I also have a Nook Color. It's a nice form factor for reading books and comics, it's easy to root and install CM7, and the price is way below any other tablet. I suspect that B&N is subsidizing the thing with book sales. I sure hope they stay in business.
From the article, it seems like the processor usage would be transparent such that you don't need to explicitly target each processing element directly.
Why, if they were x86 Android tablets, why wouldn't they be able to run Android apps? The apps are running on top of Dalvik anyway so the processor underneath it all doesn't really matter.
Apparently anything running Android then. Here you go, although I haven't tried it myself. There's always cross-compiling qemu statically for ARM and then running it on your Android tablet.
Ah, so what you're saying is "if you compare the second hand price of a Pentium 3 several years after it's released to the on release price of the G4 tower brand new, then the G4 tower comes out rather expensive". I'd like to be the first to say... no shit.
Take a new P3 that's a year or two out from release vs. a new G4 that's the same age and new, the P3 is still both cheaper to buy and cheaper to upgrade. I didn't say anything about second hand, although now that you mention it, the price difference is even greater for second hand processing capabilities. But let's go back to your original post:
Bull, I know many people who still use G4s and G5s... Sure, they're not the fastest machines on the planet, but they're also between 5 and 10 years old! You're talking about machines as old as 1Ghz Pentium 3s here, and you don't see many of them about any more, do you?
My anecdotal evidence is as good as yours. I haven't seen any G4 or G5 in years. However, we still have a few P3s running print and other low-end server duties in the backend.
You know why I replaced my P3? Because it cost less than $200.
Something makes me doubt that... maybe it's to do with the release price of the Pentium 3 1Ghz being over $600 for the cheapest one... and that's for the CPU only.
Who buys these things when their first released? I get them later when the prices drop. I currently have an Athlon2 x4 that I bought for $100. Thanks to AMD's socket designs, the only thing I've done the last few years are CPU upgrades.
You know why I replaced my P3? Because it cost less than $200. Honestly, I haven't spent more than $1500 on computer equipment total for the last 10 years.
Your argument is also ridiculous. You don't buy computers based on resale value.. If you value resale value so much, I have an RS/6000 machine I'd like to sell you. Now, about productive PowerPC-era Macs, they're less powerful and suck u pmore electricity. That's why you don't see P2/P3 machines anymore for the same reason. Also they're much cheaper to replace and hence why they're mostly gone.
First off, the Android version loaded on phones isn't beat to shit. It's just that custom ROMs are cleaner. Secondly, is it the fault of Google's that carrier's load things that people don't want on their phones?
My HTC Aria is rooted and running Cyanogenmod 7 (Android 2.3.3). Honestly, if you don't root your phone and load custom ROM, I think you're missing out on quite a bit (not to mention the crapware that the carriers load onto the phone.)
I like the one about the guy who brings his own bomb on a plane because while having one bomb on a plane is rare, having two bombs on a plane is even more rare.
Barnes and Noble have been pretty successful with their tablet. Sure, it's billed as an ereader, but a lot of people just root it and install Android 2.2/3.0. I have 3.0 on mine, and it works well, especially given the price (also installed the Nook app, and it's not all that bad).
Let's coin a word: "Rhetorical Luddite". I thought ahead and built a custom quad core XP machine in 2006 that is still middle of the line now. Now it's MS's job to "prove" why XP absolutely must go to make way for the upgrade they'd like me to make. To do that, I currently guess it would take another Killer App of some kind. These little deliberate fragmentations instead are irritating.
I'd say security updates and new features and better support for more hardware. I mean, would you keep running Debian 2.2 on your desktop, which are both released about the same time?
What's in a name, really? Is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea really a democracy or a republic? I don't think so. Similarly PowerPC is not RISC anymore: it has a whole lot of instructions (ie, not reduced instruction set) and even has instructions that require complex decoding. It's better to call them load-store. But then, current x86 computers are also load-store as well.
In other words, RISC is a very obsolete term nowadays.
Gamecube, Wii, Playstation, PS2, PS3, PSP and Xbox 360 are RISC too.
Those have CPUs using the PowerPC instruction set. Have you taken a look at that instruction set? It's definitely not RISC (reduced instruction set computing, it doesn't apply anymore)
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I know all of them. I just don't know which order they go in.
I also have a Nook Color. It's a nice form factor for reading books and comics, it's easy to root and install CM7, and the price is way below any other tablet. I suspect that B&N is subsidizing the thing with book sales. I sure hope they stay in business.
From the article, it seems like the processor usage would be transparent such that you don't need to explicitly target each processing element directly.
Why, if they were x86 Android tablets, why wouldn't they be able to run Android apps? The apps are running on top of Dalvik anyway so the processor underneath it all doesn't really matter.
Apparently anything running Android then. Here you go, although I haven't tried it myself. There's always cross-compiling qemu statically for ARM and then running it on your Android tablet.
Ah, so what you're saying is "if you compare the second hand price of a Pentium 3 several years after it's released to the on release price of the G4 tower brand new, then the G4 tower comes out rather expensive". I'd like to be the first to say... no shit.
Take a new P3 that's a year or two out from release vs. a new G4 that's the same age and new, the P3 is still both cheaper to buy and cheaper to upgrade. I didn't say anything about second hand, although now that you mention it, the price difference is even greater for second hand processing capabilities. But let's go back to your original post:
Bull, I know many people who still use G4s and G5s... Sure, they're not the fastest machines on the planet, but they're also between 5 and 10 years old! You're talking about machines as old as 1Ghz Pentium 3s here, and you don't see many of them about any more, do you?
My anecdotal evidence is as good as yours. I haven't seen any G4 or G5 in years. However, we still have a few P3s running print and other low-end server duties in the backend.
You know why I replaced my P3? Because it cost less than $200.
Something makes me doubt that... maybe it's to do with the release price of the Pentium 3 1Ghz being over $600 for the cheapest one... and that's for the CPU only.
Who buys these things when their first released? I get them later when the prices drop. I currently have an Athlon2 x4 that I bought for $100. Thanks to AMD's socket designs, the only thing I've done the last few years are CPU upgrades.
You know why I replaced my P3? Because it cost less than $200. Honestly, I haven't spent more than $1500 on computer equipment total for the last 10 years.
Your argument is also ridiculous. You don't buy computers based on resale value.. If you value resale value so much, I have an RS/6000 machine I'd like to sell you. Now, about productive PowerPC-era Macs, they're less powerful and suck u pmore electricity. That's why you don't see P2/P3 machines anymore for the same reason. Also they're much cheaper to replace and hence why they're mostly gone.
1) I'm not supporting Apple
2) Wider phone choices
First off, the Android version loaded on phones isn't beat to shit. It's just that custom ROMs are cleaner. Secondly, is it the fault of Google's that carrier's load things that people don't want on their phones?
My HTC Aria is rooted and running Cyanogenmod 7 (Android 2.3.3). Honestly, if you don't root your phone and load custom ROM, I think you're missing out on quite a bit (not to mention the crapware that the carriers load onto the phone.)
Using your phone drains the battery pretty fast. Some phones can't even keep the battery charged even while plugged in.
I would suggest linpack and povray.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)">Project Orion from the 1950s
Root your phone and load Cyanogenmod or some other OS. That's really the way to go.
I like the one about the guy who brings his own bomb on a plane because while having one bomb on a plane is rare, having two bombs on a plane is even more rare.
Just bought the Nook Color and the first thing I did was root it.
Barnes and Noble have been pretty successful with their tablet. Sure, it's billed as an ereader, but a lot of people just root it and install Android 2.2/3.0. I have 3.0 on mine, and it works well, especially given the price (also installed the Nook app, and it's not all that bad).
No kidding. If the Japanese can grow rectangular watermelons, they can certainly find a way to grow rectangular bananas.
Let's coin a word: "Rhetorical Luddite". I thought ahead and built a custom quad core XP machine in 2006 that is still middle of the line now. Now it's MS's job to "prove" why XP absolutely must go to make way for the upgrade they'd like me to make. To do that, I currently guess it would take another Killer App of some kind. These little deliberate fragmentations instead are irritating.
I'd say security updates and new features and better support for more hardware. I mean, would you keep running Debian 2.2 on your desktop, which are both released about the same time?
Unfortunately, it's really 2015-3-14. If prefere e day: 2718-2-8
That's why I mentioned complex decoding requirements for other instructions.
What's in a name, really? Is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea really a democracy or a republic? I don't think so. Similarly PowerPC is not RISC anymore: it has a whole lot of instructions (ie, not reduced instruction set) and even has instructions that require complex decoding. It's better to call them load-store. But then, current x86 computers are also load-store as well.
In other words, RISC is a very obsolete term nowadays.
Gamecube, Wii, Playstation, PS2, PS3, PSP and Xbox 360 are RISC too.
Those have CPUs using the PowerPC instruction set. Have you taken a look at that instruction set? It's definitely not RISC (reduced instruction set computing, it doesn't apply anymore)