"The chicken-and-game problem has not been solved, " he said of the need for both game software and machine hardware.
Like the OLPC laptop, the decTOP's innovations come out of a drive to bring computers and the Internet to rural Africa and Asia: Data Evolution acquired the machine's hardware from Advanced Micro Devices, whose "50x15" program seeks to take 50% of the world's population online by 2015.
Like the OLPC laptop, the decTOP's innovations come out of a drive to bring computers and the Internet to rural Africa and Asia: Data Evolution acquired the machine's hardware from Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ), whose "50x15" program seeks to take 50% of the world's population online by 2015.
There are eight categories of weapon, ranging from automatic hardware and machine guns which are prohibited, to hunting equipment allowed with a hunting permit.
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Once you have a basic level of hardware functionality (what is called a Turing machine) all kinds of applications can be created with a mixture of hardware and software.
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But I agree with your reader, Dan Kimberg, in that the magic is in the machine learning software, not the hardware components.
There aren't many ways to hop in the time machine and enjoy old-school hardware the way it was meant to be enjoyed, and that's what makes virgin unboxings of vintage equipment so very special.
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If the ingenuity of the XO's hardware is impressive, the machine's software is truly ground-breaking.
Hardware for a digital answering machine is also built in, although that functionality won't be available until later this summer via a software upgrade, available over the Internet.
The documents don't tell us anything about what hardware will be found inside either machine, but as Laptop Reviews note, included diagrams do hint at what they might look like.
Sony even admits that the Double Density CD-ROM is a product of the moment that will become about as useful a piece of computer hardware as grandma's sewing machine as soon as read-write capable DVDs are widely available.
Cantaloupe's hardware sends a message any time a vending machine door opens.
Vending machine manufacturer Crane Merchandising Systems is working on its own monitoring hardware, as is Mars Electronics, maker of dollar-bill changers.
Kind of how you'd install an operating system, automatically receive some baseline functionality using least-common-denominator hardware drivers, then install specialized drivers for your machine's video, sound, and network cards?
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Kurzweil told the story of how he had begun work on software for a tiny machine that could read text to the blind years before the hardware was available to make it feasible.
"Tony Sale would expect to see good research and the understanding of the machine as well as a working replica built in either software or hardware, " he said.
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In an official Intel technology blog written by Becky Emmett, the company defines Ultrabook specs and characteristics, which are quite precise in some cases and generously vague in others (to encourage innovation on the part of hardware OEMs like Dell and Hewlett-Packard that will bring this class of machine to market).
As icing on the cake, hardware companies don't have to pay a third party for each Linux-based machine they sell.
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