It would be nice. My experience with the Asus' Xandros is not so encouraging, though. I tried plugging the various logging holes, but there's just too many of 'em.If only all the apps logged into the same filesystem - then I could just mount that one as a ramdisk. But no, many just spew their logs in the most random of places.
I'd like to second that. Ray Beckerman AKA NYCL has done a ton of good to the US citizens (and in a way, to all) and against the RIAA scumbags. I wish there were more extraordinary people like him. He should actively work on cloning himself - preferably by the old-fashioned but very much fun system.
Mod parent up! This is the heart of the problem right there: manufacturers don't write whether the USB drive (or SD card, or any other Flash RAM device) uses SLC or MLC Flash RAM. But that's the main difference. SLC Flash will survive 100.000 write/erase cycles, MLC only about 5000. That's a HUGE difference. Especially if you use the USB drive to host an OS that likes logging a lot. Each log write implies the whole Flash RAM block (usually 128 KB) to be erased and then written to.
Logging is the Flash RAM killer.
And Kingston and Sandisk should start putting "SLC" or "MLC" on their products, so we techies know whether they are worth the double price.
Christie's are being naive, disingenuous or coy - they should know that those books, papers and documents will sell for about 10 times the quoted amounts. Take this scientific paper ("Waves and Motion.") by De Broglie Do you really think it will go for "$1,000 - $1,500"?
If you (and by "you" I don't mean the OP speficically, but anyone) think so, I own a huge copper-plated statue in New York I am willing to sell you for cheap.
Seriously though, I guess these ridiculously low "estimates" serve only one purpose: to create the buzz.
While this display costs 5 to 10 times less than its current competition, it probably won't attract anyone outside the special niche of professional video editing. Which is, definitely, a large niche, don't get me wrong, but for 99% of people the existing displays which cost 10 times less, provide the same quality and experience.
Before you mod me as "troll" (believe me, I was modded as troll for much less), think about this: would you rather spend $3000 on a display, or $300 on a display of the same resolution and brightness, and the rest on occasional romantic dinners with your GF or wife, for the rest of the year? I know what my choice would be.
Do you remember the days when any company that stroke a deal with Microsoft, died a horrible and agonizing death? Well, look at this deal with Novell: it seems this is the first time a company pulled a fast one - on Microsoft! Novell saw a small opportunity to make a bit of money and offered to Microsoft something Novell must have known is worthless and impossible: the proprietarization of Linux. Microsoft was desperate enough that it wanted to believe this baloney and Novell was more than happy to oblige and feed them the BS, making a few bucks in the process, and attracting (extremely few) additional customers. Not too much profit, but every little helps, and you won't spit on it, especially if you give NOTHING in return, like Novell did to Microsoft.
Microsoft is getting sloppy and silly. These are indeed new times.
Since I've seen the movie "Gattaca", I have been ever more worried about the possibilities of genetic discrimination, and felt that many things predicted in "Gattaca" were unfolding before my very eyes. We already have genetically chosen babies, and the though that soon we'd have companies discriminating against genetically "inferior" people, scared the shit out of me. What is extremely important to note is that, just because we might have a genetically inferiour makeup, does NOT mean we can't be succesful in achieving our goals in our lives: genes don't tell anything about how determined one is, how he or she can beat the odds and be the next Nobel laureate, successful and creative artist, or just a very valuable person whom everybody who knows him/her respects and loves, and strives to emulate.
I might be modded down for saying this, but I am very grateful to all the politicians that were instrumental in bringing this motion to acceptance - yes, including Dubya.
...and this is what J&J was contesting. J&J was more than happy to let the symbol be used for NON-PROFIT purposes, but the ARC has been using it to make money off of it, and PROHIBITING its use by other organizations!
I know it's easy to flame the big corporation (and I hate big corps more than the average slashdotter, as I've been working in such for many years before I redeemed my freedom), but in this particular case it's the ARC that's abusing a symbol that should be free of commercial ties. J&J let the ARC use it, but when the ARC started "subletting" it to make money, J&J had a problem with that.
I have been thinking along the same lines for a long time. I came to the conclusion that landfills are, in a weird way, good for the planet in the long run, if filled with carbon-containing trash - this is, as you noted, a carbon-sequestering mechanism of sorts. But this seems even less politically correct to say, than that nuclear plants are more ecologically sound than coal plants, so I don't expect your post to be modded very high. Slashdot can be extremely PC.
Not true at all. Have you heard of electromigration? Its rate increases with temperature, exponentially (actually, by the Arrhenius law). Accelerated electromigration failure tests are and have been extremely common both in the industry as in research institutions.
The answer is staring you in the eyes: MS or even Google doesn't necessarily care how much searches you do on their site - what they make money on is the clicks on their ads. If you only search on Google but then make the purchase on Microsoft (simplifying the language here), advertisers won't pay Google but Microsoft. Microsoft wins.
MS Office is by far the most widespread office application package. We're talking 90% of marketshare in both Windows and Mac worlds. So what does this allow Microsoft?
- Implement ODF support but so that many ODF documents created by look like crap in MS Office. Typical user: " is crap."
- ODF documents created by MS Office look like crap when read by , or even make crash. Typical user: " is crap."
- Govt. and other institutions that mandate the use of standards-supporting office applications are satisfied that their most-often used software, MS Office, satisfies the requirement. In the meantime, MS works hard to release their OOXML-supporting Office.
That's a straw man argument (i.e. designed to derail the conversation), because Catholics, Anglicans, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists (you have members of all those religions in the police in the US) are not members of a cult that also resembles a criminal organization. However, the great majority of Slashdot patrons are way more sophisticated than that and will see through your puny attempt.
Last time when someone critical of Scientology turned up dead, police was happy to believe he committed suicide, even though he had given no prior signs (nor had any reason to) kill himself.
You know that Scientology has infiltrated the police in the US in some cities?
For me it's strange that it's strange for you. It seems like you're living in a different world - one where engineers (I am not talking about software engineers, either) can become a CEO? Now that's strange/unusual.
For the record, I graduated electronic engineering at the top of my generation (among the top 5%) and was convinced I have a bright future ahead of me. It didn't work out like that. But anyhow, I am back into science now, with an even more miserable salary than before (if you want to get rich you DON'T want to be a scientist) but it's what I enjoy doing.
Crysis 3 will come out and require a 16-core 5.5mhz processor That's some rather exotic CPU you've got there. Some Z80 reincarnation with 16 cores? Will that run faster than a single Pentium 1 at 100MHz?
Just kidding, just kidding. But I do wonder what such a CPU could actually be used for.
The only one I can completely agree with is the screen size. The card reader argument is BS! The CPU is underclocked, to save some power,but it's enough for all the tasks I do with this computer without ever feeling a delay. The battery life is above average for laptops, so I am rather satisfied.
Hey, I'd be very curious to know what country are your developers from/living in, and what country is your company incorporated in - if that's not a secret. Well, at least the first part (where are your people located).
Seriously: when being a scientist or an engineer will mean high salary and social status (in other words: when girls will want to fellate scientists and engineers), is when more young men and women will take up that career choice.
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It would be nice. My experience with the Asus' Xandros is not so encouraging, though. I tried plugging the various logging holes, but there's just too many of 'em.If only all the apps logged into the same filesystem - then I could just mount that one as a ramdisk. But no, many just spew their logs in the most random of places.
I'd like to second that. Ray Beckerman AKA NYCL has done a ton of good to the US citizens (and in a way, to all) and against the RIAA scumbags. I wish there were more extraordinary people like him. He should actively work on cloning himself - preferably by the old-fashioned but very much fun system.
Mod parent up! This is the heart of the problem right there: manufacturers don't write whether the USB drive (or SD card, or any other Flash RAM device) uses SLC or MLC Flash RAM. But that's the main difference. SLC Flash will survive 100.000 write/erase cycles, MLC only about 5000. That's a HUGE difference. Especially if you use the USB drive to host an OS that likes logging a lot. Each log write implies the whole Flash RAM block (usually 128 KB) to be erased and then written to.
Logging is the Flash RAM killer.
And Kingston and Sandisk should start putting "SLC" or "MLC" on their products, so we techies know whether they are worth the double price.
That may be true, but consider that the nice memories we'll have will last way past the useful life of that monitor. I think it's money well spent.
:o)
Oh well, this is Slashdot after all
Christie's are being naive, disingenuous or coy - they should know that those books, papers and documents will sell for about 10 times the quoted amounts. Take this scientific paper ("Waves and Motion.") by De Broglie Do you really think it will go for "$1,000 - $1,500"?
If you (and by "you" I don't mean the OP speficically, but anyone) think so, I own a huge copper-plated statue in New York I am willing to sell you for cheap.
Seriously though, I guess these ridiculously low "estimates" serve only one purpose: to create the buzz.
I'm glad I finally found a fellow cyclist, on Slashdot!
Wish you a great ride!
While this display costs 5 to 10 times less than its current competition, it probably won't attract anyone outside the special niche of professional video editing. Which is, definitely, a large niche, don't get me wrong, but for 99% of people the existing displays which cost 10 times less, provide the same quality and experience.
Before you mod me as "troll" (believe me, I was modded as troll for much less), think about this: would you rather spend $3000 on a display, or $300 on a display of the same resolution and brightness, and the rest on occasional romantic dinners with your GF or wife, for the rest of the year? I know what my choice would be.
Do you remember the days when any company that stroke a deal with Microsoft, died a horrible and agonizing death? Well, look at this deal with Novell: it seems this is the first time a company pulled a fast one - on Microsoft! Novell saw a small opportunity to make a bit of money and offered to Microsoft something Novell must have known is worthless and impossible: the proprietarization of Linux. Microsoft was desperate enough that it wanted to believe this baloney and Novell was more than happy to oblige and feed them the BS, making a few bucks in the process, and attracting (extremely few) additional customers. Not too much profit, but every little helps, and you won't spit on it, especially if you give NOTHING in return, like Novell did to Microsoft.
Microsoft is getting sloppy and silly. These are indeed new times.
Since I've seen the movie "Gattaca", I have been ever more worried about the possibilities of genetic discrimination, and felt that many things predicted in "Gattaca" were unfolding before my very eyes. We already have genetically chosen babies, and the though that soon we'd have companies discriminating against genetically "inferior" people, scared the shit out of me. What is extremely important to note is that, just because we might have a genetically inferiour makeup, does NOT mean we can't be succesful in achieving our goals in our lives: genes don't tell anything about how determined one is, how he or she can beat the odds and be the next Nobel laureate, successful and creative artist, or just a very valuable person whom everybody who knows him/her respects and loves, and strives to emulate.
I might be modded down for saying this, but I am very grateful to all the politicians that were instrumental in bringing this motion to acceptance - yes, including Dubya.
Congratulations to all at JPL and all the other guys and gals that made this happen, in such a grand way!
PDA and cell phone aren't necessarily the same thing.
...and this is what J&J was contesting. J&J was more than happy to let the symbol be used for NON-PROFIT purposes, but the ARC has been using it to make money off of it, and PROHIBITING its use by other organizations!
I know it's easy to flame the big corporation (and I hate big corps more than the average slashdotter, as I've been working in such for many years before I redeemed my freedom), but in this particular case it's the ARC that's abusing a symbol that should be free of commercial ties. J&J let the ARC use it, but when the ARC started "subletting" it to make money, J&J had a problem with that.
I have been thinking along the same lines for a long time. I came to the conclusion that landfills are, in a weird way, good for the planet in the long run, if filled with carbon-containing trash - this is, as you noted, a carbon-sequestering mechanism of sorts.
But this seems even less politically correct to say, than that nuclear plants are more ecologically sound than coal plants, so I don't expect your post to be modded very high. Slashdot can be extremely PC.
Not true at all. Have you heard of electromigration? Its rate increases with temperature, exponentially (actually, by the Arrhenius law). Accelerated electromigration failure tests are and have been extremely common both in the industry as in research institutions.
The answer is staring you in the eyes: MS or even Google doesn't necessarily care how much searches you do on their site - what they make money on is the clicks on their ads. If you only search on Google but then make the purchase on Microsoft (simplifying the language here), advertisers won't pay Google but Microsoft. Microsoft wins.
MS Office is by far the most widespread office application package. We're talking 90% of marketshare in both Windows and Mac worlds. So what does this allow Microsoft?
- Implement ODF support but so that many ODF documents created by look like crap in MS Office. Typical user: " is crap."
- ODF documents created by MS Office look like crap when read by , or even make crash. Typical user: " is crap."
- Govt. and other institutions that mandate the use of standards-supporting office applications are satisfied that their most-often used software, MS Office, satisfies the requirement. In the meantime, MS works hard to release their OOXML-supporting Office.
That's a straw man argument (i.e. designed to derail the conversation), because Catholics, Anglicans, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists (you have members of all those religions in the police in the US) are not members of a cult that also resembles a criminal organization. However, the great majority of Slashdot patrons are way more sophisticated than that and will see through your puny attempt.
I think this characteristic:
4) In order to easier manipulate them, it will try to weaken the members by severing their ties with their families and friends.
is extremely important, for the devastating consequences it has.
Last time when someone critical of Scientology turned up dead, police was happy to believe he committed suicide, even though he had given no prior signs (nor had any reason to) kill himself.
You know that Scientology has infiltrated the police in the US in some cities?
For me it's strange that it's strange for you. It seems like you're living in a different world - one where engineers (I am not talking about software engineers, either) can become a CEO? Now that's strange/unusual.
For the record, I graduated electronic engineering at the top of my generation (among the top 5%) and was convinced I have a bright future ahead of me. It didn't work out like that. But anyhow, I am back into science now, with an even more miserable salary than before (if you want to get rich you DON'T want to be a scientist) but it's what I enjoy doing.
Just kidding, just kidding. But I do wonder what such a CPU could actually be used for.
The only one I can completely agree with is the screen size. The card reader argument is BS! The CPU is underclocked, to save some power,but it's enough for all the tasks I do with this computer without ever feeling a delay. The battery life is above average for laptops, so I am rather satisfied.
Hey, I'd be very curious to know what country are your developers from/living in, and what country is your company incorporated in - if that's not a secret. Well, at least the first part (where are your people located).
Seriously: when being a scientist or an engineer will mean high salary and social status (in other words: when girls will want to fellate scientists and engineers), is when more young men and women will take up that career choice.
Simple as that.