Apple starts shipping these in January. Hey, I can hope damn you!;-)
At least IBM is pretty good at manufacturing microprocessors, while Moto is certainly not. IBM already has a 0.10 micron (not 0.09) fab in testing, so perhaps the 970 will get to >2GHz "soon."
In a related story: Moto is supposedly selling their chip business. I guess they finally realized they have no idea what they are doing.
People have to stop thinking of this as a PDA, but rather as a _very_ small laptop. I'm certainly hoping that they offer it in the USA (Sharp has a bad habit of offering things only in Japan).
Ok, I had to see what you meant. The Kyocera 7135 does indeed look pretty cool.
I think they are the _first_ people to get a formfactor for a phone/PDS that I think might really be useable. I am a bit worried about the interoperability of the phone/PDA though. I'd have to try it out.
Of course, what I really wish is that the Sony Clie NR70 had a cellphone too. I mean they have the form factor right (if a bit large for a phone)!
Just don't ever ask me to use a PocketPC-based phone or PDA. Isn't ever gonna happen.
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Why cannot anyone link to the actual press release?! It contains more information than cnet or yahoo articles (not a difficult proposition).
The P.R. Gives some indication of how it works:
Principle of Operation of 3D LCDs A 3D display requiring no special viewing glasses is generated by controlling the path of travel of light from the display so that slightly different images reach the left and right eyes; in other words, the right eye sees only the image intended for it, and the left eye only the image intended for it. This newly developed 3D LCD employs a technique called the "parallax barrier," an older, well-known approach to generating a stereo display. The 3D LCD combines a conventional TFT LCD with a Switching LCD, a proprietary Sharp development. This Switching LCD establishes an optical parallax barrier, and by controlling the path of travel of light, makes it possible to separate the display images so that slightly different images reach the left and right eyes. By displaying the image intended for the left eye and the image for the right eye as a stereographic pair on a TFT LCD, each eye sees only the image intended for it and the brain combines the images and perceives them as a 3D representation. In addition, the Switching LCD electrically controls the parallax barrier to make it transparent, eliminating its ability to separate light paths. This way, the right and left eyes can see the same image when viewing ordinary 2D content. In other words, the display can also function as a conventional standard imaging device.
My version of OSX has cron and rsync. I dpon't see why it wouldn't work. It should even be possible for someone to write a simple GUI for those that would like that.
... or at least that is what many "uninformed" people think. Especially corporate types.
RedHat is also unfortunately the only distro supported at LLNL.
IMHO I think that they have too much dominance. I also don't like some of the things that they have done (gcc for example). So that's why I use something else when I can.
I have never gotten Mandrake to install since 8.0, and don't feel like trying again for a while.
I'm fairly happy with SuSE at the moment: worked flawlessly right away, and came with almost everything on the DVD. Don't like the lack of non-distro RPM's though.
As for RPM vs apt: I've never tried debian. One thing is for sure though: I've NEVER had a problem with "./configure;make;make install"
I am of the strong opinion that Apple should pour money into Fink to make the "X" experience on OSX as cohesive as the Aqua experience.
Fink is great, and I really appreciate everything that the developers are doing. Same with XDarwin. But major support from Apple (including official "hooks" in the OS where necessary -- eg. a seamless window manager) could make OSX a much more attractive unix platform.
I can imagine Apple's viewpoint: "We would rather support Carbon/Cocoa developers than X developers. X on OSX is kludgy anyhow. Use Aqua."
While this is fine for newbies, many companies are only going to support OSX through X applications (Matlab, VMD and others). That's reality. Apple should work damn hard to improve the user experience with these applications. Not as a top priority, mind you. But some real effort nontheless.
I have an original G4 AGP that I cannot affort to replace yet, but that I still want to be able to take full advantage of Quartz Extreme. So I've been shopping for video card upgrades.
Anyone else notice that there are virtually NO aftermarket upgrades available?
I mean sure you can get a Geforce4 4600 or a Radeon 9000 (if you want to spend a lot), but the only ones that I can find require the proprietary 12V connector for the ADC. My Mac doesn't have this.
The only card that I can find is the Radeon 8500. Nice enough card, but $200?!! WTF?!
This same card is about $70 for the PC. Anyone know of a way to get the PC version to run on a Mac? I assume it would require a ROM flash or something...
Any other suggestions?
BTW, I've played with 10.2 at the Apple Store. It rocks. But I'm going to wait for Fink to be upgraded first.
"Class, we are going to have a vote. I am more than willing to grade the class on a curve. But only if it works both ways. If the average for an exam is lower than a C, I will add points to the exam for everyone. If the average is higher than a C, everyone gets points deducted."
Where'n the hell did this come from? I've always thought grading on a curve implied using the mean and standard deviation.
Also, you can't beat the clickety clack sound of the keyboard typing... yes it's sweet.
Also don't forget the occasional words that you speak that will end up in word recognition.
I'm not talking about voice recognition! How droll...
I'm talking about directly simulating the keyboard by intercepting the nerve impulses in the motor cortex.
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Apple starts shipping these in January. Hey, I can hope damn you! ;-)
At least IBM is pretty good at manufacturing microprocessors, while Moto is certainly not. IBM already has a 0.10 micron (not 0.09) fab in testing, so perhaps the 970 will get to >2GHz "soon."
In a related story: Moto is supposedly selling their chip business. I guess they finally realized they have no idea what they are doing.
90% of websites out there are not useable to anyone out there due to poor design and overuse of flash, DHTML, javascript.
Not saying that things shouldn't be accessible too though...
I've found someplace that sells these things: $329
They also have a picture and a non-slashdotted web page.
Uh... well, it was anyhow.
Wow - great link!
People have to stop thinking of this as a PDA, but rather as a _very_ small laptop. I'm certainly hoping that they offer it in the USA (Sharp has a bad habit of offering things only in Japan).
Ok, I had to see what you meant. The Kyocera 7135 does indeed look pretty cool.
I think they are the _first_ people to get a formfactor for a phone/PDS that I think might really be useable. I am a bit worried about the interoperability of the phone/PDA though. I'd have to try it out.
Of course, what I really wish is that the Sony Clie NR70 had a cellphone too. I mean they have the form factor right (if a bit large for a phone)!
Just don't ever ask me to use a PocketPC-based phone or PDA. Isn't ever gonna happen.
The P.R. Gives some indication of how it works:
You are sorely mistaken.
The Drug companies are raping everyone.
Unfortunately, voting Libertarian will not do much good -- they will not get elected. Not unless we get real campaign finance reform anyhow.
My version of OSX has cron and rsync. I dpon't see why it wouldn't work. It should even be possible for someone to write a simple GUI for those that would like that.
Of course there's nothing wrong with a regular espresso every hour or so. Does funny things to me after about 4 though.
Notice how your penis now grows to full length I'll have to make sure my wife has her coffee then. I personally don't swing that way.
RedHat is also unfortunately the only distro supported at LLNL.
IMHO I think that they have too much dominance. I also don't like some of the things that they have done (gcc for example). So that's why I use something else when I can.
I'm fairly happy with SuSE at the moment: worked flawlessly right away, and came with almost everything on the DVD. Don't like the lack of non-distro RPM's though.
As for RPM vs apt: I've never tried debian. One thing is for sure though: I've NEVER had a problem with "./configure;make;make install"
I agree with your point, but hopefully Apple can be made to see things "differently." Of course they did retire "Think Different"
Perhaps you missed my ENTIRE point!?
Regarding "other cards," I think there may be a ROM issue ...
Who makes a DVI card that has the correct ROM? I actually don't even need the ADC connector.
As I said, I have an older AGP Powermac that cannot use a graphics card with the ADC connector.
Yes.
Fink is great, and I really appreciate everything that the developers are doing. Same with XDarwin. But major support from Apple (including official "hooks" in the OS where necessary -- eg. a seamless window manager) could make OSX a much more attractive unix platform.
I can imagine Apple's viewpoint: "We would rather support Carbon/Cocoa developers than X developers. X on OSX is kludgy anyhow. Use Aqua."
While this is fine for newbies, many companies are only going to support OSX through X applications (Matlab, VMD and others). That's reality. Apple should work damn hard to improve the user experience with these applications. Not as a top priority, mind you. But some real effort nontheless.
What do other people think?
Anyone else notice that there are virtually NO aftermarket upgrades available?
I mean sure you can get a Geforce4 4600 or a Radeon 9000 (if you want to spend a lot), but the only ones that I can find require the proprietary 12V connector for the ADC. My Mac doesn't have this.
The only card that I can find is the Radeon 8500. Nice enough card, but $200?!! WTF?!
This same card is about $70 for the PC. Anyone know of a way to get the PC version to run on a Mac? I assume it would require a ROM flash or something...
Any other suggestions?
BTW, I've played with 10.2 at the Apple Store. It rocks. But I'm going to wait for Fink to be upgraded first.
Let me guess ... you're running Redhat? No offense, I've just found Redhat and KDE to be mutually exclusive.
Actually, you point out one major problem with RPM's. Hence why I'm looking at non-RPM distros.
Huh? No, KDE has RPM's for each distro. Eg, SuSE has a set of RPM's that you download and install. I've never had a problem with this.
OTOH, IMHO it would be really nice if KDE had something like Redcarpet.
Where'n the hell did this come from? I've always thought grading on a curve implied using the mean and standard deviation.
Perhaps that's too much math...
I'm not talking about voice recognition! How droll...
I'm talking about directly simulating the keyboard by intercepting the nerve impulses in the motor cortex.
Yes, I know about Gentoo. I'm looking into it.
There is also the problem that a lot of C++ code does not compile with 3.x...
I have been waiting for this release for quite a while now. The entire gcc 2.x vs 3.x incompatability thing has been driving me nuts.