this idea always made more sense to me, give "base" PC to kids for (almost) free because there are lots of free keyboards, mouses, 15" LCD everywhere. Hell, we are creating mountins of it on daily basis. OLPC was too focused on children living in the middle of nowhere. But they are IMO not really concerned about computing anyway. We should give them ordinary mobile phones first, it is much more useful to them. This computer is covering way more people and use cases.
Good news in my book. Now they need to provide USB mode for transferring data over hundreds of meters long cables, as last remaining (Ethernet) obstacle towards unification.
Here is what I think they probably do, similar to raytracing: They fire one "photon" from eachone pixel of screen into the scene. As oposed to raytracing, this photon is never divided to multiple copies, it travels until it reaches something. Photon is traveling through the scene by adding X,Y,Z from pre-calculated table, until it reaches box with something in it, then it halves step for x,y,z, looking for even smaller boxes etc. until box is so small it represents one pixel, OR photon is outside the box (object missed) and step is doubled again. I had this idea before and yes, that would be pretty much enable "unlimited graphics" but there is major problem I see here: graphics are static! How they want to make something move? That would mean moving gigabytes of data around, which makes original problem come from other side. For example, realistic waves on the sea are simple using traditional graphics, here it is impossible. Maybe they will be able to use this for "static" scene and transfer it to Z-buffer, than paint moving parts using traditional OpenGL. In modern games, however, there are lots of moving animated stuff, so what you get is, basically, that you can improve quality of background using this technique and add saved polygons to animated stuff. GPU is definitely still needed, with same performance as before.
Well we were born within one decade of each other.
Our fathers said we could be sister and brother.
Your name is Firefox, Firefox.
It never suited ya.
Oh they thought that when we grew up,
we'd get merged, and never split up.
We never did it, although you often thought of it.
Oh Firefox, do you recall?
Your footprint was very small,
and popularity used to roll,
When I came around to call,
you didn't notice me at all.
I said let's all meet up in my own GUI.
Won't it be strange when you're all finally grown.
I will wait for you folks, three versions above.
How many times you'll get redesigned?
maybe its sometimes simpler not to try,
You know what, go and merge with IE,
Make Opera cry!
Disclaimer: I am from EU.
Whats wrong with government spending money to create jobs? More appropriate calculation is:
economical efficiency = (Ns + Us) / Ss.
where:
Ns is government spending on Nuclear, oil and coal - env. impact on harvesting fuel and operating, health issues (coal), permanent storage (nuclear),
Us is government spending on people (currently employed in solar business) if they were unemployed or in jail. Not all 4 million people eventually employed in solar would be otherwise unemployed, but estimated portion.
Ss is current government spending on supporting solar business.
From my outside (European) perspective, back in eighties during Reagan presidency, US abandoned European-style government assisted social welfare system. In my opinion that was really wrong, there is too little protection for _growing_ mass of angry unemployed potentially dangerous crowd. It will inevitably end in some really nasty situation. Hopefully I am wrong...
No, I learned programming in assembler (Zilog Z80), and used asm (MC68000, 8086-386, ARM) often until maybe 1995 when I realized that modern C/C++ compilers are generating faster code then I was able to write in asm by some 20%. For "ordinary" programs this is the case until today, more so with increasing quality of compilers. Exception is some small specialized functions, like inner loop of video encoder, where you can use SSE still better then compiler.
In the big city I live in (Europe) I don't see almost anything. Only 100km away, in the country, Milky Way is clearly visible, it looks like highway for the stars on the sky... beautiful.
Because their prices are more like "Made in USA" rather then "Designed in California". Given that assembling iGear can involve at most 10.000 people in state-of-the-art highly automated factories, "Made in China" it is only explainable by _greed_.
Nuclear (and coal) energy always seemed to me like old mainframe computers and renewables like Internet (distributed), modern, interesting, R&D. We just need to jump to new and abandon old. It will be difficult, but I think it is FAR from impossible. I know there are lots of people here on/. hypnotized by how great nuclear is. but I just prefer distributed everything better (including risks) as opposed to centralized.
Actually, coming up with his own ideas and then learning why that woudn't work is pretty good way to learn stuff really fast comparnig to listening years of lectures first.
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this idea always made more sense to me, give "base" PC to kids for (almost) free because there are lots of free keyboards, mouses, 15" LCD everywhere. Hell, we are creating mountins of it on daily basis. OLPC was too focused on children living in the middle of nowhere. But they are IMO not really concerned about computing anyway. We should give them ordinary mobile phones first, it is much more useful to them. This computer is covering way more people and use cases.
If 128MB version costs $25, why they didn't go with 2GB for $30 instead? $5 difference for almost "classic" web PC with mainstream OS (Ubuntu).
After posting his Apple logo-shaped tribute, Apple sued his employer "Mother Theresa Services for Homeless People" for unauthorized trademark usage.
If Google is able now to sue Apple out of mobile business I will laugh my ass off.
Good news in my book. Now they need to provide USB mode for transferring data over hundreds of meters long cables, as last remaining (Ethernet) obstacle towards unification.
Yeah, move, rigt into Bill Gates pocket, right!
Sounds like 5-digit Slashdot user or something...Extra geek points for mushroom over Stokholm.
Here is what I think they probably do, similar to raytracing: They fire one "photon" from eachone pixel of screen into the scene. As oposed to raytracing, this photon is never divided to multiple copies, it travels until it reaches something. Photon is traveling through the scene by adding X,Y,Z from pre-calculated table, until it reaches box with something in it, then it halves step for x,y,z, looking for even smaller boxes etc. until box is so small it represents one pixel, OR photon is outside the box (object missed) and step is doubled again. I had this idea before and yes, that would be pretty much enable "unlimited graphics" but there is major problem I see here: graphics are static! How they want to make something move? That would mean moving gigabytes of data around, which makes original problem come from other side. For example, realistic waves on the sea are simple using traditional graphics, here it is impossible. Maybe they will be able to use this for "static" scene and transfer it to Z-buffer, than paint moving parts using traditional OpenGL. In modern games, however, there are lots of moving animated stuff, so what you get is, basically, that you can improve quality of background using this technique and add saved polygons to animated stuff. GPU is definitely still needed, with same performance as before.
Well we were born within one decade of each other.
Our fathers said we could be sister and brother.
Your name is Firefox, Firefox.
It never suited ya.
Oh they thought that when we grew up,
we'd get merged, and never split up.
We never did it, although you often thought of it.
Oh Firefox, do you recall?
Your footprint was very small,
and popularity used to roll,
When I came around to call,
you didn't notice me at all.
I said let's all meet up in my own GUI.
Won't it be strange when you're all finally grown.
I will wait for you folks, three versions above.
How many times you'll get redesigned?
maybe its sometimes simpler not to try,
You know what, go and merge with IE,
Make Opera cry!
Disclaimer: I am from EU.
Whats wrong with government spending money to create jobs? More appropriate calculation is:
economical efficiency = (Ns + Us) / Ss.
where:
Ns is government spending on Nuclear, oil and coal - env. impact on harvesting fuel and operating, health issues (coal), permanent storage (nuclear),
Us is government spending on people (currently employed in solar business) if they were unemployed or in jail. Not all 4 million people eventually employed in solar would be otherwise unemployed, but estimated portion.
Ss is current government spending on supporting solar business.
I don't think you (or Canadian government) understands how science works.
Of course not. But then again, running this $350-$500 browser does not require having "computer".
From my outside (European) perspective, back in eighties during Reagan presidency, US abandoned European-style government assisted social welfare system. In my opinion that was really wrong, there is too little protection for _growing_ mass of angry unemployed potentially dangerous crowd. It will inevitably end in some really nasty situation. Hopefully I am wrong...
Here on /. proper nipple documentation is required too.
No, I learned programming in assembler (Zilog Z80), and used asm (MC68000, 8086-386, ARM) often until maybe 1995 when I realized that modern C/C++ compilers are generating faster code then I was able to write in asm by some 20%. For "ordinary" programs this is the case until today, more so with increasing quality of compilers. Exception is some small specialized functions, like inner loop of video encoder, where you can use SSE still better then compiler.
"MS Office ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Steve Ballmer, 2012
You said you dislike Web 2.0 so they cut it to half (1.0).
In the big city I live in (Europe) I don't see almost anything. Only 100km away, in the country, Milky Way is clearly visible, it looks like highway for the stars on the sky... beautiful.
Because their prices are more like "Made in USA" rather then "Designed in California". Given that assembling iGear can involve at most 10.000 people in state-of-the-art highly automated factories, "Made in China" it is only explainable by _greed_.
iTunes for Windows on Ubuntu over wine!
C'mon Microsoft, who cares about your 1% of phone users? Remeber that you used to say you suppose go and fuck yourself? So, please do.
Yeah, that would be popular here. But there must exist some reason Apple wouldn't lisetn to 4-digit Slashdot nerd about his ideas on tablets.
Nuclear (and coal) energy always seemed to me like old mainframe computers and renewables like Internet (distributed), modern, interesting, R&D. We just need to jump to new and abandon old. It will be difficult, but I think it is FAR from impossible. I know there are lots of people here on /. hypnotized by how great nuclear is. but I just prefer distributed everything better (including risks) as opposed to centralized.
Actually, coming up with his own ideas and then learning why that woudn't work is pretty good way to learn stuff really fast comparnig to listening years of lectures first.
Or sticked alarm-clock on it.