The older VIA chips just didn't perform all that well and they where often tied to chip sets with really poor Linux support. Linux is important in the embedded market. Right now I can go to Newegg and buy a few Atom based solutions. The latest Via was no where to be seen last time I looked.
That really depends on the use of the low power system. One of the big reasons to use X86 is simply Flash. If you want to use Flash going with the X86 is the path of least resistance. So lets say you want to make a desktop box that can play YouTube, Hulu, and other media. If you build it with Linux and an X86 you will have no real technical issues getting it working. VIA is an option but so is the Atom. If you are talking about a PDA/Cell device then I do agree that ARM rules but then those devices often don't support Flash. As long as the latest Flash support is limited to Adobe blessed code X86 will have a big advantage for any device that browses the web. Now if JavaFX catches on and gets ported everywhere. Or if Mono/Moonlight proves to not be some terrible plot by Microsoft then things could change.
Renewables are good but right now we need to move to more nuclear. People love to ignore the fact that the winds farms in Texas this year didn't produce near the power they expected. There wasn't enough wind. Same with solar. You can throttle it to meet needs. They make good supplements. Nuclear is clean, it works, and with fuel recycling we have enough for centuries.
The US bought the load of FUD in the 70s and we are now paying for it. Instead of building more nuclear plants we built coal. They did a great job cleaning coal in the new plants but CO2 was never considered a pollutant.
The latest reactors are even safer than the ones we are currently using. We need to start building them now instead of living in a fantasy world that some unknown break through will make Solar cheap, batteries 1000% better, and the wind never stop blowing.
Actually I have always tended to like Gnome more than KDE. Gnome really worked just about exactly how I wanted. KDE was always just a bit too fiddly for my tastes.
You may be in part correct. He never could get the hang of dragging and dropping his music files to the player. But then I am not sure he would get the hang of iTunes. iTunes can frustrate me at times so it might drive him crazy.
Interesting. I have always wondered why anybody cared what Linus used. What Distro he used or desktop. Just me but it seems odd to think that his needs would mirror my needs or my wife's.
I am pretty much in the same boat. I keep Windows just for FS2004 and FSX and CAD. Microsoft Flight Sim is one of those historic benchmark products. Microsoft would be stupid to dump it. Heck I wounder if the Apple might not pick up the dev team. I would buy a Mac if that was the only way to get FS.
I remember back when we had lie 8 channels on TV and that was with Cable. If you had all three networks and PBS what else did you need? Then I heard about people in NY that had like 100 channels. A lot of people just don't see why they need broadband. Netflix? They watch Movies on TV they don't watch them on their computer. Download music? Adults just don't buy that much music. I bought my step dad an MP3 player. It was too hard for him to rip the CDs. He uses the internet to send email. He still uses the weather channel for weather and he has a minor in meteorology. I want internet everywhere and always and super fast. I think that it will just take time and devices that are not PC to get everybody on line.
Well Halo is very very popular so I am pretty sure that it doesn't suck. I have not played it myself. My favorite game? FS2004 and FSX. There is also a world outside Australia. It seems that broadband is cheaper everywhere but Australia. From what I have heard just about everything game related is more expensive in Australia. The XBox arcade will still play games on line with no problem. You can add and HD for it for just about the same cost as buying it from the start. Now I do think Microsoft is being dumb on two counts. 1. Put in wifi! 2. Allow the end user to use Microsoft Home Server for mass storage. This would make so much sense. It would probably really help the sale of MHS and push the all microsoft home.
So what it comes down to is you are a PC gamer and like the Wii for social gaming which is just fine. I love my Wii as well but the 360 does rival the PS3 for pure power and has a much easier programing model so it is easier to use the power available. Now I wounder what the next Wii will bring. I am hoping they will take advantage of Moore's Law and make a faster Wii with HD graphics. I can see them not putting in an HD. Flash is getting cheaper and cheaper and there could allow you to use and SMB share for mass storage if you really wanted to. Or they could support USB HDs if needed. If Nintendo put Boxee on the next Wii and supported HD It would rock. Oh and no need for a BlueRay on the Wii, DVD I feel is good enough.
HardCore gaming going back the PC? I never thought it left. But Consoles are easier and cheaper then gaming PCs. They will always have a big place in game market until every PC comes with a great video card and is dirt cheap.
I have. That is the only reference that I have seen to those overtures. Every "peace" overtures I have seen documented included no occupation of Japan. Even the slim reference you gave say the contemplated occupation but didn't agree to it. Even accepting in writing the "divine" nature of the Emperor really would be untenable. The Emperor had to be controlled by the idea that he too could be hauled out of his position on the whim of the US. In that way he couldn't try to regain his political power and fade into a figurehead.
Hey I agree. I only own a Wii well that and a PS3, Dreamcast, N64, and an original XBox. Nintendo produced a console that is fun, profitable, and popular. There are many ways to pick best. Most advanced, most fun, most profitable. Nintendo seems to have the fun and profitable down pat so the don't need the advanced part yet.
The 360 is only doing well because Microsoft actually has a very good product. Of course the did a lot of the ground work with the original XBox. 1. They have the best online system. Sony's is a bad joke and Nintendo's is very limited. 2. They made very good Developer tools. 3. They made a great game franchise "Halo" 4. Now they are embracing Netflix for movie downloads which is frankly brilliant and so not like Microsoft. 5. They now have the lowest entry point with the Arcade. Even then they are in second place to Nintendo. Frankly the 360 beats the Wii in power, and online. The Wii is doing so well because of the controls and the great first party software from Nintendo. If any thing Microsoft showed a large chunk of effort, humility, and innovation in the game console market. The exact opposite of their standard business practices.
All I can say is... Wow... What the heck? Was this a joke or did he really say those things? This sounds like something you would see on Futurama.
A reporter talking to Mom talking about Moms Music Network. "If I buy these songs on your service - and they're locked to my phone - what happens when I upgrade my phone in six months' time?"
Xbox bomb? The XBox and 360 are actually doing pretty well. Now the Zune... Well now that ITunes is going DRM free the Zune is even less interesting. Too bad really. Competition is usually a good thing.
I do wonder about the security issues that brings up. Someone working at Verizon could track the President by his Blackberry or could read his communications. Then you have the transparency issue. How do we know that it will only be used for personal use? The one person on the planet that pretty much gives up any expectation of privacy is the President.
I don't see a huge problem with the battery backup time or the transfer speed. I would use this in a database server. Possibly even RAID them for even more speed. If the system is without power for four hours then there are some REAL problems going on. It would also be good for a rugged embedded systems/ The speed will come up and Ram prices will keep dropping.
I suggest you read some real history books. From Gloalsecurity.org "More people died during the Battle of Okinawa than all those killed during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Casualties totaled more than 38,000 Americans wounded and 12,000 killed or missing, more than 107,000 Japanese and Okinawan conscripts killed, and perhaps 100,000 Okinawan civilians who perished in the battle." Okinawa was a small island Take those numbers and just try to imagine what the death toll would have been trying to invade the home islands. 100,000 would have been a miracle.
That is a myth. Japan never offered to surrender. They offered to negotiate an end to the war but they would have kept Korea and most of what the had left in China..
Actually that number is a very very low estimate. Did you know that the US military is still using the stockpile of purple hearts that was made for the invasion of Japan. The military estimates for the losses are in the hundreds of thousands for US and over a million for Japan. Japan had also already crossed the NBC line before the US dropped the bombs. They had used chemical and biological weapons in China.
Yes it was a terrible waste of life. If the government of Japan had just cared enough about their own citizens lives it never would have happened.
Not if you read the story. The safe was contaminated. Probably by some very nasty but short lived stuff. So the did the "safe" thing by 1944/45 standards. They buried it. Now the really nasty stuff is gone.
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The older VIA chips just didn't perform all that well and they where often tied to chip sets with really poor Linux support.
Linux is important in the embedded market. Right now I can go to Newegg and buy a few Atom based solutions. The latest Via was no where to be seen last time I looked.
That really depends on the use of the low power system. One of the big reasons to use X86 is simply Flash. If you want to use Flash going with the X86 is the path of least resistance.
So lets say you want to make a desktop box that can play YouTube, Hulu, and other media. If you build it with Linux and an X86 you will have no real technical issues getting it working.
VIA is an option but so is the Atom. If you are talking about a PDA/Cell device then I do agree that ARM rules but then those devices often don't support Flash.
As long as the latest Flash support is limited to Adobe blessed code X86 will have a big advantage for any device that browses the web.
Now if JavaFX catches on and gets ported everywhere. Or if Mono/Moonlight proves to not be some terrible plot by Microsoft then things could change.
Renewables are good but right now we need to move to more nuclear. People love to ignore the fact that the winds farms in Texas this year didn't produce near the power they expected. There wasn't enough wind. Same with solar. You can throttle it to meet needs. They make good supplements. Nuclear is clean, it works, and with fuel recycling we have enough for centuries.
The US bought the load of FUD in the 70s and we are now paying for it. Instead of building more nuclear plants we built coal. They did a great job cleaning coal in the new plants but CO2 was never considered a pollutant.
The latest reactors are even safer than the ones we are currently using. We need to start building them now instead of living in a fantasy world that some unknown break through will make Solar cheap, batteries 1000% better, and the wind never stop blowing.
Can you run FSX and Cryis at 60FPS?
Not that I can see. To be honest I just don't think it is worth it to him. He is in his 70s so for him it just isn't worth it for him.
Actually I have always tended to like Gnome more than KDE. Gnome really worked just about exactly how I wanted. KDE was always just a bit too fiddly for my tastes.
You may be in part correct. He never could get the hang of dragging and dropping his music files to the player.
But then I am not sure he would get the hang of iTunes. iTunes can frustrate me at times so it might drive him crazy.
Interesting. I have always wondered why anybody cared what Linus used. What Distro he used or desktop.
Just me but it seems odd to think that his needs would mirror my needs or my wife's.
Yep the gold standard was back in the day.
Could it run MFS and Lotus 123.
If you ran those it was PC compatible.
I am pretty much in the same boat. I keep Windows just for FS2004 and FSX and CAD. Microsoft Flight Sim is one of those historic benchmark products. Microsoft would be stupid to dump it. Heck I wounder if the Apple might not pick up the dev team. I would buy a Mac if that was the only way to get FS.
I remember back when we had lie 8 channels on TV and that was with Cable. If you had all three networks and PBS what else did you need?
Then I heard about people in NY that had like 100 channels. A lot of people just don't see why they need broadband.
Netflix? They watch Movies on TV they don't watch them on their computer.
Download music? Adults just don't buy that much music. I bought my step dad an MP3 player. It was too hard for him to rip the CDs. He uses the internet to send email. He still uses the weather channel for weather and he has a minor in meteorology. I want internet everywhere and always and super fast.
I think that it will just take time and devices that are not PC to get everybody on line.
Not at anywhere near this energy.
Well Halo is very very popular so I am pretty sure that it doesn't suck.
I have not played it myself. My favorite game? FS2004 and FSX.
There is also a world outside Australia. It seems that broadband is cheaper everywhere but Australia. From what I have heard just about everything game related is more expensive in Australia.
The XBox arcade will still play games on line with no problem. You can add and HD for it for just about the same cost as buying it from the start.
Now I do think Microsoft is being dumb on two counts.
1. Put in wifi!
2. Allow the end user to use Microsoft Home Server for mass storage. This would make so much sense. It would probably really help the sale of MHS and push the all microsoft home.
So what it comes down to is you are a PC gamer and like the Wii for social gaming which is just fine. I love my Wii as well but the 360 does rival the PS3 for pure power and has a much easier programing model so it is easier to use the power available.
Now I wounder what the next Wii will bring. I am hoping they will take advantage of Moore's Law and make a faster Wii with HD graphics. I can see them not putting in an HD. Flash is getting cheaper and cheaper and there could allow you to use and SMB share for mass storage if you really wanted to. Or they could support USB HDs if needed.
If Nintendo put Boxee on the next Wii and supported HD It would rock. Oh and no need for a BlueRay on the Wii, DVD I feel is good enough.
HardCore gaming going back the PC? I never thought it left. But Consoles are easier and cheaper then gaming PCs. They will always have a big place in game market until every PC comes with a great video card and is dirt cheap.
I have. That is the only reference that I have seen to those overtures. Every "peace" overtures I have seen documented included no occupation of Japan. Even the slim reference you gave say the contemplated occupation but didn't agree to it.
Even accepting in writing the "divine" nature of the Emperor really would be untenable. The Emperor had to be controlled by the idea that he too could be hauled out of his position on the whim of the US. In that way he couldn't try to regain his political power and fade into a figurehead.
Hey I agree. I only own a Wii well that and a PS3, Dreamcast, N64, and an original XBox.
Nintendo produced a console that is fun, profitable, and popular.
There are many ways to pick best.
Most advanced, most fun, most profitable.
Nintendo seems to have the fun and profitable down pat so the don't need the advanced part yet.
How much are they making on XBox live?
The 360 is only doing well because Microsoft actually has a very good product. Of course the did a lot of the ground work with the original XBox.
1. They have the best online system. Sony's is a bad joke and Nintendo's is very limited.
2. They made very good Developer tools.
3. They made a great game franchise "Halo"
4. Now they are embracing Netflix for movie downloads which is frankly brilliant and so not like Microsoft.
5. They now have the lowest entry point with the Arcade.
Even then they are in second place to Nintendo. Frankly the 360 beats the Wii in power, and online. The Wii is doing so well because of the controls and the great first party software from Nintendo.
If any thing Microsoft showed a large chunk of effort, humility, and innovation in the game console market.
The exact opposite of their standard business practices.
All I can say is... Wow... What the heck? Was this a joke or did he really say those things?
This sounds like something you would see on Futurama.
A reporter talking to Mom talking about Moms Music Network.
"If I buy these songs on your service - and they're locked to my phone - what happens when I upgrade my phone in six months' time?"
Mom: "Well, I think you know the answer to that."
Bender; "Your boned!"
Xbox bomb? The XBox and 360 are actually doing pretty well. Now the Zune... Well now that ITunes is going DRM free the Zune is even less interesting.
Too bad really. Competition is usually a good thing.
I do wonder about the security issues that brings up. Someone working at Verizon could track the President by his Blackberry or could read his communications. Then you have the transparency issue. How do we know that it will only be used for personal use? The one person on the planet that pretty much gives up any expectation of privacy is the President.
I don't see a huge problem with the battery backup time or the transfer speed.
I would use this in a database server. Possibly even RAID them for even more speed. If the system is without power for four hours then there are some REAL problems going on.
It would also be good for a rugged embedded systems/
The speed will come up and Ram prices will keep dropping.
I suggest you read some real history books.
From Gloalsecurity.org
"More people died during the Battle of Okinawa than all those killed during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Casualties totaled more than 38,000 Americans wounded and 12,000 killed or missing, more than 107,000 Japanese and Okinawan conscripts killed, and perhaps 100,000 Okinawan civilians who perished in the battle."
Okinawa was a small island Take those numbers and just try to imagine what the death toll would have been trying to invade the home islands. 100,000 would have been a miracle.
That is a myth. Japan never offered to surrender. They offered to negotiate an end to the war but they would have kept Korea and most of what the had left in China..
Actually that number is a very very low estimate.
Did you know that the US military is still using the stockpile of purple hearts that was made for the invasion of Japan.
The military estimates for the losses are in the hundreds of thousands for US and over a million for Japan.
Japan had also already crossed the NBC line before the US dropped the bombs. They had used chemical and biological weapons in China.
Yes it was a terrible waste of life. If the government of Japan had just cared enough about their own citizens lives it never would have happened.
Not if you read the story.
The safe was contaminated. Probably by some very nasty but short lived stuff. So the did the "safe" thing by 1944/45 standards. They buried it.
Now the really nasty stuff is gone.