You know what is really funny is that the real estate agents in the area tell me that it was only
around $200,000 - $250,000 before they put it on
E-bay.
Be warned, Atipa was recently bought by MicroTech computers, and they are sometimes known for not being very good about support, or providing decent equipment. I know that Microtech fired a whole bunch of the Atipa employees though. Before this though, Atipa was looking very good.
If you are interested, SGI can sell you turn key beowulf solutions also. You can also go to http://www.beowulf.org and they have a list of commercial companies that provide beowulf clustering solutions.
The market segment for this service is not the normal cell phone user as they point out. They fail to mention that the real market for this service is in avionics. If you are sitting up in a plane, well, to say the least, cell phones don't work. The signal hitting a ton of towers at once is not a good thing for the old cell phones. The government and airlines use these phones in planes. The government also uses them the way that the article says, for when a cell phone isn't going to work. Say for instance when you are going to be traveling all over the world. (Yeah, Yeah, let me take my US phone to Europe, oops, what do you mean it doesn't work there.)
I just found it surprising that they failed to mention the aviation industry, since that is who uses, sells, and produces a lot of the phones.
Looking out ahead, the real question I want answered is, does Caldera get a stake in the Monterey Project? This could be very interesting to see how Monterey might change in development with Caldera in the game. While not known for being the most Open Source friendly, they could really change there image by putting the portions of SCO they can under the GPL, and if they worked with IBM to do something similar with Monterey, interesting things could come to the world of Open Source.
Slight correction. Copyright infringment isn't really the same as theft. You aren't really stealing it so that someone else can use it, you just happen to be breaking IP law in the U.S. (Which is really screwed up at the moment, but that is a whole other issue.:)
Many people seem to be asking why a hard drive and modem, so I thought I might provide a few answers that could help.
First, the PS2 runs on a linux kernel, and thus with a hard drive and modem could be as close to a recompile away to have mozilla/netscape running on it, and many many other full featured applications like office suites and things of that sort. Your next question might be what good is this with a keyboard. Well, there is a USB port on the back where you could stick in a USB keyboard and mouse, and with multiple linux projects working on providing full USB support under linux it might not be that far away.
The hard drive could also be a good place to keep save games rather than the annoying little packs you have to buy.
Now we also know that it has a PCMCIA slot. I believe some people were wanting the feature of ethernet. So drop in a PCMCIA linux compatable card, and away you go. The other trick of having a hard drive is that you could then drop the linux kernel on the hard drive rather than the boot rom, and get it to have more options for configuration.
Many poeple have posted saying, ohh big deal, the performance of the PS2 is far superior to anything the competitors can provide now. So let's think about this for a second. Console groups tend to release new consoles about every 3 or 4 years at best. Graphics card manufacturs come out with a new generation of cards about every 6 to 9 months in which they double or more the speed. The PC market could come up and bite Sony with outperforming them by far in a year or two.
Now, we have this other feature of the X-Box that it is Intel based, and runs windows, which means that a lot games might be instantly availble for it.
Sony is probably just trying to make sure there product will be able to endure for the next few years, since they don't want it to end up having to give the thing away for new users to use it.
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You know what is really funny is that the real estate agents in the area tell me that it was only
around $200,000 - $250,000 before they put it on
E-bay.
Be warned, Atipa was recently bought by MicroTech computers, and they are sometimes known for not being very good about support, or providing decent equipment. I know that Microtech fired a whole bunch of the Atipa employees though. Before this though, Atipa was looking very good.
If you are interested, SGI can sell you turn key beowulf solutions also. You can also go to http://www.beowulf.org and they have a list of commercial companies that provide beowulf clustering solutions.
The market segment for this service is not the normal cell phone user as they point out. They fail to mention that the real market for this service is in avionics. If you are sitting up in a plane, well, to say the least, cell phones don't work. The signal hitting a ton of towers at once is not a good thing for the old cell phones. The government and airlines use these phones in planes. The government also uses them the way that the article says, for when a cell phone isn't going to work. Say for instance when you are going to be traveling all over the world. (Yeah, Yeah, let me take my US phone to Europe, oops, what do you mean it doesn't work there.)
I just found it surprising that they failed to mention the aviation industry, since that is who uses, sells, and produces a lot of the phones.
You to can be a gargoyle. Get our happy jacket and be able to trap everything you see and do for later input into the Library of Congress.
(Must have read Snow Crash to get this one.)
Looking out ahead, the real question I want answered is, does Caldera get a stake in the Monterey Project? This could be very interesting to see how Monterey might change in development with Caldera in the game. While not known for being the most Open Source friendly, they could really change there image by putting the portions of SCO they can under the GPL, and if they worked with IBM to do something similar with Monterey, interesting things could come to the world of Open Source.
Slight correction. Copyright infringment isn't really the same as theft. You aren't really stealing it so that someone else can use it, you just happen to be breaking IP law in the U.S. (Which is really screwed up at the moment, but that is a whole other issue. :)
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Many people seem to be asking why a hard drive and modem, so I thought I might provide a few answers that could help.
First, the PS2 runs on a linux kernel, and thus with a hard drive and modem could be as close to a recompile away to have mozilla/netscape running on it, and many many other full featured applications like office suites and things of that sort. Your next question might be what good is this with a keyboard. Well, there is a USB port on the back where you could stick in a USB keyboard and mouse, and with multiple linux projects working on providing full USB support under linux it might not be that far away.
The hard drive could also be a good place to keep save games rather than the annoying little packs you have to buy.
Now we also know that it has a PCMCIA slot. I believe some people were wanting the feature of ethernet. So drop in a PCMCIA linux compatable card, and away you go. The other trick of having a hard drive is that you could then drop the linux kernel on the hard drive rather than the boot rom, and get it to have more options for configuration.
Many poeple have posted saying, ohh big deal, the performance of the PS2 is far superior to anything the competitors can provide now. So let's think about this for a second. Console groups tend to release new consoles about every 3 or 4 years at best. Graphics card manufacturs come out with a new generation of cards about every 6 to 9 months in which they double or more the speed. The PC market could come up and bite Sony with outperforming them by far in a year or two.
Now, we have this other feature of the X-Box that it is Intel based, and runs windows, which means that a lot games might be instantly availble for it.
Sony is probably just trying to make sure there product will be able to endure for the next few years, since they don't want it to end up having to give the thing away for new users to use it.