Mmmmh! Maybe...
* as the owner of one of the first Eee700, I can tell that 800x480 is just awful for anything but Skype.
* I can see later models of eeePc featured a 1366x768 resolution. Where they on an AMD cpu?
Not really. We had this fad back a few years ago, it was called "netbooks" that sold for low prices but almost immediately people started complaining about that they didn't run the applications they needed.
Not enough screen-space, rather. I used one, great for Skype-ing, but couldn't do much of browsing because of the screen-space.
If Linux hasn't been able to succeed on the desktop, then I see no reason why ARM would succeed
Depends on the price, I guess.
Replace Linux with Android, get a price under $50 (even if display-less) and you have a desktop good for browsing, social networking and communication (Skype). As for the price: if Raspberry PI can, I think it is possible put a bit more RAM for the price.
And then the taxing part is plain and simply dumb. You can't control corporations, but that the government actively deters local production? That's like shooting yourself in the foot and wondering why it hurts.
The UK and the West as a whole (I'm entirely sure that the UK is not a special case here) should be ashamed.
For those too lazy to RTFA, UK is shooting in the foot using a big cannon then crying big of unemployment:
I’d like to draw attention to one cost in particular that really created problems for us in Britain. Simply put, if we build the Raspberry Pi in Britain, we have to pay a lot more tax. If a British company imports components, it has to pay tax on those (and most components are not made in the UK). If, however, a completed device is made abroad and imported into the UK – with all of those components soldered onto it – it does not attract any import duty at all.
"he (Olah) suggests that society could harvest atmospheric CO2 and combine it with hydrogen stripped from water to generate a methanol fuel for myriad uses."
Here's my suggestion: operate a brewery, use the CO2 resulted from fermentation to generate methanol for a myriad of uses... and sell the beer as a by-product.
Have some USB dongles by the metric tonne - if you are about to do something that I wouldn't advice you to, use one for some mins and then pass it around.
Agfa - doing fine in B2B - they managed to jettison their consumer film division quite a while ago.
However, in 2004, the consumer imaging division was sold to a company founded via management buyout. AgfaPhoto GmbH, as the new company was called, filed for bankruptcy after just one year
FujiFilm - switched to digital faster than Kodak (FinePix consumer cameras), diversified in other areas and is still getting 3% of their sale from film (most probable medical imaging).
Yes, but the desktop computer itself is not a particular technology. Telegraph is defunct but people still communicate long distance electronically
Is the telegraph dead? I'd argue it got upgraded: to insane speeds, doesn't use Morse code any more, the addressing/dispatching of the messages are automated (and fast) but... seems pretty much the same principle - a zeroes/ones/silence type of information encoding.
Ohh, I don't think speed is an issue. These are Apple users. Hunt and Peck is plenty of speed. Apple users tend to be the more artistic types, so the mouse if far more important for things like graphic arts, etc. If they are journalists, that just involves copy and paste mostly so there are hot keys for that.
I think people should realise that technology has its place, and isn't an extension of somebody, technology is just a tool and not always the right tool.
Right. Others have said it before.
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten". (BF Skinner)
"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance". (A Einstein)
...music, DVDs, a cup of milk, a tool, a lawnmower, a car. People have been sharing media ever since the first record was pressed. Farmers have been sharing equipment since... the beginning of time. But you don't hear John Deere crying about it. All laws do is make a good deal of the population guilty of federal crimes. Ask Uncle Sam how well that fight against pornography worked. Or the war on drugs.
Uhhh... thank you, this raises the boulder from my chest... I was thinking only/.-ers had a... (how should I put it?...) pro-sharing mindset.
demand typically tends to push prices of things that are of a limited quantity - resources, products, etc... things such as movies, music don't fall into that category - a movie doesn't expire after a certain date, or after a certain number of views.
Even more, they tend to become better... pirate one that you can no longer buy and you'll be paying in zillions for copyright infringement.
And before some shit-for-brains tries to draw a parallel with Anonymous or "Occupy". This was a person pointing out a flaw in a technology and doing it in such a way that it didn't break anything, do any damage (other than to someone's overblown arrogance) or violate any laws.
Well, seems those times were showing more common-sense than today - no so hasty to come with new laws, but fixing what's broken or working within constraints.
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Mmmmh! Maybe...
* as the owner of one of the first Eee700, I can tell that 800x480 is just awful for anything but Skype.
* I can see later models of eeePc featured a 1366x768 resolution. Where they on an AMD cpu?
Not really. We had this fad back a few years ago, it was called "netbooks" that sold for low prices but almost immediately people started complaining about that they didn't run the applications they needed.
Not enough screen-space, rather. I used one, great for Skype-ing, but couldn't do much of browsing because of the screen-space.
If Linux hasn't been able to succeed on the desktop, then I see no reason why ARM would succeed
Depends on the price, I guess.
Replace Linux with Android, get a price under $50 (even if display-less) and you have a desktop good for browsing, social networking and communication (Skype). As for the price: if Raspberry PI can, I think it is possible put a bit more RAM for the price.
And then the taxing part is plain and simply dumb. You can't control corporations, but that the government actively deters local production? That's like shooting yourself in the foot and wondering why it hurts.
The UK and the West as a whole (I'm entirely sure that the UK is not a special case here) should be ashamed.
For those too lazy to RTFA, UK is shooting in the foot using a big cannon then crying big of unemployment:
I’d like to draw attention to one cost in particular that really created problems for us in Britain. Simply put, if we build the Raspberry Pi in Britain, we have to pay a lot more tax. If a British company imports components, it has to pay tax on those (and most components are not made in the UK). If, however, a completed device is made abroad and imported into the UK – with all of those components soldered onto it – it does not attract any import duty at all.
FUCK ALL THESE GREEDY BASTARDS.
Sorry mate, I'm not that kinky.
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(what the hell? /. replies with "Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.". So that I need to post something else to dilute the caps)
"he (Olah) suggests that society could harvest atmospheric CO2 and combine it with hydrogen stripped from water to generate a methanol fuel for myriad uses."
Here's my suggestion: operate a brewery, use the CO2 resulted from fermentation to generate methanol for a myriad of uses... and sell the beer as a by-product.
MAC address, computer/browser fingerprinting or they can just sniff your e-mail/facebook/other login.
Setting up a network of hostile access points would be the easiest thing in the world for a third party.
Tor network? Organized over some hundreds of points using the same free WiFi?
Until "We are legion, we do not forget, etc" creeps into the picture?
Have some USB dongles by the metric tonne - if you are about to do something that I wouldn't advice you to, use one for some mins and then pass it around.
Use it for whatever you like.
Noooo! Seriously? I can no longer change my MAC address or spoof one? Since when?
I'm guessing it won't be anonymous.
I can't imagine how the identification would work.
TFA
In Westminster alone, it could be providing internet access to half a million tourists each day, 250,000 residents and 500,000 workers.
Half a million of tourists - would they plan to ask for a "tourist id" for granting access?
He sounds like a typical politician, making big bold lies that are more descriptive of how he sees the world than how it is.
People do, generally, follow copyright. Millions of people buy books or DVDs or music or software.
Oh? Buying copyrighted works does really mean "to follow copyright"?
Isn't it like saying "Drinking water is getting a glass wet?"
RMS and Moglen, who would've guessed, 10 years ago, they'd be right?
Paranoia, it's not just for the fringe anymore.
Too late now, as it no longer matters if you are paranoid or not.... they are after you anyway.
However, in 2004, the consumer imaging division was sold to a company founded via management buyout. AgfaPhoto GmbH, as the new company was called, filed for bankruptcy after just one year
FujiFilm - switched to digital faster than Kodak (FinePix consumer cameras), diversified in other areas and is still getting 3% of their sale from film (most probable medical imaging).
Yes, but the desktop computer itself is not a particular technology. Telegraph is defunct but people still communicate long distance electronically
Is the telegraph dead? I'd argue it got upgraded: to insane speeds, doesn't use Morse code any more, the addressing/dispatching of the messages are automated (and fast) but... seems pretty much the same principle - a zeroes/ones/silence type of information encoding.
Ohh, I don't think speed is an issue. These are Apple users. Hunt and Peck is plenty of speed. Apple users tend to be the more artistic types, so the mouse if far more important for things like graphic arts, etc. If they are journalists, that just involves copy and paste mostly so there are hot keys for that.
Macbook Wheel is revolutionary.
What's the total bandwidth of the satellite? If you can get 12Mbps when nobody else is using it, that sounds great until they have about 5 customers.
140 Gbps/1 satellite - approx 12000 users downloading at full capacity in the same time.
... just maybe the Redhat/CentOS guys will decide for a newer version in their repos.
What is education
I think people should realise that technology has its place, and isn't an extension of somebody, technology is just a tool and not always the right tool.
Right. Others have said it before.
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten". (BF Skinner)
"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance". (A Einstein)
...music, DVDs, a cup of milk, a tool, a lawnmower, a car. People have been sharing media ever since the first record was pressed. Farmers have been sharing equipment since... the beginning of time. But you don't hear John Deere crying about it. All laws do is make a good deal of the population guilty of federal crimes. Ask Uncle Sam how well that fight against pornography worked. Or the war on drugs.
Uhhh... thank you, this raises the boulder from my chest... I was thinking only /.-ers had a... (how should I put it?...) pro-sharing mindset.
demand typically tends to push prices of things that are of a limited quantity - resources, products, etc ... things such as movies, music don't fall into that category - a movie doesn't expire after a certain date, or after a certain number of views.
Even more, they tend to become better... pirate one that you can no longer buy and you'll be paying in zillions for copyright infringement.
When's the last time you had to buy booze from a gangster?
Hmmm... post-prohibition, took like... ah, no, apologies... they are still active.
But, by all means, don't let this stop going in Mexico for the end of the world party.
Hell, I'll move there. Not because I'm a junkie, but because in the absence of drug prohibition, it will be one of the safest countries on earth.
Really? You bet the drug gangs will disappear instead of diversify?
And before some shit-for-brains tries to draw a parallel with Anonymous or "Occupy". This was a person pointing out a flaw in a technology and doing it in such a way that it didn't break anything, do any damage (other than to someone's overblown arrogance) or violate any laws.
Well, seems those times were showing more common-sense than today - no so hasty to come with new laws, but fixing what's broken or working within constraints.