Since Nvidia is a high profile player, who also happens to design the SOC and VPU inside, you get the best driver support. They constantly update the system, also the Android version.
This sounds so great! Personally I would go for two boxes, since I may want to have the router running 24/7 but not the file-server/backup-server. I find all-in-one solutions also to be more and more a pain to administer. Maybe even three, since a media-client is also a need, though I backed the OUYA, so I will see. What about Linux? Is this simple? Possible at all?
It's great to see such a product targeting this at the home market.
What about video? I am not set up, yet, but I plan to use some networked DVB-receivers (you may know them, all they do is grab the signal from the antenna and offer them on some port for the network to get). I don't know the technical background, but I think this is not as simple as supporting the four major condecs in two major cotainer formats, like most Chinese boxes do. Also, they have performance problems with real HD, meaning bitrates >20Mb/s. I guess this is also one of the problems, the XBMC guys are facing for their Allwinner A10 port.
Am I right in the assumption, that, as a consumer, I could not simply order or even use your product, since it would still require some hardware work to be done, mainly the I/O and require orders >1 piece?
No Risk, No Fun!;-)
Joking aside, this is the nature of places with cheap goods: There is a lot of possibilities for pick-pockets and similare. If you're not adventurous, you must pay the security-tax and go to the neighborhood mall.
All of those things sounds like they are awesome ideas that will greatly appeal to the.1% (or whatever) of the population that are hardcore geeks. The millions of units they are talking about? (...)
Either way, the vast majority of the world can't even upgrade the RAM in a desktop, much less a laptop, much less open up a tablet or phone to dig around. (...)
So while this sounds like a neat idea and can probably gain some traction, you're talking about the wrong usecases for the sort of volume they want to move. Think industrial level here.
Wholeheartedly agree! This is never going to make it. However, the Brits do have a special taste by times, which may seem bizarre, but work out nicely. Remember the ZX 81? Or the Spectrum? Rubber keyboard? 4 colors. Slow? It was a huge success! And this is a British effort. If they can saturate the market in GB only, we have a winner. This is the only hope for any "mainstream" market, that I have. I also would try to target young people, who have little money and may be interested in a device, they use over their teenagehood. Getting a tablet/laptop for Christmas when you're 13 and keeping it all way up till university, only updating the CPU card. This could work out in GB, I assume.
However, while it may find application in industry, I think that market may be saturated pretty well already. What I see (for myself) is DIY niche-products. I wish for a network computer with 3x Gb LAN, Flash (SDcard) and 1x/2x SATA, WiFi in order to have a green, noiselss firewall/router/VPN/tor-box/ldap running. An always on, that delivers more than the routers with modified firmware (mainly more RAM and faster CPU) and is using less power than cmparably powerfull Soekris systems ( ALIX being less powerfull, anyway). Then a server board (for the home) with as much IDE and SATA ports as possible for software like Unraid and relatives (redundant, hot-pluggable JBOD volumes). This would allow to throw the old disks at a backup server. Another thing could be some little radio device implementing home-control protocols. Actually everywhere, where nerds live and standard computers don't fit. But this would not be a multi millions market.
Does this mean, that 3x GB LAN and 8x SATA + 4x IDE would be impossible with the current ARM architecture?
I would be so happy as to have two low power, low heat, low cost ARM boards. One having 3x GB LAN and WiFi (router, firewall, TOR and Torrent box), the other one having as many SATA and some IDE ports as possible for an Unraid (et al) system, to which I could hook up old disks, or even adding some older SSD for a small solid stat home-server.
You do realize, that the very list, you mentioned, has objects he sold around USD 20.000 ?
He is one of the most popular/famous Australian contemporary artists. That sets his price.
So, let's get our hands on this. Maybe the EFF will jump in and we can turn the steering wheel. It most probably has been developed to spy on fellow citizens and suppress their human rights, but who said billion dollar companies would have them?;-) We could use it to find out, what Grand Inquisitors Google and Facebook is doing exactly with our data.
I dislike the idea of running a server. Either it is
a server you rent (high responsibility, legal accountability)
on your LAN (too much private data, too dangerous, see above)
I dislike Google more and more. Since a few years I am wishing there would be some initiative by privacy aware people, who offer something similar like Google's docs, cal, mail, picasa, +, etc. but on a commercial, or semi-commercial (non-profit) base. I would be willing to shell out a 120€/year for a liberal concept, that even has an API.
But it's not quite Python, because you can't use its standard library
Yes, you can, though not all builtins are available. All you need is this line in IronPython\Lib\site.py:
import sys
sys.path.append(r"E:\python24\lib")
As for the rest of your comment: You do realize, that there are Python programmers on Windows ? I enjoy happily the ActivePython distribution, with which I can even automate my deskopt/applications. Now, in addition, I have full access to the.NET2 framework and can use IronPython to write cmdlets for PowerShell (aka: Monad).
I consider this to be one of the best software-relases within the last few months.
So it's more of an "exploration", well documenting the "landscape" (i.e. findings.).
When I was twelve I wanted to become an archaeologist:) But further than collecting a couple of splitters of ancient pottery, lying in the dust everywhere at Acropolis, Troja, Olympia and Delphi I never came.
Sometimes I believe, these pottery artifacts are being thrown into the dust by the tourist-department. It's too obvious, these being there at such public places for more than x-thousand years.
I can see them clearly and well definable, at least to the right side. I don't see their continuation to the left, but at the right side I can clearly see 4 to 5 well defined curves, that look exactly as the part of circles.
It will be more easy if you don't try to see sharp circles but instead try to "feel" close. Look a little more unsharp and check out the fields in coloring. Just don't look sharp and you will find the forms. A little imagination is needed, of course, in order to reconstruct the circles.
It's pretty obvious to me.
Re:my thoughts
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OQO Examined
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Before you ask "Why?", I listened to a presentation of OQO's business plans and was told that they're aiming for a market of CEOs and folks like pharmaceutical reps (i.e. NOT slashdot readers).
Ah! That saved me smashing this device down right on.;-)
Hmmm...I think I will smash it down anyway. And pretend I did not know it was not for Slashdot users;-)
I don't own a PDA, but if I'd do, than it would be the SHARP Zaurus SL-5500G.
The device in question here has best of both worlds of portable computing (PDA and Laptop) but exactly this I find makes it a bad choice. It's small enough to fit into a pocket (PDA) but too big to wake the desire to carry it around all times (or often) (Laptop).
To be honest, I do not see why it could replace a laptop. It has no optical drive and thus is limited. I see no real offer in the mobile market, that, personally, I find satisfying. Even the Zaurus is not perfect.
But CF is not a PDA/DigiCam only storage.
I use it as IDE harddisk on generic ATX motherboards for both my media- and lan-server.
For the media-server (512MB Kingston CF) it stores, read-only, all the system and applications. This means, that when I listen to internet-radio, CD, watch a movie (TV or DVD) I do not need to spin up the storage disks. Similar for my 24/ server (also 512MB Kingston), which only spins up the disks, when some action happens (fetchmail, logfile). When I am abroad the system is mostly idle, except for the fetchmail every six hours and my own SSH access.
It is not about if Bluetooth is required or not.
He simply wants it.
And I can understand. Bluetooth is the only real soultion. Has the widest range, is very fault-tolerant, good energy consumption values, is bi-directional by default and can run even a TCP/IP stack. It is the future. Only no one realizes it.
SINCE I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF SCUMBAGS OR SIMILARE STRANGE BEINGS ARE READING THIS, AND SINCE I KNOW, THAT THE ATTORNEYS ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE AEH, SCUMBAGS AND COMPLETELY NUTS (THIS ONLY REPRESENTS MY VERY OWN PERSOAL VIEWS) AND WANT TO BE BILLIONAIRES, I WANT TO DECLARE THAT I AM JUST AND ONLY JOKING AND HOPING TO GE A +5 FUNNY BY THE HUMBLE MODERATORS, WHICH I THINK ARE THE MOST MAGNIFIC SINCE I MODERATED A FEW DAYS AGO. NEVER WOULD I WANT ANYONES DEATH NOR DO I THINK KILLING ANOTHER BEING IS THE RIGHT WAY TO SOLVE DISPUTES, THAT ARE ABOUT A LOT OF MONEY, MAYBE A MILLION OR TWO, MAYBE EVEN FIVE OR, GIMME A BREAK, TEN #@?! MILLION US OLLARS....... OR 500 MILLION. OR EVEN MORE.
BETTER POOR THAN EVIL !
Holy Cow ! Gimme a break. Did I say fivehundretmillion ?
The most interesting with MT, at least for me, is the zillions of plugins, that exist. Zillions, really !
Now what I ask myself is the following:
When will we see an open-source reimplementation. The database can be acesses by anything. The tags, MT uses can be used by other software as well, and if not, some paches replacing the MT in with whatever should be done quickly, so the old plugins could be used.
Not quite right. They invaded Germany and took the scientists with them. Wernher von Braun (Apollo Program) was glad to work for the US and so were many others.
The Europeans got rich by stealing Arab inventions.
Not true either. The Arabs did not have the patent-system back then;). So it wasn't stealing. Besides that, this was happening rather late, since during the middle-age in the Christian culture most of the Arab (and Jewish) stuff was forbidden, such as taking apart dead bodies to study them.
The Arabs got rich by stealing Indian and Chinese inventions.
Well, in the end I stole the inventions of my teachers in school. Did you ever hear about "learning" ?:)
That does not mean, that Marco Polo did not steal inventions from the Chinese. Indeed, he did (Silk, Gunpowder, Compass)
Slashdot Mirror
"Microsoft Project Manager Says OpenSource Programmers Should Get Down From Their 'Philosophical Ivory Tower,' Cease Writing Their Own Software"
Since Nvidia is a high profile player, who also happens to design the SOC and VPU inside, you get the best driver support. They constantly update the system, also the Android version.
For a comparison to other contenders (incl. Roku) chech out the list at: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/s...
This sounds so great! Personally I would go for two boxes, since I may want to have the router running 24/7 but not the file-server/backup-server. I find all-in-one solutions also to be more and more a pain to administer. Maybe even three, since a media-client is also a need, though I backed the OUYA, so I will see. What about Linux? Is this simple? Possible at all?
It's great to see such a product targeting this at the home market.
What about video? I am not set up, yet, but I plan to use some networked DVB-receivers (you may know them, all they do is grab the signal from the antenna and offer them on some port for the network to get). I don't know the technical background, but I think this is not as simple as supporting the four major condecs in two major cotainer formats, like most Chinese boxes do. Also, they have performance problems with real HD, meaning bitrates >20Mb/s. I guess this is also one of the problems, the XBMC guys are facing for their Allwinner A10 port.
Am I right in the assumption, that, as a consumer, I could not simply order or even use your product, since it would still require some hardware work to be done, mainly the I/O and require orders >1 piece?
Guess who operates AliPay.
Who? PayPal?
No Risk, No Fun! ;-)
Joking aside, this is the nature of places with cheap goods: There is a lot of possibilities for pick-pockets and similare. If you're not adventurous, you must pay the security-tax and go to the neighborhood mall.
All of those things sounds like they are awesome ideas that will greatly appeal to the .1% (or whatever) of the population that are hardcore geeks. The millions of units they are talking about? (...)
Either way, the vast majority of the world can't even upgrade the RAM in a desktop, much less a laptop, much less open up a tablet or phone to dig around. (...)
So while this sounds like a neat idea and can probably gain some traction, you're talking about the wrong usecases for the sort of volume they want to move. Think industrial level here.
Wholeheartedly agree! This is never going to make it. However, the Brits do have a special taste by times, which may seem bizarre, but work out nicely. Remember the ZX 81? Or the Spectrum? Rubber keyboard? 4 colors. Slow? It was a huge success! And this is a British effort. If they can saturate the market in GB only, we have a winner. This is the only hope for any "mainstream" market, that I have. I also would try to target young people, who have little money and may be interested in a device, they use over their teenagehood. Getting a tablet/laptop for Christmas when you're 13 and keeping it all way up till university, only updating the CPU card. This could work out in GB, I assume.
However, while it may find application in industry, I think that market may be saturated pretty well already. What I see (for myself) is DIY niche-products. I wish for a network computer with 3x Gb LAN, Flash (SDcard) and 1x/2x SATA, WiFi in order to have a green, noiselss firewall/router/VPN/tor-box/ldap running. An always on, that delivers more than the routers with modified firmware (mainly more RAM and faster CPU) and is using less power than cmparably powerfull Soekris systems ( ALIX being less powerfull, anyway). Then a server board (for the home) with as much IDE and SATA ports as possible for software like Unraid and relatives (redundant, hot-pluggable JBOD volumes). This would allow to throw the old disks at a backup server. Another thing could be some little radio device implementing home-control protocols. Actually everywhere, where nerds live and standard computers don't fit. But this would not be a multi millions market.
Does this mean, that 3x GB LAN and 8x SATA + 4x IDE would be impossible with the current ARM architecture?
I would be so happy as to have two low power, low heat, low cost ARM boards. One having 3x GB LAN and WiFi (router, firewall, TOR and Torrent box), the other one having as many SATA and some IDE ports as possible for an Unraid (et al) system, to which I could hook up old disks, or even adding some older SSD for a small solid stat home-server.
You do realize, that the very list, you mentioned, has objects he sold around USD 20.000 ? He is one of the most popular/famous Australian contemporary artists. That sets his price.
So, let's get our hands on this. Maybe the EFF will jump in and we can turn the steering wheel. It most probably has been developed to spy on fellow citizens and suppress their human rights, but who said billion dollar companies would have them? ;-) We could use it to find out, what Grand Inquisitors Google and Facebook is doing exactly with our data.
I dislike the idea of running a server. Either it is
I dislike Google more and more. Since a few years I am wishing there would be some initiative by privacy aware people, who offer something similar like Google's docs, cal, mail, picasa, +, etc. but on a commercial, or semi-commercial (non-profit) base. I would be willing to shell out a 120€/year for a liberal concept, that even has an API.
Yes, you can, though not all builtins are available. All you need is this line in IronPython\Lib\site.py:
import syssys.path.append(r"E:\python24\lib")
As for the rest of your comment: You do realize, that there are Python programmers on Windows ? I enjoy happily the ActivePython distribution, with which I can even automate my deskopt/applications. Now, in addition, I have full access to the
I consider this to be one of the best software-relases within the last few months.
> Dude, the (in)famous Hun's name is spelled "Attila".
Both versions are being considered correct. See: http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila
"Alakváltozatok
* Atilla: Ma már elfogadott írásmód az Atilla is. Ez az alak köznévként (atilla) díszes ruhadarabot is jelöl."
I am not going to translate it, since you clearly can see the word "Atilla" being written "Atilla" B-)
There is no such thing as a spectrum. When you see it, your mind clearly fools you.
So it's more of an "exploration", well documenting the "landscape" (i.e. findings.).
:) But further than collecting a couple of splitters of ancient pottery, lying in the dust everywhere at Acropolis, Troja, Olympia and Delphi I never came.
When I was twelve I wanted to become an archaeologist
Sometimes I believe, these pottery artifacts are being thrown into the dust by the tourist-department. It's too obvious, these being there at such public places for more than x-thousand years.
I can see them clearly and well definable, at least to the right side. I don't see their continuation to the left, but at the right side I can clearly see 4 to 5 well defined curves, that look exactly as the part of circles.
It will be more easy if you don't try to see sharp circles but instead try to "feel" close. Look a little more unsharp and check out the fields in coloring. Just don't look sharp and you will find the forms. A little imagination is needed, of course, in order to reconstruct the circles.
It's pretty obvious to me.
Ah! That saved me smashing this device down right on. ;-)
Hmmm...I think I will smash it down anyway. And pretend I did not know it was not for Slashdot users ;-)
I don't own a PDA, but if I'd do, than it would be the SHARP Zaurus SL-5500G.
The device in question here has best of both worlds of portable computing (PDA and Laptop) but exactly this I find makes it a bad choice. It's small enough to fit into a pocket (PDA) but too big to wake the desire to carry it around all times (or often) (Laptop).
To be honest, I do not see why it could replace a laptop. It has no optical drive and thus is limited. I see no real offer in the mobile market, that, personally, I find satisfying. Even the Zaurus is not perfect.
No, since I don't have one.
But CF is not a PDA/DigiCam only storage.
I use it as IDE harddisk on generic ATX motherboards for both my media- and lan-server.
For the media-server (512MB Kingston CF) it stores, read-only, all the system and applications. This means, that when I listen to internet-radio, CD, watch a movie (TV or DVD) I do not need to spin up the storage disks. Similar for my 24/ server (also 512MB Kingston), which only spins up the disks, when some action happens (fetchmail, logfile). When I am abroad the system is mostly idle, except for the fetchmail every six hours and my own SSH access.
Ruwido has brilliantly designed keyboards, remotes and mice for the wireless iving-room use
Their "Amadeus" RC is reported (by them) to have 70.000 RC's preprogrammed
It is not about if Bluetooth is required or not. He simply wants it. And I can understand. Bluetooth is the only real soultion. Has the widest range, is very fault-tolerant, good energy consumption values, is bi-directional by default and can run even a TCP/IP stack. It is the future. Only no one realizes it.
I am in the same situation. I also want a small keyboard with built-in mouse and running on Bluetooth
However, the market is "not there yet". At least not in EU and I know well, since I am in the scene, sort of.
No. That is what you know about it in a nutshell.
Offtopic ? Prove it !
That was a joke to the topic. Admit it guys, she's your sister.
Kill her !
BETTER POOR THAN EVIL !
Holy Cow ! Gimme a break. Did I say fivehundretmillion ?
Where's that *peep* ?
The most interesting with MT, at least for me, is the zillions of plugins, that exist. Zillions, really !
Now what I ask myself is the following:
When will we see an open-source reimplementation. The database can be acesses by anything. The tags, MT uses can be used by other software as well, and if not, some paches replacing the MT in with whatever should be done quickly, so the old plugins could be used.