According to Intel Corp. Chairman Craig Barrett, the new $100 laptop, designed to be used by children and adults alike in the developing world.
To quote from the article and Mr Barrett:
"Mr. Negroponte has called it a $100 laptop -- I think a more realistic title should be 'the $100 gadget'," Barrett, chairman of the world's largest chipmaker, told a press conference in Sri Lanka. "The problem is that gadgets have not been successful."
Sadly I think he's right - the article goes on to explain that people want to be able to run PC applications - and again I think this is right. People want compatibility with the other millions of computers out there, not cut-down computers that have limited compatibility with other machines (except, maybe, for browsing the Internet and sending email) and the software they run.
According to Intel Corp. Chairman Craig Barrett, the new $100 laptop, designed to be used by children and adults alike in the developing world.
To quote from the article and Mr Barrett:
"Mr. Negroponte has called it a $100 laptop -- I think a more realistic title should be 'the $100 gadget'," Barrett, chairman of the world's largest chipmaker, told a press conference in Sri Lanka. "The problem is that gadgets have not been successful."
Sadly I think he's right - the article goes on to explain that people want to be able to run PC applications - and again I think this is right. People want compatibility with the other millions of computers out there, not cut-down computers that have limited compatibility with other machines (except, maybe, for browsing the Internet and sending email) and the software they run.
This Shark Tank compilation made me chuckle when I saw the comment on international email prices, because I've experienced this very question more than once.
The people who ask generally fall into one of two camps:
Users who are not technical or business minded, and are just worried about the increased costs.
Users who are technical/business mind and have trouble understanding why there isn't an increased cost.
But let's face it, it's not exactly an unreasonable train of thought - the email is going further, why shouldn't it cost more?
A few months ago I wrote this piece about distributions and standardization. Among the main points of the post was the theory that Sun's opening of the Solaris OS would lead to a number of Solaris based distributions, in the same way that the release of the Linux kernel had given rise to a number of Linux distributions. It is, interestingly, becoming apparent to other people that OpenSolaris distributions could well be a reality and as common as Linux - as highlight in the first part of this article points out.
Back in the bad old days there were really only a few ways in which you could reach someone. Anything non-urgent was post. If it it was something that needed to be read, we used fax, anything that required an immediate response would be a phone call.
Today, we use email in place of nearly all of these in many situations, but it seems we haven't adapted our use of email along with how we used the old systems. Many of us are guilty of this, myself included.
For example, when you email somebody, do you expect an immediate response?
Sometimes I do, and occasionally I'll get myself into a terrible state worrying about why a client hasn't emailed me back on some important issue. Sometimes it might take them a couple of days to get back to me, maybe because they've been out of the office.
I resisted the lure of blogs for many years, not really seeing the need or requirement to maintain a constant commentary on my life or the sites I visited. Mostly that could have been because the sites I visited tended to be the same. However, when I was LAMP Technologies Editor at LinuxWorld we were given blogs and I used it as an easy and convenient way to publish material without going through the lengthy process for getting stuff onto the website or into the magazine.
I spend a lot of time working with LAMP technology and telling people how to make the best of the LAMP stack. But you’d be surprised about how many people don’t really understand what the LAMP stack actually is.
The reality of course is that it is many things to many people - some consider the LAMP stack to be a development environment, others a deployment environment. Some also confuse the technologies in use. Some take LAMP to mean PHP, others Perl, others Python. The truth of course is that all of these are technically correct.
LAMP is just one of a number of similar acronyms for development deployment environments based on some of these technologies, and I cover some of those acronyms in the article as well.
Tom's hardware have a good overview of the roadmap for future Intel CPUs, which undoubtedly will have a knock on effect on the CPUs that Apple will use and the types of device we can expect to see.
Tom's hardware have a good overview of the roadmap for future Intel CPUs, which undoubtedly will have a knock on effect on the CPUs that Apple will use and the types of device we can expect to see.