My friend has one of these and let me just say this. It is not a bad player by any means. However, it has a rather long start-up time (15-45 seconds) which I find is rather annoying. The ability to view text files is a bit of moot point as you can do that with the iPod too (with Notes).
Despite the comments from many posters that it is "incomplete" it does indeed work. It seems like they are making the driver a priority too. I emailed James Ketrenos (the Intel developer listed on the page) about a segfault I got in the wireless tools (my fault mostly). His response was quite fast and very promising: "[the fix] may not make it into 0.30 today, but a fix should be in 0.31 tomorrow. Seems to me like the driver is progressing quickly and is somewhat of a priority for Intel.
Even if it uses binary firmware, this is still better than using ndiswrapper/DriverLoader to emulate the Windows driver.
Avoid genkernel at all costs, I've had nothing but problems with it. Your best bet is to configure and compile the kernel yourself. You'll have a better, faster kernel with less bloat and support for only the things you actually need.
Here's another neat thing in Nautilus that I've never seen anywhere else (Perhaps OS X has it, I've not use it much). When you mouseover an audio file, after a few seconds it will start to play. A bit like an image preview for audio files.
It's a new initiative by Gamespy. They are editing all of their screenshots/photos and giving them a green tint in hopes to make them match their site theme.
Ah, but they have heard of Pringles. Half the cost of each node pays the salary of the general who eats the Pringles so they have plenty of cans to use!
Doing more with less (power) may seem unusual
True enough, but you need multiple units.
Doing more with more (money) is business as usual for the DoD.
No suprise there.
If you can afford a $700 PDA, I'm sure you can afford a memory stick as well. Unless of course, you have one of those already because the memory stick is an extremely popular (and useful) storage device.
Oh wait... nope. How about an SD or PCMIA slot instead since this IS a "mini" laptop.
The key to this memory expansion was Palm Solutions Group's recent technology breakthrough, which extends the random-access memory (RAM) capacity of Palm Powered handhelds from 16MB to 128MB.
This can't be that recent, the Tungsten C has been out for some time and has 64 MB (51 Available) of memory built-in.
I have to agree. I think that flash based players are a waste of money because their memory is limited and if you want to buy more it costs nearly as much as the player. I would much rather invest in something with a much cheaper storage media. A MP3 CD player perhaps? Almost everyone has access to a CD burner nowadays so it wouldn't be hard to get a CD made even if you didn't have a burner yourself. All in all, CDs are cheap and easy to come by and in my opinion a much better solution.
In the article about national ID cards in the recent issue of Popular Science they show a 2-Dimensional barcode (Strips run vertically and horizontally). It looks like TV static but they say it can hold up to 2k of data. Perhaps this could be the solution to our Bar code blues, though the scanning equipment would need to be upgraded or replaced.
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Or... "I can believe it's not windows"
My friend has one of these and let me just say this. It is not a bad player by any means. However, it has a rather long start-up time (15-45 seconds) which I find is rather annoying. The ability to view text files is a bit of moot point as you can do that with the iPod too (with Notes).
Indeed and I love the fact that they say: "As seen in "Jurassic Park"!" http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html
Don't many people do that already? Google is the only search engine I ever use anymore, I use it many more times a day than I check my email...
Despite the comments from many posters that it is "incomplete" it does indeed work. It seems like they are making the driver a priority too. I emailed James Ketrenos (the Intel developer listed on the page) about a segfault I got in the wireless tools (my fault mostly). His response was quite fast and very promising: "[the fix] may not make it into 0.30 today, but a fix should be in 0.31 tomorrow. Seems to me like the driver is progressing quickly and is somewhat of a priority for Intel.
Even if it uses binary firmware, this is still better than using ndiswrapper/DriverLoader to emulate the Windows driver.
All your ; are belong to us!
Avoid genkernel at all costs, I've had nothing but problems with it. Your best bet is to configure and compile the kernel yourself. You'll have a better, faster kernel with less bloat and support for only the things you actually need.
Here's another neat thing in Nautilus that I've never seen anywhere else (Perhaps OS X has it, I've not use it much). When you mouseover an audio file, after a few seconds it will start to play. A bit like an image preview for audio files.
I doubt that Darl would go for it. Where would SCO be without his leadership?
It's a new initiative by Gamespy. They are editing all of their screenshots/photos and giving them a green tint in hopes to make them match their site theme.
Ah, but they have heard of Pringles. Half the cost of each node pays the salary of the general who eats the Pringles so they have plenty of cans to use!
That might work, but what if their optic cables get bent?
Doing more with less (power) may seem unusual
True enough, but you need multiple units.
Doing more with more (money) is business as usual for the DoD. No suprise there.
How could they possibly know what you intended to run it on? Perhaps they are using those cognitive computers to predict your decisions!
Let the SkyNet jokes begin!
If you can afford a $700 PDA, I'm sure you can afford a memory stick as well. Unless of course, you have one of those already because the memory stick is an extremely popular (and useful) storage device. Oh wait... nope. How about an SD or PCMIA slot instead since this IS a "mini" laptop.
It does have a power cord, which you can see in a few of the pics. With the touch screen, you wouldn't need to use the mouse as often.
Maybe the reason they need to rip off the casinos is because they've spent all their money on tuition.
I have to agree. I think that flash based players are a waste of money because their memory is limited and if you want to buy more it costs nearly as much as the player. I would much rather invest in something with a much cheaper storage media. A MP3 CD player perhaps? Almost everyone has access to a CD burner nowadays so it wouldn't be hard to get a CD made even if you didn't have a burner yourself. All in all, CDs are cheap and easy to come by and in my opinion a much better solution.
In the article about national ID cards in the recent issue of Popular Science they show a 2-Dimensional barcode (Strips run vertically and horizontally). It looks like TV static but they say it can hold up to 2k of data. Perhaps this could be the solution to our Bar code blues, though the scanning equipment would need to be upgraded or replaced.