This strikes me as weird.
1) It's very pricy. ARM cpus are dirt cheap compared to power or x86 CPUs, the rest of the components are pretty standard. The build cost for this machine should be less that 100USD in reasonable sized runs.
2) It draws A LOT of power. I don't think that any ARM machine I've worked with draws close to 20W @ 5V.
On the whole though, I think this is a cool idea - when I worked on a 200Mhz Xscale ARM running Debian, it was perfectly fine for web surfing, etc. Perfect for Mom and Pop if they just wanted to surf & do email.
There is no article, no such thing as a Nobel "Piece" Prize, no mention of any such prize on Wink's homepage.
So basically no evidence of anything at all. Is this whole article a Troll to see how many slashdotters will bite? Did the editors check a single link?
This article can be summed up as "No content here, but I have some links - Clicky clicky clicky please!!"
This is the most inane thing I have ever seen.
If you will excuse me, I'm off to make up some prizes to award to random people.
I majored in CS, but wish that I had taken some EE courses. Out of university I got a job & was slated into some embedded hardware projects - I was writing application software on small slow platforms.
Coming from a pure software background (I remember a CS prof saying that you should regard the machine merely as an abstraction) I thought I would hate it. Turns out that it is challenging and fun. Five years later I write embedded drivers and software for a variety of small devices. I don't design hardware or anything, but at the level I work at you need to have a good grasp on how digital logic and chips work.
The embedded industry is one of the largest slices of industry, and it is growing. And for the kicker - it is extremely hard to find people that can do software and understand hardware (thanks Java!).
You either get EEs that try to write in assembler (C is for wuses), or CS guys that want to write in PHP or Java.
The last few places I have worked at have found it very hard to find competent people.
Just MHO:)
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1) It's very pricy. ARM cpus are dirt cheap compared to power or x86 CPUs, the rest of the components are pretty standard. The build cost for this machine should be less that 100USD in reasonable sized runs.
2) It draws A LOT of power. I don't think that any ARM machine I've worked with draws close to 20W @ 5V.
On the whole though, I think this is a cool idea - when I worked on a 200Mhz Xscale ARM running Debian, it was perfectly fine for web surfing, etc. Perfect for Mom and Pop if they just wanted to surf & do email.
So basically no evidence of anything at all. Is this whole article a Troll to see how many slashdotters will bite? Did the editors check a single link?
This article can be summed up as "No content here, but I have some links - Clicky clicky clicky please!!"
This is the most inane thing I have ever seen.
If you will excuse me, I'm off to make up some prizes to award to random people.
The embedded industry is one of the largest slices of industry, and it is growing. And for the kicker - it is extremely hard to find people that can do software and understand hardware (thanks Java!).
You either get EEs that try to write in assembler (C is for wuses), or CS guys that want to write in PHP or Java.
The last few places I have worked at have found it very hard to find competent people. :)
Just MHO