Look at the current PC market. Almost monthly a new faster chip and almost always cheaper; RAM and peripheral prices also dropping; PC prices lower than ever. Still the market is declining. Sure the economy is a little lumpy (don't say the evil R-word), but I think people are waiting for the end of that spiral.
This may come as a surprise to you, but not everybody has an Ethernetwork, and not all who do have a printer in it. Also, Bluetooth isn't intended for networking, 802.11(b) is.
No, IrDA doesn't suffer from RF interference - it suffers from sunlight interference. Sometimes it won't even work when you put the devices side by side with a cover over them. Much better, that;-(
No,/. may not be the only place "we" look for news (not that I can remember anybody saying that, esp. not the original blurb), but it's a damn good place to discuss the news.
Performance: functional units in clocked systems have to finish in a clock cycle (or multiples thereof). If a unit takes different times to complete for different inputs, the clock is limited by the worst-case time for a clocked unit, a async'ed unit is done when it's done. So an async system will be at least as fast as an equivalent clocked system (using equivalent units) - ignoring overhead for the async system.
Looks like you thought about the "cold of space", but forgot the heat of direct sunlight. The key of insulation is "how does a thermos know to keep hot things hot and cold stuff cold?"
Reminds me of the scene in "The Fly" with Jeff Goldblum, where BrundleFly arm-wrestled the guy and broke his arm. I don't think Radius and Ulna are the weakest link in the arm.
I thought the argument was that they had access to the online crime database? It's not going to be very efective to look for criminals based on an ancient database, mostly because the new ones aren't in it.
Gee, since the US has one of the highest crime rates in the world, they are not going to do a lot of business if they don't deal them - even if the error rate is zero.
And if the criminals stay out of monitored areas, they are out of business.
Ahh, but he didn't look like the guy! If he had, he would have been checked more often.
Anyway, you are constantly being watched in stores anyway, even without face-recognition SW. And it's quit unlikely that you don't get to pay with your CC or checks because the SW thinks you're somebody else, but the clerk who checks you against a photo would let you do it. Let's ignore that if they thought you were a crook, they'ld call the police to check you out.
And finaly, if you magnify the capability of the police to spot someone who looks like a wanted criminal, chance are they will catch that criminal pretty soon. Then he will be taken out of the database, and you will be left alone again.
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Just tell her you'll be finished reading Slashdot faster ;-)
Actually it's representing 866,666,666.666[...] cycles/second - but who's counting ;-)
Look at the current PC market. Almost monthly a new faster chip and almost always cheaper; RAM and peripheral prices also dropping; PC prices lower than ever. Still the market is declining. Sure the economy is a little lumpy (don't say the evil R-word), but I think people are waiting for the end of that spiral.
Maybe they don't need to install special hardware, because it's already there. And if it wasn't installed for the FBI...
Konrad Zuse. He build (one of) the first digitial computers
Ooh, did the smiley give it away? (even more dripping sarcasm;-)
Anyway, I have my printer hooked up to my 'puter via direct satellite link, so there.
Yeah, that must be it. So where can I buy those? Free/open sources would be better of course.
This may come as a surprise to you, but not everybody has an Ethernetwork, and not all who do have a printer in it. Also, Bluetooth isn't intended for networking, 802.11(b) is.
Hell, what's wrong with pen and paper? ;-)
No, IrDA doesn't suffer from RF interference - it suffers from sunlight interference. Sometimes it won't even work when you put the devices side by side with a cover over them. Much better, that ;-(
I take you don't have a notebook?
Gee indeed.
Performance: functional units in clocked systems have to finish in a clock cycle (or multiples thereof). If a unit takes different times to complete for different inputs, the clock is limited by the worst-case time for a clocked unit, a async'ed unit is done when it's done. So an async system will be at least as fast as an equivalent clocked system (using equivalent units) - ignoring overhead for the async system.
Err, he had Snake's car, from an police-auction.
See how easy it is to mix imperial and metric meassures on mars?
Looks like you thought about the "cold of space", but forgot the heat of direct sunlight. The key of insulation is "how does a thermos know to keep hot things hot and cold stuff cold?"
Reminds me of the scene in "The Fly" with Jeff Goldblum, where BrundleFly arm-wrestled the guy and broke his arm. I don't think Radius and Ulna are the weakest link in the arm.
BTW only reasonable people can reason with reasonable people.
Congratulations, you described what probably drove the attackers. Too bad you are not able to understand.
I thought the argument was that they had access to the online crime database? It's not going to be very efective to look for criminals based on an ancient database, mostly because the new ones aren't in it.
And if the criminals stay out of monitored areas, they are out of business.
Anyway, you are constantly being watched in stores anyway, even without face-recognition SW. And it's quit unlikely that you don't get to pay with your CC or checks because the SW thinks you're somebody else, but the clerk who checks you against a photo would let you do it. Let's ignore that if they thought you were a crook, they'ld call the police to check you out.
And finaly, if you magnify the capability of the police to spot someone who looks like a wanted criminal, chance are they will catch that criminal pretty soon. Then he will be taken out of the database, and you will be left alone again.