Chip manufacturers would implement some sort of frequency cap, just as AMD did with the newer Athlon XP chips.
Although the chips could stand the heat, would PCB boards do? Or the PC casing and wiring? Makes me think...
Sooo... the watch will work from temperatue fluctuations from the environment, the human body or both (sorry, did not read the patent)?
If it is the human body, doesn't it sounds like The Matrix's Duracell-human battery analogy:^) ? We could attach a gigantic watch into a cow and we'd have energy for a small house!!!!
Duh.. no.
You do not need centralized payment systems, but you do need functioning clearing houses. This mechanism ensures competition in the payment means market.
Standards would be enforced by this clearing house and not directly by the participants.
In the case there's more than one clearing house, the government should enforce standards.
I just cant figure out why Visa's SET never worked out. I was told that it didnt work due to the lack of processing power of the desktops by the time SET was created (to handle lots of encryption calcs) but it I guess this claim became BS now.
Perhaps they're remodelling it to sell to the government. That new information agency could get into a new level of individual privacy violations by crossing data obtained from centralized data stores as such....
Well, one could embed to the hash the hashes of compilers and sources used.
And once the final hash is built, sign it with a public encrpytion key to ensure that the hash is good.
But I think that there is no easy/feasible way to ensure that files are good.
Just guessing...
Next time I go to the US, I will make sure my US visa is OK and I'll get a lawyer to patent myself, so I can travel safely, without the fear of an evil corporation having me patented.
Here in Brazil, the largest private bank, Bradesco is said to run M$ servers for their web operation. I believe that. But the other day I went to their branch and I saw scores of PCs with LCD screens running windows. When I asked them about the status of my accounts, they also brought up a nice terminal emulator screen.
Banco do Brasil, being the largest Brazilian bank (it's state-owned, by the way), might use terminal emulators on top of Windows as well. I've never managed to see actual windows, as I am not an account holder, but their systems seems to be heavily mainframe-based.
One of the largest credit card companies in Brazil is also entirely mainframe-based.
Seems that the market found equilibrium by itself: keep Windows where it belongs to (desktops) and use IBM mainframes and Unix boxes where critical data and processes must be kept. Frankly, I dont see the point of using Microsoft outside employees desktops.
As you guys know, Linux has a long way to go to achieve user-friendliness and if this trend continues, we'll see corporations forced to pay M$ licenses to run their desktops and paying even more to other companies so M$ can interoperate properly with mainframe and Unix servers.
Maybe this is the rationale behind M$ actions: they create their proprietary ecossystem at the expense of freedom and/or efficiency and/or market choice.
I used to own an alcohol-fuelled car myself, here in Brazil. In fact, any attempt to start such car on cold mornings (consider 15 Celsius as cold for Brazilian standards) was enough to make you feel frustrated. Therefore, Brazilian cars used to have this small gasoline tank which stored about 1 1/2 litres of gas which was used during engine startup. Every time you start up your alcohol car, the ignition pumps a small amount of gas, enough to make it run and no more gas is pushed into the engine until you have to go into the ignition cycle again.
"Rather than form a federation with Disney and work with what we had already created, there was this (stupid) notion that the world should be offered an alternative"
According to this point of view, let Disney hunt down Apple and Pixar, and get the monopoly of the entertainment industry as MSFT wants to do with the IT industry. Let Disney spread alone their subliminal messages to the humanity!
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Chip manufacturers would implement some sort of frequency cap, just as AMD did with the newer Athlon XP chips. Although the chips could stand the heat, would PCB boards do? Or the PC casing and wiring? Makes me think...
If it is the human body, doesn't it sounds like The Matrix's Duracell-human battery analogy :^) ? We could attach a gigantic watch into a cow and we'd have energy for a small house!!!!
Duh.. no. You do not need centralized payment systems, but you do need functioning clearing houses. This mechanism ensures competition in the payment means market. Standards would be enforced by this clearing house and not directly by the participants. In the case there's more than one clearing house, the government should enforce standards. I just cant figure out why Visa's SET never worked out. I was told that it didnt work due to the lack of processing power of the desktops by the time SET was created (to handle lots of encryption calcs) but it I guess this claim became BS now.
Perhaps they're remodelling it to sell to the government. That new information agency could get into a new level of individual privacy violations by crossing data obtained from centralized data stores as such....
Clement Ader made a flight before for the French military in 1897. Ader made a public flight in 1890.
Well, one could embed to the hash the hashes of compilers and sources used. And once the final hash is built, sign it with a public encrpytion key to ensure that the hash is good. But I think that there is no easy/feasible way to ensure that files are good. Just guessing...
Next time I go to the US, I will make sure my US visa is OK and I'll get a lawyer to patent myself, so I can travel safely, without the fear of an evil corporation having me patented.
Here in Brazil, the largest private bank, Bradesco is said to run M$ servers for their web operation. I believe that. But the other day I went to their branch and I saw scores of PCs with LCD screens running windows. When I asked them about the status of my accounts, they also brought up a nice terminal emulator screen.
Another large bank, Real ABN-AMRO, does the same.
Banco do Brasil, being the largest Brazilian bank (it's state-owned, by the way), might use terminal emulators on top of Windows as well. I've never managed to see actual windows, as I am not an account holder, but their systems seems to be heavily mainframe-based.
One of the largest credit card companies in Brazil is also entirely mainframe-based.
Seems that the market found equilibrium by itself: keep Windows where it belongs to (desktops) and use IBM mainframes and Unix boxes where critical data and processes must be kept. Frankly, I dont see the point of using Microsoft outside employees desktops.
As you guys know, Linux has a long way to go to achieve user-friendliness and if this trend continues, we'll see corporations forced to pay M$ licenses to run their desktops and paying even more to other companies so M$ can interoperate properly with mainframe and Unix servers.
Maybe this is the rationale behind M$ actions: they create their proprietary ecossystem at the expense of freedom and/or efficiency and/or market choice.
I used to own an alcohol-fuelled car myself, here in Brazil. In fact, any attempt to start such car on cold mornings (consider 15 Celsius as cold for Brazilian standards) was enough to make you feel frustrated. Therefore, Brazilian cars used to have this small gasoline tank which stored about 1 1/2 litres of gas which was used during engine startup. Every time you start up your alcohol car, the ignition pumps a small amount of gas, enough to make it run and no more gas is pushed into the engine until you have to go into the ignition cycle again.
Well, if you read the PS2 owners' guide, you'll realise that the article is pretty useless and that Sony already knew it all.
Paraphrasing MSFT's Craig Mundie:
"Rather than form a federation with Disney and work with what we had already created, there was this (stupid) notion that the world should be offered an alternative"
According to this point of view, let Disney hunt down Apple and Pixar, and get the monopoly of the entertainment industry as MSFT wants to do with the IT industry. Let Disney spread alone their subliminal messages to the humanity!