Just released:
The size of a deck of cards (2.4 x 4 x.78 in.)
* 5gB HDD
* 10 hour bttery life
* 20 min skip protection
* COOL ASS intigration with iTunes2
* crossfader: automatically fades between songs. new equalizer button next to burn and eject buttons, with presets, 10 sliders plus a preamp slider
* built-in. fast -- entire CD download in under 10 seconds
* If you add songs or re-arrange playlists, iPod automatically updates
The body of this news item is misleading. This material can GENERATE 700 watts of electricity from only one square cm. (specifically under a 58 degree F tempature gradient).
It can also heat and cool things 2.5x more efficiently (then anything else on the market) if you push electrons through it, rather than let them come out.
Very interesting stuff, IMHO. Generating electricity from waste heat with inexpensive materials is a holy grail of sorts in a LOT of applications.
BTW, this is what the patent system was SUPPOSED to protect. True innovation.
Tech companies are EXPECTED to grow their business/revenues by 20-30% every year. That is feasable when you're starting out in a new market area, but is impossible in a mature market. The only way you can fake it is to gouge/cheat/lie/steal from your customers, and make them pay more every way you can.
This is good for the OSS community however. The more Oracle/Microsoft/etc squeeze to inflate their bottom line, the more people abandon ship and switch to OSS. The more people using OSS, the more people contribute to it. Knowledge is most useful when shared. As the history os science shows, the more you share information, the better we all become.
AMD's heatsink problem?
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Has anyone heard whether or not AMD's heat problem has been solved? Reading Tom's article on what happens if your heat sink falls off really put a kink in my AMD-buying choice. I mean, it wasn't even like you had time to hit your power button - you went from 'snap' to 'smoke coming from case' in less than a second.
No matter how much faster and cheaper they are then Intel, that's a HUGE risk to take on your system.
Ugh. I'm sick of programs fighting each other for the user's attention. Who would buy a blender that detected other blenders in the house and tried to disable them? Should my Sony TV ask me every day if it should take over the remote control for my Magnavox? Why do we put up with this?
We should have a file typing system that incorporates the creating company/software package into it, like how UPC symbols list COMPANY/PRODUCT_NO so both Jiffy and Food Lion can both sell peanut butter and the register knows the difference. That way Joe Shmoe can double-click on his RealMP3 and it won't open in WMP.
I find it really interesting that a guy who just got in trouble for copying a company's graphics (whatever you believe the merits of that are) is using the sky background image STAIGHT OFF OF TRANSMETA'S OLD WEB SITE.
Is this a quiet way to rebel or is he just stoopid?
Actually, the thing does have fuel cell batteries that keep it up at night. It does not have to "stay on the sunny side of the earth", nor would that be possible when you only fly 20 miles per hour.
Re:I know what I'd do...
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For those of you wondering WTF Bleem is, it's a PSx emulator for the PC. (get it? a PS2 running as a computer running as a PS1?:)
Actually, that's not being lazy that is programming for lower machines. Uncompressing video on the fly takes a fair number of CPUY cycles, maybe not on your GHz Atlon but on Billy-Bob's PII-300 those cycles saved can let him actually see the video full screen.
It's the same reason CD's contain uncompressed data. At the point of conception, it was cheaper to use the space than to use the processing horse power.
Why do we have to "choose" one or the other? It doesn't make sense. We can easily have BOTH. Games written for Linux don't preclude Windows compatability, and Wine's existance doesn't stop any company from writing for a fast-growing user base.
Choice is a good thing in the computer industry, and the more ways my OS allows me to do What I Want To(tm) the better. This just seems like a flamebait article to me.
Wow, does any one else remember this show from the Discovery channel? I used to watch this religiously through middle and into high school, when it was taken off the air. (or at least I thought since the Discovery channel dropped it) Does anyone know if it is still aired in the US? Their site didn't seem to offer that kind of information oddly, but they did say it is aired "around the world".
I wonder if "The Next Step" is still on as well. Any of you other tech geeks out there remember those days?:)
Alright, now replacing the mouse with something that looks wherever you look is certainly cool, but this is not a promising solution. When I am using my computer, most of the time my head is stationary. It is my EYES that do the moving. It's going to get very tiring to precisely position my entire scull every time I want to move the mouse.
A better approch would be to follow my eye-movement in relation to my head and the monitor. This would require some pretty fancy cameras to get the detail level one would need, but it would be really cool, don't you think?:-)
It seems that under this new agreement all Connectix emulator technology is now property of Sony. Connectix can sell through June, but then will provide "support only". Will Sony rerelease the emulator and start selling it "... under the auspices of the joint agreement"?? I highly doubt it.
It looks more like Sony decided that since they couldn't win, they'd throw money at the owners. Would you keep selling your product if someone waved big big bucks over your head?
I started out my education (at Virginia Tech) as a Computer Engineering student and later switched to Computer Science. I did this because I was told that CpEs (CpE == Computer Engineer) get a more rounded computer education and that "engineers" are more respected, command higher salaries and are more employable because of greater flexability. What I found was that 70% of CpE was EE. If you're going into hardware or chip design you need that EE background, but if you're going into anything else, you will have wasted 60 credit hours on material you will never use. And the cost of that (besides monitary) will be minimal programming knowledge.
And in reality noone these days worth their salt gives a lick about your degree - only if you can be productive. And think you're getting a higher salary by being more flexable and/or working w/ hardware (many times more difficult)? forget it - you're not even close to the 60k+ starting salaries GOOD new-grad CS people get.
i find this "sport" quite amusing. it entails looking at a hand-held computer and walking/swimming/driving in whatever direction it points.
"back in my day" (at my grand old age of 21) we used top-maps, markers, compasses and natural land masses to calculate where we were and where we needed to go on hikes and camping trips.
this just seems to take all the fun out of it. kind of like hunting in those special fenced in ranges with animals that spent their entire lives raised by men (so there is no fear). you can just walk up and shoot them in the head with your BFG.
the chances of apple opening up quartz and aqua to open-source developers are zero to none. they don't give a flying grit's ass if you run anything else, but if they opened those up then you wouldn't have to buy a mac. (i'm sure a port would be started ASAP)
so in other words, yes, we can run xbill, but "HELL NO" to running bubbly UIs on your pimp 2Ghz AMD. (they won't even let us create look-alike skins!)
i know this seems like an unlikely possibility, but why could this not happen to slashdot? what would be done about it? does taco have a gameplan if VA goes belly-up?
however remote this seems now, don't discount it. murphy's law.
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FYI:
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That is supposed to be:
* Built in FIREWIRE is fast - can download a CD in 10 seconds.
Also really cool is that it can recharge from the firewire port in 1 hour! No carrying YAPB (yet another power brick) around with you everywhere.
Also, $399 MSRP. (that sucks, but hey, 5 gigs in this small of a package? god damn that's slick.
Just released: .78 in.)
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The size of a deck of cards (2.4 x 4 x
* 5gB HDD
* 10 hour bttery life
* 20 min skip protection
* COOL ASS intigration with iTunes2
* crossfader: automatically fades between songs. new equalizer button next to burn and eject buttons, with presets, 10 sliders plus a preamp slider
* built-in. fast -- entire CD download in under 10 seconds
* If you add songs or re-arrange playlists, iPod automatically updates
see: http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0110/23.event
see: http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=10182
yes, this one is just 2.4 times as efficient and works 23,000 times faster. that's why it's a news story.
that's what the article says. do you have calculations to prove them wrong?
The body of this news item is misleading. This material can GENERATE 700 watts of electricity from only one square cm. (specifically under a 58 degree F tempature gradient).
It can also heat and cool things 2.5x more efficiently (then anything else on the market) if you push electrons through it, rather than let them come out.
Very interesting stuff, IMHO. Generating electricity from waste heat with inexpensive materials is a holy grail of sorts in a LOT of applications.
BTW, this is what the patent system was SUPPOSED to protect. True innovation.
Tech companies are EXPECTED to grow their business/revenues by 20-30% every year. That is feasable when you're starting out in a new market area, but is impossible in a mature market. The only way you can fake it is to gouge/cheat/lie/steal from your customers, and make them pay more every way you can.
This is good for the OSS community however. The more Oracle/Microsoft/etc squeeze to inflate their bottom line, the more people abandon ship and switch to OSS. The more people using OSS, the more people contribute to it. Knowledge is most useful when shared. As the history os science shows, the more you share information, the better we all become.
Has anyone heard whether or not AMD's heat problem has been solved? Reading Tom's article on what happens if your heat sink falls off really put a kink in my AMD-buying choice. I mean, it wasn't even like you had time to hit your power button - you went from 'snap' to 'smoke coming from case' in less than a second.
No matter how much faster and cheaper they are then Intel, that's a HUGE risk to take on your system.
Ugh. I'm sick of programs fighting each other for the user's attention. Who would buy a blender that detected other blenders in the house and tried to disable them? Should my Sony TV ask me every day if it should take over the remote control for my Magnavox? Why do we put up with this?
We should have a file typing system that incorporates the creating company/software package into it, like how UPC symbols list COMPANY/PRODUCT_NO so both Jiffy and Food Lion can both sell peanut butter and the register knows the difference. That way Joe Shmoe can double-click on his RealMP3 and it won't open in WMP.
I find it really interesting that a guy who just got in trouble for copying a company's graphics (whatever you believe the merits of that are) is using the sky background image STAIGHT OFF OF TRANSMETA'S OLD WEB SITE.
Is this a quiet way to rebel or is he just stoopid?
Actually, the thing does have fuel cell batteries that keep it up at night. It does not have to "stay on the sunny side of the earth", nor would that be possible when you only fly 20 miles per hour.
For those of you wondering WTF Bleem is, it's a PSx emulator for the PC. (get it? a PS2 running as a computer running as a PS1? :)
It wouldn't work tho...
Actually, that's not being lazy that is programming for lower machines. Uncompressing video on the fly takes a fair number of CPUY cycles, maybe not on your GHz Atlon but on Billy-Bob's PII-300 those cycles saved can let him actually see the video full screen.
It's the same reason CD's contain uncompressed data. At the point of conception, it was cheaper to use the space than to use the processing horse power.
Why do we have to "choose" one or the other? It doesn't make sense. We can easily have BOTH. Games written for Linux don't preclude Windows compatability, and Wine's existance doesn't stop any company from writing for a fast-growing user base.
Choice is a good thing in the computer industry, and the more ways my OS allows me to do What I Want To(tm) the better. This just seems like a flamebait article to me.
Wow, does any one else remember this show from the Discovery channel? I used to watch this religiously through middle and into high school, when it was taken off the air. (or at least I thought since the Discovery channel dropped it) Does anyone know if it is still aired in the US? Their site didn't seem to offer that kind of information oddly, but they did say it is aired "around the world".
:)
I wonder if "The Next Step" is still on as well. Any of you other tech geeks out there remember those days?
Alright, now replacing the mouse with something that looks wherever you look is certainly cool, but this is not a promising solution. When I am using my computer, most of the time my head is stationary. It is my EYES that do the moving. It's going to get very tiring to precisely position my entire scull every time I want to move the mouse.
A better approch would be to follow my eye-movement in relation to my head and the monitor. This would require some pretty fancy cameras to get the detail level one would need, but it would be really cool, don't you think?
It seems that under this new agreement all Connectix emulator technology is now property of Sony. Connectix can sell through June, but then will provide "support only". Will Sony rerelease the emulator and start selling it "... under the auspices of the joint agreement"?? I highly doubt it.
It looks more like Sony decided that since they couldn't win, they'd throw money at the owners. Would you keep selling your product if someone waved big big bucks over your head?
I started out my education (at Virginia Tech) as a Computer Engineering student and later switched to Computer Science. I did this because I was told that CpEs (CpE == Computer Engineer) get a more rounded computer education and that "engineers" are more respected, command higher salaries and are more employable because of greater flexability. What I found was that 70% of CpE was EE. If you're going into hardware or chip design you need that EE background, but if you're going into anything else, you will have wasted 60 credit hours on material you will never use. And the cost of that (besides monitary) will be minimal programming knowledge.
And in reality noone these days worth their salt gives a lick about your degree - only if you can be productive. And think you're getting a higher salary by being more flexable and/or working w/ hardware (many times more difficult)? forget it - you're not even close to the 60k+ starting salaries GOOD new-grad CS people get.
How about the PA-1? Anyone working on supporting that? If not, e-mail me and we can start.
and i do not knowingly benifit from viewing such unsolicited e-mail... my brain isn't getting enough blood for it to register.
i find this "sport" quite amusing. it entails looking at a hand-held computer and walking/swimming/driving in whatever direction it points.
"back in my day" (at my grand old age of 21) we used top-maps, markers, compasses and natural land masses to calculate where we were and where we needed to go on hikes and camping trips.
this just seems to take all the fun out of it. kind of like hunting in those special fenced in ranges with animals that spent their entire lives raised by men (so there is no fear). you can just walk up and shoot them in the head with your BFG.
the chances of apple opening up quartz and aqua to open-source developers are zero to none. they don't give a flying grit's ass if you run anything else, but if they opened those up then you wouldn't have to buy a mac. (i'm sure a port would be started ASAP)
so in other words, yes, we can run xbill, but "HELL NO" to running bubbly UIs on your pimp 2Ghz AMD. (they won't even let us create look-alike skins!)
does anyone else find it interesting that video interviews of leaders of the open source and linux/unix movements are being show in quicktime?
"yeah bill, i've got my interview on the web!" - "where, mig?" - "right here, but damn hold on, gotta install windows first."
riiiight...
(a year late but hey, Win95 was supposed to come in 93 and we know NT 5 was supposed to come out in 95.:)
:-)
that would have been quite a trick considering WinNT 4.0 came out in 1996!
i think the original target date for NT5 was late 1998/early 1999.
i know this seems like an unlikely possibility, but why could this not happen to slashdot? what would be done about it? does taco have a gameplan if VA goes belly-up?
however remote this seems now, don't discount it. murphy's law.
you've obviously never taken a long train ride.
(hint: it's NOT fun)