No, I don't think so. The fact is, development time for CarOS is pretty low right now. There isn't really a whole lot of stuff you have to do if you already work for a car manufacturer. They already have finished the development of CarOS. So, faster development is out. Cheaper development is out. And faster product to market is out. As for easier upgrades, I think that CarOS (or whatever it is) is stored in Flash ROM and can be upgraded at the dealership even now. I personally DON'T want to flash the ROM on my car. But, it would kinda be cool to see the source (if it's Linux, it's GPL) for this new car operating system that's based off Linux.
Yes, I agree. For God's sake, use an operating system that was designed for the system you want it to run on. Linux was -not- designed for the mobile phone (although if they gave you a little console it'd be really, really, cool).
You know, you're sitting there in a meeting with your phone and it rings. You pick it up and one of your users tells you that the mail server is down. As the good little sysadmin that you are, you thank him and hang up. Then you open your ssh connection back to the mail server and restart sendmail from the console on the mobile phone.
I'm skeptical. A mobile phone running a variant of Linux would be cool. But I have to think that running Linux on some of these other devices is nothing but marketing crap. Currently my car doesn't run Linux. It works fine. Why would someone want to decide to rewrite all the software they currently have to run a car's CD player, tape player, radio, clock, anti-lock brakes, power steering, etc. to run a different OS that was never designed to do this?
It's simply a bunch of hard work for the parties involved! Linux was never designed for a car, and cars don't need Linux to run. I admit there are some exceptions, like one guy I met who made a killer modification to his car so he could play MP3s - it had a Pentium II and a 20 gig hard drive inside his car. That's something Linux was designed to do.
But from a feasibility standpoint, I don't really believe that running Linux on a car would be that great. A car doesn't need a professionally written IP stack. Hell, it doesn't need an IP stack at all!
I have found that it is quite amusing to submit teachers (high school) to Mutant Watch and report symptoms that are in line with their appearance and personality. Specifically, "You feel a higher aura around them" and the like. And use fake email addresses.
Apparently the connection over the Internet itself is insecure for voting, so I think that a virtual private network is in order. VPNs provide a tunnel through to a network that is publicly online and allows you to be on their network while still being on the Internet, and it does it all securely.
Wouldn't this help with this problem? Would a VPN be a viable solution that could result in everyone being able to vote online? Or is there too much overhead?
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No, I don't think so. The fact is, development time for CarOS is pretty low right now. There isn't really a whole lot of stuff you have to do if you already work for a car manufacturer. They already have finished the development of CarOS. So, faster development is out. Cheaper development is out. And faster product to market is out. As for easier upgrades, I think that CarOS (or whatever it is) is stored in Flash ROM and can be upgraded at the dealership even now. I personally DON'T want to flash the ROM on my car. But, it would kinda be cool to see the source (if it's Linux, it's GPL) for this new car operating system that's based off Linux.
Yes, I agree. For God's sake, use an operating system that was designed for the system you want it to run on. Linux was -not- designed for the mobile phone (although if they gave you a little console it'd be really, really, cool).
You know, you're sitting there in a meeting with your phone and it rings. You pick it up and one of your users tells you that the mail server is down. As the good little sysadmin that you are, you thank him and hang up. Then you open your ssh connection back to the mail server and restart sendmail from the console on the mobile phone.
Yeah, that'll be the day.
I'm skeptical. A mobile phone running a variant of Linux would be cool. But I have to think that running Linux on some of these other devices is nothing but marketing crap. Currently my car doesn't run Linux. It works fine. Why would someone want to decide to rewrite all the software they currently have to run a car's CD player, tape player, radio, clock, anti-lock brakes, power steering, etc. to run a different OS that was never designed to do this?
It's simply a bunch of hard work for the parties involved! Linux was never designed for a car, and cars don't need Linux to run. I admit there are some exceptions, like one guy I met who made a killer modification to his car so he could play MP3s - it had a Pentium II and a 20 gig hard drive inside his car. That's something Linux was designed to do.
But from a feasibility standpoint, I don't really believe that running Linux on a car would be that great. A car doesn't need a professionally written IP stack. Hell, it doesn't need an IP stack at all!
I have found that it is quite amusing to submit teachers (high school) to Mutant Watch and report symptoms that are in line with their appearance and personality. Specifically, "You feel a higher aura around them" and the like. And use fake email addresses.
Unfortunately, detentions are not amusing.
Apparently the connection over the Internet itself is insecure for voting, so I think that a virtual private network is in order. VPNs provide a tunnel through to a network that is publicly online and allows you to be on their network while still being on the Internet, and it does it all securely.
Wouldn't this help with this problem? Would a VPN be a viable solution that could result in everyone being able to vote online? Or is there too much overhead?
-- iodine
Unfortunately, it has come to our (eWatch) attention that you may have at one point in your life considered visiting a site which may have a link to a company which produces a product that might be in competition with Microsoft.
In an effort to ensure that our products are used exclusively throughout the company, we have decided to terminate worker bees who use products on their computer systems that were not produced by Microsoft. Given your previous "track record" with other companies' products (see above), we are terminating your Internet connection indefinitely.
Remember, Bill Gates isn't just YOUR God, he is the God of the WORLD!
--Iodine
Newest customer: The Secret Service of the United States of America. Job description: Keep track of sites that President Clinton visits and repremand him for visiting sites with...er... obscene content. --- Iodine