Just imagine the amount of power required for something like that. Each core of a dual core 65nm CPU will need at least 70 watts of power, giving 140 watts total. In order for a peltier to be useful, the wattage has to be greater than that of the CPUs. So with only the CPU and Pelt, that is a minimum of 300 watts, with something between 400 and 500 being more likely. That is an absurd amount of power and heat.
Handhelds.org is where most of the Pocket PC -> Linux action is these days. They are still working on getting Familiar (the main Pocket PC linux distro) on previous generation devices, such as the Dell X3 and the Ipaq 4100, so it could be a while before there is support for the 4705.
BTW, I have Familiar Linux with the Opie GUI on my Ipaq 3650, and its actually quite good.
Things may be different where you are, but in my area, the geek community is pretty tightly knit. Generally, word-of-mouth is the best form of advertisent. Tell the local geeks at high schools, colleges, etc. People who would be willing to attend a LAN would hear about it eventually, from other people who would be attending it.
I assume that by "use smaller connectors", they meant that SATA is smaller than the connectors currently being used in mini hard drives. While power usage may be limited more by the drive itself, size may not be. Take a look at the currect standard for 1 inch hard drives. It needs 52 pins on it. SATA in contrast, only needs 8, plus whatever is needed for power.
Ram doesn't generate much heat, so it can be stacked without cooling.
Current CPUs are giving off over a hundred watts, and by the time this technology comes along, it will be much more than that. I suppose that one large waterblock could cover the CPU, cache chip, northbridge, southbridge, etc if they were next to each other. If they were stacked, it would be much more difficult.
The site is already slashdotted, but I assume it is this tablet that was announced a few months ago. It's nice to see that companies are already using AMD's 1.35v Mobile Athlons.
That could change soon. NTT DoCoMo, a pioneer in wireless services, is developing a technology called FingerWhisper that uses a hand's bone structure to make a wrist watch phone easier to manage and operate. Here's how it works: When a call arrives, the phone sends vibrations through the bones in the index finger. When the finger is slipped into the ear canal, those vibrations turn into voice. The technology also would allow users to dial phone numbers or send text messages by tapping their palms in certain ways. And the technology doesn't seem to pose any health risks, says a DoCoMo spokesperson.
And you thought the taco-shaped side-talking N-Gage was embarassing...
That's why Xvid.org doesn't release binaries. There is something somewhere that states that you can't compile it unless you have a licence for Mpeg-4. So, they release the source and expect you to compile it. That's also why sites like this exist, where you can get binaries.
The best part is that Google Adsense ads actually earn much more than annoying banners and pop-ups in most cases. I can't give specific figures because of the Adsense policies.
Although the game is over two years old, Halo is still considered by many to be the best game on Xbox. It makes sense that it would be included in a limited edition bundle.
One problem would be taking standardized tests such as the SATs. There are no numbers in the section where you bubble in your name. Your child could lose the 400 points given for putting your name on the test...
I had Opie on my Pocket PC (An Ipaq 3650) for a while. It was running on the Familiar distribution from handhelds.org. It worked surprisingly well, though some of the PIM features were not as polished as those on the Pocket PC 2002 OS. Opie supported all of the hardware on the Ipaq, so I assume the Zaurus would be fully supported as well. As for the question about if it is "experimental", I would liken it to the Testing distribution of Debian. It is stable enough to run fine, but it is not as perfect as the Stable distro.
I plugged the phone number listed into Google a few days ago. Turns out that it goes to Brueger's Bagel's of Cambridge, Massachutsetts... Apparently this is some kind of evil scheme to make us buy bagels.
The fact that the exploit existed is enough. The longer that it remained unfixed, the greater the chance of someone discovering it. Microsoft truely can't afford many more "RPC DCOM"-like disasters...
...they really should update it. It's been over four years since Mindstorms first came out, and Lego still hasn't made any significant changes or upgrades to it. It really is an excellent learning/building tool, but there are many limitations to the RCX. A newer model, say, RCX 3.0, with increased processing capabilites, more ram/rom, and possibly even Wifi or Bluetooth instead of IR would be terrific.
It's almost certainly not going to use a compact flash card. The current price for a 2GB cf card is around $400. It is much more likely that Apple will use a Toshiba's or Cornice's 1 inch hard drives, which cost under $100 in mass quantities.
Tweaknews.net did a review of the Lubic kit last month. Apparently it's not as easy to use as an erector set, but it's still a cool product for case modders.
I was joking, but I decided to do a little research about it. There are approximately 500,000,000 PCs out there (not including servers, etc.), and 4,800,000,000,000 megabytes of data was created per person last year. Thats about 10 gigs per computer... which is a lot per year, so I suppose I should shut up now.
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Just imagine the amount of power required for something like that. Each core of a dual core 65nm CPU will need at least 70 watts of power, giving 140 watts total. In order for a peltier to be useful, the wattage has to be greater than that of the CPUs. So with only the CPU and Pelt, that is a minimum of 300 watts, with something between 400 and 500 being more likely. That is an absurd amount of power and heat.
Handhelds.org is where most of the Pocket PC -> Linux action is these days. They are still working on getting Familiar (the main Pocket PC linux distro) on previous generation devices, such as the Dell X3 and the Ipaq 4100, so it could be a while before there is support for the 4705.
BTW, I have Familiar Linux with the Opie GUI on my Ipaq 3650, and its actually quite good.
Things may be different where you are, but in my area, the geek community is pretty tightly knit. Generally, word-of-mouth is the best form of advertisent. Tell the local geeks at high schools, colleges, etc. People who would be willing to attend a LAN would hear about it eventually, from other people who would be attending it.
I assume that by "use smaller connectors", they meant that SATA is smaller than the connectors currently being used in mini hard drives. While power usage may be limited more by the drive itself, size may not be. Take a look at the currect standard for 1 inch hard drives. It needs 52 pins on it. SATA in contrast, only needs 8, plus whatever is needed for power.
Ram doesn't generate much heat, so it can be stacked without cooling. Current CPUs are giving off over a hundred watts, and by the time this technology comes along, it will be much more than that. I suppose that one large waterblock could cover the CPU, cache chip, northbridge, southbridge, etc if they were next to each other. If they were stacked, it would be much more difficult.
The site is already slashdotted, but I assume it is this tablet that was announced a few months ago. It's nice to see that companies are already using AMD's 1.35v Mobile Athlons.
That could change soon. NTT DoCoMo, a pioneer in wireless services, is developing a technology called FingerWhisper that uses a hand's bone structure to make a wrist watch phone easier to manage and operate. Here's how it works: When a call arrives, the phone sends vibrations through the bones in the index finger. When the finger is slipped into the ear canal, those vibrations turn into voice. The technology also would allow users to dial phone numbers or send text messages by tapping their palms in certain ways. And the technology doesn't seem to pose any health risks, says a DoCoMo spokesperson.
And you thought the taco-shaped side-talking N-Gage was embarassing...
That's why Xvid.org doesn't release binaries. There is something somewhere that states that you can't compile it unless you have a licence for Mpeg-4. So, they release the source and expect you to compile it. That's also why sites like this exist, where you can get binaries.
Windows Media Player is free, but Windows is required to run it. (not free... legally)
Well, the price is about the same as Windows Media Player 9 on Windows.
The Slashdot post is wrong. It's actually 10cm x 8cm x 0.8cm.
The best part is that Google Adsense ads actually earn much more than annoying banners and pop-ups in most cases. I can't give specific figures because of the Adsense policies.
Although the game is over two years old, Halo is still considered by many to be the best game on Xbox. It makes sense that it would be included in a limited edition bundle.
One problem would be taking standardized tests such as the SATs. There are no numbers in the section where you bubble in your name. Your child could lose the 400 points given for putting your name on the test...
I had Opie on my Pocket PC (An Ipaq 3650) for a while. It was running on the Familiar distribution from handhelds.org. It worked surprisingly well, though some of the PIM features were not as polished as those on the Pocket PC 2002 OS. Opie supported all of the hardware on the Ipaq, so I assume the Zaurus would be fully supported as well. As for the question about if it is "experimental", I would liken it to the Testing distribution of Debian. It is stable enough to run fine, but it is not as perfect as the Stable distro.
Anyone else find it funny that Google has around one item for every man woman and child on earth?
Why use Microsoft Office when Open Office is getting so good?
I plugged the phone number listed into Google a few days ago. Turns out that it goes to Brueger's Bagel's of Cambridge, Massachutsetts... Apparently this is some kind of evil scheme to make us buy bagels.
The fact that the exploit existed is enough. The longer that it remained unfixed, the greater the chance of someone discovering it. Microsoft truely can't afford many more "RPC DCOM"-like disasters...
...they really should update it. It's been over four years since Mindstorms first came out, and Lego still hasn't made any significant changes or upgrades to it. It really is an excellent learning/building tool, but there are many limitations to the RCX. A newer model, say, RCX 3.0, with increased processing capabilites, more ram/rom, and possibly even Wifi or Bluetooth instead of IR would be terrific.
It's almost certainly not going to use a compact flash card. The current price for a 2GB cf card is around $400. It is much more likely that Apple will use a Toshiba's or Cornice's 1 inch hard drives, which cost under $100 in mass quantities.
Tweaknews.net did a review of the Lubic kit last month. Apparently it's not as easy to use as an erector set, but it's still a cool product for case modders.
Oops, I meant to write "total", not "per person".
I was joking, but I decided to do a little research about it. There are approximately 500,000,000 PCs out there (not including servers, etc.), and 4,800,000,000,000 megabytes of data was created per person last year. Thats about 10 gigs per computer... which is a lot per year, so I suppose I should shut up now.
800 megabytes per person, and yet most people have 40+ gig hard drives... Is there something wrong here?