You get the new software with new features for free.
You signed up for a 2 year contract.
You were happy at the time. This new product doesn't diminish what you were prevously happy with, indeed it actually enhances it with new features, for free.
2007 : Vista and Mac OS X Leopard launch. Vista users talk about the high ongoing cost of Mac OS X upgrades because they occur every 18 months. Mac users say the trend is for longer gaps between OS launches, and that XP->Vista was uncharacteristically long.
30 months later: Windows 7 and Snow Leopard launch at roughly the same time. Snow Leopard costs $29 to upgrade ($129 new). Windows 7 Home Premium: $260 (rumoured). Linux: Still free.
These modern ARM SoCs could also be aimed at 1080p media devices, so they should start supporting 1920x1080 with HDMI soon. That means that even high-resolution netbooks with 1366x768 widescreen displays (HP2140HD) would be supported.
As a proof of concept this device is neat, but as pointed out it needs to be thinner (looks like some of the ports are keeping it thick, so move the screen hinge forward with the ports behind taking up the base+lid width) and use the more up to date ARM SoC.
Or you could take the internals of the Palm Pre which outspec this device, and use that instead.
No, this doesn't work - never mind that if the OK button is off the screen, then you can't "grab by bottom of the window" anyway.
Gnome appears to force windows to not be taken off the top of the screen, meaning you can never get to the Okay buttons at the bottom. I suggest adding some titlebar buttons for dialog-style windows, with "OK", "Cancel" on them for netbooks, where the user can opt to enable them (presumably in a GUI panel with the OK button on the screen).
However the real solution (that is still non-ideal) is to have a bigger virtual X desktop - I don't know if this is possible with Compiz accelerated desktops, but it was easy back in the 2D days.
Maybe a passenger went mental, ran to the door, somehow opened it and jumped out, creating the decompression. He, and several other unbelted people nearby, all got sucked out straight into one of the engines, blowing it up and causing the aircraft to spiral into an uncontrollable dive very soon after.
Or that Jumbo Jet the US military equipped with a missile-killing laser system.
Military test gone bad?
Or just an unfortunate and sad accident that happens every so often. There's a good chance it was very large hail stones that can crack aircraft windows, that would explain the decompression if a couple hit the same window and smashed it out, plus extreme turbulence and lightning - none of which on their own would even worry a pilot.
Both Microsoft and Sony can create faster variants of their existing hardware, but mandate that new games are backward compatible.
I.e., they can release a PS3.5 as the PS4 that can handle 1080p60* gaming (possibly in 3D with a 3D monitor) based around the same hardware, just running faster or with more resourced. Games detect the console, run in 720p on the PS3 without some fancy graphical effects (assuming physics runs on the SPU in Cell and the new one has ~30SPUs compared with 7 in the current PS3), lower resolution textures (due to less RAM), etc.
Sony always make a console last 10 years anyway, but they also release the new high end 5 or 6 years into that lifespan whilst the previous model mops up the low end of the market and new poor markets around the world. I think it would be suicide to not build upon the hardware base in the PS3 - going with a new architecture would be a folly given their financial situation.
* I know that the PS3 can do this, but most games are in 720p, if that.
My personal opinion is that there needs to be a documented, open specification for media syncing (media being audio, video, calendars, photos, notes, contacts, etc - all the standard phone/pda data).
The device can say what file formats it supports. It can provide an icon to the software to display. It can say if it supports photos, calendars, contacts, notes, etc.
It could be extensible, for custom media types, e.g., games that will only run on a particular device.
This would be implemented within many free media players quite quickly, so devices that don't come with their own media player will still have options for media syncing. And maybe Apple, with by far the biggest media management software on the market, will be forced to support it one day by a court decision.
I was going to post the same. How much is Windows for Datacenters again? You downloaded PostgreSQL - sorry, Oracle is $20,000 per CPU, so you owe us $1700, kthx. What a ludicrous law and idea. Lots of government people still sucking on the teat of big-copyright...
Don't take a laptop into class. You don't need it, you're there to learn - that means pen and paper and listening to the teacher when they're teaching, doing the work on paper and remembering by repeated application of what you've been taught. A distraction like a computer is deadly to this aim if you're even mildly into computers.
I'm sure that a child abductor would quite happily and quickly relocate the transponder from the child onto some innocent third party's vehicle to create an hour or two of confusion and chasing the wrong target instead of using intelligence.
In the case of the submitter, I would suggest that the child will quickly learn which bus is the correct one to use - give it a week or so. Hell when I was a child I had to walk to and from school myself (not that there were any major roads, or major distances involved) and I bet many others here did too.
The McCanns left their children home alone whilst on holiday in an unfamiliar country. Their story is a lesson to all those who would do the same. The loss of their daughter is punishment enough, for they surely must feel guilty every day that their child is gone because of their lax parenting, but if she had been found I would hope that they would have been punished. Of course the chances of abduction happening are so small in the first place, however the media would have us believing that "child predators" exist on every corner. The risks from home-alone are usually down to child-inflicted injuries like playing with matches, etc.
Damn right, the lazy fucker should have dug the iron ore up himself, then dug up the coal to fire his home-built kiln so that he could create his own iron. Of course he would have had to hand-build bellows to create steel, and maybe he should have home built EVERYTHING ELSE in the production pipeline, including hunting his own food every night from his homebuilt house. Luckily he invented his own language to communicate with other people so that he could coordinate things!
I remember a day when the composers and songwriters were also the performers.
But today it's all manufactured music from TV shows, so the money goes straight to a select few people, the performers basically being paid a nominal wage to look pretty when performing.
If you're a lowly hobbyist/free internet radio station, with 100 listeners on average, playing 10 songs an hour, then each day you would stream 24000 songs, which would have costed you £52.80 before, but now costs you £20.40 - a significant saving.
If you're streaming to an average of 10,000 listeners, this turns you from having to have income (adverts, subscriptions, etc) of £5280 a day just to cover music costs, to income of £2040 a day - which is far more attainable.
If 1,000,000 people a day listen to internet radio for an average of 2 hours each, with 10 songs an hour, then the previous income for the group was £44,000 a day - not bad going, but I expect with this new pricing they hope that more streams are made, so that eventually 2m people listen for 4 hours a day to get them £68,000 a day income.
I use Eclipse because I've used to for a while (a previous job was doing Java development on Macs) and now it runs with a consistent interface across my work computer (Windows XP), my home computer (Linux) and my notebook (Mac). However I haven't really used it for C / C++ development, I tried it on my Linux machine and it seemed okay, but I didn't try a big project.
Current Atom chips top out at 8W for the dual-core 330 (with 64-bit support) - most Atom chips are 2.5W. The 15W limit is very high. I would have understood a 15W combined for CPU, GPU and chipset. In my opinion if this is what that SiArch team has been working on, they got it fundamentally wrong!
Of course AMD have ~2GHz single core 15W CPUs that are far more powerful than an Atom. Couple that with a powerful GPU (hey, the specifications don't mention this aspect) and you'll have a pretty awesome machine for most people.
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No mum, you need to rebuild your kernel, yes, yes, you do need to install GCC, now to do this we'll do it on the command line, it's quite simple! It'll only take an hour of watching cryptic arcane messages scroll by.
*four painful hours on the phone later*
So is the webcam working now? Let's try Skype. Oh, your microphone isn't working?
Yeah, games like GTA actually do this splitting the world up into areas, although for different reasons (memory restrictions so streaming area details from storage). The technology is there, and GTA solved the flying issue.
How do you subdivide a hexagon into smaller hexagons?
Of course you can design the game world so that likely popular areas are already small hexagons/squares/triangles. Your game cities could have an over-abundance of city walls and terraced housing which serve to split the city up. Popular activities like festivals shouldn't be centralised, but spread out over a city which itself comprises of multiple zones and multiple servers.
In addition in real life I can't hear what people are saying 10 foot away when I'm in a busy area. There's no need to send their text or voice streams to me. Just have a generic hubbub noise.
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He is seriously bitching that his $2000+ investment (including contract) has gone down by $100 (5%) since February.
Good enough at the time for you to buy.
You get the new software with new features for free.
You signed up for a 2 year contract.
You were happy at the time. This new product doesn't diminish what you were prevously happy with, indeed it actually enhances it with new features, for free.
Quit yer bitchin'
$29 isn't a bad price.
2007 : Vista and Mac OS X Leopard launch. Vista users talk about the high ongoing cost of Mac OS X upgrades because they occur every 18 months. Mac users say the trend is for longer gaps between OS launches, and that XP->Vista was uncharacteristically long.
30 months later: Windows 7 and Snow Leopard launch at roughly the same time. Snow Leopard costs $29 to upgrade ($129 new). Windows 7 Home Premium: $260 (rumoured). Linux: Still free.
These modern ARM SoCs could also be aimed at 1080p media devices, so they should start supporting 1920x1080 with HDMI soon. That means that even high-resolution netbooks with 1366x768 widescreen displays (HP2140HD) would be supported.
As a proof of concept this device is neat, but as pointed out it needs to be thinner (looks like some of the ports are keeping it thick, so move the screen hinge forward with the ports behind taking up the base+lid width) and use the more up to date ARM SoC.
Or you could take the internals of the Palm Pre which outspec this device, and use that instead.
This does work on Compiz/Gnome/Ubuntu 9.4, but it requires the user to know the alt+space option, or to know that window borders have context menus.
Doesn't work in Gnome (Compiz window manager) on Ubuntu 9.4. Top of window cannot go off the top of the screen.
No, this doesn't work - never mind that if the OK button is off the screen, then you can't "grab by bottom of the window" anyway.
Gnome appears to force windows to not be taken off the top of the screen, meaning you can never get to the Okay buttons at the bottom. I suggest adding some titlebar buttons for dialog-style windows, with "OK", "Cancel" on them for netbooks, where the user can opt to enable them (presumably in a GUI panel with the OK button on the screen).
However the real solution (that is still non-ideal) is to have a bigger virtual X desktop - I don't know if this is possible with Compiz accelerated desktops, but it was easy back in the 2D days.
Maybe a passenger went mental, ran to the door, somehow opened it and jumped out, creating the decompression. He, and several other unbelted people nearby, all got sucked out straight into one of the engines, blowing it up and causing the aircraft to spiral into an uncontrollable dive very soon after.
C'mon, let's get some ideas!
Or that Jumbo Jet the US military equipped with a missile-killing laser system.
Military test gone bad?
Or just an unfortunate and sad accident that happens every so often. There's a good chance it was very large hail stones that can crack aircraft windows, that would explain the decompression if a couple hit the same window and smashed it out, plus extreme turbulence and lightning - none of which on their own would even worry a pilot.
Both Microsoft and Sony can create faster variants of their existing hardware, but mandate that new games are backward compatible.
I.e., they can release a PS3.5 as the PS4 that can handle 1080p60* gaming (possibly in 3D with a 3D monitor) based around the same hardware, just running faster or with more resourced. Games detect the console, run in 720p on the PS3 without some fancy graphical effects (assuming physics runs on the SPU in Cell and the new one has ~30SPUs compared with 7 in the current PS3), lower resolution textures (due to less RAM), etc.
Sony always make a console last 10 years anyway, but they also release the new high end 5 or 6 years into that lifespan whilst the previous model mops up the low end of the market and new poor markets around the world. I think it would be suicide to not build upon the hardware base in the PS3 - going with a new architecture would be a folly given their financial situation.
* I know that the PS3 can do this, but most games are in 720p, if that.
My personal opinion is that there needs to be a documented, open specification for media syncing (media being audio, video, calendars, photos, notes, contacts, etc - all the standard phone/pda data).
The device can say what file formats it supports. It can provide an icon to the software to display. It can say if it supports photos, calendars, contacts, notes, etc.
It could be extensible, for custom media types, e.g., games that will only run on a particular device.
This would be implemented within many free media players quite quickly, so devices that don't come with their own media player will still have options for media syncing. And maybe Apple, with by far the biggest media management software on the market, will be forced to support it one day by a court decision.
I was going to post the same. How much is Windows for Datacenters again? You downloaded PostgreSQL - sorry, Oracle is $20,000 per CPU, so you owe us $1700, kthx. What a ludicrous law and idea. Lots of government people still sucking on the teat of big-copyright...
Well if any company was to own the Hummer brand, it should have a name including "Heavy Industrial Machinery Co." in it.
Actually Qualcomm wants them to be called "smartbooks".
http://www.nordichardware.com/news,9392.html
Don't take a laptop into class. You don't need it, you're there to learn - that means pen and paper and listening to the teacher when they're teaching, doing the work on paper and remembering by repeated application of what you've been taught. A distraction like a computer is deadly to this aim if you're even mildly into computers.
I'm sure that a child abductor would quite happily and quickly relocate the transponder from the child onto some innocent third party's vehicle to create an hour or two of confusion and chasing the wrong target instead of using intelligence.
In the case of the submitter, I would suggest that the child will quickly learn which bus is the correct one to use - give it a week or so. Hell when I was a child I had to walk to and from school myself (not that there were any major roads, or major distances involved) and I bet many others here did too.
The McCanns left their children home alone whilst on holiday in an unfamiliar country. Their story is a lesson to all those who would do the same. The loss of their daughter is punishment enough, for they surely must feel guilty every day that their child is gone because of their lax parenting, but if she had been found I would hope that they would have been punished. Of course the chances of abduction happening are so small in the first place, however the media would have us believing that "child predators" exist on every corner. The risks from home-alone are usually down to child-inflicted injuries like playing with matches, etc.
Damn right, the lazy fucker should have dug the iron ore up himself, then dug up the coal to fire his home-built kiln so that he could create his own iron. Of course he would have had to hand-build bellows to create steel, and maybe he should have home built EVERYTHING ELSE in the production pipeline, including hunting his own food every night from his homebuilt house. Luckily he invented his own language to communicate with other people so that he could coordinate things!
I remember a day when the composers and songwriters were also the performers.
But today it's all manufactured music from TV shows, so the money goes straight to a select few people, the performers basically being paid a nominal wage to look pretty when performing.
If you're a lowly hobbyist/free internet radio station, with 100 listeners on average, playing 10 songs an hour, then each day you would stream 24000 songs, which would have costed you £52.80 before, but now costs you £20.40 - a significant saving.
If you're streaming to an average of 10,000 listeners, this turns you from having to have income (adverts, subscriptions, etc) of £5280 a day just to cover music costs, to income of £2040 a day - which is far more attainable.
If 1,000,000 people a day listen to internet radio for an average of 2 hours each, with 10 songs an hour, then the previous income for the group was £44,000 a day - not bad going, but I expect with this new pricing they hope that more streams are made, so that eventually 2m people listen for 4 hours a day to get them £68,000 a day income.
I use Eclipse because I've used to for a while (a previous job was doing Java development on Macs) and now it runs with a consistent interface across my work computer (Windows XP), my home computer (Linux) and my notebook (Mac). However I haven't really used it for C / C++ development, I tried it on my Linux machine and it seemed okay, but I didn't try a big project.
It's odd how you blame Brussels for what is clearly the work of a lobby group of French non-Rose wine producers.
Current Atom chips top out at 8W for the dual-core 330 (with 64-bit support) - most Atom chips are 2.5W. The 15W limit is very high. I would have understood a 15W combined for CPU, GPU and chipset. In my opinion if this is what that SiArch team has been working on, they got it fundamentally wrong!
Of course AMD have ~2GHz single core 15W CPUs that are far more powerful than an Atom. Couple that with a powerful GPU (hey, the specifications don't mention this aspect) and you'll have a pretty awesome machine for most people.
No mum, you need to rebuild your kernel, yes, yes, you do need to install GCC, now to do this we'll do it on the command line, it's quite simple! It'll only take an hour of watching cryptic arcane messages scroll by.
*four painful hours on the phone later*
So is the webcam working now? Let's try Skype. Oh, your microphone isn't working?
*one hour later*
What do you mean you installed Windows?
Yeah, games like GTA actually do this splitting the world up into areas, although for different reasons (memory restrictions so streaming area details from storage). The technology is there, and GTA solved the flying issue.
How do you subdivide a hexagon into smaller hexagons?
Of course you can design the game world so that likely popular areas are already small hexagons/squares/triangles. Your game cities could have an over-abundance of city walls and terraced housing which serve to split the city up. Popular activities like festivals shouldn't be centralised, but spread out over a city which itself comprises of multiple zones and multiple servers.
In addition in real life I can't hear what people are saying 10 foot away when I'm in a busy area. There's no need to send their text or voice streams to me. Just have a generic hubbub noise.