No, you read that backwards. The vibration harvesters aren't expensive to run wires to, the sensors that they would power are.
Here are the actual lines:
Ferro will be targeting its sales efforts at companies like Honeywell (HON) and Johnson Controls (JCI). It seems like a good strategy, as these companies make sensors and devices that fit the sweet spots for Ferro's vibration harvesters -- they are low-power, inaccessible, and expensive to run wires to.
It would be so sweet to have a system of ultrabright LEDs powered by, or at least recharged by, a vibration-absorbing power supply. All the benefits of a bike magneto, none of the drag.
Microsoft wants to freedom to innovate. This latest tactic is hardly innovative.
They are using the cover of DMCA to keep people from disseminating information about their proprietary extensions to an open standard. Distributing the specs in a way that prohibits other software developers from actually using them is insulting to say the least. And I am willing to bet that the portions of the DMCA that make end-running the EULA illegal will not stand the test of judicial review for very long.
I've seen some really nice commercials on TV lately that show a happy, relaxed Bill Gates or a happy, relaxed Steve Ballmer telling me how Microsoft is going to continue to try and bring valuable software to me.
Given the way the company behaves, wouldn't it have been more honest and straightforward for them to say that they are going to try and find ways for Microsoft and NOBODY ELSE to bring valuable software to me? Extending a protocol so that only Microsoft OSes can use it is an attempt to break other software.
If you want our support and respect, Microsoft, concentrate on building really good software. Write lots of books that disseminate your software engineering acumen. Give us tools that we can use the way we want to, and we'll sing your praises. Continue using heavy-handed tactics to stifle competition and we'll keep turning our backs.
Okay, so you can make crappy copies of movies and post them to the web. That would be fundamentally the same thing as ripping a VHS or DVD without circumventing the MacroVision copy-protection. You'll have a copy, but it will not be as high quality as the original.
That's not much of a threat to anyone's commercial interests. Why spend the time to download an inferior product when you can purchase or rent the original cheaply?
A while ago when my girlfriend was in the hospital, I made a call from my cell phone in one of the hallways near the ICU. A resident walked up to me and told me that I couldn't use the phone in there because it would interfere with the telemetry system. She pointed up to a four-pronged antenna poking out of the ceiling tile.
Having a power effcient microprocessor would provide the world with great data collection capabilities. Slap them on patients in hospitals, put them in cars, etc, etc, etc.
Privacy is obviously always going to be an issue, but being able to get more real-world data directly into digital format will be a huge boon for a lot of people.
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I'm 31, a professional programmer, and I knit. So there. :-P
It would be so sweet to have a system of ultrabright LEDs powered by, or at least recharged by, a vibration-absorbing power supply. All the benefits of a bike magneto, none of the drag.
Microsoft wants to freedom to innovate. This latest tactic is hardly innovative.
They are using the cover of DMCA to keep people from disseminating information about their proprietary extensions to an open standard. Distributing the specs in a way that prohibits other software developers from actually using them is insulting to say the least. And I am willing to bet that the portions of the DMCA that make end-running the EULA illegal will not stand the test of judicial review for very long.
I've seen some really nice commercials on TV lately that show a happy, relaxed Bill Gates or a happy, relaxed Steve Ballmer telling me how Microsoft is going to continue to try and bring valuable software to me.
Given the way the company behaves, wouldn't it have been more honest and straightforward for them to say that they are going to try and find ways for Microsoft and NOBODY ELSE to bring valuable software to me? Extending a protocol so that only Microsoft OSes can use it is an attempt to break other software.
If you want our support and respect, Microsoft, concentrate on building really good software. Write lots of books that disseminate your software engineering acumen. Give us tools that we can use the way we want to, and we'll sing your praises. Continue using heavy-handed tactics to stifle competition and we'll keep turning our backs.
Okay, so you can make crappy copies of movies and post them to the web. That would be fundamentally the same thing as ripping a VHS or DVD without circumventing the MacroVision copy-protection. You'll have a copy, but it will not be as high quality as the original.
That's not much of a threat to anyone's commercial interests. Why spend the time to download an inferior product when you can purchase or rent the original cheaply?
Having a power effcient microprocessor would provide the world with great data collection capabilities. Slap them on patients in hospitals, put them in cars, etc, etc, etc.
Privacy is obviously always going to be an issue, but being able to get more real-world data directly into digital format will be a huge boon for a lot of people.