They sell pants with so many pockets you could carry on snacks, two spare batteries, a couple of beverages, your cell phone, your wallet and passport, and a few hundred hours of ripped DVD PRoN in high def on SDHC. What more could you want? How hard to I have to sell this?
You're right. You're not the target market. Go back to what you were doing before they invented this thing. Good luck to you.
My suggestion would be not to back what Microsoft backs on this one.
Regular slashdotters will know I'm not one to endorse Microsoft's stuff. The very notion is abhorrent.
But even a stopped clock is right twice a day. This one's not over yet and Microsoft may still win this one with online distribution before market penetration of HD video is enough to lock the market.
I could probably help Sony win this one. They won't listen to me. Their loss.
This one's not over yet. Apparently online distribution was a third contender waiting in the wings. We shall see. Sony bought out HD-DVD. They can't buy out online distribution. In the meantime BD players and discs have gone up in price not down. That was a critical mistake.
Sony has some of the most brilliant engineers on earth. They're chained to the marketing team from hell. They always try to exploit their market share before it's time. A shame, really. They do a host other things wrong too. If it weren't so their supercomputer class gaming console would not be coming in third to the XBox and the Wii. They could use a consultant to come in and tell them how retarded their marketing team is, but they have too much pride to win. Surely I'm not the only one who sees this.
one - you're about to be deluged by haters. I've said these very things here and the haters are quite enthusiastic. They're also wrong.
two - the other guys aren't standing still either. No doubt the other guys are looking into ray tracing now that the level of tech to support it is coming around.
except I actually benefit from my toy whenever I do video processing or launch a few dozen VM's for application testing and network simulation.
It's amazing what you can do with a few of these (a hundred bucks at fry's) and some these, a few of these and some creative sheet metal work on one of
these.
You'll need a few other bits too. If you get carried away it would look something like this. If you keep your wits nobody would know it from a typical filing cabinet except that instead of storing files it renders frames with 32 cores running at 2.6GHz or launches your precious VMs.
And you can still remote to it with your mini notebook from the beach.
Jokes aside, have you ever taken a 7 hour flight with a battery that lasts two hours?
I don't often fly that far and when I do I normally sleep. I understand that's a NY-Boston run these days if you figure in the tarmac wait though.
The specified battery for the device under discussion goes for "up to seven hours". For a longer flight than that I could take spares. Swapping out the battery every seven hours on a flight from LA to Australia would be the least of my worries. With two spare batteries this thing still weighs less than my laptop and I could watch transcoded DVDs while I type my novel for a whole twelve hour flight. That would be much to the delight of my random seatmate who probably wants to read a book and take a nap.
And you're doing this on a laptop because... why again? Because you can?
If you need this kind of processing you're not doing it on a laptop - but you can always open a window to your compute farm on your mini-notebook as long as you're somewhere your cellular broadband has coverage.
Impressive specifications there. Y'know, I never knew anybody that thought he needed that much computer that also knew what to do with it when he got it.
Pretty close to ruined, I'd say. They get their first real PC at 2, by 13 they're expected to build their own. Cable broadband. This is pretty standard for our larger family - we're all in IT.
An Xbox with a couple games and controllers runs more than this and there's no way I'd buy them that.
I didn't say I'd be happy about it if their mini notebook was lost or trashed, but it wouldn't be a disaster. The first one that gets broken will just be another toy for me to play with the leftover bits. Motherboard? That looks like it would fit in an RC plane...
This works for me. If nothing better comes out in the next few weeks this or the MSI Wind is going back to school with my kids in the Fall.
It's small, cheap, light enough. It'll serve them all day. I don't have to freak out if they lose it or break it. It's got enough CPU power and memory to do real work.
I'll take one for me too. I'm tired of lugging around a full sized notebook when this is all I need. For real power and storage I can always remote to a real desktop under Citrix. For light spreadsheets and barcode scanning this will do the trick.
So often these posts are quite timely. The law goes open source at Forbes.com saves me the trouble. Apparently I'm not the only one that noticed this. Oddly the story is future dated for some reason.
Next up: claw that geographic information database back from ESRI....
Although I agree with you about the bright lines, I doubt Nokia is going to want to play well with the open source folks.
For all of me they could put their magic phone bits on one corner of the board and connect it with some interface -- say ppoe over usb or ethernet or whatever. They can move the phone into the computer. That way my internet-everywhere device could use it like what it is -- a wireless modem.
I think what they want though is to move the computer into the phone. They want to build all of their DRM into the computer bits on the other side of your bright line so the providers can continue to make billions of dollars a year on ringtones and phone applications. That's a scheme I can't get behind and I won't be buying one of those. I'd rather just keep using the external cellular phone with USB for a remote broadband connection and remain able to install whatever software I want on the computer side of the USB cable.
Life needs time to adapt. You can't just throw bacteria from environment A into a very different environment B and expect them to survive. It doesn't work like that.
Bacteria no. Lichens and fungus yes, you can. Very much indeed you can. It does indeed very much work like that.
The GP is almost right, for some very specific applications.
The GGP (now) is a common troll on/. and you should know that. He's wrong in every possible way and I think it's a deliberate attempt to draw out reasoned counterpoints. There's no way a messaging campaign intending to serve Microsoft could fail this horribly without being halted.
The type of hardware under discussion could simulate the hardware you're thinking of with little difficulty. In fact, a good systems guy and a good hardware guy could probably put together a nice secure redundant high performance distributed architecture for far less than the mainframe salesmen at IBM can.
But hey, if you are willing to pay for the extra confidence that the brand name gives you, go for it. Maybe your competitors think more clearly and they're the better market.
And anyone know if the atmosphere was so dense back then that would fry an incoming object?
The atmosphere of Venus is considerably more dense than Earth's. As is Saturn's, Jupiter's and Uranus'. The importance of the density of atmosphere is irrelevant. For every atmospheric density there is an insertion vector where a lifeform resident on a meteor could be brushed off and float gently down.
What's important is the hospitality to life and the flexibility of life. We know that life is ridiculously flexible. There are forms of life in volcanic vents on Earth that would find Venus a paradise beyond imagining. In the past most of the planets in our solar system have been hospitable to some form of life found on our planet. It's reasonable to expect that there is some form of life on Earth that might find the crushing pressures of a gas giant inviting. For all we know the Great Red Spots are actually a life form of some kind.
In short, "life finds a way." We can take it as a given that our solar system has been so thoroughly polluted by life that everywhere it could take root it did. It's an open question whether it first took root in our solar system on Earth or elsewhere. I'm for Mars, but that's just an opinion. We're infested with life and with this meteorite we have evidence we're not the only solar system to be so infested. It follows that life is as common elsewhere in our galaxy as it is here. That means that the panspermia theory is at least partly true -- in the one example that we know of it's possible that some form of life will cross the stars. In regards to life if it can be done, it will be done. Therefore all the planets in our galaxy that can support life similar to ours have life. This is a big discovery.
When we get to the planets around distant stars we will find life that we understand. Let's go!
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Wear pants with one more pocket. Is that so hard?
They sell pants with so many pockets you could carry on snacks, two spare batteries, a couple of beverages, your cell phone, your wallet and passport, and a few hundred hours of ripped DVD PRoN in high def on SDHC. What more could you want? How hard to I have to sell this?
You're right. You're not the target market. Go back to what you were doing before they invented this thing. Good luck to you.
Regular slashdotters will know I'm not one to endorse Microsoft's stuff. The very notion is abhorrent.
But even a stopped clock is right twice a day. This one's not over yet and Microsoft may still win this one with online distribution before market penetration of HD video is enough to lock the market.
I could probably help Sony win this one. They won't listen to me. Their loss.
This one's not over yet. Apparently online distribution was a third contender waiting in the wings. We shall see. Sony bought out HD-DVD. They can't buy out online distribution. In the meantime BD players and discs have gone up in price not down. That was a critical mistake.
Sony has some of the most brilliant engineers on earth. They're chained to the marketing team from hell. They always try to exploit their market share before it's time. A shame, really. They do a host other things wrong too. If it weren't so their supercomputer class gaming console would not be coming in third to the XBox and the Wii. They could use a consultant to come in and tell them how retarded their marketing team is, but they have too much pride to win. Surely I'm not the only one who sees this.
Myst
Once again, we'll have the VHS version and the Betamax version.
One will win. Avoid whichever one Sony gets behind.
The fine article doesn't have to be bias free. We'll cover every conceivable side of the issues in the slashdot comments, and much irrelevance also.
My personal opinion: USB3.0 is cool, but give me external PCIe v2.0 x16 for the win. And Natalie Portman slathered in hot grits, of course.
one - you're about to be deluged by haters. I've said these very things here and the haters are quite enthusiastic. They're also wrong.
two - the other guys aren't standing still either. No doubt the other guys are looking into ray tracing now that the level of tech to support it is coming around.
Raytracing, for the win.
It's amazing what you can do with a few of these (a hundred bucks at fry's) and some these, a few of these and some creative sheet metal work on one of these.
You'll need a few other bits too. If you get carried away it would look something like this. If you keep your wits nobody would know it from a typical filing cabinet except that instead of storing files it renders frames with 32 cores running at 2.6GHz or launches your precious VMs.
And you can still remote to it with your mini notebook from the beach.
I don't often fly that far and when I do I normally sleep. I understand that's a NY-Boston run these days if you figure in the tarmac wait though.
The specified battery for the device under discussion goes for "up to seven hours". For a longer flight than that I could take spares. Swapping out the battery every seven hours on a flight from LA to Australia would be the least of my worries. With two spare batteries this thing still weighs less than my laptop and I could watch transcoded DVDs while I type my novel for a whole twelve hour flight. That would be much to the delight of my random seatmate who probably wants to read a book and take a nap.
And you're doing this on a laptop because... why again? Because you can?
If you need this kind of processing you're not doing it on a laptop - but you can always open a window to your compute farm on your mini-notebook as long as you're somewhere your cellular broadband has coverage.
The anonymous naysayers showed up quick in this thread.
Perhaps someone is trying to squish the MID market? Why? Is it because these things don't run Vista well?
If I'm seven hours distant from a wall outlet what I want is not a mini laptop. What I need there is a fishing pole.
Impressive specifications there. Y'know, I never knew anybody that thought he needed that much computer that also knew what to do with it when he got it.
Pretty close to ruined, I'd say. They get their first real PC at 2, by 13 they're expected to build their own. Cable broadband. This is pretty standard for our larger family - we're all in IT.
An Xbox with a couple games and controllers runs more than this and there's no way I'd buy them that.
I didn't say I'd be happy about it if their mini notebook was lost or trashed, but it wouldn't be a disaster. The first one that gets broken will just be another toy for me to play with the leftover bits. Motherboard? That looks like it would fit in an RC plane...
This works for me. If nothing better comes out in the next few weeks this or the MSI Wind is going back to school with my kids in the Fall.
It's small, cheap, light enough. It'll serve them all day. I don't have to freak out if they lose it or break it. It's got enough CPU power and memory to do real work.
I'll take one for me too. I'm tired of lugging around a full sized notebook when this is all I need. For real power and storage I can always remote to a real desktop under Citrix. For light spreadsheets and barcode scanning this will do the trick.
For hear.nl, translated to english by Google.
Apparently the reviewer liked it. I think. I have no idea what is "geluidsmodi".
How else would the signal know it was supposed to traverse the cable lengthwise, rather than crosswise?
At the bottom of the page there are tags. They're hilarious.
So often these posts are quite timely. The law goes open source at Forbes.com saves me the trouble. Apparently I'm not the only one that noticed this. Oddly the story is future dated for some reason.
Next up: claw that geographic information database back from ESRI....
Although I agree with you about the bright lines, I doubt Nokia is going to want to play well with the open source folks.
For all of me they could put their magic phone bits on one corner of the board and connect it with some interface -- say ppoe over usb or ethernet or whatever. They can move the phone into the computer. That way my internet-everywhere device could use it like what it is -- a wireless modem.
I think what they want though is to move the computer into the phone. They want to build all of their DRM into the computer bits on the other side of your bright line so the providers can continue to make billions of dollars a year on ringtones and phone applications. That's a scheme I can't get behind and I won't be buying one of those. I'd rather just keep using the external cellular phone with USB for a remote broadband connection and remain able to install whatever software I want on the computer side of the USB cable.
here you go.
Bacteria no. Lichens and fungus yes, you can. Very much indeed you can. It does indeed very much work like that.
Aw, shucks.
The GGP (now) is a common troll on /. and you should know that. He's wrong in every possible way and I think it's a deliberate attempt to draw out reasoned counterpoints. There's no way a messaging campaign intending to serve Microsoft could fail this horribly without being halted.
The type of hardware under discussion could simulate the hardware you're thinking of with little difficulty. In fact, a good systems guy and a good hardware guy could probably put together a nice secure redundant high performance distributed architecture for far less than the mainframe salesmen at IBM can.
But hey, if you are willing to pay for the extra confidence that the brand name gives you, go for it. Maybe your competitors think more clearly and they're the better market.
The atmosphere of Venus is considerably more dense than Earth's. As is Saturn's, Jupiter's and Uranus'. The importance of the density of atmosphere is irrelevant. For every atmospheric density there is an insertion vector where a lifeform resident on a meteor could be brushed off and float gently down.
What's important is the hospitality to life and the flexibility of life. We know that life is ridiculously flexible. There are forms of life in volcanic vents on Earth that would find Venus a paradise beyond imagining. In the past most of the planets in our solar system have been hospitable to some form of life found on our planet. It's reasonable to expect that there is some form of life on Earth that might find the crushing pressures of a gas giant inviting. For all we know the Great Red Spots are actually a life form of some kind.
In short, "life finds a way." We can take it as a given that our solar system has been so thoroughly polluted by life that everywhere it could take root it did. It's an open question whether it first took root in our solar system on Earth or elsewhere. I'm for Mars, but that's just an opinion. We're infested with life and with this meteorite we have evidence we're not the only solar system to be so infested. It follows that life is as common elsewhere in our galaxy as it is here. That means that the panspermia theory is at least partly true -- in the one example that we know of it's possible that some form of life will cross the stars. In regards to life if it can be done, it will be done. Therefore all the planets in our galaxy that can support life similar to ours have life. This is a big discovery.
When we get to the planets around distant stars we will find life that we understand. Let's go!