Yeah. I can see Firefox getting 30% of the market. Chrome getting 10% if they push it via gmail and their other services. Safari getting 15% if Apple keep increasing market share. Opera could get 1%. That leaves 44% for Internet Explorer.
And because Windows 7 doesn't currently look like a trainwreck, and it comes with IE8, I think that a lot of people buying new computers will stick with what comes with it, even if they used Firefox before.
This is because bundling does give a massive advantage, because people are lazy and if something is there that does the task, they will just use it.
However if Firefox had a service whereby you could save all your favourites, history, etc, to a web service, and then retrieve them on your new Windows 7 laptop later on, that would be an incentive to re-download Firefox despite the presence of IE8.
Yeah, I tried out VirtualBox last week, and XP inside it boots in seconds, it's brilliant. I did have to faff about for ages to get the Host Based Networking working, otherwise I got dial-up network speed, on both the host and the VM, but I think newer VirtualBoxes than the one that Ubuntu provides sort this out.
VIA still make CPUs, they make the old 90nm C7, and the newer 65nm Nano which will be appearing in systems this year.
As regards this story, I don't believe it one bit because it's a story involving the Inquirer and NVIDIA.
If NVIDIA were to do anything, I think they would be creating a far faster ARM based SoC for their Tegra v2 line, based around the ARM Cortex A8. Maybe they're making a hardware x86 translator front-end for it... not to perform well, but to perform well enough to accelerate x86 virtual environments over emulation.
IBM developed the Cell. This used a PPU PowerPC design, and several SPUs for number crunching.
For the 360 CPU, the PPU (which has very little in common with the G5 design - for a start it is in-order, and anyone who knows about CPU architecture will know that means it is very different from an out-of-order CPU like the G5) was copied over and replicated twice.
The only question was whether or not the PPU design was an in-house IBM project that happened to be used in both the Cell and 360 CPUs, or whether it was developed for the Cell project, and then sneakily copied for the 360 CPU.
Intel can't do GPUs. Every time they've tried (and at the time they claim it is going to be great) and every time they've failed miserable, leaving people with clunky, slow, hot, cumbersome graphics with terrible drivers, often taking years to enable hardware features like vertex shading.
Larrabee *could* be better. At only 2TFLOPS however it seems unlikely that it will be beating anything NVIDIA or ATI offer (4870 X2 = 2.4TFLOPS today). Also power consumption is rumoured to be very high, and die size massive, leading to very expensive cards. Certainly not suitable for a console. I'm sure Sony will end up using some NVIDIA GT400 series GPU.
Definitely not. Sony doesn't want to be beholden to a single supplier with a proprietary design for a core function, which Sony will want to shrink in order to reduce costs over time. This is why Microsoft killed the XBox dead as soon as they could.
The PS4, if Sony don't mess up, will surely be a fairly cheap evolution of the PS3. It may use a PowerXCell32 variant for example (maybe one with 4 PPUs and 32 enhanced SPUs; 5-6 GHz). This means that PS3 games should run on it for backwards compatibility, and existing software and firmware systems will not have to be rewritten. Developer knowledge will be high initially rather than starting from nothing, so they won't lose all that investment in developer tools and training. A win all around.
Considering even Sony have rushed to say this story is bullshit, I think it is unlikely. I am willing to bet Intel put a tender in for the contract, and I'm willing to believe that NVIDIA were total cocks to Sony, but Sony know that they need to build on the PS3 with the PS4 so that the developers aren't stuck with a new architecture to learn.
Also anything involving NVIDIA and The Inquirer is bound to be very anti-NVIDIA because that sites absolutely hates them, for no discernable reason.
I don't actually have a problem with it being called 4.0, because 3.999.1 would have been confusing because it's KDE 4. That's why I think they messed up on the release branding. But without immediate qualification in the title, it read as "KDE 4.0"... ooh, not even Beta? Great. Release Notes are not a place to put such major qualifications on use.
It was very poorly branded and led to massive user confusion.
A far better name would have been "KDE 4 Release Candidate". Then 4.1 could have been "KDE 4 Release Candidate 2". 4.2 could be "KDE 4" 4.3 could be "KDE 4 Update 1" or "KDE 4.1" or whatever.
"Under the bill, authorities would supposedly destroy samples and DNA profiles from people who weren't charged, were found not guilty or whose convictions were overturned."
This is not what happens in the UK.
So far it takes a lot of pressure to get entries deleted once you are on there, and you don't even need to be arrested to be on there.
The European Courts have said that this is not right and that they should remove entries that don't pertain to criminals, but I don't think there is any rush.
Too much "think of the children" and "think of the raped woman" going on for privacy and human rights to get a look in.
Even if they did, we all know these databases are hives of incorrect data anyway.
I'm just surprised it took this long to be honest.
Nothing more annoying than getting a huge flash video animation splatted in front of the article you are reading, with no obvious [X] to click immediately.
Well the entire point of ID cards is to replace well developed and evolved systems (the current stringent checks, for example) that utilise actual intelligence and due process with a dumb swipe-and-see system that is simpler.
I assume this is because intelligence is getting rare as a result of educational policies.
The sad thing is that I don't actually think that a $10 computing device (no screen, but wireless and storage) is out of the question.
For example the C64DTV was an entire computer, with flash storage, and ability to attach a keyboard, and they were dirt cheap. There are also the Megadrive/Genesis in a Joypad devices that are cheap and have screens.
Therefore you can make computing devices cheaply, with a TV/VGA output.
Of course what you would do it create something like your typical ARM SoC, connect it to an SD card reader and internal flash, 128MB RAM, etc, and stick it in a small box. Sure, it would be an ARM9 at 100MHz with framebuffer 256 colour graphics outputting to TV or VGA, but that might be ideal for that market. You can probably build a keyboard for a dollar in India as well.
Basically it would be a generic cheap-ass phone without the phone parts, just the CPU, RAM, Flash and necessary interfaces.
Anyone else want one? It would make a neat demo hacking machine:)
How does the ION chipset compare in power consumption with the mobile 945 used in netbooks (the 6W TDP one, not the 20W+ TDP desktop variant that's a total joke).
25W for CPU, Chipset, HD, Memory, motherboard doesn't seem as low as it could be.
Still, if they can get 8 hours out of a 6 cell battery in a netbook with it, great. It's a far far far more advanced chipset than the Intel crud.
MS Project is way over-featured and hence complex for a hierarchical todo list manager. I'm thinking of something like Things for Mac OS X, or OmniOutliner that used to be free with Macs.
I don't really think it is Google's fault if they were not properly notified, unless perhaps they made the notification process too difficult.
It does sound like the best action is to accept that when Google got proper notification, they promptly removed the offending video, the kids have got their punishment (they assaulted the person, made the video, and uploaded it, not Google) however much you might think it was a bit lame. Time to move on. Perhaps ensure that Google makes the notification process easier in the future.
So what happened to the kids that actually performed this disgusting act?
Or is it implicitly okay to perform the act (i.e., no legal action was taken for the bullying/assault), but wrong to make a video of it?
On one side you have "we received two complaints and took the video down within a day", and you say that there were multiple complaints over the two month period.
I have the HP 2133, and I'd describe as a $2000 2006 subnotebook rather than a $400 2008 netbook, at netbook prices (I paid £200, and a few hours setting up Ubuntu and compiz).
I.e., the CPU is slow, but on the upside compiz makes it feel fast. On the downside, in Firefox the Slashdot front page has Javascript that makes the browser hang temporarily (as in the window turns dead-app grey). Slashdot is the only site that does this.
However the build quality is top notch, the screen is great, the keyboard is the best netbook keyboard available, it even has an ExpressCard slot.
When HP release a 2160 based upon the N280 chip, then I think you will have a perfect netbook. HP have managed to squeeze a 10" display into the same sized case as the current 8.9" as well, and they're promising a 1366x768 16:9 display for that.
Many people will be in possession of an Windows XP CD of some sort, seeing as it has been out for 8 years so far.
Yesterday I decided I wanted to play Sim City 3000 again, but my main computer is Linux, and I was also doing work in it at the same time. I looked at the Wine compatibility site and it wasn't compatible. So I found my old Windows XP Professional CD, installed VirtualBox OSE from Ubuntu's package manager, and installed Windows. Worked a treat. NoCD patch? Create an ISO of the game image and mount it within VirtualBox (have yet to try this)... The level of integration is brilliant, once you install the guest tools. And thus I managed to play Sim City 3000 happily soon afterwards.
Now I know it would suck for modern games because of the lack of hardware accelerated 3D, but it's perfect for running apps and older games. Which is more than can be said for wine, in which I installed a simple text editor in which the text turned out to be oddly spaced.
I think that unless there is a real pressing advantage for having intelligence, it's not going to evolve just like that. Indeed I bet that "idyllic" solar systems where things don't get wiped out, causing massive explosions in new species coping with the new world order probably don't get far beyond fish, because the status quo is just stagnant. Maybe overpopulation forcing relatively advanced animals into new environments with different resources (out of the trees for us, out of the water for insects and amphibians and reptiles, into the air for birds) is another factor.
We're 500 million years of developing bones, eyes, limbs and organs, and eventually hands that can wield tools, and a few hundred thousand years of slowly increasing brain capacity along with which presumably came primitive language and concepts and philosophy and religion and all that gumpf, then some 5000-10000 years of building things and refining the aforementioned intellectual concept, 5000 years of writing, and 200 years of industrial revolution, and 50 years in space. I think we need to run with this rate of advancement while we can. Once we've used up the simple resources the planet has to offer, it could be millions, tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years before another race can get beyond the middle ages in developmental terms because they're held back by a natural restriction on resources.
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Yeah. I can see Firefox getting 30% of the market. Chrome getting 10% if they push it via gmail and their other services. Safari getting 15% if Apple keep increasing market share. Opera could get 1%. That leaves 44% for Internet Explorer.
And because Windows 7 doesn't currently look like a trainwreck, and it comes with IE8, I think that a lot of people buying new computers will stick with what comes with it, even if they used Firefox before.
This is because bundling does give a massive advantage, because people are lazy and if something is there that does the task, they will just use it.
However if Firefox had a service whereby you could save all your favourites, history, etc, to a web service, and then retrieve them on your new Windows 7 laptop later on, that would be an incentive to re-download Firefox despite the presence of IE8.
Yeah, I tried out VirtualBox last week, and XP inside it boots in seconds, it's brilliant. I did have to faff about for ages to get the Host Based Networking working, otherwise I got dial-up network speed, on both the host and the VM, but I think newer VirtualBoxes than the one that Ubuntu provides sort this out.
That's Cyrix.
VIA still make CPUs, they make the old 90nm C7, and the newer 65nm Nano which will be appearing in systems this year.
As regards this story, I don't believe it one bit because it's a story involving the Inquirer and NVIDIA.
If NVIDIA were to do anything, I think they would be creating a far faster ARM based SoC for their Tegra v2 line, based around the ARM Cortex A8. Maybe they're making a hardware x86 translator front-end for it... not to perform well, but to perform well enough to accelerate x86 virtual environments over emulation.
What's so hard to comprehend?
IBM developed the Cell. This used a PPU PowerPC design, and several SPUs for number crunching.
For the 360 CPU, the PPU (which has very little in common with the G5 design - for a start it is in-order, and anyone who knows about CPU architecture will know that means it is very different from an out-of-order CPU like the G5) was copied over and replicated twice.
The only question was whether or not the PPU design was an in-house IBM project that happened to be used in both the Cell and 360 CPUs, or whether it was developed for the Cell project, and then sneakily copied for the 360 CPU.
Intel can't do GPUs. Every time they've tried (and at the time they claim it is going to be great) and every time they've failed miserable, leaving people with clunky, slow, hot, cumbersome graphics with terrible drivers, often taking years to enable hardware features like vertex shading.
Larrabee *could* be better. At only 2TFLOPS however it seems unlikely that it will be beating anything NVIDIA or ATI offer (4870 X2 = 2.4TFLOPS today). Also power consumption is rumoured to be very high, and die size massive, leading to very expensive cards. Certainly not suitable for a console. I'm sure Sony will end up using some NVIDIA GT400 series GPU.
Definitely not. Sony doesn't want to be beholden to a single supplier with a proprietary design for a core function, which Sony will want to shrink in order to reduce costs over time. This is why Microsoft killed the XBox dead as soon as they could.
The PS4, if Sony don't mess up, will surely be a fairly cheap evolution of the PS3. It may use a PowerXCell32 variant for example (maybe one with 4 PPUs and 32 enhanced SPUs; 5-6 GHz). This means that PS3 games should run on it for backwards compatibility, and existing software and firmware systems will not have to be rewritten. Developer knowledge will be high initially rather than starting from nothing, so they won't lose all that investment in developer tools and training. A win all around.
Considering even Sony have rushed to say this story is bullshit, I think it is unlikely. I am willing to bet Intel put a tender in for the contract, and I'm willing to believe that NVIDIA were total cocks to Sony, but Sony know that they need to build on the PS3 with the PS4 so that the developers aren't stuck with a new architecture to learn.
Also anything involving NVIDIA and The Inquirer is bound to be very anti-NVIDIA because that sites absolutely hates them, for no discernable reason.
I don't actually have a problem with it being called 4.0, because 3.999.1 would have been confusing because it's KDE 4. That's why I think they messed up on the release branding. But without immediate qualification in the title, it read as "KDE 4.0" ... ooh, not even Beta? Great. Release Notes are not a place to put such major qualifications on use.
Whatever. The point remains. "KDE 4 Beta" would have sufficed - enough warnings for the users and distros, enough incentive for the developers.
It was very poorly branded and led to massive user confusion.
A far better name would have been "KDE 4 Release Candidate".
Then 4.1 could have been "KDE 4 Release Candidate 2".
4.2 could be "KDE 4"
4.3 could be "KDE 4 Update 1" or "KDE 4.1" or whatever.
I must point out that I have been using Flashblock for years, it's just that you still get the div problem.
And indeed, I don't revisit those sites, so the sites lose my repeat business. Just a shame for those one-off articles that seem interesting.
"Under the bill, authorities would supposedly destroy samples and DNA profiles from people who weren't charged, were found not guilty or whose convictions were overturned."
This is not what happens in the UK.
So far it takes a lot of pressure to get entries deleted once you are on there, and you don't even need to be arrested to be on there.
The European Courts have said that this is not right and that they should remove entries that don't pertain to criminals, but I don't think there is any rush.
Too much "think of the children" and "think of the raped woman" going on for privacy and human rights to get a look in.
Even if they did, we all know these databases are hives of incorrect data anyway.
I'm just surprised it took this long to be honest.
Nothing more annoying than getting a huge flash video animation splatted in front of the article you are reading, with no obvious [X] to click immediately.
Well the entire point of ID cards is to replace well developed and evolved systems (the current stringent checks, for example) that utilise actual intelligence and due process with a dumb swipe-and-see system that is simpler.
I assume this is because intelligence is getting rare as a result of educational policies.
See also: Criminal Databases, Speed Cameras, etc.
The sad thing is that I don't actually think that a $10 computing device (no screen, but wireless and storage) is out of the question.
For example the C64DTV was an entire computer, with flash storage, and ability to attach a keyboard, and they were dirt cheap. There are also the Megadrive/Genesis in a Joypad devices that are cheap and have screens.
Therefore you can make computing devices cheaply, with a TV/VGA output.
Of course what you would do it create something like your typical ARM SoC, connect it to an SD card reader and internal flash, 128MB RAM, etc, and stick it in a small box. Sure, it would be an ARM9 at 100MHz with framebuffer 256 colour graphics outputting to TV or VGA, but that might be ideal for that market. You can probably build a keyboard for a dollar in India as well.
Basically it would be a generic cheap-ass phone without the phone parts, just the CPU, RAM, Flash and necessary interfaces.
Anyone else want one? It would make a neat demo hacking machine :)
How does the ION chipset compare in power consumption with the mobile 945 used in netbooks (the 6W TDP one, not the 20W+ TDP desktop variant that's a total joke).
25W for CPU, Chipset, HD, Memory, motherboard doesn't seem as low as it could be.
Still, if they can get 8 hours out of a 6 cell battery in a netbook with it, great. It's a far far far more advanced chipset than the Intel crud.
MS Project is way over-featured and hence complex for a hierarchical todo list manager. I'm thinking of something like Things for Mac OS X, or OmniOutliner that used to be free with Macs.
You should find all the information you need at http://www.hp2133guide.com/
The 1366x768 display on the 2140 (1.6GHz Atom + 945 version of the 2133) option will be available in March apparently.
The 2150 looks like it will be a little bigger.
The 2160 is a product of my fevered imagination, essentially an upgraded 2140 once the N280 is out.
Watch out for the newer budget models with the lower resolution displays.
I don't really think it is Google's fault if they were not properly notified, unless perhaps they made the notification process too difficult.
It does sound like the best action is to accept that when Google got proper notification, they promptly removed the offending video, the kids have got their punishment (they assaulted the person, made the video, and uploaded it, not Google) however much you might think it was a bit lame. Time to move on. Perhaps ensure that Google makes the notification process easier in the future.
So what happened to the kids that actually performed this disgusting act?
Or is it implicitly okay to perform the act (i.e., no legal action was taken for the bullying/assault), but wrong to make a video of it?
On one side you have "we received two complaints and took the video down within a day", and you say that there were multiple complaints over the two month period.
I have the HP 2133, and I'd describe as a $2000 2006 subnotebook rather than a $400 2008 netbook, at netbook prices (I paid £200, and a few hours setting up Ubuntu and compiz).
I.e., the CPU is slow, but on the upside compiz makes it feel fast.
On the downside, in Firefox the Slashdot front page has Javascript that makes the browser hang temporarily (as in the window turns dead-app grey). Slashdot is the only site that does this.
However the build quality is top notch, the screen is great, the keyboard is the best netbook keyboard available, it even has an ExpressCard slot.
When HP release a 2160 based upon the N280 chip, then I think you will have a perfect netbook. HP have managed to squeeze a 10" display into the same sized case as the current 8.9" as well, and they're promising a 1366x768 16:9 display for that.
Many people will be in possession of an Windows XP CD of some sort, seeing as it has been out for 8 years so far.
Yesterday I decided I wanted to play Sim City 3000 again, but my main computer is Linux, and I was also doing work in it at the same time. I looked at the Wine compatibility site and it wasn't compatible. So I found my old Windows XP Professional CD, installed VirtualBox OSE from Ubuntu's package manager, and installed Windows. Worked a treat. NoCD patch? Create an ISO of the game image and mount it within VirtualBox (have yet to try this)... The level of integration is brilliant, once you install the guest tools. And thus I managed to play Sim City 3000 happily soon afterwards.
Now I know it would suck for modern games because of the lack of hardware accelerated 3D, but it's perfect for running apps and older games. Which is more than can be said for wine, in which I installed a simple text editor in which the text turned out to be oddly spaced.
What? "No worries"? No, he was wrong! That means GEEK PUNISHMENT.
*gets the Windows ME powered Pentium 75 box*
Didn't they initially just switch the front-end web servers to IIS, keeping the FreeBSD and Solaris backend?
I wonder how long it took them to complete the migration of the backend? I'm sure they must have done that by now.
I think that unless there is a real pressing advantage for having intelligence, it's not going to evolve just like that. Indeed I bet that "idyllic" solar systems where things don't get wiped out, causing massive explosions in new species coping with the new world order probably don't get far beyond fish, because the status quo is just stagnant. Maybe overpopulation forcing relatively advanced animals into new environments with different resources (out of the trees for us, out of the water for insects and amphibians and reptiles, into the air for birds) is another factor.
We're 500 million years of developing bones, eyes, limbs and organs, and eventually hands that can wield tools, and a few hundred thousand years of slowly increasing brain capacity along with which presumably came primitive language and concepts and philosophy and religion and all that gumpf, then some 5000-10000 years of building things and refining the aforementioned intellectual concept, 5000 years of writing, and 200 years of industrial revolution, and 50 years in space. I think we need to run with this rate of advancement while we can. Once we've used up the simple resources the planet has to offer, it could be millions, tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years before another race can get beyond the middle ages in developmental terms because they're held back by a natural restriction on resources.