Yes, they did release their prooduct specs and design, and show a few prototypes, but the submitter of the story said it best: "Now where's my Sony Vaio with Crusoe inside?"
I know I'll be labeled a flamer for saying this, but Microsoft actually did this the right way with their latest PocketPC stuff. They announce their new technology, and wow, look, there are already PDAs for sale with the technology in use.
Transmeta was the latest in a whole string of companies who like to announce their greatest new technology when no actual products using the new technology were actually available.
Don't get me wrong, I totally support Transmeta and the way they did it, because at least with Transmeta you had a good idea that this wasn't going to be permanent vapor ware, and all along they had their release date and they MADE their release date.
But they announced their product long before it was released, because it was announced mid January, and I have yet to come across a laptop with a Transmeta chip inside.
did anyone see the screenshot of playing full-colour Golf? Beautiful. I *like* the idea of sitting on the beach and reading an eBook, listening to MP3s, all on a single gizmo.
But what if, say, this thing comes with a visor output, or something like that (like projects onto a pair of glasses or something).
anyway... that would make it useful. you're right, as it stands, trying to play quake on a tiny screen with probably poor contrast would not be that much fun.
but, as it's a pentium, of course it'll run linux:)
Now this is a comment with some sense. How does the radio work? Do radio stations pay for every time they play the song, or, as it usually works around my neck of the woods, do new CDs get sent free of charge to the station with notes asking the DJ to play the song to generate some interest in the artist, perhaps as a prelude to the artist coming into town and giving a performance. Anyway, the author of 'ghost performances' obviously has a good idea of what is going on. I wish the 'industry' had half an inkling of what is GOOD for them. Perhaps have CDs of very high quality MP3s on the 'big company's web site which cost some small fee for price of bandwidth to send out the file and storage space on server to store the file. most people distribute somewhat lesser quality (128 sampling) MP3, this generates desire for the high quality stuff, like CDs, performances in the area, etc. maybe another idea is to extend the MP3 to include advertising info which updates from a server: 'Remember fans, we are coming to the Los Angeles Convention Center on March 29th, be there!'. anyway.... frknfrk. WebVan (get groceries and other stuff delivered to you door: in San Francisco now and opening in Atlanta soon).
Speaking of Bolo, and of cross-platform games... anyone ever play the macintosh version of Bolo? it was very, very cool. there was a subculture of players here at Purdue University, and it was this tcp-ip game on the mac, about the only reason i ever used the macs in the computer labs outside of photoshop.
CmdrTaco has been watching Austin Powers again, eh?...if this thing is your bag, check it out. I am now awaiting the book, "This Sort of Thing is My Bag, Baby" by Rob Malda. otherwise, yes, i like cool cases too.
The woman from Michigan said that she expects clinical trials with (nanotechnology used for gene therapy) to begin within two years. Why does everyone else seem to think this will be waiting for at least a decade? Perhaps the laws of computing apply to nanotechnology, too... (doubling every 18 months). anyway, just goes to show you that with enough funding, scientists can do just about anything - although whether they come up with the thing which the funding was for... that's of course a very different story. but it certainly appears this folks at the U. of M. have something interesting to bring to the table, not someday, but now.
Since I am waiting a few years to see the next movie anyway, I will just wait until next year and simply buy the DVD if/when it is released. I simply will not purchase any movie on VHS anymore, and even a movie I very much want to own will not make an exception to that rule. So if you are serious about wanting more DVD releases, do not buy this VHS. Or stop whining:)
well, if i am typing at home, and i develop carpal tunnel or a myriad of other maladies which result from poor ergonomic environments, and i am working for this company, they are responsible for the damage done, a-la workman's comp, whatever. so it is probably cheaper for them to outfit me with an ergonomic environment to telecommute from than to pay for my rehabilitaion.
The wheel. Okay. The telegraph. Okay. Electric Hand Dryers? I doubt I'm the only one who could easily live their life without an electric hand dryer. The light bulb narrowly missed my list. But the electric hand dryer makes it. One word: WOW.
I said that I wished MS had competition in the 80s similar to the competition Intel has from AMD now. the competition MS faced in the 80s was nothing like the current Intel vs. AMD wars. You said yourself that all of the MS 'competition' 'sucked at the consumer level'. Well, I was saying that AMD does NOT suck at the consumer level, and if OS/2 had not sucked at the consumer level, perhaps windows and OS/2 would both be around, and both be much better. Buf, of course, who knows. at least I don't go around calling people nerdboy:)
sorry that i keep ranting about alphas, but the (well-written and informative) article mentioned the alpha cpu under its breath, when talking about the ability of both the K7 and the G4 to achieve OOO (out of order) execution.
This bookkeeping takes special hardware, hardware that both the K7 and MPC7400 have and that a more traditional RISC machine like the older Alpha lacks.
So is this something Compaq/DEC/whomever is working on, or is it that important? The only drawback I found in the a.t. article is that the desire to achieve OOO was not motivated, but then again, that may be only because I took cpu architecture a few years ago (before OOO became a big deal).
Is it just me, or did the Athlon outperform everything on every single test. In most cases it was around 10 percent better or so. While the K6 was certainly not 'quite there', the Athlon is really pushing Intel to develop cooler technology, which in turn pushes AMD, etc, etc.
Which, of course, leads to better, cheaper technology for all of us.
Gotta love competition. If only a certain OS had competition all through the 80s like Intel is getting from AMD now.
We might have had free UNIX quite a few years earlier...
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Yes, they did release their prooduct specs and design, and show a few prototypes, but the submitter of the story said it best: "Now where's my Sony Vaio with Crusoe inside?"
I know I'll be labeled a flamer for saying this, but Microsoft actually did this the right way with their latest PocketPC stuff. They announce their new technology, and wow, look, there are already PDAs for sale with the technology in use.
Transmeta was the latest in a whole string of companies who like to announce their greatest new technology when no actual products using the new technology were actually available.
Don't get me wrong, I totally support Transmeta and the way they did it, because at least with Transmeta you had a good idea that this wasn't going to be permanent vapor ware, and all along they had their release date and they MADE their release date.
But they announced their product long before it was released, because it was announced mid January, and I have yet to come across a laptop with a Transmeta chip inside.
did anyone see the screenshot of playing full-colour Golf? Beautiful. I *like* the idea of sitting on the beach and reading an eBook, listening to MP3s, all on a single gizmo.
But what if, say, this thing comes with a visor output, or something like that (like projects onto a pair of glasses or something).
:)
anyway... that would make it useful. you're right, as it stands, trying to play quake on a tiny screen with probably poor contrast would not be that much fun.
but, as it's a pentium, of course it'll run linux
Now this is a comment with some sense. How does the radio work? Do radio stations pay for every time they play the song, or, as it usually works around my neck of the woods, do new CDs get sent free of charge to the station with notes asking the DJ to play the song to generate some interest in the artist, perhaps as a prelude to the artist coming into town and giving a performance. Anyway, the author of 'ghost performances' obviously has a good idea of what is going on. I wish the 'industry' had half an inkling of what is GOOD for them. Perhaps have CDs of very high quality MP3s on the 'big company's web site which cost some small fee for price of bandwidth to send out the file and storage space on server to store the file. most people distribute somewhat lesser quality (128 sampling) MP3, this generates desire for the high quality stuff, like CDs, performances in the area, etc. maybe another idea is to extend the MP3 to include advertising info which updates from a server: 'Remember fans, we are coming to the Los Angeles Convention Center on March 29th, be there!'. anyway.... frknfrk. WebVan (get groceries and other stuff delivered to you door: in San Francisco now and opening in Atlanta soon).
Speaking of Bolo, and of cross-platform games... anyone ever play the macintosh version of Bolo? it was very, very cool. there was a subculture of players here at Purdue University, and it was this tcp-ip game on the mac, about the only reason i ever used the macs in the computer labs outside of photoshop.
how do you put brackets in HTML anyway? You use something like this: <tag> Which gives you this: <tag>.
CmdrTaco has been watching Austin Powers again, eh? ...if this thing is your bag, check it out. I am now awaiting the book, "This Sort of Thing is My Bag, Baby" by Rob Malda. otherwise, yes, i like cool cases too.
The woman from Michigan said that she expects clinical trials with (nanotechnology used for gene therapy) to begin within two years. Why does everyone else seem to think this will be waiting for at least a decade? Perhaps the laws of computing apply to nanotechnology, too... (doubling every 18 months). anyway, just goes to show you that with enough funding, scientists can do just about anything - although whether they come up with the thing which the funding was for... that's of course a very different story. but it certainly appears this folks at the U. of M. have something interesting to bring to the table, not someday, but now.
Since I am waiting a few years to see the next movie anyway, I will just wait until next year and simply buy the DVD if/when it is released. I simply will not purchase any movie on VHS anymore, and even a movie I very much want to own will not make an exception to that rule. So if you are serious about wanting more DVD releases, do not buy this VHS. Or stop whining :)
well, if i am typing at home, and i develop carpal tunnel or a myriad of other maladies which result from poor ergonomic environments, and i am working for this company, they are responsible for the damage done, a-la workman's comp, whatever. so it is probably cheaper for them to outfit me with an ergonomic environment to telecommute from than to pay for my rehabilitaion.
The wheel. Okay. The telegraph. Okay. Electric Hand Dryers? I doubt I'm the only one who could easily live their life without an electric hand dryer. The light bulb narrowly missed my list. But the electric hand dryer makes it. One word: WOW.
I said that I wished MS had competition in the 80s similar to the competition Intel has from AMD now. the competition MS faced in the 80s was nothing like the current Intel vs. AMD wars. You said yourself that all of the MS 'competition' 'sucked at the consumer level'. Well, I was saying that AMD does NOT suck at the consumer level, and if OS/2 had not sucked at the consumer level, perhaps windows and OS/2 would both be around, and both be much better. Buf, of course, who knows. at least I don't go around calling people nerdboy :)
I never read the fine print, my mistake.
Is it just me, or did the Athlon outperform everything on every single test. In most cases it was around 10 percent better or so. While the K6 was certainly not 'quite there', the Athlon is really pushing Intel to develop cooler technology, which in turn pushes AMD, etc, etc.
Which, of course, leads to better, cheaper technology for all of us.
Gotta love competition. If only a certain OS had competition all through the 80s like Intel is getting from AMD now.
We might have had free UNIX quite a few years earlier...