With its power envelope and die size, they could put 8-way multi-processing and some vectorized FPUs before they hit either Atom's die size or power consumption;-)
Seriously, with Via making a complete reference design freely available, what could stop someone from making a compatible motherboard that could fit in the place intended for a VIA-based motherboard?
The Eee shows that any processor that can drive a web browser and an e-mail program can be the core of a successful sub-notebook. In NVidia's shoes, I would invest a decent amount of money to make sure Gnash runs fine on it and is as compatible with Flash as compatibility can be.
I would love to see a small sub-notebook with a fast multi-core, multi-threaded, ARM-based CPU, an XO-derived widescreen display, an iPod-class HDD and a battery that could power it all for 24 hours of continued abuse.
And I bet it could be done for peanuts, which means a huge profit margin beyond the wildest dreams of the commodity PC-compatible market.
Of course, I assume someone from Microsoft mentioned casually to someone at NVidia, perhaps during golf, that they could consider dropping some NVidia support on an upcoming Vista service pack if those Linux-running small CPUs start making inroads in the undead XP camp.
I agree there are countries that call themselves communist countries, but neither they get to decide what is communism.
There is no such thing as social equality in dictatorships. A communist society is classless and I never heard of a so called communist country that didn't have a class system, at least in the form of separating members of the Party from non-members.
The illusion of communism breaks up when the government ceases to represent the interests of the people, and shapes public opinion to its convenience.
Sadly, this last trait is not exclusive of the dead "communist" dictatorships of the past century.
The problem is that converting between imperial and standard temperatures is an Imperial Pain in the Ass. There is an odd fractional ratio plus an offset that exists for no good reason. Is there something that happens at 0F?
Well... there are two shuttle-certified pads, one of them entered service well after the other. Since there have been about a hundred and something launches, 42 may not be very far from a real answer.
While there is a great deal of overlap between communism and police states with aggressive dictatorships, they are not synonyms.
Often, the flag of communism is used as a bait to induce an unsatisfied population to help a group to rise to power and as an excuse to create mechanisms for repression of the previous government and, ultimately, to betray those ideals and the people who supported them as soon as their help is no longer necessary or their cooperation can be obtained by other means.
It's indeed a tragedy. But let's not confuse things. Neither non-communist countries are automatically paradises of civil rights nor communist countries are inevitably police-states. Things are a lot more complex than that.
The "missing" drivers people tend to notice on Linux are for certain wireless and video setups.
For desktops, wireless is mostly a non-issue. For video, it's been a while since the last time I had a problem. True, my notebook (quite old, once retired and back in active duty) does not run Compiz, but the last one ran it out of the box. And Broadcom wireless worked too.
And for printers, scanners, webcams, cameras etc, I think the problem is mostly solved. Linux seems quite happy with all my stuff.
If people insist on using hardware from vendors that neither support nor give enough information for us to support, it's not Linux's fault said hardware doesn't work.
There is no such thing as "very pure". You can be either pure or not. Negroponte must decide where he stands.
How does this reflect with all people that promoted the OLPC as a tool to propagate the values of free software, I don't know. Many people are very upset.
It may still be a wonderful educational tool, but a lot of the original message will be lost. It will either be OK not to help your peers by not being able to give software away or it will be OK to pirate software. That's just wrong.
One other way to address the problem is to build incomplete versions of those components and create a XCode plug-in that can evaluate how compatible the program is with the "alternative" target.
Also, you don't need to duplicate the entire look and feel of the Mac application - there are equivalent widgets for most of OSX functionality. Complete emulation is not a requirement, just API replication.
As for the different file system lay-out, it's nothing a chroot can't solve. I would insist all apps under this compatibility layer should be chrooted someplace else anyway.
If the licensing on making plug-ins for Visual Studio weren't so restrictive, the Xcode plug-in option would be great for Mono too - When people build.NET apps within VS, they could check how Mono-friendly those apps will be.
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Shelf price is not a function of the cost of making the good. It's the maximum price people are willing to pay for it.
With its power envelope and die size, they could put 8-way multi-processing and some vectorized FPUs before they hit either Atom's die size or power consumption ;-)
Seriously, with Via making a complete reference design freely available, what could stop someone from making a compatible motherboard that could fit in the place intended for a VIA-based motherboard?
The Eee shows that any processor that can drive a web browser and an e-mail program can be the core of a successful sub-notebook. In NVidia's shoes, I would invest a decent amount of money to make sure Gnash runs fine on it and is as compatible with Flash as compatibility can be.
I would love to see a small sub-notebook with a fast multi-core, multi-threaded, ARM-based CPU, an XO-derived widescreen display, an iPod-class HDD and a battery that could power it all for 24 hours of continued abuse.
And I bet it could be done for peanuts, which means a huge profit margin beyond the wildest dreams of the commodity PC-compatible market.
Of course, I assume someone from Microsoft mentioned casually to someone at NVidia, perhaps during golf, that they could consider dropping some NVidia support on an upcoming Vista service pack if those Linux-running small CPUs start making inroads in the undead XP camp.
I agree there are countries that call themselves communist countries, but neither they get to decide what is communism.
There is no such thing as social equality in dictatorships. A communist society is classless and I never heard of a so called communist country that didn't have a class system, at least in the form of separating members of the Party from non-members.
The illusion of communism breaks up when the government ceases to represent the interests of the people, and shapes public opinion to its convenience.
Sadly, this last trait is not exclusive of the dead "communist" dictatorships of the past century.
The problem is that converting between imperial and standard temperatures is an Imperial Pain in the Ass. There is an odd fractional ratio plus an offset that exists for no good reason. Is there something that happens at 0F?
And I can never remember how to do it.
I would say there never were any communist countries. It is yet to be implemented.
"some arbitrary person has to make the decision"
Someone, perhaps according to a fixed set of rules, as opposed to nobody really making the decision. I am not too sure which one is better.
Communist states need not to be authoritarian. The only pre-requisite is the rule of law. Capitalism is more flexible in that regard.
Well... there are two shuttle-certified pads, one of them entered service well after the other. Since there have been about a hundred and something launches, 42 may not be very far from a real answer.
While there is a great deal of overlap between communism and police states with aggressive dictatorships, they are not synonyms.
Often, the flag of communism is used as a bait to induce an unsatisfied population to help a group to rise to power and as an excuse to create mechanisms for repression of the previous government and, ultimately, to betray those ideals and the people who supported them as soon as their help is no longer necessary or their cooperation can be obtained by other means.
It's indeed a tragedy. But let's not confuse things. Neither non-communist countries are automatically paradises of civil rights nor communist countries are inevitably police-states. Things are a lot more complex than that.
"The apparent ease with which Microsoft achieved this"
It was not easy at all. Stuffing committees, bribing people and allocating staff to stall meetings must cost a bunch of money.
They did it, but it was not _that_ easy.
Laws don't really exist in a vacuum.
"No. The reason ISO is slow SHOULD be to avoid errors in the process.
Fixing the errors slowly means that ISO is worthless."
What if fixing errors is part of the standard process? Couldn't a bad fix be worse than the errors in following the process?
Shouldn't we start using UTF-8 then?
My text editors already default to it.
Since they nailed the MS-tax agreement with all major OEMs, they don't have to excite their users - they have to please their OEMs.
"Time killer = Money Wasted."
Says a post on Slashdot. Oh the irony...
"Why would anyone buy a sub-laptop for a mere hundred or two less than a full laptop? "
For the same reason people pay three times as much as a standard low-end laptop for a low-end-like laptop in a much smaller format: portability.
People who buy a Eee, a Cloudbook want to be able to carry it around and not regretting it too much.
Just wait until someone who gets the CAD files decides to build a motherboard replacement that runs off a MIPS or ARM processor.
It will last months on a single standard notebook battery charge.
The GP refers to the much larger Windows BDSM-mostly-M community.
The "missing" drivers people tend to notice on Linux are for certain wireless and video setups.
For desktops, wireless is mostly a non-issue. For video, it's been a while since the last time I had a problem. True, my notebook (quite old, once retired and back in active duty) does not run Compiz, but the last one ran it out of the box. And Broadcom wireless worked too.
And for printers, scanners, webcams, cameras etc, I think the problem is mostly solved. Linux seems quite happy with all my stuff.
If people insist on using hardware from vendors that neither support nor give enough information for us to support, it's not Linux's fault said hardware doesn't work.
Oh boy... If it works, I can easily see all the WMDs Turkey is hiding.
Not only that, but he gave further evidence supporting the Barnum Hypothesis. That's the kind of science people ought to support these days.
'Okay, here, install it all you want, this is on us.'
That would be called dumping.
There is no such thing as "very pure". You can be either pure or not. Negroponte must decide where he stands.
How does this reflect with all people that promoted the OLPC as a tool to propagate the values of free software, I don't know. Many people are very upset.
It may still be a wonderful educational tool, but a lot of the original message will be lost. It will either be OK not to help your peers by not being able to give software away or it will be OK to pirate software. That's just wrong.
I also love my 3278 font
Because this is not a computer, but a teaching tool. Software is the key. Hardware is just the iron it runs upon.
One other way to address the problem is to build incomplete versions of those components and create a XCode plug-in that can evaluate how compatible the program is with the "alternative" target.
.NET apps within VS, they could check how Mono-friendly those apps will be.
Also, you don't need to duplicate the entire look and feel of the Mac application - there are equivalent widgets for most of OSX functionality. Complete emulation is not a requirement, just API replication.
As for the different file system lay-out, it's nothing a chroot can't solve. I would insist all apps under this compatibility layer should be chrooted someplace else anyway.
If the licensing on making plug-ins for Visual Studio weren't so restrictive, the Xcode plug-in option would be great for Mono too - When people build