Imagine life actually being like a bad japanese movie with voiceovers!
No one's voice syncing with their mouths would be very disconcerting. Too bad it doesn't do like the trek Universal Translator and change the apperance of their mouths to match.
TI-82,83,83+,85 and 86 are based on 6mhz Z80s which are 8 bit cpus. Linux is natively 32bit, so have fun converting everything.
Their memory amounts are too small for Linux at all.
The TI-89, 92, and 92+ are based on 10 (now 12) mhz M68k Cpus. Specifically, the classic 68000 cpu. No MMU or FPU. So uCLinux would definitely be an option. But these, once you remove TI-OS become fairly useless.
These also have a lot more memory, but a plain 92 couldn't do it. you'd need a 92+ or an 89.
The displays are completely viewable at any angle and at any light level (even with big halogen lamps shining right on it).
Assuming your retinas don't burn out while looking at it! j/k
Of course, if your link wasn't broken... I wouldn't have fixed it here
It apparently has REALLY GOOD anti-glare properties, which make it suitable for a LOT of purposes. This sounds interesting.
The prototype AM OLED has a simple structure, consisting of one glass substrate with an EL layer 150-nm thick and a metal cover. The prototype is 1.8 mm thick -- "thinner than a quarter," said David Williams, general manager of display alliances at Kodak. In the future, he said, today's 1.1-mm glass substrate will be replaced with plastic.
That's some thin display there. I want these to be layered into my glasses/contacts very soon. Either that or embedded into my wall, for a 4M x 3M screen!
Apparently tho, it still needs work in colors, as it's only hitting 256 thousand (not quite true color millions)
Larger LCDs with larger production volumes will mean someone is gonna test the waters sooner or later.
Test the waters for what? Do you mean simply having 20" Laptop LCDs or using the tech to create 17" LCDs inexpensive, so they can compete with CRTs?
I think the next step is cheap, rather than simply bigger (but big is definitely not bad in this case!)
Also, what's the average dot pitch of an LCD? My.25 dp 17" has been very nice, and I'd hate to go to something new, with much higher dot pitch (sorta like my friend's Packard Hel^H^H^HBell..31 dp!)
This is the time where we all check back over our warnings and say "If you use Outlook Express 5, yes, you CAN get a virus just from reading an e-mail."
This shouldn't be true, in fact until now, it hasn't been. But hopefully this "feature" will be "fixed" by Microsoft. Until then, i'll just stick to pine.
Oh, can't this ALSO affect Hotmail or any other web based E-mail, since they ALL use IE to display the formatting?
Oh what those programmers will do in their spare time!
Just played it in Windows... It definitely adds something. It's obvious the conversion was difficult, as the Z is really off (hey, it makes the game as nerve wracking as it was when I first played it!)
Now what we need is id (3DRealms now owns it) to go through/let us go through and update the graphics. The old 320x240 (was it that high?) graphics don't fare to well when bilinearlly(sp) filtered.
Quake would still make a better sysadmin tool than Doom would, IMO.
This is good... lets you see just what went wrong when the server went down for the first time in 2 years. Should make for finding the bad programs that do bring linux down.
This was done a few months ago with 2 P3 500s by Hardwarecentral. They said it wasn't terribly stable at 1055 Mhz (1.055 GHz), but it DID go over 1 GHz. In fact, they did it with DUAL CPUs.
The inclusion in this case is nowhere near as bad as it is with microsoft. Microsoft threatens the computer companies into having their license canceled. This isn't good when you are a major marketer of home PCs. And microsoft doesn't have their hardware packaged as cheap software with motherboards. If you want their software, you have to spend $200 on it. Microsoft would never dare distribute windows this cheaply. It's simply not profitable. Whereas in this case techie users are being offered a free OS at little or no cost that is only optional (Windows isn't optional very often). It's basically what GPL says (most likely), that they can charge for the cost of the media. And if WordPerfect is being distributed with motherboards, it can't really cost that much. At least, not as much as Office (or windows) would cost.
It still gets the copies out to the people who would be most likely to use it, the techies who KNOW their hardware and their systems. And the people who would be willing to put their system out on a ledge for a few hours (not in danger tho). A harddrive would be a good choice too.
Its going to be sold with motherboards. If you are the kind of person who will buy a motherboard directly, you would likely be the kind of person who would be willing to try an alternative OS.
Better than if they were to send them out in mass-mailings.
Not really. Depending on their licensing structure the costs will be minimal (probably a free deal to gain userbase, as was stated). Unlike M$, who charges at LEAST $50 a copy. Compare WordPerfect and the like against Microsoft Office? Not much of a tax now, eh?
And they will likely sell some without the CD, so if you don't want to pay, you don't have to.
That is definitely a way to increase user base, but that would only count as copies shipped. It doesn't mean that they were used, which is what "User Base" defines. Sorta like M$ saying Personal Web Server and IE were the two most popular tools of their fields. They counted numbers shipped rather than actual usage.
That would definitely be a good change of pace from the ground-headed course Intel has been on with the 820. I'm pretty sure that if they didn't bring them, many large OEMs would seriously be considering moving to Athlons, which support > 100mhz bus speeds, and haven't had any problems yet.
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Imagine life actually being like a bad japanese movie with voiceovers!
No one's voice syncing with their mouths would be very disconcerting. Too bad it doesn't do like the trek Universal Translator and change the apperance of their mouths to match.
These things have always impressed me...
Massive computing power using sometimes generic technology, others using THE LATEST in busses and network technologies.
Quake at 100000 FPS... running OpenGL in software... I wouldn't be suprised, but then, these things run nuclear bomb simulations.
Quick question, if you linked these up, how long would it take them to crack RC5? DES? Probably why the USGov doesn't want them exported...
Close.
TI-82,83,83+,85 and 86 are based on 6mhz Z80s
which are 8 bit cpus. Linux is natively 32bit, so have fun converting everything.
Their memory amounts are too small for Linux at all.
The TI-89, 92, and 92+ are based on 10 (now 12) mhz M68k Cpus. Specifically, the classic 68000 cpu. No MMU or FPU. So uCLinux would definitely be an option. But these, once you remove TI-OS become fairly useless.
These also have a lot more memory, but a plain 92 couldn't do it. you'd need a 92+ or an 89.
Not likely if they use digital signals. Then it's a straight signal to the transistors in the pixels. No transmission here.
The displays are completely viewable at any angle and at any light level (even with big halogen lamps shining right on it).
Assuming your retinas don't burn out while looking at it! j/k
Of course, if your link wasn't broken... I wouldn't have fixed it here
It apparently has REALLY GOOD anti-glare properties, which make it suitable for a LOT of purposes. This sounds interesting.
The prototype AM OLED has a simple structure, consisting of one glass substrate with an EL layer 150-nm thick and a metal cover. The prototype is 1.8 mm thick -- "thinner than a quarter," said David Williams, general manager of display alliances at Kodak. In the future, he said, today's 1.1-mm glass substrate will be replaced with plastic.
That's some thin display there. I want these to be layered into my glasses/contacts very soon. Either that or embedded into my wall, for a 4M x 3M screen!
Apparently tho, it still needs work in colors, as it's only hitting 256 thousand (not quite true color millions)
Larger LCDs with larger production volumes will mean someone is gonna test the waters sooner or later.
.25 dp 17" has been very nice, and I'd hate to go to something new, with much higher dot pitch (sorta like my friend's Packard Hel^H^H^HBell. .31 dp!)
Test the waters for what? Do you mean simply having 20" Laptop LCDs or using the tech to create 17" LCDs inexpensive, so they can compete with CRTs?
I think the next step is cheap, rather than simply bigger (but big is definitely not bad in this case!)
Also, what's the average dot pitch of an LCD? My
This is the time where we all check back over our warnings and say "If you use Outlook Express 5, yes, you CAN get a virus just from reading an e-mail."
This shouldn't be true, in fact until now, it hasn't been. But hopefully this "feature" will be "fixed" by Microsoft. Until then, i'll just stick to pine.
Oh, can't this ALSO affect Hotmail or any other web based E-mail, since they ALL use IE to display the formatting?
Yes, and it flew on my 386/33!
Imagine my suprise when I heard it with sound. "Mein Lieben!"
Will it still run on my 386??
Beowulf of 50+ may do it...
Oh what those programmers will do in their spare time!
Just played it in Windows... It definitely adds something. It's obvious the conversion was difficult, as the Z is really off (hey, it makes the game as nerve wracking as it was when I first played it!)
Now what we need is id (3DRealms now owns it) to go through/let us go through and update the graphics. The old 320x240 (was it that high?) graphics don't fare to well when bilinearlly(sp) filtered.
Quake would still make a better sysadmin tool than Doom would, IMO.
Well they probably said the same thing about underwear, but an edible phone just doesn't seem as fun...
Disposable phones, disposable computers, diapers, anything else you can dispose of.
I expect to see a Disposable Society quite soon.
This is good... lets you see just what went wrong when the server went down for the first time in 2 years. Should make for finding the bad programs that do bring linux down.
Why do it yourself when you can make the research student do it for you (especially since they can't say no...)
Here.
This was done a few months ago with 2 P3 500s by Hardwarecentral. They said it wasn't terribly stable at 1055 Mhz (1.055 GHz), but it DID go over 1 GHz. In fact, they did it with DUAL CPUs.
Results.
(Yes, their CPUs were unlocked, they modified the CPU for the cooling, but it does count)
The cost of a "Linux Tax" isn't $50-$100 per machine. And you will most likely have a choice on opting out of it.
That's installed base. I said earlier about how they counted the installed base of PWS and IE as user base, artificially raising their numbers
doesn't really pan out at $200 a copy of Windows, and $0 a copy of linux.
The inclusion in this case is nowhere near as bad as it is with microsoft. Microsoft threatens the computer companies into having their license canceled. This isn't good when you are a major marketer of home PCs. And microsoft doesn't have their hardware packaged as cheap software with motherboards. If you want their software, you have to spend $200 on it. Microsoft would never dare distribute windows this cheaply. It's simply not profitable. Whereas in this case techie users are being offered a free OS at little or no cost that is only optional (Windows isn't optional very often). It's basically what GPL says (most likely), that they can charge for the cost of the media. And if WordPerfect is being distributed with motherboards, it can't really cost that much. At least, not as much as Office (or windows) would cost.
It still gets the copies out to the people who would be most likely to use it, the techies who KNOW their hardware and their systems. And the people who would be willing to put their system out on a ledge for a few hours (not in danger tho). A harddrive would be a good choice too.
Its going to be sold with motherboards. If you are the kind of person who will buy a motherboard directly, you would likely be the kind of person who would be willing to try an alternative OS.
Better than if they were to send them out in mass-mailings.
Not really. Depending on their licensing structure the costs will be minimal (probably a free deal to gain userbase, as was stated). Unlike M$, who charges at LEAST $50 a copy. Compare WordPerfect and the like against Microsoft Office? Not much of a tax now, eh?
And they will likely sell some without the CD, so if you don't want to pay, you don't have to.
That is definitely a way to increase user base, but that would only count as copies shipped. It doesn't mean that they were used, which is what "User Base" defines. Sorta like M$ saying Personal Web Server and IE were the two most popular tools of their fields. They counted numbers shipped rather than actual usage.
That would definitely be a good change of pace from the ground-headed course Intel has been on with the 820. I'm pretty sure that if they didn't bring them, many large OEMs would seriously be considering moving to Athlons, which support > 100mhz bus speeds, and haven't had any problems yet.
Yes, the GNU Hurd is on the attack! Stampede!
As they unleash the emacs flamethrowers...