I think the key difference between Russian and American engineering is what they consider acceptable risk. Just like in investing, each one has a risk threshold that they are confortable with and design for. The greater your risk, the more you can accomplish with limited resources when things go well. When things don't go well, your loses are greater.
The logical next step for this technology is broadband over batteries. That way you can keep surfing away even after you unplug your laptop from the power line.
"The wholesalers won't foot the bill, it'll be passed down the food chain to the consumers."
No, nothing will be passed down the food chain. In the long run, there will be no cost associated with RFID tags in the distribution channel, only cost savings. And those savings will either be kept by Wal*mart or passed on to the cosumer as a means to drive more competitors out of business.
Because cards cost money and can be lost or stolen. It's much more difficult to have your hand separated from your body. 10 years ago, my University's gym used palm recognition device to control access into the gym. It was great because there were no pin numbers to remember and no cards to try to stash in my Speedos.
You joke, but they do have a full mock-up of the space station in a tub of water. It's called the EVA Pool and is used for training astronauts for space walks.
I had a similar problem in a hotel with High Speed Internet. I had left my machine downloading Red Hat ISO's and when I returned my connection no longer worked. Called tech support and was told that I had been disconnected due to violation of their AUP. It took a lot of pushing to find out that my violation was excessive bandwith usage. I this point a had them fax me their AUP and highlight the portion which I violated. The AUP I received had no mention of excessive bandwith usage. The highlighted section was something along the lines of "anything that results in decreased quality of service for other users".
Yep. Bought my first one in 1996. It was a Panasonic 1x SCSI that cost around $500. Blank CD-R's were as expensive as music CD's ~$15. It only did disk-at-once recording. Had about 50% coaster ratio due to buffer underuns which doubled the effective cost of media. Had to buy a 1gig SCSI drive to record from just to avoid the underuns. So in the end it cost me over $1K, but I sure did impress my friends with my CD copies of Grateful Dead bootleg shows.
This is really old news. The current version which I saw recently on TV can be controlled by the doctor and provide real-time video. That way if it goes by something that the doctor would like to take a closer look at, he can back it up. It does this with two small electrodes, one on the front and one on the back. When it wants to move backwards, it produces a small eletrical current on the front electrode causing the muscles in that are to contract and thus pushing the pill backwards! Wonder what that feels like:)
I'm glad to see this here. Since installing bayesian filtering, I see almost no SPAM and I haven't seen one of these Negerian Money scams in while. Good thing old/. is letting me know they are still around.
I can only image the comments had/. been around when the Swiss Army Knife was intruduced.
So it's got a sucky knife, sucky scissors, sucky saw, sucky file, sucky toothpick. Am I the only one who would rather carry a real knife, real scissors, etc...
Reality check! This device is not intended to replace a photographer's 5MP camera or the audiophile's iPod. It's like the Swiss Army Knife of electronics. When you are in the situation where that priceless picture presents itself and you don't have your 5MP camera in your pocket, you can whip out the phone and get a quick snapshot. When you are waiting at the doctor's office longer then expected and forgot to bring your iPod, you can listen to a few tunes off your phone. The reason the phone has been the host device for these functions is that it has become the ubiquotous (sp?) device that just about everyone carries.
Add an XBOX to the mix and you can just play the downloaded file directly from your PC using XBOX Media Player. No need to waste time converting to VCD and burning it.
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I think the key difference between Russian and American engineering is what they consider acceptable risk. Just like in investing, each one has a risk threshold that they are confortable with and design for. The greater your risk, the more you can accomplish with limited resources when things go well. When things don't go well, your loses are greater.
The logical next step for this technology is broadband over batteries. That way you can keep surfing away even after you unplug your laptop from the power line.
Am I the only one who was expecting a flying-through-the-landscape type video rather then just a little wobble?
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Cities and food production don't have to be mutually exclusive. We can live or work and grow food in the same place with RoofTop Gardens.
I think a good example of this would have been Mike Rowe calling his domain name a parody of the Redmond company.
"The wholesalers won't foot the bill, it'll be passed down the food chain to the consumers." No, nothing will be passed down the food chain. In the long run, there will be no cost associated with RFID tags in the distribution channel, only cost savings. And those savings will either be kept by Wal*mart or passed on to the cosumer as a means to drive more competitors out of business.
Because cards cost money and can be lost or stolen. It's much more difficult to have your hand separated from your body. 10 years ago, my University's gym used palm recognition device to control access into the gym. It was great because there were no pin numbers to remember and no cards to try to stash in my Speedos.
You joke, but they do have a full mock-up of the space station in a tub of water. It's called the EVA Pool and is used for training astronauts for space walks.
I had a similar problem in a hotel with High Speed Internet. I had left my machine downloading Red Hat ISO's and when I returned my connection no longer worked. Called tech support and was told that I had been disconnected due to violation of their AUP. It took a lot of pushing to find out that my violation was excessive bandwith usage. I this point a had them fax me their AUP and highlight the portion which I violated. The AUP I received had no mention of excessive bandwith usage. The highlighted section was something along the lines of "anything that results in decreased quality of service for other users".
Yep. Bought my first one in 1996. It was a Panasonic 1x SCSI that cost around $500. Blank CD-R's were as expensive as music CD's ~$15. It only did disk-at-once recording. Had about 50% coaster ratio due to buffer underuns which doubled the effective cost of media. Had to buy a 1gig SCSI drive to record from just to avoid the underuns. So in the end it cost me over $1K, but I sure did impress my friends with my CD copies of Grateful Dead bootleg shows.
This is really old news. The current version which I saw recently on TV can be controlled by the doctor and provide real-time video. That way if it goes by something that the doctor would like to take a closer look at, he can back it up. It does this with two small electrodes, one on the front and one on the back. When it wants to move backwards, it produces a small eletrical current on the front electrode causing the muscles in that are to contract and thus pushing the pill backwards! Wonder what that feels like :)
I'm glad to see this here. Since installing bayesian filtering, I see almost no SPAM and I haven't seen one of these Negerian Money scams in while. Good thing old /. is letting me know they are still around.
I can only image the comments had /. been around when the Swiss Army Knife was intruduced.
So it's got a sucky knife, sucky scissors, sucky saw, sucky file, sucky toothpick. Am I the only one who would rather carry a real knife, real scissors, etc...
Reality check! This device is not intended to replace a photographer's 5MP camera or the audiophile's iPod. It's like the Swiss Army Knife of electronics. When you are in the situation where that priceless picture presents itself and you don't have your 5MP camera in your pocket, you can whip out the phone and get a quick snapshot. When you are waiting at the doctor's office longer then expected and forgot to bring your iPod, you can listen to a few tunes off your phone. The reason the phone has been the host device for these functions is that it has become the ubiquotous (sp?) device that just about everyone carries.
Add an XBOX to the mix and you can just play the downloaded file directly from your PC using XBOX Media Player. No need to waste time converting to VCD and burning it.