most average users, read non slashdot, non geek users. only use their computers to browse the internet, type a paper, build a spreadsheet, play solitare, and watch a few movies. all of these can be achieved by a system with a 400 mhz cpu and 32/64 megs of ram, if you drop the movie requirement probably 100 mhz cpu with 16/32 megs of ram. this is all assumming the right OS not necesarily Linux, windows, MacOS as well as well written applications.
I always laugh when I here the online crowd say a system needs to be at least 1 ghz, 2ghz etc, because that is only taking into account bloatware
apps.
what I'd Like to see is a simple dummy proof piece
of hardware with modem/ethernet with OS, word processor, spread sheet, web/email, multimedia player, maybe a couple simple games, all stored in say 256 megs of flash.provide a dvd/cd-rw drive with a simple app to be able to treat the rewrite capability of the drive as easily as it were a floppy. and provide a simple way to get system updates.
I know it sounds like set top but no one company seems to make settop with all these features in simple to use package at a sub 150 dollar price tag.
market it to schools, libraries, third world countries, etc and someone could make bundle if done well
do you whant to learn assembly on something as complex as a p4 or athlon though you could stick to the 386mode assembly plus modern game programming is mostly about writing an engine then created 3d graphics or I suppose 2d graphics
Well I don't know About 3d but I'd think about buying this if it had 256k sram and 1 or 2 megs of flash it does not cost that much after all, where you going to get a cartridge for this beast unless you brew your own anyhow
A lot Of what you said is true by my understanding but then most of the world would still Like everyone
to fight protracted trench wars that avoid as many civilians as possible. We know tghis would never happen thankfully maybe we should call for geneva convention reforms. but then anti americans would just say we are trying to warp it to our view. its the classic no win scenario
slightly off topic, but I have a friend who is a grocery manager at a local grocery who gets paid about 32,000 a year salaried but when he broke it down by as an hourly wage it comes out to around $4.30 U.S. dollars or so far less than minimum wage around here $5.35 an hour. so I figure thats the way with many managerial positions in this day and age
if you can answer this then I will give the argument to you, when has america been popular with the world? yankee dollars does not count, as Clint Eastwood said (not a quote) the ak-47 assault rifle is the favorite weapon of the "I hate Americans", and there are a hell of a lot of ak-47 , even in america. the problem is people don't like the boat to be rocked and america for better or worse likes to stick its nose into other peoples business.
though I don't know if I'd call the Economy that bad there still is a goodly number of jobs available, even with the unemployement rate. any problems can be laid on the Investors being chicken. I made a good bit of cash investing in this Economy.
probably kill it since I doubt he will be too friendly with corporations;putting the bite on their profits through heavy taxation all while taking their hand outs and softmoney in the name of his party of course. and since Dems traditionaly believe in taxation to fund their programs we the people will get squeezed or at least those of us who work
for a Living
but radioisotope powered batteries have been around for years used in some pacemakers and hearing aids plus it has been well known for the last fifty or so years that a thermalcouple surounded by radioactive material generates small currents. a large scale containable implementation of this principal may be a good "recycling" option for radioactive waste.
big deal do you think any linux zealot whether corporate admin/tech officer or home user could care less about sun beating on Red Hat if they have adopted Red Hat over Sun Or Microsoft its probably because they have weighed the options and found that Linux, in this case RedHat is the best solution to their needs, and if Sun succeeded in this gambit then a distro change probably is not the hardest fix, but a change of OS/OS,Platform would probably be a bitch to implement. Sun might succeed in hurting or Killing RedHat but then they would need to switch over to attacking SUSE, then Mandrake, then oh dear I hope they have deep pockets, and forgiving investors
it almost looked like it had a water block on it at first then i though maybe peltier but no heatsink plus it had no ram so I think that it was just a bare mobo
assuming they won't require CSS software in the future this might mean that Linux,... Oh never mind
I'll just bend over and grab my ankles like the rest of the consumers who pay these morons bills
had an ati radeon 7000 pci card once (walmart special) installed it in my pc booted up the system
worked ok for about ten minutes went to do a reboot
and nothing happenedput the old card back in and I got a message from the boot block bios stating that the system bios had been wiped and needed to be reflashed so I did system then worked till I put the radeon back in and killed the bios again. tried the card in another system my dads it booted into win98 fine then started detecting hardware that was not in his system believe it or not it detected the lan card in mine which was several dozen feet away. got my cash back on that card
and got an NVIDIA. wierd though
I read a book several years ago about the whole cold fusion debacle and as it was explained the electrochemist (read, not physicist) who purportedly developed had fraudulant and questionable backgrounds already. the actual result
of excess energy was explained, Paladium like the other metals in its group such as platinum absorb hydrogen freely and as the electrodes liberate Oxygen some of which dissolves in the water then heat the water, creating bubbles of oxygen albeit small bubbles. when these form near the heavy hydrogen rich paladium hydride which are also hot
there are bound to be small mini explosions the book also went on to show that the same happens with regular water substituted for heavy water
so don't hold your breath for cheap simple fusion power just yet
yes but the performance aint that great for twelve processors the can only sustain 16 gFlops isn't the
pentium IV hitting twelve gFlops usings sse type math?
actually the technique involves grabbing a piece of DeSitter space (Omniverse) where the speed of light is irelevant then then travelling within that space
by means of the interaction between the higher dimensional fields of dilithium and the antimatter/matter reaction regulated by it. this has the effect of generating counter repulsive fields of real (our universe) and DeSitter space so
get it right huh!
actualy the way I read this is that it is almost a cryptocrystaline ceramic made up of semi glassine particles sintering would definately lead to crystallization great breakthrough though
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most average users, read non slashdot, non geek users. only use their computers to browse the internet, type a paper, build a spreadsheet, play solitare, and watch a few movies. all of these can be achieved by a system with a 400 mhz cpu and 32/64 megs of ram, if you drop the movie requirement probably 100 mhz cpu with 16/32 megs of ram. this is all assumming the right OS not necesarily Linux, windows, MacOS as well as well written applications. I always laugh when I here the online crowd say a system needs to be at least 1 ghz, 2ghz etc, because that is only taking into account bloatware apps. what I'd Like to see is a simple dummy proof piece of hardware with modem/ethernet with OS, word processor, spread sheet, web/email, multimedia player, maybe a couple simple games, all stored in say 256 megs of flash.provide a dvd/cd-rw drive with a simple app to be able to treat the rewrite capability of the drive as easily as it were a floppy. and provide a simple way to get system updates. I know it sounds like set top but no one company seems to make settop with all these features in simple to use package at a sub 150 dollar price tag. market it to schools, libraries, third world countries, etc and someone could make bundle if done well
do you whant to learn assembly on something as complex as a p4 or athlon though you could stick to the 386mode assembly plus modern game programming is mostly about writing an engine then created 3d graphics or I suppose 2d graphics
Well I don't know About 3d but I'd think about buying this if it had 256k sram and 1 or 2 megs of flash it does not cost that much after all, where you going to get a cartridge for this beast unless you brew your own anyhow
2+2=4, you know the Reference
A lot Of what you said is true by my understanding but then most of the world would still Like everyone to fight protracted trench wars that avoid as many civilians as possible. We know tghis would never happen thankfully maybe we should call for geneva convention reforms. but then anti americans would just say we are trying to warp it to our view. its the classic no win scenario
unless apples operating systems Licence has changed their OS can only legaly be ran on mac hardware but then noone reads os licences but me anyway
Microsoft will make themselves look good by saying they are doing it for the customer. the people that don't know will sing their praises
slightly off topic, but I have a friend who is a grocery manager at a local grocery who gets paid about 32,000 a year salaried but when he broke it down by as an hourly wage it comes out to around $4.30 U.S. dollars or so far less than minimum wage around here $5.35 an hour. so I figure thats the way with many managerial positions in this day and age
if you can answer this then I will give the argument to you, when has america been popular with the world? yankee dollars does not count, as Clint Eastwood said (not a quote) the ak-47 assault rifle is the favorite weapon of the "I hate Americans", and there are a hell of a lot of ak-47 , even in america. the problem is people don't like the boat to be rocked and america for better or worse likes to stick its nose into other peoples business. though I don't know if I'd call the Economy that bad there still is a goodly number of jobs available, even with the unemployement rate. any problems can be laid on the Investors being chicken. I made a good bit of cash investing in this Economy.
probably kill it since I doubt he will be too friendly with corporations;putting the bite on their profits through heavy taxation all while taking their hand outs and softmoney in the name of his party of course. and since Dems traditionaly believe in taxation to fund their programs we the people will get squeezed or at least those of us who work for a Living
but radioisotope powered batteries have been around for years used in some pacemakers and hearing aids plus it has been well known for the last fifty or so years that a thermalcouple surounded by radioactive material generates small currents. a large scale containable implementation of this principal may be a good "recycling" option for radioactive waste.
driver then again he may have some app that is sucking his ram
big deal do you think any linux zealot whether corporate admin/tech officer or home user could
care less about sun beating on Red Hat if they have adopted Red Hat over Sun Or Microsoft its
probably because they have weighed the options
and found that Linux, in this case RedHat is the best solution to their needs, and if Sun succeeded in this gambit then a distro change probably is not the hardest fix, but a change of OS/OS,Platform would probably be a bitch to implement. Sun might succeed in hurting or Killing RedHat but then they would need to switch over to attacking SUSE, then Mandrake, then oh dear I hope they have deep pockets, and forgiving investors
it almost looked like it had a water block on it at first then i though maybe peltier but no heatsink
plus it had no ram so I think that it was just a bare mobo
assuming they won't require CSS software in the future this might mean that Linux,... Oh never mind I'll just bend over and grab my ankles like the rest of the consumers who pay these morons bills
had an ati radeon 7000 pci card once (walmart special) installed it in my pc booted up the system worked ok for about ten minutes went to do a reboot and nothing happenedput the old card back in and I got a message from the boot block bios stating that the system bios had been wiped and needed to be reflashed so I did system then worked till I put the radeon back in and killed the bios again. tried the card in another system my dads it booted into win98 fine then started detecting hardware that was not in his system believe it or not it detected the lan card in mine which was several dozen feet away. got my cash back on that card and got an NVIDIA. wierd though
I read a book several years ago about the whole cold fusion debacle and as it was explained the electrochemist (read, not physicist) who purportedly developed had fraudulant and questionable backgrounds already. the actual result of excess energy was explained, Paladium like the other metals in its group such as platinum absorb hydrogen freely and as the electrodes liberate Oxygen some of which dissolves in the water then heat the water, creating bubbles of oxygen albeit small bubbles. when these form near the heavy hydrogen rich paladium hydride which are also hot there are bound to be small mini explosions the book also went on to show that the same happens with regular water substituted for heavy water so don't hold your breath for cheap simple fusion power just yet
actualy his family and friends and fans raised the money as a gift to honor him with
yes but the performance aint that great for twelve processors the can only sustain 16 gFlops isn't the pentium IV hitting twelve gFlops usings sse type math?
get a nice heavy fireproof box then chain it to your bed
well pcb does not take that much heat to melt so I am personaly a little afraid to run this type of chip in any way without good cooling
actually the technique involves grabbing a piece of DeSitter space (Omniverse) where the speed of light is irelevant then then travelling within that space by means of the interaction between the higher dimensional fields of dilithium and the antimatter/matter reaction regulated by it. this has the effect of generating counter repulsive fields of real (our universe) and DeSitter space so get it right huh!
since when is tin poisonous after all they use it in potable water systems as tin/silver solder?
actualy the way I read this is that it is almost a cryptocrystaline ceramic made up of semi glassine particles sintering would definately lead to crystallization great breakthrough though
they are initially at least being released as pci express parts only