[Arm-netbook] xataka

[GaCuest]

El 9 de julio de 2016 a las 16:56:22, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
(lkcl at lkcl.net) escribió:
> ---
> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 10:35 AM, GaCuest wrote:
> > El 9 de julio de 2016 a las 3:02:16, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> > (lkcl at lkcl.net) escribió:
> >> http://www.xataka.com/makers/el-cerebro-de-todos-tus-gadgets-puede-caber-en-una-cartera-eoma68
> >>
> >> wow, this article has 45 shares and 300 likes on facebook - completely
> >> missed it because i'd never heard of xataka before.
> >>
> >
> > Xataka is an important website in Spanish about technology.
> >
> > From the comments, I see that people think that Allwinner A20
> > is less powerful and more expensive than Raspberry 3.
>
> and the rbpi3 is from an unethical company.... i'm not going to start
> an ethical business by working with unethical companies, am i? that
> never tends to work out well, does it? :)
>

I understand you perfectly. The problem is that ordinary people does
not care that (sadly). For most people, Raspberry is one of the freest
(and ethical) devices.

>
> > There is another who says to launch an EOMA-68 with an
> > Atom (or CoreM). I suppose CoreM is not possible by high
> > consumption.
>
> that and the sheer cost of boards using intel processors is way
> outside of the current realm of practicality at the moment. it would
> cost something like $USD 50,000 and we would need to do a minimum
> production run of 30,000 to justify the cost.
>
> also intel do not provide Reference Designs so the time taken would
> be 4-6 months, and they do not provide PMIC (Power Management
> Integrated Circuit) information nor guarantee access to the specialist
> PMICs. unlike the low-power SoC companies, intel have never really
> succeeded in this market and one of the things that they do not
> understand is that you must provide a companion PMIC and guarantee
> access to it *and* the processor. if a third party refuses to give
> you PMIC samples, what's the point of having the processor *at all*???
>
> but, intel has now completely given up on the smartphone and tablet market.
>

I think Intel still sell z8750 and z8700. For example, GPD Win has it.

> later however we will do an EOMA200 small desktop / industrial PC but
> that is a radically different proposition.
>
>
> > I think that people are not very concerned that
> > Intel, or Windows, or NSA spy on them. They prefer a very
> > powerful processor, although it is not free and spy on them.
> > Usually people think they do nothing illegal with their computers,
> > so people do not care that others spy on them.
>
> ... until their bank account information is held to ransom by mafia
> groups. it's not just the NSA: it's powerful groups with ties to
> governments whose capability to break RSA 2048 bit private keys is
> unknown. remember: the "security nightmare" for intelligence
> communities is not what's *known* to be insecure (because you can plan
> for that), it's what's *NOT* known to be insecure that keeps them
> awake at night.
>

The problem is that is secondary for most people. Most people want a
device with a lot of power, that costs little money, and have a beautiful OS
with many applications/games. And with much marketing.

> remember *also* that i have word from a friend who is studying
> mathematics, he hasn't been able to release the paper because he is
> concerned for his life, but he has discovered a way to test for prime
> numbers based around the riemann-zeta function, using a recursive
> algorithm that uses arithmetic shift, multiplication and
> addition/subtract - NO DIVISION. it can test for primality in
> something like O(N log N) where current tests are.... O( N ^ 2 ) or
> something like that. so if he knows how to do it, you can *guarantee*
> that it's a technique that's *already* been discovered a hell of a
> long time ago.
>
> > If you want, I can answer for you in Spanish. Or tell me what
> > you want to say in English, I translate in Spanish, and you post
> > it on Xataka.
>
> if you could check and add the above i'd be really grateful
>

I have already posted some comments on Xataka. If you need
something else in Spanish, let me know.