I'm not an EE. But back during the dotboom I thought it would make sense to have a big ups in the data center that output voltages that mother boards expected as input. I almost thought of rigging my own experiment using laptops as servers and feeding them all 12vdc directly from the UPS battery pack.
Ok rip it apart guys, why is wrong with that plan?
Obviously a long way from use in humans. But I am impressed with the out of the box thinking in this approach. It seems dramatic changes in health care are coming in then next decade.
Between Credit Card records and Google, you have no secrets. Credit card records are how companies are getting around HIPAA regulations. They look up what drugs you bought via credit cards.
I am seriously starting to think like my father, who has hated using credit cards since they were invited. And he worked in the banking industry most of his adult life.
I avoid e-bills as much as possible. Companies are stupid, decision makers in big companies are stupid. These systems aren't thought out. E-bills need to be there for 7+ years regardless of my status of a customer or there status as a going business.
To me the real solution is that e-bills should really mean a PDF of what would be snail mailed is actually e-mail to you every month. That way I can drop the attachment into a folder and I have it even if provider X goes out of business.
I'm thinking more like an AppleTV with DVR capabilities, instead of being tied to the iTunes store. I could give more examples. And might do a blog post when I have more time. Apple has some brilliance products, but some are close/locked down too much to have appeal to the masses.
While stock owners of companies like Apple or Berkshire Hathaway may wish their CEO's could like forever. Jobs while "great" is still a double edged sword for Apple. Granted one side is sharper than the other at the moment.
But a less charismatic person could make different decisions that get Apple way more into the main stream. I could go on, but work is busy today....:-(
I expected at least a press release about a new mini. I wonder if they are just trying to push people towards Laptops? The desk top options don't appeal to me. You get A, B, or C, where
A - is an underpowered micro machine that is nice and quiet.
B - is a nicely powered desk top with a built in monitor that I can't hook my company Windoze PC into when working from home (is also smaller than my current monitor)
C - is a $2000 to $3000 monster aimed at Video editors, and wild, obsessed Mac WoW gamers.
"Word of mouth" spreads faster on line and so something popular can snowball bigger faster and faster in the internet age. The fat part of the tail.
But the net also allows people with unique tastes to find unique objects to satisfy them. That is the long thin tail.
I personally hate shopping at the modern American mall where I get to pick which of 6 different retailers I buy the same product from. Who thinks that is about choice?
I never meant to imply that we were about to run out of things to invent. I just have found that in almost Sci-Fi story I have read recently that there is a part of it that has or is very near coming true.
I think we are nearing some sort of "singularity" as the number of stories about real science invading what was until recently only Science fiction becomes common place. (http://inttech.blogspot.com/2008/11/sci-fi-and-real-science-collide.html)
Read this article, listen to the Futures in Biotech (http://twit.tv/FIB) podcast, we are progressing technology at a fantastic rate. It feels me with equal parts hope and dread.
This game rocks on the Wii. Much like many other games once you play with the Wii remote, you wonder why its even released on other consoles. (Golf games are great for that.)
Patrick
Are their any official virtual conferences where every one uses collaborative technologies to hold a conference with out flying all over the world? It might cut down on "hallway chatter" but social services like Twitter might make up for that.
"So far in my short lifespan, I have heard several cases involving harassment which were attempts by the harasser to cover up what they were doing by claiming the victim was the harasser."
Agreed in triplicate. I see this at the office, and in my personal life on an all to regular basis.
Which is probably as good as saying Realtek has no such agreement with Apple.
I don't think Apple will produce a traditional net book. Look for something like a larger iPhone/Ipod Touch or a 12" Mac Book Air (that is so light weight you can tie a string to it and use it for a kite).
Fortune 500 (and smaller) companies are going to want support. Support is a stream of revenue, paid every year. For traditional software supports is normally 25% of sales cost per year. For Free software it appears to be 20% of the cost of comparable commercial product per year.
Also big companies don't want bleeding edge software, so the latest that the community has put out is not as interesting to them. The problem is that Sun paid a lot for MySQL. Of course I think they did that for defense against Oracle.
Oracle is pushing people to Linux, they want all of the revenue slow for the database servers, so if they can cut Sun out on the OS, then Oracle can support both the Linux OS and the Oracle DB.
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Seeing movies produced by following the "formula", do you want automated games? Do you even want a "formula" for "fun" game design?
Maybe its possible, but this starts to sound like automated art.
I'm not an EE. But back during the dotboom I thought it would make sense to have a big ups in the data center that output voltages that mother boards expected as input. I almost thought of rigging my own experiment using laptops as servers and feeding them all 12vdc directly from the UPS battery pack.
Ok rip it apart guys, why is wrong with that plan?
In the 90's a friend told me Linux would NEVER be used for embedded devices. Its fun to send him links like this. Fun in a very mischievous way.
Slide decks should not go on the web. That is just sick and way too time consuming.
NetApp going down, would surprise me.
Obviously a long way from use in humans. But I am impressed with the out of the box thinking in this approach. It seems dramatic changes in health care are coming in then next decade.
http://pbrewer.blogspot.com/2008/12/dec-18th-lunch.html
I always thought my engineering school only allowed in students with no visible social skills. That seemed to describe 80% of the student body.
Did the author read Google's on pages on energy usage?
http://www.google.com/corporate/green/energy/reducing.html
http://www.google.com/corporate/datacenters/index.html
Between Credit Card records and Google, you have no secrets.
Credit card records are how companies are getting around HIPAA regulations. They look up what drugs you bought via credit cards.
I am seriously starting to think like my father, who has hated using credit cards since they were invited. And he worked in the banking industry most of his adult life.
Be paranoid, be very paranoid.
I avoid e-bills as much as possible. Companies are stupid, decision makers in big companies are stupid. These systems aren't thought out.
E-bills need to be there for 7+ years regardless of my status of a customer or there status as a going business.
To me the real solution is that e-bills should really mean a PDF of what would be snail mailed is actually e-mail to you every month. That way I can drop the attachment into a folder and I have it even if provider X goes out of business.
I'm thinking more like an AppleTV with DVR capabilities, instead of being tied to the iTunes store.
I could give more examples. And might do a blog post when I have more time. Apple has some brilliance products, but some are close/locked down too much to have appeal to the masses.
While stock owners of companies like Apple or Berkshire Hathaway may wish their CEO's could like forever. Jobs while "great" is still a double edged sword for Apple. Granted one side is sharper than the other at the moment.
But a less charismatic person could make different decisions that get Apple way more into the main stream. I could go on, but work is busy today.... :-(
But get a warrant. I'm not against wire taps. But the US is not supposed to be a police state.
Its good to see checks and balances, checking and balancing.
Just the fact that things are being reviewed does the constitution good.
I expected at least a press release about a new mini. I wonder if they are just trying to push people towards Laptops? The desk top options don't appeal to me. You get A, B, or C, where A - is an underpowered micro machine that is nice and quiet. B - is a nicely powered desk top with a built in monitor that I can't hook my company Windoze PC into when working from home (is also smaller than my current monitor) C - is a $2000 to $3000 monster aimed at Video editors, and wild, obsessed Mac WoW gamers.
"Word of mouth" spreads faster on line and so something popular can snowball bigger faster and faster in the internet age. The fat part of the tail.
But the net also allows people with unique tastes to find unique objects to satisfy them. That is the long thin tail.
I personally hate shopping at the modern American mall where I get to pick which of 6 different retailers I buy the same product from. Who thinks that is about choice?
I never meant to imply that we were about to run out of things to invent. I just have found that in almost Sci-Fi story I have read recently that there is a part of it that has or is very near coming true.
Some like Vernor Vinge's Localiers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localizer_(fictional_device)) which are slightly advanced RFID devices.
I think we are nearing some sort of "singularity" as the number of stories about real science invading what was until recently only Science fiction becomes common place. (http://inttech.blogspot.com/2008/11/sci-fi-and-real-science-collide.html)
Read this article, listen to the Futures in Biotech (http://twit.tv/FIB) podcast, we are progressing technology at a fantastic rate. It feels me with equal parts hope and dread.
Have computers or JIT compilers gotten fast enough that people actually do ray tracing in Java?
This game rocks on the Wii. Much like many other games once you play with the Wii remote, you wonder why its even released on other consoles. (Golf games are great for that.) Patrick
I installed it and I'm keeping it. It reminds me of Erector sets, and that is good enough reason to hold onto 250k of data.
Are their any official virtual conferences where every one uses collaborative technologies to hold a conference with out flying all over the world? It might cut down on "hallway chatter" but social services like Twitter might make up for that.
"So far in my short lifespan, I have heard several cases involving harassment which were attempts by the harasser to cover up what they were doing by claiming the victim was the harasser."
Agreed in triplicate. I see this at the office, and in my personal life on an all to regular basis.
Which is probably as good as saying Realtek has no such agreement with Apple.
I don't think Apple will produce a traditional net book. Look for something like a larger iPhone/Ipod Touch or a 12" Mac Book Air (that is so light weight you can tie a string to it and use it for a kite).
Since OS X is based on Darwin, and Darwin is open source. What is the legal problem with making low level drivers available for Darwin?
Fortune 500 (and smaller) companies are going to want support. Support is a stream of revenue, paid every year. For traditional software supports is normally 25% of sales cost per year. For Free software it appears to be 20% of the cost of comparable commercial product per year.
Also big companies don't want bleeding edge software, so the latest that the community has put out is not as interesting to them. The problem is that Sun paid a lot for MySQL. Of course I think they did that for defense against Oracle.
Oracle is pushing people to Linux, they want all of the revenue slow for the database servers, so if they can cut Sun out on the OS, then Oracle can support both the Linux OS and the Oracle DB.