Exactly! Nothing new under the sun. For a better approach of this architecture, and something modern look at : http://www.xmos.com/technology/xcore/ 8 to 32 thread on a chip with speedy "serial" connexions.
Thank you Mr Jaaski, you made my day. I did not laugh so loud from corporate speech for long.
I really appreciate the : "We want to educate open-source developers. There are certain business rules [developers] need to obey, such as DRM, IPR [intellectual property rights], SIM locks and subsidised business models."
Who educates who ? You simply did not grasp the inner meaning of Open Source. You seem confused the world does not work as you want it to be. Your solution is then to "Educate", to teach reality to all this dreamers because you know the true. It's so pathetic that it's funny. You do not understand your model is obsolete, people do not want DRM, they do not want SIM lock.
You present these "technologies" as natural, but they are not. Coalition of network operators, manufacturers, and content providers want to impose it to the users. It's nothing natural, it's just the easiest way to keep high margin business. Or so you think, because users will not keep buying this s**t if they have choice. And FLOSS gives this choice.
The idea is to protect the small bookstores. By having the same price everywhere small bookstore can compete against big business and offer diversity in book offer and not only the 200 most sold books.
You mean USA invaded Iraq when there is no connection between Sadam and Al Qaida ? It's only on wikipedia you can find this. A such unreliable source of information. Everybody knows Alqaida gave Sadam invisible arms of massive destruction to destroy disneyland.
It may be a fantastic project from a technological point of view. But as an education project there is too much shortcoming. It does not need neither Microsoft nor Intel to fail.
The value proposition about computer = better education is not verified. There is an interesting article at BBC about Nigeria pilot project quoted at http://aptustech.com/?q=node/14 which explain why it wont work.
If this is designed for low noise computers, this can be also used where there is no air conditioning. When I saw this I thought to use it to make a sealed case which will work in harsh environment:http://aptustech.com/?q=node/11. Even if a product is designed for a specific market, it does not mean you can not adapt to another use.
Heat can be a problem if you are in a hot environment. Hardrives are rated for 50 or 55 Celsius. And if your room temperature goes to 35C or 40C, the case will reach easily the limit. The system proposed is also a CPU cooling, as explained on http://aptustech.com/?q=node/11 this product can be modified to make a sealed case which will work in harsh environment.
To be fair, It does not exist actually. First engineering sample (read full of hardware bugs) are supposed to be out in the following weeks. I met a guy from this company and spoke with him a little. I should have more information soon and i will update : http://aptustech.com/?q=node/10
It has a fairly powerfull ARM11 processor clocked at 500MHz with 256MB of RAM and 1GB of flash. 2 SDCard slots for extension are present. It should have a lower power consumption than the Asustek based on a x86 processor. End of course it can not run Windows (well it may be running WinCE). It's delivered with Linux.
Exactly! I blogged on the shared phone : http://aptustech.com/?q=node/5. Nokia recently launched a range of new phone specifically targeted to the emerging markets. Two very interesting features are : several directory for several users of the same phone, and a basic accounting mode for rented phone. This two features are really needed in the developing countries where the equation 1 person = 1 phone is totally wrong.
With the first truly open phone we can expect a lot of experiment and new applications which will adapt the phone to the people and not the people to the phone
Ummm... how does being "open" improve the user experience?
Well, open means you can adapt this particular phone to your requirements. Lets say you are a in charge of a transport company, you give this phone to each of your drivers. With a proper software you can have a realtime picture of where are all your truck, you can adjust pick up and deliveries. Of course you can do exactly that with dedicated hardware, but can you do that with a $300 device ? If it's open you can...
Openmoko hasn't a change of a snowball in hell. For one, it's yet another stupidly named open source product. The name is NEO1973, in reference to the first cellular phone call made in 1973. Openmoko is for the geeks.
There is an interesting comparison between the OpenMoko and the iPhone. The iPhone hardware gives more power but may be the openness of the OpenMoko can provide better user experience with adaptability lacking in the iPhone ? http://aptustech.com/?q=node/9
Can the Openmoko challenge the iPhone ? Does the opensource philosophy can overcome one of the best designed phone ?
May be no local storage for the cheapest solution, and a large hard-drive for the "de luxe" version. In fact like Xbox360 without gaming capabilities. F.
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And a second: http://gnu.teleglobe.net/software/bayonne /index.ht ml
I can understand why the larger software companies are getting very twitchy about Open Source - after all, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL and so on are rapidly becoming mature enough to be real competitors to the major software vendors.
Rapidely becoming mature..... So rapidely they are here and you did not see it ?
Did Werner Von Braun got his security clearance ? This guy made Saturn V, he was in Gemini and Apollo projects, no problem for a talented engineer who made who also made V1 and V2 for Hitler. IMHO Security clearance should not be the problem.
Development is not a serial process. You can not wait all population to be healthy before giving it education ect...
IT infrastructure permits to nurses to know better about new drugs, to exchange knowledge. it permits communication in a land where phone is very expensive.
Funny thing is Senegal is one of the most connected country in sub-saharian africa, 45Mb where Niger have only 2Mb. And it is the richest in west-africa (may be Nigeria is on par).
IMHO it is just another way to promote american engineering and products to a potentially good marketplace. Why not Mali, or Niger which are in a much more problematic state ?
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Exactly! Nothing new under the sun. For a better approach of this architecture, and something modern look at :
http://www.xmos.com/technology/xcore/
8 to 32 thread on a chip with speedy "serial" connexions.
Thank you Mr Jaaski, you made my day. I did not laugh so loud from corporate speech for long.
I really appreciate the : "We want to educate open-source developers. There are certain business rules [developers] need to obey, such as DRM, IPR [intellectual property rights], SIM locks and subsidised business models."
Who educates who ? You simply did not grasp the inner meaning of Open Source. You seem confused the world does not work as you want it to be. Your solution is then to "Educate", to teach reality to all this dreamers because you know the true. It's so pathetic that it's funny. You do not understand your model is obsolete, people do not want DRM, they do not want SIM lock.
You present these "technologies" as natural, but they are not. Coalition of network operators, manufacturers, and content providers want to impose it to the users. It's nothing natural, it's just the easiest way to keep high margin business. Or so you think, because users will not keep buying this s**t if they have choice. And FLOSS gives this choice.
The idea is to protect the small bookstores. By having the same price everywhere small bookstore can compete against big business and offer diversity in book offer and not only the 200 most sold books.
It does not work so well.
You mean USA invaded Iraq when there is no connection between Sadam and Al Qaida ? It's only on wikipedia you can find this. A such unreliable source of information. Everybody knows Alqaida gave Sadam invisible arms of massive destruction to destroy disneyland.
It may be a fantastic project from a technological point of view. But as an education project there is too much shortcoming. It does not need neither Microsoft nor Intel to fail.
The value proposition about computer = better education is not verified. There is an interesting article at BBC about Nigeria pilot project quoted at http://aptustech.com/?q=node/14 which explain why it wont work.
If this is designed for low noise computers, this can be also used where there is no air conditioning. When I saw this I thought to use it to make a sealed case which will work in harsh environment :http://aptustech.com/?q=node/11.
Even if a product is designed for a specific market, it does not mean you can not adapt to another use.
Heat can be a problem if you are in a hot environment. Hardrives are rated for 50 or 55 Celsius. And if your room temperature goes to 35C or 40C, the case will reach easily the limit.
The system proposed is also a CPU cooling, as explained on http://aptustech.com/?q=node/11 this product can be modified to make a sealed case which will work in harsh environment.
To be fair, It does not exist actually. First engineering sample (read full of hardware bugs) are supposed to be out in the following weeks. I met a guy from this company and spoke with him a little. I should have more information soon and i will update : http://aptustech.com/?q=node/10
Maybe the ink-media laptop based on ARM processor could replace it:
http://aptustech.com/?q=node/10
It has a fairly powerfull ARM11 processor clocked at 500MHz with 256MB of RAM and 1GB of flash. 2 SDCard slots for extension are present.
It should have a lower power consumption than the Asustek based on a x86 processor. End of course it can not run Windows (well it may be running WinCE). It's delivered with Linux.
Exactly! I blogged on the shared phone : http://aptustech.com/?q=node/5. Nokia recently launched a range of new phone specifically targeted to the emerging markets. Two very interesting features are : several directory for several users of the same phone, and a basic accounting mode for rented phone. This two features are really needed in the developing countries where the equation 1 person = 1 phone is totally wrong.
With the first truly open phone we can expect a lot of experiment and new applications which will adapt the phone to the people and not the people to the phone
Ummm... how does being "open" improve the user experience?
Well, open means you can adapt this particular phone to your requirements. Lets say you are a in charge of a transport company, you give this phone to each of your drivers. With a proper software you can have a realtime picture of where are all your truck, you can adjust pick up and deliveries. Of course you can do exactly that with dedicated hardware, but can you do that with a $300 device ? If it's open you can...
Openmoko hasn't a change of a snowball in hell. For one, it's yet another stupidly named open source product.
The name is NEO1973, in reference to the first cellular phone call made in 1973. Openmoko is for the geeks.
And what kind of control do you need over the GPRS/GSM ? Do you have any control on your DSL modem ?
There is an interesting comparison between the OpenMoko and the iPhone. The iPhone hardware gives more power but may be the openness of the OpenMoko can provide better user experience with adaptability lacking in the iPhone ?
http://aptustech.com/?q=node/9
Can the Openmoko challenge the iPhone ? Does the opensource philosophy can overcome one of the best designed phone ?
VIA pc-1 http://viapc-1.com/ low cost initiative http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/empowered/fi
May be no local storage for the cheapest solution, and a large hard-drive for the "de luxe" version.
In fact like Xbox360 without gaming capabilities.
F.
And a second:e /index.ht ml
http://gnu.teleglobe.net/software/bayonn
Yes but x86 is dirty cheap. So it make sens to emulate PPC on x86 to run Mac OSX.
To be efficient it would have to support Altivec emulation. Clone are back!
I can understand why the larger software companies are getting very twitchy about Open Source - after all, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL and so on are rapidly becoming mature enough to be real competitors to the major software vendors.
..... So rapidely they are here and you did not see it ?
Rapidely becoming mature
Did Werner Von Braun got his security clearance ? This guy made Saturn V, he was in Gemini and Apollo projects, no problem for a talented engineer who made who also made V1 and V2 for Hitler.
IMHO Security clearance should not be the problem.
Please, may be some UK citizen could send to Mrs Arlene McCARTHY few words to tell her what they think.
Find more information about CEC & BSA at CEC & BSA 2002-02-20: proposal to make all useful ideas patentable
And information about Arlene McCARTHY including e-mail address.
Development is not a serial process. You can not wait all population to be healthy before giving it education ect...
IT infrastructure permits to nurses to know better about new drugs, to exchange knowledge. it permits communication in a land where phone is very expensive.
Funny thing is Senegal is one of the most connected country in sub-saharian africa, 45Mb where Niger have only 2Mb. And it is the richest in west-africa (may be Nigeria is on par).
IMHO it is just another way to promote american engineering and products to a potentially good marketplace. Why not Mali, or Niger which are in a much more problematic state ?
The author says per default watermark enabled player devices will play unwatermarked content.
Is he dreaming ? Or may be he smokes some illegal stuff !
From the postscript paper Linux + CDParanoia + Plextor Drive can copy every CD whatever copy protection scheme used.
m 20 02_pp.ps
See Page 13.
http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/halderman_dr
Just right click on the image "Block images from this server". Et voila!
Ah, may be you do not use mozilla ?
And if you do not have money SHUT UP and DIE!
I'm not US citizen, so i don't know really well US geography.
I assume there is a nuclear powerplant around a big city. What happens if someone throw a plane to this nuclear power plant ?