We have replaced all but the last few, Android and iPhones are what are replacing them. The Verizon iPhone means we are going to replace about half of what we had left. RIM is living on borrowed time.
Bait and switch only applies if you paid for it. If you used a better OS, you would find everything updates at once and under your control. Your choice there buddy.
The title refers to the x86 version of the OLPC, clearly. I believe that. I also believe that these ARM SoCs are faster than any x86 system constrained to the same power budget.
Atom is a power hungry son of a bitch compared to Arm gear. The lowest power PineView based one is at 6.5 Watts and that is the CPU alone, the Arm stuff is all SoC. The whole SoC power budget is going to be less than that.
Once you start to value power consumption above all else Arm really starts to make sense. When you can plug in your laptop every couple hours well less so.
Sure it is. It is meant to generate profit by putting up a barrier to entry into that market. This limits competition which raises prices and of course profit.
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Even out?
No Fucking way. This is MS doing the only thing they can anymore rent-seek. WP7 is stillborn.
We have replaced all but the last few, Android and iPhones are what are replacing them. The Verizon iPhone means we are going to replace about half of what we had left. RIM is living on borrowed time.
We should remember this next time these assholes want a bailout.
Which also costs money.
Bait and switch only applies if you paid for it. If you used a better OS, you would find everything updates at once and under your control. Your choice there buddy.
The title refers to the x86 version of the OLPC, clearly. I believe that. I also believe that these ARM SoCs are faster than any x86 system constrained to the same power budget.
It does not need to be, it only needs to be faster/watt.
Atom is a power hungry son of a bitch compared to Arm gear. The lowest power PineView based one is at 6.5 Watts and that is the CPU alone, the Arm stuff is all SoC. The whole SoC power budget is going to be less than that.
Once you start to value power consumption above all else Arm really starts to make sense. When you can plug in your laptop every couple hours well less so.
Not at all true, it can be extracted from seawater. Plus there is more thorium than we will ever need.
No, MS can just release a plugin for chrome that plays h.264. This is no more restrictive than IE9 not playing WebM without a plugin from Google.
Or you make an encoder. Oh wait what's that, this is what is being discussed not the streaming costs?
The same hardware can be made to accelerate WebM.
The C++ standard I can make a compiler for without paying anyone. It is not a burden to entry like h.264 is.
The ISO stopped meaning anything the minute they approved the MS "open" formats.
Some of those people are not like the others. Some have killed others to further their own goals.
Dropbox works with thunar just fine.
Running vi locally is just better, there are builds for windows if you are so inclined/brain damaged.
You do realize OSS owns in the server room right?
If you have to drive home to move money, or worse to the bank, you're doing life wrong. I have far more fun stuff I could be doing.
I remember the 90s it was just as bad as now except for air travel, that was better. Our government has not gotten better or worse.
I have a smartphone, a Droid. I control the OS, I have added "bits", kernel modules.
Chrome was never FREE software, no freedom to be lost. Chromium-browser is but it never had any h.264 support.
How so?
The MPEG-LA will not indemnify you either. Stop with the FUD already.
The MPEG-LA will not indemnify you either.
Sure it is. It is meant to generate profit by putting up a barrier to entry into that market. This limits competition which raises prices and of course profit.
Electricity for one. We can build reactors and just not drive our electric cars as far.
Either. Pretty much any plant can be grown indoors.