It's all about money and margins... In the imaging industry, it's not uncommon to see 24" CRT's
17" and 19" are simply mass produced with low margins. There is no business interest. 21" and 24" screens offer more $ per units and less repair.
This is basically a big equation involving cost to produce (including advertisement), cost to ship (LCD's take less space in a container), cost to repair (more fragile parts in a CTR), etc. If it makes sense, sell them, if not stop selling them. Heck, Sony will probably save 50% on plastic used for the LCD shell (compared to a CRT shell). In the end, that has to be big bucks for such a maker.
Like you said, power consumption would kill the PDA right away. If you are interested in a USB host solution, there is a CF USB host card already available in Japan (http://www.pocketpcjapan.com/main.html). The only problem is it only supports basic things like keyboard, mouse, etc. but I believe the driver is ready. It's a start...
This is kinda offtopic, but whould it make sense? This would require some sort of a sendmail re-write... When you send an email, a "signature" (hash/ID/whatever) is stored in a database on that outgoing server. When the receiver's sendmail gets the email, it connects to that server, verifies the signature and if there is a match, the email is forwarded to the user's account.
This would eliminate those emails with fake domains and relaying would be over as your "outgoing" server would have to keep the "signature" database. Of course, there should be an option to relay certain domains (like subdomains).
Once a "legit" spam is detected (sent from a real domain), the user could set the signature as "undesirable" and that information would be shared to real time blocking lists. Also, other sendmails trying to match the signature would fail and the email would be discarted right away. (probably after a certain threshold)
I think that if we adopt that kind of server, eventually all sendmail servers will have that option and most spam will slowly cease to exist as users won't accept emails without a proper "signature".
Why is everytime a nice idea comes out, everyone has to bash about privacy? This could eventually lead to finding stolen cars, escapees, kidnapings, etc. If bridges and major intersections were equipped with sensors, it would help police locate cars. It could also eliminate high speed chases as polices would simply have to pinpoint the car (as long as it drives where sensors are located)
Now for 99.9% of us, who cares? What's wrong with someone else knowing where you are driving? Are you guys *THAT* paranoid? I don't see anything wrong with this and I think it's a great idea.
Most, if not all mobile phones in Japan have a "manner button" where it temporary disables ringing and goes in vibrate mode. You can also let it vibrate only if the caller is in your "ok list", meaning it won't even vibrate if your mother in law calls you.
But first thing is that people need to auto-educate themselve (ie: use common sense)
I can confirm you that *NO* drives or any computer parts which can contain non-volatile data (cpu/ram/bios/etc) will come out of government agencies unless they are stolen by employers.
I work for a large company and on-site people can't bring in anything (laptop/cd/floppies). If they bring it in, they have to leave it in.
Now this is, of course, following the legit procedure. One can remember the hard drive incident at Los Alamos...
Remember a few weeks ago when they raided some place in NYC? They said they found X numbers of CDR's while the actual number was much less than what they said. They considered a 24x CDR to be 24 machines or something like that.
So that 95% might as well be the number of machines *inside* their own networks...!
Why is it that everytime something new comes out, everyone has something bad to say about it?
This new server, just like other servers, is a magnificient piece of high technology and will greatly help companies, government and universities.
My hat to SGI, they released an awesome piece of technology and the engineers deserve a high-5 on their hard work.
If it's so bad, then why don't you build your own super computer and then post your anouncement on Slashdot. I'll be waiting in the mean time.
I work there too and I'm proud of it.
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I also work at SGI and although the company is indeed having money problems, it's still a great place to work and most people are dedicated. Also note that the company is 34/100 in the top 100 places to work for. This data comes from the workers, not some random pick. So you can tell that people at SGI like what they're doing. They like their jobs and their company.
I'm proud to be working at SGI considering that I came from a very small town with limited IT jobs.
Sure the company is not the best money-wise, but then again, look around you: how many.com's are still around? Even blue chips are having problems. In that context, I think SGI is doing pretty well and is still releasing new products! They are still investing in R&D big time.
AFAIK, MIPS processors run on pretty low wattage compared to Intels. For example, SGI has 128 MIPS CPUS in a single rack while on the Intel side, it can only offer 16 due to heat factor. Those Itaniums are just getting too hot.. Don't forget about your A/C ratio as well... on in the end, it cost more to run Intel stuff..
This is not a nintendo. Why waste cycles rendering nice boxes? Besides, if you want to waste money on your investment, go ahead and download either KDE or Gnome on their freeware page.
Let's not forget that every machine has it's limitations. Otherwise, everybody would be using the same machine right?
You have to see the machine as a whole, not only the CPU.
Sure, a F1's engine is fast, but can you let it run 24/24 365/365? Probably not. How come we're not all driving the same car? Why do we have SUV's, car's, scooters, trucks? It's for the same reason. Each machine has an "edge" in a certain way...
Actually, they have a few 1024 CPU's out there. I'd like to see such a linux cluster working as a single image. Don't get me wrong, I work with both technologies and some systems are better at some tasks while others are better at other tasks.
My philosophy is why use a F1 in downtown when you can use a scooter instead? (and you can probably carry more stuff on a scooter anyway).
Yeah, SGI is pricey, yes it doesn't apply to anything. But so what? I run applications that require some of the SGI "way of thinking" while other applications work fine on a cluster.
Let's not forget that some people don't mind about money and SGI will give them peak performance for their money One thing most people don't seem to know is that you don't go out to sgi.com or hp.com and buy a $5M super computer. Your application is usually benchmarked and you buy from the vendor which gives you the best data. Then the contract certifies the benchmark. If you're not happy, they have to take the machine back...
You can say that SysAdmins "own" the business, or at least, they control whether it runs or not. They can crash/corrupt/etc anything in less time it takes you to fart...
It is a common practice to delete any sysadmin account *before* they get the news.
Most people I know were even escorted out of the building.
Think about the bad things a secretary can do? Not much... Maybe call a few customers and piss them off? Bogus orders of pizzas? Now think about what a sysadmin can do? Create a disaster big enough to kill a company... It's too easy to "skip" some backups and then crash a few DB's. I'm sure there are tons of way you can "kill" a company... It's too easy for a sysadmin..!
Actually I would suggest a different approach: make websites decent.
Actually, I lived in Japan for a while, where cell phones users have been browsing for about 4-5 years now and *most* sites have a special "sub-site" for cell phone users. So instead of going to www.yahoo.com, you'd go to www.yahoo.com/imode and get less (if none) graphics.
Basically, you don't want (and shouldn't expect) to use a full graphic, java+flash based website...! Here is a good iMode example
...it lacks MANY interesting functions such as rotate (90 degres) for a landscape view. It's really sad when you get a page designed with a certain "fixed width" in mind, you need to keep scrolling from right to left and you can quickly give you a headache while reading..! There is no copy/paste which is *really* annoying when you want to cut/paste long URL's and it doesn't do tabs.
For those reasons, I'd say that Konqueror is a much better choice. Both of them run on the Zaurus (K runs on OpenZaurus, which BTW kicks azz)
IE on a handheld? No way, I don't want to permanently have a 512M CF in it just to run IE!
I always wondered how someone could get decent speed on these things?
Everytime you receive a packet, you have to send an ACK back. Of course, this is a small packet and can make it easily through dial-up, but couldn't that be a bottleneck? Could download speed be affected in such a way? Let's say you can't keep up with sending ACKs, then the sender will re-transmit and this will cause more bandwith for nothing, causing slow downs as well.... Any thoughts?
BTW, I was told that you get pretty bad ping latency, so online gaming isn't to your advantage...
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..who dumped their boards thinking they were simply dead? Will companies come up with a reimbursement/replacement policy?
Any class action suit underway?
It's all about money and margins... In the imaging industry, it's not uncommon to see 24" CRT's
17" and 19" are simply mass produced with low margins. There is no business interest. 21" and 24" screens offer more $ per units and less repair.
This is basically a big equation involving cost to produce (including advertisement), cost to ship (LCD's take less space in a container), cost to repair (more fragile parts in a CTR), etc. If it makes sense, sell them, if not stop selling them. Heck, Sony will probably save 50% on plastic used for the LCD shell (compared to a CRT shell). In the end, that has to be big bucks for such a maker.
I'm just curious how you got it as I'm not a fan of opera 5 on the Z. Konqueror is much better so far. I'd like to see if they improved Opera 6?
Click here for japanese version.
Like you said, power consumption would kill the PDA right away. If you are interested in a USB host solution, there is a CF USB host card already available in Japan (http://www.pocketpcjapan.com/main.html). The only problem is it only supports basic things like keyboard, mouse, etc. but I believe the driver is ready. It's a start...
This is kinda offtopic, but whould it make sense? This would require some sort of a sendmail re-write...
When you send an email, a "signature" (hash/ID/whatever) is stored in a database on that outgoing server. When the receiver's sendmail gets the email, it connects to that server, verifies the signature and if there is a match, the email is forwarded to the user's account.
This would eliminate those emails with fake domains and relaying would be over as your "outgoing" server would have to keep the "signature" database. Of course, there should be an option to relay certain domains (like subdomains).
Once a "legit" spam is detected (sent from a real domain), the user could set the signature as "undesirable" and that information would be shared to real time blocking lists. Also, other sendmails trying to match the signature would fail and the email would be discarted right away. (probably after a certain threshold)
I think that if we adopt that kind of server, eventually all sendmail servers will have that option and most spam will slowly cease to exist as users won't accept emails without a proper "signature".
Why is everytime a nice idea comes out, everyone has to bash about privacy? This could eventually lead to finding stolen cars, escapees, kidnapings, etc. If bridges and major intersections were equipped with sensors, it would help police locate cars. It could also eliminate high speed chases as polices would simply have to pinpoint the car (as long as it drives where sensors are located)
Now for 99.9% of us, who cares? What's wrong with someone else knowing where you are driving? Are you guys *THAT* paranoid? I don't see anything wrong with this and I think it's a great idea.
Most, if not all mobile phones in Japan have a "manner button" where it temporary disables ringing and goes in vibrate mode. You can also let it vibrate only if the caller is in your "ok list", meaning it won't even vibrate if your mother in law calls you.
But first thing is that people need to auto-educate themselve (ie: use common sense)
I can confirm you that *NO* drives or any computer parts which can contain non-volatile data (cpu/ram/bios/etc) will come out of government agencies unless they are stolen by employers.
I work for a large company and on-site people can't bring in anything (laptop/cd/floppies). If they bring it in, they have to leave it in.
Now this is, of course, following the legit procedure. One can remember the hard drive incident at Los Alamos...
Remember a few weeks ago when they raided some place in NYC? They said they found X numbers of CDR's while the actual number was much less than what they said. They considered a 24x CDR to be 24 machines or something like that.
So that 95% might as well be the number of machines *inside* their own networks...!
It's just PR and scary talk...
Why is it that everytime something new comes out, everyone has something bad to say about it?
This new server, just like other servers, is a magnificient piece of high technology and will greatly help companies, government and universities.
My hat to SGI, they released an awesome piece of technology and the engineers deserve a high-5 on their hard work.
If it's so bad, then why don't you build your own super computer and then post your anouncement on Slashdot. I'll be waiting in the mean time.
I also work at SGI and although the company is indeed having money problems, it's still a great place to work and most people are dedicated. Also note that the company is 34/100 in the top 100 places to work for. This data comes from the workers, not some random pick. So you can tell that people at SGI like what they're doing. They like their jobs and their company.
.com's are still around? Even blue chips are having problems. In that context, I think SGI is doing pretty well and is still releasing new products! They are still investing in R&D big time.
I'm proud to be working at SGI considering that I came from a very small town with limited IT jobs.
Sure the company is not the best money-wise, but then again, look around you: how many
Let's not forget that with a few simple hacks, you'll be able to guide nuclear missiles you know...
AFAIK, MIPS processors run on pretty low wattage compared to Intels. For example, SGI has 128 MIPS CPUS in a single rack while on the Intel side, it can only offer 16 due to heat factor. Those Itaniums are just getting too hot..
Don't forget about your A/C ratio as well... on in the end, it cost more to run Intel stuff..
Actually, you could make one. And it would be nice to see a cluster of 1024CPU machines...
This is not a nintendo. Why waste cycles rendering nice boxes?
Besides, if you want to waste money on your investment, go ahead and download either KDE or Gnome on their freeware page.
Let's not forget that every machine has it's limitations. Otherwise, everybody would be using the same machine right?
You have to see the machine as a whole, not only the CPU.
Sure, a F1's engine is fast, but can you let it run 24/24 365/365? Probably not. How come we're not all driving the same car? Why do we have SUV's, car's, scooters, trucks? It's for the same reason. Each machine has an "edge" in a certain way...
If my memory serves me right, MIPS processor uses less than 2 watts. That's why they can achieve a great density...
Actually, they have a few 1024 CPU's out there. I'd like to see such a linux cluster working as a single image.
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Don't get me wrong, I work with both technologies and some systems are better at some tasks while others are better at other tasks.
My philosophy is why use a F1 in downtown when you can use a scooter instead? (and you can probably carry more stuff on a scooter anyway).
Yeah, SGI is pricey, yes it doesn't apply to anything. But so what? I run applications that require some of the SGI "way of thinking" while other applications work fine on a cluster.
Let's not forget that some people don't mind about money and SGI will give them peak performance for their money
One thing most people don't seem to know is that you don't go out to sgi.com or hp.com and buy a $5M super computer. Your application is usually benchmarked and you buy from the vendor which gives you the best data. Then the contract certifies the benchmark. If you're not happy, they have to take the machine back...
That was my rant of the day
You can say that SysAdmins "own" the business, or at least, they control whether it runs or not. They can crash/corrupt/etc anything in less time it takes you to fart...
It is a common practice to delete any sysadmin account *before* they get the news.
Most people I know were even escorted out of the building.
Think about the bad things a secretary can do? Not much... Maybe call a few customers and piss them off? Bogus orders of pizzas? Now think about what a sysadmin can do? Create a disaster big enough to kill a company... It's too easy to "skip" some backups and then crash a few DB's. I'm sure there are tons of way you can "kill" a company... It's too easy for a sysadmin..!
You must not be a sysadmin...Or you must be working for the government?
This is unrealistic. When the fire is burning, you can't take 5 minutes to sit down and follow the procedures, you just jump in and fight it.
Actually I would suggest a different approach: make websites decent.
Actually, I lived in Japan for a while, where cell phones users have been browsing for about 4-5 years now and *most* sites have a special "sub-site" for cell phone users. So instead of going to www.yahoo.com, you'd go to www.yahoo.com/imode and get less (if none) graphics.
Basically, you don't want (and shouldn't expect) to use a full graphic, java+flash based website...! Here is a good iMode example
...it lacks MANY interesting functions such as rotate (90 degres) for a landscape view. It's really sad when you get a page designed with a certain "fixed width" in mind, you need to keep scrolling from right to left and you can quickly give you a headache while reading..! There is no copy/paste which is *really* annoying when you want to cut/paste long URL's and it doesn't do tabs.
For those reasons, I'd say that Konqueror is a much better choice. Both of them run on the Zaurus (K runs on OpenZaurus, which BTW kicks azz)
IE on a handheld? No way, I don't want to permanently have a 512M CF in it just to run IE!
I always wondered how someone could get decent speed on these things?
Everytime you receive a packet, you have to send an ACK back. Of course, this is a small packet and can make it easily through dial-up, but couldn't that be a bottleneck? Could download speed be affected in such a way? Let's say you can't keep up with sending ACKs, then the sender will re-transmit and this will cause more bandwith for nothing, causing slow downs as well.... Any thoughts?
BTW, I was told that you get pretty bad ping latency, so online gaming isn't to your advantage...
"Initially developed in secrecy and flown only at night"
I remember seeing this flying on TV about 2 years ago if not more than that... I guess their sense of secrecy isn't the same as mine...
Looks nice on a model, but I'm not sure this will scale very well. You need tremendous power to spin the fan. But interesting...