There is only one promblem with this plan, Netpliance cant ship what they do now for 200 bucks, from what I can tell what they ship now cost between 400-600 dollars bedending on the deals they get for bulk. Where they make thier money on is the ISP carges. So for all the cool stuff you can drop on a whole lot of money. Infact a 12 inch touch screen is over a grand(ouch!). My guess is what you would want would ramp in at about 900 bucks (without touch screen). Not a very good pricepoint anymore.
when I was working for the state of AK(deparment of transportation, HQ in Juneau) It took lots of screaming and yelling, but it eventually happend. Usually a contractor that had less technical knowledge than myself(16 year old intern) Incidently at the same job we had an old AIX box that was running micro channel and a 68K processor at like 12 MHZ, and the thing was still the main web server for the DOT, it never crashed and the only time we shut down was when we lost power for over an hour(they were to cheap to buy a really good UPS). But somebody decided to replace it with a new machine, and the dumped somthing around 30k on it, and it had more problems that I care to rember, infact somehow we managed to f up the boot code in the prom;->
The good news isn't the speed, but the price, intel are undercutting AMD by a couple of hundred dollars a chip
Currentley AMD is undercutting Intel by a couple of hundred
and with the onboard cache things are comparable.
Actually as the Athalons got faster the cache divisor got bigger, leaving Athalons with less of a performance gain each time. My guess is the performance between intels and AMD's at the high end is finaly starting to get close. I personaly cant wait for AMD to release the Thunderbird with full speed on die cache.
Problems with supply will dog them as they are only doing a limited run in the first instance.
cant agree with you more, by my calculation I'll be able to purchas a 1GHz P3 by the time I'm 40;->
your question is very ambigious, and a bit un informed. Usualy a Capture card is reserved for captureing analog data, and requires alot of expensive hardware if you are lookling for fullscreen 30FPS full color stuff. we are talking RAID and several thousand dollat cards. DV cams are well, digital. Why pay 1500 bucks for a Cannon XL1 and plug it into a ATI all-wonder and effectivly make your expensive DAT based video camera on the same level as a 150 dollar handy cam. You do however have a couple of options 1) most(if not all) consumer DV camcorders have analog out. you could just plug this into a standard capture card and go. this sucks AD->DA->AD->DA by the time you pay the video on your computer. I will assume this is not what you were asking. 2) Some brands have propritary cards that you plug in your machine and it pulls across the digital info. 3) firewire. you plug your camcorder into a firewire post on your computer and pull across the informtion that way. For all it matters, they could do it over serial or USB as well, its just I/O and because your not capturing, high speed is not required(just lots and lots and lots of space;->)
IEEE.1394 == FireWire(TM) which is ownded by apple. And we all know how apple is about their trademarks, hence IEEE.1394. So the computer will have FireWire btw and USB which I think is the way to go. USB for Mouse/Joystick/Keyboard/Zip/Printer/scanner Slow items no need for speed. Firewire for HD/sound/DVD/CD/ORB/??? Firewire may prove these computer to be more upgradeable than we might think. I dont know how FireWire works, but what is stopping 3Dfx to make a firewire 3D accelerator?
Whom do you think will take the time to look at a million pages of source code and search for bugs and holes? Not your average wannabe, and doubtfully most code guru's will. However, the people who depend on the software for the operation of their company will have a vested intreset in the product, and therefore gain the most from having the code infront of them. I rarley look at the linux source code, but I am still glad it is avalible so the thousands of geeks and hackers out there can program to their hearts content. I do not worry about a newbie proposing a change to the kernel, and linus accepting to because it was emailed to him. A similar process should be impliment in any good Open Source project.
If the Open Source procedure is not secure or avalid method of development, why do so many people depend on linux or BSD for both their desktops and servers? How many viruses have you heard of for linux or BSD? How about unpached security holes in wither? This questions are easily answered, Ask the same of NT or any other commercial NOS(NT and Novell strech that definition) and you will find many admins perfectly capable of coding thier own fix, waiting for a bug fix or a feature to be added.
As much as the industry and media may over look this point, Linux is built by the users, for the users, and Linux will continue to develop this way. The growth of Linux is powered by the needs and demands of the community. How cant he consumer be wrong about what they want? As long as Novell, Microsoft, Sun and a multituted of companies fail to address the issues presented to them, Linux will continue to grow and replace them.
You have missed one major obstical. Portable Storage. As long as portable audio devices have limited storage(will be a while), and RAM is flashcards are expensive, it is much cheaper to buy a couple 20 meg flashcard. Then pay an extra 20 bucks for a player with a processor and decoder. Rather than for the user to buy a couple 200 meg flash card for the same amount of time. In addition, CD is of somewhat limited quality, and with the new DVD spec coming out, it will mean mmore data to compress as well. Once a standard is inplace for MP# player media(there will be eventually, people will not be happy if they cant trade MP3 "Cards"), it will be carved in stone. And it wont evolve with newer storage methods. Compression will be around for a long time, untill people can carry their entire audio collection arround with them in a watch and listen for hours, they will have to use compression. Then video will evelove into a portable media, then others we have yet to develop will streach our current technology again. I view storage as a backpack, the more you space you have, the more you will stuff you will pack. We will use all the space we can.
In regards to your "Audiophile grade speakers" 1) one speaker can not duplicate the full range of sound heard by the ear at any sort of volume and without alot of distortion 2) duh it costs to much.....so do Corvetts, hence only the rich and anal own them 3) this post is a grate example...so is car audio ie MTX/Rockford Fosgate/insert big name here 4) if your going to shell out 4 grand for a stereo, shouldnt it look like 4 grand? 5) ports are more efficent than sealed enclosures 6) Resonance is a very bad thing...its not music, and the musicians didnt want you to hear your speaker rattling.
I hope that this is troll bait, not an honest question. If you are new to the whole Linux/Computer/Internet thing, learn the deffinition of the word lurk. Dont post untill you have some idea what is going on and have some background or history. If your a newbie, do some research, its called the World Wide Web for. Since you didnt do it, I took an entire 30 seconds and found the unofficial Linus FAQ. But for short.
Linus Linus + Unix
He's the father of the kernel to the operations system we all know and love.
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There is only one promblem with this plan, Netpliance cant ship what they do now for 200 bucks, from what I can tell what they ship now cost between 400-600 dollars bedending on the deals they get for bulk. Where they make thier money on is the ISP carges. So for all the cool stuff you can drop on a whole lot of money. Infact a 12 inch touch screen is over a grand(ouch!). My guess is what you would want would ramp in at about 900 bucks (without touch screen). Not a very good pricepoint anymore.
when I was working for the state of AK(deparment of transportation, HQ in Juneau) It took lots of screaming and yelling, but it eventually happend. Usually a contractor that had less technical knowledge than myself(16 year old intern) ;->
Incidently at the same job we had an old AIX box that was running micro channel and a 68K processor at like 12 MHZ, and the thing was still the main web server for the DOT, it never crashed and the only time we shut down was when we lost power for over an hour(they were to cheap to buy a really good UPS). But somebody decided to replace it with a new machine, and the dumped somthing around 30k on it, and it had more problems that I care to rember, infact somehow we managed to f up the boot code in the prom
Currentley AMD is undercutting Intel by a couple of hundred
and with the onboard cache things are comparable.
Actually as the Athalons got faster the cache divisor got bigger, leaving Athalons with less of a performance gain each time. My guess is the performance between intels and AMD's at the high end is finaly starting to get close. I personaly cant wait for AMD to release the Thunderbird with full speed on die cache.
Problems with supply will dog them as they are only doing a limited run in the first instance.
cant agree with you more, by my calculation I'll be able to purchas a 1GHz P3 by the time I'm 40 ;->
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your question is very ambigious, and a bit un informed. Usualy a Capture card is reserved for captureing analog data, and requires alot of expensive hardware if you are lookling for fullscreen 30FPS full color stuff. we are talking RAID and several thousand dollat cards. DV cams are well, digital. Why pay 1500 bucks for a Cannon XL1 and plug it into a ATI all-wonder and effectivly make your expensive DAT based video camera on the same level as a 150 dollar handy cam. You do however have a couple of options 1) most(if not all) consumer DV camcorders have analog out. you could just plug this into a standard capture card and go. this sucks AD->DA->AD->DA by the time you pay the video on your computer. I will assume this is not what you were asking. 2) Some brands have propritary cards that you plug in your machine and it pulls across the digital info. 3) firewire. you plug your camcorder into a firewire post on your computer and pull across the informtion that way. For all it matters, they could do it over serial or USB as well, its just I/O and because your not capturing, high speed is not required(just lots and lots and lots of space ;->)
IEEE.1394 == FireWire(TM) which is ownded by apple. And we all know how apple is about their trademarks, hence IEEE.1394. So the computer will have FireWire btw and USB which I think is the way to go. USB for Mouse/Joystick/Keyboard/Zip/Printer/scanner Slow items no need for speed. Firewire for HD/sound/DVD/CD/ORB/??? Firewire may prove these computer to be more upgradeable than we might think. I dont know how FireWire works, but what is stopping 3Dfx to make a firewire 3D accelerator?
If the Open Source procedure is not secure or avalid method of development, why do so many people depend on linux or BSD for both their desktops and servers? How many viruses have you heard of for linux or BSD? How about unpached security holes in wither? This questions are easily answered, Ask the same of NT or any other commercial NOS(NT and Novell strech that definition) and you will find many admins perfectly capable of coding thier own fix, waiting for a bug fix or a feature to be added.
As much as the industry and media may over look this point, Linux is built by the users, for the users, and Linux will continue to develop this way. The growth of Linux is powered by the needs and demands of the community. How cant he consumer be wrong about what they want? As long as Novell, Microsoft, Sun and a multituted of companies fail to address the issues presented to them, Linux will continue to grow and replace them.
You have missed one major obstical. Portable Storage. As long as portable audio devices have limited storage(will be a while), and RAM is flashcards are expensive, it is much cheaper to buy a couple 20 meg flashcard. Then pay an extra 20 bucks for a player with a processor and decoder. Rather than for the user to buy a couple 200 meg flash card for the same amount of time. In addition, CD is of somewhat limited quality, and with the new DVD spec coming out, it will mean mmore data to compress as well.
Once a standard is inplace for MP# player media(there will be eventually, people will not be happy if they cant trade MP3 "Cards"), it will be carved in stone. And it wont evolve with newer storage methods.
Compression will be around for a long time, untill people can carry their entire audio collection arround with them in a watch and listen for hours, they will have to use compression. Then video will evelove into a portable media, then others we have yet to develop will streach our current technology again. I view storage as a backpack, the more you space you have, the more you will stuff you will pack. We will use all the space we can.
what?
In regards to your "Audiophile grade speakers"
1) one speaker can not duplicate the full range of sound heard by the ear at any sort of volume and without alot of distortion
2) duh it costs to much.....so do Corvetts, hence only the rich and anal own them
3) this post is a grate example...so is car audio ie MTX/Rockford Fosgate/insert big name here
4) if your going to shell out 4 grand for a stereo, shouldnt it look like 4 grand?
5) ports are more efficent than sealed enclosures
6) Resonance is a very bad thing...its not music, and the musicians didnt want you to hear your speaker rattling.
possibly because it could be more BS and hoaxy than the origional story?
I hope that this is troll bait, not an honest question. If you are new to the whole Linux/Computer/Internet thing, learn the deffinition of the word lurk. Dont post untill you have some idea what is going on and have some background or history. If your a newbie, do some research, its called the World Wide Web for. Since you didnt do it, I took an entire 30 seconds and found the unofficial Linus FAQ. But for short.
Linus Linus + Unix
He's the father of the kernel to the operations system we all know and love.