The majority of people reading this article will not bother to look up the current kWh price and then determine the overall cost of 'filling' the device. So I think it is completely reasonable to state an example of how much it costs for a full charge to demonstrate the price savings (although I too would like to know the overall capacity and discharge rate). One just hopes the company is not using the lowest kWh price possible to sensationalize the price savings.
The problem is that quicktime uses mpeg4 avc, a much more computationaly intensive codec PLUS quicktime is a resource hog. Use VLC or mplayer (I hope they release a good windows GUI soon) to play those quicktime files, you will have much better luck. My X2 3800 went from 80-90% to like 30% during highdef trailer playback when I switched from quicktime to VLC.
I agree in the short term we will win. What happens down the road when ATI are the only cards you can put in your AMD box and nvidia cards are the only thing that you can put in your intel box. Surely this won't happen, but the common interface (PCI-E or whatever comes after it) will offer less performance. I doubt that nvidia would produce a card for the AMD/ATI slot until after the market is shown to be viable, and if that happens nvidia will be at a disdvantage since ATI won't have to pay to license the coherent HT technology.
I see these mega mergers as offering few choices to customers in the long run and that is a bad thing (think Wal-Mart, Best Buy, cable/telcos and there cheaper, less desirable products. Then down the line the lack of competition lets companies get away with murder, like the cable and dsl companies are now)
They will appreciate this when they learn the skills necessary to move up in the global economy and provide for themselves and family.
Think of the large contribution to the global economy it will be to have so many more people educated. This will help under-developed places develope and reduce the burden on developed contries to assist them.
My largest concern is not the potential benefits, but rather the quality of educational resources. Excellent learning material for K-8 level of american schools is most important to give the children using these computers a chance to suceed. I don't imagine wikipedia being as good of a tool as a solid structured book or structured interactive applications/webpages.
I sure hope these come to US schools in the next five years, but at the same time I hope the learning material is done right.
I am so tired of people saying that installing linux is a good way of learning a *insert language/technogloy*. Read a book. Work on a project. Linux is not the greatest tutorial invented to teach - it is an open source source operating system that offers flexible solutions to many problems for people that want to learn the applications and environment.
The best way to learn a certain language or technology is to work in an environment that you understand and build on your current knwoledge. Jumping into a different environment and leanring it can get you frustrated and distracted from the true goal and I am sure has lead more than one perosn to be discouraged enough to stop pursuit of what they set out to accomplish.
I am drunk, sorry if I am rude. But being a linux fanboy is not the answer to every f'ing question posted to/.
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The majority of people reading this article will not bother to look up the current kWh price and then determine the overall cost of 'filling' the device. So I think it is completely reasonable to state an example of how much it costs for a full charge to demonstrate the price savings (although I too would like to know the overall capacity and discharge rate). One just hopes the company is not using the lowest kWh price possible to sensationalize the price savings.
With all the negative publicity recently, it is easy to imagine that the Inquirer is simply getting on the PS3-bash bandwagon.
"Any constructive input will be deeply appreciated."
Ha. I predict a suggestion of a pair of linux powered toasters at some point.
The problem is that quicktime uses mpeg4 avc, a much more computationaly intensive codec PLUS quicktime is a resource hog. Use VLC or mplayer (I hope they release a good windows GUI soon) to play those quicktime files, you will have much better luck. My X2 3800 went from 80-90% to like 30% during highdef trailer playback when I switched from quicktime to VLC.
I agree in the short term we will win. What happens down the road when ATI are the only cards you can put in your AMD box and nvidia cards are the only thing that you can put in your intel box. Surely this won't happen, but the common interface (PCI-E or whatever comes after it) will offer less performance. I doubt that nvidia would produce a card for the AMD/ATI slot until after the market is shown to be viable, and if that happens nvidia will be at a disdvantage since ATI won't have to pay to license the coherent HT technology.
I see these mega mergers as offering few choices to customers in the long run and that is a bad thing (think Wal-Mart, Best Buy, cable/telcos and there cheaper, less desirable products. Then down the line the lack of competition lets companies get away with murder, like the cable and dsl companies are now)
They will appreciate this when they learn the skills necessary to move up in the global economy and provide for themselves and family.
Think of the large contribution to the global economy it will be to have so many more people educated. This will help under-developed places develope and reduce the burden on developed contries to assist them.
My largest concern is not the potential benefits, but rather the quality of educational resources. Excellent learning material for K-8 level of american schools is most important to give the children using these computers a chance to suceed. I don't imagine wikipedia being as good of a tool as a solid structured book or structured interactive applications/webpages.
I sure hope these come to US schools in the next five years, but at the same time I hope the learning material is done right.
I am so tired of people saying that installing linux is a good way of learning a *insert language/technogloy*. Read a book. Work on a project. Linux is not the greatest tutorial invented to teach - it is an open source source operating system that offers flexible solutions to many problems for people that want to learn the applications and environment.
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The best way to learn a certain language or technology is to work in an environment that you understand and build on your current knwoledge. Jumping into a different environment and leanring it can get you frustrated and distracted from the true goal and I am sure has lead more than one perosn to be discouraged enough to stop pursuit of what they set out to accomplish.
I am drunk, sorry if I am rude. But being a linux fanboy is not the answer to every f'ing question posted to
who wants to join my facebook group "myspace is for people don't go to college"?
in reality my group is "myspace is for highschoolers who like ugly interfaces"