Um AMD is doing this for the slimest possible profit margin and they have already developed several chips designed for this type of application such as Alchemy and Geode.
If you're suggesting that INTEL is trying to undercut them (Sell at a loss and then dominate the market) and that doing so is a decent thing you are an unspeakable asshole.
This is a non-profit venture to help people, there should be no thought of competition. Here's a word Americans have never heard, co-operation.
"What the Hell did Negroponte expect?" Apparently not retarding fucking Americans, this makes me so sick.
I'd say Slashdot Linux Zealots also make an excellent example:P
Ah C'est la vie...
I've created a few articles but I don't like editing, editing seems more political its a response (in edit form) to what's there rather than a summary.
Well if you couldn't pay the taxes you could sell it to some company with a lot of money, a company that said did that as its business. Soon such a company would have all the copywrites, a monopoly on ideas! You're a genius what a wonderful world you and the people who modded you up have envisioned.
It makes me sick to see this kind of trash on Slashdot.
I've never said this before but mod parent down, before other stupid people read his garbage.
Plus any non-graphical stuff is tiny, you could set up your server right off your router if you bought a linux one. Then it's exposed regardless of firewall status and you'd never want to turn it off anyway.
If you need to host/create/access large files you can do it over Samba, it's teh sweet.
These numbers are disapointingly low, Microsoft is spending a lot of money on advertising and people really have no conception of a possible POS OS from them so why are the numbers so low.
First lets assume, as you say, the numbers are possibly biased. Is Slashdot reporting lower numbers than the actual? Possible.
Have consumers become more educated? Unlikely.
Are the hardware requirements limiting OEM involvement? Likely.
I think/. eds are hinting that consumers are becoming more educated, unfortunately I think thats unlikely, WinXP is the standard in operating systems, there is little or nothing it can't do (From a common user perspective likely nothing) and computers from 2002 are still responsive with todays software, plus the big computer adoption period (Massive spike in mid to late 90s) are realizing that its an upgrade cycle, and probably not enjoying the experience if they only want to do e-mail.
Implying that consumers are more educated -- which is the least likely possibility -- is/. FUD.
We didn't find any planets for years and all of a sudden we find like 4 useful ones in 1-2 years? Is this a product of the new networked telescope system or did we get some new giant telescope or something?
It broke my Swap partition and won't let me rebuild it, I need to input a lengthy series of hex to get it to work again for which the documentation is not simple.
Divx and Xvid don't seem to be working for some reason. Other than that it's great.
All else Equal, actually means a lot. The mainstream segment (With the biggest amount of profit for GPU manufacturers) is currently split between the 7900GS and the 1950Pro from Nvidia and ATI both with almost exactly the same performance under windows (When taking overclocking into account). Since Nvidia has better open source drivers their card becomes more compelling.
This performance parity shows up in one level (low-Medium-High) each generation and the card with linux drivers will have far better longevity and flexibility.
Spending money on (Probably more skilled and cheaper) open source development makes most sense for a monopoly, the technology developed will only work inside their framework. However it will also have the problem of creating possible competitors for the monopoly.
The best use would be somewhere like the auto industry which has stagnation in control systems and competes indirectly with other competitors (Ford/Chevy build in the U.S., Kia in Korea etc.) These companies could band together to pay for open source which wouldn't impact their advantage on their own turf but would push development forward, something their stagnant industry needs. I hear about developers working for companies and saying they want the tools they develop for internal use to be open sourced and under their control (GPL can make commercial applications pay) and having conflict with their bosses.
The Open Source model is very diffrent from the closed source model in that developers should be paid for future products not past work, if an open source dev makes an app useful for your company they should be paid to encourage them to develop in that field. If say, the cell phone industry dropped 10,000,000 on Ubuntu with no strings attached the next Ubuntu Mobile edition would get a lot of the "Boring Stuff," that linux devs hate, done and would be a very solid product. It seems obvious it would produce more development for that platform and the donators would have more impact on the types of development taking place. Currently the biggest apps for mobile phones developed through open source are free communication apps which remove the teleco from the picture, something they would love to see be replaced by adding value to the customer and levraging the infrastructure of the telecos.
If company X listened to ALL complaints (Most of which have answers implemented, even if just by experts in universities and at other companies) hired all of these brilliant people or paid for IP to resolve all the issues product Z+1 would be BRILLIANT. Product Z+2 would be non-existant, I think companies are starting to realize that research is unpredictable and holding back features ensures a constant stream of purchases.
Well I suppose that's a benefit of the free market, small hungry companies (Usually from China) give you the features you want and cheap. Once they figure out how piss poor North American and European product is (usually due to above) the cheap will evaporate. I think we've all seen articles about the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans laughing at the iPhone and our rediculous broadband prices. I don't think its terribly complicated why that is happening.
IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
Provide some kind of index, checked against credit card records, only available to emergency services? Doesn't this seem logical and easy? So much of this stuff is handled online, eventually sure we'll all be using wireless + Voip, and then we'll need the router to provide a location, but still this all seems really really easy. Something people would be willing to fill out (Especially as it's so easy to secure [One time use based on 911 contact and then changed, change can be written back to the caller]).
The PC isn't the standard, openGL, DirectX(3D), etc are the standard and they do pretty well at it (DirectX10 MS stuff aside).
If they standardize the interface it would be fine, as far as hardware goes yes each 2 years of computer hardware improvements means that your software won't be playable on the older stuff (Build for 3 year old hardware and you get a 5-6 year window). Which is mostly a problem because of software designers trying to push the envelope (the 360 is old, no one seems to complain about designing for it), software with MS not opening their specs and game designers not moving to more open APIs, and hardware manufacturers releasing on bizzare schedules.
The first and last can be solved, MS keeping the specs and game designers using non-opened specs will probably be the last to change. If AMD puts mid level GPUs in their new cpus and intel follows suit we'll probably see an improvement in both hardware conformity and games trying to push beyond those specs.
The PC offers the best range of peripherals, most games (Emulators FTW), and best backwards compatibility (last generations games play better!) etc.
The situation is good and getting better, people want to put less money into gaming and the industry will have to reflect that ($60 For the Lose) but it still has space for a massive range of types of games. Clearly the PC has better depth in every area (except possibly driving and surely sports) than consoles.
This generation is pretty scary fo Nvidia, looks like the 8800 isn't scaling well (No surprise with so many pipelines you need better and better schedulers). And the midrange is slower than the old midrange, and not even close to the old medium-high or high end (Which was the trend for the last 10 years). I think they're scared because the best resolution on most of the older LCDs is 1280x960 and the old 7800 could do that with 16ANx4AA and no one wanted more.
To stay away from this they've been killing the middle and low end, and game makers aren't pushing because they know most people don't want to suffer low framerates again and would rather just have features that perform well and run at 1280.
It used to be that graphics levels increased so fast that in 2 generations (Even with a high end card) you couldn't even PLAY the newest games. I can still play everything with my old machine (AMD 2600+, Radeon 9000Pro) let alone my "new" machine (AMD 2600+, 6600GT). If they want to sell cards they need to push the mid range, and they aren't.
The closest thing they have to the old style is the 8800GTS 320 which is about $350. Trying to DOUBLE the price of the midrange is probably not a smart business move.
What people don't seem to get about civil rights movements is they require 3 things, people who feel there is an injustice, people who feel guilty and people in power who believe justice isn't being served.
People who feel there is an injustice are arguably the smallest part of the equation, homosexuals and slaves had little or no voice before their civil rights movements were born. The guilt is a product of "White Civility" and while spreading isn't universal (See South Africa's battle with sexism and homophobia after apharteid). The third relies on the second one, defining fair is always complicated (people would like to think it means treating everyone equally, which is rarely the case and wouldn't have helped racism) but usually boils down to "giving to each according to their needs."
As far as videogames contributing to school violence (Which is the link they are trying to establish) I agree there is probably a causative element, however gun control and anti-bullying measures in schools would be far more effective and really wouldn't harm anyone.
Your assumption that people should unilaterally pursue injustice is the root of the problem, most bullies come from broken/poor/disenfranchised homes and feel that there is no justice therefore violence is an acceptable root to power. The same kind of thinking which leads to people wanting to own guns.
Lets assume this is a problem of the U.S.A. and created by the U.S.A. (They seem to have more shootings than anyone else). To produce gun control you need to have a reasonable government which strikes a balance between anarchy and facism. People should realize that civilization is damn hard to maintain only about 20% of crimes are solved and when that number reaches about 15% you get total anarchy (People don't think the government can catch/protect them) whereas when it reaches 40-50% it rapidly degenerates into the 70-80% range (as people stop commiting crimes and therefor feel justified in treating criminals more harshly). The U.S.A. has stopped citizens from having unliscenced weapons while at the same time divorcing the military from the will of the people, encouraging conservative gun ownership. Meanwhile the divide between rich and poor is growing and opportunities are disapearing, creating people who feel disenfranchised (and in that situation like you said feel justified resorting to violence and other forms of crime).
As far as "What you should expect from life" that pretty much singles you out as middle class in that you feel the depictions of wealth on TV are unreasonable, if you live in the ghetto you can't tell truth from fiction because the happy rich people all look like they stepped off the screen.
The nature of these crimes isn't in that these guys are trying to fight for a better place in society, they are lashing out against a society they feel is against them. Video games often depict such scenarios, while this might seem dangerous its a good element in society to have depictions of utopias that reflect the flaws in society and distopias that magnify them. And since the government doesn't care about most minorities (Glasses wearers, youth etc) they're right to get pissed.
Plus solar absorbs some of the incoming radiation, on a large enough scale this could make an impact.
No problem putting them near cities (No transportation costs on the elec), expandable (Better for private industry), More flexible (new business models galore, portable (in case of urban sprawl and also the radiation absorbing properties can help lower temperatures in our overheating urban centres).
I've heard substantiatially longer durations for Nuclear power (5000 years with breeders) and I think you'll find that your estimates might be based on already discovered and exploited uranium deposits (People went pretty nuts on finding Uranium after Hiroshima) most of the Uranium is in Russia Africa and Canada (With south and North America making up a significant amount of the rest). Divided neatly along the political lines that already exist.
I like nuclear I think producing a whole lot of 3cKW's will lead to energy inefficient but better designed energy dispersion markets. (Like municipal Wi-Fi, not free but cheaper when paid for up front Think recharging at traffic lights).
Good for American's too, we develop the technology they buy it and save their ass. We've been trading our clean air for their dirty air for a long time, guess the divide just got bigger and Americans are worried. The best will be when we sell our patents down south for production, then they get the chemical wastes too... Ah globalization:)
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft's commitment to the third world.
You want Microsoft's view of the developing world.
There you go.
This is so twisted.
They'll fear the magical computer god.
Here's what MS thinks of the developing world.
Um AMD is doing this for the slimest possible profit margin and they have already developed several chips designed for this type of application such as Alchemy and Geode.
If you're suggesting that INTEL is trying to undercut them (Sell at a loss and then dominate the market) and that doing so is a decent thing you are an unspeakable asshole.
This is a non-profit venture to help people, there should be no thought of competition. Here's a word Americans have never heard, co-operation.
"What the Hell did Negroponte expect?" Apparently not retarding fucking Americans, this makes me so sick.
I'd say Slashdot Linux Zealots also make an excellent example :P
Ah C'est la vie...
I've created a few articles but I don't like editing, editing seems more political its a response (in edit form) to what's there rather than a summary.
Well if you couldn't pay the taxes you could sell it to some company with a lot of money, a company that said did that as its business. Soon such a company would have all the copywrites, a monopoly on ideas! You're a genius what a wonderful world you and the people who modded you up have envisioned.
It makes me sick to see this kind of trash on Slashdot.
I've never said this before but mod parent down, before other stupid people read his garbage.
Plus any non-graphical stuff is tiny, you could set up your server right off your router if you bought a linux one. Then it's exposed regardless of firewall status and you'd never want to turn it off anyway.
If you need to host/create/access large files you can do it over Samba, it's teh sweet.
These numbers are disapointingly low, Microsoft is spending a lot of money on advertising and people really have no conception of a possible POS OS from them so why are the numbers so low.
/. eds are hinting that consumers are becoming more educated, unfortunately I think thats unlikely, WinXP is the standard in operating systems, there is little or nothing it can't do (From a common user perspective likely nothing) and computers from 2002 are still responsive with todays software, plus the big computer adoption period (Massive spike in mid to late 90s) are realizing that its an upgrade cycle, and probably not enjoying the experience if they only want to do e-mail.
/. FUD.
First lets assume, as you say, the numbers are possibly biased. Is Slashdot reporting lower numbers than the actual? Possible.
Have consumers become more educated? Unlikely.
Are the hardware requirements limiting OEM involvement? Likely.
I think
Implying that consumers are more educated -- which is the least likely possibility -- is
Hold the camera still!
That is all.
I think our assumption is the same as with humans meeting aliens, our bugs will kick their bugs asses!
There is a LOT of life on earth all competing, if their life is more vicious than ours we run away or nuke the planet cuz our bugs can't kill theirs.
Otherwise we send in the infected blankets.
We didn't find any planets for years and all of a sudden we find like 4 useful ones in 1-2 years? Is this a product of the new networked telescope system or did we get some new giant telescope or something?
Where is this information coming from?
Sigh I went from Dapper to Edgy and now Feisty.
It broke my Swap partition and won't let me rebuild it, I need to input a lengthy series of hex to get it to work again for which the documentation is not simple.
Divx and Xvid don't seem to be working for some reason. Other than that it's great.
And look what happened to the people who opposed it, they got smited.
/me looks around nervously for scientologists with Anthrax.
All else Equal, actually means a lot. The mainstream segment (With the biggest amount of profit for GPU manufacturers) is currently split between the 7900GS and the 1950Pro from Nvidia and ATI both with almost exactly the same performance under windows (When taking overclocking into account). Since Nvidia has better open source drivers their card becomes more compelling.
This performance parity shows up in one level (low-Medium-High) each generation and the card with linux drivers will have far better longevity and flexibility.
Spending money on (Probably more skilled and cheaper) open source development makes most sense for a monopoly, the technology developed will only work inside their framework. However it will also have the problem of creating possible competitors for the monopoly.
The best use would be somewhere like the auto industry which has stagnation in control systems and competes indirectly with other competitors (Ford/Chevy build in the U.S., Kia in Korea etc.) These companies could band together to pay for open source which wouldn't impact their advantage on their own turf but would push development forward, something their stagnant industry needs. I hear about developers working for companies and saying they want the tools they develop for internal use to be open sourced and under their control (GPL can make commercial applications pay) and having conflict with their bosses.
The Open Source model is very diffrent from the closed source model in that developers should be paid for future products not past work, if an open source dev makes an app useful for your company they should be paid to encourage them to develop in that field. If say, the cell phone industry dropped 10,000,000 on Ubuntu with no strings attached the next Ubuntu Mobile edition would get a lot of the "Boring Stuff," that linux devs hate, done and would be a very solid product. It seems obvious it would produce more development for that platform and the donators would have more impact on the types of development taking place. Currently the biggest apps for mobile phones developed through open source are free communication apps which remove the teleco from the picture, something they would love to see be replaced by adding value to the customer and levraging the infrastructure of the telecos.
If company X listened to ALL complaints (Most of which have answers implemented, even if just by experts in universities and at other companies) hired all of these brilliant people or paid for IP to resolve all the issues product Z+1 would be BRILLIANT. Product Z+2 would be non-existant, I think companies are starting to realize that research is unpredictable and holding back features ensures a constant stream of purchases.
Well I suppose that's a benefit of the free market, small hungry companies (Usually from China) give you the features you want and cheap. Once they figure out how piss poor North American and European product is (usually due to above) the cheap will evaporate. I think we've all seen articles about the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans laughing at the iPhone and our rediculous broadband prices. I don't think its terribly complicated why that is happening.
IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Provide some kind of index, checked against credit card records, only available to emergency services?
Doesn't this seem logical and easy? So much of this stuff is handled online, eventually sure we'll all be using wireless + Voip, and then we'll need the router to provide a location, but still this all seems really really easy. Something people would be willing to fill out (Especially as it's so easy to secure [One time use based on 911 contact and then changed, change can be written back to the caller]).
Wealth created by people who are also motivated by liviing with aids?
This country is trying to keep its people alive and not cripple itself doing so, and the U.S. is asking them to cripple their economy to do it?
Super.
The PC isn't the standard, openGL, DirectX(3D), etc are the standard and they do pretty well at it (DirectX10 MS stuff aside).
If they standardize the interface it would be fine, as far as hardware goes yes each 2 years of computer hardware improvements means that your software won't be playable on the older stuff (Build for 3 year old hardware and you get a 5-6 year window). Which is mostly a problem because of software designers trying to push the envelope (the 360 is old, no one seems to complain about designing for it), software with MS not opening their specs and game designers not moving to more open APIs, and hardware manufacturers releasing on bizzare schedules.
The first and last can be solved, MS keeping the specs and game designers using non-opened specs will probably be the last to change. If AMD puts mid level GPUs in their new cpus and intel follows suit we'll probably see an improvement in both hardware conformity and games trying to push beyond those specs.
The PC offers the best range of peripherals, most games (Emulators FTW), and best backwards compatibility (last generations games play better!) etc.
The situation is good and getting better, people want to put less money into gaming and the industry will have to reflect that ($60 For the Lose) but it still has space for a massive range of types of games. Clearly the PC has better depth in every area (except possibly driving and surely sports) than consoles.
This generation is pretty scary fo Nvidia, looks like the 8800 isn't scaling well (No surprise with so many pipelines you need better and better schedulers). And the midrange is slower than the old midrange, and not even close to the old medium-high or high end (Which was the trend for the last 10 years). I think they're scared because the best resolution on most of the older LCDs is 1280x960 and the old 7800 could do that with 16ANx4AA and no one wanted more.
To stay away from this they've been killing the middle and low end, and game makers aren't pushing because they know most people don't want to suffer low framerates again and would rather just have features that perform well and run at 1280.
It used to be that graphics levels increased so fast that in 2 generations (Even with a high end card) you couldn't even PLAY the newest games. I can still play everything with my old machine (AMD 2600+, Radeon 9000Pro) let alone my "new" machine (AMD 2600+, 6600GT). If they want to sell cards they need to push the mid range, and they aren't.
The closest thing they have to the old style is the 8800GTS 320 which is about $350. Trying to DOUBLE the price of the midrange is probably not a smart business move.
We need a third player, it's time.
You made me sad, send me a million bucks.
What people don't seem to get about civil rights movements is they require 3 things, people who feel there is an injustice, people who feel guilty and people in power who believe justice isn't being served.
People who feel there is an injustice are arguably the smallest part of the equation, homosexuals and slaves had little or no voice before their civil rights movements were born. The guilt is a product of "White Civility" and while spreading isn't universal (See South Africa's battle with sexism and homophobia after apharteid). The third relies on the second one, defining fair is always complicated (people would like to think it means treating everyone equally, which is rarely the case and wouldn't have helped racism) but usually boils down to "giving to each according to their needs."
As far as videogames contributing to school violence (Which is the link they are trying to establish) I agree there is probably a causative element, however gun control and anti-bullying measures in schools would be far more effective and really wouldn't harm anyone.
Your assumption that people should unilaterally pursue injustice is the root of the problem, most bullies come from broken/poor/disenfranchised homes and feel that there is no justice therefore violence is an acceptable root to power. The same kind of thinking which leads to people wanting to own guns.
Lets assume this is a problem of the U.S.A. and created by the U.S.A. (They seem to have more shootings than anyone else). To produce gun control you need to have a reasonable government which strikes a balance between anarchy and facism. People should realize that civilization is damn hard to maintain only about 20% of crimes are solved and when that number reaches about 15% you get total anarchy (People don't think the government can catch/protect them) whereas when it reaches 40-50% it rapidly degenerates into the 70-80% range (as people stop commiting crimes and therefor feel justified in treating criminals more harshly). The U.S.A. has stopped citizens from having unliscenced weapons while at the same time divorcing the military from the will of the people, encouraging conservative gun ownership. Meanwhile the divide between rich and poor is growing and opportunities are disapearing, creating people who feel disenfranchised (and in that situation like you said feel justified resorting to violence and other forms of crime).
As far as "What you should expect from life" that pretty much singles you out as middle class in that you feel the depictions of wealth on TV are unreasonable, if you live in the ghetto you can't tell truth from fiction because the happy rich people all look like they stepped off the screen.
The nature of these crimes isn't in that these guys are trying to fight for a better place in society, they are lashing out against a society they feel is against them. Video games often depict such scenarios, while this might seem dangerous its a good element in society to have depictions of utopias that reflect the flaws in society and distopias that magnify them. And since the government doesn't care about most minorities (Glasses wearers, youth etc) they're right to get pissed.
Plus solar absorbs some of the incoming radiation, on a large enough scale this could make an impact.
No problem putting them near cities (No transportation costs on the elec), expandable (Better for private industry), More flexible (new business models galore, portable (in case of urban sprawl and also the radiation absorbing properties can help lower temperatures in our overheating urban centres).
I've heard substantiatially longer durations for Nuclear power (5000 years with breeders) and I think you'll find that your estimates might be based on already discovered and exploited uranium deposits (People went pretty nuts on finding Uranium after Hiroshima) most of the Uranium is in Russia Africa and Canada (With south and North America making up a significant amount of the rest). Divided neatly along the political lines that already exist.
I like nuclear I think producing a whole lot of 3cKW's will lead to energy inefficient but better designed energy dispersion markets. (Like municipal Wi-Fi, not free but cheaper when paid for up front Think recharging at traffic lights).
And cheap power would help attract more new business.
Any company that prefers cost over the environment really isn't as welcome in Canada as you'd think. Same thing with cheating employees.
It's a lot more expensive to pull out of the air.
:)
Good for American's too, we develop the technology they buy it and save their ass. We've been trading our clean air for their dirty air for a long time, guess the divide just got bigger and Americans are worried. The best will be when we sell our patents down south for production, then they get the chemical wastes too... Ah globalization