Xena has really stolen the spotlight, and it seems everyone has forgotten about Sedna. If Kuiper belt objects are now planets, then why should we exclude planet-like objects in the Oort cloud?
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/
It's not the standard Efficeon, is a modified version that stops running if the owner doesn't pay the bill -- built under contract from Microsoft. Because the security is all in the CPU it is much more difficult to hack (ie. stop paying the monthly pay-as-you-go FlexGo bill, and just keep the computer). I think Intel-based machines are going with some kind of BIOS modification, but its much less secure.
Apparently AMD has recognized this, but clearly Intel would lose serious face if they in any way recognized any value in anything Transmeta.
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Xena has really stolen the spotlight, and it seems everyone has forgotten about Sedna. If Kuiper belt objects are now planets, then why should we exclude planet-like objects in the Oort cloud? http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/
It's not the standard Efficeon, is a modified version that stops running if the owner doesn't pay the bill -- built under contract from Microsoft. Because the security is all in the CPU it is much more difficult to hack (ie. stop paying the monthly pay-as-you-go FlexGo bill, and just keep the computer). I think Intel-based machines are going with some kind of BIOS modification, but its much less secure. Apparently AMD has recognized this, but clearly Intel would lose serious face if they in any way recognized any value in anything Transmeta.
No, wait. The original is still relevant. My mistake.