Check out the OQO at http://www.oqo.com./
Dimensions are tiny at: 4.9" x 3.4" x.9"
And will will run XP Home, Pro, or tablet.
Yes it is expensive at ~ $2000.00 US but, with the dock station it could replace a typical laptop + PDA for many people. Yes it is pen based but I think it will be around in 4 years if only they can drop the price.
Full specs from site:
1GHz processor
30GB hard drive (shock-mounted)
512MB RAM
4.9" x 3.4" x.9"
14 ounces
800 x 480 W-VGA 5" display (indoor/outdoor readable)
3D accelerated graphics with 8MB video RAM
QWERTY thumb keyboard with mouse buttons and TrackStik®
WiFi®
Bluetooth®
USB 2.0
FireWire® (1394)
3.5mm stereo headphone jack
Microphone
Pen-based digitizer
find - Takes longer than slocate but does not require indexing. Also allows execution of commands on found files. Yummy. Probably my most used tool because I use it to execute other tools often.
tar - Come on now. It is like sliced bread. (Can be replaced with cpio for those who do not like their bread sliced.)
All us/.ers have judiciously ridiculed all the DRM techniques introduced to date. Now corp america finally gets it...If you can convert it to one format, *they* can convert it to something else. The suits have finally realized they must control everything to control anything. Maybe after this fails they will realize they are no longer in control and make quality and price a differentiator instead of sitting and playing Monoply with all their friends.
Because it doesn't. If it did.com sites would be for commercial enterprises and not "A shrine to my kitty" and.org sites would not be selling me stuff to make money.
This isn't even bringing up the philisophical arguments of why this is a bad idea...
There are standards for TLD, they were just never enforced. Now people believe that if it is not a.com it is not legit. Why not adhere to some standards, espically in a domain that is resource constrained thus a missing a page becomes more expensive.
Apple has always been an appliance company.
Because of this the CPU of the machine is of little consequence. What processor is your NAS running? Are you worried if they stamp the disk so if it is removed an error occurs?
If we take, just for a minute, my conjecture that PCs will become appliances just like your router, is it not good the the hardware and software can decide that each is as expected? I could only wish that my router had some DRM in it to prevent malicious hackers from up loading new FW through some hole. I don't want to think about the guts of my home PC, and I espically don't want to worry about the guts of my parents PC. I do want to look at the guts of my development hardware, but really PCs are played out. I believe that as digital media becomes more and more popular the home will contain a bunch of appliances that can talk wired or wirelessly. Apple, through luck, stubburn-ness, or amazing vision, has always been an appliance and I think the DRM will help them not dilute their product into the mold of PCs where the software runs on some hardware. Apple I believe is working toward a hardware/software symbiosis.
Anyway just a rant
Quantum Computing is not something to be understood in a blurb.
It is just too counterintuitive to what we observe to make sense. I'd recommend picking up a copy of
A Shortcut Through Time by George Johnson. It is a very good read and lets you understand just how different and powerful Quantum Computing is.
If you are still not sure...he describes how to build a Tic-Tac-Toe playing tinkertoy computer.
Google is #1 because they don't screw their customer.
I am not saying this to be confrontational but I think Google just hit a home-run with you with their message.
I read this policy as a really clever way to start beating back the GMail concerns. This message has nothing directly to do with the GMail service but everything to do with it.
GMail is suffering from privacy concerns attacks. By putting out a set of guidelines like they are doing they are earning our trust by saying "see we are all around good people". I think this is an excellent way to start quelling the GMail outcry.
I for one am not really concerned about this potentail data harvesting/demographic exploitation of a serveice because, to be truthful, I feel it is systemic in the net today.
I agree that MS could care less about the toolkit market. What they do care about is keeping up barriers, artifical and constructed, to the adoption of rival operating systems. This is one of those barriers. When you are as big as Microsoft and you have a perceived threat in the distance, why not expend the energy to sqush a little guy. It is easier to destroy 100 1 man armies than 1 100 man army.
I will admit though, its the little details that make my hat shine brightest:)
I don't see this on an attack or surrender to OSS. Instead, I am seeing this move as a way to stifle the GUI competition, namely QT. QT has been very steadily getting people to adopt their toolkit across platforms. They have amazingly managed to create licensing that makes closed companies and OSS developers happy.QT is taking a big chunk out of the embedded market, it is the underpinnings to KDE, and it is making its way into more Windows apps everyday. Of course Microsoft wants to put QT back to the hobbiest days. It is important to win the small quiet battles before you win the war.
Show me a free (costs nothing, free of encumberances like patent and EULA issues, etc)
Interesting you should choose those words as MP3's are surely encumbered by patents and is not free. Sure, some players of MP3s are free but the lincees of the MP3 have strict rules as to when you move from free to non-free. MS and Apple have just chosen different criteria for the move to free and non-free.
Isn't this just a bigger verion of bluetooth.
Really, it's backpack sized with more range and more bw, but in effect it is looking a lot like the dream of bluetooth to me. I could be wrong though.
I wonder how the law is going to be written. This could be a very interesting precedent.
The fair use law has been eroded due to the arugments put forth by big business such as, "when fair use was instituted, we never expected people to be able to make exact duplicates."*
This would be the first law that does not have the burden of ignorance of digital media. Will this law allow poeple in NZ to alter the format of digital music/media. Can I legally convert a DRM burdened to AAC file to MP3? ogg? This law sounds like it could have important ramifications. Maybe in NZ we can get some rights back. Or it could be written to prevent digital-digital conversion. We will have to wait and see.
* This is a vast oversimplification of the MPAA arugment over DVD decoding.
I recently bought one of these. THe price in New England runs about $80. For gaming it is rough. Maybe after I use it a lot more it will become second nature but I fond it is porr for gaming.
For example, to activate mouuse movements, you press a trigger on the underside of the handle. To click usiing one of the 3 buttons you really need to stop the mouse tracking. Woops you're dead.
What I do find it to be great for is general web/email browsing from across the room on the couch onn my 42" plasma monitor. If I were going to gae I would use it as an optical mouse. I fond it a strong optical mouse BTW.
I thought I might point out that ECC is actually slower per access that non-ECC RAM. There are a few clocks per access to compute and check the syndrome. Another thing that struck me is why we assume that VT would buy current generation XServes. I would imagine that they are going to be purchasing the next version of the XServe with a faster clock speed. I imagine that size matters but they'll get a speed boost also.
TWhile this could be exploitation, I don't think so. This chip could be fantastic for a homeland security dept. Putting on the Conspiricy Theory hat for a second now:
I want to sift through every land line and cell phone call in the us (wait the world). Now I can store it, and process it and know of a potential problem tomorrow, but with this now I can know aminutes after the call you just ordered a pizza! Now that security. Seriouly, though this has important benefits to eavsdropping.
There is another article at IBMs technolgy center that describes a method of parallelizing the init startup services. They don't give concrete numbers but it is possible to reduce this time substantialy also.
I care how long it takes to boot linux. I work in an environment that our hardware may be up for 400 days but when it goes down it better be up in sub 5 seconds. Keppe in mond this is not a network app and is more of a general cumputing machine (ie the end user runs whatever they want). One of the major sinks is startup script processing and that is after the std strip out all unneeded services. I'm not convinced using make is the best solution, but keep in mind the problem space is entirely valid.
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Your analogy is slightly flawed. You use a variety of mathematical laws and constructs that you have learned to slove the problem differently. Now a more true test would be to ask if a computer could be programmed to start at the fundamental properties of mathematics (ie 1+1=2), as humans once did, and create the proofs, theorems, laws, etc that we take for granted to solve more complex problems. AI is more about learning from experience rather than what are its capabilites now.
Ok now I am confused. If RH is looking for a common look and fell why don't they choose EITHER KDE or GNOME and not give the user the default choice to change it? Now I remember, they wanted to do that with GNOME and it failed. Now they are trying to make them look them look the same because "neither is going away" and they know that to remove one wholesale will lose the developers who use RH. I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too. Developers want one thing (and they known how to make it do that), desktop users appearantly dont know what they want. That is what I feel RH is saying.
Finally, changing the About boxes is just plain rude.
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Check out the OQO at http://www.oqo.com./ Dimensions are tiny at: 4.9" x 3.4" x .9"
And will will run XP Home, Pro, or tablet.
Yes it is expensive at ~ $2000.00 US but, with the dock station it could replace a typical laptop + PDA for many people. Yes it is pen based but I think it will be around in 4 years if only they can drop the price.
Full specs from site:
1GHz processor
30GB hard drive (shock-mounted)
512MB RAM
4.9" x 3.4" x .9"
14 ounces
800 x 480 W-VGA 5" display (indoor/outdoor readable)
3D accelerated graphics with 8MB video RAM
QWERTY thumb keyboard with mouse buttons and TrackStik®
WiFi®
Bluetooth®
USB 2.0
FireWire® (1394)
3.5mm stereo headphone jack
Microphone
Pen-based digitizer
find - Takes longer than slocate but does not require indexing. Also allows execution of commands on found files. Yummy. Probably my most used tool because I use it to execute other tools often. tar - Come on now. It is like sliced bread. (Can be replaced with cpio for those who do not like their bread sliced.)
All us /.ers have judiciously ridiculed all the DRM techniques introduced to date. Now corp america finally gets it...If you can convert it to one format, *they* can convert it to something else. The suits have finally realized they must control everything to control anything. Maybe after this fails they will realize they are no longer in control and make quality and price a differentiator instead of sitting and playing Monoply with all their friends.
There are standards for TLD, they were just never enforced. Now people believe that if it is not a
Apple has always been an appliance company. Because of this the CPU of the machine is of little consequence. What processor is your NAS running? Are you worried if they stamp the disk so if it is removed an error occurs? If we take, just for a minute, my conjecture that PCs will become appliances just like your router, is it not good the the hardware and software can decide that each is as expected? I could only wish that my router had some DRM in it to prevent malicious hackers from up loading new FW through some hole. I don't want to think about the guts of my home PC, and I espically don't want to worry about the guts of my parents PC. I do want to look at the guts of my development hardware, but really PCs are played out. I believe that as digital media becomes more and more popular the home will contain a bunch of appliances that can talk wired or wirelessly. Apple, through luck, stubburn-ness, or amazing vision, has always been an appliance and I think the DRM will help them not dilute their product into the mold of PCs where the software runs on some hardware. Apple I believe is working toward a hardware/software symbiosis. Anyway just a rant
Quantum Computing is not something to be understood in a blurb.
It is just too counterintuitive to what we observe to make sense. I'd recommend picking up a copy of A Shortcut Through Time by George Johnson.
It is a very good read and lets you understand just how different and powerful Quantum Computing is.
If you are still not sure...he describes how to build a Tic-Tac-Toe playing tinkertoy computer.
I am not saying this to be confrontational but I think Google just hit a home-run with you with their message.
I read this policy as a really clever way to start beating back the GMail concerns. This message has nothing directly to do with the GMail service but everything to do with it.
GMail is suffering from privacy concerns attacks. By putting out a set of guidelines like they are doing they are earning our trust by saying "see we are all around good people". I think this is an excellent way to start quelling the GMail outcry.
I for one am not really concerned about this potentail data harvesting/demographic exploitation of a serveice because, to be truthful, I feel it is systemic in the net today.
I agree that MS could care less about the toolkit market. What they do care about is keeping up barriers, artifical and constructed, to the adoption of rival operating systems. This is one of those barriers. When you are as big as Microsoft and you have a perceived threat in the distance, why not expend the energy to sqush a little guy. It is easier to destroy 100 1 man armies than 1 100 man army.
:)
I will admit though, its the little details that make my hat shine brightest
I don't see this on an attack or surrender to OSS. Instead, I am seeing this move as a way to stifle the GUI competition, namely QT. QT has been very steadily getting people to adopt their toolkit across platforms. They have amazingly managed to create licensing that makes closed companies and OSS developers happy.QT is taking a big chunk out of the embedded market, it is the underpinnings to KDE, and it is making its way into more Windows apps everyday. Of course Microsoft wants to put QT back to the hobbiest days. It is important to win the small quiet battles before you win the war.
First thouught in my head was. hmm i wonder if this is the Lindows rename strategy? Probably not but it sounds like a creative way to me.
Sure, some players of MP3s are free but the lincees of the MP3 have strict rules as to when you move from free to non-free. MS and Apple have just chosen different criteria for the move to free and non-free.
Isn't this just a bigger verion of bluetooth.
Really, it's backpack sized with more range and more bw, but in effect it is looking a lot like the dream of bluetooth to me. I could be wrong though.
I wonder how the law is going to be written. This could be a very interesting precedent.
The fair use law has been eroded due to the arugments put forth by big business such as, "when fair use was instituted, we never expected people to be able to make exact duplicates."*
This would be the first law that does not have the burden of ignorance of digital media. Will this law allow poeple in NZ to alter the format of digital music/media. Can I legally convert a DRM burdened to AAC file to MP3? ogg? This law sounds like it could have important ramifications. Maybe in NZ we can get some rights back. Or it could be written to prevent digital-digital conversion. We will have to wait and see.
* This is a vast oversimplification of the MPAA arugment over DVD decoding.
I recently bought one of these. THe price in New England runs about $80. For gaming it is rough. Maybe after I use it a lot more it will become second nature but I fond it is porr for gaming. For example, to activate mouuse movements, you press a trigger on the underside of the handle. To click usiing one of the 3 buttons you really need to stop the mouse tracking. Woops you're dead. What I do find it to be great for is general web/email browsing from across the room on the couch onn my 42" plasma monitor. If I were going to gae I would use it as an optical mouse. I fond it a strong optical mouse BTW.
I thought I might point out that ECC is actually slower per access that non-ECC RAM. There are a few clocks per access to compute and check the syndrome.
Another thing that struck me is why we assume that VT would buy current generation XServes. I would imagine that they are going to be purchasing the next version of the XServe with a faster clock speed. I imagine that size matters but they'll get a speed boost also.
TWhile this could be exploitation, I don't think so. This chip could be fantastic for a homeland security dept. Putting on the Conspiricy Theory hat for a second now: I want to sift through every land line and cell phone call in the us (wait the world). Now I can store it, and process it and know of a potential problem tomorrow, but with this now I can know aminutes after the call you just ordered a pizza! Now that security. Seriouly, though this has important benefits to eavsdropping.
There is another article at IBMs technolgy center that describes a method of parallelizing the init startup services. They don't give concrete numbers but it is possible to reduce this time substantialy also.
I care how long it takes to boot linux. I work in an environment that our hardware may be up for 400 days but when it goes down it better be up in sub 5 seconds. Keppe in mond this is not a network app and is more of a general cumputing machine (ie the end user runs whatever they want). One of the major sinks is startup script processing and that is after the std strip out all unneeded services. I'm not convinced using make is the best solution, but keep in mind the problem space is entirely valid.
Your analogy is slightly flawed. You use a variety of mathematical laws and constructs that you have learned to slove the problem differently. Now a more true test would be to ask if a computer could be programmed to start at the fundamental properties of mathematics (ie 1+1=2), as humans once did, and create the proofs, theorems, laws, etc that we take for granted to solve more complex problems. AI is more about learning from experience rather than what are its capabilites now.
Ok now I am confused. If RH is looking for a common look and fell why don't they choose EITHER KDE or GNOME and not give the user the default choice to change it? Now I remember, they wanted to do that with GNOME and it failed. Now they are trying to make them look them look the same because "neither is going away" and they know that to remove one wholesale will lose the developers who use RH. I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too. Developers want one thing (and they known how to make it do that), desktop users appearantly dont know what they want. That is what I feel RH is saying. Finally, changing the About boxes is just plain rude.