Valid point Pricing depends on the country A LOT though, an iPhone costs close to USD 600(or 700, dont remenber) in India, while you have Nokia's Asha range in the $200 market, similarly, Dell is selling laptops with changeable lid colours as a major feature
Maybe the Thinkpad R61 was a unique model then... It has a CPU socket like a desktop, you can upgrade the processor yourself as well (the socket itself is quite different from a Desktop socket, but it has one, and replacing the CPU is a relatively trivial process)
A lot of components: CPU,RAM,HDD,Wireless cards,etc are still removable arent they? Its the motherboard+GPU thats being replaced right? (Atleast thats the way it is in my laptop, maybe Macbooks are special, IDK) Then again, my entire laptop cost $700
A $250-300 PC would last you much longer without getting outdated than the builtin media players and web browsers on TV's which essentially get outdated after 4-5 years (or less) And, the demographic that pays the premium for a "Smart TV" probably already has multiple computing devices: most of which would be TV compatible which can host the smarts Some features like onscreen widgets may be missed, but thats a small compromise for a much longer lifespan
I prefer my TV's to be dumb displays They should be limited to take video in, modify resolution/contrast/etc as per settings and display it on the screen, and provide a control interface IF I want to play media on it, I will use a device for that Modularity is better
Doesnt that have the risk of the electrical line falling on the phone line in an accident (car/bus/etc rams into pole), thus frying all phone equipment when the 2 come into contact?
Took about 30 sec to find this on Google http://www.revsys.com/writings/quicktips/ssh-tunnel.html Really though, this is something college students deal with worldwide, and MANY solutions exist Why is this on/.?
Copper means no need for converters/change of instruments at client side AND a single power source. If the exchange has power, the phones work Fiber needs power at more points
On their blog, they do show a demo of 1080p and XBMC
GPU accellerated stuff should work fine I guess, but probably non GPU accellerated would be problematic
Wont this result in Linux losing out on the "old PC" use case? 6 year old PC's can still run XP, and once XP support is withdrawn, they will have to either sell off those PC's or move to Linux By withdrawing support for old PC's, they are losing out on a decent amount of the already tiny marketshare Linux has in the PC market
What I dont get is how come there isnt a penalty for pursuing a lawsuit where 96% of it is thrown out? If Oracle had brought a similar lawsuit on a small firm instead of Google, they(the small firm) would have probably been shut down just because of the costs of the suit
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Pricing depends on the country A LOT though, an iPhone costs close to USD 600(or 700, dont remenber) in India, while you have Nokia's Asha range in the $200 market, similarly, Dell is selling laptops with changeable lid colours as a major feature
Maybe the Thinkpad R61 was a unique model then...
It has a CPU socket like a desktop, you can upgrade the processor yourself as well (the socket itself is quite different from a Desktop socket, but it has one, and replacing the CPU is a relatively trivial process)
"i" as in Apple's "i", or integrated?
A lot of components: CPU,RAM,HDD,Wireless cards,etc are still removable arent they?
Its the motherboard+GPU thats being replaced right? (Atleast thats the way it is in my laptop, maybe Macbooks are special, IDK)
Then again, my entire laptop cost $700
If it costs $1700 to replace a GPU, something is VERY wrong
There are also banks that are making FB apps for account access
Read only for now thankfully
A $250-300 PC would last you much longer without getting outdated than the builtin media players and web browsers on TV's which essentially get outdated after 4-5 years (or less)
And, the demographic that pays the premium for a "Smart TV" probably already has multiple computing devices: most of which would be TV compatible which can host the smarts
Some features like onscreen widgets may be missed, but thats a small compromise for a much longer lifespan
Those are pretty much the most expensive mass market phones
Try moving down to the $100-$200 range, or the feature phone range
I prefer my TV's to be dumb displays
They should be limited to take video in, modify resolution/contrast/etc as per settings and display it on the screen, and provide a control interface
IF I want to play media on it, I will use a device for that
Modularity is better
Does an infinite no. of channels with infinitely low capacity give infinite effective bandwidth?
True, I intended to say that even if this content was to be removed, it should be done by the hosts and not by Google
They should contact/sue the hosts hosting the content, and not Google
Ignore that, they just require a $2 disposable thing, so non drinkers wont have to spend money
With the penalty for drunk driving being confiscation of the vehicle, so that non drinkers dont have to pay for this equipment
Doesnt that have the risk of the electrical line falling on the phone line in an accident (car/bus/etc rams into pole), thus frying all phone equipment when the 2 come into contact?
Took about 30 sec to find this on Google /.?
http://www.revsys.com/writings/quicktips/ssh-tunnel.html
Really though, this is something college students deal with worldwide, and MANY solutions exist
Why is this on
Phone line:Underground
Power line:above ground
Why will both be knocked down together?
Even then, hook up the pump to the backup, manually transfer some fuel to the generator and start it up
Copper means no need for converters/change of instruments at client side AND a single power source. If the exchange has power, the phones work
Fiber needs power at more points
Just because a device is listening for a power off signal when on does not mean its listening for a power on signal when off
How many users/cell before this starts throttling? in the single digits?
On their blog, they do show a demo of 1080p and XBMC
GPU accellerated stuff should work fine I guess, but probably non GPU accellerated would be problematic
Will torrent clients be classified as malware as well?
Wont this result in Linux losing out on the "old PC" use case?
6 year old PC's can still run XP, and once XP support is withdrawn, they will have to either sell off those PC's or move to Linux
By withdrawing support for old PC's, they are losing out on a decent amount of the already tiny marketshare Linux has in the PC market
What I dont get is how come there isnt a penalty for pursuing a lawsuit where 96% of it is thrown out?
If Oracle had brought a similar lawsuit on a small firm instead of Google, they(the small firm) would have probably been shut down just because of the costs of the suit