I have a server to download/store my media with 8 external HDs. I bought a cheapo 10 port USB hub and kept buying HDs as they filled up. The player user to be wdtv live but now is Raspberry Pi 2 with OSMC on it, accessing the external drives as a share. No RAID, no expensive NASes, everything works. Cheap, effective.
Down here in Oz we are already way down the list in terms of speeds, uptake and prices... If Libs and Abott get in power and scrap NBN (they are good at selling public assets off, they have had plenty of practice), we are definitely consigned to being an internet banana republic...
What's the point of a chipset capable of 1080p playback if it cannot drive a 1080p screen? Fair enough you won't have a 1920x1080 resolution screen in your phone or tablet device (not yet) but I for one wouldn't mind being able to connect my new 1080p capable device to a TV or monitor to playback 1080p at proper resolution.
Being reflective or emitting has nothing to do with use of e-ink in e-readers. Main advantage of e-ink displays is that they only draw power when the display is updated, they don't consume any power to maintain the image unlike LCD or OLED displays which makes them a lot more power-efficient. However with every e-ink display having a mechanical component (little ink particles are moved around by electric fields) their refresh rate is relatively slow in comparison to an LCD or OLED which makes them unsuitable as a general purpose computer display. Since e-reader display mostly static content (text, no animation) an e-ink display is perfect for that purpose, offering much lower power consumption.
The whole set of internet technologies is a mess. There are multiple competing standards for everything. I like the plugin idea but apart from that you are just stating the obvious, the mass uptake does lag behind the new tech but we don't just stop because of that do we?
The 'survival of the fittest' bit has always annoyed me. Define 'fittest'... VHS vs Betamax, Intel x86 vs Motorola 68k, IDE vs SCSI, DOS vs other stuff at the time, Windows vs Mac or Amiga, etc, etc... The 'fittest' product out there is more often than not is not that good, its just entrenched in the marketplace through widespread use and/or cheap manufacture. I say enough of survival of the fittest, lets have 'survival of the best'.
OpenTorrent?;)
The BitTorrent crowd has sold out. Closing down the client is one thing, closing down the protocol is a Microsoft thing to do. Nowadays when we realize how beneficial open source and open standards can be, this is a big step back. Sure most probably the new additions to the protocol will be reverse-engineered but the decision itself aligns the company with other commercial entities that I and many other people perceive as working to detriment of the greater good.:)
It is a question of viewpoint, isn't it? If widespread use and success was important to Tanenbaum I guess he would have stopped long time ago as minix never took off. However it seems he is more of a researcher than a pragmatist like Linus seems to be and keeps minix going as a personal research/pet project.
As for amount of failed microkernel architectures indicating it is 'wrong', well, VHS won over Betamax, over the years old x86 won over countless 'better' architectures, MS-DOS won over a lot more pleasant (D)OSes, etc, etc, etc... Just because something is popular doesn't mean it is there because it is the best.
Maybe both of the designs are dead ends but thats just a speculation for now and the monolithic kernel design should be the dinosaur in your example as it came before the microkernels and out of the two microkernels *are* the fresher design which in its day was trying to break the mould and revolutionize the os architecture.
resistance of a conductor is: R=rho*L/A where rho - resistivity of the material in Ohms/m L - length of the conductor A - cross-sectional area in m^2 (in this case pi*r^2). rho for Al is 26.5x10-9. I am not sure what size can of tuna they were comparing the aluminium liner to in the official release but say it is a big can, say 5cm in heights, 12cm in width. This makes the resistance: R around 1.17x10-7 Ohms which makes the power: P = VI = I^2*R ~ 42293215 or 0.042 gigawatts at about 2.2V A bit short of 1.21 (28 times short in fact:-) but look at it that way - even if they delivered the 1.21 gigawatts, they need to work out how to get the 650-ton generator moving at 80mph to time travel...
Blaming Google for Microsoft bugs? If this is not an isolated case just on your machine then surely it is MS who is to blame for buggy CSS/javascript/whatever feature it is that crashes IE. Its not that Google code is buggy, it runs and shows you the maps, it is IE that slows down and eventually falls over.
Heh, I can just imaging an XP installation on this. I've tried Windows XP on a small partition and I have always ended up fighting for more space, even after moving swap, My Documents and temp to another partition. Somehow it chews the space up as you install more apps. Runtime common files, Installer packages, service pack backups, System Restore snapshots etc etc. But seriously, the only place I can see solid state useful at the moment is applications requiring resistance to extreme conditions (temperature or shock) where it would compete with flash solid state drives. Comparing this product to flash solid state drives, flash drives are very slow (1.5Mbps-8Mbps) but they are also very small (2.5" and even 1.8" models. They are also more expensive than even this card + mem but they do not need any power at all to keep the data. They also have re-write limits as all flash (100k writes?). Still it is pretty clear that this product is not for industrial uses and is pretty much a market test (the article mentioning 1k only being built).
I was looking for some more concrete evidence on power specifically for the CPU and from the datasheet, at 266MHz they quote 1.9W max power. The STPC Elite SoC datasheet (CPU from the example you used) states 4.8W for the x86 at 133MHz. At its been said, the power for the Slug is measured at the wall while the power from the example is measured at the board, with less memory and no peripherals. Also, on the performance side, the datasheet for the STPC Elite states that it uses 486 architecture. The article you refer to contains some Dhrystone figures and they compare to P5 figures at same frequencies. There is no FPU (there is a vector unit) but as its been said, for what this box would be used for there is not much need for floating point so the performance/power ratio would be higher than for an equivalent x86 board.
how about providing a link to these problems you are talking about? I googled for 'ps3 bus problems' and didn't find much at all apart from a bunch of people in some forums theorizing about with no actual data or numbers to back them up... For now the emphasis should definitely be 'rumored about' because people say all sorts of stuff but if it is not backed up it is not worth much, especially before the product is out.
the article talks about distributed computing on large scale which is not very feasible for all the above mentioned reasons like a) companies wouldn't spend money on building this into the console b) most consumers cannot be bothered There will be people who'd be interested though. I'd try it if I had a ps3... However with more and more use of clustered smaller machines in place of large supercomputers, clusters of consoles have been built in unis and research labs (for example here or here. There are a few advantages to using consoles: a) they are cheaper b) they are small form factor c) they have hardware optimised for computation (at least ps2 does and ps3 will). Sony had released linux on ps2 and word is they will be releasing linux for ps3 with extensions for the Cell's SPUs. Once ps3 has a fully featured OS any scientific app can be ported and modified to run on it. Now M$ on the other hand, well, I don't see them releasing any OS for XBOX 2*Pi but maybe the xbox linux crowd will take care of that.
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I have a server to download/store my media with 8 external HDs. I bought a cheapo 10 port USB hub and kept buying HDs as they filled up. The player user to be wdtv live but now is Raspberry Pi 2 with OSMC on it, accessing the external drives as a share. No RAID, no expensive NASes, everything works. Cheap, effective.
I use a guillotine for cutting PCBs and since it shears rather than cuts there is pretty much no dust generated.
Why new anything? things are perfect as they are!
Down here in Oz we are already way down the list in terms of speeds, uptake and prices... If Libs and Abott get in power and scrap NBN (they are good at selling public assets off, they have had plenty of practice), we are definitely consigned to being an internet banana republic...
What's the point of a chipset capable of 1080p playback if it cannot drive a 1080p screen? Fair enough you won't have a 1920x1080 resolution screen in your phone or tablet device (not yet) but I for one wouldn't mind being able to connect my new 1080p capable device to a TV or monitor to playback 1080p at proper resolution.
Being reflective or emitting has nothing to do with use of e-ink in e-readers. Main advantage of e-ink displays is that they only draw power when the display is updated, they don't consume any power to maintain the image unlike LCD or OLED displays which makes them a lot more power-efficient. However with every e-ink display having a mechanical component (little ink particles are moved around by electric fields) their refresh rate is relatively slow in comparison to an LCD or OLED which makes them unsuitable as a general purpose computer display. Since e-reader display mostly static content (text, no animation) an e-ink display is perfect for that purpose, offering much lower power consumption.
Yeah... so last century. I wanna see this done in Javascript.
Also reminds me of Twilight or Gloom concept from the Watch trilogy (Nightwatch movie)
The whole set of internet technologies is a mess. There are multiple competing standards for everything. I like the plugin idea but apart from that you are just stating the obvious, the mass uptake does lag behind the new tech but we don't just stop because of that do we?
The 'survival of the fittest' bit has always annoyed me. Define 'fittest'... VHS vs Betamax, Intel x86 vs Motorola 68k, IDE vs SCSI, DOS vs other stuff at the time, Windows vs Mac or Amiga, etc, etc... The 'fittest' product out there is more often than not is not that good, its just entrenched in the marketplace through widespread use and/or cheap manufacture. I say enough of survival of the fittest, lets have 'survival of the best'.
OpenTorrent? ;)
The BitTorrent crowd has sold out. Closing down the client is one thing, closing down the protocol is a Microsoft thing to do. Nowadays when we realize how beneficial open source and open standards can be, this is a big step back. Sure most probably the new additions to the protocol will be reverse-engineered but the decision itself aligns the company with other commercial entities that I and many other people perceive as working to detriment of the greater good. :)
It is a question of viewpoint, isn't it? If widespread use and success was important to Tanenbaum I guess he would have stopped long time ago as minix never took off. However it seems he is more of a researcher than a pragmatist like Linus seems to be and keeps minix going as a personal research/pet project. As for amount of failed microkernel architectures indicating it is 'wrong', well, VHS won over Betamax, over the years old x86 won over countless 'better' architectures, MS-DOS won over a lot more pleasant (D)OSes, etc, etc, etc... Just because something is popular doesn't mean it is there because it is the best. Maybe both of the designs are dead ends but thats just a speculation for now and the monolithic kernel design should be the dinosaur in your example as it came before the microkernels and out of the two microkernels *are* the fresher design which in its day was trying to break the mould and revolutionize the os architecture.
resistance of a conductor is: :-) but look at it that way - even if they delivered the 1.21 gigawatts, they need to work out how to get the 650-ton generator moving at 80mph to time travel...
R=rho*L/A
where
rho - resistivity of the material in Ohms/m
L - length of the conductor
A - cross-sectional area in m^2 (in this case pi*r^2).
rho for Al is 26.5x10-9.
I am not sure what size can of tuna they were comparing the aluminium liner to in the official release but say it is a big can, say 5cm in heights, 12cm in width.
This makes the resistance:
R around 1.17x10-7 Ohms which makes the power:
P = VI = I^2*R ~ 42293215 or 0.042 gigawatts at about 2.2V
A bit short of 1.21 (28 times short in fact
Blaming Google for Microsoft bugs? If this is not an isolated case just on your machine then surely it is MS who is to blame for buggy CSS/javascript/whatever feature it is that crashes IE. Its not that Google code is buggy, it runs and shows you the maps, it is IE that slows down and eventually falls over.
Heh, I can just imaging an XP installation on this. I've tried Windows XP on a small partition and I have always ended up fighting for more space, even after moving swap, My Documents and temp to another partition. Somehow it chews the space up as you install more apps. Runtime common files, Installer packages, service pack backups, System Restore snapshots etc etc. But seriously, the only place I can see solid state useful at the moment is applications requiring resistance to extreme conditions (temperature or shock) where it would compete with flash solid state drives. Comparing this product to flash solid state drives, flash drives are very slow (1.5Mbps-8Mbps) but they are also very small (2.5" and even 1.8" models. They are also more expensive than even this card + mem but they do not need any power at all to keep the data. They also have re-write limits as all flash (100k writes?). Still it is pretty clear that this product is not for industrial uses and is pretty much a market test (the article mentioning 1k only being built).
This is utter bullshit.
Eh, no, it isn't.
I was looking for some more concrete evidence on power specifically for the CPU and from the datasheet, at 266MHz they quote 1.9W max power. The STPC Elite SoC datasheet (CPU from the example you used) states 4.8W for the x86 at 133MHz. At its been said, the power for the Slug is measured at the wall while the power from the example is measured at the board, with less memory and no peripherals. Also, on the performance side, the datasheet for the STPC Elite states that it uses 486 architecture. The article you refer to contains some Dhrystone figures and they compare to P5 figures at same frequencies. There is no FPU (there is a vector unit) but as its been said, for what this box would be used for there is not much need for floating point so the performance/power ratio would be higher than for an equivalent x86 board.
how about providing a link to these problems you are talking about? I googled for 'ps3 bus problems' and didn't find much at all apart from a bunch of people in some forums theorizing about with no actual data or numbers to back them up... For now the emphasis should definitely be 'rumored about' because people say all sorts of stuff but if it is not backed up it is not worth much, especially before the product is out.
the article talks about distributed computing on large scale which is not very feasible for all the above mentioned reasons like
a) companies wouldn't spend money on building this into the console
b) most consumers cannot be bothered
There will be people who'd be interested though. I'd try it if I had a ps3... However with more and more use of clustered smaller machines in place of large supercomputers, clusters of consoles have been built in unis and research labs (for example here or here. There are a few advantages to using consoles:
a) they are cheaper
b) they are small form factor
c) they have hardware optimised for computation (at least ps2 does and ps3 will).
Sony had released linux on ps2 and word is they will be releasing linux for ps3 with extensions for the Cell's SPUs. Once ps3 has a fully featured OS any scientific app can be ported and modified to run on it. Now M$ on the other hand, well, I don't see them releasing any OS for XBOX 2*Pi but maybe the xbox linux crowd will take care of that.