This is an important concept to understand before one goes around in public claiming that global warming is "BS".
I was calling BS on the sensationalism. Something is obviously wrong, and we know that CFCs could still be a big part of it. But to jump the shark and start firing shots at everything is not the right way to do it.
The carbon dioxide level does slowly fall a few ppm with increasing altitude in the stratosphere, but I think this is because of it taking a long time for the increased level in the troposphere to diffuse up there. This is true everywhere, not just at the poles.
Strange. It must have been raw C, then, or something else. I kept hearing that in winter time the arctic (well, rather, the north pole) is covered in the stuff, and that in the summer it gets carried around by (solar winds?).
No thanks. Train = 8 hour trip for 400$ a person, airplane = 3 hour trip for 600$ a person, car = ~500$ for an 8 hour trip as a group of 6.
This is why North America likes its big cars. I personally think SVUs are shit, but I wouldn't buy any of the seriously overcramped cars I saw in Belgium... in Europe the price of flying is cheap. Here it isn't. Here we have the comfort of just driving eight hours to our destinations. I'm two hours from Montreal, five hours from Toronto, eight to nine hours from Detroit, and about 5-6 hours from New York.
Screw the plane. I'll drive there and it'll be cheaper.
And until I can do this sort of stuff with an electric car, do not want. On the other hand, Tesla has an excellent start with that ~430km range (isn't it?) and even just 200km is pretty good for city stuff. (you'd be suprised at the amount of taxing some parents do, and even more so at how clogged a city can be when its transport services are run by greed)
I've always wondered if the current "global warming" BS isn't just CFCs coming to haunt us.
Considering if CO2 keeps heat in, shouldn't it reflect an equal amount of heat? But the poles don't really have CO2 up high (from what I recall most of it falls there, and then gets covered with snow). So what if the ozone holes are letting in dangerous quantities of UV rays, that are climbing, and they just get reflected, creating most of this heat?
Sorry, I should have been more precise. It's the number of PS2s that had some problems primarily due to the laser. Now, whether the laser was defective, or the design was fucking stupid, is for you to decide.
It isn't xbox-style where the console is melted. I don't recall that ever happening with any console.
The situation is as though Exxon made a car that goes 4mpg and bought up / killed GM, Chrysler, Ford. If it doesn't balance, it shouldn't be on the market.
2) First I heard of this. A quick search turns up nothing outside of general managers moving from the Mac unit to the XBox unit
Seekret seekret. Lots of things are in name only.
3) You've never dealt with the Atari 7200, or the PS2.
That doesn't make it any better. Just because a few were bad doesn't mean you have permission to be 3-4 times worse (PS2 failure rate = 9%, 360 = ~33%). This isn't a competition to be worst.
4) The only people who care are PS fanboys who don't pay the fee. Strange, really.
PC gamers, with the exception of MMORPG players, don't pay fees. Neither do playstation players. Neither do Nintendo players. Neither did dreamcast players.
Weird huh?
Get out of your basement and smell the coffee. MS doesn't care what the XBox used to be like; only that it represents MS (and Sony's) wet dream: a fully locked down and controlled hardware in the center of your living room. Both Sony and MS will stand behind the XBox and the PS until either one goes bankrupt.
Good, because both will go bankrupt and by that time there will be a new startup to challenge Nintendo with a slightly less crappy business model.
Either that or PC games begin to challenge it directly. I have money going for a SteamMachine.
But let's say we've set up all the students with Linux, LXDE (or Xfce, or E17, or Etoile, or ROX, or something else light), Firefox, and OpenOffice.org... How many students could you run on what kind of server?
I remember the rule of thumb was about 128MB of RAM for each user... but it's been a long while. And when a program is loaded for one user, is it re-loaded for all of them? Couldn't you load stuff once and then have it work with different sessions at once? Is that even possible?
I've been thinking about a thin client set up for home actually. And since we're kind of talking about thin clients among other things, I wanted to know what some of you with thin client set ups have to say about them...
I wonder if it's possible to combine thin clients and something like the TechCrunch Tablet.
A mix like that would probably be the best solution. They're light, they're interactive, you could have a cart with them, an AP or three, and USB keyboards for the students. Have a "permanent" thin client or two in every classroom for the teachers and the occasional small stuff (quick look ups I guess?).
One thing though, is a thin client based on ARM able to run x86 binaries? (that are running off of the server) And can things like Flash be run on a thin client system like that? If they can, well, you could embed something like the beagleboard into every monitor or keyboard even (or something like that) and build your system like that. But then your risks might be higher, unless you can lock down these types of devices?
I really like the thought of having carts, though. Instead of going to the lab you just call for a cart, so it can be more easily offered (sometimes you just can't get lab time for your class).
Evolution is not just a good theory. It is a great theory. And it is a great theory because evolution is what, with overwhelming probability, what actually happened in the past.
Probabilities are worthless.
Your theory is not sound; it's a good start. It's not like we have better theories to go on. But overwhelming probability? If some animals adapted, why didn't the others go with? How long exactly does it take to evolve something? You'd have to imagine at one point, prehistoric man suddenly popped some eyes, and then all of man kind stemmed from this one dude somehow, or they all gained the same mutation.
And what about other things that I don't know, that might be flaws in your theory?
I'm not saying your theory is completely flawed. It has its weaknesses. That is a theory, after all: "I believe it so".
The main difference being that with most theories you have mostly scientific papers. With evolution and to lesser extent with global warming you have well funded misinformation campaigns being waged to try to push unscientific results upon the average person, or at very least confuse the issue. Tey won't find much dissension in real scientific publications, but people have a tendency to look at a lot of opinion pieces and pop culture, even if there is no substance.
Mm, reminds me of the whole "global cooling" fiasco. I wonder what the scientists were saying back then? I'm not old enough to have lived through it.
The schools should obviously present micro-evolution: things do change. Ffs, look at genetic mutations. When it goes on to the origins of modern life, whatever "theory of evolution" they've come up with should, can, and will be taught to the students, but at the same time remind them to think for themselves a bit. It's a theory. It's a theory that works. It's a theory that doesn't work. Why?
I'm into virtualisation. Last I checked Intel didn't do so hot on the low end... And I know, I could overclock, I'm just not too sure about it. Otherwise the X2 4850e is fairly good. I've really only ever used Intel systems, but I can easily tell from friends that AMD is alright, just a question of when you buy.
The problem is, I don't know if spending 2-3 times on my CPU will really give me a performance boost, when spending twice on an AMD CPU would get me a 65W Quad-core... You know? It's just that question of, when is it warranted performance? LGA775 looks like it's got a more interesting amount of CPUs coming up, in case I'd upgrade... but to be honest, being limited with DDR2 and FSB, I don't think it'd be useful if I were at maximum RAM and maximum cores. (but haha I doubt I'd be spending that much)
Are they actually 45W maximum though? Or have they started using Intel's counting system of some-here-some-there?
Except Finland, Sweden, and Norway are all small countries, with their own languages, that nobody else speaks.
So it's very easy for Telestra or whoever, to just lay down fibre to all the 2,000 (for example) medium-sized (non-farming country) Swedish communities across the country. You've only got 2,000 to reach, they can spend the money and instead of selling cable, phone, and internet, they bundle it all into that 55 euro bill (jesus christ, like 75$? are there cheaper plans?!).
When I was in sweden, although it might just be because of the people I was with, nobody had cable; they were all on sattelite. The internet speeds weren't that hot, either; 24mbps was the fastest I found. But I was out in Marsta, far from stockholm, and in this small apartment block. Maybe they expect you to use IPTV? I know the Japanese pass phone and cable TV through the internet cables.
With the Amercians especially, though, you really need an independantly-powered decentralised wireless system. In Canada it's a bit like this, but three hours north of Ottawa the pavement stops, eight hours north and you run out of roads; if you look at coverage maps from Rogers, Bell, etc, you'll find where Canada's population is, and it's including farms. For the americans though, you have cities here and there. You have houses here and there. There is not a piece of land unclaimed in the US, either by citizens or by the government as a park or base.
Try laying down fibre while justifying the cost. It can't happen if the people don't want it and the government won't sponsor it.
With the opening of the analog band, I'm crossing my fingers that it can realistically supply 100/10mbps connections (shared ressources is good enough). Because that's the only thing that can beat out the current system.
That, or you push GM, Ford, and Chrysler to start building maglevs and bury the fibre lines under it.
I'm looking to upgrade sometime soon. I've thought about waiting for USB3, for Nehalem/Fusion/AM3, but now I don't know.
It's not a question of I'm down on my luck. I was down on my luck for a few years, and because of that I had to hold on to that hardware. But now I'm doing good financially. I just need to make a purchase that will be worth it, and right now I'm not seeing that anywhere. I don't have a grand to blow, either, so we're looking at Athlons with the 780G, and an HD4670.
I'm just saying, you don't need crazy hardware to run an OS. I mean, look at the BeagleBoard and Angstrom. LXDE is a fine environment, and polish does not mean bloat.
The only problem is that you can't exactly prevent a skull tumor, genetic disorders, cancer, or a similar situation, by eating healthy and taking care of yourself.
That's why it's there. To take care of you when you're old, to take care of you when you can't and there's not a chance in hell you'll be able to.
I like it. It might fly right in the face of whatever you believe government should do, but for something like this, where one day you will be sick, it's better to spread the costs.
It's especially a good deal because last I checked the linux version is much cheaper and comes with 2GB of RAM.
But I know futureshop has a 8GB+8GB (SD card) Acer Aspire One on... So pick your poison. Sometimes you get a good deal. Hopefully it won't be long before you see good deals on the HP Mini. (and I'd look for the 2140, it has the nice aluminium body):)
Personally, I'm waiting for the Freescale i.MX515 and associated netbooks. 8 hours of battery life? Yes please. It would be nice to see if its performance is as good or better than the beagleboard... it's also cool that it uses DDR2, maybe this time we'll see 1GB of RAM on these (or at least 512MB. the 256MB (I saw "2Gb") limit for the OMAP3530 is ridiculous.)
I personally run Xfce and Debian Lenny on a Celeron 500MHz machine with 192MB. I use Opera, Pidgin, and Zim, and I've often got a fair 20-30 tabs open at once. If I had a video card, I'd use it to offload my GUI onto. But I don't, and if anything, I have problems with my GUI right now (things look yellowed, on log-out everything turns messed up... openGL won't run properly... I think it's a chipset limitation, that it can't run properly in 24bits)
It's not really an intense session. But it does its job. If I use LXDE, it's just as nice, and it runs much faster. (45MB of RAM used, I believe)
There's not much of a need for Gnome/KDE, to be honest.
I wonder how many Xboxes were actually used to play games with, and not used as DVD players or Mythboxes?
Really, if this was Sony, or Sega, the xbox would have been dead on the first week. It's a fucking joke of a concept. And yet they get away with it. At least the Zune had one good feature: you could send songs to each other.
But they're both pieces of shit. Especially amazing that in about the same time (360's launch was '06, and xbox was '02 or 03 wasn't it?) they've managed to sell about the same amount of units. Whereas their competitors have blown them out of the water. What is it now, 35+ million wiis? It has to be. And that's with 85+ million DSs, all in fucking september. Microsoft has barely sold 28 million xbox 360s as of january. The original xbox did about 30 million, tied with the gamecube. Not to mention, the PS2 has shipped 100 million units and possibly as high as 140. And although its competitors are flying off the shelves, and the PS2 still has a decent growth rate, the 360s sit there, stacked.
Well, I just checked out Olimer... Are there any non-Euro places that do this? I'm in Canada and it might be a bit problematic with currency exchanges and getting the VAT back (I'm not paying taxes to another country, sorry I have to pay my own...).
And when they quote that price, it's sans connectors and things, right? How would I get my connectors and CPU/GPU cores onto it?
With such a huge PCB compared to the beagleboard... What would I put on it? Is all that space in the back for only the CPU/GPU/etc package? Is it possible/advisable to have maybe multiple OMAP packages sitting there? Or could I use it for extra connectors? (maybe SATA/PATA, or just extra USB ports and an SD slot)
I'll look into Arduino and stuff. They look like fun.
He meant a "failure" where you still manage to get 10% of the market share (if not more), continue to ship millions of units (or is it only in the hundreds of thousands?), and continue making big bucks.
Not the frozen pile of crap pressed into a box that made those bucks.
They should just contract someone to write a patch for Wine to get it working with Quicken. Release it to Wine, you'll get a lot of good press, and likely get rocketted to the front of "hybrid" users (people like me, who use Debian and Opera for example. anyone who doesn't mind a few closed source programs in an open landscape until better open solutions are founded).
They could release their own custom version of wine, but then you get not as hot press, and you possibly get compatibility issues. It's not like those patches do much to reveal your source code, except maybe help WineHQ understand how it interacts with the host that Wine couldn't do before.
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This is an important concept to understand before one goes around in public claiming that global warming is "BS".
I was calling BS on the sensationalism. Something is obviously wrong, and we know that CFCs could still be a big part of it. But to jump the shark and start firing shots at everything is not the right way to do it.
The carbon dioxide level does slowly fall a few ppm with increasing altitude in the stratosphere, but I think this is because of it taking a long time for the increased level in the troposphere to diffuse up there. This is true everywhere, not just at the poles.
Strange. It must have been raw C, then, or something else. I kept hearing that in winter time the arctic (well, rather, the north pole) is covered in the stuff, and that in the summer it gets carried around by (solar winds?).
Could you imagine the horror of four mothers in law?
No thanks. Train = 8 hour trip for 400$ a person, airplane = 3 hour trip for 600$ a person, car = ~500$ for an 8 hour trip as a group of 6.
This is why North America likes its big cars. I personally think SVUs are shit, but I wouldn't buy any of the seriously overcramped cars I saw in Belgium... in Europe the price of flying is cheap. Here it isn't. Here we have the comfort of just driving eight hours to our destinations. I'm two hours from Montreal, five hours from Toronto, eight to nine hours from Detroit, and about 5-6 hours from New York.
Screw the plane. I'll drive there and it'll be cheaper.
And until I can do this sort of stuff with an electric car, do not want. On the other hand, Tesla has an excellent start with that ~430km range (isn't it?) and even just 200km is pretty good for city stuff. (you'd be suprised at the amount of taxing some parents do, and even more so at how clogged a city can be when its transport services are run by greed)
CFCs are going to cook you to death soon.
I've always wondered if the current "global warming" BS isn't just CFCs coming to haunt us.
Considering if CO2 keeps heat in, shouldn't it reflect an equal amount of heat? But the poles don't really have CO2 up high (from what I recall most of it falls there, and then gets covered with snow). So what if the ozone holes are letting in dangerous quantities of UV rays, that are climbing, and they just get reflected, creating most of this heat?
Now that makes more sense, to me at least.
What do you guys use instead of C7s then?
And is there an estimate on how much do they work out to be?...
Sorry, I should have been more precise. It's the number of PS2s that had some problems primarily due to the laser. Now, whether the laser was defective, or the design was fucking stupid, is for you to decide.
It isn't xbox-style where the console is melted. I don't recall that ever happening with any console.
1) Sunk cost. No one cares right now.
The situation is as though Exxon made a car that goes 4mpg and bought up / killed GM, Chrysler, Ford. If it doesn't balance, it shouldn't be on the market.
2) First I heard of this. A quick search turns up nothing outside of general managers moving from the Mac unit to the XBox unit
Seekret seekret. Lots of things are in name only.
3) You've never dealt with the Atari 7200, or the PS2.
That doesn't make it any better. Just because a few were bad doesn't mean you have permission to be 3-4 times worse (PS2 failure rate = 9%, 360 = ~33%). This isn't a competition to be worst.
4) The only people who care are PS fanboys who don't pay the fee. Strange, really.
PC gamers, with the exception of MMORPG players, don't pay fees. Neither do playstation players. Neither do Nintendo players. Neither did dreamcast players.
Weird huh?
Get out of your basement and smell the coffee. MS doesn't care what the XBox used to be like; only that it represents MS (and Sony's) wet dream: a fully locked down and controlled hardware in the center of your living room. Both Sony and MS will stand behind the XBox and the PS until either one goes bankrupt.
Good, because both will go bankrupt and by that time there will be a new startup to challenge Nintendo with a slightly less crappy business model.
Either that or PC games begin to challenge it directly. I have money going for a SteamMachine.
But let's say we've set up all the students with Linux, LXDE (or Xfce, or E17, or Etoile, or ROX, or something else light), Firefox, and OpenOffice.org... How many students could you run on what kind of server?
I remember the rule of thumb was about 128MB of RAM for each user... but it's been a long while. And when a program is loaded for one user, is it re-loaded for all of them? Couldn't you load stuff once and then have it work with different sessions at once? Is that even possible?
I've been thinking about a thin client set up for home actually. And since we're kind of talking about thin clients among other things, I wanted to know what some of you with thin client set ups have to say about them...
I wonder if it's possible to combine thin clients and something like the TechCrunch Tablet.
A mix like that would probably be the best solution. They're light, they're interactive, you could have a cart with them, an AP or three, and USB keyboards for the students. Have a "permanent" thin client or two in every classroom for the teachers and the occasional small stuff (quick look ups I guess?).
One thing though, is a thin client based on ARM able to run x86 binaries? (that are running off of the server) And can things like Flash be run on a thin client system like that? If they can, well, you could embed something like the beagleboard into every monitor or keyboard even (or something like that) and build your system like that. But then your risks might be higher, unless you can lock down these types of devices?
I really like the thought of having carts, though. Instead of going to the lab you just call for a cart, so it can be more easily offered (sometimes you just can't get lab time for your class).
What I meant more was, where did it start? How? Is there some reason atoms like to join and become larger molecules?
Things like that. That's the kind of stuff, "beggining of life" stuff that you can't just shove down an impressionable kid's throat.
Evolution is not just a good theory. It is a great theory. And it is a great theory because evolution is what, with overwhelming probability, what actually happened in the past.
Probabilities are worthless.
Your theory is not sound; it's a good start. It's not like we have better theories to go on. But overwhelming probability? If some animals adapted, why didn't the others go with? How long exactly does it take to evolve something? You'd have to imagine at one point, prehistoric man suddenly popped some eyes, and then all of man kind stemmed from this one dude somehow, or they all gained the same mutation.
And what about other things that I don't know, that might be flaws in your theory?
I'm not saying your theory is completely flawed. It has its weaknesses. That is a theory, after all: "I believe it so".
The main difference being that with most theories you have mostly scientific papers. With evolution and to lesser extent with global warming you have well funded misinformation campaigns being waged to try to push unscientific results upon the average person, or at very least confuse the issue. Tey won't find much dissension in real scientific publications, but people have a tendency to look at a lot of opinion pieces and pop culture, even if there is no substance.
Mm, reminds me of the whole "global cooling" fiasco. I wonder what the scientists were saying back then? I'm not old enough to have lived through it.
The schools should obviously present micro-evolution: things do change. Ffs, look at genetic mutations. When it goes on to the origins of modern life, whatever "theory of evolution" they've come up with should, can, and will be taught to the students, but at the same time remind them to think for themselves a bit. It's a theory. It's a theory that works. It's a theory that doesn't work. Why?
I'm into virtualisation. Last I checked Intel didn't do so hot on the low end... And I know, I could overclock, I'm just not too sure about it. Otherwise the X2 4850e is fairly good. I've really only ever used Intel systems, but I can easily tell from friends that AMD is alright, just a question of when you buy.
The problem is, I don't know if spending 2-3 times on my CPU will really give me a performance boost, when spending twice on an AMD CPU would get me a 65W Quad-core... You know? It's just that question of, when is it warranted performance? LGA775 looks like it's got a more interesting amount of CPUs coming up, in case I'd upgrade... but to be honest, being limited with DDR2 and FSB, I don't think it'd be useful if I were at maximum RAM and maximum cores. (but haha I doubt I'd be spending that much)
Are they actually 45W maximum though? Or have they started using Intel's counting system of some-here-some-there?
Except Finland, Sweden, and Norway are all small countries, with their own languages, that nobody else speaks.
So it's very easy for Telestra or whoever, to just lay down fibre to all the 2,000 (for example) medium-sized (non-farming country) Swedish communities across the country. You've only got 2,000 to reach, they can spend the money and instead of selling cable, phone, and internet, they bundle it all into that 55 euro bill (jesus christ, like 75$? are there cheaper plans?!).
When I was in sweden, although it might just be because of the people I was with, nobody had cable; they were all on sattelite. The internet speeds weren't that hot, either; 24mbps was the fastest I found. But I was out in Marsta, far from stockholm, and in this small apartment block. Maybe they expect you to use IPTV? I know the Japanese pass phone and cable TV through the internet cables.
With the Amercians especially, though, you really need an independantly-powered decentralised wireless system. In Canada it's a bit like this, but three hours north of Ottawa the pavement stops, eight hours north and you run out of roads; if you look at coverage maps from Rogers, Bell, etc, you'll find where Canada's population is, and it's including farms. For the americans though, you have cities here and there. You have houses here and there. There is not a piece of land unclaimed in the US, either by citizens or by the government as a park or base.
Try laying down fibre while justifying the cost. It can't happen if the people don't want it and the government won't sponsor it.
With the opening of the analog band, I'm crossing my fingers that it can realistically supply 100/10mbps connections (shared ressources is good enough). Because that's the only thing that can beat out the current system.
That, or you push GM, Ford, and Chrysler to start building maglevs and bury the fibre lines under it.
I'm looking to upgrade sometime soon. I've thought about waiting for USB3, for Nehalem/Fusion/AM3, but now I don't know.
It's not a question of I'm down on my luck. I was down on my luck for a few years, and because of that I had to hold on to that hardware. But now I'm doing good financially. I just need to make a purchase that will be worth it, and right now I'm not seeing that anywhere. I don't have a grand to blow, either, so we're looking at Athlons with the 780G, and an HD4670.
I'm just saying, you don't need crazy hardware to run an OS. I mean, look at the BeagleBoard and Angstrom. LXDE is a fine environment, and polish does not mean bloat.
The only problem is that you can't exactly prevent a skull tumor, genetic disorders, cancer, or a similar situation, by eating healthy and taking care of yourself.
That's why it's there. To take care of you when you're old, to take care of you when you can't and there's not a chance in hell you'll be able to.
I like it. It might fly right in the face of whatever you believe government should do, but for something like this, where one day you will be sick, it's better to spread the costs.
Why sell software to Wal-Mart when you can have a Steam-like model?
It's especially a good deal because last I checked the linux version is much cheaper and comes with 2GB of RAM.
But I know futureshop has a 8GB+8GB (SD card) Acer Aspire One on... So pick your poison. Sometimes you get a good deal. Hopefully it won't be long before you see good deals on the HP Mini. (and I'd look for the 2140, it has the nice aluminium body) :)
Personally, I'm waiting for the Freescale i.MX515 and associated netbooks. 8 hours of battery life? Yes please. It would be nice to see if its performance is as good or better than the beagleboard... it's also cool that it uses DDR2, maybe this time we'll see 1GB of RAM on these (or at least 512MB. the 256MB (I saw "2Gb") limit for the OMAP3530 is ridiculous.)
I personally run Xfce and Debian Lenny on a Celeron 500MHz machine with 192MB. I use Opera, Pidgin, and Zim, and I've often got a fair 20-30 tabs open at once. If I had a video card, I'd use it to offload my GUI onto. But I don't, and if anything, I have problems with my GUI right now (things look yellowed, on log-out everything turns messed up... openGL won't run properly... I think it's a chipset limitation, that it can't run properly in 24bits)
It's not really an intense session. But it does its job. If I use LXDE, it's just as nice, and it runs much faster. (45MB of RAM used, I believe)
There's not much of a need for Gnome/KDE, to be honest.
You would think Atom rakes in enough profit for Intel to keep them running...
And hey, linux users love their high-performance hardware too. It just happens that there's less high-performance lovers.
I wonder how many Xboxes were actually used to play games with, and not used as DVD players or Mythboxes?
Really, if this was Sony, or Sega, the xbox would have been dead on the first week. It's a fucking joke of a concept. And yet they get away with it. At least the Zune had one good feature: you could send songs to each other.
But they're both pieces of shit. Especially amazing that in about the same time (360's launch was '06, and xbox was '02 or 03 wasn't it?) they've managed to sell about the same amount of units. Whereas their competitors have blown them out of the water. What is it now, 35+ million wiis? It has to be. And that's with 85+ million DSs, all in fucking september. Microsoft has barely sold 28 million xbox 360s as of january. The original xbox did about 30 million, tied with the gamecube. Not to mention, the PS2 has shipped 100 million units and possibly as high as 140. And although its competitors are flying off the shelves, and the PS2 still has a decent growth rate, the 360s sit there, stacked.
It's a failure. It's the MSN of consoles.
Well, I just checked out Olimer... Are there any non-Euro places that do this? I'm in Canada and it might be a bit problematic with currency exchanges and getting the VAT back (I'm not paying taxes to another country, sorry I have to pay my own...).
And when they quote that price, it's sans connectors and things, right? How would I get my connectors and CPU/GPU cores onto it?
With such a huge PCB compared to the beagleboard... What would I put on it? Is all that space in the back for only the CPU/GPU/etc package? Is it possible/advisable to have maybe multiple OMAP packages sitting there? Or could I use it for extra connectors? (maybe SATA/PATA, or just extra USB ports and an SD slot)
I'll look into Arduino and stuff. They look like fun.
(Thank you by the way.~)
He meant a "failure" where you still manage to get 10% of the market share (if not more), continue to ship millions of units (or is it only in the hundreds of thousands?), and continue making big bucks.
Not the frozen pile of crap pressed into a box that made those bucks.
They should just contract someone to write a patch for Wine to get it working with Quicken. Release it to Wine, you'll get a lot of good press, and likely get rocketted to the front of "hybrid" users (people like me, who use Debian and Opera for example. anyone who doesn't mind a few closed source programs in an open landscape until better open solutions are founded).
They could release their own custom version of wine, but then you get not as hot press, and you possibly get compatibility issues. It's not like those patches do much to reveal your source code, except maybe help WineHQ understand how it interacts with the host that Wine couldn't do before.