As a sidenote: modern computer controller 4-speed automatics are very comparable to their standard counterparts as far as efficiency/power. Furthermore continuously variable transmissions, which you can get in the 2WD A4, for instance, are more efficient than a standard.
BTW: I looked at your company's site: While I think it's a pretty cool product, most on Slashdot would cast you as the spawn of Satan for working on such a product so I wouldn't quote it too often.:-).
A network monitoring appliance is hardly system critical, and given that the field is awash in similar solutions that run under Windows I'd hardly claim it as a sphere where quality is #1. I appreciate your sarcasm, but I really think it was uncalled for.
You know the coins really are a government way of encouraging savings: I constantly empty pockets of change into a dish/pile/on the washer machine, etc. Every now and then I realize that it actually amounts to hundreds of dollars. When you have $2 coins it's amazing how valuable a coin pile can become.
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From their explanation: Our business, although strong, has been unable to weather the current economic realities beseiging the United States today.
I really wish failing dot COMs would quit blaming the "current economic realities", rather than simply saying "the commerce model for the internet hasn't panned out as we hoped, and those sucker VCs got a little wiser". Seriously it wouldn't matter if it was the biggest boom ever right now: There was a D-day seen coming for all sorts of these sites, but now they have the convenience of going "it's the economy, stupid". No it isn't, and the downturn didn't change their existing total lack of profitability.
You're completely right, and I'd say it's a case of two competitors pretending each other is the primary contendor, when in reality neither of them are (see major battery advertisements for an example of this in action: Agree to only focus on each other and consumers will be fooled into thinking that you're the two most important games in town [because why else would you focus on each other?]). In the serious embedded sphere I doubt either Lineo or Embedded CE/NT/2000/XP have any market saturation at all versus vxworks, QNX, etc.
What makes you say that Embedded Linux is "suitable" for use in ATMs/casino machines? I totally agree that the likelihood of Embedded XP taking off is unlikely, however at the same time I doubt any of the hardcore engineering crowd (that is use to the rock solid reliability of PLCs) is going to be touching Lineo anytime soon (yeah I'm sure there are some case studies/design wins where some cash was passed around and some token implementations took place in non-critical sectors).
If I were to build a critical embedded system right now I wouldn't touch embedded Linux with a 40ft pole: It'd be QNX or one of the other proven systems that I'd trust. Let embedded Linux prove itself for a decade and then maybe then it'll be trusted, but as it sits it seems like yet a Microsoft like "try to get the same code to run everywhere" type of attempts.
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Well I most certainly have nothing against Macs, or the MacOS: Again I'm looking for something as a Internet Appliance and if it performs the desired task then I'm very happy indeed. However the iMac doesn't fit my needs because of the CRT screen (which greatly increases power consumption, heat generation, and of course makes it much bulkier). Also the MacOS isn't an instant on type system. Otherwise I think the Apple products are fantastic.
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I love the form factor of that unit (at the very least it's a lot easier to put in a hidden location where the sound will naturally be dampened somewhat), and I didn't even know about the VIA C3 before so that is a fantastic bit of knowledge for refining the search (the C3 does seem to be key to a reasonable performance IA type system). I don't need DVD or floppy drive performance though, apart from during installation, as I want media to come over the home network.
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I've been looking for a good Internet Appliance and a CPU that runs at a low enough temperature to require just a passive heatsink (no fan) is something I'm really looking for. Any suggestions?
Wow, I couldn't have asked for a more explicit example of the Canadian inferiority complex in action...Let go of all your animosity towards America...Then ask yourself: Is Canada more important to America than America is to Canada?
To fight the problem would any Canadians care to point out what the differences in accent are
While you'll find brainiacs like this guy running around ready to expound upon their perceived faults in Canadian accents (oh the number of times that I've heard Americans make fun of "Canadian" accents, not realizing that what they're actually mocking is more akin to Minnesota accents), the reality is that it's such a large country that accents vary dramatically throughout the country. I'm from Southern Ontario, and here we have very middle-of-the-road accents (similar to the accent that most major newscasters adopt), though I can say that somehow Michiganers (who as a general rule are much more intelligent and worldly than this moron. By the way: It isn't fair to ever paint all Americans with the same brush-> While there are the country hicks that have never travelled further than their local towns borders, and their perspective of the world is "the US of A, and some other countries" (you don't have to look further than the White House to see a couple of examples of these), there are a lot of worldly, considerate, knowledgable Americans that despise these idiots) can always pick-up a Canadian "accent", despite the fact that I don't detect anything.
Again the reality is that the prototypical "Canadian accent" that uninformed American media likes to mock is much closer to North Dakota/Minnesota accents (I have nothing wrong with them and find the whole idea of mocking accents so inane that it boggles the mind. The little things that keep the little minds trying to segregate people).
Yawn. Of all the pathetic diatribes attempting to get Canadians "angry", this has to be one of the worst.
I think what we can say with certainty, is that Canadians tend to have serious inferiority complexes
The most telling part of this comment is the fact that you slam Canadians with your, err, "insightful" comments, and you're then claiming that WE have an inferiority complex. Wow. I think a little self-perspective is in order.
If my country's sole export was third rate comedians, I might feel inferior about it, too.
This is just so incredibly ignorant that it really puts the rest of the message into context (not that it wasn't already clear).
Obviously an intelligent, thoughful man, however I couldn't quite understand the point of the SP-2812 anecdote, apart from perhaps saying "I was much smarter than the guy from Microsoft." Seriously, though, it came across as very ESResque, in a "Let me tell you about how clever am smart I am masking it as a contextual anecdote.
Discussions regarding plagarisms, sources of inspiration, etc, are usually absurd (just like complaining about how Microsoft ripped off Apple/Xerox/Aqua/whatever) : The human race is one of very limited creative thoughts and we all feed off each other: Every innovator/artist did so on the shoulder of other innovators/artists. Maybe it's better to say that Christianity ripped ancient stories about magic (i.e. angels are just wizards with some theology stuffed into them?)
Anyways most scholars disagree and state that Tolkien completely separated Christianity from Middle Earth.
Apart from rendering most asymmetrical encryption useless, what benefit would it be to computer science? Seems like one of those rather useless things like "calculating the nth digit of pi using a cluster of 40,000,000 PCs".
Really I don't know and am curious (and maybe it'll let us have compression that will compress down to one byte!:-) See the prior story about the "data teleporter" to understand that joke).
of course dual channel ddr-sdram... gah... drool..
Isn't the nforce dual channel DDR? I know I was seriously excited about it, but rather underwhelmed when the actual numbers came out. Then again nvidia has a funny way of doing that again and again: Releasing something with subpar numbers to get the moaners and whiners yabbling (in a way they'll soon regret), and to lower expectations, and then coming out with a final product that blows people away.
Seriously when RAMBUS was 10x the price of SDRAM it seriously hurt, but now that RAMBUS is getting close to comparable, I don't see what the point is. In my neck of the woods PC-800 RDRAM goes for about 30% more than PC2100 DDR, which really isn't that much (and dual channel RDRAM is the fastest RAM platform out there). Given that the P4s one redeeming factor is that with RDRAM it has a serious memory advantage, I really don't see what Intel is thinking: Put a P4 with DDR DRAM and it'll get clobbered even more.
Now if they just get some software to run as a service (IE, sitting there quietly in the system tray where it is unlikely to be closed) then perhaps home users will see the value in it.
Services don't sit in the system tray, and unless they're running under the sytem account with interact with desktop rights they can't interact with the desktop whatsoever. System tray programs are usually user-centric things launched when you logon (i.e. the opposite of services), though some sometimes control services if that makes any sense. i.e. Install SQL Server and the service runs in the background, but it also installs a management tool that runs when you logon (via the standard Startup group) and facilitates starting/stopping in an easier method than the service manager.
Not to mention, it gets people adjusted to the idea of having a home server, which I think every home needs.
I did the exact same thing: I justified getting a Toshiba DVD+Hollywood Plus decoder card along with a system upgrade, justifying it as being an addition to the home theatre setup as well, but after watching a couple of movies I was at the store getting a real DVD player.
In which case the motherboard broke and the CPU burning up is only a part of your problems. To be sarcastic: Do you expect your video card to have "falling heatsink protective shields" to keep that 1lb heatsink from busting it in half in that situation?
It's mounted in the bedroom...Love it, My wife wants one
Uh, I don't know what people told you about marriage and all that, but generally you starting sleeping in the same bedroom, if not even the same bed. Occasionally, when mutually agreed upon, there may be exploration.
Most of the replies to your question stated that the quality loss of transmitting an audio signal is the reason for instead transmitting it over Ethernet: When most people use 128Kbps MP3 encoding, I find the idea of bringing up quality bizarre, however there is a good point that with most regular cables the attenuation of high frequencies will be unacceptable.
Having said that it does seem to me that a better solution would be a digital radio transmitter on your PC and a receiver on your stereo, perhaps with a remote or something. One example I found was Mp3 Anywhere (as if X10 needs to be linked to...but anyways). Bleh.
This sort of thing often drags some of the enjoyment out of these films. Sell. Sell. Sell.
How does it drag the enjoyment out of the film? Seriously this sounds like the same sort of bizarre mentality that likes music until it's "too popular": Losing enjoyment because Burger King is hawking their warez is no different than getting excited because Burger King is hawking their warez. Really I couldn't care less what Burger King is doing (having said that: I have yet to see a Burger King commercial, and I'd attribute that to limited watching of TV during the Saturday morning childrens period when they tend to play that. Likewise I haven't seen Ronald McDonald in an awfully long time, though rumor has it that he is still used. Now you DO have a point when a movie is intentionally made to be converted into action figure form (see "Jar Jar Binks" or whatever for a great example), dragging down the whole concept from the origin.
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As a sidenote: modern computer controller 4-speed automatics are very comparable to their standard counterparts as far as efficiency/power. Furthermore continuously variable transmissions, which you can get in the 2WD A4, for instance, are more efficient than a standard.
Wha...are you trying to sell the idea that something has to have a price to be sold?
BTW: I looked at your company's site: While I think it's a pretty cool product, most on Slashdot would cast you as the spawn of Satan for working on such a product so I wouldn't quote it too often. :-).
A network monitoring appliance is hardly system critical, and given that the field is awash in similar solutions that run under Windows I'd hardly claim it as a sphere where quality is #1. I appreciate your sarcasm, but I really think it was uncalled for.
You know the coins really are a government way of encouraging savings: I constantly empty pockets of change into a dish/pile/on the washer machine, etc. Every now and then I realize that it actually amounts to hundreds of dollars. When you have $2 coins it's amazing how valuable a coin pile can become.
From their explanation: Our business, although strong, has been unable to weather the current economic realities beseiging the United States today.
I really wish failing dot COMs would quit blaming the "current economic realities", rather than simply saying "the commerce model for the internet hasn't panned out as we hoped, and those sucker VCs got a little wiser". Seriously it wouldn't matter if it was the biggest boom ever right now: There was a D-day seen coming for all sorts of these sites, but now they have the convenience of going "it's the economy, stupid". No it isn't, and the downturn didn't change their existing total lack of profitability.
You're completely right, and I'd say it's a case of two competitors pretending each other is the primary contendor, when in reality neither of them are (see major battery advertisements for an example of this in action: Agree to only focus on each other and consumers will be fooled into thinking that you're the two most important games in town [because why else would you focus on each other?]). In the serious embedded sphere I doubt either Lineo or Embedded CE/NT/2000/XP have any market saturation at all versus vxworks, QNX, etc.
What makes you say that Embedded Linux is "suitable" for use in ATMs/casino machines? I totally agree that the likelihood of Embedded XP taking off is unlikely, however at the same time I doubt any of the hardcore engineering crowd (that is use to the rock solid reliability of PLCs) is going to be touching Lineo anytime soon (yeah I'm sure there are some case studies/design wins where some cash was passed around and some token implementations took place in non-critical sectors).
If I were to build a critical embedded system right now I wouldn't touch embedded Linux with a 40ft pole: It'd be QNX or one of the other proven systems that I'd trust. Let embedded Linux prove itself for a decade and then maybe then it'll be trusted, but as it sits it seems like yet a Microsoft like "try to get the same code to run everywhere" type of attempts.
Well I most certainly have nothing against Macs, or the MacOS: Again I'm looking for something as a Internet Appliance and if it performs the desired task then I'm very happy indeed. However the iMac doesn't fit my needs because of the CRT screen (which greatly increases power consumption, heat generation, and of course makes it much bulkier). Also the MacOS isn't an instant on type system. Otherwise I think the Apple products are fantastic.
I love the form factor of that unit (at the very least it's a lot easier to put in a hidden location where the sound will naturally be dampened somewhat), and I didn't even know about the VIA C3 before so that is a fantastic bit of knowledge for refining the search (the C3 does seem to be key to a reasonable performance IA type system). I don't need DVD or floppy drive performance though, apart from during installation, as I want media to come over the home network.
I've been looking for a good Internet Appliance and a CPU that runs at a low enough temperature to require just a passive heatsink (no fan) is something I'm really looking for. Any suggestions?
Wow, I couldn't have asked for a more explicit example of the Canadian inferiority complex in action...Let go of all your animosity towards America...Then ask yourself: Is Canada more important to America than America is to Canada?
Shit man, you're right. .
To fight the problem would any Canadians care to point out what the differences in accent are
While you'll find brainiacs like this guy running around ready to expound upon their perceived faults in Canadian accents (oh the number of times that I've heard Americans make fun of "Canadian" accents, not realizing that what they're actually mocking is more akin to Minnesota accents), the reality is that it's such a large country that accents vary dramatically throughout the country. I'm from Southern Ontario, and here we have very middle-of-the-road accents (similar to the accent that most major newscasters adopt), though I can say that somehow Michiganers (who as a general rule are much more intelligent and worldly than this moron. By the way: It isn't fair to ever paint all Americans with the same brush-> While there are the country hicks that have never travelled further than their local towns borders, and their perspective of the world is "the US of A, and some other countries" (you don't have to look further than the White House to see a couple of examples of these), there are a lot of worldly, considerate, knowledgable Americans that despise these idiots) can always pick-up a Canadian "accent", despite the fact that I don't detect anything.
Again the reality is that the prototypical "Canadian accent" that uninformed American media likes to mock is much closer to North Dakota/Minnesota accents (I have nothing wrong with them and find the whole idea of mocking accents so inane that it boggles the mind. The little things that keep the little minds trying to segregate people).
Yawn. Of all the pathetic diatribes attempting to get Canadians "angry", this has to be one of the worst.
I think what we can say with certainty, is that Canadians tend to have serious inferiority complexes
The most telling part of this comment is the fact that you slam Canadians with your, err, "insightful" comments, and you're then claiming that WE have an inferiority complex. Wow. I think a little self-perspective is in order.
If my country's sole export was third rate comedians, I might feel inferior about it, too.
This is just so incredibly ignorant that it really puts the rest of the message into context (not that it wasn't already clear).
Obviously an intelligent, thoughful man, however I couldn't quite understand the point of the SP-2812 anecdote, apart from perhaps saying "I was much smarter than the guy from Microsoft." Seriously, though, it came across as very ESResque, in a "Let me tell you about how clever am smart I am masking it as a contextual anecdote.
Discussions regarding plagarisms, sources of inspiration, etc, are usually absurd (just like complaining about how Microsoft ripped off Apple/Xerox/Aqua/whatever) : The human race is one of very limited creative thoughts and we all feed off each other: Every innovator/artist did so on the shoulder of other innovators/artists. Maybe it's better to say that Christianity ripped ancient stories about magic (i.e. angels are just wizards with some theology stuffed into them?)
Anyways most scholars disagree and state that Tolkien completely separated Christianity from Middle Earth.
Apart from rendering most asymmetrical encryption useless, what benefit would it be to computer science? Seems like one of those rather useless things like "calculating the nth digit of pi using a cluster of 40,000,000 PCs".
Really I don't know and am curious (and maybe it'll let us have compression that will compress down to one byte! :-) See the prior story about the "data teleporter" to understand that joke).
of course dual channel ddr-sdram... gah... drool..
Isn't the nforce dual channel DDR? I know I was seriously excited about it, but rather underwhelmed when the actual numbers came out. Then again nvidia has a funny way of doing that again and again: Releasing something with subpar numbers to get the moaners and whiners yabbling (in a way they'll soon regret), and to lower expectations, and then coming out with a final product that blows people away.
Seriously when RAMBUS was 10x the price of SDRAM it seriously hurt, but now that RAMBUS is getting close to comparable, I don't see what the point is. In my neck of the woods PC-800 RDRAM goes for about 30% more than PC2100 DDR, which really isn't that much (and dual channel RDRAM is the fastest RAM platform out there). Given that the P4s one redeeming factor is that with RDRAM it has a serious memory advantage, I really don't see what Intel is thinking: Put a P4 with DDR DRAM and it'll get clobbered even more.
Now if they just get some software to run as a service (IE, sitting there quietly in the system tray where it is unlikely to be closed) then perhaps home users will see the value in it.
Services don't sit in the system tray, and unless they're running under the sytem account with interact with desktop rights they can't interact with the desktop whatsoever. System tray programs are usually user-centric things launched when you logon (i.e. the opposite of services), though some sometimes control services if that makes any sense. i.e. Install SQL Server and the service runs in the background, but it also installs a management tool that runs when you logon (via the standard Startup group) and facilitates starting/stopping in an easier method than the service manager.
Not to mention, it gets people adjusted to the idea of having a home server, which I think every home needs.
Totally agree with this.
I did the exact same thing: I justified getting a Toshiba DVD+Hollywood Plus decoder card along with a system upgrade, justifying it as being an addition to the home theatre setup as well, but after watching a couple of movies I was at the store getting a real DVD player.
In which case the motherboard broke and the CPU burning up is only a part of your problems. To be sarcastic: Do you expect your video card to have "falling heatsink protective shields" to keep that 1lb heatsink from busting it in half in that situation?
It's mounted in the bedroom...Love it, My wife wants one
Uh, I don't know what people told you about marriage and all that, but generally you starting sleeping in the same bedroom, if not even the same bed. Occasionally, when mutually agreed upon, there may be exploration.
Most of the replies to your question stated that the quality loss of transmitting an audio signal is the reason for instead transmitting it over Ethernet: When most people use 128Kbps MP3 encoding, I find the idea of bringing up quality bizarre, however there is a good point that with most regular cables the attenuation of high frequencies will be unacceptable.
Having said that it does seem to me that a better solution would be a digital radio transmitter on your PC and a receiver on your stereo, perhaps with a remote or something. One example I found was Mp3 Anywhere (as if X10 needs to be linked to...but anyways). Bleh.
This sort of thing often drags some of the enjoyment out of these films. Sell. Sell. Sell.
How does it drag the enjoyment out of the film? Seriously this sounds like the same sort of bizarre mentality that likes music until it's "too popular": Losing enjoyment because Burger King is hawking their warez is no different than getting excited because Burger King is hawking their warez. Really I couldn't care less what Burger King is doing (having said that: I have yet to see a Burger King commercial, and I'd attribute that to limited watching of TV during the Saturday morning childrens period when they tend to play that. Likewise I haven't seen Ronald McDonald in an awfully long time, though rumor has it that he is still used. Now you DO have a point when a movie is intentionally made to be converted into action figure form (see "Jar Jar Binks" or whatever for a great example), dragging down the whole concept from the origin.