I'm trying to snatch up some last-gen Mtron SSDs. The Mobi 3000 looks especially good for the price. They're old and only 16GB, but they're also SLC server SSDs, with about 100MB/sec read and 80MB/sec write.
1) If the trees actually get replanted, then that's fine, but despite the claims that "more trees are being replanted than harvested", the amount of planted forest is still shrinking quite rapidly.:P
Perhaps forest is being cleared to make room for cities and farms, or for other reasons, but it's still getting cut all over the world!
2) Creating water bottles makes a lot of pollution, and is quite bad for the environment. It's nice to see them recycling plastic rather than manufacturing it fresh.
3) Trees do not appear to have feelings or emotions, but they could be aware of their surroundings to some degree.
Studies have found that trees grow better when near siblings, parents, and children. Some scientists believe it's chemical similarities that are responsible for that - certain plants(weeds in particular) release chemicals that inhibit other plants growing, and help plants of the same species to grow. Since a "family" of plants would be quite biologically similar - or at least, more similar than plants of the same species growing hundreds of miles apart - the "family" of plants would grow best together.
So although trees may not think or have emotion, they display biological felial/parental responses.
Old benchies from last august put them at equal battery life, which suggests to me that it's the size of the battery affecting the battery life of the netbook - not the Atom or Nano CPU.
It's long been known that Nanos are incredibly fast compared to Atoms.
Now if only I could buy one. "Released" a year ago, huh? Where?:P
I don't know about laptops, but there's a PDA-like device called the Pandora.
It meets your "all day" requirement - according to the devs, it has a ~10hr battery life when doing stuff like browsing the net. It can also drop into and out of standby very quickly, to save even more power when not in use.
It has a touchscreen, mini keyboard, and gaming controls, so it does a bit of everything. Good for note-taking, good for surfing, good for emulators.
The biggest negative is right now they aren't in mass production; the devs required pre-orders to pay for them, since it's a small team of FOSS junkies making it.:P
Boo! Put it on Hulu so Canadians can watch it too!
I don't understand these networks. They don't seem to understand that the internet is a global community. With TV there's no guarantees that you're hitting the correct audience, so the desire to filter the audience(so that it is "correct") is understandable when the opportunity arises - but what they seem to forget is they lose out on evangelical advertising because of that filtering.
I'm Canadian, but I spammed all my American friends about Hulu, and now they all watch TV there. If a show isn't available on Hulu, then we'll look for it elsewhere. If we have to jump through hoops to watch it(AOL, ABC, CBS, BBC, etc. etc.), then we won't; we'll just torrent it.
I think they'd be best off streaming it with or without ads to other countries, just to capitalize off word-of-mouth advertising. Stuff that can be watched by anyone on the internet spreads rapidly - See: Dr. Horrible, Monty Python
Networks like this will never get my endorsement - but not because of me; it's because they block me.
14 and 15 are integers. CPUs require less transistors to handle those, which means less chance to lose bits. If the CPU is well designed, integers will still be 100% accurate, but floating point will just be "more inaccurate + much faster".
I'd hope there was the option to opt-in. (maybe some instructions that tweak the behaviour?)
For stuff like handheld UIs, getting RGB values wrong by even 2 bits shouldn't be visible or matter.
Technicality of wording, but it didn't really cost them their lives - and I'm sure that was part of what helped them decide.
They lost their lives, but that was going to happen anyway. I do consider them heroes, because most people are gutless fools, but can you honestly say you wouldn't have done the same?
I know I'd be the same as them. My first reaction in situations like that(bank robber - never been on a plane heist) is to attack/disable.
COD4 - "Starts up fine, but too slow to play. Frame rate is about 2 FPS at 640x480 with all settings reduced to minimum. VM settings - 1.5GB ram, 2 VCPU's, optimize for VM."
This does not sound to me like something a frequent gamer would put up with, when dual booting would give much better results.
VMWare is to be applauded for their DirectX effort, but they're not quite there yet.
Sounds like hyperbole to me - but even if it wasn't, what would you expect with that videocard?
A new videocard + fully up to date DirectX/drivers is the best way to get okay framerates if you really want to do this rather than dual-booting.
The Windows kernel is a bad example, since it initializes in only a couple of seconds. Most of the Windows boot time is loading crap Microsoft tacked on to the OS.
There have been various projects over the years that strip all the extra stuff out of Windows: MicroWinX, Mindows, nLite(Tool), vLite(Tool), etc.
WinXP stripped to the minimum - customized to only work with your own hardware - usually takes over 5 seconds to go from boot menu to desktop. It should also easily fit inside 200MB, despite having full Java/.net/etc. support.
20 seconds is a lot. I have a 1ghz VIA C7 computer that boots a customized WinXP in 14 seconds, and boots a regular Ubuntu in about 80 seconds - Note that this does include POST times.:/
The linux kernel just starts slower. I still think it's better than the Windows Kernel, since everyone can pool knowledge and add features, but boot time is one of Linux's weaknesses.
I think that's good. When you think of Windows' weaknesses, security or time-until-patch are the first to pop into mind.:P
A while ago there was a company that produced energy-efficient supercomputers. The motherboards they used were absolutely packed with low-power low-speed fanless CPUs.
I don't think they survived - not enough demand - most companies prefer faster, fewer cores.
I believe their smallest system had something like 96 CPUs, and biggest about 3500. Power consumption was around 1 watt for each CPU, plus whatever the RAM uses. That means in theory you could run a 3500 CPU beast in your own home - at the loss of several rooms.
Yeah, but isn't the DS a dual-core 33mhz CPU or something? 4MB of RAM! Hardly usable for surfing the net and IM'ing friends.
I'd rather get a Pandora, once they're available. It appears to have enough processing power to play an MP3 while loading GIMP + Firefox(according to a vid from one of the developers), so as far as ultra-portables go, it's looking pretty good.
Plus, it has all the weird extras, like a touchscreen and gaming controls.
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To be honest, I thought they had machines that pop keys on and assemble these things - but I suppose over there people are cheaper than machines.
Damn it... my keyboard was made in China... and it cost me $2.99 + S&H. :/
It's a BTC keyboard. I wonder if it was made with slave labour?
I'm trying to snatch up some last-gen Mtron SSDs. The Mobi 3000 looks especially good for the price. They're old and only 16GB, but they're also SLC server SSDs, with about 100MB/sec read and 80MB/sec write.
Cant wait for them to drop under $100!
Three things...
1) If the trees actually get replanted, then that's fine, but despite the claims that "more trees are being replanted than harvested", the amount of planted forest is still shrinking quite rapidly. :P
Perhaps forest is being cleared to make room for cities and farms, or for other reasons, but it's still getting cut all over the world!
2) Creating water bottles makes a lot of pollution, and is quite bad for the environment. It's nice to see them recycling plastic rather than manufacturing it fresh.
3) Trees do not appear to have feelings or emotions, but they could be aware of their surroundings to some degree.
Studies have found that trees grow better when near siblings, parents, and children. Some scientists believe it's chemical similarities that are responsible for that - certain plants(weeds in particular) release chemicals that inhibit other plants growing, and help plants of the same species to grow. Since a "family" of plants would be quite biologically similar - or at least, more similar than plants of the same species growing hundreds of miles apart - the "family" of plants would grow best together.
So although trees may not think or have emotion, they display biological felial/parental responses.
Hopefully I worded that correctly.
Yeah, just like the Flintstones!
This shouldn't be modded funny. It is funny, but there's probably a 50% chance of it actually happening.
Just examine the DRM in Vista. It downgrades video quality if your videocard or monitor isn't HDCP compatible? :/ Honestly...
This is exactly the kind of thing they'd come up with and implement. It sounds ludicrous now, but in 3 years time it won't.
True, most of hulu isn't unless you use proxies - but some of it is.
But hey, there's always the fallback on torrents. :P
And the dual-core Nano will turn the tides on it - except that, you can't buy dual-core Nanos.
Intel won with the Atom because they actually sold Atoms. I can't find Nanos anywhere! I've been looking for a whole year.
Old benchies from last august put them at equal battery life, which suggests to me that it's the size of the battery affecting the battery life of the netbook - not the Atom or Nano CPU.
It's long been known that Nanos are incredibly fast compared to Atoms.
Now if only I could buy one. "Released" a year ago, huh? Where? :P
The tech is all around. All we need is someone who is willing to do it.
Here you go: http://openpandora.org/
There are LED backlit LCDs that have power consumption measured in hundreds of miliwatts, rather than watts.
But these LCDs are mostly tiny things; 800x480 4" screens, etc.; perfect for PDAs, but a bit too small for netbooks.
I don't know about laptops, but there's a PDA-like device called the Pandora.
It meets your "all day" requirement - according to the devs, it has a ~10hr battery life when doing stuff like browsing the net. It can also drop into and out of standby very quickly, to save even more power when not in use.
It has a touchscreen, mini keyboard, and gaming controls, so it does a bit of everything. Good for note-taking, good for surfing, good for emulators.
The biggest negative is right now they aren't in mass production; the devs required pre-orders to pay for them, since it's a small team of FOSS junkies making it. :P
I feel the same way as you. But there's always a percentage of people that will abuse stuff - they have to push it.
My ISP isn't on their block list. The big ones like Telus, Shaw, and Bell are, but apparently smaller ones aren't? :P
I'm with Teksavvy.
Boo! Put it on Hulu so Canadians can watch it too!
I don't understand these networks. They don't seem to understand that the internet is a global community. With TV there's no guarantees that you're hitting the correct audience, so the desire to filter the audience(so that it is "correct") is understandable when the opportunity arises - but what they seem to forget is they lose out on evangelical advertising because of that filtering.
I'm Canadian, but I spammed all my American friends about Hulu, and now they all watch TV there. If a show isn't available on Hulu, then we'll look for it elsewhere. If we have to jump through hoops to watch it(AOL, ABC, CBS, BBC, etc. etc.), then we won't; we'll just torrent it.
I think they'd be best off streaming it with or without ads to other countries, just to capitalize off word-of-mouth advertising. Stuff that can be watched by anyone on the internet spreads rapidly - See: Dr. Horrible, Monty Python
Networks like this will never get my endorsement - but not because of me; it's because they block me.
14 and 15 are integers. CPUs require less transistors to handle those, which means less chance to lose bits. If the CPU is well designed, integers will still be 100% accurate, but floating point will just be "more inaccurate + much faster".
I'd hope there was the option to opt-in. (maybe some instructions that tweak the behaviour?)
For stuff like handheld UIs, getting RGB values wrong by even 2 bits shouldn't be visible or matter.
But think of the power savings! :P
Honestly, this sounds more like a DSP replacement. Most computers need exact math, but some don't.
They are not official names - but they indicate to all readers which consoles are being referred to.
Technicality of wording, but it didn't really cost them their lives - and I'm sure that was part of what helped them decide.
They lost their lives, but that was going to happen anyway. I do consider them heroes, because most people are gutless fools, but can you honestly say you wouldn't have done the same?
I know I'd be the same as them. My first reaction in situations like that(bank robber - never been on a plane heist) is to attack/disable.
COD4 - "Starts up fine, but too slow to play. Frame rate is about 2 FPS at 640x480 with all settings reduced to minimum. VM settings - 1.5GB ram, 2 VCPU's, optimize for VM."
This does not sound to me like something a frequent gamer would put up with, when dual booting would give much better results.
VMWare is to be applauded for their DirectX effort, but they're not quite there yet.
Sounds like hyperbole to me - but even if it wasn't, what would you expect with that videocard?
A new videocard + fully up to date DirectX/drivers is the best way to get okay framerates if you really want to do this rather than dual-booting.
Charles Barkley RPG has many humans undergoing surgery to become half-animals, in the sewers of post-cyberpocalypse Neo New York.
Check it out:
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/22/fan-made-charles-barkley-rpg-sees-full-release/
The Windows kernel is a bad example, since it initializes in only a couple of seconds. Most of the Windows boot time is loading crap Microsoft tacked on to the OS.
There have been various projects over the years that strip all the extra stuff out of Windows: MicroWinX, Mindows, nLite(Tool), vLite(Tool), etc.
WinXP stripped to the minimum - customized to only work with your own hardware - usually takes over 5 seconds to go from boot menu to desktop. It should also easily fit inside 200MB, despite having full Java/.net/etc. support.
20 seconds is a lot. I have a 1ghz VIA C7 computer that boots a customized WinXP in 14 seconds, and boots a regular Ubuntu in about 80 seconds - Note that this does include POST times. :/
The linux kernel just starts slower. I still think it's better than the Windows Kernel, since everyone can pool knowledge and add features, but boot time is one of Linux's weaknesses.
I think that's good. When you think of Windows' weaknesses, security or time-until-patch are the first to pop into mind. :P
You bring up an interesting point.
A while ago there was a company that produced energy-efficient supercomputers. The motherboards they used were absolutely packed with low-power low-speed fanless CPUs.
I don't think they survived - not enough demand - most companies prefer faster, fewer cores.
I believe their smallest system had something like 96 CPUs, and biggest about 3500. Power consumption was around 1 watt for each CPU, plus whatever the RAM uses. That means in theory you could run a 3500 CPU beast in your own home - at the loss of several rooms.
Good luck coding for it. :D
Yeah, but isn't the DS a dual-core 33mhz CPU or something? 4MB of RAM! Hardly usable for surfing the net and IM'ing friends.
I'd rather get a Pandora, once they're available. It appears to have enough processing power to play an MP3 while loading GIMP + Firefox(according to a vid from one of the developers), so as far as ultra-portables go, it's looking pretty good.
Plus, it has all the weird extras, like a touchscreen and gaming controls.
Linux and OSX seem to have decent free PDF readers. It's only Windows that is lacking.
But yes, it does have a nice interface and presentation.