The 800x480 screen is very high resolution, over 230 pixels per inch. In that respect characters would be very readable. Therefore it probably would make a good eBook device, although it wouldn't have much vertical content - 10 lines of text (48-pixel high text, inc. line spacing), 20 if you have good eyesight (24-pixel high text, including line spacing, but note the resolution, that is 10 lines of text an inch).
The processor it uses is designed to be coupled with TI's phone chips for GSM/3G/etc
I suspect that Nokia doesn't want a first generation product being over-sold, just in case there are issues. This is something for the early adopters. The next one will have the phone chip as well, and the software will be more rounded, and overall functionality tweaked after a year of end-user testing.
Shame. Especially as the processor utilised, the TI 1710 OMAP, actually incorporates IRDA functionality. It'd have been the cost of a LED and clear-bit-of-plastic to add.
Does it have a USB host port or a USB slave port? Or both? The processor includes both...
By "low resolution" you are talking about something that isn't a >230dpi device, aren't you? The 770 is 141 x 79 x 19 mm - that's as thick as my mobile phone, although it is 2cm wider and larger. My phone has a 320x208 display, not an 800x480 widescreen display. A brief google found me this picture of it side-by-side with a PSP and a phone.
Does it have an IR port and can I use it as a fancy smancy universal remote control like I can with a Palm or PocketPC?
But it does look incredibly neat, and at the right size. PDA applications will naturally follow within the year of course. I reckon the next generation will be pretty desirable devices, at least for geeks. Best give it a bit more memory and storage by default though!
Give it a year's development in the software so that there is a larger pool of software you can install, and more PDA style applications, and it'd be an interesting purchase at the price. Another year's hardware improvement should bring more memory - both RAM and flash, and a faster processor too.
I don't need an internet tablet however small and dinky. Well, maybe if it had built-in phone capability... handy if it had decent handwriting recognition too, none of this character-based crap like on Symbian, but something like an advanced form of the system the Newton had.
Being open-source there's a fair chance that someone will write a Mac OS X iSync conduit for it as well - that'd be nice.
The gist of it is that you can't statically link in the LGPL libraries into your application. You can only dynamically link the library. Even so, you have to give attribution that you use the library, and provide that library's source and object files on demand.
I wonder if someone has made a request to the software firm that wrote the software originally? Because the code is statically linked, they will of course have to make their entire software source available - if I understand this right.
Or commercial as in installed by a dodgy person at work who gains access to the boss' or sysadmin's workstation for a few minutes?
Or commercial as in bundled with shitty software and then sends out what you type to criminals?
First one - legal, if unethical. Second one - this type of installation should be removed by Spyware removers. Third one - the writers of the software should be castrated.
On November 2004 the list had 84 computers with Itanium 2 processors. In June 2005, the number shrunk to 79.
Now only 46 computers contain Itanium 2 chips according to the latest list, released Monday.
That's quite a collapse. Intel is propping up their high-end systems with volcano-simulator Xeons?
Meanwhile, the number of supercomputers using Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chips has increased. A total of 55 Opteron-based computers made the list, up from 25 in June. (Opterons were found in just 29 computers on the November 2004 list.)
A near doubling in a year. And that's with AMD's first real server standard processor. HORUS comes out today, that'll put AMD into the 32 and 64 core marketplace. Not bad for a company with 0 server marketshare, nevermind Top500 systems two years ago.
As for the rest of your troll, I think most of the people here are clever enough to see it for what it is.
Meh, if I've just spent north of $200 on an audio player, it had bloody damn well come with decent headphones out of the box. I don't personally know about iRiver's headphones, but generally I think that Apple have got the package more balanced than other companies.
Equally however, if I've paid north of $200 on an audio player, I don't want it to sound like shit if I do use it with decent headphones. My iPod scratcho sounds alright to me however, which is what matters to me.
Cambridgeshire (bunch of farmers)... I suppose they've got a lot more land to cover than Hackney.
I think that now people are used to recycling their crap, they should try to have more services again. They did cut the services to encourage recycling in the first place.
As I said, the performance figures came from someone else.
Apparently in the tasks it is targetted at, this processor will perform on par with 3 fast dual-core Opterons.
Probably not anything floating point heavy, because apparently the chip has one FPU shared between all the cores.
However for multi-threaded primarily integer workloads (i.e., lots of server tasks) it is pretty good. 32 threads at 1.2GHz should damn well compete with 6 threads at 2.4GHz. I can see that you might be thinking 8 cores vs 6 cores, but with a relatively simple core and 4-way SMT per core you can probably keep each core pretty stuffed with work so that each core is getting overall much higher IPC than the Opteron (and indeed it would have to, by around 66%, to perform the same) which is single-threaded, and hence there will be a lot more unutilised clock cycles (despite being a wider-issue design, x86 rarely gets above 1 IPC).
And where I live in the UK, to encourage recycling they gave us green bins and boxes, and made collections biweekly - one week normal rubbish, the other week recyclables.
It is recycle or enjoy the maggots. I've seen a lot more flies this year than in previous years - it isn't helped by one of my cacti (technically just a succulent) having interesting hairy flowers that apparently smell like a free feast to flies - but there are more flies in the air than normal, I'm sure of it. I've now moved to putting food in whatever bin will be next collected, sod recycling it on trash weeks.
If they started collecting plastics as well, I think my normal trash collection would be down to half a bag a fortnight...
As regards the story, I don't own a car and thus I save tonnes of money on car ownership. No fuel costs, no insurance, no tax, no MOT, no nothing. Then again, I live in an area where that is an option. Small compact countries have different needs to large open countries.
A 1.2GHz CPU at 70W that is roughly equivalent to three dual-core Opterons (>200W) (source in the comments at Aces Hardware). I suspect that this processor will compete against some of the lower-end Power5 systems from IBM.
With its support for Virtualisation (hopefully a better implementation than Intel's Vanderpool from what I have been overhearing in the techy pubs where I live) you could have some interesting hosting scenarios... 'yeah, it's a dedicated machine you'll get, Sun, J2EE, everything, yeah!'.
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Oh, it seems that it actually kills healthy people because of the immune system's reaction speed.:( Thus killing tax payers, and not tax drains. Never good for a government.
What are the best known ways to slow down your immune system? How about alcohol? If you started drinking constantly (albeit steadily, no need to damage yourself too much) would it slow down your immune system enough to avoid the lung-spongifying effects of the flu and your immune system's reaction?
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Assuming that this flu pandemic kills 1 person in 100, that'd get rid of 600,000 people in the UK, which will probably bring over 100,000 houses onto the market (i.e., all occupants die). Likewise if you like buying second-hand furniture, there should be a glut on the market once this pandemic finally strikes.
Sometimes you don't want the health service tightly coupled with government control... can you trust them not to 'delay' expensive and essential treatment because on the balance sheet, letting a lot of (mostly money-drain) people die is actually a sensible thing to do?
A deadly global pandemic would solve a lot of problems, and cut the pension payments significantly (if half the people who die are old, that'd be 300,000 less pensions to pay each week, which is around £1b a year before costs like housing, health-care, etc.
Of course, I wouldn't want it to happen at all, but hey, you've gotta look on the bright side of life, whatever happens!
Me? I don't think that this will ever turn into a pandemic. Then again us Brits were meant to be dying left-right-and-centre by now from mad cow disease - which by the above logic was the previous government's attempt to thin out the population...
I can't remember the last time I paid £15 for an album, but people clearly do otherwise the rip-off high street shops like HMV wouldn't be around.
I will pay £10 for an album for example. It has to be an excellent album however - not you average run of the mill album. I'll pay £7 and £5 for those (thank you Fopp). I've been getting into the habit of buying £3 albums recently (again, thank you Fopp, and to a lesser extent Tesco for their dodgy £2.97 CDs) and if I like a couple of songs it is a good purchase.
The CD single market is still overpriced. I see them at £1.99 (chav shit) and £2.99 (better shit). Usually close to the 97p DVDs. If they can sell DVDs for 97p, then someone can sell singles for 99p - £1.49. Hell, I bet a 99p single that wasn't shit would get to number one simple because it was 99p. Especially if it included the music video.
Anyway, I support stiffer penalties for copyright violators if they are mass-market pirating operations. But not for sharing files over P2P or copying a CD for your mate. Just because you think that CDs are overpriced doesn't mean you should pirate them - you simply don't buy them, or you record off of the radio, or watch one of the 103848 music television channels (I quite like the asian/indian music channels on FreeSat).
Erm... it was correct in preview. Oh well. Shame that Slashdot doesn't have an edit function, even if it only worked for up to 2 minutes after posting a comment.
The current iPod 'supports' voice and audio recording.
From the iPod Specs page:
I don't know how you connect a microphone - does anyone know?
As regards sound quality - that mostly depends on the headphones you use rather than the player. Most people use the headphones that come with the player, and Apple's get consistently good scores for them (not excellent, but good). The headphones that come with other players often get quite poor results - making the purchase of decent headphones mandatory when getting such a player.
FM functionality? Meh... unless it had RDS. I'd rather someone shrunk Digital Terrestrial Radio reception into a portable player. Still it is an extra feature, and for a $0.50 chip at most I think Apple should include it, and stick the 'Radio' application under 'Extras'.
Sucks to have to buy them again though, although the old XBox won't stop working it is a hassle. Sony did the right thing with backward compatibility with the PS2, and Nintendo are doing it with the Revolution.
At least Microsoft did something to get some (5%?) of the XBox games running on the XBox360. Maybe over the next year it will double or triple the number of emulatable games as the software emulator gets better.
I'd have rather that Microsoft provide a mechanism where game companies could recompile their game code and create a PowerPC executable that would utilise the same data on the game discs (games are mostly data these days anyway). There'd be a reasonable amount of porting work still however - removing custom nVidia code, utilising equivalent ATI mechanisms and so on - many companies wouldn't have bothered.
It does sound like the Revolution is pretty much a Gamecube on steroids with some extra features - an obvious choice for Nintendo given their choice of PowerPC in the Gamecube all that time ago.
It probably isn't very hard to adapt a Gamecube game to be a native Revolution game running on a (5x?) faster processor with (10x?) more graphics power available. We might get a lot of Revolution games with a 'free' version of the older game bundled in (like Zelda - Windwaker + Zelda - Ocarina of Time pack except it will be really easy). Either that, or lots of 'enhanced' versions with more polygons, nicer graphical effects and maybe enhanced resolution if the Revolution hardware and outputs support it (even if it won't be mandatory).
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My point, tardwit, is regarding where that money is coming from - the boss, the industrial spy, or the scum.
The 800x480 screen is very high resolution, over 230 pixels per inch. In that respect characters would be very readable. Therefore it probably would make a good eBook device, although it wouldn't have much vertical content - 10 lines of text (48-pixel high text, inc. line spacing), 20 if you have good eyesight (24-pixel high text, including line spacing, but note the resolution, that is 10 lines of text an inch).
The processor it uses is designed to be coupled with TI's phone chips for GSM/3G/etc
I suspect that Nokia doesn't want a first generation product being over-sold, just in case there are issues. This is something for the early adopters. The next one will have the phone chip as well, and the software will be more rounded, and overall functionality tweaked after a year of end-user testing.
Shame. Especially as the processor utilised, the TI 1710 OMAP, actually incorporates IRDA functionality. It'd have been the cost of a LED and clear-bit-of-plastic to add.
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Does it have a USB host port or a USB slave port? Or both? The processor includes both
It's a ~200MHz ARM9 processor made by Texas Instruments. Namely the TI 1710. Notice it also has an integrated DSP.
By "low resolution" you are talking about something that isn't a >230dpi device, aren't you? The 770 is 141 x 79 x 19 mm - that's as thick as my mobile phone, although it is 2cm wider and larger. My phone has a 320x208 display, not an 800x480 widescreen display. A brief google found me this picture of it side-by-side with a PSP and a phone.
Does it have an IR port and can I use it as a fancy smancy universal remote control like I can with a Palm or PocketPC?
But it does look incredibly neat, and at the right size. PDA applications will naturally follow within the year of course. I reckon the next generation will be pretty desirable devices, at least for geeks. Best give it a bit more memory and storage by default though!
Give it a year's development in the software so that there is a larger pool of software you can install, and more PDA style applications, and it'd be an interesting purchase at the price. Another year's hardware improvement should bring more memory - both RAM and flash, and a faster processor too.
... handy if it had decent handwriting recognition too, none of this character-based crap like on Symbian, but something like an advanced form of the system the Newton had.
I don't need an internet tablet however small and dinky. Well, maybe if it had built-in phone capability
Being open-source there's a fair chance that someone will write a Mac OS X iSync conduit for it as well - that'd be nice.
Thanks for that explanation.
The gist of it is that you can't statically link in the LGPL libraries into your application. You can only dynamically link the library. Even so, you have to give attribution that you use the library, and provide that library's source and object files on demand.
I wonder if someone has made a request to the software firm that wrote the software originally? Because the code is statically linked, they will of course have to make their entire software source available - if I understand this right.
By your boss to see what you are typing?
Or commercial as in installed by a dodgy person at work who gains access to the boss' or sysadmin's workstation for a few minutes?
Or commercial as in bundled with shitty software and then sends out what you type to criminals?
First one - legal, if unethical.
Second one - this type of installation should be removed by Spyware removers.
Third one - the writers of the software should be castrated.
That's quite a collapse. Intel is propping up their high-end systems with volcano-simulator Xeons?
A near doubling in a year. And that's with AMD's first real server standard processor. HORUS comes out today, that'll put AMD into the 32 and 64 core marketplace. Not bad for a company with 0 server marketshare, nevermind Top500 systems two years ago.
As for the rest of your troll, I think most of the people here are clever enough to see it for what it is.
Meh, if I've just spent north of $200 on an audio player, it had bloody damn well come with decent headphones out of the box. I don't personally know about iRiver's headphones, but generally I think that Apple have got the package more balanced than other companies.
Equally however, if I've paid north of $200 on an audio player, I don't want it to sound like shit if I do use it with decent headphones. My iPod scratcho sounds alright to me however, which is what matters to me.
Cambridgeshire (bunch of farmers) ... I suppose they've got a lot more land to cover than Hackney.
I think that now people are used to recycling their crap, they should try to have more services again. They did cut the services to encourage recycling in the first place.
As I said, the performance figures came from someone else.
Apparently in the tasks it is targetted at, this processor will perform on par with 3 fast dual-core Opterons.
Probably not anything floating point heavy, because apparently the chip has one FPU shared between all the cores.
However for multi-threaded primarily integer workloads (i.e., lots of server tasks) it is pretty good. 32 threads at 1.2GHz should damn well compete with 6 threads at 2.4GHz. I can see that you might be thinking 8 cores vs 6 cores, but with a relatively simple core and 4-way SMT per core you can probably keep each core pretty stuffed with work so that each core is getting overall much higher IPC than the Opteron (and indeed it would have to, by around 66%, to perform the same) which is single-threaded, and hence there will be a lot more unutilised clock cycles (despite being a wider-issue design, x86 rarely gets above 1 IPC).
"three dual-core opterons"
And where I live in the UK, to encourage recycling they gave us green bins and boxes, and made collections biweekly - one week normal rubbish, the other week recyclables.
It is recycle or enjoy the maggots. I've seen a lot more flies this year than in previous years - it isn't helped by one of my cacti (technically just a succulent) having interesting hairy flowers that apparently smell like a free feast to flies - but there are more flies in the air than normal, I'm sure of it. I've now moved to putting food in whatever bin will be next collected, sod recycling it on trash weeks.
If they started collecting plastics as well, I think my normal trash collection would be down to half a bag a fortnight...
As regards the story, I don't own a car and thus I save tonnes of money on car ownership. No fuel costs, no insurance, no tax, no MOT, no nothing. Then again, I live in an area where that is an option. Small compact countries have different needs to large open countries.
A 1.2GHz CPU at 70W that is roughly equivalent to three dual-core Opterons (>200W) (source in the comments at Aces Hardware). I suspect that this processor will compete against some of the lower-end Power5 systems from IBM.
... 'yeah, it's a dedicated machine you'll get, Sun, J2EE, everything, yeah!'.
With its support for Virtualisation (hopefully a better implementation than Intel's Vanderpool from what I have been overhearing in the techy pubs where I live) you could have some interesting hosting scenarios
Oh, it seems that it actually kills healthy people because of the immune system's reaction speed. :( Thus killing tax payers, and not tax drains. Never good for a government.
What are the best known ways to slow down your immune system? How about alcohol? If you started drinking constantly (albeit steadily, no need to damage yourself too much) would it slow down your immune system enough to avoid the lung-spongifying effects of the flu and your immune system's reaction?
Assuming that this flu pandemic kills 1 person in 100, that'd get rid of 600,000 people in the UK, which will probably bring over 100,000 houses onto the market (i.e., all occupants die). Likewise if you like buying second-hand furniture, there should be a glut on the market once this pandemic finally strikes.
... can you trust them not to 'delay' expensive and essential treatment because on the balance sheet, letting a lot of (mostly money-drain) people die is actually a sensible thing to do?
Sometimes you don't want the health service tightly coupled with government control
A deadly global pandemic would solve a lot of problems, and cut the pension payments significantly (if half the people who die are old, that'd be 300,000 less pensions to pay each week, which is around £1b a year before costs like housing, health-care, etc.
Of course, I wouldn't want it to happen at all, but hey, you've gotta look on the bright side of life, whatever happens!
Me? I don't think that this will ever turn into a pandemic. Then again us Brits were meant to be dying left-right-and-centre by now from mad cow disease - which by the above logic was the previous government's attempt to thin out the population...
I can't remember the last time I paid £15 for an album, but people clearly do otherwise the rip-off high street shops like HMV wouldn't be around.
I will pay £10 for an album for example. It has to be an excellent album however - not you average run of the mill album. I'll pay £7 and £5 for those (thank you Fopp). I've been getting into the habit of buying £3 albums recently (again, thank you Fopp, and to a lesser extent Tesco for their dodgy £2.97 CDs) and if I like a couple of songs it is a good purchase.
The CD single market is still overpriced. I see them at £1.99 (chav shit) and £2.99 (better shit). Usually close to the 97p DVDs. If they can sell DVDs for 97p, then someone can sell singles for 99p - £1.49. Hell, I bet a 99p single that wasn't shit would get to number one simple because it was 99p. Especially if it included the music video.
Anyway, I support stiffer penalties for copyright violators if they are mass-market pirating operations. But not for sharing files over P2P or copying a CD for your mate. Just because you think that CDs are overpriced doesn't mean you should pirate them - you simply don't buy them, or you record off of the radio, or watch one of the 103848 music television channels (I quite like the asian/indian music channels on FreeSat).
From the iPod Specs page:
Especially the online games, especially MMORPGs.
Sucks to have to buy them again though, although the old XBox won't stop working it is a hassle. Sony did the right thing with backward compatibility with the PS2, and Nintendo are doing it with the Revolution.
At least Microsoft did something to get some (5%?) of the XBox games running on the XBox360. Maybe over the next year it will double or triple the number of emulatable games as the software emulator gets better.
I'd have rather that Microsoft provide a mechanism where game companies could recompile their game code and create a PowerPC executable that would utilise the same data on the game discs (games are mostly data these days anyway). There'd be a reasonable amount of porting work still however - removing custom nVidia code, utilising equivalent ATI mechanisms and so on - many companies wouldn't have bothered.
It does sound like the Revolution is pretty much a Gamecube on steroids with some extra features - an obvious choice for Nintendo given their choice of PowerPC in the Gamecube all that time ago.
It probably isn't very hard to adapt a Gamecube game to be a native Revolution game running on a (5x?) faster processor with (10x?) more graphics power available. We might get a lot of Revolution games with a 'free' version of the older game bundled in (like Zelda - Windwaker + Zelda - Ocarina of Time pack except it will be really easy). Either that, or lots of 'enhanced' versions with more polygons, nicer graphical effects and maybe enhanced resolution if the Revolution hardware and outputs support it (even if it won't be mandatory).