There was an old Quantum SCSI drive popular in older Macs (Performa desktops IIRC) that would suffer a seized spindle bearing after being idle too long. These could be revived by taking it out of the chassis, cables still attached, and hitting the frame with a mallet as you power the machine on.
If you were going to put together a new manufacturing line and supply chain, wouldn't you want to trial it with a low volume product versus something you plan to make in the millions? The experiment is largely done now that they have finished products in quantity. It's likely that Google wouldn't have made a big deal about this at I/O if it was an untenable prospect for future products, now that the expectation is there.
When you spend that much for today's fastest computer, you're foolish not to run it at peak capacity all the time. If you can't schedule enough jobs to keep it busy, why have one?
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Betteridge saves the day again!
I don't have one (yet) but Dave at XESS's tutorials are excellent.
I see a well appointed cubicle farm and some trees out the window.
There was an old Quantum SCSI drive popular in older Macs (Performa desktops IIRC) that would suffer a seized spindle bearing after being idle too long. These could be revived by taking it out of the chassis, cables still attached, and hitting the frame with a mallet as you power the machine on.
The same day that someone realizes there will be no Year of the Linux Desktop.
If you were going to put together a new manufacturing line and supply chain, wouldn't you want to trial it with a low volume product versus something you plan to make in the millions? The experiment is largely done now that they have finished products in quantity. It's likely that Google wouldn't have made a big deal about this at I/O if it was an untenable prospect for future products, now that the expectation is there.
Or they could use it to transport people.
No, this is Slashdot. There is no technology besides IT.
Obligatory "What a lineup!"
800MHz single core ARM11. State of the art embedded for 2008. Spend $30 more and get yourself a Beaglebone.
That explains Watson: an all-digital mechanical Turk that feeds on the souls of employees who expected a pension.
Commercial BIOS isn't free, not even as in beer.
Because vaccines can't guarantee an effective immune response against a pathogen, although they significantly improve the odds.
I was looking for beer milkshakes, but this will have to do I guess.
Not enough mod points...
I'm pretty sure that Apple sells more iPads in a year than all Betamax decks ever produced.
Meteørite bites kan be pretty nasti.
or what Dropbox gives you free for signing up.
Click and Clack have prior art.
Not many use RS-232 anymore for embedded, but asynchronous serial is still very popular.
I was more amused by the slogan of the next booth over in the video, "Security at the speed of Innovation". What the hell does that even mean?
In Soviet Russia, fault tolerates YOU!
When you spend that much for today's fastest computer, you're foolish not to run it at peak capacity all the time. If you can't schedule enough jobs to keep it busy, why have one?
I'm glad they used the most modern technology to make something more fugly and less rugged than a $5 Bud box.
For the 2012 update, Neal should add:
monetizing human trainwrecks