Why use Citrix on a LAN? Citrix shines over a modem connection, or if you're embedding an application in a webpage, or doing lots of load balancing (mutiple application servers.)
On a LAN though, I don't see any advantage to Citrix over Microsoft's built in Terminal Services.
Windows Server 2003 in Application Server mode, get a good switch, and some WYSE WinTerms, and you will have what you want without paying money to both Microsoft and Citrix. Of course there is plenty of licensing fun whenever Microsoft products are involved.
Would I go for Thin Clients over full blown desktops? Most definitly. Once your server is up and running, you don't have to install clients. Over time, that alone will save you an untold number of man hours. Since you're not constantly pusing out software updates to your clients, you also don't need as solid of a network. RDP works find over 10baseT at half duplex....can't say that about a Windows Desktop when you're patching with Service Pack 2.
However, you'll get the most bang for your buck with a Linux soultion. You'll have to have a bet better network inferstructure, XDMCP isn't as efficent as RDP. But on the server side, it's easy to overload Windows servers. Database goes on one server, software distribution systems on another, file and print sharing on another server, and Active Directory on yet another...
You're not going to be able to get away with running a proxy server to filter webcontent on your Windows terminal server, you'll need another machine for that. With Linux, you'll be able to get away with it much easier.
G'luck and be sure to come back and tell us what you come up with.:)
My guess is they are referring to various terminals that staff use to pull up records, dosage information, schedules, etc. All these functions are based around some 3rd party application that uses a Webbrowser or VB,.NET, etc...
We have similar issues where I work. Our MRP/ERP system and other industry specific applications have a list of Windows patches they have thourghly tested and approved to be installe don Windows in conjunction with their software. Last I checked, Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 to make the list, even though we have deployed it to all machines at this point.
It's not an issue unique to Hospitials. I would hope that the actually life support type equipment is not networked, not networkable, and just happily running away on it's isolated embedded system. I swear, if they ever want to hook up a windows based life support system to me I'm finding another hospitial...STAT!:D
Many here are comparing electronic voting to financial transactions. There is a problem with that: votes are much much more important and infinitely more valuable than financial data.
In Minnesota (or at least my county...don't know if this is state wide) our ballets are a Legal sheet of heavy stock paper. They are also rather simple...the candidates have triangles pointing at their names. To vote for a candidate, draw a line through the name of the person you are voting for, connecting the triangles. Even my grandfather who is barely able to hold a pen due to his health was able to successfully complete his ballot.
The 2000 ballot would have looked something like: |> George Bush Al Gone Ralph Nader Some other guy Yet another choice |
Once you fill out your ballot, you leave the booth and go to the election official, who instructs you on how to run your ballot through the electronic vote counting machine. If the machine can't read your ballot, the official stamps it with a stamp that indicates that the machine could not read it. The stamp invalidates the ballot. You are given a new ballot and pen and return to the booth and fill out your ballot again, but you keep the first one if you with to copy your votes. When you finish with the second ballot, go back to the official at the vote counting machine and feed the second ballot to the machine. If the machine accepts the second ballot, it is deposited into the secure ballot box automatically, and the election official instructs you to feed your stamped ballot into the paper shredder.
Electronic Voting machines should produce a paper ballot in a similar fashion. The paper ballot must be readable by both machines and humans. That's why the line through your candidate works well. When you look at your ballot, your choice has a line through it. The machine knows the layout of the ballot and can thus count your vote. If you used a system like this with an electronic voting machine, you'd have three ways of counting the vote. You could trust the computers, your could run the printed ballots through the electronic counting machine, or you can hand count the votes.
Maybe this just makes too much sense. I don't understand the logic behind no paper ballot on the electronic voting machines.
Filing Suit vs MS or Apple on IP, Patent, and similar issues seems to be a good way to generate funds. Why? Lawyers aren't going to file the suit if they don't see it being at least somewhat valid, thus the odds are that MS will either buy your IP outright, or offer a large sum for an unlimited use license.
Or they could use their resources to litigate you out of existence. The possible reward seems equal to the risk...
The way it's written (or translated to english it seems...) you would have to ask the following:
What would be the point of creating a system to encrypt if it's illegal to decrypt? The encrypted file/signal/whatever has to be decrypted before it's useful.:)
Can't wait to see news footage of the PETA protest. Yes...it will be the PETA members with far too much money on their hands, protesting on a mine field. I suspect they'll learn why using rats is a good thing before the day is over...:)
Having worked with both Citrix and RDP, and supporting a large number of workstations on Active Directory...
The only advantages of thin clients that I've seen over PCs is that the thin clients tend to do better in dirty production enviorments (no clogged fans leading to fried processors).
The great strength of Windows thin clients, be it ICA (Citrix) or RDP (Windows 2000 and 2003 Terminal Services) is database applications that use ODBC connections. Over a remote link (modem, cable, or even T1 WAN) these type of applications just don't perform worth a damn. Stick a terminal server farm linked via GigE/Fiber/whatever to the database server(s), and the application zooms, and in the case of Citrix, is accessable from anywhere and any platform. Great for outside salse folks.
Support wise though, there really isn't anything you can do with terminal services that you can't do in Group Policy and Windows Scripting (VBS, Perl, or whatever your perfered scripting launguage is...you can easily deploy any engine you want to all PCs via group policy.)
Getting those customized ERP/MRP/whatever systems running as fast as possible with 0 downtime it what I see driving thin client soultions in the Windows world. Secondary to that, I see branch offices (Like WalMart Vision Centers) using them to keep real PCs off of the retail floor and (I'm assuming) keep servers and data out of the store and at the regional HQ.
One nice thing about these in other cities is you don't clutter the sidewalk with a meter every car length. You park your car, walk 1/4 to 1/2 a block, pay the machine and get a ticket to stick on your car. That's how I've seen it done in other cities anyway. In cities with narrow sidewalks & streets, getting rid of all those posts makes a noticable difference both in appearance and usability/capacity of the sidewalks.
There is only one portable player that plays Apple's AAC files. Windows Media can be played by just about every other mp3 player out there, not to mention DVD players and other home audio equipment. Who's being more proprietary, MS or Apple?
I imagine that increased competition in online music vendors will lead to Apple's next version of AAC licensing will be more appealing to hardware makers, or Apple will remain in the #1 slot long enough that hardware makers will get around to licensing it anyway.
By being in orbit, the metal rod already has Hypervelocity, so all the cannon has to do is change the velocity of the metal rod so that it is no longer fast enough to overcome the gravitational pull of the earth.
Remember your phicics: Velocity is not speed. It's speed and direction. Acceleration is a change in velocity. By this definition, your car has mutiple devices that control acceleration. The obvious one is the Accelerator, it makes you go faster. Brakes make you go slower, reducing speed is acceleration. Your stearing wheel changes your direction, changing direction is an acceleration.
Since the cannon and projectile already have Hypervelocity, the cannon could just be a linear motor type device (Like Six Flags Superman ride without the parts that stop the car from flying off the track.) or just generate a magenit field that attracts and replels the projectile (Read: Rail Gun). Depending on the actual change in velocity needed, these systems could be powered by solar energy, fuel cells, or even a nuclear reactor.
Rods of depleted uranium seems an ideal projectile. We're already using the stuff as tank vs tank ammo, and as armor plates. With good projectile design and good aim, should be able to survive the fall to earth.
Scary stuff when you think about it. It's the modern trebuchet. Hurling a big "rock" at speeds faster than any other weapon we currently have can achive...
Just brabbed a Pepsi out of the vending machine. This "crack" doesn't work if the bottle has been through a vending machine. You can't see anything through the foam.
After the bottle settled a bit, you can tip it and rotate and if you're lucky see if you have a 3 line or 4 line cap. I was able to tell that the vending machine gave me a winning cap, but there is no way I could make out the text as the images show. The wavy design prevents it with a full bottle.
Even after draining the bottle I can't read the text. Either Pepsi has different bottles for different regions or the article aurhors put the cap on a 2 liter for their photos.
Linux and Windows aren't as different as you think they are. Things like Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player have become part of the operating system? Why? It's good for developers. Need to view a HTML or XML based helpfile? Just use the built in Windows functions.
Need to play a mp3, wav, mpeg, or other multi media file? You could include Quicktime and pay Apple a distributor fee, or you can use Windows Media player libraries which got installed when Windows was installed.
Many of the building blocks of these applications are there for developers to take advantage of. The DLLs get large because Microsoft dictates that they must remain backwards compatible, so that an application coded for dllhell.dll version 1 will still work for dllhell.dll version 6 without recompiling. This is one thing Windows does have that Linux doesn't. Since most of Linux is open source and Windows and applications aren't though, both methods are acceptable for the platform.
What gets Microsoft in trouble isn't bundling this software with the operating system. This software IS the operating system now. What gets them in trouble is that Microsoft can and does use their dominance to push competition out of the market, killing off Netscape, and attempting to push Apple, Real, and others out of the market. They could maybe get away with leaving the dlls in there, but leaving the UI components of Media Player out.
Glad that the EU sees that including a supplemental CD with Windows isn't enough. If it isn't pre-installed, it can't compete with Media Player. If it is pre installed, it still can't compete with Media Player because Media Player will be the player handling the file extensions. The last thing MS wants to do is add a "Select your preferred player application" to the Windows First Boot, but that's the only solution I can come up with right now.
It takes fossil fules to make fossil fules. It takes fossil fule to make your car. It takes fossil fule to light the light over your head...
So add in all the fule used to make, transport, distribue, sell, etc the fossil fule, then compare that to what it takes to make the ethonol.
Blindly beliving numbers...is stupid. It's like GW's favoite saying "The average American taxpayer is getting a X tax cut." It sounds good, but when you think about it, if Bill Gates walks into a McDonalds the average yearly salery of the people in the McDonalds just shot up a couple billion dollars.
Seems like a marginaly smart decision on Palms part. Palm is probally loosing money developing software for Mac, where Mark/Space can turn a profit as they are a smaller company with lower rent, smaller staff, etc. Palm could probally license Mark/Space's software to distribute with Palm devices for less money than it would cost to develop it in house. Of course that would require lawyers.
I wouldn't be suprised if Apple itself or 3rd party OSS developers make conduits for iSync too.
Burnable CDs are cheap because they lack the proctive caddy. If I'm not mistaken, Sony proposed a similar protective case for the DVD standard, and look what we got. MD is Sony's own standard, like memory stick. The only media format that Sony has put out that the industry has accepted is the format for PlayStation 1 and 2 games. If the PlayStation2 didn't have DVD playback as one of it's key featuers, I'd bet Sony would have gone with a more expensive media option...
Is if GM took a hint and provited a way to access the GPS without hacking the OnStar system. IR, Bluetooth, or even a cabled interface.
I see the main appeal of using the GPS unit built into the vehicle instead of buying a hand held GPS as it's one less device that needs it's battieres charged. It's likely that the people doing this already have their laptop plugged into the car's cigarette lighter/power outlet and their vehicle only offers one outlet.
It's also one less device that needs to be hidden away or carried with you when you leave the car.
Bicentennial Man is the movie, it credits Positronic Man (a Silverberg collaborative with the late Asimov, as the book it the movie was based on. Not sure how exactly you collabrate with a dead person. That may be a badly written reference meaning they were both alive when they worked together, or just a nice way of saying Silverberg took the story and added content after Asimov passed away.)
The Bicentennial Man is Asimov's orignal work, which I belive is actually a short story, though I can't confirm that.:)
Indeed, Ms. Wiesel of Cesta Gift Baskets said last week that she had resorted to a new strategy: purchasing advertising on Google. "Now we've become a sponsored link," she said, "just to stay in the game."
Sounds like the system is working to me. Company A spends thousands of dollars on marketing, consultants, domain names, and virtual servers (with support contracts) to get 8 out of 10 results on the first page, while Company B spends say $1,000 (number pulled out of...well, you don't want to know where it was last.) to be a sponsored link on Google. Both A and B are feeding the economy in two different ways to get essentially the same result. The question is...which are you going to click on, the paid ad or the search results that all look similar?
As technology evolves, so must the chips, and if the chips are implanted, well...how many people really are going to accept a technology that requires surgery every 3-5 years? Every 5-7 years? 7-10? I doubt retailers are going to accept a technology that won't work for at least 20 years or more. So really, the product have to have a lifespan of what, 25-30 or more years to work?
I hope the vulture capalitists who are funding this one are in it for long term...oh wait...that would be agnist everything that makes a vulture capalitist a vulture capalitist.;)
As for fundamentalist Christians, they could use a little religious apocalypse. It's a healty thing every 666 or so years...
Light timing is tricky, espically around freeways. I'm convinced that the state DoT is controlling the signal timing at freeway intercetions, and the county or city is controlling every other signal on the road. IT's funny to watch traffic "flow" around offramps where the local city government has installed too many signals if you're not in a hurry.
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Why use Citrix on a LAN? Citrix shines over a modem connection, or if you're embedding an application in a webpage, or doing lots of load balancing (mutiple application servers.)
:)
On a LAN though, I don't see any advantage to Citrix over Microsoft's built in Terminal Services.
Windows Server 2003 in Application Server mode, get a good switch, and some WYSE WinTerms, and you will have what you want without paying money to both Microsoft and Citrix. Of course there is plenty of licensing fun whenever Microsoft products are involved.
Would I go for Thin Clients over full blown desktops? Most definitly. Once your server is up and running, you don't have to install clients. Over time, that alone will save you an untold number of man hours. Since you're not constantly pusing out software updates to your clients, you also don't need as solid of a network. RDP works find over 10baseT at half duplex....can't say that about a Windows Desktop when you're patching with Service Pack 2.
However, you'll get the most bang for your buck with a Linux soultion. You'll have to have a bet better network inferstructure, XDMCP isn't as efficent as RDP. But on the server side, it's easy to overload Windows servers. Database goes on one server, software distribution systems on another, file and print sharing on another server, and Active Directory on yet another...
You're not going to be able to get away with running a proxy server to filter webcontent on your Windows terminal server, you'll need another machine for that. With Linux, you'll be able to get away with it much easier.
G'luck and be sure to come back and tell us what you come up with.
My guess is they are referring to various terminals that staff use to pull up records, dosage information, schedules, etc. All these functions are based around some 3rd party application that uses a Webbrowser or VB, .NET, etc...
:D
We have similar issues where I work. Our MRP/ERP system and other industry specific applications have a list of Windows patches they have thourghly tested and approved to be installe don Windows in conjunction with their software. Last I checked, Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 to make the list, even though we have deployed it to all machines at this point.
It's not an issue unique to Hospitials. I would hope that the actually life support type equipment is not networked, not networkable, and just happily running away on it's isolated embedded system. I swear, if they ever want to hook up a windows based life support system to me I'm finding another hospitial...STAT!
Many here are comparing electronic voting to financial transactions. There is a problem with that: votes are much much more important and infinitely more valuable than financial data.
In Minnesota (or at least my county...don't know if this is state wide) our ballets are a Legal sheet of heavy stock paper. They are also rather simple...the candidates have triangles pointing at their names. To vote for a candidate, draw a line through the name of the person you are voting for, connecting the triangles. Even my grandfather who is barely able to hold a pen due to his health was able to successfully complete his ballot.
The 2000 ballot would have looked something like:
|> George Bush Al Gone Ralph Nader Some other guy Yet another choice |
Once you fill out your ballot, you leave the booth and go to the election official, who instructs you on how to run your ballot through the electronic vote counting machine. If the machine can't read your ballot, the official stamps it with a stamp that indicates that the machine could not read it. The stamp invalidates the ballot. You are given a new ballot and pen and return to the booth and fill out your ballot again, but you keep the first one if you with to copy your votes. When you finish with the second ballot, go back to the official at the vote counting machine and feed the second ballot to the machine. If the machine accepts the second ballot, it is deposited into the secure ballot box automatically, and the election official instructs you to feed your stamped ballot into the paper shredder.
Electronic Voting machines should produce a paper ballot in a similar fashion. The paper ballot must be readable by both machines and humans. That's why the line through your candidate works well. When you look at your ballot, your choice has a line through it. The machine knows the layout of the ballot and can thus count your vote. If you used a system like this with an electronic voting machine, you'd have three ways of counting the vote. You could trust the computers, your could run the printed ballots through the electronic counting machine, or you can hand count the votes.
Maybe this just makes too much sense. I don't understand the logic behind no paper ballot on the electronic voting machines.
Filing Suit vs MS or Apple on IP, Patent, and similar issues seems to be a good way to generate funds. Why? Lawyers aren't going to file the suit if they don't see it being at least somewhat valid, thus the odds are that MS will either buy your IP outright, or offer a large sum for an unlimited use license.
Or they could use their resources to litigate you out of existence. The possible reward seems equal to the risk...
The way it's written (or translated to english it seems...) you would have to ask the following:
:)
What would be the point of creating a system to encrypt if it's illegal to decrypt? The encrypted file/signal/whatever has to be decrypted before it's useful.
Can't wait to see news footage of the PETA protest. Yes...it will be the PETA members with far too much money on their hands, protesting on a mine field. I suspect they'll learn why using rats is a good thing before the day is over... :)
I can dream can't I?
My family has a policy for this kind of stuff. It involves beatings.
Having worked with both Citrix and RDP, and supporting a large number of workstations on Active Directory...
The only advantages of thin clients that I've seen over PCs is that the thin clients tend to do better in dirty production enviorments (no clogged fans leading to fried processors).
The great strength of Windows thin clients, be it ICA (Citrix) or RDP (Windows 2000 and 2003 Terminal Services) is database applications that use ODBC connections. Over a remote link (modem, cable, or even T1 WAN) these type of applications just don't perform worth a damn. Stick a terminal server farm linked via GigE/Fiber/whatever to the database server(s), and the application zooms, and in the case of Citrix, is accessable from anywhere and any platform. Great for outside salse folks.
Support wise though, there really isn't anything you can do with terminal services that you can't do in Group Policy and Windows Scripting (VBS, Perl, or whatever your perfered scripting launguage is...you can easily deploy any engine you want to all PCs via group policy.)
Getting those customized ERP/MRP/whatever systems running as fast as possible with 0 downtime it what I see driving thin client soultions in the Windows world. Secondary to that, I see branch offices (Like WalMart Vision Centers) using them to keep real PCs off of the retail floor and (I'm assuming) keep servers and data out of the store and at the regional HQ.
One nice thing about these in other cities is you don't clutter the sidewalk with a meter every car length. You park your car, walk 1/4 to 1/2 a block, pay the machine and get a ticket to stick on your car. That's how I've seen it done in other cities anyway. In cities with narrow sidewalks & streets, getting rid of all those posts makes a noticable difference both in appearance and usability/capacity of the sidewalks.
There is only one portable player that plays Apple's AAC files. Windows Media can be played by just about every other mp3 player out there, not to mention DVD players and other home audio equipment. Who's being more proprietary, MS or Apple?
I imagine that increased competition in online music vendors will lead to Apple's next version of AAC licensing will be more appealing to hardware makers, or Apple will remain in the #1 slot long enough that hardware makers will get around to licensing it anyway.
By being in orbit, the metal rod already has Hypervelocity, so all the cannon has to do is change the velocity of the metal rod so that it is no longer fast enough to overcome the gravitational pull of the earth.
Remember your phicics: Velocity is not speed. It's speed and direction. Acceleration is a change in velocity. By this definition, your car has mutiple devices that control acceleration. The obvious one is the Accelerator, it makes you go faster. Brakes make you go slower, reducing speed is acceleration. Your stearing wheel changes your direction, changing direction is an acceleration.
Since the cannon and projectile already have Hypervelocity, the cannon could just be a linear motor type device (Like Six Flags Superman ride without the parts that stop the car from flying off the track.) or just generate a magenit field that attracts and replels the projectile (Read: Rail Gun). Depending on the actual change in velocity needed, these systems could be powered by solar energy, fuel cells, or even a nuclear reactor.
Rods of depleted uranium seems an ideal projectile. We're already using the stuff as tank vs tank ammo, and as armor plates. With good projectile design and good aim, should be able to survive the fall to earth.
Scary stuff when you think about it. It's the modern trebuchet. Hurling a big "rock" at speeds faster than any other weapon we currently have can achive...
Just brabbed a Pepsi out of the vending machine. This "crack" doesn't work if the bottle has been through a vending machine. You can't see anything through the foam.
After the bottle settled a bit, you can tip it and rotate and if you're lucky see if you have a 3 line or 4 line cap. I was able to tell that the vending machine gave me a winning cap, but there is no way I could make out the text as the images show. The wavy design prevents it with a full bottle.
Even after draining the bottle I can't read the text. Either Pepsi has different bottles for different regions or the article aurhors put the cap on a 2 liter for their photos.
YMMV.
Linux and Windows aren't as different as you think they are. Things like Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player have become part of the operating system? Why? It's good for developers. Need to view a HTML or XML based helpfile? Just use the built in Windows functions.
Need to play a mp3, wav, mpeg, or other multi media file? You could include Quicktime and pay Apple a distributor fee, or you can use Windows Media player libraries which got installed when Windows was installed.
Many of the building blocks of these applications are there for developers to take advantage of. The DLLs get large because Microsoft dictates that they must remain backwards compatible, so that an application coded for dllhell.dll version 1 will still work for dllhell.dll version 6 without recompiling. This is one thing Windows does have that Linux doesn't. Since most of Linux is open source and Windows and applications aren't though, both methods are acceptable for the platform.
What gets Microsoft in trouble isn't bundling this software with the operating system. This software IS the operating system now. What gets them in trouble is that Microsoft can and does use their dominance to push competition out of the market, killing off Netscape, and attempting to push Apple, Real, and others out of the market. They could maybe get away with leaving the dlls in there, but leaving the UI components of Media Player out.
Glad that the EU sees that including a supplemental CD with Windows isn't enough. If it isn't pre-installed, it can't compete with Media Player. If it is pre installed, it still can't compete with Media Player because Media Player will be the player handling the file extensions. The last thing MS wants to do is add a "Select your preferred player application" to the Windows First Boot, but that's the only solution I can come up with right now.
It takes fossil fules to make fossil fules. It takes fossil fule to make your car. It takes fossil fule to light the light over your head...
So add in all the fule used to make, transport, distribue, sell, etc the fossil fule, then compare that to what it takes to make the ethonol.
Blindly beliving numbers...is stupid. It's like GW's favoite saying "The average American taxpayer is getting a X tax cut." It sounds good, but when you think about it, if Bill Gates walks into a McDonalds the average yearly salery of the people in the McDonalds just shot up a couple billion dollars.
Seems like a marginaly smart decision on Palms part. Palm is probally loosing money developing software for Mac, where Mark/Space can turn a profit as they are a smaller company with lower rent, smaller staff, etc. Palm could probally license Mark/Space's software to distribute with Palm devices for less money than it would cost to develop it in house. Of course that would require lawyers.
I wouldn't be suprised if Apple itself or 3rd party OSS developers make conduits for iSync too.
Burnable CDs are cheap because they lack the proctive caddy. If I'm not mistaken, Sony proposed a similar protective case for the DVD standard, and look what we got. MD is Sony's own standard, like memory stick. The only media format that Sony has put out that the industry has accepted is the format for PlayStation 1 and 2 games. If the PlayStation2 didn't have DVD playback as one of it's key featuers, I'd bet Sony would have gone with a more expensive media option...
Is if GM took a hint and provited a way to access the GPS without hacking the OnStar system. IR, Bluetooth, or even a cabled interface.
I see the main appeal of using the GPS unit built into the vehicle instead of buying a hand held GPS as it's one less device that needs it's battieres charged. It's likely that the people doing this already have their laptop plugged into the car's cigarette lighter/power outlet and their vehicle only offers one outlet.
It's also one less device that needs to be hidden away or carried with you when you leave the car.
For Halloween, ad a prison motif to your cube. It's rather fitting.
Bicentennial Man is the movie, it credits Positronic Man (a Silverberg collaborative with the late Asimov, as the book it the movie was based on. Not sure how exactly you collabrate with a dead person. That may be a badly written reference meaning they were both alive when they worked together, or just a nice way of saying Silverberg took the story and added content after Asimov passed away.)
:)
The Bicentennial Man is Asimov's orignal work, which I belive is actually a short story, though I can't confirm that.
Indeed, Ms. Wiesel of Cesta Gift Baskets said last week that she had resorted to a new strategy: purchasing advertising on Google. "Now we've become a sponsored link," she said, "just to stay in the game."
Sounds like the system is working to me. Company A spends thousands of dollars on marketing, consultants, domain names, and virtual servers (with support contracts) to get 8 out of 10 results on the first page, while Company B spends say $1,000 (number pulled out of...well, you don't want to know where it was last.) to be a sponsored link on Google. Both A and B are feeding the economy in two different ways to get essentially the same result. The question is...which are you going to click on, the paid ad or the search results that all look similar?
Few issues that I see.
;)
As technology evolves, so must the chips, and if the chips are implanted, well...how many people really are going to accept a technology that requires surgery every 3-5 years? Every 5-7 years? 7-10? I doubt retailers are going to accept a technology that won't work for at least 20 years or more. So really, the product have to have a lifespan of what, 25-30 or more years to work?
I hope the vulture capalitists who are funding this one are in it for long term...oh wait...that would be agnist everything that makes a vulture capalitist a vulture capalitist.
As for fundamentalist Christians, they could use a little religious apocalypse. It's a healty thing every 666 or so years...
Mental Impairment?
Watch out for a guy in yellow going by the name of Darth Vader playing Van Halen...he might melt your brain.
The Great Mouse Detective (1986) used a computer to render the clock scene climax, If I recall correctly.
Light timing is tricky, espically around freeways. I'm convinced that the state DoT is controlling the signal timing at freeway intercetions, and the county or city is controlling every other signal on the road. IT's funny to watch traffic "flow" around offramps where the local city government has installed too many signals if you're not in a hurry.
VB6 will never die, not while Visual Basic Scripting (Not all .vbs files are worms, you can make vbs scrips to do useful stuff too) is a subset of VB6.
Maybe microsoft will update the Windows Scripting Host in future versions of Windows, but that still won't be until Longhorn or beyond.