But this is FAR more powerful than you need for a dumb terminal or thin client. An Atom can do what you're talking about (browser, flash games, sound).
I dunno, video playback and flash games are quite CPU intensive. Unfortunately, I have yet to see hardware acceleration work properly in Flash for Linux (for playing youtube videos - and many are not available in the HTML5 test).
That said, a little Atom box might work, I haven't tried extensively. So far I've simply found it cheaper and simpler to get a used PC on craigslist. (P4 is not fast enough, but anything more recent is, at least with an upgraded video card).
Even if Microsoft offerings simply match Apple, they will be doing everybody a huge favor by deflating Apple's profit margins. It amazes me how Apple's own customers cheer on their huge profits, seemingly oblivious to the fact it's coming from their own pockets. I have nothing against paying a premium if it's worth it to you and the best deal currently available, but getting the same or similar for less money in the future is what I call progress.
CPUs that by themselves notably cost at least $250 right now?
If the article is correct in guessing the whole thing comes in at around $100 (including CPU), I would be very interested. (To me the specs would imply look more like $200-$225). This would be a perfect "dumb terminal" with enough power to run a browser locally so you get sound, video and flash games (which don't work on an real dumb terminal, e.g. x11). The Pi would cannot do that.
The Mac Mini, by comparison, is over $500. This Intel doesn't have mass storage, so I wonder how you boot it.
At one time there was a theory about a frozen airspeed sensor. Could the autopilot have recovered the plane, or was it also "disoriented" and refused to engage due to conflicting airspeed sensors?
You're so sure they didn't understand what they were doing? Maybe they didn't care. None of them returned their commissions on all the trades and phony "profits" they took out of the system, and practically nobody went to jail. They won. Furthermore nothing much has changed. It will happen again.
When the "death panels" meme spread like wildfire, I realized then that there was no chance of substantially reducing healthcare costs, because the public will to make healthcare decisions rationally, in an evidence-based manner on cost and benefit, does not exist. Without that, we are mainly limited to redistribution.
Who is going to bother with a time-consuming forensic-analysis style attack with a 10% chance of success when you can break into some company and get thousands of credit card numbers and/or SSNs? Sheesh, if you want credit card numbers, just get a job at any restaurant as a waiter.
Maybe they have a secret warrant? Maybe they don't have a warrant but intend to retroactively get one in the future by notifying a judge within the next 72 hours? Since 911 we are living in Jack Bauer land. Better hope the Good Guys never lose their moral compass.
Just speculating here, but I expect Objective-C to level off since it's essentially bound to one company, Apple.
Java, sadly, seems to be in decline as it transitions form a real programming language to a vendor-specific one. (Granted C# is still enjoying a very long-term, steady rise, but Oracle isn't Microsoft...)
For the record, I build systems both for highend gamers and for desktop task intensive net surfers
As a system builder, you have a very desktop-oriented view of the world. But look at what Intel is facing. 110v power and a big enclosure for lots of discrete components are luxuries that a diminishing minority of "computers" have going into the future.
That idea isn't quite concrete enough to implement directly, but the tendency is always to tweak model factors until a known or suspected outcome is reached, in this case "fast follower." This is unavoidable at some level, since otherwise it wouldn't be a "model" - just a bunch of random dynamics. But the value a model must be judged by novel and correct predictions it makes, and I'm not sure there's really a "prediction" here.
Would you voluntarily skip the next 15 years of your life (if you could still accrue the wisdom) to get wiser even that much faster? Of course not. As it is you have the present AND the future, how is having JUST the future any better? Hence being young is strictly better, QED.
Actually, at the time the bubble burst, Amazon had been in business for years (ever since starting in 1994) without ever turning a profit. It took them over 7 years to start turning a quarterly profit!
Amazon's initial business plan was unusual. The company did not expect a profit for four to five years. Its "slow" growth provoked stockholder complaints that the company was not reaching profitability fast enough. When the dot-com bubble burst, and many e-companies went out of business, Amazon persevered, and finally turned its first profit in the fourth quarter of 2001: $5 million or 1Â per share, on revenues of more than $1 billion. The profit, although it was modest, served to demonstrate that the business model could be profitable.
Amazon must be the single most tempting precedent for new companies to "please let us burn startup funding for half a decade before turning a profit."
the Taliban sure as hell started that war by allowing terrorists whose stated goal was to attack the US to, you know, attack the US. If that's not "starting it," I don't know what is.
More of the terrorists were from Saudi Arabia than anywhere else. Some were from other places, like Germany. Some had been living in the US for quite a while.
Anyways, please do not expand my narrow point - I never said all wars or nations were morally equal, nor that the US is the worst. But when somebody says his nation is the first ever to go to war solely for pure motives, give me a break.
You have to consider that the US is probably the only nation in history who goes to war for purposes other than loot and conquer.
This is so pathetic. Do you honestly think US leaders are the first EVAR to make stirring speeches and rouse the population to "defend" their nation for a "just" cause? Do you think the Iraqi insurgents or the Taliban in Afghanistan somehow started those wars in order to loot and conquer their own nations?
The GSA is a prime example of why raising taxes on anyone I don't care what class is beyond stupid.
Congratulations, you're drawing the exact conclusion you're being lead to by all the hype. Forget the fact that the Las Vegas conference cost the same as 3 minutes of the Iraq war. Forget the fact that the same and worse is standard in private industry, except the executives in those cases also make tens of millions of dollars per year in takehome pay. Just make a simple emotional association, draw a kneejerk conclusion, and you're all done! So easily lead.
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You might be way ahead of me here, but remember "buy low" doesn't help you until you "sell high."
I dunno, video playback and flash games are quite CPU intensive. Unfortunately, I have yet to see hardware acceleration work properly in Flash for Linux (for playing youtube videos - and many are not available in the HTML5 test).
That said, a little Atom box might work, I haven't tried extensively. So far I've simply found it cheaper and simpler to get a used PC on craigslist. (P4 is not fast enough, but anything more recent is, at least with an upgraded video card).
Even if Microsoft offerings simply match Apple, they will be doing everybody a huge favor by deflating Apple's profit margins. It amazes me how Apple's own customers cheer on their huge profits, seemingly oblivious to the fact it's coming from their own pockets. I have nothing against paying a premium if it's worth it to you and the best deal currently available, but getting the same or similar for less money in the future is what I call progress.
If the article is correct in guessing the whole thing comes in at around $100 (including CPU), I would be very interested. (To me the specs would imply look more like $200-$225). This would be a perfect "dumb terminal" with enough power to run a browser locally so you get sound, video and flash games (which don't work on an real dumb terminal, e.g. x11). The Pi would cannot do that.
The Mac Mini, by comparison, is over $500. This Intel doesn't have mass storage, so I wonder how you boot it.
At one time there was a theory about a frozen airspeed sensor. Could the autopilot have recovered the plane, or was it also "disoriented" and refused to engage due to conflicting airspeed sensors?
You're right, the issue is far broader and more significant than is implied by the headline.
You're so sure they didn't understand what they were doing? Maybe they didn't care. None of them returned their commissions on all the trades and phony "profits" they took out of the system, and practically nobody went to jail. They won. Furthermore nothing much has changed. It will happen again.
When the "death panels" meme spread like wildfire, I realized then that there was no chance of substantially reducing healthcare costs, because the public will to make healthcare decisions rationally, in an evidence-based manner on cost and benefit, does not exist. Without that, we are mainly limited to redistribution.
Who is going to bother with a time-consuming forensic-analysis style attack with a 10% chance of success when you can break into some company and get thousands of credit card numbers and/or SSNs? Sheesh, if you want credit card numbers, just get a job at any restaurant as a waiter.
Poor Sony. So near, yet so far.
Maybe they have a secret warrant? Maybe they don't have a warrant but intend to retroactively get one in the future by notifying a judge within the next 72 hours? Since 911 we are living in Jack Bauer land. Better hope the Good Guys never lose their moral compass.
Ooops, not even close. I feel dumb now.
If that news is good for anybody, I guess it would be dinosaurs. 2.5 million years ago is 12 times as long as anatomically modern humans have existed.
No, "Global Warming" is still a perfectly valid and accurate term. The global average temperature is warming at unprecedented rates.
Just speculating here, but I expect Objective-C to level off since it's essentially bound to one company, Apple.
Java, sadly, seems to be in decline as it transitions form a real programming language to a vendor-specific one. (Granted C# is still enjoying a very long-term, steady rise, but Oracle isn't Microsoft...)
As a system builder, you have a very desktop-oriented view of the world. But look at what Intel is facing. 110v power and a big enclosure for lots of discrete components are luxuries that a diminishing minority of "computers" have going into the future.
A 50% GPU improvement over Sandy Bridge is VERY significant.
That idea isn't quite concrete enough to implement directly, but the tendency is always to tweak model factors until a known or suspected outcome is reached, in this case "fast follower." This is unavoidable at some level, since otherwise it wouldn't be a "model" - just a bunch of random dynamics. But the value a model must be judged by novel and correct predictions it makes, and I'm not sure there's really a "prediction" here.
Would you voluntarily skip the next 15 years of your life (if you could still accrue the wisdom) to get wiser even that much faster? Of course not. As it is you have the present AND the future, how is having JUST the future any better? Hence being young is strictly better, QED.
Amazon must be the single most tempting precedent for new companies to "please let us burn startup funding for half a decade before turning a profit."
Were you about to make some argument either way, or is that it?
More of the terrorists were from Saudi Arabia than anywhere else. Some were from other places, like Germany. Some had been living in the US for quite a while.
Anyways, please do not expand my narrow point - I never said all wars or nations were morally equal, nor that the US is the worst. But when somebody says his nation is the first ever to go to war solely for pure motives, give me a break.
This is so pathetic. Do you honestly think US leaders are the first EVAR to make stirring speeches and rouse the population to "defend" their nation for a "just" cause? Do you think the Iraqi insurgents or the Taliban in Afghanistan somehow started those wars in order to loot and conquer their own nations?
Really? You have no problem with murder? You don't want "The Man" saying you have to drive on the right side of the road or stop for red lights?
I'm sorry, but until you can have a planet all to yourself, complete freedom is a fantasy.
Congratulations, you're drawing the exact conclusion you're being lead to by all the hype. Forget the fact that the Las Vegas conference cost the same as 3 minutes of the Iraq war. Forget the fact that the same and worse is standard in private industry, except the executives in those cases also make tens of millions of dollars per year in takehome pay. Just make a simple emotional association, draw a kneejerk conclusion, and you're all done! So easily lead.