The price will go down, eventualy. both becoase there will be more machines in the market and there will be compettive forces between modeling companies, and the price of the polymers will eventually go down too.
Most of the big companies alwredy have SLA machines (I know Apple has at least one machine, for example) eventually they will by the new and impruved versions and sell the used ones.. Etc..
Prices will go down, and when the price of a model will go bellow 100$ per shot it will becomes the best system to make models. I'm thinking this is likely to happen in two to four years. (just when I finish my ID studdies..:-)
This is pretty cool, but the real breakthrough in product design technology is stereolithography. A way of making real object by using layered exposure of photopolimers to laser light, extreemly cool and (now) pretty expensive. It allows to make true to life models extreemly fast.
the title music was one of the cute things aswell, by british band The Art of noise, another part of the show that was about 15 years ahead of the times..
I don't think the the emate failed. It was initially locked in to the education market and by the time it was unleashed on everyone steve came back and killed the newton. In a design sense the imate was the precurser of the current apple design.
driver support for alternative OS on intel is a problem today, even with linux having a 10 year head start. Does Cringely think these drivers for sound cards, graphic cards, eathernet cards, modem (winmodem anyone?) would just pop out of thin air?!
The G4 has a better FPU unit, as well as the altivec, more cache, and a few other things I can't remember at the moment. It definetly ISN'T a "G3 with altivec"
> Note that airlines from Israel always have at least one
> armed plainclothes official onboard. You don't hear
> about them getting hijacked very often, do you?
The Problem is actually differant in linux the simple dll incompatabilities, it's the lack of a aggreed standard.
For those just tuning in, linux has the concept of package managment, which doesn't really exist in windows, and intheory should solve the library problem.
In practice there are two competing standards, AKA debian DEB/APT (which works pretty well), and red hat RPM (which is a mess, and not trully automatic).
There are solutions that try to solve the probelms with RPM (mostly the lack of centralized QA on indevidual packages), like the distributions them selves (many, many, many distributions), but couse other problems with diferant distribution packages, (suse RPMs with red system are likly to have problems, etc).
Some other solution are surfacing, like Aduva's manager, which uses a central database as well as a client which analizes the usrs dependancies/interalations on his machine. But that solution is not Free software/gpl/OSS.
Another problam with these solution is that the typical Linux users are reluctant to use automatic systems on thier systems.
Transmeta IS taking on Intel - Intel is taking the mobile market seriously (as well it should, it has a much higher profit margin than desktop processors), both with X86 chips and Strongarm (which intel got when they bought Digital's fabs and development foundries.)
The reason MS is "announcing" a product that is MORE then a year into the future, using Nvidia Chips that are'nt in production, yet, is to get developer support. now.
But more importantly to get developers NOT to develop for compeating systems NOW.
It's classic MS tactic: announce something that is far into the future so people will believe that MS will be dominant in that market, just to scare of developers from spending resources and developing for alternate platforms.
The alternative platform being PS2, dolfine, and in the PC space Linux and mac.
It's not going to work. It's too little, too late. --------------------------------
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I stand corrected, should have read the original post more carefully before gabbing out..
I think your confusing celsus with farenhiet. 17 degs celsus is 17 degries beond freasing, which is 0 degs in celsus.
I'm not sure the proc in the archos can handel decoding of ogg in RT (the decoding af mp3 is done by a closed DSP, not the proc it self)
I hope it can..
I believe that is the term you are looking for..
I have a archos recorder 20G - I love it. But...
The guy talks about a 8 mile run. The archos is slightly heavy for that. it will not be comftarble while jogging, at all.
A solid state device looks like a better option then a HD based device.
Thats front page news - apple becomes the first PC maker to go totaly to dual processor in it's pro desktops.
agreed. This is why I said "now" expensive..
:-)
:-)
The price will go down, eventualy. both becoase there will be more machines in the market and there will be compettive forces between modeling companies, and the price of the polymers will eventually go down too.
Most of the big companies alwredy have SLA machines (I know Apple has at least one machine, for example) eventually they will by the new and impruved versions and sell the used ones.. Etc..
Prices will go down, and when the price of a model will go bellow 100$ per shot it will becomes the best system to make models. I'm thinking this is likely to happen in two to four years. (just when I finish my ID studdies..
Or again. Might be just wishfull thinking...
This is pretty cool, but the real breakthrough in product design technology is stereolithography. A way of making real object by using layered exposure of photopolimers to laser light, extreemly cool and (now) pretty expensive. It allows to make true to life models extreemly fast.
there is some info here - a commercial site.
the title music was one of the cute things aswell, by british band The Art of noise, another part of the show that was about 15 years ahead of the times..
I'm wondering whether a class action can be litegated on this guy for starting spamming.. Would serve this lawyer right...
I don't think the the emate failed. It was initially locked in to the education market and by the time it was unleashed on everyone steve came back and killed the newton. In a design sense the imate was the precurser of the current apple design.
driver support for alternative OS on intel is a problem today, even with linux having a 10 year head start. Does Cringely think these drivers for sound cards, graphic cards, eathernet cards, modem (winmodem anyone?) would just pop out of thin air?!
No way is apple going to do this.
This is really going to make headlines tommorow..
:-)
/. story ever?
The first Slashdot story that is no aggrageted..
Congratz!
(is this going to be the highest commented
I hope so)
The G4 has a better FPU unit, as well as the altivec, more cache, and a few other things I can't remember at the moment. It definetly ISN'T a "G3 with altivec"
> Note that airlines from Israel always have at least one
> armed plainclothes official onboard. You don't hear
> about them getting hijacked very often, do you?
Correction:
You don't hear about them being hijacked at all.
I'm not sure about that..
I think MITS bought the basic code for the altair, but I'm not sure.
The Problem is actually differant in linux the simple dll incompatabilities, it's the lack of a aggreed standard.
For those just tuning in, linux has the concept of package managment, which doesn't really exist in windows, and intheory should solve the library problem.
In practice there are two competing standards, AKA debian DEB/APT (which works pretty well), and red hat RPM (which is a mess, and not trully automatic).
There are solutions that try to solve the probelms with RPM (mostly the lack of centralized QA on indevidual packages), like the distributions them selves (many, many, many distributions), but couse other problems with diferant distribution packages, (suse RPMs with red system are likly to have problems, etc).
Some other solution are surfacing, like Aduva's manager, which uses a central database as well as a client which analizes the usrs dependancies/interalations on his machine. But that solution is not Free software/gpl/OSS.
Another problam with these solution is that the typical Linux users are reluctant to use automatic systems on thier systems.
(I'm feeling genorous today)
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free software people don't kill people...
Open souce people kill people.
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seems more fitting to me... :-)
and join us for the hym...
join us now and share the software, you'll be free hackers...
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yet..
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- wonder if they have a privacy policy... They have one, find it here: http://aduva.com/mason/new/privacy.html
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I'm waiting for cobalt to hit apple with a look and feel copyright lawsuit for a "cube" design.. :-)
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Transmeta IS taking on Intel - Intel is taking the mobile market seriously (as well it should, it has a much higher profit margin than desktop processors), both with X86 chips and Strongarm (which intel got when they bought Digital's fabs and development foundries.)
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It's almost two years into the future.
IF THEY ACTUALLY HIT THE DEADLINE...
It was announced in a huge PR event.
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The reason MS is "announcing" a product that is MORE then a year into the future, using Nvidia Chips that are'nt in production, yet, is to get developer support. now.
But more importantly to get developers NOT to develop for compeating systems NOW.
It's classic MS tactic: announce something that is far into the future so people will believe that MS will be dominant in that market, just to scare of developers from spending resources and developing for alternate platforms.
The alternative platform being PS2, dolfine, and in the PC space Linux and mac.
It's not going to work. It's too little, too late.
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