I don't think we will see rollup laptops, but rather just rollup monitors and keyboards. By the time these come out, your computer will be in your pocket, you will just want a larger screen and keyboard to do your real work.
How will this work with credit agencies? If I go bankrupt, and then request that TransUnion remove its records about me (and my poor credit score), are they going to be required to do so? I think some lenders might have a problem with this.
I would imagine that Fujitsu will use the same methodology as Seagate and Hitachi have used in their encrypted drives. When you set the HDD password, you generate the keys. You can have a user password and a master password. Since pretty much all modern BIOS' will recognize and prompt for a HDD password at boot, this works fine to secure it. You can even pull it and put in a new machine as long as you know the pass. There are utilities to reset a lost password, but since the keys will then be gone, the data will be gone. Because the HDD password only works on boot recognized drives, you cannot pull this drive and put it in an external enclosure (say to bulk move a user to a new machine).
You are obviously not a system administrator. UPS' are not by any means the answer to all system failures. There are things you can't predict which cause systems to fail, mostly to do with various hardware failures (when computers get hot, bad things happen). While there's few things worse than your primary database server dying at 2AM because a $3 fan stopped spinning on the xeon furnace, it is simply adding insult to injury when you have to recreate a whole day's worth of business from transaction logs. I think most system admins will take data integrity over a small improvement in disk caching.
These hydrocarbons are most likely formed by high pressures in a strongly reducing environment. These are, in fact, the conditions that existed in our general vicinity 4 billion years ago. At that time, a runaway chemical reaction occurred, which eventually produced extremely long-chained organics, like DNA, cellulose, chlorophyll and bile. It is the decomposition products of these materials under high pressure and temperature that produce fossil fuels. These are larger organics (eg octane- with eight carbons) than you would expect to find in a place like Titan.
LED light bulbs are not even close to primetime yet. Those bulbs you reference are 60 lumen/ 2.5W bulbs. That's 60 lumens, not 60W. For comparison, the 23W CFL bulbs you can get at Walmart are 1600 lumens. If every US household replaced one bulb with a CC Vivid bulb, we would all be sitting in the dark. Once LEDs get near 1000 lumens for 10W, then we can start talking about switching. Come back in about 15 years....
Actually, what I've noticed is that the quality of analog cable is deteriorating. I often notice pixelation in my cable signal. Presumably this is due to them converting from their digital service and putting it onto the line. Eventually this will probably become so persistent and annoying that customers will either upgrade or just cancel their service.
I have one vehicle in my household. I have been known to take a road trip to a location that is more than 150 miles away from my home, where there is not a socket poking up out of the ground. What is the likelihood that I will buy a car with a 150 mile rope attached to the back of it?
The real problem with using electricity as a transportation fuel is in energy delivery. There is simply no way to provide the energy needed to move a vehicle hundreds of miles through a household plug. The energy density in hydrocarbon fuels is quite huge (nearly 50 MJ/kg in gasoline). While it is not a problem to deliver a few hundred million joules of energy in 5 minutes through a gas pump, this would be a dangerous proposition with an electrical outlet. A replacement for gasoline needs to meet all the requirements we have of our current fuel, without the nasty side effects.
On the contrary, this would likely be an extremely inefficient way to grow beef. Evolution has, over the course of several billion years, figured out extremely novel and efficient solutions to the problems of food collection, mass transport, waste removal and all the other various processes necessary to produce this stuff called meat. A human replacement for this system would likely replace the infrastructure of a cow (bones, teeth, four stomachs) with a whole lot of fossil fuel derived energy. This may reduce time to market, but would certainly not reduce the overall energy requirements of producing the meat. Cows are really pretty efficient mechanisms for collecting grass and turning it into meat and baby cows.
While this is clearly a joke post, the idea is pretty cool. A large scale RTS, where some players act as officers (giving directions), and others act as grunts (and get to plaster "real" people), would be pretty cool. I suppose once the THz processors come out, this will be a blast!
I think what Novell really wanted from Ximian was Red Carpet. RCE has already been rolled into a Novell branded product (Zenworks Linux Management). Mono is a nice gizmo that came with the deal, but really doesn't have a lot of profit potential. It's much better as a thorn in Microsoft's side. Ximian Desktop was not of much use to Novell, but since it is Nat's pet project, they let it linger for a while.
I would suspect that in 100 years, we will mostly be interested in writing programs the spit out particular strings of proteins. It is a fairly complex language that is based on 4 basic characters, bundled together into codons of three characters each. The best part is that this language has already been tested for about 4 billion years and has large libraries available from which to draw template code.
Negative changes in entropy are information, not necessarily intelligence. Intelligence has connotations that information does not. Therefore, while several tons of algae are able to produce more information (by converting CO2, H2O and energy into carbohydrates) than a similar mass of humans, I suspect that the humans possess more intelligence. I think in order to have an intelligent discussion on the subject, an effective definition of intelligence would be needed. Not being a cognitive psychologist, I'll leave that to the experts and go on growing tons of algae.
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Clean enough that you would want one exhausting into your backyard??
I don't think we will see rollup laptops, but rather just rollup monitors and keyboards. By the time these come out, your computer will be in your pocket, you will just want a larger screen and keyboard to do your real work.
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How will this work with credit agencies? If I go bankrupt, and then request that TransUnion remove its records about me (and my poor credit score), are they going to be required to do so? I think some lenders might have a problem with this.
I would imagine that Fujitsu will use the same methodology as Seagate and Hitachi have used in their encrypted drives. When you set the HDD password, you generate the keys. You can have a user password and a master password. Since pretty much all modern BIOS' will recognize and prompt for a HDD password at boot, this works fine to secure it. You can even pull it and put in a new machine as long as you know the pass. There are utilities to reset a lost password, but since the keys will then be gone, the data will be gone. Because the HDD password only works on boot recognized drives, you cannot pull this drive and put it in an external enclosure (say to bulk move a user to a new machine).
You are obviously not a system administrator. UPS' are not by any means the answer to all system failures. There are things you can't predict which cause systems to fail, mostly to do with various hardware failures (when computers get hot, bad things happen). While there's few things worse than your primary database server dying at 2AM because a $3 fan stopped spinning on the xeon furnace, it is simply adding insult to injury when you have to recreate a whole day's worth of business from transaction logs. I think most system admins will take data integrity over a small improvement in disk caching.
These hydrocarbons are most likely formed by high pressures in a strongly reducing environment. These are, in fact, the conditions that existed in our general vicinity 4 billion years ago. At that time, a runaway chemical reaction occurred, which eventually produced extremely long-chained organics, like DNA, cellulose, chlorophyll and bile. It is the decomposition products of these materials under high pressure and temperature that produce fossil fuels. These are larger organics (eg octane- with eight carbons) than you would expect to find in a place like Titan.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency_in_tr ansportation, the TGV is about as efficient of a fuel powered transport as you can find.
LED light bulbs are not even close to primetime yet. Those bulbs you reference are 60 lumen/ 2.5W bulbs. That's 60 lumens, not 60W. For comparison, the 23W CFL bulbs you can get at Walmart are 1600 lumens. If every US household replaced one bulb with a CC Vivid bulb, we would all be sitting in the dark. Once LEDs get near 1000 lumens for 10W, then we can start talking about switching. Come back in about 15 years....
Actually, what I've noticed is that the quality of analog cable is deteriorating. I often notice pixelation in my cable signal. Presumably this is due to them converting from their digital service and putting it onto the line. Eventually this will probably become so persistent and annoying that customers will either upgrade or just cancel their service.
I have one vehicle in my household. I have been known to take a road trip to a location that is more than 150 miles away from my home, where there is not a socket poking up out of the ground. What is the likelihood that I will buy a car with a 150 mile rope attached to the back of it?
The real problem with using electricity as a transportation fuel is in energy delivery. There is simply no way to provide the energy needed to move a vehicle hundreds of miles through a household plug. The energy density in hydrocarbon fuels is quite huge (nearly 50 MJ/kg in gasoline). While it is not a problem to deliver a few hundred million joules of energy in 5 minutes through a gas pump, this would be a dangerous proposition with an electrical outlet. A replacement for gasoline needs to meet all the requirements we have of our current fuel, without the nasty side effects.
On the contrary, this would likely be an extremely inefficient way to grow beef. Evolution has, over the course of several billion years, figured out extremely novel and efficient solutions to the problems of food collection, mass transport, waste removal and all the other various processes necessary to produce this stuff called meat. A human replacement for this system would likely replace the infrastructure of a cow (bones, teeth, four stomachs) with a whole lot of fossil fuel derived energy. This may reduce time to market, but would certainly not reduce the overall energy requirements of producing the meat. Cows are really pretty efficient mechanisms for collecting grass and turning it into meat and baby cows.
While this is clearly a joke post, the idea is pretty cool. A large scale RTS, where some players act as officers (giving directions), and others act as grunts (and get to plaster "real" people), would be pretty cool. I suppose once the THz processors come out, this will be a blast!
I think what Novell really wanted from Ximian was Red Carpet. RCE has already been rolled into a Novell branded product (Zenworks Linux Management). Mono is a nice gizmo that came with the deal, but really doesn't have a lot of profit potential. It's much better as a thorn in Microsoft's side. Ximian Desktop was not of much use to Novell, but since it is Nat's pet project, they let it linger for a while.
I would suspect that in 100 years, we will mostly be interested in writing programs the spit out particular strings of proteins. It is a fairly complex language that is based on 4 basic characters, bundled together into codons of three characters each. The best part is that this language has already been tested for about 4 billion years and has large libraries available from which to draw template code.
Negative changes in entropy are information, not necessarily intelligence. Intelligence has connotations that information does not. Therefore, while several tons of algae are able to produce more information (by converting CO2, H2O and energy into carbohydrates) than a similar mass of humans, I suspect that the humans possess more intelligence. I think in order to have an intelligent discussion on the subject, an effective definition of intelligence would be needed. Not being a cognitive psychologist, I'll leave that to the experts and go on growing tons of algae.