I don't know about you, but I don't think I could've trusted my life to a see-saw-powered airpump and a welded oil drum, especially without knowing if it would work...
Though, I can't say I would have been able to build anything as good as many of them have...
A big advanage this offers is the ability to now hear content from scores of websites that selected WMA as their audio format of choice - all without needing Media Player.
Real RAID would really help the Xserve. Right now it's a great toy, but the only things it offers that a PM G4 doesn't are a serial port, and hot-plug drives. Meanwhile, the G4 can offer real RAID through a PCI card, faster processors, and more.
If Palm could make a PDA with one piece of glass instead of glass and PCB, it could save money.
Every LCD I've seen on a shelf or in a picture has a casing on it. If that space had extra glass with a microprocessor embedded - your LCD screen could be higher quality for less money.
If you want to go to the extreme of the clear hand-held computer, you will probably still have an area to hold it by and maybe even some buttons for using it, which will provide space for circuits.
That's like saying "What about Applications written for Windows XP? They run better under Windows XP instead of Lindows.
You can't reasonably expect AMD to beat Intel's proprietary instructions with a processor that doesn't have them; unless they manage to make a pre-processor that decodes the instructions and does it faster than the Pentium 4...
Actually, the area calculations aren't quite that simple...
In a circle, if I double the diameter from 3cm to 6cm, you do have a 4x area increase. But optical media, you have to consider the empty spaces left on the inside and outside edges. Increasing to 6cm could potentially more than quadruple the capacity - I esimate about 4.3g per side, 112g for a 12cm version.
What I really want to see is a 6-disc changer made out of a 12-cm CD-style plate - something like they suggest.
If you can hide one under a coffe cup, think of the possibilities for information theft.
Think, a white coffee cup, a white 3cm casing, a little rubber cement... no one would even know that 1-4 gigs of sensitive corporate information was leaving the building.
Small enough to be tucked into the 5th pocket on a pair of jeans, slid into a shoe without much (if any) discomfort, palmed, hidden inside a container of stress putty, even tucked into a person's hair.
Hey, isn't that roughly the size of the iPod's wheel?
Hell, 3cm is small enough to hide almost anywhere...
Hopefully, the fuel will come is sealed canisters that are pierced as they are insterted into a device, like ink cartridges and pens, or CO2 and paintball guns.
This would be much safer for the user, and probably easier to deal with from a production, maintenance, and disposal point of view.
Have you ever seen some of the forms the government uses? Plain text is not going to cut it.
XML, on the other hand, may be just the ticket they are looking for. It would Allow standard interfaces to be made for data entry and specialized for to be printed.
The Military still relies quite heavily on printed papers, signatures, and photocopies - things that can be forged. It would be particularly nice to see them invest a big chunk of that money into digital signatures and encryption, so they could eliminate much of the wasted paper and free up huge amounts of space (one DDS4 tape is alot smaller than 20GB printed data).
Of course, a change this massive would cause the mental collapse of thousands of officials still unfamiliar with technology and unwilling to learn.
I think that you could fairly make a case that until the entire genome is reasonably understood and we have a huge database of data from which to calculate percentages, genetic indicators alone are not enough proof for rejection.
The really interesting future learning could come from massive data stores with thousands of people's genomes, family histories, and health records all being compared to more quickly isolate the functions of various SNPs.
Intel should put some work toward making gcc better on Itanium, really. If available compilers work, and work well, on your platform, people are more likely to look at it as a serious option.
1) It isn't "forcing" - the public doesn't have to buy it. It isn't like choosing an office suite.
2) Paying for products isn't "totally against what we stand for here at Slashdot." Did the name change to GNU/Slashdot, or are you just making assumptions. If a product is free, use it. If a product is good, pay for it. If a product is both good and free, all the better.
3) No one is making them pay to protect themselves. They could use GPG if they really want a free encryption solution.
4) Paying for security is not like paying for music. Relate PGP to your data as you relate locks to your hardware. If you think everything should be free, you probably aren't in the right country (doesn't matter which one you're in, true communism doesn't exist most places).
5) I've said it before, but: Freedom of information doesn't mean information should be free. Just because you can read the book doesn't mean you don't have to pay for it.
IBM got it right the first time - their mainframe processors have 16 general purpose registers which can be used for any operation
I'm no architecture expert, so I'll ask...
What complexities and performance problems would be introduced if you were to up the number of registers? Let's say you wanted a processor with 32 registers...
I agree. The big issue people have with Palms is they don't want an organizer, they want a hand-held computer, but don't want to pay for a PocketPC.
A Palm/Handspring organizer is a great tool if you need an organizer. If you attend many meetings, communicate contact info to many people, track your expenses, appointments, etc.; then one of these is perfect.
If you wanted to play full motion video, MP3s, and browse web pages wirelessly, you'd probably be happier with a PocketPC, even though it's a little bigger, heavier, and more expensive.
So, at what megapixel mark reach comparable to "photo quality". Not to say the actual quality of photos, but high enough for 720-dpi or so - so you could print it as a decent photo?
Or are we already there, and I just don't pay attention?
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I wonder if you let the $75/month lapse, and then you need support, is there a "restart" cost on the support, or do you just go @ $75/mo from there?
Which begs the more obvious question:
Why pay uberbucks?
*sigh*
Calling the Sword of Truth uber is one thing, but uberbucks? Do you even know what you are saying?
Anyway, you would pay regular dollars (perhpas something else w/ exchange rate) for Solaris, as opposed to superdollars (worth more?).
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Win? Lose? I don't even play the game.
I don't know about you, but I don't think I could've trusted my life to a see-saw-powered airpump and a welded oil drum, especially without knowing if it would work...
Though, I can't say I would have been able to build anything as good as many of them have...
I was thinking of internal hardware RAID as opposed to external solutions. Software RAID isn't bad, but it isn't as fast or as fault-tolerant.
Also, with external storage, you lose the (minor) benefit of the 1U server, which isn't a problem in most situations.
In conclusion, nevermind.
With all the RAM and the ARM processor, I wonder if someone will try porting NewtonOS to it... :)
A big advanage this offers is the ability to now hear content from scores of websites that selected WMA as their audio format of choice - all without needing Media Player.
Did I mention I dislike that program?
Real RAID would really help the Xserve. Right now it's a great toy, but the only things it offers that a PM G4 doesn't are a serial port, and hot-plug drives. Meanwhile, the G4 can offer real RAID through a PCI card, faster processors, and more.
perhaps 802.11g - though availability is a bit of a pain right now...
The Coke Bottle PC shoudn't have any overheating issues, but the Casserole PC...
AGP 8x could change that with multiple devices per port...
And it would be kind of cool to buy a motherboard with 4 AGP, 3 PCI...
There's plenty of reason.
If Palm could make a PDA with one piece of glass instead of glass and PCB, it could save money.
Every LCD I've seen on a shelf or in a picture has a casing on it. If that space had extra glass with a microprocessor embedded - your LCD screen could be higher quality for less money.
If you want to go to the extreme of the clear hand-held computer, you will probably still have an area to hold it by and maybe even some buttons for using it, which will provide space for circuits.
They didn't say they were planning on having an Pentium 4 2.8GHz-on-glass - the processing probably won't be very powerful for some time.
Meanwhile wouldn't it be nice to have a half-inch thick high resolution LCD TV?
That's like saying "What about Applications written for Windows XP? They run better under Windows XP instead of Lindows.
You can't reasonably expect AMD to beat Intel's proprietary instructions with a processor that doesn't have them; unless they manage to make a pre-processor that decodes the instructions and does it faster than the Pentium 4...
Actually, the area calculations aren't quite that simple...
In a circle, if I double the diameter from 3cm to 6cm, you do have a 4x area increase. But optical media, you have to consider the empty spaces left on the inside and outside edges. Increasing to 6cm could potentially more than quadruple the capacity - I esimate about 4.3g per side, 112g for a 12cm version.
What I really want to see is a 6-disc changer made out of a 12-cm CD-style plate - something like they suggest.
Unless something changed, I wasn't aware that the RIAA itself had record stores...
Sure, Virgin has it's super-massive get-everything-you-want-here-except-toothpaste mega-stores, but I wouldn't say it's an RIAA-owned operation.
Plus, what if you happen to be a multi-millionaire, and you purchased all the music you ripped and burned to your pocket full of MP3s?
Ok, so that isn't friggin likely...
If you can hide one under a coffe cup, think of the possibilities for information theft.
Think, a white coffee cup, a white 3cm casing, a little rubber cement... no one would even know that 1-4 gigs of sensitive corporate information was leaving the building.
Small enough to be tucked into the 5th pocket on a pair of jeans, slid into a shoe without much (if any) discomfort, palmed, hidden inside a container of stress putty, even tucked into a person's hair.
Hey, isn't that roughly the size of the iPod's wheel?
Hell, 3cm is small enough to hide almost anywhere...
Hopefully, the fuel will come is sealed canisters that are pierced as they are insterted into a device, like ink cartridges and pens, or CO2 and paintball guns.
This would be much safer for the user, and probably easier to deal with from a production, maintenance, and disposal point of view.
The Mac Classic is not the original Macintosh.
It was released in October 1990, see apple-history.com for more details.
Have you ever seen some of the forms the government uses? Plain text is not going to cut it.
XML, on the other hand, may be just the ticket they are looking for. It would Allow standard interfaces to be made for data entry and specialized for to be printed.
The Military still relies quite heavily on printed papers, signatures, and photocopies - things that can be forged. It would be particularly nice to see them invest a big chunk of that money into digital signatures and encryption, so they could eliminate much of the wasted paper and free up huge amounts of space (one DDS4 tape is alot smaller than 20GB printed data).
Of course, a change this massive would cause the mental collapse of thousands of officials still unfamiliar with technology and unwilling to learn.
I think that you could fairly make a case that until the entire genome is reasonably understood and we have a huge database of data from which to calculate percentages, genetic indicators alone are not enough proof for rejection.
The really interesting future learning could come from massive data stores with thousands of people's genomes, family histories, and health records all being compared to more quickly isolate the functions of various SNPs.
Intel should put some work toward making gcc better on Itanium, really. If available compilers work, and work well, on your platform, people are more likely to look at it as a serious option.
1) It isn't "forcing" - the public doesn't have to buy it. It isn't like choosing an office suite.
2) Paying for products isn't "totally against what we stand for here at Slashdot." Did the name change to GNU/Slashdot, or are you just making assumptions. If a product is free, use it. If a product is good, pay for it. If a product is both good and free, all the better.
3) No one is making them pay to protect themselves. They could use GPG if they really want a free encryption solution.
4) Paying for security is not like paying for music. Relate PGP to your data as you relate locks to your hardware. If you think everything should be free, you probably aren't in the right country (doesn't matter which one you're in, true communism doesn't exist most places).
5) I've said it before, but:
Freedom of information doesn't mean information should be free. Just because you can read the book doesn't mean you don't have to pay for it.
I'm no architecture expert, so I'll ask...
What complexities and performance problems would be introduced if you were to up the number of registers? Let's say you wanted a processor with 32 registers...
I agree. The big issue people have with Palms is they don't want an organizer, they want a hand-held computer, but don't want to pay for a PocketPC.
A Palm/Handspring organizer is a great tool if you need an organizer. If you attend many meetings, communicate contact info to many people, track your expenses, appointments, etc.; then one of these is perfect.
If you wanted to play full motion video, MP3s, and browse web pages wirelessly, you'd probably be happier with a PocketPC, even though it's a little bigger, heavier, and more expensive.
So, at what megapixel mark reach comparable to "photo quality". Not to say the actual quality of photos, but high enough for 720-dpi or so - so you could print it as a decent photo?
Or are we already there, and I just don't pay attention?