At what point do we admit that having a computer illiterate population using these complex devices is sure to empower abusive monopolies like Facebook, Apple, Reddit, Twitter, Google, Amazon, and Spotify (F.A.R.T.G.A.S.)?
Lovely acronym. If only you'd added Microsoft to the end of that list...
The BBC says it's how many have been sold, not how many have been shipped. Apparently the figures don't come from Sony, but from Chart-Track, who are the official stats providers for this sort of thing.
if you look at their main site, http://www.apache.org , where Jakarta is just one menu item out of 23
True, but many of those 23 items are former Jakarta projects that have been promoted to become top-level projects. Looking at it that way, 11 (Ant, Avalon, Cocoon, DB, Forrest, Geronimo, James, Maven, Portals, Struts & Web Services) top-level Apache projects are purely Java-based.
Gavin
True enough. I think firewire can manage up to 10m.
Also, are you sure about 45W? That's 9 amps at 5V.
The max it can do is 1.5A at 30V, which is of course 45W. I must say I was pretty surprised too when I read it in the spec. Can't post a link to it though, as it's meant to cost $100.
'It turns the Xbox from Bill Gates' insidious plot to get into the living room into a set top box that can play practically everything even while sporting a sleek black look that won't stick out in your home theater system, and a user interface that your grandmother could use.'
I don't get this. XBMP obviously provides an excellent reason to buy an Xbox, and in doing so can only further "Bill Gates' insidious plot to get into the living room". Also, last time I checked the Xbox had the same "sleek black look" before and after running XBMP.
In your face you greasy little "Linux doesn't have any games" troll!
Yes, Linux does indeed have some games. Some of them are very, very good. But the key word there is 'some'; Windoze, like it or not, has many, many games - and some of them are very, very good too.
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At what point do we admit that having a computer illiterate population using these complex devices is sure to empower abusive monopolies like Facebook, Apple, Reddit, Twitter, Google, Amazon, and Spotify (F.A.R.T.G.A.S.)?
Lovely acronym. If only you'd added Microsoft to the end of that list...
From Glorious...
"Oh. Password protected. Billion possible chances."
"Er..."
"Jeff."
"Hey!"
"How did you know it would be Jeff?"
"I knew there'd be a back door."
In films, the guy who made the software has always left a back door,
so he could get back in when he wanted and look at all the missiles and go, "Ooh".
And put one on his head.
"And the guy who made the software was called Jeff Jeffety Jeff, born on the first of Jeff, Nineteen-Jeffety-Jeff."
"So I put in Jeff and hey."
The BBC says it's how many have been sold, not how many have been shipped. Apparently the figures don't come from Sony, but from Chart-Track, who are the official stats providers for this sort of thing.
Gavin
The struckout price is $1899. Copy and paste it somewhere and you'll see.
Gavin
True, but many of those 23 items are former Jakarta projects that have been promoted to become top-level projects. Looking at it that way, 11 (Ant, Avalon, Cocoon, DB, Forrest, Geronimo, James, Maven, Portals, Struts & Web Services) top-level Apache projects are purely Java-based. Gavin
But Extremetech has a handy 'Print Article' link which displays the entire article on one page with just the one banner at the top.
But does it work over several hundred feet? Nope.
True enough. I think firewire can manage up to 10m.
Also, are you sure about 45W? That's 9 amps at 5V.
The max it can do is 1.5A at 30V, which is of course 45W. I must say I was pretty surprised too when I read it in the spec. Can't post a link to it though, as it's meant to cost $100.
The latest firewire standard can do 800Mb and provide up to 45W of power
You forgot
11. dupes.slashdot.org
You forgot
12. dupes.slashdot.org
'It turns the Xbox from Bill Gates' insidious plot to get into the living room into a set top box that can play practically everything even while sporting a sleek black look that won't stick out in your home theater system, and a user interface that your grandmother could use.'
I don't get this. XBMP obviously provides an excellent reason to buy an Xbox, and in doing so can only further "Bill Gates' insidious plot to get into the living room". Also, last time I checked the Xbox had the same "sleek black look" before and after running XBMP.
Wario78
In your face you greasy little "Linux doesn't have any games" troll!
Yes, Linux does indeed have some games. Some of them are very, very good. But the key word there is 'some'; Windoze, like it or not, has many, many games - and some of them are very, very good too.
Shame top500.org itself ain't running on a supercomputer...
So who is most qualified to make this claim, as far as you are concerned?