It's not the distribution's fault that the manufacturer won't make Linux drivers.
That's true, but part of the reason they don't bother is because the short view is that there isn't that much incentive to support Linux. Maybe it's a chicken-and-egg problem, people would use Linux if it supported their hardware. But I think most people really don't care that much, they'll use what is included with their computer. Given that they don't care that much, there's not that much competitive pressure to offer Linux, because Windows at OEM prices isn't that expensive, and there are support issues as well. Buying Linux-compatible hardware might take up the savings of not selling Windows.
I don't think that's necessarily contradictory - the article description did say that iPods needed to be modified to use alkaline batteries. The iPod pictured does appear to be mounted to a box that could be an external battery case.
Plenty of cases are available that look, at least in my opinion, better than the macPro cheese grater.
But the Mac Pro isn't just about looks. In many ways, it's among the easiest to get into for drives and cards, and it's incredibly quiet. It is the quietest workstation that I've been exposed to, and it's quieter than many regular performance desktops too. There aren't any cables for the hard drives, as the hard drives just connect to the main board just like a drive module would connect to a backplane in a server, except that it doesn't need a special cartridge to do so, just use the little mounting plates included with the computer.
It seems like Creative Commons non-commercial license should have been used if protecting their design was their intent.
As they aren't trying to sell the antenna, its plans or the knowledge, I don't know if trademarks would do any good. Even if trademarks are enforced, does it really matter? People see "TV antenna" on the box and that's all they need to know. Heck, I didn't know there were proper names for specific antenna shapes until I got interested in playing with WiFi antennas. The general public is quite likely much farther down the scale. The TV antenna boxes I've seen don't generally use the proper names of the antenna type.
I think wear leveling probably potentially has significant limits that proponents seem to ignore. Especially if you have less than 10% free space. Then all your writes will "wear level" over the available free space and degrade orders of magnitude faster than the maker suggests.
That said, I haven't found a decently detailed write-up on exactly how wear-leveling accomplishes its task. I'm assuming that stuff that is rarely written will end up occupying space that's not available to the wear leveling algorithm until it is modified.
I think that might be the halflife, it might still be useful beyond that.
If it's used for lighting, then 3.4 continuous years isn't that bad, flourescents are worse and they need to use a bit of mercury.
Most displays aren't on constantly, maybe 2000-2500 hours a year if used at work. That would be about twelve years. If the blue fading is a problem, I think that it might be adjustable. If you don't use full brightness, it probably lasts longer.
Why get an underpowered ultraportable when a normal laptop costs just as much?
Maybe because "normal" notebooks are overpowered, overheating beasts? They aren't "laptops" because of that heat, they seem to feel like they burn through jeans when used for longer than 15 minutes on a lap, even on max power saving mode. I think that's a lot of why the marketing literature almost always calls them "notebooks".
I think the lifetime has improved, such that blue is speced out to be 30k hours, the other colors higher, but given that blue fades quickest, the blue is the limiting factor here. I could be wrong on the typical life, but it's been a year since I looked at it.
Incidentally, you can load whatever you want on it, through the jailbreak system. If the device is screwed up because of what you did, then the device maker has no obligation to help you.
You can choose not to buy it. A lot of devices are like that, consoles are a very popular example. If you don't like the limitations of the system, that's fine, don't buy it. The rules don't change just because someone buys it.
3k s.f. isn't that huge, maybe the real problem is the cost of living for those who work there. Isn't San Fransisco pretty big on the Internet? I can see may be some advantages.
there really isn't anything you can say that is more illuminating on the subject. either you can run the site financially or you can't. it really is that cut and dry.
No it's not that cut and dry in the way that you state. There is another way. If they got their funding through the Wikipedia foundation, then the income from their investments should be able to keep it running.
As it is, I don't think they are going to do this. It sounds like much of the board may be trying to make Wikipedia into a for-profit venture, which to me is a lot more than a "compromised" wikipedia, it will probably become another about.com.
There's a reason why I was specific about it being in the installed base of desktop / notebook OSs, to try not to muddy up the waters because there are a staggering number of servers and embedded machines out there running Linux. I'm mostly going from the web use stats, it's not perfect, but I think it's indicative enough. I figure if a computer that if a computer is using a web browser to look at sites, then it's probably not being used as a server or a router or anything like that. Servers and routers usually aren't going to be used as game machines.
Linux comprises about 1% of the desktop / notebook OS installed base. Even if ALL of that 1% were people that buy and play games regularly, it probably would only account for 10% that of the Windows game user base.
Given the ideology of a lot of Linux users, a lot of that 1% might never pay for a game or want to use commercial / closed source software.
I agree to an extent. Expert input should be taken, but I don't think a rule BY experts is a good idea.
The problem is that experts can also tend to have pet hypotheses which they can selectively filter what they see that proves their hypotheses. They can be stubborn to admit they are wrong or made a mistake.
Experts are human. To say they don't have or use ideals or fears is folly. I think they can be just as corruptable as any other human, because they are human.
My area finally has a second run theater, after not having one for a few years. The previous one was torn down for a mall anchor store that was never built. A movie is something like $3.50 a seat, and it's a lot of movies that were released 3-4 months ago. The film prints still look pretty good too.
I have yet to own a motherboard that does not have a fan on the northbridge, except for the one where I'd replaced the manufacturers fan with my own heatsink. This product isn't for that $500 PC you bought from Gateway; it's intended for the performance market.
So what? I've been using workstation systems, i.e. Xeon-based systems, the latest is a Woodcrest-based system, I think the chipset is Greencreek or Blackford, I'm not sure. They're hardly budget / low performance computers. And yet, no Northbridge fans.
But that's what the bottom line is, that's what the expression means.
I realize that we might not be disagreeing on several points.
I think part of the problem is that there aren't very many wireless carriers, though oddly enough, there are more wireless carriers in more areas than there are wired ISPs. I think the hope was that the 700MHz spectrum would shake things up a bit, but there was the same hope with WiMax too.
But if you give software away for free, that makes a more competitive and consumer friendly market! Why do something silly like that when vendor lock-in is such an easy and lucrative way to run a business?
They don't necessarily make more money being consumer friendly, and cutting a little on costs here might net them more expenses in the long run. They don't make money by allowing the market being competitive. Both are benefits to the consumer, not the service provider. The article explains more along this line.
You got it totally wrong. If I have to be specific, then here it is: If you paid attention to anything in the article, you would know that this is a northbridge cooler. I have yet to own a computer with a fan just for the northbridge. As far as I'm concerned, it's unnecessary in any properly designed system.
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I don't think you've actually done this. Your solution would not work because blue LEDs are generally that bright. You need to do two or three layers.
It's not the distribution's fault that the manufacturer won't make Linux drivers.
That's true, but part of the reason they don't bother is because the short view is that there isn't that much incentive to support Linux. Maybe it's a chicken-and-egg problem, people would use Linux if it supported their hardware. But I think most people really don't care that much, they'll use what is included with their computer. Given that they don't care that much, there's not that much competitive pressure to offer Linux, because Windows at OEM prices isn't that expensive, and there are support issues as well. Buying Linux-compatible hardware might take up the savings of not selling Windows.
I don't think that's necessarily contradictory - the article description did say that iPods needed to be modified to use alkaline batteries. The iPod pictured does appear to be mounted to a box that could be an external battery case.
Plenty of cases are available that look, at least in my opinion, better than the macPro cheese grater.
But the Mac Pro isn't just about looks. In many ways, it's among the easiest to get into for drives and cards, and it's incredibly quiet. It is the quietest workstation that I've been exposed to, and it's quieter than many regular performance desktops too. There aren't any cables for the hard drives, as the hard drives just connect to the main board just like a drive module would connect to a backplane in a server, except that it doesn't need a special cartridge to do so, just use the little mounting plates included with the computer.
It seems like Creative Commons non-commercial license should have been used if protecting their design was their intent.
As they aren't trying to sell the antenna, its plans or the knowledge, I don't know if trademarks would do any good. Even if trademarks are enforced, does it really matter? People see "TV antenna" on the box and that's all they need to know. Heck, I didn't know there were proper names for specific antenna shapes until I got interested in playing with WiFi antennas. The general public is quite likely much farther down the scale. The TV antenna boxes I've seen don't generally use the proper names of the antenna type.
I think wear leveling probably potentially has significant limits that proponents seem to ignore. Especially if you have less than 10% free space. Then all your writes will "wear level" over the available free space and degrade orders of magnitude faster than the maker suggests.
That said, I haven't found a decently detailed write-up on exactly how wear-leveling accomplishes its task. I'm assuming that stuff that is rarely written will end up occupying space that's not available to the wear leveling algorithm until it is modified.
I think that might be the halflife, it might still be useful beyond that.
If it's used for lighting, then 3.4 continuous years isn't that bad, flourescents are worse and they need to use a bit of mercury.
Most displays aren't on constantly, maybe 2000-2500 hours a year if used at work. That would be about twelve years. If the blue fading is a problem, I think that it might be adjustable. If you don't use full brightness, it probably lasts longer.
Why get an underpowered ultraportable when a normal laptop costs just as much?
Maybe because "normal" notebooks are overpowered, overheating beasts? They aren't "laptops" because of that heat, they seem to feel like they burn through jeans when used for longer than 15 minutes on a lap, even on max power saving mode. I think that's a lot of why the marketing literature almost always calls them "notebooks".
I think the lifetime has improved, such that blue is speced out to be 30k hours, the other colors higher, but given that blue fades quickest, the blue is the limiting factor here. I could be wrong on the typical life, but it's been a year since I looked at it.
This is Apple we're dealing with here. They won't even let you build your own computer even though OS X runs on x86.
Wrong, you may build your own computer, but they won't let you run their OS on it. You can try to get around that, but don't expect help from them.
The cost of OS X is highly subsidized by the hardware. It would probably be more expensive than the retail version(s) of Vista if it wasn't.
Incidentally, you can load whatever you want on it, through the jailbreak system. If the device is screwed up because of what you did, then the device maker has no obligation to help you.
You can choose not to buy it. A lot of devices are like that, consoles are a very popular example. If you don't like the limitations of the system, that's fine, don't buy it. The rules don't change just because someone buys it.
Java isn't an innovation. I wouldn't wish Java on any phone. It has its place, but man is it miserable to use on a handheld device.
3k s.f. isn't that huge, maybe the real problem is the cost of living for those who work there. Isn't San Fransisco pretty big on the Internet? I can see may be some advantages.
there really isn't anything you can say that is more illuminating on the subject. either you can run the site financially or you can't. it really is that cut and dry.
No it's not that cut and dry in the way that you state. There is another way. If they got their funding through the Wikipedia foundation, then the income from their investments should be able to keep it running.
As it is, I don't think they are going to do this. It sounds like much of the board may be trying to make Wikipedia into a for-profit venture, which to me is a lot more than a "compromised" wikipedia, it will probably become another about.com.
How often does a company actually get the queue and do something right?
"get the queue"? Are you sure you're using it right? I've never seen that expression before. Maybe you mean "get a clue"?
I think you make an excellent point.
There's a reason why I was specific about it being in the installed base of desktop / notebook OSs, to try not to muddy up the waters because there are a staggering number of servers and embedded machines out there running Linux. I'm mostly going from the web use stats, it's not perfect, but I think it's indicative enough. I figure if a computer that if a computer is using a web browser to look at sites, then it's probably not being used as a server or a router or anything like that. Servers and routers usually aren't going to be used as game machines.
Linux comprises about 1% of the desktop / notebook OS installed base. Even if ALL of that 1% were people that buy and play games regularly, it probably would only account for 10% that of the Windows game user base.
Given the ideology of a lot of Linux users, a lot of that 1% might never pay for a game or want to use commercial / closed source software.
I agree to an extent. Expert input should be taken, but I don't think a rule BY experts is a good idea.
The problem is that experts can also tend to have pet hypotheses which they can selectively filter what they see that proves their hypotheses. They can be stubborn to admit they are wrong or made a mistake.
Experts are human. To say they don't have or use ideals or fears is folly. I think they can be just as corruptable as any other human, because they are human.
But I think that proves the point, a rule by experts isn't necessarily any better.
I think AMD has to be competeitive at something, but for the moment, UMPCs are hardly a decent sized market.
My area finally has a second run theater, after not having one for a few years. The previous one was torn down for a mall anchor store that was never built. A movie is something like $3.50 a seat, and it's a lot of movies that were released 3-4 months ago. The film prints still look pretty good too.
I have yet to own a motherboard that does not have a fan on the northbridge, except for the one where I'd replaced the manufacturers fan with my own heatsink. This product isn't for that $500 PC you bought from Gateway; it's intended for the performance market.
So what? I've been using workstation systems, i.e. Xeon-based systems, the latest is a Woodcrest-based system, I think the chipset is Greencreek or Blackford, I'm not sure. They're hardly budget / low performance computers. And yet, no Northbridge fans.
Should the bottom line always be profits?
But that's what the bottom line is, that's what the expression means.
I realize that we might not be disagreeing on several points.
I think part of the problem is that there aren't very many wireless carriers, though oddly enough, there are more wireless carriers in more areas than there are wired ISPs. I think the hope was that the 700MHz spectrum would shake things up a bit, but there was the same hope with WiMax too.
But if you give software away for free, that makes a more competitive and consumer friendly market! Why do something silly like that when vendor lock-in is such an easy and lucrative way to run a business?
They don't necessarily make more money being consumer friendly, and cutting a little on costs here might net them more expenses in the long run. They don't make money by allowing the market being competitive. Both are benefits to the consumer, not the service provider. The article explains more along this line.
You got it totally wrong. If I have to be specific, then here it is: If you paid attention to anything in the article, you would know that this is a northbridge cooler. I have yet to own a computer with a fan just for the northbridge. As far as I'm concerned, it's unnecessary in any properly designed system.