I heard about this on the radio earlier today. They reported the cost of EACH terminal to be around $3000!!!!! I'm guessing at the specs, but I'd bet $50 bucks that it'll have near a 1GHz CPU and flat panel touch screen. Do we really need cutting edge tech to record votes? I recently built a rippin Celeron machine with monitor for $500 that is just as capable for this application. If they went diskless it would be even cheaper!
No, it looks more like Digital Forecast has no clue what it is talking about. Akamai may have been in business first, but Digital Island filed it patents TWO years before Akamai. Just in case you have been living under a rock for the last 100+ years, YOU CAN'T PATENT A CONCEPT! I guess they wern't first after all! BTW: Akamai has a bad habit of threatening/taking legal action against anyone who looks like a competitor. Not only did Akamai com in second, their technology is ONLY about the web. DI's tech is a low latency network for all types of applications.
Wow! What kind of crack are you smoking. The Wintel PC arcitecture is built on a legacy of crapy 8 bit designs. There are too few IRQs, too few base addresses, and too few DMA channels not to mention DMA can only access the lower 16 Megs of memory. Tens of thousands (if not millions) of transistors on the CPU are dedicated to memory page address translation, and useless "backwards compatible" instructions that can run 8088 code! If you want to live in the past, go ahead. Just don't expect the rest of us to suffer with you. High speed wireless will do much more for PDAs than it will for obsolete desktops. PDAs are not supposed to replace or compete with the desk top anyway. It's a different device that will finally allow personal computing to advance out of this stagnation that we're in now.
"This test-tube computer does not have any immediate applications, and it will probably never completely replace silicone technology." Let's hope not. Breast implants and nanotechnology don't mix.
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I heard about this on the radio earlier today. They reported the cost of EACH terminal to be around $3000!!!!! I'm guessing at the specs, but I'd bet $50 bucks that it'll have near a 1GHz CPU and flat panel touch screen. Do we really need cutting edge tech to record votes? I recently built a rippin Celeron machine with monitor for $500 that is just as capable for this application. If they went diskless it would be even cheaper!
No, it looks more like Digital Forecast has no clue what it is talking about. Akamai may have been in business first, but Digital Island filed it patents TWO years before Akamai. Just in case you have been living under a rock for the last 100+ years, YOU CAN'T PATENT A CONCEPT! I guess they wern't first after all! BTW: Akamai has a bad habit of threatening/taking legal action against anyone who looks like a competitor. Not only did Akamai com in second, their technology is ONLY about the web. DI's tech is a low latency network for all types of applications.
Wow! What kind of crack are you smoking. The Wintel PC arcitecture is built on a legacy of crapy 8 bit designs. There are too few IRQs, too few base addresses, and too few DMA channels not to mention DMA can only access the lower 16 Megs of memory. Tens of thousands (if not millions) of transistors on the CPU are dedicated to memory page address translation, and useless "backwards compatible" instructions that can run 8088 code! If you want to live in the past, go ahead. Just don't expect the rest of us to suffer with you. High speed wireless will do much more for PDAs than it will for obsolete desktops. PDAs are not supposed to replace or compete with the desk top anyway. It's a different device that will finally allow personal computing to advance out of this stagnation that we're in now.
"This test-tube computer does not have any immediate applications, and it will probably never completely replace silicone technology." Let's hope not. Breast implants and nanotechnology don't mix.