ROFL timothy!
rig up a trackball underfoot...
Sounds like an old prank that my older brother played on me...
on our old atari 800xl, he wrote a program that would "identify" us by putting our hand in the cartridge slot. All he really did, though, was set it up so that if he was pushing down one key when he ran the program, it would say it was one person. If he pushed down a different one, it would say someone else.
Well, if enough people are interested, I'll put my UID for auction on eBay. I'm no expert. I'm not even smart - just been readin slashdot for a hecka long time. Ahhh... the good old days of bits and bytes.
Although I think that the Crusoe had a very poor showing in benchmarks, and dismal performance, it's a very new technology. That, and I don't think the code-morphing technology has really hit the right market yet... The biggest difference between Cyrix and Transmeta is that Transmeta has potential for a new technology, Cyrix was just playing follow-the-leader
I thought that the latency issues were largely related to the optical-electronic interfaces. And I think fiber computing in it's early phases will still not be terribly efficient, but with time, it will mature.
well, you seemed to miss another important point in the article: fiber computing. This will come out in the fiber equipment long before it ever makes it to anybody's desktop. This means that you can have a fiber end-to-end solution. No electronics.
re-read post. I address the middle class and the poor separately. And their living conditions. The poor are a huge number, but as poor as they are, in the central-american culture (I understand this to be true at least for all central america, I don't know anything about south) everybody and their dog has a stereo. A danged nice one. The only people who don't have them are those who live in aldeas or the deeply rural areas, and even among them, as the government invests more money in running electricity out to these areas, they are making efforts to acquire stereos. But all the same, as far as computers, its not so much a can't as an issue of too much sacrifice for something they don't see any use for. But they still can't live without their stereos. Not that I'm complaining.
Bah!
I can't speak for other 3rd world countries, but I did live in Guatemala for quite some time. Every middle class person is perfectly capable of buying a computer. Many poor people are a lot more capable of buying computers than you imagine. They'll pay the equivalent of $400 in their money for a good TV. And then they sign up for cable. Or they have $300 stereo systems. I don't think more than about 8% of the people I met didn't have a nice stereo system in their house. Compare that number to the 60% who live in "extreme poverty" and the other 28% who live in "poverty"
Third world countries are bad, but not *that* bad.
The two things that really holds people back from buying computers right along with everything else in Guatemala are: 1) non-technical jobs that therefore provide no computer experience and also no "conceivable" need for computers in your home, and 2) internet access is still pay-by-the-hour in addition to the minute costs of the phone calls (local calls cost about $0.03/min).
That at least has been my humble experience in a third world country.
Well... I wasn't referring to "overclockers"
This was a corporate effort IIRC. They weren't your average business machines or gaming machines, but high performance computing systems.
This is really cool! (no pun intended)
This has some really far-reaching effects. Where heat was previously one of the prime concerns, it will become less so. I've heard stories of supercooled Pentium II's overclocked to around 1GHz. This could mean an instant increase in processor speeds, without any changes in the actual design. R&D, baby. R&D
Lynx + a script for filtering out naughty words and content.
That's easy enough to include on a Linux computer. And nobody said that it has to be enabled by default. Just have the script thrown in/tmp. Or tell anybody investigating that it's installed to/dev/null. They'll never know the difference.
I don't see any good reason for it NOT to apply to private schools. Besides the fact of their competition, which is free, they SHOULD be competitive and try to provide the most attractive environment possible... I think that stripping them of their constitutional free speech is actually anticompetitive and SHOULD be very illegal and the ACLU should be on their backs like a pack of wolves.
And I'm normally opposed to the ACLU's actions.
Heck, I even thought that free speech cases these days were just people trying to push the legal limits to be able to do things that are wrong. I guess I was wrong.
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ROFL timothy!
rig up a trackball underfoot...
Sounds like an old prank that my older brother played on me...
on our old atari 800xl, he wrote a program that would "identify" us by putting our hand in the cartridge slot. All he really did, though, was set it up so that if he was pushing down one key when he ran the program, it would say it was one person. If he pushed down a different one, it would say someone else.
To me, it was some bewitchment on our atari.
Well, if enough people are interested, I'll put my UID for auction on eBay. I'm no expert. I'm not even smart - just been readin slashdot for a hecka long time. Ahhh... the good old days of bits and bytes.
Although I think that the Crusoe had a very poor showing in benchmarks, and dismal performance, it's a very new technology. That, and I don't think the code-morphing technology has really hit the right market yet... The biggest difference between Cyrix and Transmeta is that Transmeta has potential for a new technology, Cyrix was just playing follow-the-leader
In fact, IIRC, China has planned a manned space flight to Mars slated for 2013
I thought that the latency issues were largely related to the optical-electronic interfaces. And I think fiber computing in it's early phases will still not be terribly efficient, but with time, it will mature.
No troll... just a poorly worded plea for improved graphical design. And not just eye candy... but good design.
In the article it says that the first-gen had 4 hours battery life and this, the second-gen has 6 hours battery life.
well, you seemed to miss another important point in the article: fiber computing. This will come out in the fiber equipment long before it ever makes it to anybody's desktop. This means that you can have a fiber end-to-end solution. No electronics.
re-read post. I address the middle class and the poor separately. And their living conditions. The poor are a huge number, but as poor as they are, in the central-american culture (I understand this to be true at least for all central america, I don't know anything about south) everybody and their dog has a stereo. A danged nice one. The only people who don't have them are those who live in aldeas or the deeply rural areas, and even among them, as the government invests more money in running electricity out to these areas, they are making efforts to acquire stereos. But all the same, as far as computers, its not so much a can't as an issue of too much sacrifice for something they don't see any use for. But they still can't live without their stereos. Not that I'm complaining.
Bah!
I can't speak for other 3rd world countries, but I did live in Guatemala for quite some time. Every middle class person is perfectly capable of buying a computer. Many poor people are a lot more capable of buying computers than you imagine. They'll pay the equivalent of $400 in their money for a good TV. And then they sign up for cable. Or they have $300 stereo systems. I don't think more than about 8% of the people I met didn't have a nice stereo system in their house. Compare that number to the 60% who live in "extreme poverty" and the other 28% who live in "poverty"
Third world countries are bad, but not *that* bad.
The two things that really holds people back from buying computers right along with everything else in Guatemala are: 1) non-technical jobs that therefore provide no computer experience and also no "conceivable" need for computers in your home, and 2) internet access is still pay-by-the-hour in addition to the minute costs of the phone calls (local calls cost about $0.03/min).
That at least has been my humble experience in a third world country.
Well... I wasn't referring to "overclockers"
This was a corporate effort IIRC. They weren't your average business machines or gaming machines, but high performance computing systems.
This is really cool! (no pun intended)
This has some really far-reaching effects. Where heat was previously one of the prime concerns, it will become less so. I've heard stories of supercooled Pentium II's overclocked to around 1GHz. This could mean an instant increase in processor speeds, without any changes in the actual design. R&D, baby. R&D
Lynx + a script for filtering out naughty words and content.
/tmp. Or tell anybody investigating that it's installed to /dev/null. They'll never know the difference.
That's easy enough to include on a Linux computer. And nobody said that it has to be enabled by default. Just have the script thrown in
anyone think this is an inflated and bloated amount? You can subscribe to a magazine for half that. This doesn't make sense to me
Tax alcohol
tax cigarettes
tax SUCKY IMPLEMENTATIONS OF GOOD IDEAS!
I don't see any good reason for it NOT to apply to private schools. Besides the fact of their competition, which is free, they SHOULD be competitive and try to provide the most attractive environment possible... I think that stripping them of their constitutional free speech is actually anticompetitive and SHOULD be very illegal and the ACLU should be on their backs like a pack of wolves.
And I'm normally opposed to the ACLU's actions.
Heck, I even thought that free speech cases these days were just people trying to push the legal limits to be able to do things that are wrong. I guess I was wrong.