My experience is that the most reliable systems are closed source proprietary systems, because the development teams are well paid and well motivated. For example look at the systems used by wall street traders, hospitals, etc These systems are really really mission critical and are almost all closed-source software packages that come with extensive support and cost big money.
But if you've never worked with large enterprise systems, you can be forgiven for your ignorance
Tradition is not any sort of justification for anything. If you try to use it to justify slavery or polygamy or or human sacrifice, people will laugh at you, even though all of those things have long traditions.
Its not too surprising though. Its all fun and games to say people can do whatever the fuck they want when you don't see any effect.
I mean, why would I care what people do with their own body in the comfort of their own home?
Oh right, their own home is linked to another via the vents and heat loop, and your kids are getting contact highs in the city park.
I don't want the laws reversed, but do expect some knee jerk reactions as users become more and more visible and the downsides actually start affecting people.
Sounds like a great reason to outlaw tobacco, why don't you get started on that and tell us how it goes
Sensors, simple damned commands, and a TCP/IP stack should not need anywhere NEAR 32MB of RAM to run.
Google needs to step back and re-learn some goddamned Assembler.
we should all throw out our systems with Intel core processors and go back to 8086 chips, after all they are totally capable of handling keyboard input, network connections and color displays, so really who needs any more than that?
Power wise it all depends on the devices ability to enter low power states.
Yeah AVR chips consume 0.001 mA in sleep mode (https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/309)
and Raspberry pi consumes 320 mA when linux is idle (https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/341/whats-the-current-draw-and-supply-voltage-tolerance)
so AVR consumes 320000 times as much power as Raspberry Pi
Let's say I'm in an accident with you, but it seems at first to not be a big deal and I don't sue for damages. However it turns out it won't heal properly and I lose a lot of money and decide to sue anyway. Am I too late? No
YES, you are too late, there are very strict time limits for timely filing of automobile liability insurance claims. If you don't make claims of injury promptly, you get nothing.
If this guy really used Total Recall's confidential IP
There is NO "confidential IP" anywhere in this type of display. This exact same technology has been implemented over and over again for decades. Any patents have expired a long time ago. You can write contracts all day long that assert "IP" but they are meaningless unless there is some sort of novelty. Perhaps you can pick up an old copy of "Mondo 2000" or "Wired" and you will see the exact same type of heads up display being used in the 1990s.
A company which could not get a working product and now wants to cash in on prior and subsequent work by its one time employee has a strong motive to claim all sorts of exclusivity to which it is not entitled.
maybe they couldn't get the product to work because their engineer quit and took the blueprints with him?
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My experience is that the most reliable systems are closed source proprietary systems, because the development teams are well paid and well motivated. For example look at the systems used by wall street traders, hospitals, etc These systems are really really mission critical and are almost all closed-source software packages that come with extensive support and cost big money.
But if you've never worked with large enterprise systems, you can be forgiven for your ignorance
how many semi-modern UNIX systems will boot up and run on an embedded system with no disk drive?
do you recall running linux on a system with no disk drive?
for the heck of it, remove the disk drive to even the playing field with an IoT device and then tell us how well it runs
and any real programs you try to run will fail with memory allocation errors
java can run in very small devices:
http://www.mikekohn.net/micro/java_grinder.php
he's got java running on Commodore 64 and MSP430!
so you need a micro with both an LPDDR controller
STM32F429 is about $5 in large quantity
Why would this need 32Mb?
Gosh, who would ever want any more than an 80386 processor? After all it has every feature necessary to run modern 32 bit software.
why government is still involved in marriage.
because marriage is a contract, you can't have a contract without a government to enforce it.
Even in Rome, the church controlled what could and couldn't count as marriage starting around the 4th century when Rome converted to Christianity.
Yeah you can talk about traditions all day long, they are NO JUSTIFICATION FOR ANYTHING. Does tradition justify slavery?
Religions traditionally did the marriages.
Tradition is not any sort of justification for anything. If you try to use it to justify slavery or polygamy or or human sacrifice, people will laugh at you, even though all of those things have long traditions.
Marriage in many contexts is viewed as father, mother and their children yet it's a lot more complicated in case of homosexual marriage.
How about those Mormon marriages with multiple wives?
I would guess that in your world view, widows and widowers should be punished for the crime of attempting to raise a child without two parents?
Its not too surprising though. Its all fun and games to say people can do whatever the fuck they want when you don't see any effect.
I mean, why would I care what people do with their own body in the comfort of their own home?
Oh right, their own home is linked to another via the vents and heat loop, and your kids are getting contact highs in the city park.
I don't want the laws reversed, but do expect some knee jerk reactions as users become more and more visible and the downsides actually start affecting people.
Sounds like a great reason to outlaw tobacco, why don't you get started on that and tell us how it goes
hubris
Yeah, you've got that going on IN SPADES when you tell other people how to behave themselves based on badly translated gibberish
try typing "brillo" into google and see what you get
Sensors, simple damned commands, and a TCP/IP stack should not need anywhere NEAR 32MB of RAM to run.
Google needs to step back and re-learn some goddamned Assembler.
we should all throw out our systems with Intel core processors and go back to 8086 chips, after all they are totally capable of handling keyboard input, network connections and color displays, so really who needs any more than that?
oops backwards, should say "times less power"
Power wise it all depends on the devices ability to enter low power states.
Yeah AVR chips consume 0.001 mA in sleep mode (https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/309)
and Raspberry pi consumes 320 mA when linux is idle (https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/341/whats-the-current-draw-and-supply-voltage-tolerance)
so AVR consumes 320000 times as much power as Raspberry Pi
We already know this is designed to be used in dishwashers and other appliances.
Brillo pads are not appliances.
Let's say I'm in an accident with you, but it seems at first to not be a big deal and I don't sue for damages. However it turns out it won't heal properly and I lose a lot of money and decide to sue anyway. Am I too late? No
YES, you are too late, there are very strict time limits for timely filing of automobile liability insurance claims. If you don't make claims of injury promptly, you get nothing.
If this guy really used Total Recall's confidential IP
There is NO "confidential IP" anywhere in this type of display. This exact same technology has been implemented over and over again for decades. Any patents have expired a long time ago. You can write contracts all day long that assert "IP" but they are meaningless unless there is some sort of novelty. Perhaps you can pick up an old copy of "Mondo 2000" or "Wired" and you will see the exact same type of heads up display being used in the 1990s.
Unless he sold them the IP, then they have no leg to stand on.
"IP" is not any sort of legal construct. There is not protection anywhere for "IP". Do you mean "patent"? Why don't you say "patent"?
A company which could not get a working product and now wants to cash in on prior and subsequent work by its one time employee
has a strong motive to claim all sorts of exclusivity to which it is not entitled.
maybe they couldn't get the product to work because their engineer quit and took the blueprints with him?
Because trademarks are only exclusive to their industry. Anyone who isn't making a product meant for cleaning can use it.
yes because customers will clearly be unable to distinguish a stainless steel pad from an operating system
Mars has a trademark on the letter M. Does that mean that other companies cannot use the letter M? No, because the trademark pertains only to candy.
computers are faster and have more ram
amazing
can we stop already with the "I remember when" crap?