Best explanation of why ARM is good for this sort of stuff that I've found.
Isn't there a core on there that can do Flash-related stuff? Like a SVG core, or is that the DSP/GPU? And what about the mx.i515 or whatever, the one they want to use for a 200$ ubuntu netbook? How do they stack up together?
This stuff is cool. I had a project I was thinking about using an OMAP for. How exactly would I build a board though? Are we talking fab/engineer-level, or is it cheap enough to get a design made, or use a pre-existing design?
The only way to justify that 300$ price point is if they call it a laptop. If you're just calling it a touchscreen that can browse the web, sorry, it's not going to sell for 300$; a DS costs 130$, and you can add an extra 30$ for a browser kit.
I don't think they'll save much money by dropping the RAM or the camera; maybe the battery. It would be interesting to have a battery-less version for us, those who like to read at night and have power outlets not too far away. If it can drop that price by 50$, it'd be worth it. The screen is a big cost, too...
I wonder what the price breakup is like? They should definately try and knock this down to 199$ if it means dropping some of the luxury features (camera, accel., etc) but not if it means knocking quality. There's only so far you can go.
The beagleboard starts at 149$; I could get a VIA Nano mini-ITX, 1.6GHz with PCIE-x16, board for 109$.
Are ARM/MIPS/PPC at all cheap? I keep seeing kits for crazy prices. Where do you go to look them up? How much would you say is bulk price? The lowest I've seen for MIPS was ~34$, for this router-like device running Squidge/Midge... All the other ARM/MIPS/PPC stuff seems to run in the 150$+ market.
The device can be used with a stylus, right? It would be very cool to have... I don't like laptops, they really do force you in a certain way to use them, I'd rather have this and just sit however and use it. The fact that it's a tablet is a nice plus... I'm just hoping battery life will be good.
The only thing would be a keyboard, but you could just plug in a mini USB keyboard and use that.
VIA has Harald Welte working with them right now, and thanks to him we have a working Gallium and Mesa3D driver for the CN896. I'm pretty sure that, or the VX800, would be in this device.
So I'd say it's safe to say that this device should work quite well. VIA is no longer the jerk in a small pond it used to be.
You always think they're one man short, but people will walk the floors, people won't show up. It's quite close to a majority, isn't it?
Regardless, I don't think Obama would move to ban handguns. It's a lot of bad press that he doesn't need to get involved in. I don't think the americans would want a national gun registry, or limited firearms sales, like we have up here... Especially not at this point.
My TV runs "uboot". It was odd, I'm just looking through the manual papers, and out come a GPL/LGPL notice... The English side doesn't say anything, the French side just mentions "uboot" where it says LGPL Software...
Or do you buy now and screw USB3.0? Do you invest in AM2+ or LGA775, or do you wait Core i7? Do you consider an ARM solution or Atom to hold you over?
I've got a really old PC. And USB3 was one of the last things I was waiting for to upgrade... But at this point is it even worth bothering? What the heck is going to need USB3, other than maybe external hard drives?
If you like games for real men, MadWorld is going to make you go nuts.
A beautiful cell-shaded game, in black, white, and red. It's a gameshow where the more creative you are with your kills, the more points you get. I believe you're in downtown Tokyo or in a similar place, I've only seen screenshots but you're in a more Asiatic city environment.
And there's also The Conduit, Monster Hunter 3, etc., which should be a lot of fun. Of course, I've still got to hunt down all those good Wii games, and it's fairly long play times.
Last I checked 3.5" hard drives use so much more power that it would push it past the 150W PSU range (which seems to be the limit for picoPSU and likely Apple's PSUs).
Or is it actually much lower than that, like in the 50W range?...
I didn't say I needed room for '346 PCI cards'. If it had been, say, twice the volume of the existing mini, it would've been large enough to use regular DIMMs instead of SO-DIMMs, and large enough to use a regular 3.5" HD instead of a laptop HD. Right there, they would've saved enough money to probably make it $100 cheaper.
And then you'd probably need a bigger power supply so you can kiss the form factor goodbye...
Not long enough, then... I was hoping more along the lines of "indefinately". I miss analogue's slow and graceful end, rather than digital's quick suprise death...
That said, is it possible to "scrape" those videos of most networks' streaming sites? Rather than record the shows, I figure I could always grab them off globaltv.com or nbc.com, or wherever, to later play them on a PMP.
(and as a sidenote, does Hauppauge make hybrid cards for PCI? or are they all PCIEx1?)
Either I go with Rogers for fast speeds, and get charged crazy amounts with caps, or I go Teksavvy with 5mbps at the greatest... And that's still like 30$-40$ a month (or 25$ for the lowest plan at either rogers' or teksavvy). It's not really fast enough, or has enough bandwidth (the teksavvy one might but I'd need a change of modems and lose my 15% discount), to stream shows to all my TVs.
But then again, we're paying 60$/month for digital cable. If getting rid of the digital cable and going back to normal cable brings that back down a fair amount, then I end up "winning". But will analogue cable still be around for a long time? (for a TV tuner card)
And what about channels like CNN (the one with Larry King, Anderson Cooper, and the international one)? Can you even get those online? And what about channels like Spike and Speed?
Of course, it works great for NBC/Global/etc. for shows like House, Heroes, ER, etc. that are shown for free on the web... But these are shown free over the air as well. =/
(Just out of curiosity, what's the reccomended minimum for most of these services?)
From what I can understand they're hoping to dish out 10-100mbps speeds on the same bands as analog TV were once on.
For once, I'd say the tax payers on both sides of the border should help pay for this, but that it remains government-managed (or whatever is best for a public service).
I remember seeing as a kid all sorts of things on streetlights, how they should be "shortened" so you can focus the light onto the pavement and not onto the sky...
Why exactly aren't we just putting down-wards and angular LEDs in fixtures like those?
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Why doesn't my Xbox play Mario games?
I'm pretty sure there's a graphical tool for XRandR.
Now, whether or not XRandR is right for you, I don't know...
My hard drive in this machine is 13GB. According to Conky, I'm using about 2.8GB.
So 4GB is plenty. How much pricier is 16GB? What's it go for now a days, and are we talking bulk or retail?
Best explanation of why ARM is good for this sort of stuff that I've found.
Isn't there a core on there that can do Flash-related stuff? Like a SVG core, or is that the DSP/GPU? And what about the mx.i515 or whatever, the one they want to use for a 200$ ubuntu netbook? How do they stack up together?
This stuff is cool. I had a project I was thinking about using an OMAP for. How exactly would I build a board though? Are we talking fab/engineer-level, or is it cheap enough to get a design made, or use a pre-existing design?
Wow, I didn't think they got that cheap in bulk...
Of course, I should know better!
The only way to justify that 300$ price point is if they call it a laptop. If you're just calling it a touchscreen that can browse the web, sorry, it's not going to sell for 300$; a DS costs 130$, and you can add an extra 30$ for a browser kit.
I don't think they'll save much money by dropping the RAM or the camera; maybe the battery. It would be interesting to have a battery-less version for us, those who like to read at night and have power outlets not too far away. If it can drop that price by 50$, it'd be worth it. The screen is a big cost, too...
I wonder what the price breakup is like? They should definately try and knock this down to 199$ if it means dropping some of the luxury features (camera, accel., etc) but not if it means knocking quality. There's only so far you can go.
Aren't the SWF and FLV formats completely open now? Is all that's missing for Gnash to hit perfection developper time?
The beagleboard starts at 149$; I could get a VIA Nano mini-ITX, 1.6GHz with PCIE-x16, board for 109$.
Are ARM/MIPS/PPC at all cheap? I keep seeing kits for crazy prices. Where do you go to look them up? How much would you say is bulk price? The lowest I've seen for MIPS was ~34$, for this router-like device running Squidge/Midge... All the other ARM/MIPS/PPC stuff seems to run in the 150$+ market.
I'm pretty sure you could bring Debian down to the 1GB range with all the software you could want. Even lower if you stripped out unused drivers.
That leaves you about 3GB to play around with. That's plenty. Put your music on a network drive, or on an SD card, or you know, on an MP3 player.
Take a look at CellWriter:
http://risujin.org/cellwriter/
Is that what you were looking for?
The device can be used with a stylus, right? It would be very cool to have... I don't like laptops, they really do force you in a certain way to use them, I'd rather have this and just sit however and use it. The fact that it's a tablet is a nice plus... I'm just hoping battery life will be good.
The only thing would be a keyboard, but you could just plug in a mini USB keyboard and use that.
VIA has Harald Welte working with them right now, and thanks to him we have a working Gallium and Mesa3D driver for the CN896. I'm pretty sure that, or the VX800, would be in this device.
So I'd say it's safe to say that this device should work quite well. VIA is no longer the jerk in a small pond it used to be.
You always think they're one man short, but people will walk the floors, people won't show up. It's quite close to a majority, isn't it?
Regardless, I don't think Obama would move to ban handguns. It's a lot of bad press that he doesn't need to get involved in. I don't think the americans would want a national gun registry, or limited firearms sales, like we have up here... Especially not at this point.
Brings a whole new meaning to point-and-shoot.
My TV runs "uboot". It was odd, I'm just looking through the manual papers, and out come a GPL/LGPL notice... The English side doesn't say anything, the French side just mentions "uboot" where it says LGPL Software...
Why does a TV need busybox/coreboot/etc?
Double-hint: The government can be elected, moulded, and destroyed, by you.
Do you wait until 2010 to upgrade an old PC?
Or do you buy now and screw USB3.0? Do you invest in AM2+ or LGA775, or do you wait Core i7? Do you consider an ARM solution or Atom to hold you over?
I've got a really old PC. And USB3 was one of the last things I was waiting for to upgrade... But at this point is it even worth bothering? What the heck is going to need USB3, other than maybe external hard drives?
FireWire is used for cable boxes.
Shit ain't dead yet, and you better hope it stays this way.
Pine. Beetles are great, aren't they?
If you like games for real men, MadWorld is going to make you go nuts.
A beautiful cell-shaded game, in black, white, and red. It's a gameshow where the more creative you are with your kills, the more points you get. I believe you're in downtown Tokyo or in a similar place, I've only seen screenshots but you're in a more Asiatic city environment.
And there's also The Conduit, Monster Hunter 3, etc., which should be a lot of fun. Of course, I've still got to hunt down all those good Wii games, and it's fairly long play times.
Last I checked 3.5" hard drives use so much more power that it would push it past the 150W PSU range (which seems to be the limit for picoPSU and likely Apple's PSUs).
Or is it actually much lower than that, like in the 50W range?...
I didn't say I needed room for '346 PCI cards'. If it had been, say, twice the volume of the existing mini, it would've been large enough to use regular DIMMs instead of SO-DIMMs, and large enough to use a regular 3.5" HD instead of a laptop HD. Right there, they would've saved enough money to probably make it $100 cheaper.
And then you'd probably need a bigger power supply so you can kiss the form factor goodbye...
Not long enough, then... I was hoping more along the lines of "indefinately". I miss analogue's slow and graceful end, rather than digital's quick suprise death...
That said, is it possible to "scrape" those videos of most networks' streaming sites? Rather than record the shows, I figure I could always grab them off globaltv.com or nbc.com, or wherever, to later play them on a PMP.
(and as a sidenote, does Hauppauge make hybrid cards for PCI? or are they all PCIEx1?)
At least, it wouldn't be for someone like me.
Either I go with Rogers for fast speeds, and get charged crazy amounts with caps, or I go Teksavvy with 5mbps at the greatest... And that's still like 30$-40$ a month (or 25$ for the lowest plan at either rogers' or teksavvy). It's not really fast enough, or has enough bandwidth (the teksavvy one might but I'd need a change of modems and lose my 15% discount), to stream shows to all my TVs.
But then again, we're paying 60$/month for digital cable. If getting rid of the digital cable and going back to normal cable brings that back down a fair amount, then I end up "winning". But will analogue cable still be around for a long time? (for a TV tuner card)
And what about channels like CNN (the one with Larry King, Anderson Cooper, and the international one)? Can you even get those online? And what about channels like Spike and Speed?
Of course, it works great for NBC/Global/etc. for shows like House, Heroes, ER, etc. that are shown for free on the web... But these are shown free over the air as well. =/
(Just out of curiosity, what's the reccomended minimum for most of these services?)
From what I can understand they're hoping to dish out 10-100mbps speeds on the same bands as analog TV were once on.
For once, I'd say the tax payers on both sides of the border should help pay for this, but that it remains government-managed (or whatever is best for a public service).
I remember seeing as a kid all sorts of things on streetlights, how they should be "shortened" so you can focus the light onto the pavement and not onto the sky...
Why exactly aren't we just putting down-wards and angular LEDs in fixtures like those?