Wear & tear is the beauty in this concept
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Barebones Notebook
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· Score: 5, Interesting
For most people it's not so much the electronic bits on a laptop that go out, but it's screens that get cracked, keys that start sticking, touchpads that get, well, touchy and on and on. If there was some sort of laptop spec that manufacturers built parts to fit inside some specific dimensions then when a key breaks or hinge gets loose you don't have to ship it back for an expensive repair. You can just go down to Fry's and pick up a newly updated shell.
This would also be great for just keeping a laptop system up-to-date. With the way motherboards and hard disks and cd drives have been shrinking now's the time when I hope we'll see home built laptops of the same breed as home built PC's.
Apple won't do it for fear of retribution from M$
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OS X on x86?
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· Score: 2
Something just occurred to me as to the reason why Apple has not released an x86 compatible version of their OS.
Fear of Microsoft viewing them as a "threat" to their monopoly and their heavy hand coming down on them.
When I look at it that way it all makes sense...
This thing will crash & burn like the Philips CD-i
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Indrema vs Xbox vs PS2
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· Score: 1
Hopefully they'll prove me wrong, but there is one GLARING deficiancy with this thing: No Games.
If they're trying to make a game system with it that also plays DVD's, that's fine, but they've got to get out there and court developers, and courting developers requires money, lots of it and exclusive, big name titles.
Remember Philips trying to pawn that thing on us? Played VCD equivilants, some games that weren't much better than what was on the 3DO and control it all with a lame remote control. Apparently this thing has nearly the same business model, albeit with better technology.
So what if it can play DVD's, these set top boxes that play DVD's are slowly becomming as ubiquitous as that last gen of game systems that played CD's. Nobody's going to be ooh-ing and aww-ing over it just because it'll spin a DVD. These guys are putting a little too much emphasis on the DVD capabilities and not enough where it counts.
The secret to a hit game system is GAMES GAMES GAMES GAMES, which just so happen to be the whole point of these things. Instead they're hoping people will buy it just because it's "open source" and "powered by Linux." I could give a crap about what OS is powering my game system, it just matters if the games are fun.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see this thing beat the snot out of the M$ X-Box, but I just don't see it happening, especially if they don't have the cash to court the developers.
I work with their stuff and know a fair ammount of how it works, and sure, you might be able to find some third party external modem for this, but the thing is their software, the one that logs you on and downloads the decryption key (from the sattelite) isn't available for linux. I think by third party solutions they mean using a Windows box as your gateway (ie, nat32) to get in.
As it stands, the only two pieces of hardware they sell is a USB modem and a PCI card, both with the coax input. You'd still need to load their proprietary software to log into their network installed on something.
I saw this and was thinking, what if we get so good at cloning extinct animals from DNA that we stop caring so much about the animals already endangered because we know that we'll be able to revive them from DNA once they're gone?
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For most people it's not so much the electronic bits on a laptop that go out, but it's screens that get cracked, keys that start sticking, touchpads that get, well, touchy and on and on. If there was some sort of laptop spec that manufacturers built parts to fit inside some specific dimensions then when a key breaks or hinge gets loose you don't have to ship it back for an expensive repair. You can just go down to Fry's and pick up a newly updated shell.
This would also be great for just keeping a laptop system up-to-date. With the way motherboards and hard disks and cd drives have been shrinking now's the time when I hope we'll see home built laptops of the same breed as home built PC's.
/em watches the 747 fly over someone's head...
Something just occurred to me as to the reason why Apple has not released an x86 compatible version of their OS.
Fear of Microsoft viewing them as a "threat" to their monopoly and their heavy hand coming down on them.
When I look at it that way it all makes sense...
Hopefully they'll prove me wrong, but there is one GLARING deficiancy with this thing: No Games. If they're trying to make a game system with it that also plays DVD's, that's fine, but they've got to get out there and court developers, and courting developers requires money, lots of it and exclusive, big name titles. Remember Philips trying to pawn that thing on us? Played VCD equivilants, some games that weren't much better than what was on the 3DO and control it all with a lame remote control. Apparently this thing has nearly the same business model, albeit with better technology. So what if it can play DVD's, these set top boxes that play DVD's are slowly becomming as ubiquitous as that last gen of game systems that played CD's. Nobody's going to be ooh-ing and aww-ing over it just because it'll spin a DVD. These guys are putting a little too much emphasis on the DVD capabilities and not enough where it counts. The secret to a hit game system is GAMES GAMES GAMES GAMES, which just so happen to be the whole point of these things. Instead they're hoping people will buy it just because it's "open source" and "powered by Linux." I could give a crap about what OS is powering my game system, it just matters if the games are fun. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see this thing beat the snot out of the M$ X-Box, but I just don't see it happening, especially if they don't have the cash to court the developers.
I work with their stuff and know a fair ammount of how it works, and sure, you might be able to find some third party external modem for this, but the thing is their software, the one that logs you on and downloads the decryption key (from the sattelite) isn't available for linux. I think by third party solutions they mean using a Windows box as your gateway (ie, nat32) to get in.
As it stands, the only two pieces of hardware they sell is a USB modem and a PCI card, both with the coax input. You'd still need to load their proprietary software to log into their network installed on something.
I saw this and was thinking, what if we get so good at cloning extinct animals from DNA that we stop caring so much about the animals already endangered because we know that we'll be able to revive them from DNA once they're gone?
Hook, line and sinker...