Sorry but I don't feel that Intel has a huge record of innovation. Intel is making X86 cpus. They are very fast but they are still X86 CPUS. The still work on data in the same way as the 386 did but much faster. MMX and SSE? they are tacked on DSP instructions. What Intel and the other IC companies have done is just evolve basic digital logic circuits. They still use gates and work in binary. Take a look at things like the survival rate of cancer over the last 20 years and the survival rate for premature births and I think will see some major increases. Also when Intel makes a chip that doesn't work correctly hundreds of people usually don't die. If your MP3 player or PC locks up you just reboot it. If the drug you are taking locks up your Liver then bad things happen. In other words he really doesn't have a clue to what he is talking about.
Funny but I was thinking that it meant. Why have a long development cycle followed by a high introductory price when you can have a reasonable price and a constant evolution? The Wii is plenty powerful enough right now. Most people don't have 1080P HDTVs or even HDTVs. The games on Wii are fun and selling well. The Wii is selling well. The Wii is 100% compatible with the GC so you can play all your GC games on the Wii. So if in two or three years we have the WiiHD for $225 will I feel ripped off? Not really since it will still be cheaper then buying a PS3 right now. Like the PS2 it will take a few years for developers to get a grip on the PS3's programming model. So in two years when the WiiHD comes out odds are that will have more power then the PS3. Play all the Wii and GC games. And cost about the same as the PS3. Nintendo will not need to recover massive development costs and can include an HDDVD or BlueRay drive "which will be cheap and we will know who if anyone won the format war", HDTVs will be super common, Moore's law will have kicked in for a generation or two, it will have full backwards compatibility, and will have a very familiar programing model. AKA a bigger and faster Wii. In other words just like the PC. I think Nintendo thinks that a 7 year live cycle for a game console is dumb.
Well then you must REALLY hate Australia. They have an even higher carbon foot print per person. Of course the massive distances involved couldn't possibly have anything to do with it. Canada would have a huge carbon foot print as well except that they have Hydro coming out their ears not to mention that 90% of their population is withing 100 miles of the US boarder. The US didn't sign Kyoto because the US didn't believe that was workable and that giving India and China a free pass was a good thing. A large number of countries are not meeting the goals that they agreed too. As of 2004 Spain has increased it's emissions by 49% New Zealand 21% Greece 27% Ireland 23% Portugal 41% These are old numbers but they are the newest I could find doing a fast Google. The US is an easy target to pick on. I would like to see us reduce your geenhouse emissions but saying that the US doesn't care about pollution is just wrong. The US stopped selling cars that used leaded fuel at least ten years before the EU did. They also pretty much pioneered most pollution control technology. I would love to see every new power plant in the US be nuclear. Hey France gets most of it's power from nuclear reactors. I would like to see more solar roofs as well. Wind I am not too fond of for a number of reasons. I just don't think it is practical in the long term. I also fear that the long terms effect of massive wind farms may be just as bad as the long term effects of massive hydro power. But that is just my opinion and I may be wrong about wind power.
Well virtualization will not get around the "Driver issue". It just moves the driver issue from the OS to the VM layer. Moving the antivirus to the Bios would be handy since it would allow you to run the anti virus without booting the infected OS. I have been wondering just how long it will be before AV makers start producing Linux AV programs that run on LiveCDs to scan Windows systems. The idea of not having to load Windows to surf the net, make a skype call, or check your email is an interesting one. Another interesting step would be to include an XScale CPU to run linux so that you have a super low power CPU running the applications and let the High speed CPU stay off.
But don't get rewarded by lower power bills? Maybe I should get some carbon credits since my electricity comes from a carbon free source? Seems like a good way to pay people to push paper. You will create thousands of jobs just to keep track of these carbon futures. They will fly on jets to conferences and drive to work every day. They will run computers to keep track of this and that and will in the end consume power and produce carbon all the while making nothing but paperwork.
Does it say Wii or Nintendo on the package? I saw the picture and to me it just doesn't look that much like a Wiimote. Of course then you have the issue of the title implying that this is a Walmart product instead of blasting the company that made it. Yea it is a crappy product that is trying to cash in on the popularity of the Wii. Is it misleading? Well only if your an idiot or under the age of about 8. It just isn't that big of a deal and really never should have made it on to Slashdot.
Yea it gets you points to bash Walmart on Slashdot. So why is everybody posting how bad Walmart is for selling this. ToyQuest out of L.A is the manufacture. So where is the venom for them? Is this a Walmart exclusive? Has anyone checked to see if Sears, Target or those stupid little carts in the middle of every mall is selling them? I am not a huge Walmart fan but this is so slanted that it is just silly. Sorry folks it looks sort of like a Wiimote and costs all of $10. I don't think this is anymore of a ripe off than the toy cellphones that look like a Razer. Good grief.
Sorry but I have to disagree. 1. Most HDTVs don't support 1080p. I find it really hard to tell the difference between a 1080P and a 1080i display on anything smaller than 60" 2. A lot of people bought HDTVs last year on black Friday. They are no longer really preium high end devices. You can find a big selection at Walmart so nope they are not just for videophiles anymore. 3. I bought an HDTV last back Friday. So many people bought them that the cable company and a four week back log in HD boxes. It only supports 1080i but then it is only a 32" lcd for my bedroom. Today my wife and I went to Walmart and picked up a $98 HD-DVD player. This black Friday you will see masses of people that bought an HDTV last year hit Target, BestBuy, and Walmart. They will see $99 Toshiba HDDVDs on the self and they will fly off the shelf. The Typical consumer will not care about 1080p or 1080i anymore than they care if the memory on there PC is CAS 3! At $98 if the HDDVD player I got sucks oh well. If Blue-ray wins... Oh well. For $98 why not take a shot... And that is going to be how it goes Christmas of 2007. Last year it was HDTVs this year it will be HDDVDs. Under $100 is the magic price point for many people. Yep sub $100 HDDVD players are going to make a huge dent in the market. In fact I just checked Bestbuy's website. The two low end Toshiba HD-DVD players are... Sold Out! All the Blue-Ray players are still available. So I would say that the current data doesn't back up your conclusions but at this point it is all guess work.
PHP isn't a lot better than javascript. I would rather see python or ruby but that is just me. Maybe it is because I have used PHP, Perl, and Javascript for years that I don't like them that much. It might just be the old Grass is greener thing. I wouldn't even mind some kind of VM/JIT compiler for speed. I just want it to be an open standard and free of patents. If ANY one company controls it then you will be giving them power to control the Web. How about Squeak for a language?
"Not that I think this is even remotely likely, But, you think the prospect of getting bought out for a giant pile of cash is a disincentive?" Nope but competing with the OS vendor IS. The more that Apple gets into applications the harder it will be for developers to make it big. Yes if you want to be a small niche player forever then you will not care. If you think you can make the next big thing... Well that is different.
I would bet big money on that. I would love to see a good javascript replacement. I don't like javascript and find it kind of nasty to write in. I just don't want it to be under the control of Microsoft, Apple, or Adobe.
I hate to say it but Microsoft's Steve was right when he said, "Developers, developers, developers.". Adobe is one of the few big developers that actually support them Mac. They have supported Mac since the start. I feel this would have a chilling effect on the Mac development community. Let Adobe stay Adobe and Apple stay Apple.
"would LOVE to be able to buy a console that had games priced between $15 to $20. " Buy a PS2 and hit the used game rack:) I know you said that you already do that. If you don't have to have the latest and greatest then getting a console late in life and buying used is the way to go.
"There are really only two models for storing applications: store everything related to the application together in one folder (the model used by Commodore and Apple)" The Amiga often stored files in the lib directory. Well library files anyway. I actually think that that Linux's / Unix's file structure is a huge mess. It has mutated over the years and I just don't like it. OS/Xs is actually an interesting idea And I think there is a Linux type system that uses something like that. But the/Preferences idea does make me stop and thing. How do yo deal with user specific settings? I have not used OS/X much at all so I don't know. Do they have sub-directories like/Preferences/USER ? And then you have the idea of why not store the preferences in a database like SQLLite? The downside would be that you could corrupt all your settings if the database went south but it would allow an easy way to have nested preferences.
The real reason that Linux isn't going to go that way is because of inertia. There is already too many programs that will not work that way. What you will have is an even bigger mess.
That is one of the many reasons why I am more than a little sad that Windows and Linux have pretty much killed new ideas in OS design. I doubt that we will see a clean sheet of paper OS for the desktop or server space for a very long time. I don't think anybody wants to toss away all those working applications anytime soon. Pretty much the same reason we are stuck with Windows, and X-Windows. Because they work.
Well as far as I can tell nobody has called this a virus. This is a Trojan. This is malware. I don't know if this could be called an exploit since it only exploits the users stupidity. I don't think that it is fair to blame OS/X for this. Heck it even asks you for your password to install! I do find it amazing at times. The fact that people now expect their Browser to protect them from phishing attacks. What your too lazy to read the URL yourself? Or that they expect your OS to protect you from installing a Trojan that you have decided to download from a porn site and then install with your root password.
Not really. None of those attachments for windows Required you type in your password to install. And then you had the real exploits that just required that you looked at the email!
The only way to prevent this type of user installable trojan would be to require signed applications. And that opens up a whole new level of problems.
Not really. Is it a security exploit if the user must type in a password and install the program to make it work? Sorry but there is nothing that an OS can do to prevent someone with admin rights from installing and running a program. I am not a Mac User but anybody that installs a codec to view porn that they get from the porn site... As the Honda motorcycle safty ads put oh so well. Stupid Hurts.
Can't say that I would mind seeing a few kiddie porn collectors busted. I would really like to see the producers busted. BUT is just can't see this being a good idea. Too easy to avoid and too easy to abuse.
Well I would bet that XP, W2K and maybe Vista Home would run just fine on this machine. Frankly this talk about how show it is is well just nuts. OpenOffice will run on it. Probably the start times would be annoying but once running it would be just fine. I have a database server that I really need to replace at my office. It is supporting about 20 users and has close to half a million records in it. That is running on a P2 233! These people griping about how low end this machine is are just nuts. Yes it will not run games well but it will do just about anything else just fine.
Open office does have a power point replacment. I don't think it as good as power point but it may be good enough. Sync you dads palm. Yes you can. Printers? Most HPs and Epsons work fine. Check Linux printing or try Ubuntu Live with your current printer. Software for digital photos? Try FSpot. It is free and very good. Gimp is also a good program my wife loves it. It may be less painful that you think.
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Sorry but I don't feel that Intel has a huge record of innovation.
Intel is making X86 cpus. They are very fast but they are still X86 CPUS. The still work on data in the same way as the 386 did but much faster. MMX and SSE? they are tacked on DSP instructions. What Intel and the other IC companies have done is just evolve basic digital logic circuits. They still use gates and work in binary. Take a look at things like the survival rate of cancer over the last 20 years and the survival rate for premature births and I think will see some major increases.
Also when Intel makes a chip that doesn't work correctly hundreds of people usually don't die. If your MP3 player or PC locks up you just reboot it. If the drug you are taking locks up your Liver then bad things happen.
In other words he really doesn't have a clue to what he is talking about.
Funny but I was thinking that it meant.
Why have a long development cycle followed by a high introductory price when you can have a reasonable price and a constant evolution?
The Wii is plenty powerful enough right now. Most people don't have 1080P HDTVs or even HDTVs. The games on Wii are fun and selling well. The Wii is selling well.
The Wii is 100% compatible with the GC so you can play all your GC games on the Wii.
So if in two or three years we have the WiiHD for $225 will I feel ripped off? Not really since it will still be cheaper then buying a PS3 right now.
Like the PS2 it will take a few years for developers to get a grip on the PS3's programming model.
So in two years when the WiiHD comes out odds are that will have more power then the PS3. Play all the Wii and GC games. And cost about the same as the PS3.
Nintendo will not need to recover massive development costs and can include an HDDVD or BlueRay drive "which will be cheap and we will know who if anyone won the format war", HDTVs will be super common, Moore's law will have kicked in for a generation or two, it will have full backwards compatibility, and will have a very familiar programing model. AKA a bigger and faster Wii. In other words just like the PC.
I think Nintendo thinks that a 7 year live cycle for a game console is dumb.
Well then you must REALLY hate Australia. They have an even higher carbon foot print per person.
Of course the massive distances involved couldn't possibly have anything to do with it. Canada would have a huge carbon foot print as well except that they have Hydro coming out their ears not to mention that 90% of their population is withing 100 miles of the US boarder.
The US didn't sign Kyoto because the US didn't believe that was workable and that giving India and China a free pass was a good thing.
A large number of countries are not meeting the goals that they agreed too.
As of 2004
Spain has increased it's emissions by 49%
New Zealand 21%
Greece 27%
Ireland 23%
Portugal 41%
These are old numbers but they are the newest I could find doing a fast Google.
The US is an easy target to pick on. I would like to see us reduce your geenhouse emissions but saying that the US doesn't care about pollution is just wrong. The US stopped selling cars that used leaded fuel at least ten years before the EU did. They also pretty much pioneered most pollution control technology.
I would love to see every new power plant in the US be nuclear. Hey France gets most of it's power from nuclear reactors. I would like to see more solar roofs as well. Wind I am not too fond of for a number of reasons. I just don't think it is practical in the long term. I also fear that the long terms effect of massive wind farms may be just as bad as the long term effects of massive hydro power.
But that is just my opinion and I may be wrong about wind power.
Well it is November. I wonder if I should make my December sig "You'll shoot your eye out."
Well virtualization will not get around the "Driver issue". It just moves the driver issue from the OS to the VM layer. Moving the antivirus to the Bios would be handy since it would allow you to run the anti virus without booting the infected OS. I have been wondering just how long it will be before AV makers start producing Linux AV programs that run on LiveCDs to scan Windows systems.
The idea of not having to load Windows to surf the net, make a skype call, or check your email is an interesting one.
Another interesting step would be to include an XScale CPU to run linux so that you have a super low power CPU running the applications and let the High speed CPU stay off.
I suggest that you Google Turkey drop. Yes I know wild turkey's can fly, but why ruin a cultural reference in a sig with facts?
Asus already offers this.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=885&num=1
It does use Linux BTW and the Motherboard is very Linux Friendly.
But don't get rewarded by lower power bills? Maybe I should get some carbon credits since my electricity comes from a carbon free source?
Seems like a good way to pay people to push paper. You will create thousands of jobs just to keep track of these carbon futures. They will fly on jets to conferences and drive to work every day. They will run computers to keep track of this and that and will in the end consume power and produce carbon all the while making nothing but paperwork.
Does it say Wii or Nintendo on the package? I saw the picture and to me it just doesn't look that much like a Wiimote.
Of course then you have the issue of the title implying that this is a Walmart product instead of blasting the company that made it. Yea it is a crappy product that is trying to cash in on the popularity of the Wii. Is it misleading? Well only if your an idiot or under the age of about 8.
It just isn't that big of a deal and really never should have made it on to Slashdot.
Yea it gets you points to bash Walmart on Slashdot.
So why is everybody posting how bad Walmart is for selling this.
ToyQuest out of L.A is the manufacture. So where is the venom for them? Is this a Walmart exclusive? Has anyone checked to see if Sears, Target or those stupid little carts in the middle of every mall is selling them?
I am not a huge Walmart fan but this is so slanted that it is just silly.
Sorry folks it looks sort of like a Wiimote and costs all of $10. I don't think this is anymore of a ripe off than the toy cellphones that look like a Razer.
Good grief.
Here you go http://www.amazon.com/Rez/dp/B00005ULXM
For around $34 still cheaper than a new game
Sorry but I have to disagree.
1. Most HDTVs don't support 1080p. I find it really hard to tell the difference between a 1080P and a 1080i display on anything smaller than 60"
2. A lot of people bought HDTVs last year on black Friday. They are no longer really preium high end devices. You can find a big selection at Walmart so nope they are not just for videophiles anymore.
3. I bought an HDTV last back Friday. So many people bought them that the cable company and a four week back log in HD boxes. It only supports 1080i but then it is only a 32" lcd for my bedroom. Today my wife and I went to Walmart and picked up a $98 HD-DVD player.
This black Friday you will see masses of people that bought an HDTV last year hit Target, BestBuy, and Walmart. They will see $99 Toshiba HDDVDs on the self and they will fly off the shelf.
The Typical consumer will not care about 1080p or 1080i anymore than they care if the memory on there PC is CAS 3!
At $98 if the HDDVD player I got sucks oh well. If Blue-ray wins... Oh well. For $98 why not take a shot... And that is going to be how it goes Christmas of 2007. Last year it was HDTVs this year it will be HDDVDs.
Under $100 is the magic price point for many people. Yep sub $100 HDDVD players are going to make a huge dent in the market.
In fact I just checked Bestbuy's website. The two low end Toshiba HD-DVD players are... Sold Out!
All the Blue-Ray players are still available.
So I would say that the current data doesn't back up your conclusions but at this point it is all guess work.
PHP isn't a lot better than javascript. I would rather see python or ruby but that is just me. Maybe it is because I have used PHP, Perl, and Javascript for years that I don't like them that much. It might just be the old Grass is greener thing.
I wouldn't even mind some kind of VM/JIT compiler for speed. I just want it to be an open standard and free of patents. If ANY one company controls it then you will be giving them power to control the Web. How about Squeak for a language?
"Not that I think this is even remotely likely, But, you think the prospect of getting bought out for a giant pile of cash is a disincentive?"
Nope but competing with the OS vendor IS.
The more that Apple gets into applications the harder it will be for developers to make it big. Yes if you want to be a small niche player forever then you will not care. If you think you can make the next big thing... Well that is different.
I would bet big money on that.
I would love to see a good javascript replacement. I don't like javascript and find it kind of nasty to write in. I just don't want it to be under the control of Microsoft, Apple, or Adobe.
I would call it a classice, "User IQ error".
I hate to say it but Microsoft's Steve was right when he said, "Developers, developers, developers.". Adobe is one of the few big developers that actually support them Mac. They have supported Mac since the start. I feel this would have a chilling effect on the Mac development community. Let Adobe stay Adobe and Apple stay Apple.
"would LOVE to be able to buy a console that had games priced between $15 to $20. " :)
Buy a PS2 and hit the used game rack
I know you said that you already do that. If you don't have to have the latest and greatest then getting a console late in life and buying used is the way to go.
"There are really only two models for storing applications: store everything related to the application together in one folder (the model used by Commodore and Apple)" /Preferences idea does make me stop and thing. How do yo deal with user specific settings? I have not used OS/X much at all so I don't know. /Preferences/USER ?
The Amiga often stored files in the lib directory. Well library files anyway.
I actually think that that Linux's / Unix's file structure is a huge mess. It has mutated over the years and I just don't like it.
OS/Xs is actually an interesting idea And I think there is a Linux type system that uses something like that.
But the
Do they have sub-directories like
And then you have the idea of why not store the preferences in a database like SQLLite? The downside would be that you could corrupt all your settings if the database went south but it would allow an easy way to have nested preferences.
The real reason that Linux isn't going to go that way is because of inertia. There is already too many programs that will not work that way. What you will have is an even bigger mess.
That is one of the many reasons why I am more than a little sad that Windows and Linux have pretty much killed new ideas in OS design.
I doubt that we will see a clean sheet of paper OS for the desktop or server space for a very long time.
I don't think anybody wants to toss away all those working applications anytime soon.
Pretty much the same reason we are stuck with Windows, and X-Windows. Because they work.
Well as far as I can tell nobody has called this a virus.
This is a Trojan.
This is malware.
I don't know if this could be called an exploit since it only exploits the users stupidity.
I don't think that it is fair to blame OS/X for this. Heck it even asks you for your password to install!
I do find it amazing at times. The fact that people now expect their Browser to protect them from phishing attacks. What your too lazy to read the URL yourself?
Or that they expect your OS to protect you from installing a Trojan that you have decided to download from a porn site and then install with your root password.
Not really.
None of those attachments for windows Required you type in your password to install. And then you had the real exploits that just required that you looked at the email!
The only way to prevent this type of user installable trojan would be to require signed applications. And that opens up a whole new level of problems.
Not really. Is it a security exploit if the user must type in a password and install the program to make it work?
Sorry but there is nothing that an OS can do to prevent someone with admin rights from installing and running a program.
I am not a Mac User but anybody that installs a codec to view porn that they get from the porn site...
As the Honda motorcycle safty ads put oh so well.
Stupid Hurts.
Can't say that I would mind seeing a few kiddie porn collectors busted. I would really like to see the producers busted.
BUT is just can't see this being a good idea. Too easy to avoid and too easy to abuse.
Well I would bet that XP, W2K and maybe Vista Home would run just fine on this machine.
Frankly this talk about how show it is is well just nuts.
OpenOffice will run on it. Probably the start times would be annoying but once running it would be just fine.
I have a database server that I really need to replace at my office. It is supporting about 20 users and has close to half a million records in it. That is running on a P2 233!
These people griping about how low end this machine is are just nuts. Yes it will not run games well but it will do just about anything else just fine.
Open office does have a power point replacment. I don't think it as good as power point but it may be good enough.
Sync you dads palm. Yes you can.
Printers? Most HPs and Epsons work fine. Check Linux printing or try Ubuntu Live with your current printer.
Software for digital photos? Try FSpot. It is free and very good. Gimp is also a good program my wife loves it.
It may be less painful that you think.