Let me go out on a limb and say becasue the Macbook is also not a tablet PC? How come every time someone comes out with a nich product people from slashdot have to pipe in and say "I have no need for this, why do they even sell it?". If they are selling them then obviously _someone_ wants one.
From what I read Blu-Ray will require ~$30 in software royalties to support it. Considing many disros still don't bundle a JVM what would that mean for Linux? HD-DVD seems to be the more Linux friendly standard. I made some similar groundless speculations here.
There is more than one format competing to replace DVD? Who knew! Maybe we all need to start reading slashdot. If you are going to aprove an article that is probably the 10th one covering Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD, you might at least pick a better informed one.
I have not read up on this, but from the little I do know, Blu-Ray has higher capacity but is more DRM friendly and requires royalties. HD-DVD supports making a "fair use" copy, and Blu-Ray does not. DVD's really can't support movies in Hi-Def so there is a need to move up to a higher capacity standard, but either format will hold several hours of Hi-Def vid. I would guess since HD-DVD is an extention of DVD there is a greater chance of seeing writers in the hands of consumers earlier/cheaper. Also on cost, I think I read that MS stated HD-DVD support in windows would be free, and Blu-Ray royalties would cost them an additional $30. If that is true, what would it mean for OSS and Linux?
I sort of get the impression that one of the goals of Blu-Ray is to lock sonsumers out of fair use, and since MS dreams the PC will be the hub of the digital home they would rather see the HD-DVD format win. Sony is pushing Blu-Ray because it is in bed with the movie industry and MS is actually backing what would probably be the "peoples choice" to include the Linux community.
Again, I am not really informed on this, so feel free to make corrections to my assumptions.
If you would have looked at the report you would see there are non-ms products lumped in as Windows vuls (with Firefox being one of them)
There is also more than 5 or 6 versioins Windwos. There were probably 6 versions of Windows 2000 alone counting the server lineup. They lumped in Linux/UNIX, but the total figure for it was also about 3 times higher (812 vs 2328) than the figure for windows.
Also, while I am at it, I did a grep -i | wc -l for "Firefox" and "Internet Explorer" and found that there were 150 vuls lited for Firefox and only 50 listed for IE.
From that link: "Men tend to be first to try out new net technologies and 68% of the men questioned are the administrator of a household's computer compared to 45% of women.
The Pew report also found that men are more likely to use the net to get at all kinds of information about sports results, weather, news, job offers and consumer ratings for goods and services.
A woman's use of the net is more likely to involve greater use of e-mail as well as searches for health and medical information, map directions and religious material....
...Men were also more likely to use the net for recreation and to listen to music, gather information for hobbies and take part in online fantasy sports leagues...."
I think you are wrong. You forget that most ISP don't care about MSFT's bottom line, but they do care about their profits being eroded from bandwidth hogging spyware and abuse complaints due to infected Windows machines. I think the idea that ISPs are in on some kind of anti-Linux conspiracy is basically just retarded.
"developers who most likley didn't have any formal communication with the IE for windows team"
I doubt that, why would they build an entirely _different_ rendering engine from the ground up with a goal of rendering exactly like the windows version without any collaboration whatsoever? Maybe you could get me to subscribe to the idea that the majority of the code is not shared, but I wouldn't say they don't share _any_ code without some hard data backing it up.
Not to mention it is an entirely different code base. They would either be throwing away the money or replacing IE with it. Stating "MS should buy Opera" is just another way of saying "Opera is dying".
Yes, but as is the case with many decisions like this there is usually a tradeoff. With the stability, functionality, and easier development in a modular system comes a sacrifice of speed, RAM usage, lines of code etc.
It is a short term decision made by bean counters looking at PowerPoint presentations. Some statistics geek did a cost benefit analysis of how much more money they can pile on to the bottom line and greedy corporate board room saw $ signs. There was that one die hard guy that said "I have enough money right now, and our customers love that we don't rape their bandwidth". He was laughed at, it is the stock holders company now.
If they won't let him bring in another tech to help, then maybe they will let him delegate authority. Most of the departments in his company probably have 1 or 2 people that know enough to get by on a PC, those people could be the first line of support for "why can't I scan an image with my mouse" questions before he is contacted to deal with the problem. A simple change like that could free a great deal of his time.
You want to be present at the meetings where bad ideas are born so that you can strangle them. I liked that part:)
Right now Apple could not wage all out war with MS becasue they depend on them to provide some software for the Mac. This isn't as important as not needing Office any more, but it is one small step closer to an independant Apple.
Yes, but you have people out there cranking 300+ HP out of 2 and 2.5 liter engines using turbo chargers. Also, your comment mentions getting 25% gain in boost at low speed, but what I have in mind is more like 60 - 100 MPH and even a 15-20% gain in pressure with the entire setup worth maybe another ~25 HP.
I agree with the puddle thing though, that probably has a great deal to do with why it has not been used more. There are some ways around it but they equate to a loss in pressure. I have a small motorcycle (scooter?). If you look at the picture there is a small hole just above the right turn signal about large enough to stick your finger in, it has a channel to feed air back to the airbox but it does not feed directly into the cylinder so if it gets splashed the bike does not choke on the water.
Granted this is more than just a cold air intake, they were able to dyno a peak gain of 24.03 HP on a Mazda 6s by installing a CAI and customizing the mass airflow system. I don't want to just spit out numbers but I have seen dynos for that car with just a CAI alone with some pretty impressive gains.
massive drag? have you ever taken apart the airbox in a modern vehicle? They are very restrictive, you can get another ~20 HP in some vehicles just by replacing the standard air intake system with a cold air intake. You would likely have large gains in airflow from even a 3 inch hole because the air is being forced and not pulled in. There would not be much gain at 5 or 10 MPH but this is not much different than turbo lag with a turbo charger. The system might not produce quite as much HP as an all out turbo charger, but it would produce those gains with almost no added weight or cost.
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The BETA stuff is usually ad-free. If my not looking at ads requitres having to put up with google calling it BETA, great!
For the other that have never heard of GP2X, they have a vid section here with demos. Just don't rape their bandwidth :)
Let me go out on a limb and say becasue the Macbook is also not a tablet PC? How come every time someone comes out with a nich product people from slashdot have to pipe in and say "I have no need for this, why do they even sell it?". If they are selling them then obviously _someone_ wants one.
I am a firm believer that using more efficient gas combustion engines is way more practical than most of the petroleum alternatives.
From what I read Blu-Ray will require ~$30 in software royalties to support it. Considing many disros still don't bundle a JVM what would that mean for Linux? HD-DVD seems to be the more Linux friendly standard. I made some similar groundless speculations here.
Maybe we all need to start reading slashdot. If you are going to aprove an article that is probably the 10th one covering Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD, you might at least pick a better informed one.
I have not read up on this, but from the little I do know, Blu-Ray has higher capacity but is more DRM friendly and requires royalties. HD-DVD supports making a "fair use" copy, and Blu-Ray does not. DVD's really can't support movies in Hi-Def so there is a need to move up to a higher capacity standard, but either format will hold several hours of Hi-Def vid. I would guess since HD-DVD is an extention of DVD there is a greater chance of seeing writers in the hands of consumers earlier/cheaper. Also on cost, I think I read that MS stated HD-DVD support in windows would be free, and Blu-Ray royalties would cost them an additional $30. If that is true, what would it mean for OSS and Linux?
I sort of get the impression that one of the goals of Blu-Ray is to lock sonsumers out of fair use, and since MS dreams the PC will be the hub of the digital home they would rather see the HD-DVD format win. Sony is pushing Blu-Ray because it is in bed with the movie industry and MS is actually backing what would probably be the "peoples choice" to include the Linux community.
Again, I am not really informed on this, so feel free to make corrections to my assumptions.
There is also more than 5 or 6 versioins Windwos. There were probably 6 versions of Windows 2000 alone counting the server lineup. They lumped in Linux/UNIX, but the total figure for it was also about 3 times higher (812 vs 2328) than the figure for windows.
Also, while I am at it, I did a grep -i | wc -l for "Firefox" and "Internet Explorer" and found that there were 150 vuls lited for Firefox and only 50 listed for IE.
It is back up now. It seems a dinosaur has emerged from the ash.
Welcome back Charles.
Slashdot says they won't say "Intel inside" any more, so I would trust Slashdot as the authoritative source.
"Men tend to be first to try out new net technologies and 68% of the men questioned are the administrator of a household's computer compared to 45% of women.
The Pew report also found that men are more likely to use the net to get at all kinds of information about sports results, weather, news, job offers and consumer ratings for goods and services.
A woman's use of the net is more likely to involve greater use of e-mail as well as searches for health and medical information, map directions and religious material....
Virii is not a word. It is correctly spelled viruses. Virii is an internet bastardization of the word.
I think you are wrong. You forget that most ISP don't care about MSFT's bottom line, but they do care about their profits being eroded from bandwidth hogging spyware and abuse complaints due to infected Windows machines. I think the idea that ISPs are in on some kind of anti-Linux conspiracy is basically just retarded.
I doubt that, why would they build an entirely _different_ rendering engine from the ground up with a goal of rendering exactly like the windows version without any collaboration whatsoever? Maybe you could get me to subscribe to the idea that the majority of the code is not shared, but I wouldn't say they don't share _any_ code without some hard data backing it up.
Most successful technologies are evolutionary and not revolutionary.
Not to mention it is an entirely different code base. They would either be throwing away the money or replacing IE with it. Stating "MS should buy Opera" is just another way of saying "Opera is dying".
Yes, but as is the case with many decisions like this there is usually a tradeoff. With the stability, functionality, and easier development in a modular system comes a sacrifice of speed, RAM usage, lines of code etc.
Look what I found with it: Google To Purchase Stake In AOL For $1 Billion, also Graphics Coming to Google Ads which is partly related to the AOL deal.
It is a short term decision made by bean counters looking at PowerPoint presentations. Some statistics geek did a cost benefit analysis of how much more money they can pile on to the bottom line and greedy corporate board room saw $ signs. There was that one die hard guy that said "I have enough money right now, and our customers love that we don't rape their bandwidth". He was laughed at, it is the stock holders company now.
You want to be present at the meetings where bad ideas are born so that you can strangle them. :)
I liked that part
We may even have a trifecta.
Right now Apple could not wage all out war with MS becasue they depend on them to provide some software for the Mac. This isn't as important as not needing Office any more, but it is one small step closer to an independant Apple.
I agree with the puddle thing though, that probably has a great deal to do with why it has not been used more. There are some ways around it but they equate to a loss in pressure. I have a small motorcycle (scooter?). If you look at the picture there is a small hole just above the right turn signal about large enough to stick your finger in, it has a channel to feed air back to the airbox but it does not feed directly into the cylinder so if it gets splashed the bike does not choke on the water.
Granted this is more than just a cold air intake, they were able to dyno a peak gain of 24.03 HP on a Mazda 6s by installing a CAI and customizing the mass airflow system. I don't want to just spit out numbers but I have seen dynos for that car with just a CAI alone with some pretty impressive gains.
massive drag? have you ever taken apart the airbox in a modern vehicle? They are very restrictive, you can get another ~20 HP in some vehicles just by replacing the standard air intake system with a cold air intake. You would likely have large gains in airflow from even a 3 inch hole because the air is being forced and not pulled in. There would not be much gain at 5 or 10 MPH but this is not much different than turbo lag with a turbo charger. The system might not produce quite as much HP as an all out turbo charger, but it would produce those gains with almost no added weight or cost.