a typical notebook computer CPU needing 100 watts, according to SiCortex CEO John Mucci My laptop draws about 20Watts max when running on battery power, even with the CPU running full-throttle. Much of those watts is for the backlight and drive. A 'typical laptop CPU', an Intel Pentium Mobile, uses maximal 24W, according to the datasheet provided by Intel. Saying a laptop would typically use 100W is a bit overstated.
...I really like the idea of low-powered computing. In the last week we already saw a SSD 'disk' with SATA interface presented here that only uses.3Watts. We may not call our PDA's supercomputers these days, but one day in the past, the Big Iron systems used as supercomputing stations were slower than our PDA's can emulate them.
For the Dutch government we created software for them based on a BSD Licence. If the organisation we build the software for would like to have the sourcecode audited, or replaced by something, the can do that. Despite the licence, we also agreed that *we* as a providing company would not open that source unless they'd like us to. For custom-made software solutions this is, in my opinion, great solution for openness to the right party, giving the customer all freedom that s/he needs.
That is Open Source kind of in a way, Free as in Beer, but Free as in Speech as soon as the client wants to have the sourcecode disclosed.
As to Open Standards, I would love our government to only use open standards for documents, but especially video broadcasts from parliamental meetings. These are now in a format my favorite operating system would not natively understand. It would also be great if microsoft gets to think a bit differently and adapt to open standards an just compete by being better than others, rather than more prevalent in the market.
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...I really like the idea of low-powered computing. In the last week we already saw a SSD 'disk' with SATA interface presented here that only uses .3Watts. We may not call our PDA's supercomputers these days, but one day in the past, the Big Iron systems used as supercomputing stations were slower than our PDA's can emulate them.
For the Dutch government we created software for them based on a BSD Licence. If the organisation we build the software for would like to have the sourcecode audited, or replaced by something, the can do that. Despite the licence, we also agreed that *we* as a providing company would not open that source unless they'd like us to. For custom-made software solutions this is, in my opinion, great solution for openness to the right party, giving the customer all freedom that s/he needs. That is Open Source kind of in a way, Free as in Beer, but Free as in Speech as soon as the client wants to have the sourcecode disclosed. As to Open Standards, I would love our government to only use open standards for documents, but especially video broadcasts from parliamental meetings. These are now in a format my favorite operating system would not natively understand. It would also be great if microsoft gets to think a bit differently and adapt to open standards an just compete by being better than others, rather than more prevalent in the market.