It does depend. The GummStix is pretty cheap but it isn't a PC. For putting a DIY media center I don't think this VIA or an ARM would be a good choice. Both would tend to lack the power to transcode video at anything like a reasonable speed. The one thing this VIA chip has over the other CPUs in the embedded space is that it uses the X86 isa. It is annoying but there are some Linux drivers that ONLY exist for the X86! they are nasty binary blob or wrapped windows drivers but if you want that hardware to work you need an X86:(
Yes. They could tell him that he couldn't use a computer at all or they could throw him jail. His can use a computer with monitoring software on it and it is only available for Windows.
"oh.. and please kill iTunes already" Not going to happen. Most people seem to like iTunes. I am not a huge fan but people do seem to like it and it is how they sell their stuff. I want iTunes for Linux and for Apple to make iTunes fit into Windows and or Linux better. Right now it looks like a Mac app running on a windows box. Which it is
That is pretty much what Apple is hoping with the AppleTV , Sony is hopping for with the PS3, and Microsoft is hoping for with the 360, and Google with YouTube.
When will we see the first direct to iTunes TV show?
Heck I can tell on my car stereo! I am talking about just my stock from the dealership stereo. While it isn't easy to tell the quality difference it is easy to tell when I play my very old CDs mixed with new ones. The difference in volume levels is unreal.
Yet another NUT CASE living in the world of black and white! The simple premise if my statement is that alcohol, tobacco, and guns are as bad for people if not more so than records that have bad words in them. That makes it silly to sell them while not selling records with bad words.
I don't like alcohol I don't drink. I disagree with you about the benefits of alcohol there for if I owned a store I wouldn't sell it. I didn't say I wouldn't let you sell it. Tobacco kills people and your comment about the spread is just DUMB. The tobacco companies have lied to congress and the people about the dangers of smoking. That makes them evil. They have market to kids and it took changing the laws to stop them. My opinion and damn right I wouldn't sell tobacco. I will do nothing to help them make money or help addicted people kill themselves. Notice I didn't say make them illegal!
I don't own a gun. I don't know enough about guns that I could sell them in a responsible way. So I wouldn't sell them.
What is wrong with you people that huge numbers of you don't understand there is a difference between I don't like and I want them declared illegal. Or I wouldn't sell them and I think they should be banned.
What the heck is wrong with you people! There are lots of things that people do that I don't like that doesn't mean that I want them banned. Heck I would love to see no more professional wrestling, People magazine, and National Inquirer. That doesn't mean I want them illegal!
Kernel updates are often feature updates and not security. That makes them optional. Again simply put many updates shouldn't require a reboot! Windows wasn't designed correctly for high availability.
The UCSimm used the Dragonball which isn't that wimpy of a CPU. It is more powerful than the early Macs, Amigas, STs, XTs, and ATs. I would say it is about as powerful as the 386SX was. It would make one heck of a microwave.
I will go over this one more time for those that deal in absolutes. 1. Walmart well not sell records with bad words because they want to be family friendly. Guns, alcohol, and tobacco have all caused a much or more harm than records with bad words. I would say a lot more harm. There for it is illogical for Walmart to carry guns, alcohol, or tobacco.
Tobacco is just evil and those that sell it are making profit out of causing people harm. It is that simple. No not everybody that works for the tobacco company is the descendant of slave owners. I was just using a bit of historical perspective of the grief that tobacco has caused over the years.
As I said I wouldn't sell alcohol, tobacco. or firearms at a store I owned. I feel drinking is wrong for me but that doesn't mean I think it should be illegal. I don't like to be around it so why would I sell it? I feel tobacco is evil. Not just a bad choice but wrong. Guns are more complex. I really don't want to own on myself. I have qualified with the M-16 and the Colt 45 when I was younger. If one is going to sell firearms I feel they should have a deep knowledge of how to use them and how to train people to use them safely. I lack those skills and don't want to gain them so for me it would be wrong to sell firearms since I can not do in what I consider a responsible manner.
Just because I don't like some things doesn't mean that I want them banned. Just because you disagree doesn't mean that I don't have good reasons. Just because I choose to live my life a different way than you doesn't mean that I hate you or consider you may enemy.
Again with absolutes. I was speaking only about what is sold at Wal-mart. Just because I don't like guns means that I think they should be banned. My BIL is a police officer and also collects guns. When I used to ride my bicycle off road a lot in gator country I thought about carrying a.45 but figured the risk of it going off in a bet off was greater than the benefit to me. Over all I don't like guns and if you carry a gun you are far more likely to die by a gun than if you don't have one. That is a statistic fact. But just because I don't like them doesn't mean that I think they should be banned. BTW a 12 gauge pump is FAR more effective at defending you home than any pistol.
No I like pools. I never said that I was complete rational all the time. Actually pools can have some value for a family. They can be a fun shared experience and good exercise. Guns for hunting and maybe target practice "You don't get a lot of exercise target shooting" could have some of the same value so I would be willing to modify it to say "hand guns". I know that people do hunt with hand guns but that is just silly. Do it right and get a rife or if you are going for fowl a shotgun.
I am a "Red man" I am a Native American. Sorry but I remember seeing Tobacco executives telling congress that they had no proof that tobacco caused cancer. The tobacco companies marketed to children for years and are just evil. As to the sacred nature of tobacco. Yes in that cultural context it is harmless. The problem is that cultural context doesn't exist anymore and hasn't for a long time.
The Tobacco companies are a bunch of rich white ex slave owners that sell an addictive product that kills people. How anyone connects smoking with cool I will never get. Just shows the power of marketing with morals.
As far as alcohol goes. I never said that it should be banned. Just that it is at least as harmful to families as records with bad words. I think it is a bad thing so I don't drink. That is my choice your drinking in moderation is your choice and may be a fine one for you.
You see you are living in a absolute world. I didn't say ban the sale of guns. I said that they shouldn't be sold at Walmart. I never said ban the sale of tobacco. I said that shouldn't be sold at Walmart. That is if you follow the logic that not selling albums that contain bad words is to protect children.
"Valid argument... but with Wal-Mart's power and influence, I think it actually extends into censorship. " Can you buy the unedited version elsewhere? If Walmart told them that the edited version was to be the ONLY version of the album sold then you might have a point. Nope people choose to buy the edited versons at Walmart and some choose to buy the unedited version. It is simply a marketing choice Walmart and the record companies made. I think the use of obscene words in music is just selling out for cheap shock value. One of my favorite bands is Rush. The majority of their albums contained lots of speech that some people really wouldn't like but they didn't have to use any obscene words to do it. If an artist really feels that it is wrong to change their album the they shouldn't do it. They should take the hit and not sell it at Walmart. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from people judging you. It means that you will not go to jail for it. Walmart doesn't have to sell records that it doesn't want to sell anymore than a record company has to sign artists it doesn't want to sign or for you to buy an album you don't want to buy. The simple solution is if you want the unedited version go and buy it.
Nope I know of dry counties. I used to spend my summers up in the Mountains of NC and that area was "dry". If you saw the roads it actually seems like a VERY good idea. Driving drunk on those roads would a Darwin experience.
"You better believe that a solution of highly enriched uranium is a carcinogen, " That would really depends on how enriched it is, what else is in the solution, and how much of it there is. small quantities of enriched uranium are not that much more dangerous than uranium. Uranium has a very low spontaneous fission rate so it has a very low neutron flux when you have less then a critical mass. It is a heavy metal so it isn't a good thing to have floating around it isn't a nightmare material to handle.
I worry more about them almost having a critical mass of the stuff. That would have been bad.
Alcohol in my opinion is bad. It exasperates many social ills and is often abused by minors. If you want to "protect kids by not selling product at all instead of restricting it then yes don't carry alcohol. Guns. Well guns to kill lots of people and again if you are going to not sell a product based on it danger factor then guns would be on that list. Tobacco is just evil. Selling it is evil and the tobacco companies are just evil. I have watched two friends die from lung cancer that was probably caused by tobacco. So yes I find it as dumb for Wal-Mart to not carry records with parental warnings as I do for a town to outlaw topless bars when their are hookers on the main street.
Yea you probably wouldn't want to shop at a store I ran since I wouldn't carry alcohol, tobacco, or firearms.
The ones I saw had an edited sticker. This will get modded down but Wal-Mart isn't censoring anything. They have simply told the music companies that they will not carry albums with parental advisory stickers. The record companies don't have to comply. Wal-Mart isn't censoring anymore than you are if you choose not to watch Fox News.
I do find it a little silly that they worry about "bad" words but sell alcohol, tobacco, and guns. I find tobacco a lot more offensive and family unfriendly than most bad words.
Was that in a search engine? I just remeber everyone thinking how great a beowulf cluster of UCSimms would be and other people taking the time to explain that they where much slower than a PC and lacked an FPU so they would actually suck as a beowulf.
Nope I am not new knew here. I think you will find that most of the people below 100k are on the reasonable side. Not all mind you but most. I am so old that I was here when the "imagine a beowulf cluster comment started." I am pretty sure that this critter right here got that ball rolling:) http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/07/ 06/2122242
If it is a scheduling bug then it is a nasty one because it seem to effect even quad core systems. Right now all I can say is I am glad I am running Linux and XP and not Vista.
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It does depend. The GummStix is pretty cheap but it isn't a PC. :(
For putting a DIY media center I don't think this VIA or an ARM would be a good choice. Both would tend to lack the power to transcode video at anything like a reasonable speed. The one thing this VIA chip has over the other CPUs in the embedded space is that it uses the X86 isa. It is annoying but there are some Linux drivers that ONLY exist for the X86! they are nasty binary blob or wrapped windows drivers but if you want that hardware to work you need an X86
Yes. They could tell him that he couldn't use a computer at all or they could throw him jail. His can use a computer with monitoring software on it and it is only available for Windows.
"oh .. and please kill iTunes already"
Not going to happen. Most people seem to like iTunes. I am not a huge fan but people do seem to like it and it is how they sell their stuff.
I want iTunes for Linux and for Apple to make iTunes fit into Windows and or Linux better.
Right now it looks like a Mac app running on a windows box.
Which it is
That is pretty much what Apple is hoping with the AppleTV , Sony is hopping for with the PS3, and Microsoft is hoping for with the 360, and Google with YouTube.
When will we see the first direct to iTunes TV show?
Heck I can tell on my car stereo! I am talking about just my stock from the dealership stereo. While it isn't easy to tell the quality difference it is easy to tell when I play my very old CDs mixed with new ones. The difference in volume levels is unreal.
Why Google's market cap is bigger than all of them but AT&T? But my point is they are not too poor to be in the bidding.
Last time I checked Google had a Market Cap of around 120 BILLION dollars...
I think they have the money.
Sounds like they should also add redundant GPS systems. Three with a hot back up would be a good start.
Yet another NUT CASE living in the world of black and white!
The simple premise if my statement is that alcohol, tobacco, and guns are as bad for people if not more so than records that have bad words in them. That makes it silly to sell them while not selling records with bad words.
I don't like alcohol I don't drink. I disagree with you about the benefits of alcohol there for if I owned a store I wouldn't sell it. I didn't say I wouldn't let you sell it.
Tobacco kills people and your comment about the spread is just DUMB. The tobacco companies have lied to congress and the people about the dangers of smoking. That makes them evil. They have market to kids and it took changing the laws to stop them. My opinion and damn right I wouldn't sell tobacco. I will do nothing to help them make money or help addicted people kill themselves. Notice I didn't say make them illegal!
I don't own a gun. I don't know enough about guns that I could sell them in a responsible way. So I wouldn't sell them.
What is wrong with you people that huge numbers of you don't understand there is a difference between I don't like and I want them declared illegal. Or I wouldn't sell them and I think they should be banned.
What the heck is wrong with you people!
There are lots of things that people do that I don't like that doesn't mean that I want them banned. Heck I would love to see no more professional wrestling, People magazine, and National Inquirer. That doesn't mean I want them illegal!
Kernel updates are often feature updates and not security. That makes them optional.
Again simply put many updates shouldn't require a reboot!
Windows wasn't designed correctly for high availability.
The UCSimm used the Dragonball which isn't that wimpy of a CPU. It is more powerful than the early Macs, Amigas, STs, XTs, and ATs. I would say it is about as powerful as the 386SX was. It would make one heck of a microwave.
I will go over this one more time for those that deal in absolutes.
1. Walmart well not sell records with bad words because they want to be family friendly.
Guns, alcohol, and tobacco have all caused a much or more harm than records with bad words. I would say a lot more harm.
There for it is illogical for Walmart to carry guns, alcohol, or tobacco.
Tobacco is just evil and those that sell it are making profit out of causing people harm. It is that simple. No not everybody that works for the tobacco company is the descendant of slave owners. I was just using a bit of historical perspective of the grief that tobacco has caused over the years.
As I said I wouldn't sell alcohol, tobacco. or firearms at a store I owned.
I feel drinking is wrong for me but that doesn't mean I think it should be illegal. I don't like to be around it so why would I sell it?
I feel tobacco is evil. Not just a bad choice but wrong.
Guns are more complex. I really don't want to own on myself. I have qualified with the M-16 and the Colt 45 when I was younger. If one is going to sell firearms I feel they should have a deep knowledge of how to use them and how to train people to use them safely. I lack those skills and don't want to gain them so for me it would be wrong to sell firearms since I can not do in what I consider a responsible manner.
Just because I don't like some things doesn't mean that I want them banned. Just because you disagree doesn't mean that I don't have good reasons. Just because I choose to live my life a different way than you doesn't mean that I hate you or consider you may enemy.
Again with absolutes. I was speaking only about what is sold at Wal-mart. .45 but figured the risk of it going off in a bet off was greater than the benefit to me.
Just because I don't like guns means that I think they should be banned. My BIL is a police officer and also collects guns. When I used to ride my bicycle off road a lot in gator country I thought about carrying a
Over all I don't like guns and if you carry a gun you are far more likely to die by a gun than if you don't have one. That is a statistic fact. But just because I don't like them doesn't mean that I think they should be banned.
BTW a 12 gauge pump is FAR more effective at defending you home than any pistol.
No I like pools.
I never said that I was complete rational all the time.
Actually pools can have some value for a family. They can be a fun shared experience and good exercise. Guns for hunting and maybe target practice "You don't get a lot of exercise target shooting" could have some of the same value so I would be willing to modify it to say "hand guns". I know that people do hunt with hand guns but that is just silly. Do it right and get a rife or if you are going for fowl a shotgun.
I am a "Red man" I am a Native American.
Sorry but I remember seeing Tobacco executives telling congress that they had no proof that tobacco caused cancer. The tobacco companies marketed to children for years and are just evil.
As to the sacred nature of tobacco. Yes in that cultural context it is harmless. The problem is that cultural context doesn't exist anymore and hasn't for a long time.
The Tobacco companies are a bunch of rich white ex slave owners that sell an addictive product that kills people. How anyone connects smoking with cool I will never get.
Just shows the power of marketing with morals.
As far as alcohol goes. I never said that it should be banned. Just that it is at least as harmful to families as records with bad words. I think it is a bad thing so I don't drink. That is my choice your drinking in moderation is your choice and may be a fine one for you.
You see you are living in a absolute world.
I didn't say ban the sale of guns. I said that they shouldn't be sold at Walmart.
I never said ban the sale of tobacco. I said that shouldn't be sold at Walmart.
That is if you follow the logic that not selling albums that contain bad words is to protect children.
"Valid argument... but with Wal-Mart's power and influence, I think it actually extends into censorship. "
Can you buy the unedited version elsewhere?
If Walmart told them that the edited version was to be the ONLY version of the album sold then you might have a point. Nope people choose to buy the edited versons at Walmart and some choose to buy the unedited version. It is simply a marketing choice Walmart and the record companies made.
I think the use of obscene words in music is just selling out for cheap shock value. One of my favorite bands is Rush. The majority of their albums contained lots of speech that some people really wouldn't like but they didn't have to use any obscene words to do it.
If an artist really feels that it is wrong to change their album the they shouldn't do it. They should take the hit and not sell it at Walmart.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from people judging you. It means that you will not go to jail for it.
Walmart doesn't have to sell records that it doesn't want to sell anymore than a record company has to sign artists it doesn't want to sign or for you to buy an album you don't want to buy.
The simple solution is if you want the unedited version go and buy it.
Nope I know of dry counties. I used to spend my summers up in the Mountains of NC and that area was "dry". If you saw the roads it actually seems like a VERY good idea. Driving drunk on those roads would a Darwin experience.
"You better believe that a solution of highly enriched uranium is a carcinogen, "
That would really depends on how enriched it is, what else is in the solution, and how much of it there is. small quantities of enriched uranium are not that much more dangerous than uranium. Uranium has a very low spontaneous fission rate so it has a very low neutron flux when you have less then a critical mass. It is a heavy metal so it isn't a good thing to have floating around it isn't a nightmare material to handle.
I worry more about them almost having a critical mass of the stuff. That would have been bad.
Alcohol in my opinion is bad. It exasperates many social ills and is often abused by minors. If you want to "protect kids by not selling product at all instead of restricting it then yes don't carry alcohol.
Guns. Well guns to kill lots of people and again if you are going to not sell a product based on it danger factor then guns would be on that list.
Tobacco is just evil. Selling it is evil and the tobacco companies are just evil. I have watched two friends die from lung cancer that was probably caused by tobacco.
So yes I find it as dumb for Wal-Mart to not carry records with parental warnings as I do for a town to outlaw topless bars when their are hookers on the main street.
Yea you probably wouldn't want to shop at a store I ran since I wouldn't carry alcohol, tobacco, or firearms.
The ones I saw had an edited sticker. This will get modded down but Wal-Mart isn't censoring anything. They have simply told the music companies that they will not carry albums with parental advisory stickers. The record companies don't have to comply. Wal-Mart isn't censoring anymore than you are if you choose not to watch Fox News.
I do find it a little silly that they worry about "bad" words but sell alcohol, tobacco, and guns.
I find tobacco a lot more offensive and family unfriendly than most bad words.
Yea I am sorry that I didn't sign up for a slashdot account when I first started reading it. I might have made four digits.
But five isn't so bad.
Was that in a search engine? I just remeber everyone thinking how great a beowulf cluster of UCSimms would be and other people taking the time to explain that they where much slower than a PC and lacked an FPU so they would actually suck as a beowulf.
Nope I am not new knew here. I think you will find that most of the people below 100k are on the reasonable side. Not all mind you but most. :) http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/07/ 06/2122242
I am so old that I was here when the "imagine a beowulf cluster comment started."
I am pretty sure that this critter right here got that ball rolling
If it is a scheduling bug then it is a nasty one because it seem to effect even quad core systems. Right now all I can say is I am glad I am running Linux and XP and not Vista.