Integrating electronics into clothing gives you a many to many problem, you have to be wearing this for that to work etc. Then there's the batteries, washing, changes in fashion, worn out clothing etc.
The ability to stick this electronic device into that pocket gives you a many to one relationship and will remove any market demand for integrated devices. In fact they are a disfeature[1].
[1] Is that a real word? Go on, pedants you know you want to look it up for me.
A typical backup tape will handle 120Gb to 200Gb these days.
Then you have the problem with getting hardware which will read the disks in 20 years or 50 years.
The real solution to archiving is the ability to move to new formats as they appear and become cheaper than the existing technology, it's an ongoing process, not a product. The hardware itself should be irrelevant.
Internal Combustion Engine Jet Engine Electric Motor Television Disc Brakes Depth Charges Fax Machine Lightbulbs World Wide Web Viagra Vacuum Cleaner Toilet Paper
etc etc etc...
Yeah, the problem with the British is that they keep inventing these unaffordable, impractical things...
It's the PHB's which cause lock in, not the technically adept admins. Your PHB gets shiny new laptop with shiny new MS Office all pre-installed they write some inane bullshit about something irrelevant and mail it to everyone under the sun utterly oblivious to the fact that there is such a thing as a file format.
Because PHB is their boss the rest of corporate minions now have to upgrade to the shiny new locked up tighter than a virgin's snatch version of Office in order to read the irrelevant inane bullshit.
You add categories to the information and then make use of views of the categories which look like folders, that way your information can be in several categories at the same time. e.g. It can be a vendor document and a technical manual.
I mean, really. Unless you're a sysadmin you can't possibly understand the kinds of headache that are going to be created by including DRM in Windows and Office.
In the UK the current government propaganda is that speeding is a contributing factor in one third of all accidents which other than the fact that speed is a contributing factor in all accidents is patently bullshit.
Even the police recognise that speeding contributes to a tiny fraction, some 7% of accidents, the overwhelming factors being bad driving; Poor observation, poor judgement, thoughtlessness and inattention.
http://www.ringroad.org.uk/one_third.htm
Why is speeding demonised in this way? It's easy and politicians are lazy. Simple to measure and it allows the automated collection of millions of pounds of fines every year.
"While in theory it all seems fun and games, th researchers usually overlook the major problem: communication. The amount of necessary communication to coordinate the data exchange between the sensors increases non-linearily with the number of autonomous systems. Thus the more systems we have the less efficient it will become. So "smart dust" is the fastest way to produce a minimum efficiency with a maximum of computers."
This is an existing and solved problem with application intercommunication. Everything talks to the middleware. None of the systems talk to each other, they all talk to some sort of co-ordinator. At the business level this is something like MQseries.
And since the stuff like the spam filters are getting pretty generic, they can be configured and replicated to numpty users reducing spamming effectiveness by several orders of magnitude.
Because long long before they are cost effective for domestic use, general purpose robots will be cost effective for businesses, putting the average family on the unemployment line.
By the time general purpose robotics become available to the average family, the term "cost effective" will have no real meaning.
I strongly suspect that Microsoft are busy right at this very minute, lobbying Members of the European Parliament to vote for the proposed legislation on software patents.
"Those savings will translate to lower prices for you."
Are you really that naive?
As a businessman, when you lower your cost base you *don't* cut your prices unless you have some cutthroat[1] competition who is already kicking your arse on price.
It has the added advantage of being storable and dispatchable. No wind? You've still got all that heat stored in the molten salt to generate superheated steam at a moments notice.
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Your information is decades out of date.
I pay cash for most stuff.
Tenner, anyone?
Integrating electronics into clothing gives you a many to many problem, you have to be wearing this for that to work etc. Then there's the batteries, washing, changes in fashion, worn out clothing etc.
The ability to stick this electronic device into that pocket gives you a many to one relationship and will remove any market demand for integrated devices. In fact they are a disfeature[1].
[1] Is that a real word? Go on, pedants you know you want to look it up for me.
Yes? What about when it breaks? Can you go out to the shops and buy one which plays 78s?
For a start.
A typical backup tape will handle 120Gb to 200Gb these days.
Then you have the problem with getting hardware which will read the disks in 20 years or 50 years.
The real solution to archiving is the ability to move to new formats as they appear and become cheaper than the existing technology, it's an ongoing process, not a product. The hardware itself should be irrelevant.
And make it wide enough to read the titles of the applications and documents.
Then realise the horror of all the twits who insist their web page is best viewed at a width of 1024.
Internal Combustion Engine
Jet Engine
Electric Motor
Television
Disc Brakes
Depth Charges
Fax Machine
Lightbulbs
World Wide Web
Viagra
Vacuum Cleaner
Toilet Paper
etc etc etc...
Yeah, the problem with the British is that they keep inventing these unaffordable, impractical things...
It's the PHB's which cause lock in, not the technically adept admins. Your PHB gets shiny new laptop with shiny new MS Office all pre-installed they write some inane bullshit about something irrelevant and mail it to everyone under the sun utterly oblivious to the fact that there is such a thing as a file format.
Because PHB is their boss the rest of corporate minions now have to upgrade to the shiny new locked up tighter than a virgin's snatch version of Office in order to read the irrelevant inane bullshit.
You add categories to the information and then make use of views of the categories which look like folders, that way your information can be in several categories at the same time. e.g. It can be a vendor document and a technical manual.
I mean, really. Unless you're a sysadmin you can't possibly understand the kinds of headache that are going to be created by including DRM in Windows and Office.
A whole new kind of pain.
Several times throughout history.
The latest being The South - pre civil war
A few wealthy landowners own thousands of slaves who pick cotton to survive.
Except that this time all labour will be performed by robots rather than human slaves.
You want to see what extremely low cost labour does to an economy? Look to history when slavery is popular.
Infinite numberspace for numbering, well, pretty much anything and everything.
http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/
In the UK the current government propaganda is that speeding is a contributing factor in one third of all accidents which other than the fact that speed is a contributing factor in all accidents is patently bullshit.
Even the police recognise that speeding contributes to a tiny fraction, some 7% of accidents, the overwhelming factors being bad driving; Poor observation, poor judgement, thoughtlessness and inattention.
http://www.ringroad.org.uk/one_third.htm
Why is speeding demonised in this way? It's easy and politicians are lazy. Simple to measure and it allows the automated collection of millions of pounds of fines every year.
And how do you handle offsite backups for disaster recovery should your site be flooded, burnt down or subject to a week long power outage?
Disk backups are for small fry.
The drives we use to backup our systems write at a sustained rate of 30-40Mb/second each. The fast drives are expensive though.
"While in theory it all seems fun and games, th researchers usually overlook the major problem: communication. The amount of necessary communication to coordinate the data exchange between the sensors increases non-linearily with the number of autonomous systems. Thus the more systems we have the less efficient it will become. So "smart dust" is the fastest way to produce a minimum efficiency with a maximum of computers."
This is an existing and solved problem with application intercommunication. Everything talks to the middleware. None of the systems talk to each other, they all talk to some sort of co-ordinator. At the business level this is something like MQseries.
My time and the time of 100,000 users is not.
And since the stuff like the spam filters are getting pretty generic, they can be configured and replicated to numpty users reducing spamming effectiveness by several orders of magnitude.
Poor attempt at irony BTW.
For the average family.
Why?
Because long long before they are cost effective for domestic use, general purpose robots will be cost effective for businesses, putting the average family on the unemployment line.
By the time general purpose robotics become available to the average family, the term "cost effective" will have no real meaning.
Just a week to go...
I strongly suspect that Microsoft are busy right at this very minute, lobbying Members of the European Parliament to vote for the proposed legislation on software patents.
"Those savings will translate to lower prices for you."
Are you really that naive?
As a businessman, when you lower your cost base you *don't* cut your prices unless you have some cutthroat[1] competition who is already kicking your arse on price.
[1] Pun intended.
30% is abysmal. Utterly useless. For something like this to be useful it has to be better than 99% accurate, much better than 99%.
What's the point of having an alert if you have to go look for it?
That means the older the better.
With remote activation. It's the only way.
It has the added advantage of being storable and dispatchable. No wind? You've still got all that heat stored in the molten salt to generate superheated steam at a moments notice.
With the Bombe and Colossus machines?