The major reasob for doing this is that I live in a rural area where bad weather can make the power glitchy. One of the neatest things about using UPSs is that I can unplug stuff from the wall (eg if I need to move cables to a different power socket) and keep the computers alive.
A.22 can kill. Equally, people have been known to survive being hit by a.50. There are too many variables in the kill/injure equation and this is certainly not something you'd be able to control with a dial.
In theory this sounds cool, but practice is likely to be very different because there are too many variables.
Many people have been killed by a puny.22 and at the other end of the spectrum quite a few people have survived being hit by a.50 calibre. So much depends on where you are hit.
The shipping department at HP probably get monitored on how many cubic ft of parcels they handle, with a bonus for the supervisors if they ship more than 300cuft of parcels per day.
The DRAM cells are basically little capacitors that store the charge. It should be quite easy to have a single line going into the the DRAM that flushes all the cells as soon as: power is removed, refreshing fails or an external reset is applied.
The other trick is to write the random crap, or apply the clearing, when a DRAM is powered up. That way the RAM would get cleared even if yanked from a hot box.
Twenty years ago I saw exactly the same predictions about keyboards and some people laughed them off. Look how fast keyboards disappeared, replaced by the mouce and voice recognition. Within a couple of years they were completely gone.
If the keyboard could get killed of then why can't the mouse?
People bitch about RSI etc when using a keyboard/mouse. VR or reaching across your desk to operate a touch screen will be far more strain over a day of desk work or a few hours of gaming/emailing whatever.
About the only area where touch screen is practical is in walk-up kiosks and handheld devices.
Using technology to compensate for human frailty is asking for trouble. People drive to a perceived level of risk. Hiding the risks make people drive faster and less safely.
Showing the edge of the road is pointless if the driver is not told about other hazards.
If you can't see far enough into the fog to brake, then slow down until you can.
So many companies (particularly smaller ones) don't really know much about computer security, backups etc and what Google provides is probably better than what most mom&pops can do themselves.
It's all very well patching a kernel if it is a private machine being used by some geek. Even rolling out fixes to a whole raft of desktops/laptops through a Ubuntu-like update mechanism is not that hard.
What you're missing though is that the majority of Linux systems are embedded systems: phones, point-of-sale terminals, etc etc. Most of the users of these devices don't know that the machine runs Linux and don't know how to go about patching. Rolling out patches to these is not at all easy.
I'm not sure that solar racing really showcases the right kinds of innovation. The winners tend to be those with the most efficient (and expensive) PV technology. Having the PV labs focus so much effort on expensive PV does not really help deployment of PV as a practical real world solution.
The most important consideration in making PV practical is to reduce $perW. Who cares about efficiency as a goal of itself? If someone was to make 10% efficient roofing tiles at low $perW then you could make a whole roof out of them.
Research really needs to shift more towards $perW.
Ballmer is completely fixated with trying to beat Google, if only in the very short term. Ballmer wants eyeballs and user base to be able to say:"Yes, I beat Google". Of course, in the grander scheme of things two sinking ships are still sinking and Google is only growing in market share. Further, Google has almost gotten big enough that it is bigger than the rest of the players combined so the window of opportunity to beat Google has slammed shut.
Ballmer's craziness is also reflected in their other acquisitions. Why would they buy http://www.danger.com/ which has no integration with Windows Mobile? Only to make fight with Google's Android.
MS supposedly cost $10bn to develop (depending on what sources you read) and MS was prepared to spend $40bn for Yahoo. Surely MS should be thinking of spending more on fixing their core business.
Hey Ballmer, if you want to survive then you need to be less competitor focused and more customer focused. Don't let you megalomania divert you from core business.
Like keeping the damn slaves and women in their places!
Times change, values change and so must legal and political systems. Being old and dead does not give you eternal wisdom. When the FoundingFathers postulated on freedom of speach, equality and guns they were not thinking of the inernet/TV, women and blacks, nor automatic weapons.
The patent system is run by the USPTO + lawyers primarily for their benefit. They control it and their "experts" will drive any future changes in patent processes. From their perspective it is generating great value and there is very little motivation for change.
USPTO generates a healthy profit for Uncle Sam too. USPTO makes the same on a low quality or a high quality patent. All that matters is volume. Therefore the system favors cranking out many low quality paptents.
Cranking out patents generates good income for lawyers too. But the real money comes in when a patent is contested. This happens mostly when the patents are low quaility. Therefore patent lawyers score more out of low quality patents than high quality patents.
Therefore the whole system is set up to provide better revenue by generating many crap patents. Don't expect the system to change any time soon!
The original idea was to name FORTH "FOURTH" since the designers considered it a "fourth generation" language. However file name length limits reduced this to "FORTH".
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Use power to shift heat or generate power from heat flow.
And make your own hotspot.
There. I said it for you.
The major reasob for doing this is that I live in a rural area where bad weather can make the power glitchy. One of the neatest things about using UPSs is that I can unplug stuff from the wall (eg if I need to move cables to a different power socket) and keep the computers alive.
A .22 can kill. Equally, people have been known to survive being hit by a .50. There are too many variables in the kill/injure equation and this is certainly not something you'd be able to control with a dial.
Many people have been killed by a puny .22 and at the other end of the spectrum quite a few people have survived being hit by a .50 calibre. So much depends on where you are hit.
Try Castlemouse:http://www.castlemouse.com/
If you win then you go after the big guys.
... and we were happy!
Finds nipples pretty damn quick and only needs a glass, a spoon and some ice.
The shipping department at HP probably get monitored on how many cubic ft of parcels they handle, with a bonus for the supervisors if they ship more than 300cuft of parcels per day.
The other trick is to write the random crap, or apply the clearing, when a DRAM is powered up. That way the RAM would get cleared even if yanked from a hot box.
If the keyboard could get killed of then why can't the mouse?
People bitch about RSI etc when using a keyboard/mouse. VR or reaching across your desk to operate a touch screen will be far more strain over a day of desk work or a few hours of gaming/emailing whatever.
About the only area where touch screen is practical is in walk-up kiosks and handheld devices.
Unbroken florescent tubes can be collected and safely disposed of.
Showing the edge of the road is pointless if the driver is not told about other hazards.
If you can't see far enough into the fog to brake, then slow down until you can.
So many companies (particularly smaller ones) don't really know much about computer security, backups etc and what Google provides is probably better than what most mom&pops can do themselves.
What you're missing though is that the majority of Linux systems are embedded systems: phones, point-of-sale terminals, etc etc. Most of the users of these devices don't know that the machine runs Linux and don't know how to go about patching. Rolling out patches to these is not at all easy.
Dried spirulina is approx 55% protein. Dried beef is approx 70%.
There's a nice symmetry here. Antenna gain/direction works equally for reception and transmission. A good receiver will also be a good radiator.
The most important consideration in making PV practical is to reduce $perW. Who cares about efficiency as a goal of itself? If someone was to make 10% efficient roofing tiles at low $perW then you could make a whole roof out of them.
Research really needs to shift more towards $perW.
Ballmer's craziness is also reflected in their other acquisitions. Why would they buy http://www.danger.com/ which has no integration with Windows Mobile? Only to make fight with Google's Android.
MS supposedly cost $10bn to develop (depending on what sources you read) and MS was prepared to spend $40bn for Yahoo. Surely MS should be thinking of spending more on fixing their core business.
Hey Ballmer, if you want to survive then you need to be less competitor focused and more customer focused. Don't let you megalomania divert you from core business.
Times change, values change and so must legal and political systems. Being old and dead does not give you eternal wisdom. When the FoundingFathers postulated on freedom of speach, equality and guns they were not thinking of the inernet/TV, women and blacks, nor automatic weapons.
The patent system is run by the USPTO + lawyers primarily for their benefit. They control it and their "experts" will drive any future changes in patent processes. From their perspective it is generating great value and there is very little motivation for change.
USPTO generates a healthy profit for Uncle Sam too. USPTO makes the same on a low quality or a high quality patent. All that matters is volume. Therefore the system favors cranking out many low quality paptents.
Cranking out patents generates good income for lawyers too. But the real money comes in when a patent is contested. This happens mostly when the patents are low quaility. Therefore patent lawyers score more out of low quality patents than high quality patents.
Therefore the whole system is set up to provide better revenue by generating many crap patents. Don't expect the system to change any time soon!
Many people have used woks etc as Wifi dishes. Now turn the tables. Use the dish as a huge wok and go for the stir fry world record.
The original idea was to name FORTH "FOURTH" since the designers considered it a "fourth generation" language. However file name length limits reduced this to "FORTH".