Personally, I'd love to see such a thing. It would be great not having to travel with both a laptop and a phone. It would also be great to have your phone function as your computer and to be able to use that computer with any display, keyboard and mouse that happen to be nearby. However -- there is that question of form factor. No one wants to do serious work on a tiny phone display, so especially in travel situations you would need to take a proper display, keyboard and mouse -- in other words, a laptop. Someone else already hinted at a laptop "shell" form factor that would just function as a dock for smartphone. But really what company would want to sell the shell when they could just as easily sell a full fledged laptop? And wouldn't traveling with the shell defeat the purpose of traveling light and "discarding" the laptop?
As a six month veteran of the US Antarctic Program, I can tell you McMurdo Station doesn't need dead drops. There's plenty of file sharing going on pretty much in the open. I attended meetings in the library that would pretty much devolve into file sharing swap meets. I suppose it must have been like the mid-1990s on college campuses. Fun stuff!
I am especially interested in Crossbar's RRAM technology. I think it has the potential to absolutely crush NAND in both price and performance. So, this guy is likely wrong.
than the attitudes prevalent prior to the dot com bubble (and subsequent bust) in the late 1990s? All of that money being poured into companies with little to no revenue and no solid plans to generate revenue. It blew my mind at the time.
Expect to see a lot of competition and lobbying from local taxi authorities to prevent you from doing exactly this. They will argue that it's not safe for individuals to rent their cars out in this way - and to some extent they will have a point. Plus, when your fancy new car comes home with vomit (or worse) all over the interior you're going to be really angry.
Just wait until insurance companies start requiring automated driving. That is likely to be decades away, but I think they will be a big factor in the push toward driverless vehicles. The irony of this is that ultimately the need for auto insurance will decline dramatically once accident rates plummet. At that point I think we're likely to see auto insurance become the domain of the auto manufacturers rather than the auto owners.
I'm using FreeNAS with ZFS-RAIDZ2. I've got twelve 1 TB drives in it and a total usable space of about 10 TB. It's very nice. It's an older server so it's loud though, even in my basement. I love it! Super convenient.
Mistake? By standing in the way of an interim, better technology (nuclear vs. fossil fuels) the reactionary anti-nuclear crowd indirectly allowed the worse technology to flourish. What's worse, they're obstructing progress in favor of a "perfect" energy technology that will never exist. Solar power is ideal, but the costs, necessary land area, and infrastructure are decades away from being realized. Those are decades of abuse that our environment doesn't need.
I was actually talking about both coal and oil. The idea that cars and transportation require fossil fuels is also very short-sighted. If nuclear power had been allowed to develop starting in the 1950s we could have been well on our way to electric or possibly even thorium powered vehicles by now. Again, the anti-nuclear crowd stood in the way of a better technology in favor of a perfect one that will never arrive.
In the 1970s and 1980s it made a lot of sense to be anti-nuke just as it now makes sense to be anti-GMO. Those people did us a huge favor.
Absolutely wrong. Those people allowed the use of fossil fuels to proliferate and poison the atmosphere for DECADES out of a misguided fear of radioactivity. The blame for global warming can largely be placed on their shoulders. Those people made the world a worse place for everyone.
Austin, TX - That's the only airport where I've been given a hard time for declining a virtual strip search. I just barely dodged Atlanta's TSA scanners yesterday and I was glad. I had a bit of gasoline on my hand from filling up my rental car. I didn't want the pat down swabs to test positive for "explosives."
The types of charges involved here have been of concern to me since the start. I normally don't go in for conspiracies, but in this case it would be ridiculously easy to pin these sorts of charges of Assange. It would just take one person with a knowledge of Swedish laws to follow Assange and see who he goes home with. Then the next step would be for that anonymous person to offer a suitcase full of untraceable cash to the woman in question -- et voila! Cry rape and Assange goes to jail.
Well, if you want humans to care for you, Japan, you just might have to accept people who don't speak or look Japanese. Get over your completely homogeneous society already!
This is exactly the idea behind the spacecraft featured in Mary Doria Russell's novel, The Sparrow. It's a pretty good read. One of the better SF novels I've ever read.
I just left the US for 6 months and I'd always wanted an e-ink reader. My trip was the perfect excuse to buy one and I purchased the Hanlin V3 through astak.com. I've loaded it up with a lot of content from Project Gutenberg as well as a few pirated titles. I've only been out of the country for 6 weeks and already I've read five books...WAY more than I would have back home. Granted, some of this is due to the extra time on my hands, but I find my reader easy on the eyes for long format reading (unlike my iPhone for example) and enjoyable to use. Even if the reader crashes, it remembers where I left off. I can bookmark pages easily. The battery lasts for a month on a single charge. I can carry hundreds of books on a 1 GB SD card. So, yes pirating of books is going to be rampant, I can assure you. This will only become more widespread as tools like Inept become more widely know. If you're not sure what I'm referring to just google the term adeptkey.der.
This sounds identical to the Blue Brain project. This article is a great intro to the project and I hope some competition will help the race wrap up sooner!
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Personally, I'd love to see such a thing. It would be great not having to travel with both a laptop and a phone. It would also be great to have your phone function as your computer and to be able to use that computer with any display, keyboard and mouse that happen to be nearby. However -- there is that question of form factor. No one wants to do serious work on a tiny phone display, so especially in travel situations you would need to take a proper display, keyboard and mouse -- in other words, a laptop. Someone else already hinted at a laptop "shell" form factor that would just function as a dock for smartphone. But really what company would want to sell the shell when they could just as easily sell a full fledged laptop? And wouldn't traveling with the shell defeat the purpose of traveling light and "discarding" the laptop?
Ah yes, the old Liberty of Contract argument. That's the thing about Libertarians - they never learn anything from history.
As a six month veteran of the US Antarctic Program, I can tell you McMurdo Station doesn't need dead drops. There's plenty of file sharing going on pretty much in the open. I attended meetings in the library that would pretty much devolve into file sharing swap meets. I suppose it must have been like the mid-1990s on college campuses. Fun stuff!
I am especially interested in Crossbar's RRAM technology. I think it has the potential to absolutely crush NAND in both price and performance. So, this guy is likely wrong.
than the attitudes prevalent prior to the dot com bubble (and subsequent bust) in the late 1990s? All of that money being poured into companies with little to no revenue and no solid plans to generate revenue. It blew my mind at the time.
That would be an ideal solution, but checking the car between each customer use is probably not going to be practical.
Expect to see a lot of competition and lobbying from local taxi authorities to prevent you from doing exactly this. They will argue that it's not safe for individuals to rent their cars out in this way - and to some extent they will have a point. Plus, when your fancy new car comes home with vomit (or worse) all over the interior you're going to be really angry.
Just wait until insurance companies start requiring automated driving. That is likely to be decades away, but I think they will be a big factor in the push toward driverless vehicles. The irony of this is that ultimately the need for auto insurance will decline dramatically once accident rates plummet. At that point I think we're likely to see auto insurance become the domain of the auto manufacturers rather than the auto owners.
I'm using FreeNAS with ZFS-RAIDZ2. I've got twelve 1 TB drives in it and a total usable space of about 10 TB. It's very nice. It's an older server so it's loud though, even in my basement. I love it! Super convenient.
LOVES the fact that Card chose to open his mouth on this immediately prior to the movie's release!
Mistake? By standing in the way of an interim, better technology (nuclear vs. fossil fuels) the reactionary anti-nuclear crowd indirectly allowed the worse technology to flourish. What's worse, they're obstructing progress in favor of a "perfect" energy technology that will never exist. Solar power is ideal, but the costs, necessary land area, and infrastructure are decades away from being realized. Those are decades of abuse that our environment doesn't need.
I was actually talking about both coal and oil. The idea that cars and transportation require fossil fuels is also very short-sighted. If nuclear power had been allowed to develop starting in the 1950s we could have been well on our way to electric or possibly even thorium powered vehicles by now. Again, the anti-nuclear crowd stood in the way of a better technology in favor of a perfect one that will never arrive.
In the 1970s and 1980s it made a lot of sense to be anti-nuke just as it now makes sense to be anti-GMO. Those people did us a huge favor.
Absolutely wrong. Those people allowed the use of fossil fuels to proliferate and poison the atmosphere for DECADES out of a misguided fear of radioactivity. The blame for global warming can largely be placed on their shoulders. Those people made the world a worse place for everyone.
Actually, the TSA girls in San Juan, Puerto Rico were quite decent looking.
Austin, TX - That's the only airport where I've been given a hard time for declining a virtual strip search. I just barely dodged Atlanta's TSA scanners yesterday and I was glad. I had a bit of gasoline on my hand from filling up my rental car. I didn't want the pat down swabs to test positive for "explosives."
It's under the Audio menu - Audio Device sub-menu. Select the encoded audio device.
You really need to read Drexler's Engines of Creation or Feynman's speech There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.
The types of charges involved here have been of concern to me since the start. I normally don't go in for conspiracies, but in this case it would be ridiculously easy to pin these sorts of charges of Assange. It would just take one person with a knowledge of Swedish laws to follow Assange and see who he goes home with. Then the next step would be for that anonymous person to offer a suitcase full of untraceable cash to the woman in question -- et voila! Cry rape and Assange goes to jail.
Well, if you want humans to care for you, Japan, you just might have to accept people who don't speak or look Japanese. Get over your completely homogeneous society already!
We're also missing flawless voice interfaces for computers and instantaneous language translation. But it's getting better!
The first time I'd heard of a zero point drive was in Arthur Clarke's 3001. While it's not his best book, he's not exactly a sci-fi slouch.
This is exactly the idea behind the spacecraft featured in Mary Doria Russell's novel, The Sparrow. It's a pretty good read. One of the better SF novels I've ever read.
I just left the US for 6 months and I'd always wanted an e-ink reader. My trip was the perfect excuse to buy one and I purchased the Hanlin V3 through astak.com. I've loaded it up with a lot of content from Project Gutenberg as well as a few pirated titles. I've only been out of the country for 6 weeks and already I've read five books...WAY more than I would have back home. Granted, some of this is due to the extra time on my hands, but I find my reader easy on the eyes for long format reading (unlike my iPhone for example) and enjoyable to use. Even if the reader crashes, it remembers where I left off. I can bookmark pages easily. The battery lasts for a month on a single charge. I can carry hundreds of books on a 1 GB SD card. So, yes pirating of books is going to be rampant, I can assure you. This will only become more widespread as tools like Inept become more widely know. If you're not sure what I'm referring to just google the term adeptkey.der.
I don't have any wisdom teeth, you insensitive clod!
This sounds identical to the Blue Brain project. This article is a great intro to the project and I hope some competition will help the race wrap up sooner!