By this you mean the laptop in this article? That's not much of a solution for people who already have a laptop... I've got a fairly portable tablet PC that I would love to be able to run slightly newer games on, but all I can do is hope for these guys to actually deliver their products.
I think one of the problems with the early versions like yours is that they used Intel and ATI, with two nVidia the driver should be able to handle it much more neatly since it's a universal driver. I haven't used one of these systems myself but I hear it's a lot better with the newer versions. I think ATI is doing something similar but they might not have actually gotten products to market yet. I would love to have something like this in my desktop too, although now that I run folding@home GPU on mine it wouldn't make much difference anyway.
Unfortunately, neither the ASUS ROG XG Station nor the Luxium have ever been commercially available, which is a shame because I'd love to buy one if the price was reasonable.
Cool, thanks. We do have directories like that and I think they're already in the path. On a related note, I've been trying to change my default shell by setting $SHELL and I can echo $SHELL and it says bash but every time I log on I get csh which is annoying for me because I like tab completion. I don't really know what other benefits there are to bash but I would much rather prefer to use it than csh if possible, without having to type bash at every logon.
I was talking about vi, I didn't know about vim to be honest. On Linux on my computer vi is aliased to vim but not on our Solaris servers at Berkeley.
Also, a fun related quote from one of the professors here, Paul Hilfinger:
In the interests of truth, beauty, and justice -- and to undo, in some small part, the damage Berkeley has done by foisting vi on an already-unhappy world -- Emacs will be the official CS61A text editor this semester
Haha, I really don't understand why vi doesn't have anything helpful at all when you start it up. Emacs' tutorial is so nice and helpful, whereas every time I start vi I have that same experience and just keyboard mash until I manage to quit. I admit that I haven't spent much time trying to learn vi, and only really started using emacs this semester (first semester of college) but if I'm ever on a system that doesn't have emacs nano is better since I can actually figure out how to save and quit without reading documentation. I think that has to be one of the tenets of good UI design; if it isn't completely obvious how to operate a program, it should at least be obvious how to get help within the program. Once I'm in vi and don't know anything knowing to check the manpage isn't going to be much help. I picked up some basic knowledge from the vi thread here but sheesh, that kind of stuff should be readily available inside the program.
In related news, earlier this year Blizzard started offering digital downloads of games you already own by entering your CD Key, so in your case it would definitely be a better idea to buy from a store and then you could still later download it from anywhere if you wanted to.
I think Microsoft is sort of getting attacked on all its fronts, although Apple represents the biggest threat, both in the smartphone market and the OS market. In the MP3 player market Microsoft entered late but is making headway into Apple's marketshare, and the same goes for the video game console market.
It seems like this competition is forcing them to actually innovate and improve their stuff. Windows 7, for one thing, actually looks significantly different than previous versions of Windows. I think they finally realized that their UI kind of sucked and that they could improve upon it like they did with Office 2007, which most people but the most diehard MS haters agree makes you more productive. Everything seems much better engineered, too. Running on a netbook with 1GB RAM? I never thought it would be possible, but apparently they got it to use less than 512MB of RAM.
I was similarly surprised when they mentioned that Windows Media Player 12 would have a bunch of codec support for things like h264 and DivX, it's like a sudden outbreak of common sense hit Microsoft. I guess they realized that there's no point trying to push their format by only playing WMA/WMV and the more common ones, since people are just going to use a different player if they can't play their videos in WMV.
I'm actually pretty sure WinMo isn't the most common smartphone platform - that distinction probably goes to RIM, and if not then S60. But Nokia has a much smaller presence in the US than in Europe and Asia. I'm pretty sure RIM has the most smartphones overall.
Seriously, Verizon is such BS with their phones. They have less phones with Wifi than most people have fingers on one hand, last I checked, and they're way more expensive than the equivalent GSM models. All their Blackberries don't have Wifi I think, yet the nearest equivalent AT&T model usually does. If they didn't have a good network I wouldn't use them at all.
I'm pretty sure HTC has stated that they're going to keep producing WinMo phones for the foreseeable future. Since they're the biggest/best manufacturer of WinMo phones, I don't see why not. And while Android is cool, at this point it's still a 1.0 product without as much software available as WinMo. I doubt HTC would ever drop WinMo since it seems to be heading towards improvement with the increased competition.
Well, for one thing the Ribbon isn't continually displayed in Office 2007 at least. And I find that it actually helps me find things faster, although I don't expect it to which causes some annoyance.
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By this you mean the laptop in this article? That's not much of a solution for people who already have a laptop... I've got a fairly portable tablet PC that I would love to be able to run slightly newer games on, but all I can do is hope for these guys to actually deliver their products.
Woah, your lawn does that? I always have to check for errors by hand...
chsh isn't present on Solaris. I already tried that.
I think one of the problems with the early versions like yours is that they used Intel and ATI, with two nVidia the driver should be able to handle it much more neatly since it's a universal driver. I haven't used one of these systems myself but I hear it's a lot better with the newer versions. I think ATI is doing something similar but they might not have actually gotten products to market yet. I would love to have something like this in my desktop too, although now that I run folding@home GPU on mine it wouldn't make much difference anyway.
And Sony did it before them, among others, but who's keeping track, right?
Unfortunately, neither the ASUS ROG XG Station nor the Luxium have ever been commercially available, which is a shame because I'd love to buy one if the price was reasonable.
Cool, thanks. We do have directories like that and I think they're already in the path. On a related note, I've been trying to change my default shell by setting $SHELL and I can echo $SHELL and it says bash but every time I log on I get csh which is annoying for me because I like tab completion. I don't really know what other benefits there are to bash but I would much rather prefer to use it than csh if possible, without having to type bash at every logon.
I was talking about vi, I didn't know about vim to be honest. On Linux on my computer vi is aliased to vim but not on our Solaris servers at Berkeley.
Also, a fun related quote from one of the professors here, Paul Hilfinger:
Aha! I just ran vi on my own computer and it was vim, which actually does show you how to get help. But the CS Solaris servers here only have vi, ugh.
Haha, I really don't understand why vi doesn't have anything helpful at all when you start it up. Emacs' tutorial is so nice and helpful, whereas every time I start vi I have that same experience and just keyboard mash until I manage to quit. I admit that I haven't spent much time trying to learn vi, and only really started using emacs this semester (first semester of college) but if I'm ever on a system that doesn't have emacs nano is better since I can actually figure out how to save and quit without reading documentation. I think that has to be one of the tenets of good UI design; if it isn't completely obvious how to operate a program, it should at least be obvious how to get help within the program. Once I'm in vi and don't know anything knowing to check the manpage isn't going to be much help. I picked up some basic knowledge from the vi thread here but sheesh, that kind of stuff should be readily available inside the program.
Yeah, I didn't deny that, I guess I was just saying that I know a lot of people who do it and they haven't gotten into trouble.
Probably, but I think this is actually fairly common, and Valve doesn't mind because they're actually making enough money to profit anyway.
In related news, earlier this year Blizzard started offering digital downloads of games you already own by entering your CD Key, so in your case it would definitely be a better idea to buy from a store and then you could still later download it from anywhere if you wanted to.
Google is also a website, you dickwad.
Umm, no, I think the poster meant that his browser (probably Firefox 3.1 beta or nightly) supports the HTML 5 and tags.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/html5_video.asp
Funny thing, last year I competed in the Stanford Math Tournament and one of the rounds involved knot theory. http://sumo.stanford.edu/smt/ but for some reason they don't have that round in their list of problems, but these are the solutions: http://sumo.stanford.edu/smt/2008/Solutions/power-soln.pdf.
I think Microsoft is sort of getting attacked on all its fronts, although Apple represents the biggest threat, both in the smartphone market and the OS market. In the MP3 player market Microsoft entered late but is making headway into Apple's marketshare, and the same goes for the video game console market.
It seems like this competition is forcing them to actually innovate and improve their stuff. Windows 7, for one thing, actually looks significantly different than previous versions of Windows. I think they finally realized that their UI kind of sucked and that they could improve upon it like they did with Office 2007, which most people but the most diehard MS haters agree makes you more productive. Everything seems much better engineered, too. Running on a netbook with 1GB RAM? I never thought it would be possible, but apparently they got it to use less than 512MB of RAM.
I was similarly surprised when they mentioned that Windows Media Player 12 would have a bunch of codec support for things like h264 and DivX, it's like a sudden outbreak of common sense hit Microsoft. I guess they realized that there's no point trying to push their format by only playing WMA/WMV and the more common ones, since people are just going to use a different player if they can't play their videos in WMV.
I'm actually pretty sure WinMo isn't the most common smartphone platform - that distinction probably goes to RIM, and if not then S60. But Nokia has a much smaller presence in the US than in Europe and Asia. I'm pretty sure RIM has the most smartphones overall.
Seriously, Verizon is such BS with their phones. They have less phones with Wifi than most people have fingers on one hand, last I checked, and they're way more expensive than the equivalent GSM models. All their Blackberries don't have Wifi I think, yet the nearest equivalent AT&T model usually does. If they didn't have a good network I wouldn't use them at all.
I'm pretty sure HTC has stated that they're going to keep producing WinMo phones for the foreseeable future. Since they're the biggest/best manufacturer of WinMo phones, I don't see why not. And while Android is cool, at this point it's still a 1.0 product without as much software available as WinMo. I doubt HTC would ever drop WinMo since it seems to be heading towards improvement with the increased competition.
Probably. The bigger mystery is why I got modded funny for quoting someone's sig.
because you don't know whether Money is a boolean, you're just comparing the two.
This is probably a good time to bring up the song/video The Day the Routers Died.
That really is one of the great mysteries of slashdot.
Well, for one thing the Ribbon isn't continually displayed in Office 2007 at least. And I find that it actually helps me find things faster, although I don't expect it to which causes some annoyance.