like the fact that linux distros continue to outdo MS for new features, and are the ones MS is playing catch-up to... This totally makes vista great! Check out win+tab! Zomg! Too bad compiz did this years ago. Too bad xcompmgr did hardware compositing ohso long ago. Zomg! Cancel/Allow! Too bad sudo was pretty much created by linux users.
Delusional? I think somebody saying they are in love with a company is delusional. How is this different than somebody telling you Procter & Gamble are such a great company?
IE loses them money and is still the dominant browser,
And how many people have firefox preinstalled?
Otherwise, your argument is worthless. More people in the US and Canada drive transmission, because they like it. Not because it's the more common option. Oh of course not.
(afaik)
Open Office just got passed up by Google Docs,
Again, 210MB office suite, or a Google product? What are you more likely to use as a random user?
and Linux hasn't even captured 10% of the market.
Because we can count linux users, and every windows user wants to use windows, right?
Last numbers I saw put Linux + Mac at less than 10% of the total market.
Again, that does not mean anything.
The 360 is the console that gets the most love for games with serious graphics.
"Serious graphics"?
You want serious graphics?
Build a gaming computer.
"Hidef gaming" (aka 1024x768 or 1280x720) my ass.
You want fun?
Buy a Wii/DS, or OpenPandora and play your classics.
A lot of control because right now she's killing his "popularity", she's stealing voter attention from him, and people are focusing on her because they're cruel jerks. =/
(Sorry if you felt targetted. I was throwing it out as a general "oh thoust slashdot")
Again, when somebody decides to bring "lol creationism" to slashdot, everybody fucks up their quotes.
She's been saying she wants to see creationism shown as an alternative explanation to evolution, to spark some debates and let kids think.
Now, I know this is a facade. You don't. You haven't been to school in a while. It's not, "I think this is...", it's "I know this is." by heart and by the book. They see it as being more difficult to work with.
But guys, no theory works perfectly. One day we went from sensing light to eyeballs? Let alone the rest? The big bang? Everything came from something that came from nothing that appeared due to nothing and then exploded due to nothing?
It's kind of sad when people are so heartless that you're making bets about someone dying and taking about it online, like he's going to drop dead any minute.
I don't like Palin, at all. I don't like McCain '08 (McCain '00 on the other hand, I guess would have been better for you then Cheney '00). Palin has a lot of control right now over the presidential candidate. It's horrible. And yes, he's getting old. But I wouldn't doubt that he lives on at least 4 more years (how many points do I get for that one?).
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It doesn't take 4 hours. Mythbuntu took me about an hour or two to install and configure. I've dabbled in linux and use it as my desktop but I can't do more than some of the basics (well, basics for a geek. don't ask me to work with databases or programming languages, or anything tedious in the shell...).
MythTV is great for the mythical box. I intend to get some Beagleboards eventually, and stick MythTV on them. If the DSP works with FFMpeg agian (it works on and off between patches it seems), that makes it the best mythbox for me. Small, silent, uses SD cards for internal storage, and can do 720p. I might want something miniITX to be able to play N64 games and GTA: Vice City, along with other games like that... Even then I'm considering just using my PC when I want to do that. The beagleboard is almost perfect for video-only.
The only downside about it is lack of ethernet, and only a single USB port, even if it's USB-on-the-go. That means I've got to get a powered hub, and plug in an ethernet adapter (or USB wifi) and hope it gets the full 100mbps, and room for a bluetooth dongle (or better yet something for 10$ remotes) along with room for a keyboard/mouse (or I'll just try and find an inexpensive BT set...) for casual web browsing and possibly a near-full computer on the HDTV.
Again, the only downside is lack of ethernet, and possible the fact it's HDMI and S-Video (3.5mm in and out for audio); so I don't know quite know how to get audio-out to hook it up to my old CRT TV. Oh, lack of more USB ports too, but you can hardly blame the people for that; it's a 3"x3" board...
(MythTV is great. Your time is useless if you never want to see those shows again.)
Too bad barely anybody leaves their digital cable unencrypted, even the first 70 channels...
Which should be downright criminal to be honest. I could just stick in an analog tuner and record it. Why are you stopping me from watching it with digital?...
(at least with Rogers)
Regular people don't want to buy new/used/old hardware to run closed software. Either it works with the crap we have, or we complain/forget about it.
As opposed to Xbox?
Can't you refuse to rescue them and be an "evil" guy?
If you're going tablet, please please please put a slide-out keyboard! Tablets are nice and slide-out keyboards make them all the more flexible.
To be honest though, at that point it makes more sense just to have a PMP that can do Wifi and 3G... (what's the point of wireless N? unless you want to stream vids, but they'd be 480i/480p only...)
It might be optical drive.
Assuming it can tell what your optical drive is?
(I won't be buying spore until EA gives us an apology for being dicks. Until then I will likely not even touch it, and if I do pirate it, will unlikely buy it at all, or will just send a gift to Will Wright as a thanks. If it was just a limit of 5 installs, I would be yelling but might just buy the game (especially if it's limited installs that can be replenished and don't require EA). SecuROM is what pisses me off. Even if it might not affect me, it will affect plenty of people, and it's downright insulting to see EA think it rules your computer.)
I think this is a job for eSATA and ePCI-E.
(yeah that's right. since inception PCIE could run externally)
So you get your docking station. With a massive monitor of your choice, a whole bunch of USB ports (powered off the wall?), DVI-I (so you get both VGA and DVI-D/HDMI), maybe component (but a direct netbook-to-breakout-cable would be best). Give it a hard drive enclosure with optical drive slots (2+ of each), and these connect with eSATA right into the motherboard (like desktops do it, no silly cards). External PCI-E, so you can link up to a video card in an external enclosure, hooked up to the wall (but the docking station powers everything, not 18 wall warts, at least I hope...).
I don't think that's impossible. It just requires a fair amount of design work, to get everything to plug together. Then the only problem is the CPU. If you want PCIE graphics you want a fast CPU. And if you're running with a gaming card it's likely you want games. So you'd be stuck with a x86 CPU.
Unless you want to bribe Sun into getting you an ultra-low-power 3-core UltraSPARC package (2 being SPARCs) with a x86 "translation" core? (ie that core does what Transmeta tried doing, translates to SPARC so the other CPUs do the real work)
Well, I don't think this would be ever be useful, but if an ARM CPU (is ARM11 better than ARM9? what's with the naming?...) consumes 0.3W, and the Atom 4W (let's go to fantasy land and pretend the chipsets are the same at 4W), imagine having 12 cores. Something like the Cell does? You know, DSP and ARM and stuff. (I'm not too good with CPU archs...) And anyway, a few watts saved is a few watts saved... Plus, e-ink is getting cheap enough, why not use that? (or am I right in thinking conventional LCDs are better for fast-moving stuff?)
It wouldn't be too difficult to make a laptop standard. VIA has its "Openbook" design that you can "freely" use (free depends on the situation).
But there's no Openbook kits, as far as I know.
Forget the iPhone. Think nVidia Tegra. That looks like one badass smartphone platform, especially if you can bring it to DS-size.
- VIA Nano 1.2GHz or 1.3GHz or better
- 8GB SSD with option for 120GB HDD or bigger
- 1GB of RAM or 2GB+
- VX800u (ULV) chipset
- 8.9" screen (HP 2133) or even 10" screen (eee 1000)
- Bluetooth standard
- Wireless G/N
- ExpressCard
- Program for a free USB (or expresscard) 3G/GSM (by the way, what's the difference?) modem when you get a mobile internet plan.
- Starts at 349$ if it's the 2133 with a 8.9" screen and the first stuff, 399$ for 10" model. Prices should climb fairly enough.
- If it's the HP 2133, an option for a non-glossy screen please.
Oh, and SDHC card reader with unionfs/aufs built-in, and the default distro should be Zenwalk, Xubuntu, Foresight, or Debian, with a specialised interface (think Ubuntu Mobile) by default and an easily accessed "advanced" interface. An option for a touchscreen would be cool. So would be a 1280x768 LED-backed screen; but likely it would be 1280x768 CCFL or 1024x600 LED (again, what's better here?)
I wonder how fast that 120GB hard drive writes, and how fast that P4 is... (and bad choice of CPUs you insenstive clod!)
1gbps is interesting if you've got a whole bunch of stuff running together, but otherwise, is overkill. I can see Japan doing IPTV across the country. Then you can dig up all those cable lines and sell them to the americans or just sell the copper (they're copper lines too aren't they?) along with the phone lines you won't need anymore.
~20$ a month for 512kpbs down in Canada, plus 15% discount for having cable TV.
I'd rather have 1gbps and drop my cable plan, but it doesn't look like there's good stations on IPTV (the two CNNs are a must, as would be local channels, but I can get the local ones OTA).
I'm seeing it for 449$ USD, so it's not expensive at all.
Granted this is for the 80GB XP version, but still, you could easily load it with linux if that's what you want.
nVidia + VIA = VIA will never be able to manufacture the Nano.
On the otherhand, an effective pact like they did bringing PCIE x16, is happening before your eyes.
ARM on media players, Nano for everything else, nvidia GPUs have a place to be, and more importantly Intel is put back in its place.
I don't think any cinema has made more than pennies on the total amount of tickets sold for a recent movie...
Concessions are where it's at. Why do you think it's so expensive?
Wait for a dual-core VIA Nano? The single-core version is likely similar to an Athlon 64 just at lower speeds...
Already the CN896 has PCIEx16 support. nVidia wants to get PCIEx16 as a popular option for VIA boards, hoping to have at least one last niche in case it needs money. (right now nvidia is getting abused by everyone, it's very likely they'd launch extremely-low-power cards and market them with miniITX to dig into a different market)
Don't those "make your own antennas" work well?
And yeah, as AQM said, analogue is great because it goes down fighting...
... Why was this modded insightful, exactly?
"lol everybody who hates windows just runs a mac"
Yeah, like the fact that linux distros continue to outdo MS for new features, and are the ones MS is playing catch-up to... This totally makes vista great! Check out win+tab! Zomg! Too bad compiz did this years ago. Too bad xcompmgr did hardware compositing ohso long ago. Zomg! Cancel/Allow! Too bad sudo was pretty much created by linux users.
Delusional? I think somebody saying they are in love with a company is delusional. How is this different than somebody telling you Procter & Gamble are such a great company?
IE loses them money and is still the dominant browser,
And how many people have firefox preinstalled?
Otherwise, your argument is worthless. More people in the US and Canada drive transmission, because they like it. Not because it's the more common option. Oh of course not.
(afaik)
Open Office just got passed up by Google Docs,
Again, 210MB office suite, or a Google product? What are you more likely to use as a random user?
and Linux hasn't even captured 10% of the market.
Because we can count linux users, and every windows user wants to use windows, right?
Last numbers I saw put Linux + Mac at less than 10% of the total market.
Again, that does not mean anything.
The 360 is the console that gets the most love for games with serious graphics.
"Serious graphics"?
You want serious graphics?
Build a gaming computer.
"Hidef gaming" (aka 1024x768 or 1280x720) my ass.
You want fun?
Buy a Wii/DS, or OpenPandora and play your classics.
A lot of control because right now she's killing his "popularity", she's stealing voter attention from him, and people are focusing on her because they're cruel jerks. =/
(Sorry if you felt targetted. I was throwing it out as a general "oh thoust slashdot")
Well, I guess you're right, but only if you're the one who can see into your TPM.
Otherwise I can't trust it. If I can't read it myself I'll get a close friend to look at it. Or I'll learn how.
Yeah, tinfoil, etc.
Again, when somebody decides to bring "lol creationism" to slashdot, everybody fucks up their quotes.
She's been saying she wants to see creationism shown as an alternative explanation to evolution, to spark some debates and let kids think.
Now, I know this is a facade. You don't. You haven't been to school in a while. It's not, "I think this is...", it's "I know this is." by heart and by the book. They see it as being more difficult to work with.
But guys, no theory works perfectly. One day we went from sensing light to eyeballs? Let alone the rest? The big bang? Everything came from something that came from nothing that appeared due to nothing and then exploded due to nothing?
It's kind of sad when people are so heartless that you're making bets about someone dying and taking about it online, like he's going to drop dead any minute.
I don't like Palin, at all. I don't like McCain '08 (McCain '00 on the other hand, I guess would have been better for you then Cheney '00). Palin has a lot of control right now over the presidential candidate. It's horrible. And yes, he's getting old. But I wouldn't doubt that he lives on at least 4 more years (how many points do I get for that one?).