The processors used in UMPCs are horrible at multitasking anyway, so that's not really an issue. More important is that there is so much more software available for x86. (Also, Palm OS is pretty much dead, sadly.) The Maemo linux on the Nokia n800 is great for some things (with FBReader it's the best ebook reader I've seen), but can't replace a laptop or handheld umpc running XP or Linux. And the Everun gets amazing battery life - 5 or 6 hours with the standard battery, and I haven't managed to run down the bigger extended battery yet - it's better than the n800 and comparable to modern Palm devices. (Unfortunately, it has issues with Linux...I don't think anyone has managed to get the wireless working on the Everun.)
True, but the eee has a faster processor and 512 megs of RAM. I can't imagine XP running well on 256 megs of RAM and a flash memory drive (much slower swapping, and running with Virtual Memory turned off probably wouldn't work).
I gave up trying to get it to connect to a hidden ssid. Amazing hardware, but pathetic software.
Btw, my Everun also has a Geode processor, and it runs XP better than the XO-1 runs Sugar, even in power-saving mode - in which the Everun's LX 900 processor runs only at 400mhz, slower than the 433mhz of the LX 700 in the XO-1. Unfortunately, the Everun lacks drivers for Linux, but there's no reason to believe that the XO-1 wouldn't be fast and responsive with a lean Linux distro. Make a kid-friendly menu (the XO-1's is tiny and confusing even for me), install open-source educational software (the XO-1 has a bit of junk, but lacks the few decent Linux programs), and throw on a bunch of copyright-free ebooks, and it would've been great.
One of the most significant causes of death from plastic debris is obstruction of the
digestive tract (Bugoni et al. 2001). The gut may also become perforated as a result of
sharp-pointed objects such as hooks and this can result in death. Hooks from long-line
fisheries have caused thousands of turtle deaths in the Western Mediterranean (Toms et
al. 2002). Another cause of death has been found to occur from ingestion of monofilament
line where the gut gathers along the line so that food contents can no longer pass through
the gut (Bjorndal et al. 1994). A potentially harmful side effect of ingested marine debris
occurs when the debris takes up some of the gut capacity and reduces it and consequently
less food can be digested. This is known as dietary dilution. It is especially a threat to
young turtles because of their nutritional needs (Toms et al. 2002). Other harm to sea
turtles can occur from hard plastics which can cause internal damage to the gut including
ulceration and tissue necrosis (death) (Barreiros and Barcelos 2001).
The reason that turtles ingest marine debris is not known with certainty. It has been
suggested that debris, such as plastic bags, look similar to, and are mistaken for jellyfish.
However, it is also possible that turtles have a low discrimination in their feeding habits.
Young (pelagic stage) turtles are particularly vulnerable to plastic debris due to their close
association with convergences where debris accumulates. Most turtle species are exposed
to debris in near-shore habitats where they feed (US EPA 1992b, Toms et al. 2002). -Plastic Debris in the World's Oceans
Canada has a huge lead on the US in those categories despite being even larger and more sparsely populated. (And yes, broadband has been available in rural areas for over a decade.) Unfortunately, under the Conservatives, the companies here have been evading the regulations that are supposed to control them.
Series of blunders turned the plastic bag into global villain
David Santillo, a marine biologist at Greenpeace, told The Times that bad science was undermining the Government's case for banning the bags. "It's very unlikely that many animals are killed by plastic bags," he said. "The evidence shows just the opposite. We are not going to solve the problem of waste by focusing on plastic bags.
"It doesn't do the Government's case any favours if you've got statements being made that aren't supported by the scientific literature that's out there. With larger mammals it's fishing gear that's the big problem. On a global basis plastic bags aren't an issue. It would be great if statements like these weren't made."
Their homework questions were worth 10% of their grade. Which seems bizarre. Wouldn't something like chemistry usually be 20% midterm, 30% labs, 50% final? I never had assigned homework problems marked after high school... the closest would be essays for English courses, term projects, and lab reports.
Yeah, the memory leaks on Firefox are pretty bad. Have you tried Opera? In any case, the integrated video and slow processor in the eee are probably bigger problems for running Vista than RAM.
1080P doesn't sound like a reduced-quality rip... though he also said 10GB - I'd have to know whether the original movie used all the available space on the disk.
I don't have any pockets big enough to carry the eee, anyway. The Samsung Q1, while quite long, might be narrow enough to fit in a jacket pocket. There are some upcoming ones that might work, too... here is a list.
You're right, Linux users have a pretty strong reason to like Intel's integrated graphics solutions. The other 99.5% of the market, however, does not.
Eh, they do? Even the most ridiculously huge and expensive desktop replacement wouldn't run the latest games as well as a cheap self-built desktop. And that's assuming that 99.5% of the market consists of gamers, which is a pretty big assumption. So why trade portability for the added heat and expense of discrete graphics?
Even in the case where the dosage forms are the same, the vet ones are often quite a bit more. As for drug prices, while the expensive drugs (say, $100/mo) are a lot cheaper in Canada, the generics usually aren't less expensive. This FDA paper claims that they're much higher, then conveniently omits that most of them are pretty cheap either way.
What was the antibiotic? The opposite is true for most drugs - the drugs branded for veterinary use are often several times the cost of those we use. For example, meloxicam (an NSAID) is available as a generic tablet in Canada and can be halved or quartered and given to a dog for about a tenth the price of the liquid that is meant to be used for canines. Some vets will call us to check what we have, since the price difference can be huge.
A physical copy is pointless if it still requires you to connect to Steam.
I still occasionally play games that I bought over a decade ago - including those from companies that are defunct. Good thing they never used DRM requiring a connection to their servers, eh?
You've got a neat imagination. Heck, I could afford to buy over a dozen copies of Orange Box every week, but that's not the point. I don't want to deal with any BS when I'm just trying to play some games and relax. This is why I've bought more games for my Wii than my PC in the last year. I'd buy a 360 and Orange Box, but I doubt that system would last a year before getting a RROD, let alone ten years...
Oh, right... It was just the guy that started swearing in a support ticket that had his account inactivated entirely. Though I can't seem to find the original post anymore, just references to it.
Steam and similar DRM schemes are killing computer gaming for me. I refuse to buy any games that can't be run with a disk image or a crack, so I can play the games I've paid good money for when and where I want to play them. Morrowind and my Collector's Edition of Oblivion run without any hassles. Screw Valve.
But if a particular drug isn't potentially profitable enough for a company to pay for the phase III trials, or it would greatly benefit the country (and the world) for it to be available cheaply, is that really a bad use of millions of tax dollars?
The government would probably need to work with a generic manufacturer (the lowest bidder) to produce enough for the trials, after which the patent would be publicly-owned and licensed to whoever will agree to make it cheaply - hydrochlorothiazide costs a few dollars for a year's supply, and I doubt they'd price it below cost. (Enough money is already wasted on marketing already, thank you.)
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The processors used in UMPCs are horrible at multitasking anyway, so that's not really an issue. More important is that there is so much more software available for x86. (Also, Palm OS is pretty much dead, sadly.) The Maemo linux on the Nokia n800 is great for some things (with FBReader it's the best ebook reader I've seen), but can't replace a laptop or handheld umpc running XP or Linux. And the Everun gets amazing battery life - 5 or 6 hours with the standard battery, and I haven't managed to run down the bigger extended battery yet - it's better than the n800 and comparable to modern Palm devices. (Unfortunately, it has issues with Linux...I don't think anyone has managed to get the wireless working on the Everun.)
Yeah, couldn't get that to work. And then there were the "issues" with WPA protected networks. Ugh.
I was going to write "I wish I could install a Linux distro like Xubuntu on it", but apparently you can. I might give it a shot.
True, but the eee has a faster processor and 512 megs of RAM. I can't imagine XP running well on 256 megs of RAM and a flash memory drive (much slower swapping, and running with Virtual Memory turned off probably wouldn't work).
I gave up trying to get it to connect to a hidden ssid. Amazing hardware, but pathetic software.
Btw, my Everun also has a Geode processor, and it runs XP better than the XO-1 runs Sugar, even in power-saving mode - in which the Everun's LX 900 processor runs only at 400mhz, slower than the 433mhz of the LX 700 in the XO-1. Unfortunately, the Everun lacks drivers for Linux, but there's no reason to believe that the XO-1 wouldn't be fast and responsive with a lean Linux distro. Make a kid-friendly menu (the XO-1's is tiny and confusing even for me), install open-source educational software (the XO-1 has a bit of junk, but lacks the few decent Linux programs), and throw on a bunch of copyright-free ebooks, and it would've been great.
All I could find in the study was:
Canada
Internet bandwidth (Mbps per 10000 inhabitants) 2006
67.34
United States
Internet bandwidth (Mbps per 10000 inhabitants) 2006
33.06
...and internet users per 100 people, which is even less useful. Source?
One of the most significant causes of death from plastic debris is obstruction of the digestive tract (Bugoni et al. 2001). The gut may also become perforated as a result of sharp-pointed objects such as hooks and this can result in death. Hooks from long-line fisheries have caused thousands of turtle deaths in the Western Mediterranean (Toms et al. 2002). Another cause of death has been found to occur from ingestion of monofilament line where the gut gathers along the line so that food contents can no longer pass through the gut (Bjorndal et al. 1994). A potentially harmful side effect of ingested marine debris occurs when the debris takes up some of the gut capacity and reduces it and consequently less food can be digested. This is known as dietary dilution. It is especially a threat to young turtles because of their nutritional needs (Toms et al. 2002). Other harm to sea turtles can occur from hard plastics which can cause internal damage to the gut including ulceration and tissue necrosis (death) (Barreiros and Barcelos 2001).
The reason that turtles ingest marine debris is not known with certainty. It has been suggested that debris, such as plastic bags, look similar to, and are mistaken for jellyfish. However, it is also possible that turtles have a low discrimination in their feeding habits. Young (pelagic stage) turtles are particularly vulnerable to plastic debris due to their close association with convergences where debris accumulates. Most turtle species are exposed to debris in near-shore habitats where they feed (US EPA 1992b, Toms et al. 2002). -Plastic Debris in the World's Oceans
Canada has a huge lead on the US in those categories despite being even larger and more sparsely populated. (And yes, broadband has been available in rural areas for over a decade.) Unfortunately, under the Conservatives, the companies here have been evading the regulations that are supposed to control them.
"It doesn't do the Government's case any favours if you've got statements being made that aren't supported by the scientific literature that's out there. With larger mammals it's fishing gear that's the big problem. On a global basis plastic bags aren't an issue. It would be great if statements like these weren't made."
Their homework questions were worth 10% of their grade. Which seems bizarre. Wouldn't something like chemistry usually be 20% midterm, 30% labs, 50% final? I never had assigned homework problems marked after high school... the closest would be essays for English courses, term projects, and lab reports.
Yeah, the memory leaks on Firefox are pretty bad. Have you tried Opera? In any case, the integrated video and slow processor in the eee are probably bigger problems for running Vista than RAM.
Have you checked Lenovo's site? The X300 comes with XP by default.
LOL, Have you ever used Vista?
The X300 comes with XP.
1080P doesn't sound like a reduced-quality rip... though he also said 10GB - I'd have to know whether the original movie used all the available space on the disk.
In any case, decryption (in addition to the h.264 decoding) adds to the load on the CPU, which doesn't help. Also, even laptop DVD drives use several watts during playback.
I don't have any pockets big enough to carry the eee, anyway. The Samsung Q1, while quite long, might be narrow enough to fit in a jacket pocket. There are some upcoming ones that might work, too... here is a list.
You're right, Linux users have a pretty strong reason to like Intel's integrated graphics solutions. The other 99.5% of the market, however, does not.
Eh, they do? Even the most ridiculously huge and expensive desktop replacement wouldn't run the latest games as well as a cheap self-built desktop. And that's assuming that 99.5% of the market consists of gamers, which is a pretty big assumption. So why trade portability for the added heat and expense of discrete graphics?
Maybe his point is that playing a movie you had ripped to your hard drive earlier would be a lot easier on the batteries than playing a Blu Ray disk?
Even in the case where the dosage forms are the same, the vet ones are often quite a bit more. As for drug prices, while the expensive drugs (say, $100/mo) are a lot cheaper in Canada, the generics usually aren't less expensive. This FDA paper claims that they're much higher, then conveniently omits that most of them are pretty cheap either way.
What was the antibiotic? The opposite is true for most drugs - the drugs branded for veterinary use are often several times the cost of those we use. For example, meloxicam (an NSAID) is available as a generic tablet in Canada and can be halved or quartered and given to a dog for about a tenth the price of the liquid that is meant to be used for canines. Some vets will call us to check what we have, since the price difference can be huge.
A physical copy is pointless if it still requires you to connect to Steam.
I still occasionally play games that I bought over a decade ago - including those from companies that are defunct. Good thing they never used DRM requiring a connection to their servers, eh?
You've got a neat imagination. Heck, I could afford to buy over a dozen copies of Orange Box every week, but that's not the point. I don't want to deal with any BS when I'm just trying to play some games and relax. This is why I've bought more games for my Wii than my PC in the last year. I'd buy a 360 and Orange Box, but I doubt that system would last a year before getting a RROD, let alone ten years...
Oh, right... It was just the guy that started swearing in a support ticket that had his account inactivated entirely. Though I can't seem to find the original post anymore, just references to it.
Steam and similar DRM schemes are killing computer gaming for me. I refuse to buy any games that can't be run with a disk image or a crack, so I can play the games I've paid good money for when and where I want to play them. Morrowind and my Collector's Edition of Oblivion run without any hassles. Screw Valve.
How about the right to be locked out of ALL of your Steam games if you dare to buy a game outside of your country?
But if a particular drug isn't potentially profitable enough for a company to pay for the phase III trials, or it would greatly benefit the country (and the world) for it to be available cheaply, is that really a bad use of millions of tax dollars?
The government would probably need to work with a generic manufacturer (the lowest bidder) to produce enough for the trials, after which the patent would be publicly-owned and licensed to whoever will agree to make it cheaply - hydrochlorothiazide costs a few dollars for a year's supply, and I doubt they'd price it below cost. (Enough money is already wasted on marketing already, thank you.)
Not to mention that relying exclusively on industry research might end up costing more in the long run.
What public funded lab has the 1 billion US$ or more to bring a drug to the market?
None. But I know where a few (hundred) might have gotten the cash.