Performance is fine, what about efficiency

I know we're not used to kWh/gallon yet, but we should get used to it...

Or at least come up with an elReg unit, look at a few old cars and work out their engines performance...

@ Mr. Omega

I could charge any device multiple times for that much leccy.

BUT leccy isn't available when out and about on a long ride. On my commute this morning my GPS cycle computer shutdown from low battery :(

I must have accidentally left it on after my weekend jaunt (yes it should have an auto shutoff if it doesn't move for 10 minutes, but that's not my fault)

I actually like this idea, although one that would run off my existing battery packs already on the bike would be good (8*AA pack runs my lights, must be able to get 5v regulated out of that...)

err...

My password should never be recoverable, hashes -yes, password no

Hmm

Larger screen (lid fitting) would be nice, but it would drain the battery faster - this machine could be used all day if the figures are to be believed...

There's USB for 3g, what more do you want??

Max latency?

4k Random IO is the most important IO you do on most machines.

The MAXIMUM, not average latency of these operations is critical - remember the original non intel drives? Really fast, then stalled for a second, then really fast...

That seriously illustrated that the relevant benchmarks are not throughput for almost anyone...

Had mine for a few days now...

Really like it - the chin is unobtrusive (thank goodness), and the interface pretty slick.

Yes it pauses occasionally, but it's a mobile device, not a quad core PC. I'm really very happy, but would like to be able to use multiple google accounts (at last count I had 4 apps accounts and a personal one).

I'd also like a decent agenda applet - which can hide various calendars on request, but those are minor niggles.

Major thumbs up from me (especially as it cost me rather less than £400 :)

Yeah

And bikes are the best format for such a vehicle, much more efficient than a big steel box.

Really hope they manage to do this properly, although I'm unlikely to buy one as a pedal cycle seems quite capable of getting me pretty much as far as I need to go...

They already pay

At the data centre the BBC are already charged for their share of the bandwidth

The ISP has simply sold futures in bandwidth to their customers and lost the bet...

HoHum

At least I presume that's how it's pronounced

Aperture?

And pretty cool - I mean, I'm still at the "look, isn't it pretty" stage - to notice a new dot takes some serious interest and work, never mind how old (or young) the astronomer in question.

Elements are indivisible

by chemical means.

Physicists have no such limitations.

We're currently limited to quarks and leptons - although they are just the smallest things we know of at the moment ;)

That's one short video

Cut together repeatedly...

And then put in a loop after you press play...

MS / Asus:

Familiar != better

Trusted != Good (we used to trust the banks)

Compatible isn't your game, never has been.

- Try reading my ext3 formatted SD cards on Windows...

- Try looking through just ubuntu's package management to see what "proprietary" devices are supported - and that's ignoring RedHat, SuSE et al.

I was hoping that the proliferation of netbooks would encourage the definition of some communications standards, and provide device manufacturers (e.g. nokia, garmin etc) to publish their interfaces (it's not as if I'm going to buy a device I can't talk to, or that talking to the device is useful without the physical device)

sports bra?

Might help here - and I'm sure some sports bra manufacturer could come up with something better than she is wearing there, and get advertising out of it!

Tech

We seem to do quite well in terms of bashing individual techs, which is why they aren't getting built.

The electric motor is a good way of putting power to the road, even Sir Clarkson will agree - getting power to it is interesting, there are various methods for generating electricity, so we should look at standard INTERFACES.

If we decide on a size and shape of "power source" and a nominal voltage then we can stick LiON in there now, and replace them with carbon based fast chargers, fuel cells, or magic pixie dust when they become commercially viable.

If cars had a few such "slots" then you could buy a car with just one battery pack (the wife only goes to the shops in it...) for relatively little cost, and add more, better capacity, power sources later - as required.

This allows us to have decent vehicles, with upgradable and replaceable power sources. No LiON is a killer tech for all car journeys - but it would make perfect sense for most second cars, and for quite alot of "first" cars.

Windows isn't an OS

It's an ecosystem - there is just no way to only use the OS section of Windows.

Canonical have a reasonable method of continuous upgrades, even my wife keeps her laptop fully up to date.

There are always dependencies within software ecosystems - letting the software behave in a defined fashion, and declaring those dependencies means that aptitude just handles what is needed. I imagine that various machines around here and work will get an upgrade to Jaunty fairly soon.

If I could use different window managers on Windows then I might look at it, but the "you will use the mouse for everything" interface is just unpleasant. The only reason I touch a windows machine is to update a pesky manglement spreadsheet.

The advantage of all that depth

Is that you can throw these things down the stairs and they survive.

Well I managed it with mine (slightly older Toshiba - but looks to be the same case)

Not a dead pixel or reallocated sector. But it did crack the case and bend the metal screen edges in two places - pliers and gaffer tape sorted that completely

Latency figures

Are what we really need to see with SSD's

For a more detailed look at why:

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531

Most of the time we're writing small files, 4K or less, and we notice is the drive takes a while to do that...

£2k for rich people only

Seriously - a £2k subsidy for scrapping cars is one thing, but choose emissions MOT failures only, and give it to the poor sap who needs to replace their crap car, not someone struggling to decide between a 911 and a rangerover.

No winding?

It's being continually wound by that secondary red laser.

It might not need resetting though...

@ They fail to explain one thing

Power stations are rather more efficient than your average car engine at converting the chemical energy in their fuels to useful output (in their case electricity). And when combined with local community heating schemes this can be a

The losses from there to your tyres are relatively small - so you may even get a gain in efficiency (especially if you add in regenerative braking).

The other major advantage is that we can easily upgrade all the cars in the country by producing "better" power stations. Whether by pollution capture schemes or cold fusion power stations whose chimneys exhaust daisies and otters.

The short term advantage is relavtively small overall, but it makes for quieter and less smelly streets. The long terms gains are an ecologists dream* though.

John

* Of course assuming we don't need to start pushing smoke into the air... ref: recent NASA study