Actually it's their Cocoon-label application suite (Which happens to run on Linux)
The main thing about this machine really isn't about the PVR features. Cocoon is designed for streaming media and content on demand (which is why it has the ethernet on the back).
In Japan, where DSL runs at 14Mb/s and NTT offers 100Mb/s, broadband content delivery is pretty simple. Sony plans on streaming media and music, and later with the PSX, games as well.
It's also designed to be a home-network connecting your various consumer electronics devices. So for this particular machine, you are able to connect it to your PC and then move the movies or content from the PVR to the PC, where you can edit and burn it to an optical disk (but the program to do this is currently only installed on the Vaios).
This Cocoon technology will be the basis for Sony's Playstation PSX, and likely the PLaystation 3, where they plan on delivering digital content to the consumer(at a price).
Historically, the wholesale cost for methanol in the United States over the past 20 years has been about 45 per gallon.
If this machine is using 24% methanol mixed with water, then 1 gallon of this Fuel Cell fuel should cost around 11 cents.
Basically a dime for a gallon, I'm assuming you that should last you a fairly long time. Probably cheaper than the electricity it takes to charge your laptop.
I remember a few years ago when AOL and Microsoft were fighting it out over MSN trying to be compatible with AIM. This was in the early days of MSN IM when they didn't have any users (and before they bundled it with XP), and they sorely needed users.
If I remember properly, AOL tryed compulsively to block Microsoft users from chatting with AIM users, and Microsoft would release an "fix" so to work around AOL's barrier. That is until Microsoft gave up their bid for compatibiliy for "technical reasons".
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-228983.html?legacy =c net
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-232886.html?legacy =c net
I wonder if Microsoft was guilty of the DMCA for all their "fixes"?
let's also not forget that there seems to be draw backs to the foveon CCD as well.
here's an experpt from dpreview from the review of the Signam SD9 which uses the CCD...
"Sensitivity is limited and image sharpness and color response seem to drop off at higher ISO's. More serious is the tendency to clip color in a highlight, something I've described as "color clipping" and "gray halos". At this stage it's unclear if this is a sensor issue...Unnatural blue skies / chromatic aberration sensitivity...Disappointing long exposure performance"...let's hope Foveon and Sigma can find solutions to these problems.
What's to say that I (or anyone else) can't claim that a piece of code that they contributed to Linux was missaporpriated; that it was submitted without my concent and is tainted?
Then I could threaten to sue everyone (maybe for $3 billion, maybe even SCO), but then I could blackmail companies that are afraid of my litigation and agree not to sue them for small fee. That way, I can make money from the entire open-source communities' hardwork even though I suck and have really done nothing.
TRON today basically has a monopoly on most embedded devices in the world; if you you've used a cell phone, digital camera, driven a car, opened a fridge, played a movie on your VCD/DVD player, turned on your TV, you've likely used TRON in one form or another.
In fact the TRON engine standards group(T-Engine) has more than 100 members worldwide including Fujitsu, Fuji Electric, Hitachi, Kyocera, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, MIPS, NEC, NTT, NTT DATA, NTT DoCoMo, RSA Security, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Sony, Sharp, Toshiba, Yamaha, Yazaki, and Yokogawa Digital Computer Corp, Toyota, Honda, etc.
Until Linux becomes a fully real-time OS it's unlikely that it'll replace TRON out of the embedded market.
"The T-Engine Forum and MontaVista
Software announced that they are collaborating to combine TRON ("The
Real-time Operating system Nucleus") -- the long-dominant Japanese
embedded operating system -- with embedded Linux, in an effort to create
a standardized software architecture for embedded devices that takes
advantage of open source software and the benefits of Linux, while
retaining a degree of compatibility with TRON."
Here are some pictures of the PSX's main menu screen taken from a news segment that Fuji television in Japan aired (Quiter and ZDnet).
The images show how you will be able to navigate content stored on your HDD, DVD, as well as content offered from online places like Sony Music. The menu offers 3D "Jog-style" navigation. The article also has a quote from Sony executives saying that the PSX will be the "Home Server" for it's consumers and be a global product (with releases scheduled in the US and Europe).
Here is a picture from a Japanese site of PSP's 1.8GB media, it's looks to be around the same size as the Gamecube's disc, except it seems it'll come in a caddy of some sort (2.4in in size).
http://www.gc-inside.com/news/103/10367.html
http://www.gc-inside.com/media/psp/05.gif
I for one am glad it'll come with Memorystick, being that there are already great Memorystick accesories such as digital camera, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11b, and even a prototype TV tuner.
Actually Japanese have achieved commercial 100mps through fiberoptic lines, there is a service offered from NTT that gives you that speed for less than what most DSL or cable costs in the US. But the real world figures of the 100mps is in reality around 10mps in most areas and only in highly developed areas can atain anywhere close to 100mbs.
But recently I heard an ad for 12mbs DSL in Japan for 2000yen (around $18).
The theory that microorganisms will manufacture goods that are usful for humans are not foreign, there is a whole industry based on it today.
More interesting, people talk of the future being nanomachines but in reality our bodies and cells are already doing what nanomachines are said to be able to do. What other machine can take organic material and light and make usable energy in the form of ATP.
Think about production of alternative fuels, there is already reseach in having bacteria producing hydrogen fuels in the from an enzyme called hydrogenase.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/w7241e/w7241e0g.htm
There is even talk of having fossil fuels being produced by bacteria. After all, fossils fuels where originally produced by bacteria millions of years ago.
Great read, but I think the concept of this Sollx paint is that it can be molded over metal and other materials. I think it's just a superficial thing and shouldn't compromise structrual rigidity of the car. If it wasn't it would just be a prettier fibre-glass.
According to the specs on Gamepsot the batterylife is 3-6 hours. So in reality would be like 1-4 hours in real world usage. That is too damn short, considering that the Gameboy advance claims 30 hours on two AAs(only around 20 hours in realworld usage).
Considering that you can buy GBAs for around $70 and pretty soon the new back-lit lithium-ion GBA SP for $99, the Nokia better be priced to competitively or the consumer would just go out and buy a PocketPC or Palm device; considering that Capcom, Sega,and Verant are already producing games for those platforms (like Everquest, 1942, Section Z, Colomns, Ultima Undrworld, Simcity, etc.).
Link to Gamespot; http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/ne ws/0,10870, 2910338,00.html
The product's price seems resonable at 2800yen ($28.46US) for the
device. The 32MB Smartcard will be 2,000yen ($16.75), and individual
content will cost 200yen ($1.68).
Another interesting thing is that since Palm uses Arm7 processors
and SDs that content will probably be compatible with Palm
devices at a later date.
It seems like more a portable video player than an Ipod.
Here is the link http://mb.vgdirectory.com/game020403d.htm
"AM3 announced they will release a Smart Media Adaptor
for GameBoy Advance and GameBoy Advance SP in October, which allows you
to download multimedia contents and play on the GameBoy Advance.
The AM3 Smart Media Adaptor will retail for 2800 yen, and the AM3
32M Smart Media Cards will retail for 2000 yen each. Downloadable
contents such as e-Books, animated cartoon will retail between 200 -
500 yen each. AM3 is also planning to install kiosk terminals in
convenient stores for customers to purchase contents."
Here is an interesting article about Nvidia and their possible contributions to Xbox2/XboxNext(or whatever it's called).
NVidia cautious about Xbox 2 http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=2507
It basically says that Nvidia may not be to excited to be the supplier for the next Xbox's components because of poor Xbox sales and legal problems with MS.
I recognized that some people think that since MS loses money on Xbox, and MS is losing much more money on XBOX now, that means MS XBOX sales are good (meaning more Xboxs are being sold at a loss). This is untrue.
Xbox is selling poorly. "the company lowered its total Xbox sales forecast to 9 million to 11 million units by the end of June 2003. The company originally expected to ship that many units by the same point in 2002.", for comparison playstation2 has sold 50 million units.
http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=17& Ar t_ID=11492
Another bad sign is component manufactures like Focus (and likely Nvidia) are being told that they don't need to make more components for the Xbox (mentioned in above link).
all you need is: 1)Talent 2)several grand to rent out a recording studio for several hours to record (depends on the studio) 3)several more grand to reproduce the CDs/LPs for distribution (varies depending on how many you plan to sell)
PLEASE NOTE: This doesn't include advertising or hiring Spike Jonze to make your video for MTV, nor the Bentleys to boost the artist's ego, nor the cost of the "Bling-Bling".
I personally don't see Apple supporting Khtml that detrimental to Mozilla. Maybe a little disheartening but not detrimental. ..
I think another viable browser that is W3C compliant (like the Khtml) gaurantees that more web sites follow W3C standards rather than IE's. That's good for all browsers(except IE).
"A reliable source close to Sony's plans explained the way the Playstation3 works to the INQUIRER.
He said that the computers are made of cells, each one containing a CPU, which will probably be a PowerPC, and eight APUs (vectorial processors) each with 128K of memory.
It will run at 4GHz, producing a not inconsiderable 256Gflops, with the cells connected to the central 64MB memory through a switched 1024 bit bus.
It's still not clear how many of these "cells" will be used in the Playstation3, but Sony reckoned some time ago it could be as many as one teraflops, probably making it a four cell architecture.
Optical links - perhaps even FireWire optical links - could be used to share computing power."
Slashdot Mirror
Or you could buy the 160GB older version (CSV-E77) of this machine for around $500 and save yourself the trouble.
- E7 7/
http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/cocoon/CSV
Actually it's their Cocoon-label application suite (Which happens to run on Linux)
The main thing about this machine really isn't about the PVR features. Cocoon is designed for streaming media and content on demand (which is why it has the ethernet on the back).
In Japan, where DSL runs at 14Mb/s and NTT offers 100Mb/s, broadband content delivery is pretty simple. Sony plans on streaming media and music, and later with the PSX, games as well.
It's also designed to be a home-network connecting your various consumer electronics devices. So for this particular machine, you are able to connect it to your PC and then move the movies or content from the PVR to the PC, where you can edit and burn it to an optical disk (but the program to do this is currently only installed on the Vaios).
This Cocoon technology will be the basis for Sony's Playstation PSX, and likely the PLaystation 3, where they plan on delivering digital content to the consumer(at a price).
Historically, the wholesale cost for methanol in the United States over the past 20 years has been about 45 per gallon.
If this machine is using 24% methanol mixed with water, then 1 gallon of this Fuel Cell fuel should cost around 11 cents.
Basically a dime for a gallon, I'm assuming you that should last you a fairly long time. Probably cheaper than the electricity it takes to charge your laptop.
I remember a few years ago when AOL and Microsoft were fighting it out over MSN trying to be compatible with AIM. This was in the early days of MSN IM when they didn't have any users (and before they bundled it with XP), and they sorely needed users.
y =c net
y =c net
If I remember properly, AOL tryed compulsively to block Microsoft users from chatting with AIM users, and Microsoft would release an "fix" so to work around AOL's barrier. That is until Microsoft gave up their bid for compatibiliy for "technical reasons".
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-228983.html?legac
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-232886.html?legac
I wonder if Microsoft was guilty of the DMCA for all their "fixes"?
let's also not forget that there seems to be draw backs to the foveon CCD as well.
...Disappointing long exposure performance" ...let's hope Foveon and Sigma can find solutions to these problems.
here's an experpt from dpreview from the review of the Signam SD9 which uses the CCD...
"Sensitivity is limited and image sharpness and color response seem to drop off at higher ISO's. More serious is the tendency to clip color in a highlight, something I've described as "color clipping" and "gray halos". At this stage it's unclear if this is a sensor issue...Unnatural blue skies / chromatic aberration sensitivity
What's to say that I (or anyone else) can't claim that a piece of code that they contributed to Linux was missaporpriated; that it was submitted without my concent and is tainted?
Then I could threaten to sue everyone (maybe for $3 billion, maybe even SCO), but then I could blackmail companies that are afraid of my litigation and agree not to sue them for small fee. That way, I can make money from the entire open-source communities' hardwork even though I suck and have really done nothing.
I could be a millionare.
TRON today basically has a monopoly on most embedded devices in the world; if you you've used a cell phone, digital camera, driven a car, opened a fridge, played a movie on your VCD/DVD player, turned on your TV, you've likely used TRON in one form or another.
In fact the TRON engine standards group(T-Engine) has more than 100 members worldwide including Fujitsu, Fuji Electric, Hitachi, Kyocera, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, MIPS, NEC, NTT, NTT DATA, NTT DoCoMo, RSA Security, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Sony, Sharp, Toshiba, Yamaha, Yazaki, and Yokogawa Digital Computer Corp, Toyota, Honda, etc.
Until Linux becomes a fully real-time OS it's unlikely that it'll replace TRON out of the embedded market.
It seems that there is already a project underway to integrate Tron with Linux. . .
Tron + Linux = T-Linux.
"The T-Engine Forum and MontaVista Software announced that they are collaborating to combine TRON ("The Real-time Operating system Nucleus") -- the long-dominant Japanese embedded operating system -- with embedded Linux, in an effort to create a standardized software architecture for embedded devices that takes advantage of open source software and the benefits of Linux, while retaining a degree of compatibility with TRON."
Here are some pictures of the PSX's main menu screen taken from a news
segment that Fuji television in Japan aired (Quiter
and ZDnet).
The images show how you will be able to navigate content stored on your
HDD, DVD, as well as content offered from online places like Sony Music.
The menu offers 3D "Jog-style" navigation. The article also has a quote from
Sony executives saying that the PSX will be the "Home Server" for it's consumers
and be a global product (with releases scheduled in the US and Europe).
Here is a picture from a Japanese site of PSP's 1.8GB media, it's looks to be around the same size as the Gamecube's disc, except it seems it'll come in a caddy of some sort (2.4in in size).
http://www.gc-inside.com/news/103/10367.html
http://www.gc-inside.com/media/psp/05.gif
I for one am glad it'll come with Memorystick, being that there are already great Memorystick accesories such as digital camera, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11b, and even a prototype TV tuner.
I'm assuming that Mr. Cameron actually did read the manga.
He mensions that he wants to do a movie, maybe the second, based on motorball. Which is actually after the two OVA series.
"Motorball might find its way more into the second film"
But the manga is certainly leagues better than the medicore OVA.
Actually Japanese have achieved commercial 100mps through fiberoptic lines, there is a service offered from NTT that gives you that speed for less than what most DSL or cable costs in the US. But the real world figures of the 100mps is in reality around 10mps in most areas and only in highly developed areas can atain anywhere close to 100mbs.
But recently I heard an ad for 12mbs DSL in Japan for 2000yen (around $18).
The theory that microorganisms will manufacture goods that are usful for humans are not foreign, there is a whole industry based on it today.
More interesting, people talk of the future being nanomachines but in reality our bodies and cells are already doing what nanomachines are said to be able to do. What other machine can take organic material and light and make usable energy in the form of ATP.
Think about production of alternative fuels, there is already reseach in having bacteria producing hydrogen fuels in the from an enzyme called hydrogenase.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/w7241e/w7241e0g.htm
There is even talk of having fossil fuels being produced by bacteria. After all, fossils fuels where originally produced by bacteria millions of years ago.
Great read,
but I think the concept of this Sollx paint is that it can be molded over metal and other materials. I think it's just a superficial thing and shouldn't compromise structrual rigidity of the car. If it wasn't it would just be a prettier fibre-glass.
According to the specs on Gamepsot the batterylife is 3-6 hours. So in reality would be like 1-4 hours in real world usage. That is too damn short, considering that the Gameboy advance claims 30 hours on two AAs(only around 20 hours in realworld usage).
e ws/0,10870, 2910338,00.html
Considering that you can buy GBAs for around $70 and pretty soon the new back-lit lithium-ion GBA SP for $99, the Nokia better be priced to competitively or the consumer would just go out and buy a PocketPC or Palm device; considering that Capcom, Sega,and Verant are already producing games for those platforms (like Everquest, 1942, Section Z, Colomns, Ultima Undrworld, Simcity, etc.).
Link to Gamespot;
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/n
Is seems they plan on distrubuting content through kiosks and the internet, as well as selling smartcards with content already on it.
/ am3_13.htm
w s05.html / am3.htm
They plan on selling music, videos, comics, e-books, and photographs.
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20030204
The product's price seems resonable at 2800yen ($28.46US) for the device. The 32MB Smartcard will be 2,000yen ($16.75), and individual content will cost 200yen ($1.68).
Another interesting thing is that since Palm uses Arm7 processors and SDs that content will probably be compatible with Palm devices at a later date.
Links: (In Japanese)
Gamspot Japan
http://www.zdnet.co.jp/gamespot/gsnews/0302/04/ne
Watch Impress
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20030204
Offical Page
http://www.am3.co.jp/
It seems like more a portable video player than an Ipod.
Here is the link
http://mb.vgdirectory.com/game020403d.htm
"AM3 announced they will release a Smart Media Adaptor for GameBoy Advance and GameBoy Advance SP in October, which allows you to download multimedia contents and play on the GameBoy Advance. The AM3 Smart Media Adaptor will retail for 2800 yen, and the AM3 32M Smart Media Cards will retail for 2000 yen each. Downloadable contents such as e-Books, animated cartoon will retail between 200 - 500 yen each. AM3 is also planning to install kiosk terminals in convenient stores for customers to purchase contents."
Here is an interesting article about Nvidia and their possible contributions to Xbox2/XboxNext(or whatever it's called).
NVidia cautious about Xbox 2
http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=2507
It basically says that Nvidia may not be to excited to be the supplier for the next Xbox's components because of poor Xbox sales and legal problems with MS.
I recognized that some people think that since MS loses money on Xbox, and MS is losing much more money on XBOX now, that means MS XBOX sales are good (meaning more Xboxs are being sold at a loss). This is untrue.
& Ar t_ID=11492
Xbox is selling poorly.
"the company lowered its total Xbox sales forecast to 9 million to 11 million units by the end of June 2003. The company originally expected to ship that many units by the same point in 2002.", for comparison playstation2 has sold 50 million units.
http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=17
Another bad sign is component manufactures like Focus (and likely Nvidia) are being told that they don't need to make more components for the Xbox (mentioned in above link).
This PDA will probably use the newly anounced Memorystick Pro.
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Which should be superior technically to the current generation SDs. with a max transfer rate of 160mbs
http://www.palminfocenter.com/palm/p_story.asp?
Also it does come with a compactflash for the 802.11b (but the CF slot is not supported to you'll have to find your own drivers)
making an album is pretty cheap. . .
all you need is:
1)Talent
2)several grand to rent out a recording studio for several hours to record (depends on the studio)
3)several more grand to reproduce the CDs/LPs for distribution (varies depending on how many you plan to sell)
PLEASE NOTE: This doesn't include advertising or hiring Spike Jonze to make your video for MTV, nor the Bentleys to boost the artist's ego, nor the cost of the "Bling-Bling".
I personally don't see Apple supporting Khtml that detrimental to Mozilla. Maybe a little disheartening but not detrimental. . .
I think another viable browser that is W3C compliant (like the Khtml) gaurantees that more web sites follow W3C standards rather than IE's. That's good for all browsers(except IE).
Here is a snippet from the Inquirer about the PS3
"A reliable source close to Sony's plans explained the way the Playstation3 works to the INQUIRER.
He said that the computers are made of cells, each one containing a CPU, which will probably be a PowerPC, and eight APUs (vectorial processors) each with 128K of memory.
It will run at 4GHz, producing a not inconsiderable 256Gflops, with the cells connected to the central 64MB memory through a switched 1024 bit bus.
It's still not clear how many of these "cells" will be used in the Playstation3, but Sony reckoned some time ago it could be as many as one teraflops, probably making it a four cell architecture.
Optical links - perhaps even FireWire optical links - could be used to share computing power."
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7078
Here is info on Sony's Linux PVR Cocoon:
/. article about this product:
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http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/cocoon/
It's uses MontaVista's Linux which is likely what this project is based after.
So Sony's Cocoon should be a good example what this alliance may produce.
Also you can check out the previous
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/04/1328209.s
Maybe this technology can be used to cool PCs, it'll probably be more effective than a heatsink and fan.
Just connect some B&w speakers and some Krell amps and your done.