mini ITX was what was brought up. sure, if you can get all of the functionality of the BUG devices with a pico ITX setup at a lower cost, then great. go for it. no one wants to lug around a mini ITX chassis to do the things that the BUG devices are geared towards doing.
for the simple fact that these modules can come together in any configuration to be anything you want it to be, with as many or as few features as you want, i would say that this would be better. unless of course there's a fully open and customizable single unit that has all of these features included at a lower cost.
oh yeah, let me tell you i just _love_ carrying around my super whitebox pc. it's a bit bulky, but when people show me their spiffy little glossy handheld modular open source dohickeys i just laugh, because i've had this not-at-all-portable whitebox pc way before this "bug" device was even a dream! silly unoriginal youngsters... and can we talk about price? why spend a few hundred dollars on these little bug modules when you can spend more on a mini-tower whitebox pc? oh wait...
you must not have even watched one of the earliest and best android videos yet, much less actually read about it... in the video they explain how the platform will be able to span a range of hardware devices from relatively low end and inexpensive, like the one you're complaining about, to higher end and more expensive with touch screens that span the whole face of the device... check the video out here.
yeah, according to the skysails website, and shown in a live action promo video, the launch and retrieval of the sail is completely automated, as is the steering. a person should be able to operate the whole thing by pressing the launch button in the control room to start it, and press the retrieval button when done. i recommend watching the video, it was interesting and good to see in action.
could it not drive development of open source video editing software? they don't talk about this specifically, bit it's not impossible. i've used a couple of open source/free video editing suites and nothing really comes close to the commercial giants thus far. at least i'm talking about software i could run on a basic desktop system and not a linux/unix supercomputer. i could see this possibly doing for video editing software what elephants dream did for 3d modeling software (blender). maybe i'm wrong though.
in my job the poeple doing medical billing use software that requires all letter keypresses must be in caps also. perhaps the person starting this crap knows nothing of these worlds and is only concerned about all the all-caps emails and IMs and forum posts he sees.
in the future jobs like this that are just "do this this way and don't mess up" are going to be left to robots. it will be more efficient, faster, and consistent. not only will the manager be a robot, but every part of the assembly line to create your food will be. all a human would do when getting food would be to tell the system what they wanted. this would eliminate most jobs for humans in this kind of field. humans would then be required to utilize their skills in areas where it is practically required such as art, teaching (at least teaching more involved things like how to play baseball), (speaking of baseball) entertainment, dicision making, etc. maintaining such facilities and purchasing from them would be a lot cheaper, and the human's "hard earned dollar" would be attained through more meaningful jobs and spent on more meaningful things. that is to say, making burgers is not meaningful just like consuming them is not all that meaningful. you would pay more for a specially crafted meal at a more high standards restaurant where the food is art.
i believe this is a result of your graphics card not being good enough. they recommend a fast openGL graphics card. my latitude d620 and opti gx520 both have integrated video of some intel flavor and get the same problem.
would you have been the guy decades ago saying "what the hell do i want shiny plastic disks for? i can't play them in my cassette player in my car or my cassette walkman or boombox...if i want music on shiny plastic i'll buy live shows on laser disc. i fail to see what niche this is filling."
i'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that there might be new player devices appearing in the future to cater to a new standard such as this.
i for one am open to the idea of very high quality recordings on shiny plastic. on the other hand i'm not very open to DRM'd crap. then again, back then i bet people thought that no one would ever be able to copy the cool new compact discs they way they copied cassettes with their fancy high-speed dubbing.
offtopic: wow, i just noticed that slashdot commenting is wysiwyg
i should have added "not necessarily in the good/right way." you have to admit, it takes some degree of computer savviness to participate in such an abomination...or perhaps they're just getting more computer ballsy enough to make the attempt.
it seems to me that the draw to AOL was that it was easy for all of the not-so-computer-savvy poeple to use. you always heard people asking things like "what's your screen name" because all they knew was AOL, they didn't even know the internet existed beyond that. now-a-days people are becoming more computer savvy and there's less a need for the user friendliness of AOL, and as such people aren't willing to put up with the terrible customer service that comes along with it.
actually i've seen captchas that have an audio counterpart for those that can't decypher the skewed text, i.e. the blind or learning challenged. your screen reader could read that text and bring that up (not entirely sure how screen readers work as i've never used one.)
give them school seperate from social learning. parents could take their kids places where they can meet other kids and have a good time and learn social interactivity seperate from their learning environment. social interaction in school is mostly just a distraction. you say it encourages competition? a leader-board of the virtual classroom would do just that. of course, with virtual learning parents would have to regulate the computer use of the student so that they don't seek other distractions on the net while they should be learning.
if you want a Dell notebook that has a docking station connection on the bottom of the system so you don't have to use USB docks, then get a Latitude. *pets Latitude D620*
Latitudes have always had docking connectors. well, except for certain models like the X1 that doesn't have room for vents much less a docking connection.
Dell moved away from true docking connections on Inspirons some time ago. and yeah, XPS is now some generic word for Inspiron or Dimension pretty much now. XPS used to be THE high powered Dimension system, then the high powered Inspiron, now they make all these goofy flavors of XPS.
and having them in your lap can actually cause them to get that hot because you're not only adding your body heat but suffocating the vents and fans. notebooks need adequate airflow under them, that's a big reason the rubber feet are as tall as they are.
actually, like the/. posting, the parent poster was skewing information to really say what they wanted to say rather than what is actually there. just briefly checking the ebgames site i can see that there are many bundles of xbox 360s to pick from, lowest being $394.96 and highest being $589.91 (600 bucks omg), and actually if you look at ALL the bundles they even have the "Xbox 360 Pro System Totally Serious Bundle" for $1,385.76. perhaps he's putting too much weight on the bundles? checking amazon.com you can find the core 360 system for 299.99. the bundles just include a bunch of extra crap you may or may not buy anyway. at the heart, yes his point was correct. it's not a fair comparison because the ps2 is (apparantly) still a good gaming system that is still supported and has plenty of games out for it. this would be fine to most average people. these same average people will be buying one of the next-gen systems once they're down in price and the next-next-gen consoles are coming out.
what about us gamers that learned how to shoot people in the face from Time-Crisis? sure, it's not as heavy, but holding the blue/pink gun steady for hours definitely trains the right muscles for shooting people in the face.
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mini ITX was what was brought up. sure, if you can get all of the functionality of the BUG devices with a pico ITX setup at a lower cost, then great. go for it. no one wants to lug around a mini ITX chassis to do the things that the BUG devices are geared towards doing.
did i forget to mention portability? oh, no, i did mention that. and i'm not talking about the "let's go to a LAN party" kind of portability, either.
for the simple fact that these modules can come together in any configuration to be anything you want it to be, with as many or as few features as you want, i would say that this would be better. unless of course there's a fully open and customizable single unit that has all of these features included at a lower cost.
oh yeah, let me tell you i just _love_ carrying around my super whitebox pc. it's a bit bulky, but when people show me their spiffy little glossy handheld modular open source dohickeys i just laugh, because i've had this not-at-all-portable whitebox pc way before this "bug" device was even a dream! silly unoriginal youngsters... and can we talk about price? why spend a few hundred dollars on these little bug modules when you can spend more on a mini-tower whitebox pc? oh wait...
you must not have even watched one of the earliest and best android videos yet, much less actually read about it... in the video they explain how the platform will be able to span a range of hardware devices from relatively low end and inexpensive, like the one you're complaining about, to higher end and more expensive with touch screens that span the whole face of the device... check the video out here.
yeah, according to the skysails website, and shown in a live action promo video, the launch and retrieval of the sail is completely automated, as is the steering. a person should be able to operate the whole thing by pressing the launch button in the control room to start it, and press the retrieval button when done. i recommend watching the video, it was interesting and good to see in action.
could it not drive development of open source video editing software? they don't talk about this specifically, bit it's not impossible. i've used a couple of open source/free video editing suites and nothing really comes close to the commercial giants thus far. at least i'm talking about software i could run on a basic desktop system and not a linux/unix supercomputer. i could see this possibly doing for video editing software what elephants dream did for 3d modeling software (blender). maybe i'm wrong though.
in my job the poeple doing medical billing use software that requires all letter keypresses must be in caps also. perhaps the person starting this crap knows nothing of these worlds and is only concerned about all the all-caps emails and IMs and forum posts he sees.
maybe...
i believe this is a result of your graphics card not being good enough. they recommend a fast openGL graphics card. my latitude d620 and opti gx520 both have integrated video of some intel flavor and get the same problem.
would you have been the guy decades ago saying "what the hell do i want shiny plastic disks for? i can't play them in my cassette player in my car or my cassette walkman or boombox...if i want music on shiny plastic i'll buy live shows on laser disc. i fail to see what niche this is filling."
i'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that there might be new player devices appearing in the future to cater to a new standard such as this.
i for one am open to the idea of very high quality recordings on shiny plastic. on the other hand i'm not very open to DRM'd crap. then again, back then i bet people thought that no one would ever be able to copy the cool new compact discs they way they copied cassettes with their fancy high-speed dubbing.
offtopic: wow, i just noticed that slashdot commenting is wysiwyg
and don't get me wrong, i too have a myspace...
it seems to me that the draw to AOL was that it was easy for all of the not-so-computer-savvy poeple to use. you always heard people asking things like "what's your screen name" because all they knew was AOL, they didn't even know the internet existed beyond that. now-a-days people are becoming more computer savvy and there's less a need for the user friendliness of AOL, and as such people aren't willing to put up with the terrible customer service that comes along with it.
you just slashdotted ilovejackdaniels.com without submitting an article. good work!
actually i've seen captchas that have an audio counterpart for those that can't decypher the skewed text, i.e. the blind or learning challenged. your screen reader could read that text and bring that up (not entirely sure how screen readers work as i've never used one.)
give them school seperate from social learning. parents could take their kids places where they can meet other kids and have a good time and learn social interactivity seperate from their learning environment. social interaction in school is mostly just a distraction. you say it encourages competition? a leader-board of the virtual classroom would do just that. of course, with virtual learning parents would have to regulate the computer use of the student so that they don't seek other distractions on the net while they should be learning.
my appologies, the 8000 series and the 300m are older models. they stopped putting docking connections on Inspirons.
Latitudes have always had docking connectors. well, except for certain models like the X1 that doesn't have room for vents much less a docking connection.
Dell moved away from true docking connections on Inspirons some time ago. and yeah, XPS is now some generic word for Inspiron or Dimension pretty much now. XPS used to be THE high powered Dimension system, then the high powered Inspiron, now they make all these goofy flavors of XPS.
and having them in your lap can actually cause them to get that hot because you're not only adding your body heat but suffocating the vents and fans. notebooks need adequate airflow under them, that's a big reason the rubber feet are as tall as they are.
actually, like the /. posting, the parent poster was skewing information to really say what they wanted to say rather than what is actually there. just briefly checking the ebgames site i can see that there are many bundles of xbox 360s to pick from, lowest being $394.96 and highest being $589.91 (600 bucks omg), and actually if you look at ALL the bundles they even have the "Xbox 360 Pro System Totally Serious Bundle" for $1,385.76. perhaps he's putting too much weight on the bundles? checking amazon.com you can find the core 360 system for 299.99. the bundles just include a bunch of extra crap you may or may not buy anyway. at the heart, yes his point was correct. it's not a fair comparison because the ps2 is (apparantly) still a good gaming system that is still supported and has plenty of games out for it. this would be fine to most average people. these same average people will be buying one of the next-gen systems once they're down in price and the next-next-gen consoles are coming out.
accessible to anyone that would find use of it, or more importantly, mis-use of it.
what about us gamers that learned how to shoot people in the face from Time-Crisis? sure, it's not as heavy, but holding the blue/pink gun steady for hours definitely trains the right muscles for shooting people in the face.
of a scene from american dad. *Stan Smith walks into a sci-fi convention, sees all the geeks* "Good God!...Who's manning the internet?!"
emusic is legaller, or something.