Somehow I doubt they could crank in 1GB of RAM given their budget...even taking into account convincing suppliers for lower pirces about which I mentioned later. And taking into consideration that the articles are talking about "memory", not strictly "RAM", I'm betting personally that's the size of their flash-discs...
Not necceserilly. You can hand over this task to some kind of spring, which also one HUGE cost benefit that you practically don't need batteries then - energy is accumulated in the spring and converted to electricy all the time.
I wonder what exactly are the processors inside...the big question is whether those are Geode (x86) or Alchemy...I wonder if choosing NON-x86 architecture would be a good way to prevent gray-market a bit and convincing parts manufacturers to supply them considerably cheaper (since the laptops wouldn't be a competition for their primary wintel market). And since it's Linux it's not a big deal when it comes to architecture...
128MB of RAM? probably similarly low...HOVEWER there's one very important difference to our typical laptops/desktops - swap is to be avoided at all costs (flash based - limited number of read/writes and...slow). Personally, I would modify the kernel/desktop enviroment (or something) that it will not allow launching of new apps when physical memory limit is closing in (eventually - allow, but display something like "to assure longevity of your laptop, please close applications you're not using)
Also, worth noting IMHO will be software choice once it's announced - simply because those software titles will become one of most widely used IN THE WORLD, no only when cosidering Linux desktop. What are your guesses?;) Since I think this laptop will be a bit RAM limited, I think they'll choose something light as possible, but easy to use also...XFce perhaps? Epiphany/Kazehakase? Opera? (I wouldn't be surprised if Opera agreed to port their browser...it's free anyway, and they would get HUGE usage boost; of course there's the question what licensing principles this project has...)? Abiword? (KOffice would be nice also...but KDE wouldn't:/ )
BTW...too bad probably it won't be available for me probably:/ I'm too rich apparently:|
"And it's still true. The Zenits flying today are heavily modified from their original design to be independent rockets, not strap ons."
Well...I've just said that it's true, haven't I? As for the thing you're adressing - you really don't see any huge benefits that they're produced, in case Energia would be ressurected? (as I said...it won't happne anyway, but...). Besides first stage is practically the same...
"That's "Zenit", not "Zenith". "Zenith" is the translation, but it's never referred to as such in English."
Yeah, I should know, I'm slavic myself (in my language the word "zenit" means the same as in Russian). I guess I have a tendency to "overtranslating" while on English boards...
"I swear, the next person to say that to me is going to find his head rolling on the ground. NASA has done nothing that NASA has not done before. The ONLY element in the new CEV design that isn't distinctly NASA is the choice to ground land the craft instead of using sea landings. And that is simply a matter of practicality, not copying of the "Uber-Russian Design".
Cripes, people. All NASA is doing is reorganizing the Shuttle technology to pick up where the Saturn V program left off. If we can get our super-booster ducks back in order, we can do all the cool stuff we dreamed of in the 60's like going to Mars, flying a Mini-Orion, seeing Saturn, and having usable space stations."
Huh? What's your problem? I mean...why such a big deal that there are many similarieties? (especially since they ARE doing something new - when was the last time at NASA when launch system intended for launching large spaceplane was directed also at launching other very heavy cargoes? (which was the result of faulty decision at the beginning also in Russia BTW...) I could go on...but...what for? It's not the case of "Uber-Soviets"...just similarietes)
1. "reverse"? As in: "in the opposite direction than during launch"?
2. Parawing, retrorockets.
3. Soyuz can do that also...the only difference, when control fails, it goes back to ballistic mode. I wouldn't want to be in a "spaceplane" in which control fails...
4. Zonds made them succesfully...even though they were capsules.
Wings are unnecesassary complexity IMHO...and even though US has experience, that still hadn't prevented last catastrophe. Russia doesn't have experience...they should stick with what they know good IMO
While you're true that they don't have any such vehicle in production (although only partially...I'll get to that later), ressurecting Energia, given enough money, is entirelly doable - this isn't the same case as with Saturn, Russian tech hasn't changed that much, stuff is still alive and so on...
So..they have design and - they're building, all the time, some crucial parts of it - namely, strap on boosters, AKA as Zenith.
(not that I think this would ever happen; BTW, it's interesting how NASA is now pushing for the system that Russians had 15 years ago - small/robust capsule/rocket for crew transport + super heavy cargo booster)
Yes, Freedom was a project from the 80's, but later it was Alpha...it's just that when the Russians became seriously involved, they protested it (in their eyes it was not the first one...). Of course it was used, but unoficially, and not for the rirst time.
Just some random nitpicking...but I wonder if Soyuz in Zond configuration could reach lagrange...beeing able to reach moon must help in it I think?
Or perhaps it's totally different?
Alpha was supposed to have a more equatorial orbit. But Russians needed to came, and prerequsite to that was changing orbit of future station, ISS from this point.
Well, in that case it's because the provider gives you exactly jack. The only times when I lost a signal was in a dungeon of some castle (yes, literally, in a 100 year old German castle in my city we have cultural center/pubs) and in one weird house (weird walls probably). CLouds, rain, thunderstorm, all that in the country/at the lake/in the train, you name it - works always like a charm...
Hopefully your government won't force anymore crippling communication protocls/designs that were meant/can be secure...
But I somehow don't believe it...do you?
That, and igonarnce of mainstream readers. Plus - the thing that they want to read such things. "Oh, look matey, those geeks aren't as smart as us after all!"
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Huh?
I have a mouse for first Playstation, together with pad it's enough for FPS (moreso for RTS - besides, that's only because their interfaces are geared mostly to the mouse, so if you don't have any joypad just emulates the mouse by moving cursor; however, Warzone 2100 had brilliant joypad interface, and also few SNES strategies). Dreamcast, apart from mouse, had also keyboard. And you attach any USB mouse/keyboard to PS2...
As always: price.
They simply do what's cheaper...how do you think, why only expensive monitors give high frequencies at high resolutions?
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Here's my situation: sometimes I'm playing with some ideas for games, among other creative activities. Three of them are quite refined. However, since I lack programming knowledge and my artistic skills in the area of graphics and music are lacking, the projects won't go far without some team... Furthermore, I doubt I could interest some studio in the ideas - lack of industry experience, situation of the industry in my country and style of games (#1: artsy experiment in presentation and atmosphere; #2: logical twist; only #3 could be called mainstream, but quite unconventionall anyway...) prohibit that. Also, amateur programmers are usually interested in implementing their own ideas, and graphics/music people who'd share my visions either price themself high or are not interested in games... What are you thoughts on such situations and, perhaps, recommendations?
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Nowhere they use the term "RAM", if they mention it, they use "memory". I'd assume they're talking about flash-disk...
Of course, I've specifically adressed the situaation "if it's not x86"
Somehow I doubt they could crank in 1GB of RAM given their budget...even taking into account convincing suppliers for lower pirces about which I mentioned later.
And taking into consideration that the articles are talking about "memory", not strictly "RAM", I'm betting personally that's the size of their flash-discs...
Not necceserilly. You can hand over this task to some kind of spring, which also one HUGE cost benefit that you practically don't need batteries then - energy is accumulated in the spring and converted to electricy all the time.
...in contrast to many others.
;) :/ )
:/ I'm too rich apparently :|
I wonder what exactly are the processors inside...the big question is whether those are Geode (x86) or Alchemy...I wonder if choosing NON-x86 architecture would be a good way to prevent gray-market a bit and convincing parts manufacturers to supply them considerably cheaper (since the laptops wouldn't be a competition for their primary wintel market). And since it's Linux it's not a big deal when it comes to architecture...
128MB of RAM? probably similarly low...HOVEWER there's one very important difference to our typical laptops/desktops - swap is to be avoided at all costs (flash based - limited number of read/writes and...slow). Personally, I would modify the kernel/desktop enviroment (or something) that it will not allow launching of new apps when physical memory limit is closing in (eventually - allow, but display something like "to assure longevity of your laptop, please close applications you're not using)
Also, worth noting IMHO will be software choice once it's announced - simply because those software titles will become one of most widely used IN THE WORLD, no only when cosidering Linux desktop.
What are your guesses?
Since I think this laptop will be a bit RAM limited, I think they'll choose something light as possible, but easy to use also...XFce perhaps? Epiphany/Kazehakase? Opera? (I wouldn't be surprised if Opera agreed to port their browser...it's free anyway, and they would get HUGE usage boost; of course there's the question what licensing principles this project has...)? Abiword? (KOffice would be nice also...but KDE wouldn't
BTW...too bad probably it won't be available for me probably
Yeah, I usually _not_ forget to choose "Plain old text". Why isn't it default...
If foam can't hit them, something else could...
"And it's still true. The Zenits flying today are heavily modified from their original design to be independent rockets, not strap ons." Well...I've just said that it's true, haven't I? As for the thing you're adressing - you really don't see any huge benefits that they're produced, in case Energia would be ressurected? (as I said...it won't happne anyway, but...). Besides first stage is practically the same... "That's "Zenit", not "Zenith". "Zenith" is the translation, but it's never referred to as such in English." Yeah, I should know, I'm slavic myself (in my language the word "zenit" means the same as in Russian). I guess I have a tendency to "overtranslating" while on English boards... "I swear, the next person to say that to me is going to find his head rolling on the ground. NASA has done nothing that NASA has not done before. The ONLY element in the new CEV design that isn't distinctly NASA is the choice to ground land the craft instead of using sea landings. And that is simply a matter of practicality, not copying of the "Uber-Russian Design". Cripes, people. All NASA is doing is reorganizing the Shuttle technology to pick up where the Saturn V program left off. If we can get our super-booster ducks back in order, we can do all the cool stuff we dreamed of in the 60's like going to Mars, flying a Mini-Orion, seeing Saturn, and having usable space stations." Huh? What's your problem? I mean...why such a big deal that there are many similarieties? (especially since they ARE doing something new - when was the last time at NASA when launch system intended for launching large spaceplane was directed also at launching other very heavy cargoes? (which was the result of faulty decision at the beginning also in Russia BTW...) I could go on...but...what for? It's not the case of "Uber-Soviets"...just similarietes)
1. "reverse"? As in: "in the opposite direction than during launch"? 2. Parawing, retrorockets. 3. Soyuz can do that also...the only difference, when control fails, it goes back to ballistic mode. I wouldn't want to be in a "spaceplane" in which control fails... 4. Zonds made them succesfully...even though they were capsules. Wings are unnecesassary complexity IMHO...and even though US has experience, that still hadn't prevented last catastrophe. Russia doesn't have experience...they should stick with what they know good IMO
While you're true that they don't have any such vehicle in production (although only partially...I'll get to that later), ressurecting Energia, given enough money, is entirelly doable - this isn't the same case as with Saturn, Russian tech hasn't changed that much, stuff is still alive and so on... So..they have design and - they're building, all the time, some crucial parts of it - namely, strap on boosters, AKA as Zenith. (not that I think this would ever happen; BTW, it's interesting how NASA is now pushing for the system that Russians had 15 years ago - small/robust capsule/rocket for crew transport + super heavy cargo booster)
So do these folks ;P
Yes, Freedom was a project from the 80's, but later it was Alpha...it's just that when the Russians became seriously involved, they protested it (in their eyes it was not the first one...). Of course it was used, but unoficially, and not for the rirst time.
Contemplate more...
Just some random nitpicking...but I wonder if Soyuz in Zond configuration could reach lagrange...beeing able to reach moon must help in it I think? Or perhaps it's totally different?
Alpha was supposed to have a more equatorial orbit. But Russians needed to came, and prerequsite to that was changing orbit of future station, ISS from this point.
Almost everything can be taken out by lightning strike...that was not the point of original poster.
Well, in that case it's because the provider gives you exactly jack. The only times when I lost a signal was in a dungeon of some castle (yes, literally, in a 100 year old German castle in my city we have cultural center/pubs) and in one weird house (weird walls probably). CLouds, rain, thunderstorm, all that in the country/at the lake/in the train, you name it - works always like a charm...
It's the problem of your implementations...here (one of EU countries) cellular quality is at least on par with land lines
Wethaer...interferes with cellular phones? O_o
Hopefully your government won't force anymore crippling communication protocls/designs that were meant/can be secure... But I somehow don't believe it...do you?
That, and igonarnce of mainstream readers. Plus - the thing that they want to read such things. "Oh, look matey, those geeks aren't as smart as us after all!"
Huh? I have a mouse for first Playstation, together with pad it's enough for FPS (moreso for RTS - besides, that's only because their interfaces are geared mostly to the mouse, so if you don't have any joypad just emulates the mouse by moving cursor; however, Warzone 2100 had brilliant joypad interface, and also few SNES strategies). Dreamcast, apart from mouse, had also keyboard. And you attach any USB mouse/keyboard to PS2...
As always: price. They simply do what's cheaper...how do you think, why only expensive monitors give high frequencies at high resolutions?
Here's my situation: sometimes I'm playing with some ideas for games, among other creative activities. Three of them are quite refined.
However, since I lack programming knowledge and my artistic skills in the area of graphics and music are lacking, the projects won't go far without some team... Furthermore, I doubt I could interest some studio in the ideas - lack of industry experience, situation of the industry in my country and style of games (#1: artsy experiment in presentation and atmosphere; #2: logical twist; only #3 could be called mainstream, but quite unconventionall anyway...) prohibit that. Also, amateur programmers are usually interested in implementing their own ideas, and graphics/music people who'd share my visions either price themself high or are not interested in games...
What are you thoughts on such situations and, perhaps, recommendations?
And I was here, like, waiting few hours to read the PSU article :/