Well, that's going to be tough. The bits that make them work cost a lot of money to develop. Like, a lot. Like, like, like, a ton.
I think we find many things on this list that are not going to make the list, but you're asking to open up *everything* in hardware and software. That's the same as asking *everything* in a computer to be open sourced. Think that's going to happen soon? Might as well find Woz's home address and start collecting donations.
I would hope that this will allow custom ROM development to ease in complexity. In reference to 'Project Treble'.
No idea if that's the case, but gosh, I would like that to be.
Articles like this are the signs that paying for journalism (subscribing to the things you like to read) is a good thing. The title made my eyes burn, reading it, I cannot describe. Might as well have titled it "things are hard, I give up".
I built my first PC at 13, with my own money from a paper route. Which at the time it was about a $900 build. I had the luck to plug in the AT power connectors backwards and fried my MB on the first power up. I saw the smoke, turned it off, cried a little, and realized I'd need to pony up more cash if I wanted to continue.
Screw this guy.
Yeah dude, things are fucking hard, working sucks, but they pay you to be there. If you don't want to do hard things that's cool, grow a beard and drink a lot of PBR or whatever it is you do. I have to say I've never felt so old for the 34 years I've been on this planet.
Too bad we do not have a DVR that can record protected content as Windows Media Center does. I'd love to move away from Windows 7 and 8, but it appears that I'll be keeping these little boxes running for quite some time. There isn't a viable alternative for use in any other OS that I am aware of that offers the same feature set a WMC (CableCARD support, namely). SiliconDust might have something cooking with their DVR software but that's still not out. If it works I'll be paying $60/year for it and would be happy to do so.
Heck, I'd be happy to pay M$ $60/year for a native WMC on Windows 10. It's too bad they're not able to cut WMC away from their OS and sell it to a software/services/hardware company with an interest in building a DVR. Maybe there isn't enough money in it.
It's sweet what Linux and BSD has to offer in terms of "just working" over the last 10 years. We've come a long way since installing Slackware felt a journey to another dimension. I play around with alternatives to WMC on Linux and Windows every couple of years and have yet to find an adequate replacement.
It's listed as supported, but isn't nearly as easy to setup as WMC. I've been working on moving to NextPVR on-and-off for a year.
WMC is dead simple to setup and ALWAYS works. This may come as a shock but I have a Windows 8.1 box, which was upgraded from Windows 7 that has never missed a beat. Only reboots required are when I want to reboot or power down for hardware activity.
To be honest it's just trailers. It seems like the "Mob" of the internet is a bunch of kids that just like to yell what they think about EVERYTHING on the internet now. It's like an informed opinion after playing the game, demo, beta, whatever, but not just watching a TRAILER is illegal now. If you're not a fan of the direction of where the game is going vote with your dollar.
If T-Mobile can reduce the bandwidth of "almost all other video streaming" then they can do us a favor and not count that toward the data cap either.
Personally, I'm getting sick of all these weird plans. It'd be nice to know how much data is costing carriers, as my understanding is that data is cheap, real cheap.
I want to post on slasdot about the idea Of giving up personal vehicles. Though please understand that self driving cars will be hacked to kill everyone. Wtf.
Anti-DRM folks will be rightly pissed but I for one welcome having the ability to use it in our current climate of control. No reason to ship a product that can't use current video markets just to make an anti-DRM point. If they want to be a part of the conversation they need to stay in business.
They will be offering the following:
Gigabit Squared’s simplified fiber network pricing plans for Seattle will be structured as follows:
1) Installation Charge: Installation charges will be waived for customers signing a one-year contract for 100 Mbps service or greater. Otherwise, a $350 installation fee is required.
2) Service Plan Options:
Plan A:
- 5 Mbps download/1 Mbps upload: No charge for 60 months
- 5/1 Mbps services are transferrable to new renters or owners
- After 60 months renters/owners can convert to a 10 Mbps download/10 Mbps upload
service plan for only $10 per month
Plan B:
- 100 Mbps download/100 Mbps upload for $45 per month
- No installation charge with one- year contract
Plan C:
- 1000 download/1000 upload Mbps for $80 per month
- No installation charge with one-year contract
I am in total agreement with arkham6. The AP does not go into the real numbers. This is your normal, mainstream, boring news story with bad statistics. What was the jump or drop in percentage of denied FOIA requests? Anyway... Just more hot air to keep us fighting over Obama.
Though I am not prepared to sight sources. I'm pretty sure most of the community that studies "teraforming" Mars would be a lengthly/lost cause as the atmosphere is too light to hold particles like oxygen. The reason Mars is what it is now is due to its lack of magnetic field which would "hold" the important building blocks of life.
Is it not Dell's right to remove anything that they feel is negative coverage on their own website? As much as I want to get behind this "damn the man" smear job (not). I'd like to think that fellow Slashdotters understand that it is not in Dell's interest to try and make Linux available to the masses. It's a headache from a support standpoint. Though their management may be a little heavy handed for our liking we cannot blame them for not allowing participants of IdeaStorm to cross-link to articles criticizing Dell for not having Linux as a choice.
We can install Linux if we want to. We can also choose hardware vendors that support Linux. Do we need to whine and complain as well?
Who cares. He killed Wash. Which made baby jeebus cry.
I'd rather not see more stuff out of this "verse" unless it is a new cast, storyline, etc. Isn't anyone else sick of the re-hashing of cancelled/old series(B5/ST/SW/BSG); Do we want to be sold another unoriginal "just add cute girl here" sci-fi series. Okay, so almost all TV is like that, but we have so many great Sci-Fi books that there should be more original screenplays based of something we have not seen over-and-over. As much as I want to like stuff like the new BSG, the writing, the shallow story line, it's all horrible, but it's BSG and people seem to be okay with just shoving the important stuff to the side because that blond is hot and shiny robots will always be "in". We had a gift with Firefly which I hope ended with Serenity.
I agree and feel we must be of the same stock! Though I feel like what it comes down to is we need to learn we can't HAVE everything. I don't need Mangos if they're shipped from the other side of the world, I don't need a new computer every 6 months, etc. Currently with how capitalism has a stranglehold on society (which, is hard for me to disagree with, as it has brought so many things which are good for our race) and we need to re-learn what is more important than pure profit. Can profit be more than money? Can we once again feel proud about not only what we bring home now, but how we live our lives will pay off for generations ahead of us? I doubt many people will be able to consider the possibility of "living a simple and humble life". It's not like I am not eyeing a new car, 37" HDTV LCD, and a dual-core processor rig... My current car, TV, and computer would be able to do just fine for years.
This will take more than one generation to get going, but, we need to start now.
After reviewing the links it sounds like there are still a few problems:
* Lenovo is not touting support for graphic cards, there are not compatibility lists, etc. * The slot is a x16 riser on a x1 path, which, really, is not horrible, but certainly not the beat idea. * I wasnt able to find any power draw specifications for the slot(I didnt dig that much, this should be covered with the compatibility lists, etc). * From what was said about the fans it sounds like it's not going to make anyone happy. If I have laptop dock with a high end video card I don't want leaf-blower fans.
Again, a good idea, but I don't think it's going to happen with the current generation of laptops from Dell, Lenovo or anyone else. Im not saying this isnt going to happen, I just dont think were going to see it anytime soon. With how quickly we have die shrinks on mobile graphic cards, and how well laptops are selling, Id rather see more time and effort going into an industry standard for notebook graphic modules. Weve seen ATI and Nvidia push their formats for awhile and see them used in some notebooks Hopefully the notebook OEMs will start working on making the use of these more of a common trend so we can upgrade on our own. Lots to think about with that, but worth the time and effort.
As others have already mentioned Dell has had their C-Dock, and D-Dock docking stations with half height PCI slots for years now. I used to have a C610 and used a C-Dock with a nice sound card a few years ago and it worked well. At the time the support for using PCI video cards was available in the BIOS but it never worked very well.
The M1710 may have a dock connector on it but I doubt it is anything of a quantum leap beyond what they have on their Latitude models. It would make more sense for them to roll out a new dock that would allow upgraded video cards on their M90 or a new professional series laptop. Then move it down into their consumer line. I'm no expert but to try and get a PCIe 1x or 16x to work in a dock you're going to have to design how it will supply power to cards that may draw as much as the laptop, keep the video card cool, and play well with the laptop. The pathway between the laptop and the dock is going to have to be beefed up to and all I can see is headaches with crazy PCI bridges everywhere causing trouble. Think of how much time and effort would be going into a dock which would cost at least $300.00 so that users can install a $300.00 video card in it. This would be a waste of time for Dell.
This is just some hardware site trying to make something out of nothing. Pft.
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Well, that's going to be tough. The bits that make them work cost a lot of money to develop. Like, a lot. Like, like, like, a ton. I think we find many things on this list that are not going to make the list, but you're asking to open up *everything* in hardware and software. That's the same as asking *everything* in a computer to be open sourced. Think that's going to happen soon? Might as well find Woz's home address and start collecting donations.
I would hope that this will allow custom ROM development to ease in complexity. In reference to 'Project Treble'. No idea if that's the case, but gosh, I would like that to be.
When there is a will there is a way.
How about having to change DMA settings and rebooting to get DOS games to work. Oh yeah. I need my Privateer.
Articles like this are the signs that paying for journalism (subscribing to the things you like to read) is a good thing. The title made my eyes burn, reading it, I cannot describe. Might as well have titled it "things are hard, I give up". I built my first PC at 13, with my own money from a paper route. Which at the time it was about a $900 build. I had the luck to plug in the AT power connectors backwards and fried my MB on the first power up. I saw the smoke, turned it off, cried a little, and realized I'd need to pony up more cash if I wanted to continue. Screw this guy. Yeah dude, things are fucking hard, working sucks, but they pay you to be there. If you don't want to do hard things that's cool, grow a beard and drink a lot of PBR or whatever it is you do. I have to say I've never felt so old for the 34 years I've been on this planet.
Too bad we do not have a DVR that can record protected content as Windows Media Center does. I'd love to move away from Windows 7 and 8, but it appears that I'll be keeping these little boxes running for quite some time. There isn't a viable alternative for use in any other OS that I am aware of that offers the same feature set a WMC (CableCARD support, namely). SiliconDust might have something cooking with their DVR software but that's still not out. If it works I'll be paying $60/year for it and would be happy to do so. Heck, I'd be happy to pay M$ $60/year for a native WMC on Windows 10. It's too bad they're not able to cut WMC away from their OS and sell it to a software/services/hardware company with an interest in building a DVR. Maybe there isn't enough money in it. It's sweet what Linux and BSD has to offer in terms of "just working" over the last 10 years. We've come a long way since installing Slackware felt a journey to another dimension. I play around with alternatives to WMC on Linux and Windows every couple of years and have yet to find an adequate replacement.
It's listed as supported, but isn't nearly as easy to setup as WMC. I've been working on moving to NextPVR on-and-off for a year. WMC is dead simple to setup and ALWAYS works. This may come as a shock but I have a Windows 8.1 box, which was upgraded from Windows 7 that has never missed a beat. Only reboots required are when I want to reboot or power down for hardware activity.
To be honest it's just trailers. It seems like the "Mob" of the internet is a bunch of kids that just like to yell what they think about EVERYTHING on the internet now. It's like an informed opinion after playing the game, demo, beta, whatever, but not just watching a TRAILER is illegal now. If you're not a fan of the direction of where the game is going vote with your dollar.
If T-Mobile can reduce the bandwidth of "almost all other video streaming" then they can do us a favor and not count that toward the data cap either. Personally, I'm getting sick of all these weird plans. It'd be nice to know how much data is costing carriers, as my understanding is that data is cheap, real cheap.
I want to post on slasdot about the idea Of giving up personal vehicles. Though please understand that self driving cars will be hacked to kill everyone. Wtf.
Anti-DRM folks will be rightly pissed but I for one welcome having the ability to use it in our current climate of control. No reason to ship a product that can't use current video markets just to make an anti-DRM point. If they want to be a part of the conversation they need to stay in business.
They will be offering the following: Gigabit Squared’s simplified fiber network pricing plans for Seattle will be structured as follows: 1) Installation Charge: Installation charges will be waived for customers signing a one-year contract for 100 Mbps service or greater. Otherwise, a $350 installation fee is required. 2) Service Plan Options: Plan A: - 5 Mbps download/1 Mbps upload: No charge for 60 months - 5/1 Mbps services are transferrable to new renters or owners - After 60 months renters/owners can convert to a 10 Mbps download/10 Mbps upload service plan for only $10 per month Plan B: - 100 Mbps download/100 Mbps upload for $45 per month - No installation charge with one- year contract Plan C: - 1000 download/1000 upload Mbps for $80 per month - No installation charge with one-year contract
I am in total agreement with arkham6. The AP does not go into the real numbers. This is your normal, mainstream, boring news story with bad statistics. What was the jump or drop in percentage of denied FOIA requests? Anyway... Just more hot air to keep us fighting over Obama.
Though I am not prepared to sight sources. I'm pretty sure most of the community that studies "teraforming" Mars would be a lengthly/lost cause as the atmosphere is too light to hold particles like oxygen. The reason Mars is what it is now is due to its lack of magnetic field which would "hold" the important building blocks of life.
Is it not Dell's right to remove anything that they feel is negative coverage on their own website? As much as I want to get behind this "damn the man" smear job (not). I'd like to think that fellow Slashdotters understand that it is not in Dell's interest to try and make Linux available to the masses. It's a headache from a support standpoint. Though their management may be a little heavy handed for our liking we cannot blame them for not allowing participants of IdeaStorm to cross-link to articles criticizing Dell for not having Linux as a choice. We can install Linux if we want to. We can also choose hardware vendors that support Linux. Do we need to whine and complain as well?
Who cares. He killed Wash. Which made baby jeebus cry. I'd rather not see more stuff out of this "verse" unless it is a new cast, storyline, etc. Isn't anyone else sick of the re-hashing of cancelled/old series(B5/ST/SW/BSG); Do we want to be sold another unoriginal "just add cute girl here" sci-fi series. Okay, so almost all TV is like that, but we have so many great Sci-Fi books that there should be more original screenplays based of something we have not seen over-and-over. As much as I want to like stuff like the new BSG, the writing, the shallow story line, it's all horrible, but it's BSG and people seem to be okay with just shoving the important stuff to the side because that blond is hot and shiny robots will always be "in". We had a gift with Firefly which I hope ended with Serenity.
I agree and feel we must be of the same stock! Though I feel like what it comes down to is we need to learn we can't HAVE everything. I don't need Mangos if they're shipped from the other side of the world, I don't need a new computer every 6 months, etc. Currently with how capitalism has a stranglehold on society (which, is hard for me to disagree with, as it has brought so many things which are good for our race) and we need to re-learn what is more important than pure profit. Can profit be more than money? Can we once again feel proud about not only what we bring home now, but how we live our lives will pay off for generations ahead of us? I doubt many people will be able to consider the possibility of "living a simple and humble life". It's not like I am not eyeing a new car, 37" HDTV LCD, and a dual-core processor rig... My current car, TV, and computer would be able to do just fine for years.
This will take more than one generation to get going, but, we need to start now.
After reviewing the links it sounds like there are still a few problems:
* Lenovo is not touting support for graphic cards, there are not compatibility lists, etc.
* The slot is a x16 riser on a x1 path, which, really, is not horrible, but certainly not the beat idea.
* I wasnt able to find any power draw specifications for the slot(I didnt dig that much, this should be covered with the compatibility lists, etc).
* From what was said about the fans it sounds like it's not going to make anyone happy. If I have laptop dock with a high end video card I don't want leaf-blower fans.
Again, a good idea, but I don't think it's going to happen with the current generation of laptops from Dell, Lenovo or anyone else. Im not saying this isnt going to happen, I just dont think were going to see it anytime soon. With how quickly we have die shrinks on mobile graphic cards, and how well laptops are selling, Id rather see more time and effort going into an industry standard for notebook graphic modules. Weve seen ATI and Nvidia push their formats for awhile and see them used in some notebooks Hopefully the notebook OEMs will start working on making the use of these more of a common trend so we can upgrade on our own. Lots to think about with that, but worth the time and effort.
As others have already mentioned Dell has had their C-Dock, and D-Dock docking stations with half height PCI slots for years now. I used to have a C610 and used a C-Dock with a nice sound card a few years ago and it worked well. At the time the support for using PCI video cards was available in the BIOS but it never worked very well.
The M1710 may have a dock connector on it but I doubt it is anything of a quantum leap beyond what they have on their Latitude models. It would make more sense for them to roll out a new dock that would allow upgraded video cards on their M90 or a new professional series laptop. Then move it down into their consumer line. I'm no expert but to try and get a PCIe 1x or 16x to work in a dock you're going to have to design how it will supply power to cards that may draw as much as the laptop, keep the video card cool, and play well with the laptop. The pathway between the laptop and the dock is going to have to be beefed up to and all I can see is headaches with crazy PCI bridges everywhere causing trouble. Think of how much time and effort would be going into a dock which would cost at least $300.00 so that users can install a $300.00 video card in it. This would be a waste of time for Dell.
This is just some hardware site trying to make something out of nothing. Pft.