Recent content by cmonkey

Do we have to go over this every time there is mention of the eee, OLPC, or Classmate PC? Ultraportables used to be insanely expensive. Now, they are not. This is a completely different market catagory than normal laptops. The person who buys a crappy 15.4" 8 pound Acer for $500 from...

Nifty.

Wow, I wish I had the guts (or at least the money) to route my CPU.

Or if you prefer, according to NIST in 2006, "Advancing technology has created a situation that has altered previously held best practices regarding magnetic disk type storage media. Basically the change in track density and the related changes in the storage medium have created a situation...

Umm, no. Data on a modern hard drive overwritten by truely random data once is unrecoverable by any known means. http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/overwritten-data-guttman.html

Well, I hope a bunch of outraged Fundamentalists buy MS stock. A good portion of my 401k is invested in it ;) (and I'm a GNU/Linux user)

Apparently you've never heard of rounding... The stats from ComScore were rounded to the nearest integer percent in each category to make it easier to read. That said, you are right about the figures not being fully believable, because they are an unofficial guesstimate coming from ComScore...

Yea... it even mentions in the text you quoted that VT finished in time. The text isn't fully correct either, since Ben Franklin Racing managed to finish within the 6 hour time limit too.

So their original price goal was unrealistic; that doesn't make the project any less worthwhile. It's still a great cause, and they are still doing great things. The first run costs $188, and prices can only drop from there as production scales up and the parts get cheaper.

No, if you produced several million alienware laptops, the CEO of Dell gets a bigger yacht. The public can buy one (of two) for $400, which is neither $100 nor $200. You keep using the word "promise." I'm not sure why you don't understand the difference between "promise" and "goal."

To the public? It's not a consumer product. In fact, those who are getting the educations are not the ones paying for them. Besides, the price is the actual manufacturing cost plus shipping. Meaning, as production ramps up, manufacturing costs drop, and prices drop by the same amount. If...

It wasn't promised to be $100. $100 was simply the envisioned engineering (and unfortunately marketing) goal. As they designed it, they found that getting it under $100 would have required far too many compromises. It's not as if they designed a $100 laptop, are charging $200 for it and...

Ah, sweet ignorance. When Asus goes non profit, releases a laptop with mesh networking, a daylight readable screen, 12+ hours of battery life, and that can survive being dropped and rained on, develops an operating system easy enough for someone who has never seen a computer to master, and...

Windows XP with Service Pack 2 has SATA drivers built in. If Windows installed, it means that it recognized the hard drive, and that you were using an SP2 install cd. The settings are all correct, there's nothing you need to change on the average install. If you want to switch to RAID...

I would appreciate an invite to Oink. I have a 4:1 ratio on Demonoid and a 1:1 ratio on btmusic, and could provide invites to either/both in return. Thanks. [email protected]