Hrrm... you don't think large corporations or even our government would see any benefit in having a static ID associated with not only every appliance, but with every household?
You might not want to, but you might eventually have to because every "intelligent" model sold (except the old iceboxes we have today) will require just that.
The entire second article is null and void for this reason, quoted from the article:
Of course such projections are based on the underlying assumption that tomorrow will be much like today, and the visible changes that have occurred in the past will smoothly translate to continued change in the future. There are some obvious weaknesses in this assumption, and many events could disrupt this prediction.
The argument that we're going to run out of space is based on the assumption that in the (near) future MANY MANY household appliances and objects which don't currently have anything to do with the internet are going to become attached to it.
1) Driver kills or seriously injurs someone, and claims innocence - the box will tell the truth, and if they're guilty of the crime, they SHOULD be found out and punished.
2) The driver is dead, in which case the box will tell his story for him - and tell it accurately.
This thing won't be used for your common speeding violation... it's been in cars for a long while, it serves it's purpose, and there's no reason to be up in arms over it.
From the article: The cost of the five-year project is about $38 million
How is it fair to compare five-year cost (which includes all kinda of things like upkeep, all the supporting hardware, etc) to the base machine cost of the G5 cluster?
Something definitely doesn't add up - the Dell cluster price probably includes labor and other hardware, while the G5 price quote is ONLY FOR THE MACHINES
1,100 G5 machines, 1/7 the price of the Dell cluster = 4,545 per machine.
I cal shenanigans, wish someone would look into these biased articles before posting them.
How about you take a look at those first =) They show damaged computers, but the PLATTERS are still perfectly intact, as is the drive itself. Noone's going to recover data from a cracked platter.
That's the problem - you can't just shut it down, or the person riding it falls off. You also can't pre-emptively shut it down, because you don't know how long it's going to be ridden. Maybe a solution would be to emit a very loud, very annoying noise when the battery gets low, basically forcing the rider to stop riding? =)
Yahoo only shows Yellow Pages listings - the Google search basically finds *web pages* with some reference to that location with the search words in it.
~Berj
Re:There's more to it than 64-bit instructions
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FYI, the cache on the P4 Extreme is Level 2 - it's in the same package, but not on the same wafer as the logic.
~Berj
Considering the stupidity of the general web-browsing populous, maybe this (saving people from themselves) is exactly the type of legislation we need... what if I write some "adware" that replaces all.doc files on your computer with advertisement for my computer after you accept the EULA? Is that legal? You "DECIDED" to install it and you accepted the EULA, didn't you?
Of course, by "you" I mean "those of you who barely know how to turn a computer on"...
Slashdot Mirror
It's not an article, it's a submission.
~Berj
I use a dual monitor setup... whenever anything goes fullscreen, the center is right in between the two monitor.
~Berj
Hrrm... you don't think large corporations or even our government would see any benefit in having a static ID associated with not only every appliance, but with every household?
~Berj
You might not want to, but you might eventually have to because every "intelligent" model sold (except the old iceboxes we have today) will require just that.
~Berj
The entire second article is null and void for this reason, quoted from the article:
Of course such projections are based on the underlying assumption that tomorrow will be much like today, and the visible changes that have occurred in the past will smoothly translate to continued change in the future. There are some obvious weaknesses in this assumption, and many events could disrupt this prediction.
The argument that we're going to run out of space is based on the assumption that in the (near) future MANY MANY household appliances and objects which don't currently have anything to do with the internet are going to become attached to it.
~Berj
I couldn't mod you up, so I befriended you =) Very well said!!!
~Berj
These things will only be used in two cases:
1) Driver kills or seriously injurs someone, and claims innocence - the box will tell the truth, and if they're guilty of the crime, they SHOULD be found out and punished.
2) The driver is dead, in which case the box will tell his story for him - and tell it accurately.
This thing won't be used for your common speeding violation... it's been in cars for a long while, it serves it's purpose, and there's no reason to be up in arms over it.
~Berj
From the article: The cost of the five-year project is about $38 million
How is it fair to compare five-year cost (which includes all kinda of things like upkeep, all the supporting hardware, etc) to the base machine cost of the G5 cluster?
~Berj
Something definitely doesn't add up - the Dell cluster price probably includes labor and other hardware, while the G5 price quote is ONLY FOR THE MACHINES
1,100 G5 machines, 1/7 the price of the Dell cluster = 4,545 per machine.
I cal shenanigans, wish someone would look into these biased articles before posting them.
~Berj
too funny. The site probably had an anti-slashdot script running... if X number of visitors from /. in 30 seconds, delete the content linked to =)
~Berj
Like the cooling system in an engine block :) Awesome.
~Berj
How about you take a look at those first =) They show damaged computers, but the PLATTERS are still perfectly intact, as is the drive itself. Noone's going to recover data from a cracked platter.
~Berj
That's the problem - you can't just shut it down, or the person riding it falls off. You also can't pre-emptively shut it down, because you don't know how long it's going to be ridden. Maybe a solution would be to emit a very loud, very annoying noise when the battery gets low, basically forcing the rider to stop riding? =)
~Berj
Thanks man =)
~Berj
wtf? enjoy the adware.
FYI, the version of DivX linked to by the article on Tom's is the Ad Supported one. Here's the link to the free DivX 5.1 Codec.
~Berj
Yahoo only shows Yellow Pages listings - the Google search basically finds *web pages* with some reference to that location with the search words in it.
~Berj
FYI, the cache on the P4 Extreme is Level 2 - it's in the same package, but not on the same wafer as the logic. ~Berj
I thought I was the only one that had images of an old melted C64 slushee in a cup... /weird.
~Berj
I'd mod you up if I had points... Micro$haft? Are we in kindergarden?
~Berj
Try here.
~Berj
I can never get them to work properly in Lynx.
~Berj
nobody's gonna save you from yourself
.doc files on your computer with advertisement for my computer after you accept the EULA? Is that legal? You "DECIDED" to install it and you accepted the EULA, didn't you?
Considering the stupidity of the general web-browsing populous, maybe this (saving people from themselves) is exactly the type of legislation we need... what if I write some "adware" that replaces all
Of course, by "you" I mean "those of you who barely know how to turn a computer on"...
~Berj
Here's a link to what you're talking about:
Third Base
It's a good read, stuff I didn't know until I read your post and looked it up =)
~Berj
When the system clock reaches Jan 1, 2004, the worm will delete itself upon execution. from the link...
Still, don't know how much traffic it causes, but at least there's some self-destructing code in there!
~Berj