They were going to call it just Field Extraction Assist Robot (FEAR), but they figured out that really wouldn't put the bounded "at ease", so they developed the stupid bear looking thing....
I think you guys are missing the point. The main reason Apple moved to Intel is not because of the performance of the processors, but because of the fresh image and appealing for new consumers and market share. Many people now buy Macs and install Windows, and would not buy the Macs if they could not install Windows on them (as in PPC)
I am not very sure if Mr. Sterling is using this "Internet of Things" short phrase as something he has conceptualized, imagined or otherwise invented. But the terminology "Internet of Things" has been used many years before Mr. Sterlings' book was published, to refer to a global network of EPC (Electronic Product Code)-based RFID tags and the infrastructure that supports it, the EPC Network. Actually you can see reports of as soon as January 2001, by the then Auto-ID center, now Auto-ID Lab MIT, mentioning the "Internet of Things".
My point is that the concept Mr. Sterling is talking about is not new, not even from 2004. Finding out the location of RFID tags (those tags being attached to any type of object) is part of the envisioned EPC Network functionalities, not only Supply Chain Management or Product Lifetime Management. Many people have been working on that for very long time (no real global working solution yet though).
Since this "Smart Dust" concept was introduced in 2001 by UC Berkeley, I'm waiting for them so say something. It has been a pretty popular term over the past years in the Wireless Sensor Network community, but always referred to the Berkeley work. However in the article they do not mention anything. Or maybe the journalist skipped that part?
I didn't say is valid as an excuse, I'm just pointing out the reason that many people seem not to understand. Obviously, as a European that believes in the role that the EU will play in our future, I do not like the lack of trust and unity that you can see now a days in Europe. But that's what we have right now
Those that talk like that about the supposed "lack of speech freedom" in Europe is because they don't know or ignore its history. Unlike America, we do have history of many thousands of years, and there have been historically many differences among the nations that coexist today as one union. Trying to simplify the issue to a "you do have speech freedom or you have not" is just naive. And, by the way, these kind of cultural and historical differences are exactly the cause of today's EU problem with unity. Basically we do not trust each other. Although 50 years of union have helped, we will need many more for the kind of unity feeling US people have, if we ever achieve it.
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They were going to call it just Field Extraction Assist Robot (FEAR), but they figured out that really wouldn't put the bounded "at ease", so they developed the stupid bear looking thing....
I think you guys are missing the point. The main reason Apple moved to Intel is not because of the performance of the processors, but because of the fresh image and appealing for new consumers and market share. Many people now buy Macs and install Windows, and would not buy the Macs if they could not install Windows on them (as in PPC)
I am not very sure if Mr. Sterling is using this "Internet of Things" short phrase as something he has conceptualized, imagined or otherwise invented. But the terminology "Internet of Things" has been used many years before Mr. Sterlings' book was published, to refer to a global network of EPC (Electronic Product Code)-based RFID tags and the infrastructure that supports it, the EPC Network. Actually you can see reports of as soon as January 2001, by the then Auto-ID center, now Auto-ID Lab MIT, mentioning the "Internet of Things".
My point is that the concept Mr. Sterling is talking about is not new, not even from 2004. Finding out the location of RFID tags (those tags being attached to any type of object) is part of the envisioned EPC Network functionalities, not only Supply Chain Management or Product Lifetime Management. Many people have been working on that for very long time (no real global working solution yet though).
Since this "Smart Dust" concept was introduced in 2001 by UC Berkeley, I'm waiting for them so say something. It has been a pretty popular term over the past years in the Wireless Sensor Network community, but always referred to the Berkeley work. However in the article they do not mention anything. Or maybe the journalist skipped that part?
I didn't say is valid as an excuse, I'm just pointing out the reason that many people seem not to understand. Obviously, as a European that believes in the role that the EU will play in our future, I do not like the lack of trust and unity that you can see now a days in Europe. But that's what we have right now
Those that talk like that about the supposed "lack of speech freedom" in Europe is because they don't know or ignore its history. Unlike America, we do have history of many thousands of years, and there have been historically many differences among the nations that coexist today as one union. Trying to simplify the issue to a "you do have speech freedom or you have not" is just naive. And, by the way, these kind of cultural and historical differences are exactly the cause of today's EU problem with unity. Basically we do not trust each other. Although 50 years of union have helped, we will need many more for the kind of unity feeling US people have, if we ever achieve it.