Notice how there's no real information, no indication that Valve is involved (or rather indication than Valve is not involved) and the website is a stub and belongs to a random spanish guy.
If you believe a bunch of nobody is developing an x86 handheld in a Steam controller, fine ; else me thinks it drives traffic and has no other particular function.
I mean that Android is a game distribution platform too, as such it would compete with Steam on that handheld. Plus it's not known for high quality, "serious" games.
No way it will be able to run something like the new Wolf 3D. You will be able to play it, but with the SteamBoy acting like a Wii U Gamepad. A regular PC will play the role of the Wii U console proper (incidentally, Wolfenstein will be able to run if the PC runs Windows, but if the PC runs linux or SteamOS it will run the subset of games available for linux)
Then, what is this thing and what can it play on its own? I can think of - an Intel Atom based PC, maybe AMD Mullins. Can run old and non demanding stuff e.g. the first Left 4 Dead. - an Android handheld : that would be self-defeating! - nvidia Tegra K1 (32bit variant or preferably 64bit), whose graphics is compatible with X11, Wayland, full OpenGL etc. running a port of SteamOS to ARM.
The latter would be a really major annoucement. It would then naturally extend to future ARM desktops and laptops.
I don't like the notion (by anti-nuclear activists) that Uranium is in short supply and we will run out in 40 years, or 50 years, or 60 years. It's unsubstianted, Uranium reserves are simply underdeveloped, unprospected and the fact is uranium is cheap and under low demand. Uranium 235 is abundant and we know how to make it work so I don't see the appeal of pursuing complicated schemes, why not just stick with what works and focus on getting the costs down?
The common language is not common enough. In reality, you can't read a spanish newspaper, or a greek, latvian, swedish one etc. if you don't understand the language, you can't understand what politicians or people are saying in their countries and so the peoples are walled off each other. It's a major hurdle if you want to build a european wide democracy.
While I think GMO are unnecessary and the tone of your post is hateful, thanks for porting this to attention. The former Reichskanzler works for Gazprom, that might have something to do with it. And building a shit ton of renewable energy capacity with lots of subsidies, with the net effect of increasing CO2 emissions and then boasting about green power, that's brilliant.
And then the crippled BIOS (with any OEM) can be a hindrance. You can't lower the FSB, or lower RAM speed, loosen RAM timings, bump memory voltage by 0.1 volt etc. all of which can help stabilize a semi-failed PC again. Got lucky with a buddy's Packard Bell mini-PC with "Core 2 Solo" Celeron, all was crippled (BIOS allows to set the date and boot device, that's almost all) but dropping to one stick of DRAM instead of two (no matter which one) saved it.
That's amazing. Raw parts bought at retail seem to be of great and awesome quality nowadays to me. DRAM works, motherboards were slowly perfected, everything gets more efficient, powerful and less noisy. PSU performance is excellent in particular (and no need to spend too much. Vast majority of PC will get by with a 400W or less just fine).
Now on motherboards that's probably where a company like HP will choose one equivalent to what is sold at about 38 euros, whereas a sane customer will choose at least the 50 euro model instead. Low end motherboards do have the potential to be the most reliable ones though, thanks to great numbers and many revisions. Rock solid as long as you use a low end or lowish power CPU.
Battery backed SRAM Battery backed DRAM Er.. just running code directly from ROM and not caring about saving long term data, or saving tiny bits of data to battery backed RAM (Legend of Zelda, CMOS parameters on a PC)
And you had Apple II with CP/M card, Macintosh Performa DOS compatible, Atari ST with Mac emulator etc. Those are still fringe systems and they didn't exactly solve the problem of floppy disk formats either.
What could go possibly wrong. First, you need the organism to not attack and destroy the "organ" so here you need a lifetime of immuno-suppressing treatment, maybe a weak to fake or include the bio-markers (dunno the exact english term) so the new organ can be recognized as legit. And then if that really works out, then how will the organ stay constrained rather than grow anarchically and without limits? Mutations?
A great concept that seems to be science-fiction. If not impossible then I suppose the difficulty is staggering.
Agreed, for agricultural purposes (not drinking!) you need gigawatts just to desalinate. On such a scale a nuclear powered desalination plant gets economical.
But 300W for cooling is weird, in fact outside the US most people don't have home A/C and the heat output of one PC (or console, or TV) is simply ignored.
You think those of us who are fit enjoy eating salads? Do you really think I enjoy drinking water instead of soda? Or do you think we somehow magically like candy less than everyone else? We are still humans, and we crave the exact same things. A bag of Doritos and some beer look just as tempting to us as they look to you.
I have an aversion for sugar, well not always and depending on context;) but I found out you can readily develop a distate for such thing. Yes, a candy bar can be disgusting to me and make me reach for water to get rid it and the sticky slush in my mouth and oral tracts. And soda ruins the teeth. I don't know what's Doritos. Anyway I hate sugary snacks and will prefer peanuts, bread (without sugar), chips, or even whatever meal that wasn't really meant to be eaten at 4 PM or 4 AM, but hell. The beer, yes I'll get it.
Mostly carbs? If it's made of maize, potatoes, rice or just has tons of croutons I can agree but if it's simply a bowl of leaves, I would say there's nothing. Of course there's various nutrients and useful fiber ; but no calories. Ditto for a dish with only vegetables. You need calories no matter what, even from just olive oil and bread (real bread, i.e. which does not contain any sugar)
Cut the food -> the body goes into "starvation mode" so it WILL accumulate a lot of fat when given the occasion to. That's extremely well-known yo-yo dieting, dealt with by not cutting the food too much I guess..
Eliminate sugar, walk/cycle a lot more and stop finishing a huge portion after you know you're satiated : that's probably a good thing already without going full on with a random stupid diet.
A friend wanted to record trips with the GPS, installed the official Google application ("MyTracks") and then the software demanded to be linked to one of two listed email addresses (xxxxx@gmail.com)
So we uninstalled it and he forego'ed using the GPS (except for that "navigation in google maps" thing). Huh, that is fucking ridiculous. Even a non technical user sensed there's something wrong to require all your GPS readings be sent to a third party. Next time Google will sell pornography that plays only if you share the history and precise times publicly on Google+ with your real name. All was wanted is offline data to process/look at on the big desktop PC later (such as showing areas visited, in Google Earth)
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Notice how there's no real information, no indication that Valve is involved (or rather indication than Valve is not involved) and the website is a stub and belongs to a random spanish guy.
If you believe a bunch of nobody is developing an x86 handheld in a Steam controller, fine ; else me thinks it drives traffic and has no other particular function.
I mean that Android is a game distribution platform too, as such it would compete with Steam on that handheld. Plus it's not known for high quality, "serious" games.
No way it will be able to run something like the new Wolf 3D. You will be able to play it, but with the SteamBoy acting like a Wii U Gamepad. A regular PC will play the role of the Wii U console proper (incidentally, Wolfenstein will be able to run if the PC runs Windows, but if the PC runs linux or SteamOS it will run the subset of games available for linux)
Then, what is this thing and what can it play on its own? I can think of
- an Intel Atom based PC, maybe AMD Mullins. Can run old and non demanding stuff e.g. the first Left 4 Dead.
- an Android handheld : that would be self-defeating!
- nvidia Tegra K1 (32bit variant or preferably 64bit), whose graphics is compatible with X11, Wayland, full OpenGL etc. running a port of SteamOS to ARM.
The latter would be a really major annoucement. It would then naturally extend to future ARM desktops and laptops.
I don't like the notion (by anti-nuclear activists) that Uranium is in short supply and we will run out in 40 years, or 50 years, or 60 years. It's unsubstianted, Uranium reserves are simply underdeveloped, unprospected and the fact is uranium is cheap and under low demand.
Uranium 235 is abundant and we know how to make it work so I don't see the appeal of pursuing complicated schemes, why not just stick with what works and focus on getting the costs down?
The common language is not common enough. In reality, you can't read a spanish newspaper, or a greek, latvian, swedish one etc. if you don't understand the language, you can't understand what politicians or people are saying in their countries and so the peoples are walled off each other. It's a major hurdle if you want to build a european wide democracy.
Duh, just hit the down arrown, page down or the space bar, or use the scroll wheel.
While I think GMO are unnecessary and the tone of your post is hateful, thanks for porting this to attention.
The former Reichskanzler works for Gazprom, that might have something to do with it.
And building a shit ton of renewable energy capacity with lots of subsidies, with the net effect of increasing CO2 emissions and then boasting about green power, that's brilliant.
And then the crippled BIOS (with any OEM) can be a hindrance. You can't lower the FSB, or lower RAM speed, loosen RAM timings, bump memory voltage by 0.1 volt etc. all of which can help stabilize a semi-failed PC again.
Got lucky with a buddy's Packard Bell mini-PC with "Core 2 Solo" Celeron, all was crippled (BIOS allows to set the date and boot device, that's almost all) but dropping to one stick of DRAM instead of two (no matter which one) saved it.
Are you making up shit?
That's amazing. Raw parts bought at retail seem to be of great and awesome quality nowadays to me. DRAM works, motherboards were slowly perfected, everything gets more efficient, powerful and less noisy. PSU performance is excellent in particular (and no need to spend too much. Vast majority of PC will get by with a 400W or less just fine).
Now on motherboards that's probably where a company like HP will choose one equivalent to what is sold at about 38 euros, whereas a sane customer will choose at least the 50 euro model instead. Low end motherboards do have the potential to be the most reliable ones though, thanks to great numbers and many revisions. Rock solid as long as you use a low end or lowish power CPU.
Battery backed SRAM
Battery backed DRAM
Er.. just running code directly from ROM and not caring about saving long term data, or saving tiny bits of data to battery backed RAM (Legend of Zelda, CMOS parameters on a PC)
And you had Apple II with CP/M card, Macintosh Performa DOS compatible, Atari ST with Mac emulator etc.
Those are still fringe systems and they didn't exactly solve the problem of floppy disk formats either.
What could go possibly wrong. First, you need the organism to not attack and destroy the "organ" so here you need a lifetime of immuno-suppressing treatment, maybe a weak to fake or include the bio-markers (dunno the exact english term) so the new organ can be recognized as legit. And then if that really works out, then how will the organ stay constrained rather than grow anarchically and without limits? Mutations?
A great concept that seems to be science-fiction. If not impossible then I suppose the difficulty is staggering.
Strangeely that costs more than a whole phone plus USB charger and cable.
Agreed, for agricultural purposes (not drinking!) you need gigawatts just to desalinate. On such a scale a nuclear powered desalination plant gets economical.
You can attach a trailer to a Smart.
But 300W for cooling is weird, in fact outside the US most people don't have home A/C and the heat output of one PC (or console, or TV) is simply ignored.
Same in France with inches somewhat gaining hold in televisions (due to internet discussions and websites)
Intuitively, the unit of mass should be a tonne?, 10^6 grams. That is the mass of one cube meter of water.
Actually the unit of weight is newtons
You think those of us who are fit enjoy eating salads? Do you really think I enjoy drinking water instead of soda? Or do you think we somehow magically like candy less than everyone else? We are still humans, and we crave the exact same things. A bag of Doritos and some beer look just as tempting to us as they look to you.
I have an aversion for sugar, well not always and depending on context ;) but I found out you can readily develop a distate for such thing. Yes, a candy bar can be disgusting to me and make me reach for water to get rid it and the sticky slush in my mouth and oral tracts. And soda ruins the teeth.
I don't know what's Doritos. Anyway I hate sugary snacks and will prefer peanuts, bread (without sugar), chips, or even whatever meal that wasn't really meant to be eaten at 4 PM or 4 AM, but hell. The beer, yes I'll get it.
Mostly carbs? If it's made of maize, potatoes, rice or just has tons of croutons I can agree but if it's simply a bowl of leaves, I would say there's nothing. Of course there's various nutrients and useful fiber ; but no calories.
Ditto for a dish with only vegetables. You need calories no matter what, even from just olive oil and bread (real bread, i.e. which does not contain any sugar)
Cut the food -> the body goes into "starvation mode" so it WILL accumulate a lot of fat when given the occasion to. That's extremely well-known yo-yo dieting, dealt with by not cutting the food too much I guess..
Eliminate sugar, walk/cycle a lot more and stop finishing a huge portion after you know you're satiated : that's probably a good thing already without going full on with a random stupid diet.
A friend wanted to record trips with the GPS, installed the official Google application ("MyTracks") and then the software demanded to be linked to one of two listed email addresses (xxxxx@gmail.com)
So we uninstalled it and he forego'ed using the GPS (except for that "navigation in google maps" thing). Huh, that is fucking ridiculous. Even a non technical user sensed there's something wrong to require all your GPS readings be sent to a third party. Next time Google will sell pornography that plays only if you share the history and precise times publicly on Google+ with your real name.
All was wanted is offline data to process/look at on the big desktop PC later (such as showing areas visited, in Google Earth)
I remember the days of replacing pre-installed Windows with warez Windows (even of the same version). ROFL!