Length, Width, Depth - only? What about the fourth dimension: Time? Are these going to be just static screens? It should be 4D.
Why do I have the feeling that I may have accidentally created another annoying marketing term?
Well obviously they're talking about 3 space dimensions, which time is not. But if you want to use your same logic you could argue that by 3D they really mean 2D animation.
I was living with her and things went all wonky (no sex, she started crying all the time, etc.)
Regular boyfriend asks her what's wrong and tries to figure out how she's feeling by talking to her.
Nerdy boyfriend waits till the situation degrades further and sniffs her IM packets to eavesdrop her conversations with her best friend to find out what was going on once it's already too late.
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing about the screen. However I have no clue how much such a screen drains nor even how many mAh are most modern laptop batteries rated.
Couldn't they just run that CPU under clocked and without using the hard disk to vastly improve battery life?
Not even remotely as power efficient. An under clocked x86 CPU isn't even remotely as power efficient as an ARM at the same clock rate, but also you have to take into account the rest of the components. The 1 GB of RAM in your x86 laptop drain a lot more than the 128 MB (or so) built in your SoC, same for the video hardware. And the whole thing probably doesn't add much to the price of the laptop, I'd be surprised if the extra cost for the manufacturer was over $50.
Duh, well that's the thing. The novelty isn't that it uses two OSes, it's that it uses two different computers using two different architectures. A sort of siamese computer in a sense..
Well if you're never fully going to boot into the regular x86 OS you're wasting your money on a perfectly good hard drive, PC RAM, x86 CPU and mobile graphics card that sit in your laptop unused when only using the UMPC mode.
However I must agree that a web/mail appliance mode that just works sounds like a nice thing.
Where does TFA mention VMs? Quick rant : that's what I hate about way too many Slashdotters. They talk like they know damn well what they're talking about when they have no clue/are assuming things or making stuff up cause they can't be arsed to check.
Yeah, because it runs of entirely separate hardware, i.e. not the same processor/RAM and doesn't use the hard drive. And the great thing is because it runs off a lower power ARM SoC and doesn't have to power any hard drive the thing can stay on for more than a day instead of a mere few hours. It's really two computers inside of one.
You could at least read the article, it's an ARM SoC that serves as a separate UMPC inside the laptop. Kind of like having a N810 inside your laptop if you will.
Yeah I really think they've ironed all of it out and came up with something much more efficient than you'd imagine. And they didn't get Slashdotted, and they're pretty responsive, so I wouldn't worry about their fate a bit. They seem pretty big already.
Well Charlotte looks great, Samantha has a great body for her age, SJP looks a bit like the 2008 Madonna-zombie, but Miranda is definitely not pretty. She's average at best.
By the way, it's almost disturbing to have that sort of conversation on Slashdot. On the other hand I guess that makes up for a certain lack of women around here.
Well, the religion of Buddhism is based around the idea that reality is simply a delusion on the grandest scale and once you come to understand that you'll be at peace.
Mmmh.. interesting. But I think I'll remain under the delusion that the idea that reality is a delusion is itself a delusion, thank you.
There is a great Charlie Brooker skit on aspirational television and how believing that we should be as beautiful and stylish as the cast of Friends and Sex and the City is actually making everybody miserable.
The cast of Sex and the City is beautiful?? Are you kidding?!?
Interesting. So you would evolve through a tree by cross-correlation? If I can formulate my own guess, I'd say that they probably don't put pictures in groups defined by what they represent but by the result of their own cross correlation. That would make sense.
Look at the bright side of things! By not being the #1 anymore, at least people around the world will stop hating us for being #1 as they have for decades!
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Length, Width, Depth - only? What about the fourth dimension: Time? Are these going to be just static screens? It should be 4D.
Why do I have the feeling that I may have accidentally created another annoying marketing term?
Well obviously they're talking about 3 space dimensions, which time is not. But if you want to use your same logic you could argue that by 3D they really mean 2D animation.
I was living with her and things went all wonky (no sex, she started crying all the time, etc.)
Regular boyfriend asks her what's wrong and tries to figure out how she's feeling by talking to her.
Nerdy boyfriend waits till the situation degrades further and sniffs her IM packets to eavesdrop her conversations with her best friend to find out what was going on once it's already too late.
Like a SoC?
22 nm?? Aren't we dramatically approaching the theoretical limit? What is the theoretical limit by the way?
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing about the screen. However I have no clue how much such a screen drains nor even how many mAh are most modern laptop batteries rated.
Aren't there any ARM laptops out there?
Don't Linux distros boot up on UMPCs in 10 to 20 seconds?
Couldn't they just run that CPU under clocked and without using the hard disk to vastly improve battery life?
Not even remotely as power efficient. An under clocked x86 CPU isn't even remotely as power efficient as an ARM at the same clock rate, but also you have to take into account the rest of the components. The 1 GB of RAM in your x86 laptop drain a lot more than the 128 MB (or so) built in your SoC, same for the video hardware. And the whole thing probably doesn't add much to the price of the laptop, I'd be surprised if the extra cost for the manufacturer was over $50.
Where'd you get all these stats from? Or did you just make the whole thing up?
Oh, so it wasn't clueless of you, it just had nothing to do with anything.
Duh, well that's the thing. The novelty isn't that it uses two OSes, it's that it uses two different computers using two different architectures. A sort of siamese computer in a sense..
Obviously it's far from the first time that I notice this behaviour ;)
Well if you're never fully going to boot into the regular x86 OS you're wasting your money on a perfectly good hard drive, PC RAM, x86 CPU and mobile graphics card that sit in your laptop unused when only using the UMPC mode.
However I must agree that a web/mail appliance mode that just works sounds like a nice thing.
Where does TFA mention VMs? Quick rant : that's what I hate about way too many Slashdotters. They talk like they know damn well what they're talking about when they have no clue/are assuming things or making stuff up cause they can't be arsed to check.
Yeah, because it runs of entirely separate hardware, i.e. not the same processor/RAM and doesn't use the hard drive. And the great thing is because it runs off a lower power ARM SoC and doesn't have to power any hard drive the thing can stay on for more than a day instead of a mere few hours. It's really two computers inside of one.
99% of IPv4 traffic is bittorrent.
Coincidentally, 99% of percentages seen in Slashdot comments are made up on the spot.
You could at least read the article, it's an ARM SoC that serves as a separate UMPC inside the laptop. Kind of like having a N810 inside your laptop if you will.
Yeah I really think they've ironed all of it out and came up with something much more efficient than you'd imagine. And they didn't get Slashdotted, and they're pretty responsive, so I wouldn't worry about their fate a bit. They seem pretty big already.
Well Charlotte looks great, Samantha has a great body for her age, SJP looks a bit like the 2008 Madonna-zombie, but Miranda is definitely not pretty. She's average at best.
By the way, it's almost disturbing to have that sort of conversation on Slashdot. On the other hand I guess that makes up for a certain lack of women around here.
Well, the religion of Buddhism is based around the idea that reality is simply a delusion on the grandest scale and once you come to understand that you'll be at peace.
Mmmh.. interesting. But I think I'll remain under the delusion that the idea that reality is a delusion is itself a delusion, thank you.
There is a great Charlie Brooker skit on aspirational television and how believing that we should be as beautiful and stylish as the cast of Friends and Sex and the City is actually making everybody miserable.
The cast of Sex and the City is beautiful?? Are you kidding?!?
I'm sure he'll be fascinated by this discovery.
Interesting. So you would evolve through a tree by cross-correlation? If I can formulate my own guess, I'd say that they probably don't put pictures in groups defined by what they represent but by the result of their own cross correlation. That would make sense.
Uh huh, right, but how do they avoid cross correlating the search image against their whole database every time?
Look at the bright side of things! By not being the #1 anymore, at least people around the world will stop hating us for being #1 as they have for decades!