Those Chipmakers should pay attention to IEEE's opinion. Dealing with memory is a significant problem for processors as the number of cores increase. That sounds like a hardware problem to me.
Shoving responsibility from software to hardware or from hardware to software isn't going to solve anything. There's things that have to happen on both sides before we can go nuts with the number of cores we put on chips.
I have an idea. Instead of trying to figure out 40 different (fairly ordinary) ways to use a touchscreen, try to focus a little of that brain power on your bread and butter. You can't afford another Vista.
hmmm...if I could only find a way to supplement my income at work by selling ad space on my technical papers, presentations, maybe even emails. I'm sure the boss would love that attempt.
This is a decent idea in theory as a simple theft deterrent, but it makes me ask two questions:
Does this allow my laptop tracked in any way? Probably if you know what you're doing.
Can this connection do anything besides receiving a kill command? I'm skeptical.
Another question you have to ask is how fast and how completely word will spread about this feature on Lenovo laptops. That's what its success depends on. If a potential thief doesn't know about the feature and steals your laptop, he's not going to give it back because it doesn't work. Is this where the tracking come in?
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Those Chipmakers should pay attention to IEEE's opinion. Dealing with memory is a significant problem for processors as the number of cores increase. That sounds like a hardware problem to me.
Shoving responsibility from software to hardware or from hardware to software isn't going to solve anything. There's things that have to happen on both sides before we can go nuts with the number of cores we put on chips.
I have an idea. Instead of trying to figure out 40 different (fairly ordinary) ways to use a touchscreen, try to focus a little of that brain power on your bread and butter. You can't afford another Vista.
hmmm...if I could only find a way to supplement my income at work by selling ad space on my technical papers, presentations, maybe even emails. I'm sure the boss would love that attempt.
This is a decent idea in theory as a simple theft deterrent, but it makes me ask two questions:
Another question you have to ask is how fast and how completely word will spread about this feature on Lenovo laptops. That's what its success depends on. If a potential thief doesn't know about the feature and steals your laptop, he's not going to give it back because it doesn't work. Is this where the tracking come in?