The solution to this problem is quite simple, just leave the gates to the subway permanently opened. Pay for public transportation through CO2 taxes on the most polluting cars and airplane travel.
At least, dear London, make it a two week trial, to make all public transportation free. Then measure the CO2 level decreases that would generate for the whole city. You will probably see that a simple freeing up of public transportation reduces transport-related CO2 levels by as much as 30% at one time.
You want to reduce CO2 emissions? This is the way to do it. This is the story of how hackers saved the environment.
2.5mbit/s video is very high quality already. It's double the DVD quality and on its way towards HD quality. So consider a p2p streaming system that lets people with at least 2mbit/s upload tune in, that's at least good enough to have DVD quality, basically the same quality as all those DivX movies you can find on the Internet.
I think this is fantastic news. This means the value of.com.tv.eu and all other current TLD domain sharks today all have gone bankrupt. This is the news they hoped would not happen.
I think that the new rules should be following:
- The Democracy involved at ICANN should rule on sharked, spammed or unused domains. As well as trademarks automatically are monitored using a database so suspicious attempts at registering trademarks will be identified.
- ICANN should control the whole system themselves using a central Google Apps like infrastructure that can scale to cover all TLD and all domains for the whole world.
- Domains should be free, no price, nada. Other then perhaps a very small fee to cover the costs of maintaining the whole DNS, database and ICANN controlling system. Thus price for a domain should be probably less than 1 dollar per domain per year. ICANN should remove all the domain registrar business, we don't need it. The price of a domain should be public knowledge and nobody should pay more than that price.
- To register a domain you need to give your real identity to ICANN, you have to register your business and be able to submit tax papers and government controlled verification in case of a conflict.
This will be just like newsgroups, the value of.com and all current TLDs will decrease, and now the value instead is going to be the content and the relevancy. Today is a great day for democracy online, for relevancy of searches, for the quality of the content online, for the semantic web and for the freedom of speech.
TFA says that the 100 thousand dollar price is going to be for approximately the first 10 or 20 TLDs. Then price for a TLD will probably decrease a lot. The reason for the high price is to cover ICANNs costs of doing this whole open-TLD project. They say in TFA that the costs have been 10 million dollars so far for the system and that the costs will be about 20 million dollars by the time they launch the open-TLD system.
I don't see why ICANN isn't just themselves hosting the whole thing. This way it'll be scalable as they need, they can just use Google Apps to host the whole system for free. They should give out TLDs and domains for free to everyone. Though there should be an international organization where every user can democratically participate which will decide who gets banned, who is determined to be domain sharks, domain spammers, who parks a lot of domains without using them. One should not be able to register domains anonymously and park them to resell them later. If you want a domain, you need a business model or you need to have a reason for wanting to use that domainl, for example it could be for your blog, but there is a limit how many blogs a person can have.
I think they should make domain registrations free and have a system where users can report domain sharks, spammers and unused or parked domains.
I think all TLD should be free and open, ICANN should host the whole system on Google Apps or something like that. So let people register any domain they wish for free.
Requirements should be, the system should check all people's IDs. Then there should be a whole system that measures if domains are in use. If someone comes and wants to do something constructive on a parked or sharked domain, then that new person should automatically get the domain handed to them.
Actually, it'll probably be "google [enter]". There is no reason google will use search.google, they will probably simply remove the.com and have all the same URLs they have now. So for example mail.google, reader.google, docs.google, news.google and blogs.google while search will most probably be on just the TLD by itself.
How many people can get 1.2GB/s at the same time using this satellite?
How much does the satellite dish to download and upload to the satellite cost?
What is the expected price to connect using this satellite? Will customers be charged per GB transfered or a flat fee per month for a certain bandwidth? Is the bandwidth dedicated to each user or delivered at best effort depending on the bandwidth used by the other customers in the region or on the whole satellite?
Someone please answer. I can't find any clear information in any of the reports on this story.
If this satellite provide unlimited cheap wireless bandwidth, then I wouldn't understand why we aren't all using those, and why we aren't sending such satellites to cover Africa and other areas of the world that hasn't got a lot of broadband yet.
The XO is about 2-3 times cheaper than any competitor, comes with 10 times better battery life (good for environment and practical to use it the whole day on a charge), is sunlight readable (imagine kids being able to learn outside buildings), provides REAL collaborative features as has never been seen before on any other laptop both in terms of using WiFi Mesh networking and the software interface built around COLLABORATION and LEARNING.
Attacking OLPC for arguments on its cost and value proposition is completely ridiculous.
The Asus Eee costs minimum $400 without Asus making any profit, probably selling it at a loss, actually Asus is selling the Eee for $650 each to schools in the USA, thus over 3 times more expensive then the XO laptop.
The Classmate is a joke. It's nothing else than a conventionnal laptop with a crappy DVD player 7" screen. You can get a full sized laptop for about the same price. Just replace the harddrive with a 2GB flash memory and install Linux instead of Windows on any conventionnal laptop and you've got something that is exactly the same as the Intel Classmate PC. There is NOTHING to look for in Intel's laptop, no innovation whatsoever and don't even compare educational features cause on the Intel solutions THERE ARE NONE.
Compare the XO project with whatever you want on the market, there is no question the OLPC project is a fantastic opportunity for schools worldwide, and there is absolutely NO better way to spend $188, no matter if you are in the USA (where the school system spends more than 10 thousand dollars per school child a year) or if you are in one of the poorest countries like Ghana where the budget is not even $20 per child per year for education. The XO laptop is built to last at least for 5 years, so in poor countries it will replace whatever crappy books budget there is and in the developped countries like the USA it will be paid for by instauring about 2 day off for extra hollidays in a school year budget.
I'm sure most people working at Intel or Microsoft probably are cool..
Such as the people who probably worked hard for many months making an Intel chip work inside of an Intel version of the XO and having all their work scrapped by a strategical decision at the managment.
Or the Microsoft employees who have worked over a year on the XO version of Windows XP.
Anyways, I've suggested OLPC to release many more videos on the Internet to let people know what's going on and to let people know the truth while there are all these positive and sometimes negative stories going around on all the big and small media. OLPC is a huge hope for many people following this industry and in my opinion there should be a bit more blogging and video-blogging going on from within, more then http://planet.laptop.org/
I do what I can as an independent fan at http://olpc.tv/
Just put a 10$ 1GB SD card in the SD card slot under the screen, and the OLPC can boot into a light, customized 3$ Windows XP OS.
Microsoft has been working for the past year on adapting a Windows XP light version to run on such cheaper hardware, the OLPC hardware specs are totally sufficient for running a thinned down version of Windows XP. Microsoft certainly has the means and the will to provide such Windows XP on a 1GB SD card option, which each child could after some time and as SD card prices drop get one, and have a choice a boot-up for which OS to use.
1. one laptop per child demands a hell of a lot in terms of teacher training. Any such program would have to be gradually introduced, as most teachers have never used a computer themselves, forget using it as an educational tool.
Children will take the laptops, learn everything about them much faster than teachers. And the teachers will learn how to use the laptops from the children.
2. i highly doubt the laptop supports all of India's 33-odd "recognized languages", disregarding others commonly taught in schools (Arabic, Farsi, etc). The vernacular lobbies would have a field day claiming that the government is deliberately excluding their languages. Which is a valid point. People would sue the government and the education boards.
OLPC is open-source, thus government can adapt the keyboard, the OS and the software for any language. And not a whole country gets the laptop at once, though some parts of each country are chosen, where every child gets it, and where effort to adapt the laptop to local language and culture is done.
3. kids in India are already prone to watching excessive amounts of television. (...)
Computers are better than Television, cause it's bidirectionnal while TV is a much more passive experience for the children.
4. (...) why go all out and give each child a computer at what is a ridiculous cost?
Ridiculous cost? The whole point of OLPC is to provide an extremely cheap x86-compatible computing experience.
OLPC is 3-4 times faster than the Microsoft and Intel solution. It's possibly to realize OLPC now only because computer parts have become cheap enough so OLPC can be done.
5. (...) these laptops are too easy to steal.
Firstly students have no need to steal them from any other student if every child has his own.
The color and design of the OLPC is done in a way so it is immediately reconized that it is some childs hardware. So if they appear on some black market the seller and the buyer will have the bad conscience knowing it has been stolen from a child.
Thirdly it is 3-4 times cheaper than a conventional Microsoft and Intel laptop, thus at least 3 to 4 times less likely to be stolen.
I put it up on the internet at:
http://wcitvideo.com/?p=16
Full 28 minute keynote of the One Laptop Per Child chairman at the WCIT in Austin texas last month.
Okay thanks, I hope not..
I have looked a bit more and found a couple more applications that generate PHP, hopefully one of them realises my dream:
phpCodeGenie:
"Just design your database tables and phpCodeGenie can write the php scripts and programs for you."
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/20039.html
dsQwikSite:
http://www.dbqwiksite.com/
I don't know about contact manager in m$ access.
I just surfed around and google tells me about:
BigProf AppGini 3.01:
"It converts your database structure definition into a powerful PHP application that connects to MySQL database. It creates HTML forms for handling your data and all the PHP scripts behind them."
http://www.download.com/AppGini/3000-2210-10070978 .html?part=dl-AppGini&subj=dl&tag=button
PHPMagic:
" Automatic PHP code generator to manage the data of MySQL databases. The very intuitive graphical interface of PHPMagic allows you to create powerful web database applications in a very short time."
http://www.websitedatabases.com/download.html
I will see if one of those will let me do a new digg-like application for my website.. Or maybe I might go back and try Dreamweaver again, though I doubt it's able to do the php stuff that I need. Thanks!
I think I understand the fundamentals, I just don't know PHP.. I can design a database, and I can understand the kind of interaction there needs to be between the tables.
Imagine a GUI, first step design a database, with tables and relations. NExt step, you can define some tables as some standard ones, like "username" or "password". Then choose the actions that the PHP pages will do and include, for example the username and password box. And then define on the "logged-in" php page what can happen from which tables.
Imagine such GUI that does not create every advanced PHP system, but is advanced enough to design ones own Digg.com kind of system, own search, own custom cms, members area, digital files store and lots of stuff like that. It will generate the php pages and it will be possible to view source and edit them to cutomize them..
I think it should be possible to have a GUI application, that let's the user design a database. Then this GUI let's the user assign some functions between each table of the database. And at last define the.php pages and design them with Wysiwig. Lastly the.php files are uploaded to the server and it should work! That's what I am looking for. But for now I will try cake, prado and symfony and see what I can do with them.
I want to make some original PHP apps on my websites but I still don't know PHP. So it would be great to have some GUI application or something that let's me realize a PHP/MySQL application just out of a database model that I would draw and some specific actions specified. So I am checking these solutions out, and if someone has more solutions for me that would be great.
How bout Google Monkey?
no seriously, I think Google are going to start a really cool combination of Google Wallet and Google Video, not only giving access to DRM'ed David Letterman shows from CBS and other thousands of established content, but just like the mp3.com of 5 years ago, it will enable artists to broadcast, sell, distribute their video. Surely Google must be gearing for peer-to-peer solutions also. Imagine an eMule and BitTorrent plug-in by Google, that can providing On-Demand seeding for files that it is hosting. So if you pay with Google Wallet, you can accelerate your p2p transfer. And Google Storage is when Google will take over http://mediamax.com/ to provide unlimited amounts of Gygabytes storage for everyone, while users will have to pay with Google Wallet for used bandwidth. A way for users to share multimedia files with friends and distribute and earn money.
This is awesome. I would like to have this for a triple-language forum. So users would have to know at least one language of English, French and German to participate. At the top of the page and in the profile settings, there are check boxes the user checks for thwe languages that he understands. Thus is someone doesn't understand German, the plugin would display the auto-translated version in the user's prefered language. Manual translations can be provided by the user to be displayed if available instead of the automatic translation. Please contact me if you have seen this multi-language forum someplace.
pixels don't matter for it to be a widescreen or not a widescreen.. Pixels can be wide pixels, so for this device to be widescreen or not is all about the size of the screen, width should be 16/9th of height, no matter pixels.
The pixels here are just that resolution detail the screen can show, though any video up to DVD resolution + b-frames + vbr-mp3 work fine, and will just be processed down to the 400 something pixels, which is more than very heigh and ample enough resolution even on a 7inch screen, which probably is for a fantastic portable video experience.
mp3newwire don't know 100% what they are talking about when they say Archos devices are not compatible with pirated DivX movies. I think probably 70% of DivX and XviD will work fine on Gmini400, AV400, AV700 and even more video shall work on the Pma430 once more codecs are added since the Software development kit has just been released. Only DivX with qpel and cmg won't work (anyways only idiots encode their DivX with those advanced mpeg-4 features. AC3 audio won't work (I think this could be fixed in future firmware upgrade) neigther does ogg vorbis audio work in video (might require too much processing power to hope for it in firmware upgrade). DivX 3.11 doesn't work eigther and 3-point b-frames which some people encode their XviD with won't work for now.. Basically people encode their DivX movies in hundreds of different ways, you cannot expect a portable DivX player to play all of it, not yet anyways. And I am quite sure you cannot find any other company than Archos supporting b-frames and vbr-mp3 in dvd-resolution mpeg-4 AVI.
How come 75% of the posts in here say that it's better to buy a laptop.
The Archos Pma430 is 600$, just search it on froogle.
Archos has a deal with Echostar in US to market all their Gmini400, AV400 and AV700 in special packages, maybe rebranded as PocketDish. This is interesting because Echostar will probably give away this portable video player/recorder just for getting new customers over from the DirecTV/Tivo users.
The Archos players are approximately same price as an iPod anyways, so stop saying that it's better to have a laptop, then you should say that the iPod is the same price as a laptop, and then anyways all Archos devices are much cooler than iPods.
Specially the Pma430 which is a fully hackable Linux embarqued with touch-screen, wifi, usb-host and still has all the portable video recorder/player full DivX compatibillity (dvd-resolution simple profile + b-frames + vbr-mp3)
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The solution to this problem is quite simple, just leave the gates to the subway permanently opened. Pay for public transportation through CO2 taxes on the most polluting cars and airplane travel. At least, dear London, make it a two week trial, to make all public transportation free. Then measure the CO2 level decreases that would generate for the whole city. You will probably see that a simple freeing up of public transportation reduces transport-related CO2 levels by as much as 30% at one time. You want to reduce CO2 emissions? This is the way to do it. This is the story of how hackers saved the environment.
2.5mbit/s video is very high quality already. It's double the DVD quality and on its way towards HD quality. So consider a p2p streaming system that lets people with at least 2mbit/s upload tune in, that's at least good enough to have DVD quality, basically the same quality as all those DivX movies you can find on the Internet.
I think this is fantastic news. This means the value of .com .tv .eu and all other current TLD domain sharks today all have gone bankrupt. This is the news they hoped would not happen.
I think that the new rules should be following:
- The Democracy involved at ICANN should rule on sharked, spammed or unused domains. As well as trademarks automatically are monitored using a database so suspicious attempts at registering trademarks will be identified.
- ICANN should control the whole system themselves using a central Google Apps like infrastructure that can scale to cover all TLD and all domains for the whole world.
- Domains should be free, no price, nada. Other then perhaps a very small fee to cover the costs of maintaining the whole DNS, database and ICANN controlling system. Thus price for a domain should be probably less than 1 dollar per domain per year. ICANN should remove all the domain registrar business, we don't need it. The price of a domain should be public knowledge and nobody should pay more than that price.
- To register a domain you need to give your real identity to ICANN, you have to register your business and be able to submit tax papers and government controlled verification in case of a conflict.
This will be just like newsgroups, the value of .com and all current TLDs will decrease, and now the value instead is going to be the content and the relevancy. Today is a great day for democracy online, for relevancy of searches, for the quality of the content online, for the semantic web and for the freedom of speech.
TFA says that the 100 thousand dollar price is going to be for approximately the first 10 or 20 TLDs. Then price for a TLD will probably decrease a lot. The reason for the high price is to cover ICANNs costs of doing this whole open-TLD project. They say in TFA that the costs have been 10 million dollars so far for the system and that the costs will be about 20 million dollars by the time they launch the open-TLD system.
I don't see why ICANN isn't just themselves hosting the whole thing. This way it'll be scalable as they need, they can just use Google Apps to host the whole system for free. They should give out TLDs and domains for free to everyone. Though there should be an international organization where every user can democratically participate which will decide who gets banned, who is determined to be domain sharks, domain spammers, who parks a lot of domains without using them. One should not be able to register domains anonymously and park them to resell them later. If you want a domain, you need a business model or you need to have a reason for wanting to use that domainl, for example it could be for your blog, but there is a limit how many blogs a person can have.
I think they should make domain registrations free and have a system where users can report domain sharks, spammers and unused or parked domains. I think all TLD should be free and open, ICANN should host the whole system on Google Apps or something like that. So let people register any domain they wish for free. Requirements should be, the system should check all people's IDs. Then there should be a whole system that measures if domains are in use. If someone comes and wants to do something constructive on a parked or sharked domain, then that new person should automatically get the domain handed to them.
Nah I prefer google, google/fr, google/it and news.google/es
Actually, it'll probably be "google [enter]". There is no reason google will use search.google, they will probably simply remove the .com and have all the same URLs they have now. So for example mail.google, reader.google, docs.google, news.google and blogs.google while search will most probably be on just the TLD by itself.
How many people can get 1.2GB/s at the same time using this satellite? How much does the satellite dish to download and upload to the satellite cost? What is the expected price to connect using this satellite? Will customers be charged per GB transfered or a flat fee per month for a certain bandwidth? Is the bandwidth dedicated to each user or delivered at best effort depending on the bandwidth used by the other customers in the region or on the whole satellite? Someone please answer. I can't find any clear information in any of the reports on this story. If this satellite provide unlimited cheap wireless bandwidth, then I wouldn't understand why we aren't all using those, and why we aren't sending such satellites to cover Africa and other areas of the world that hasn't got a lot of broadband yet.
The XO is about 2-3 times cheaper than any competitor, comes with 10 times better battery life (good for environment and practical to use it the whole day on a charge), is sunlight readable (imagine kids being able to learn outside buildings), provides REAL collaborative features as has never been seen before on any other laptop both in terms of using WiFi Mesh networking and the software interface built around COLLABORATION and LEARNING. Attacking OLPC for arguments on its cost and value proposition is completely ridiculous. The Asus Eee costs minimum $400 without Asus making any profit, probably selling it at a loss, actually Asus is selling the Eee for $650 each to schools in the USA, thus over 3 times more expensive then the XO laptop. The Classmate is a joke. It's nothing else than a conventionnal laptop with a crappy DVD player 7" screen. You can get a full sized laptop for about the same price. Just replace the harddrive with a 2GB flash memory and install Linux instead of Windows on any conventionnal laptop and you've got something that is exactly the same as the Intel Classmate PC. There is NOTHING to look for in Intel's laptop, no innovation whatsoever and don't even compare educational features cause on the Intel solutions THERE ARE NONE. Compare the XO project with whatever you want on the market, there is no question the OLPC project is a fantastic opportunity for schools worldwide, and there is absolutely NO better way to spend $188, no matter if you are in the USA (where the school system spends more than 10 thousand dollars per school child a year) or if you are in one of the poorest countries like Ghana where the budget is not even $20 per child per year for education. The XO laptop is built to last at least for 5 years, so in poor countries it will replace whatever crappy books budget there is and in the developped countries like the USA it will be paid for by instauring about 2 day off for extra hollidays in a school year budget.
I'm sure most people working at Intel or Microsoft probably are cool.. Such as the people who probably worked hard for many months making an Intel chip work inside of an Intel version of the XO and having all their work scrapped by a strategical decision at the managment. Or the Microsoft employees who have worked over a year on the XO version of Windows XP. Anyways, I've suggested OLPC to release many more videos on the Internet to let people know what's going on and to let people know the truth while there are all these positive and sometimes negative stories going around on all the big and small media. OLPC is a huge hope for many people following this industry and in my opinion there should be a bit more blogging and video-blogging going on from within, more then http://planet.laptop.org/ I do what I can as an independent fan at http://olpc.tv/
Just put a 10$ 1GB SD card in the SD card slot under the screen, and the OLPC can boot into a light, customized 3$ Windows XP OS. Microsoft has been working for the past year on adapting a Windows XP light version to run on such cheaper hardware, the OLPC hardware specs are totally sufficient for running a thinned down version of Windows XP. Microsoft certainly has the means and the will to provide such Windows XP on a 1GB SD card option, which each child could after some time and as SD card prices drop get one, and have a choice a boot-up for which OS to use.
I posted some videos in HD of the CERN ATLAS, which is the worlds largest physics experiment, located in Geneva, costs 8 billion dollars to build and is nearly complete: http://charbax.com/2007/02/09/a-tour-at-the-cern-l hc-atlas/
http://charbax.com/2007/02/19/cern-lhc-atlas-contr ol-room/
http://charbax.com/2007/02/19/cern-lhc-atlas-inter views/
http://charbax.com/2007/02/20/cern-lhc-atlas-grid/
OLPC is open-source, thus government can adapt the keyboard, the OS and the software for any language. And not a whole country gets the laptop at once, though some parts of each country are chosen, where every child gets it, and where effort to adapt the laptop to local language and culture is done.
Computers are better than Television, cause it's bidirectionnal while TV is a much more passive experience for the children.
Ridiculous cost? The whole point of OLPC is to provide an extremely cheap x86-compatible computing experience. OLPC is 3-4 times faster than the Microsoft and Intel solution. It's possibly to realize OLPC now only because computer parts have become cheap enough so OLPC can be done.
Firstly students have no need to steal them from any other student if every child has his own. The color and design of the OLPC is done in a way so it is immediately reconized that it is some childs hardware. So if they appear on some black market the seller and the buyer will have the bad conscience knowing it has been stolen from a child. Thirdly it is 3-4 times cheaper than a conventional Microsoft and Intel laptop, thus at least 3 to 4 times less likely to be stolen.
Hey they dont even link to my page. I made those videos, please link to my video page instead: http://e3cast.com/
I put it up on the internet at: http://wcitvideo.com/?p=16 Full 28 minute keynote of the One Laptop Per Child chairman at the WCIT in Austin texas last month.
Okay thanks, I hope not.. I have looked a bit more and found a couple more applications that generate PHP, hopefully one of them realises my dream: phpCodeGenie: "Just design your database tables and phpCodeGenie can write the php scripts and programs for you." http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/20039.html dsQwikSite: http://www.dbqwiksite.com/
I don't know about contact manager in m$ access. I just surfed around and google tells me about: BigProf AppGini 3.01: "It converts your database structure definition into a powerful PHP application that connects to MySQL database. It creates HTML forms for handling your data and all the PHP scripts behind them." http://www.download.com/AppGini/3000-2210-10070978 .html?part=dl-AppGini&subj=dl&tag=button
PHPMagic:
" Automatic PHP code generator to manage the data of MySQL databases. The very intuitive graphical interface of PHPMagic allows you to create powerful web database applications in a very short time."
http://www.websitedatabases.com/download.html
I will see if one of those will let me do a new digg-like application for my website.. Or maybe I might go back and try Dreamweaver again, though I doubt it's able to do the php stuff that I need. Thanks!
I think I understand the fundamentals, I just don't know PHP.. I can design a database, and I can understand the kind of interaction there needs to be between the tables. Imagine a GUI, first step design a database, with tables and relations. NExt step, you can define some tables as some standard ones, like "username" or "password". Then choose the actions that the PHP pages will do and include, for example the username and password box. And then define on the "logged-in" php page what can happen from which tables. Imagine such GUI that does not create every advanced PHP system, but is advanced enough to design ones own Digg.com kind of system, own search, own custom cms, members area, digital files store and lots of stuff like that. It will generate the php pages and it will be possible to view source and edit them to cutomize them..
I think it should be possible to have a GUI application, that let's the user design a database. Then this GUI let's the user assign some functions between each table of the database. And at last define the .php pages and design them with Wysiwig. Lastly the .php files are uploaded to the server and it should work! That's what I am looking for. But for now I will try cake, prado and symfony and see what I can do with them.
I want to make some original PHP apps on my websites but I still don't know PHP. So it would be great to have some GUI application or something that let's me realize a PHP/MySQL application just out of a database model that I would draw and some specific actions specified. So I am checking these solutions out, and if someone has more solutions for me that would be great.
How bout Google Monkey? no seriously, I think Google are going to start a really cool combination of Google Wallet and Google Video, not only giving access to DRM'ed David Letterman shows from CBS and other thousands of established content, but just like the mp3.com of 5 years ago, it will enable artists to broadcast, sell, distribute their video. Surely Google must be gearing for peer-to-peer solutions also. Imagine an eMule and BitTorrent plug-in by Google, that can providing On-Demand seeding for files that it is hosting. So if you pay with Google Wallet, you can accelerate your p2p transfer. And Google Storage is when Google will take over http://mediamax.com/ to provide unlimited amounts of Gygabytes storage for everyone, while users will have to pay with Google Wallet for used bandwidth. A way for users to share multimedia files with friends and distribute and earn money.
This is awesome. I would like to have this for a triple-language forum. So users would have to know at least one language of English, French and German to participate. At the top of the page and in the profile settings, there are check boxes the user checks for thwe languages that he understands. Thus is someone doesn't understand German, the plugin would display the auto-translated version in the user's prefered language. Manual translations can be provided by the user to be displayed if available instead of the automatic translation. Please contact me if you have seen this multi-language forum someplace.
pixels don't matter for it to be a widescreen or not a widescreen.. Pixels can be wide pixels, so for this device to be widescreen or not is all about the size of the screen, width should be 16/9th of height, no matter pixels. The pixels here are just that resolution detail the screen can show, though any video up to DVD resolution + b-frames + vbr-mp3 work fine, and will just be processed down to the 400 something pixels, which is more than very heigh and ample enough resolution even on a 7inch screen, which probably is for a fantastic portable video experience. mp3newwire don't know 100% what they are talking about when they say Archos devices are not compatible with pirated DivX movies. I think probably 70% of DivX and XviD will work fine on Gmini400, AV400, AV700 and even more video shall work on the Pma430 once more codecs are added since the Software development kit has just been released. Only DivX with qpel and cmg won't work (anyways only idiots encode their DivX with those advanced mpeg-4 features. AC3 audio won't work (I think this could be fixed in future firmware upgrade) neigther does ogg vorbis audio work in video (might require too much processing power to hope for it in firmware upgrade). DivX 3.11 doesn't work eigther and 3-point b-frames which some people encode their XviD with won't work for now.. Basically people encode their DivX movies in hundreds of different ways, you cannot expect a portable DivX player to play all of it, not yet anyways. And I am quite sure you cannot find any other company than Archos supporting b-frames and vbr-mp3 in dvd-resolution mpeg-4 AVI.
How come 75% of the posts in here say that it's better to buy a laptop.
The Archos Pma430 is 600$, just search it on froogle.
Archos has a deal with Echostar in US to market all their Gmini400, AV400 and AV700 in special packages, maybe rebranded as PocketDish. This is interesting because Echostar will probably give away this portable video player/recorder just for getting new customers over from the DirecTV/Tivo users.
The Archos players are approximately same price as an iPod anyways, so stop saying that it's better to have a laptop, then you should say that the iPod is the same price as a laptop, and then anyways all Archos devices are much cooler than iPods.
Specially the Pma430 which is a fully hackable Linux embarqued with touch-screen, wifi, usb-host and still has all the portable video recorder/player full DivX compatibillity (dvd-resolution simple profile + b-frames + vbr-mp3)