I hope someone or many someones out there are working on reversible computing. It sounds like the only long-term way forward.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/comp...
Maybe they should start by making computing reversible. https://spectrum.ieee.org/comp...
If they don't, then they'll run into temperature problems, regardless of the IC creation method.
Students certainly deserve a cheaper variant, but the relatively simple environment for learning Assembly has become rare or complicated these days (there was something to be said for 640kb do-what-you-want RAM). It's too bad more schools weren't setup to take advantage.
Hah. Missed that, somehow. Nevertheless... depending on the application, I probably wouldn't trust a technology that can penetrate water vapor, but not water, until I learned a bit more about the specifics.
Once cars drive themselves, people will be far more interested in having these black boxes. They're only put off by them while the black boxes could rat them out for going 70 in a 55.
As for the devices recording routes, times, destinations and other "private" information, I'm sure the self-driving cars will already log this information as a side-effect of using remote servers for navigation and traffic data. This may already be going on every time you use your smart phone for directions...
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I hope someone or many someones out there are working on reversible computing. It sounds like the only long-term way forward. https://spectrum.ieee.org/comp...
Maybe they should start by making computing reversible. https://spectrum.ieee.org/comp... If they don't, then they'll run into temperature problems, regardless of the IC creation method.
Students certainly deserve a cheaper variant, but the relatively simple environment for learning Assembly has become rare or complicated these days (there was something to be said for 640kb do-what-you-want RAM). It's too bad more schools weren't setup to take advantage.
Hah. Missed that, somehow. Nevertheless... depending on the application, I probably wouldn't trust a technology that can penetrate water vapor, but not water, until I learned a bit more about the specifics.
So it won't work very well in humid environments. "Sorry, boss, the wife took a long shower."
Once cars drive themselves, people will be far more interested in having these black boxes. They're only put off by them while the black boxes could rat them out for going 70 in a 55. As for the devices recording routes, times, destinations and other "private" information, I'm sure the self-driving cars will already log this information as a side-effect of using remote servers for navigation and traffic data. This may already be going on every time you use your smart phone for directions...
They probably only accept Bitcoins.
... with Bitcoin.
Same could have been said of credit cards in their early days.
And just for good measure... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ucVfn9gob8&NR=1
... maybe not such a hot idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill