And if "time of day" creates biggest issues, that's actually fairly good news, to some degree (when pipes with the outside world are good, for starters...), for those from some small country in totally different timezone?...
It's you who uses established term (typing notification) for something completely different (since this is Slashdot, you could say "unix talk-like")
And generally - pardon me for not basing my expectations on some belief. You could otoh remember that, say, such things are technically doable, Jabber is already not a light protocol/has a lot of "chatter"/many services other than pure IM use it successfully & Google has quite some pipes/serverfarm/demonstrated similar capabilities (Gmail is quite network chatter-heavy, Google Search suggest, Google Voice; heck, Google pushes VoIP and video through XMPP, also via their servers)
OK, there might be some some printer that doesn't work but...USB WiFi dongles? TV-tuners? You're talking here about 7 inch ultraportable ffs, that fits in a pocket (check form factor on Qualcomm site promoting the term "Smartbook"). They will have WiFi built-in. Heck, most will have 3G. The only USB TV tuner worth considering when they come out is DVB-H (or some other mobile TV standard, depending on the area). Though if you really want "big" TV, tuners for DVB-T seem quite standard...
People don't have a problem with realizing the purpose of such devices. More or less appliances. They understand X360. Or Dell Linux laptops, which have identical return rates with Windows ones (news straight from Dell; everything else you've heard is MS FUD)
Though at the end you go in the right direction - yes, those ARM smartbooks will carve a niche. They will do the same for netbooks what netbooks done to laptops.
Don't equate nuclear propulsion with Orion, there are also other approaches, like nuclear thermal rocket or power source for VASIMR/etc.; which are more sustainable types of systems (as pointed out by another poster)
Orion is good for crash project, when we absolutely need to get off this rock rather quickly and in relatively large numbers (spending whole nuclear arsenal in the process...and leaving not a pleasant place behind - face it, nobody will develop nuclear explosives that don't rely on fission, that are not warheads)
Furthermore, to really venture into space on a sustainable basis we will need to develop "shipyards"/factories in...space, and using resources that are already there. At this point there won't be much need for massive launch capability. Tether propulsion/skyhooks will be probably most optimal then for moving stuff around in the most efficient way, with VASIMR descendants for (also efficient) constant station-keeping / to counteract the results of throwing some small object with tether.
Weird, for me, and for 7 or so years they are on par with Intel in stability & being non-problematic, while just slightly slower (in strictly chipset related areas - say, PCI bus)
Even better if you managed to get one of few good motherboards (MSI 745 for example)
PS. "today"? SiS disappeared from the general market ~3 years ago, unfortunatelly...
Uhm, new Atom "SoC" (ok, there is southbridge there) will be almost two times better in power consumption than previous package of Atom+945+southbridge.
I think it was always more of the "go with AMD for a good deal" than you paint it to be. For example K6-2 was actually very competitive with Celeron (slightly faster in int, slightly slower in float), K6-III even went head-to-head with top P3 at some point. The problem for them back then were mostly abysmal 3rd party chipsets & mobos, together with Intel being perceived as more solid (no doubt also due to chipsets...). Oh, and supply issues - you can't beat Intel fab capacity.
They were absolutely fastest only when Intel fell asleep or did something stupid. But their products have better perf/price for a long time. And recently we even have good 3rd party chipsets...
Uhm, SiS chipsets were actually quite good at least from the time of 735. The only real problem with them was that they were usually put on cheapest motherboards...which still worked perfectly until failure from non-chipset related issues (just now caps failed on my ASRock SiS 746fx motherboard, which gave me flawless 5 years otherwise).
Even X360 has SiS southbridge... (well, perhaps not the best example reliability-wise;p, but the issues with it also seem to be not related to SiS)
But...I seem to remember there is some statistical quirk manifesting itself in many scenarios, when you want to find some groups (and they did want to find them, their questions were conductive to this goal; the opposite example would be "how many of the subjects plays Tomb Raider?")
Something with majority of sets nicely fragmenting into 4 to 5 categories, if you're willing to define them.
Well, you don't create hugely successful products by fallowing the pack (OK, OK, "in ideal world", but you get the idea). You notice new possibilities, new opportunities, and exploit them.
Early CD-systems that you mention also didn't do that, in large part, mostly relying on CD as a gimmick - games were more or less identical to cartridge ones (and/or plagued with other issues, like quick obsoleteness in favor of Saturn or non-console pricing in 3DO). Sony did the right choice, shown what CD-based can truly do.
And don't forget that Playstation was a by-product of Nintendo-Sony collaboration in the area of CD-based systems, N was aware what the future was, they still missed it. Accidentally, for similar reasons perhaps - they didn't want to lose control.
If an encryption program outlined above would start becoming popular, government of, say, UK would simply use RIAA/MPAA tactic - scare people away from doing it/installing it through some highly publicized cases.
It does work if you're determined enough; especially when it's easier to throw in "teh terrorists!"/"protect our children!" stuff.
Cartridges of course absolutely can't be called an outright mistake.
But at that point in time, when CD-equipped systems were on the market for half a decade, and rest of the hardware has just become powerfull enough to truly use that space, they were a mistake (or, spinning it to fit/. more: Nintento put their wishes (better DRM and ability to put more pressure on devs) too much ahead of consumers & game studios wishes)
Your post, while of course funny, tells one thing about "terminator vision" those writing such news forget about - it was a MOVIE! (if you think about it, there's no reason why such robot would put human-readable info on top of its filed of view, but plenty against it) And how many real life GUIs are similar to monstrosities from movie makers?
We need to find some better term for those headlines...
But isn't there a simple way out of such legal mess? Some company/consortium takes snapshot of a product that is otherwise free/oss, polishes that version, pushes through certification process, and anybody wishing to have that level of certification/legal protection buys support from them?
Which, really, isn't much of a problem in case of toiled paper...largely a product of recycling, ending up as biomass waste in the ground (it would end up like that in natural forest; never mind that our wood comes from forests that are far from natural)
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Airplanes had seatbelts for a long, long time. Even common folks from back then would be used to the idea, implemented in passenger planes.
And if "time of day" creates biggest issues, that's actually fairly good news, to some degree (when pipes with the outside world are good, for starters...), for those from some small country in totally different timezone?...
It's you who uses established term (typing notification) for something completely different (since this is Slashdot, you could say "unix talk-like")
And generally - pardon me for not basing my expectations on some belief. You could otoh remember that, say, such things are technically doable, Jabber is already not a light protocol/has a lot of "chatter"/many services other than pure IM use it successfully & Google has quite some pipes/serverfarm/demonstrated similar capabilities (Gmail is quite network chatter-heavy, Google Search suggest, Google Voice; heck, Google pushes VoIP and video through XMPP, also via their servers)
Jabber has typing notifications. Google Talk manages to support it... (and yes, it works across servers of course)
You link says nothing about Pine Trail. It has different GFX core. And half of power consumption.
Though I still can't figured out why would they need even that 100mbps?
Lifeguards...their own private baywatch 24/7...why would they need so much pr0n?...
It seems you should read up on what Wine and also virtual machines are and how they work...
Acer and Lenovo are mentioned by Google as also being on Chrome OS bandwagon.
Poster above mentioned software side, seems you also would like to have hardware...
There are small desktops & laptops built around Longson CPU, which is basically MIPS.
Might be their old instincts showing up when in a pack? (which in itself is their old behavior) After all, they were/"are" invulnerable.
You seem to forget what those things are...
OK, there might be some some printer that doesn't work but...USB WiFi dongles? TV-tuners? You're talking here about 7 inch ultraportable ffs, that fits in a pocket (check form factor on Qualcomm site promoting the term "Smartbook"). They will have WiFi built-in. Heck, most will have 3G. The only USB TV tuner worth considering when they come out is DVB-H (or some other mobile TV standard, depending on the area). Though if you really want "big" TV, tuners for DVB-T seem quite standard...
People don't have a problem with realizing the purpose of such devices. More or less appliances. They understand X360. Or Dell Linux laptops, which have identical return rates with Windows ones (news straight from Dell; everything else you've heard is MS FUD)
Though at the end you go in the right direction - yes, those ARM smartbooks will carve a niche. They will do the same for netbooks what netbooks done to laptops.
Don't equate nuclear propulsion with Orion, there are also other approaches, like nuclear thermal rocket or power source for VASIMR/etc.; which are more sustainable types of systems (as pointed out by another poster)
Orion is good for crash project, when we absolutely need to get off this rock rather quickly and in relatively large numbers (spending whole nuclear arsenal in the process...and leaving not a pleasant place behind - face it, nobody will develop nuclear explosives that don't rely on fission, that are not warheads)
Furthermore, to really venture into space on a sustainable basis we will need to develop "shipyards"/factories in...space, and using resources that are already there. At this point there won't be much need for massive launch capability. Tether propulsion/skyhooks will be probably most optimal then for moving stuff around in the most efficient way, with VASIMR descendants for (also efficient) constant station-keeping / to counteract the results of throwing some small object with tether.
Weird, for me, and for 7 or so years they are on par with Intel in stability & being non-problematic, while just slightly slower (in strictly chipset related areas - say, PCI bus)
Even better if you managed to get one of few good motherboards (MSI 745 for example)
PS. "today"? SiS disappeared from the general market ~3 years ago, unfortunatelly...
Uhm, new Atom "SoC" (ok, there is southbridge there) will be almost two times better in power consumption than previous package of Atom+945+southbridge.
I think it was always more of the "go with AMD for a good deal" than you paint it to be. For example K6-2 was actually very competitive with Celeron (slightly faster in int, slightly slower in float), K6-III even went head-to-head with top P3 at some point. The problem for them back then were mostly abysmal 3rd party chipsets & mobos, together with Intel being perceived as more solid (no doubt also due to chipsets...). Oh, and supply issues - you can't beat Intel fab capacity.
They were absolutely fastest only when Intel fell asleep or did something stupid. But their products have better perf/price for a long time. And recently we even have good 3rd party chipsets...
Uhm, SiS chipsets were actually quite good at least from the time of 735. The only real problem with them was that they were usually put on cheapest motherboards...which still worked perfectly until failure from non-chipset related issues (just now caps failed on my ASRock SiS 746fx motherboard, which gave me flawless 5 years otherwise).
Even X360 has SiS southbridge... (well, perhaps not the best example reliability-wise ;p, but the issues with it also seem to be not related to SiS)
But...I seem to remember there is some statistical quirk manifesting itself in many scenarios, when you want to find some groups (and they did want to find them, their questions were conductive to this goal; the opposite example would be "how many of the subjects plays Tomb Raider?")
Something with majority of sets nicely fragmenting into 4 to 5 categories, if you're willing to define them.
Well, you don't create hugely successful products by fallowing the pack (OK, OK, "in ideal world", but you get the idea). You notice new possibilities, new opportunities, and exploit them.
Early CD-systems that you mention also didn't do that, in large part, mostly relying on CD as a gimmick - games were more or less identical to cartridge ones (and/or plagued with other issues, like quick obsoleteness in favor of Saturn or non-console pricing in 3DO). Sony did the right choice, shown what CD-based can truly do.
And don't forget that Playstation was a by-product of Nintendo-Sony collaboration in the area of CD-based systems, N was aware what the future was, they still missed it. Accidentally, for similar reasons perhaps - they didn't want to lose control.
"Coming out"? Symbian is already on top, shipping on more than 50% of smartphones, and has been for a long time.
If anything they bet it won't tank (which in itself is weird of course...)
No need for a wrench.
If an encryption program outlined above would start becoming popular, government of, say, UK would simply use RIAA/MPAA tactic - scare people away from doing it/installing it through some highly publicized cases.
It does work if you're determined enough; especially when it's easier to throw in "teh terrorists!"/"protect our children!" stuff.
Cartridges of course absolutely can't be called an outright mistake.
But at that point in time, when CD-equipped systems were on the market for half a decade, and rest of the hardware has just become powerfull enough to truly use that space, they were a mistake (or, spinning it to fit /. more: Nintento put their wishes (better DRM and ability to put more pressure on devs) too much ahead of consumers & game studios wishes)
But, but...it's not American.
Your post, while of course funny, tells one thing about "terminator vision" those writing such news forget about - it was a MOVIE! (if you think about it, there's no reason why such robot would put human-readable info on top of its filed of view, but plenty against it) And how many real life GUIs are similar to monstrosities from movie makers?
We need to find some better term for those headlines...
But isn't there a simple way out of such legal mess? Some company/consortium takes snapshot of a product that is otherwise free/oss, polishes that version, pushes through certification process, and anybody wishing to have that level of certification/legal protection buys support from them?
Which, really, isn't much of a problem in case of toiled paper...largely a product of recycling, ending up as biomass waste in the ground (it would end up like that in natural forest; never mind that our wood comes from forests that are far from natural)