if you would have read the article the RFID transmitters would be in signs or markers along the roadway and your car would have the reciever.
in fact most of what they want has nothing to do with rfid at all...
The Article Said:
Historically, the terms RFID and DSRC have been used synonymously to describe a technology based on tags and readers. But with the advent of the 5.9 GHz band, more attention is being given to differentiating these terms. Although the 5.9 GHz DSRC system will essentially consist of tags and readers, it will be different from traditional RFID in many ways. The DSRC system will be more like a peer-to-peer system in which either end of a link can initiate a transaction; traditional RFID systems operate in a master-slave arrangement.
Schnacke Said:
"Compared with existing RFID toll applications, DRSC will deliver data rates of 25 Megabits per second, instead of 250 kilobits, and a range of up to 1 km, instead of 10 meters," says Schnacke.
So, in summary. You are partially correct. It will not have much to do with current RFID technology in which a master device reads a slave device over a short distance at a slow data rate. It will infact be a system in which every device can speak to every other device and a whopping 25 megabits/second.
So a roadsign tells me to slow down because I am approaching a dangerous area. Car tells roadsign whether I did or not. State legislature needs to pay for expensive two way communicating saftey system. Mandates State Police Dept. mail a speeding ticket if I diddn't slow down, only to recoup safety investment, of course. It will be justifiable because it will only be tracking "criminals".
Not only are mechanical and electronic cruise controls excellent and maintaining an exact throttle, but electronic cruise controls can go well beyond that. My 2002 Dodge Ram 1500 will gear down on a slope to prevent going to fast. My Mom's Mercedes will even slow down if the speed she set is faster than the car in front of her.
Both vehicles have antilock brakes and hers has traction control. Both vehicles have GPS navigation and 'know' pretty well were they are.
Whether or not you believe vehicles are capable of driving themselves is not the point of the article. The article is making the argument that cars will be able to drive themselves due to function creep. You keep adding more and more automatic driving features and eventually you have a car that capable drive itself, no matter if it actually does or not.
If there was a project that I could devote my CPU cycles that could reduce the possibility of me getting into a car accident, then I would drop folding@home for dontgethitbyacar@home. What's backassward about risk assesment?
If you need a computer to figure out how to not get hit by a car while @ home, you need to fire your real estate agent.
It is easy for people to pick on various classes of car, truck, or SUV. The truth is that all passenger vehicles are leaps and bounds more efficient than they were 10, 15, or 20 years ago. Not only are they more fuel efficient, but modern emissions systems are very good at reducing the airborne pollution caused by those vehicles.
The problem are large, loosely regulated, air pollution producing vehicles. From ABC News:
"You have 16 ships that come into the harbor, they're going to pollute as much as a million cars on the road, and they're not being regulated," said Todd Campbell, policy director of the Coalition for Clean Air. Campbell spoke standing in front of Burbank City Hall, where smog obscured the view of mountains behind him. "I think we're definitely heading into a crisis."
Diesel fuel isn't as clean or as closely regulated as gasoline. There are various initiatives, such as the one by the EPA, to require sulfur to be removed during refining. There are also government agencies looking to require 18-Wheelers (large producers of airborne particulates) to use more advanced emissions technology.
The important thing to remember, however, is that the lion's share of all toxic gasses and airborne particulates are produced by power plants.
I am in no way defending gasoline powered automobiles, we should be looking for alternative fuels there, but we have much lower apples on the tree to reach for. The only problem is that most of these apples have powerful lobbies and as yet have not produced in the arm chair environmentalist the negative stigma of the gasoline automobile.
Liquor before beer, never fear, beer before liquor never been sicker.
Actually I puked at more than one college party because I couldn't remember the order of that rhyme. Nor could I remember the order of the rhyme about beer and the college student's favorite herbal remedy. Likewise, is it "Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky at morning, sailor take warning?" Never can keep that one straight either.
My point is, pneumonic devices (and yet I can remember what they are called) are just absolutly useless to some people.
I would like to point out that anyone who grew up in North America (not going to represent all cultures here) in a European decended westernized social group is a complete fucking moron if they can't figure out red is warmer and blue is colder. I do believe that many faucets use these colors.
I do of course make exceptions for the color blind. I have a buddy noone will ride with because some of the stop lights in our town are mounted horizontally with no particular pattern as to whether red will be on the left or right (and vice versa for green). He follows what the other cars are doing, unless there are none, in which case he guesses.
Wow. Your must have one of those fancy new ones. 5 din AT connector on mine, plus ps/2 adaptor, and 6" extension to connect it to the KVM. $20 at Radio Shack to connect my beloved $5 keyboard.
These really aren't so new. I had been hearing about these since I was a kid, but the first ones I have seen were in the house my mom got this past December. The windows have wood slat blinds, the patio doors have thin aluminum blinds between two plates of glass. And the arch windows over all the large windows have a light switch that turns them a dull milky white color.
The display technology is very cool but probably has some issues with backlighting to work out, YMMV.
I guess I am most suprised that this sort of thing hasn't taken off. However, at the same time I wrote that I was thinking of the half a dozen light switches in every room of my mom's new house, and explaing to her what each did (and suggesting she invest in a lable maker). Followed by explinations of what the ethernet jacks were for, and how to use her convection+induction microwave to heat a cup of coffee. My personal favorite is her remote control fireplace. The power went out a day after she moved in, and she called to tell me that she had no heat and couldn't turn on the fireplace.
Hmm, maybe the average homeowner doesnt need space age windows.
The have a corner office on the building across the street. As a sort of free advertising they sometimes open thier windows, hang out a banner, and crank up the volume (that's actually how I discovered them).
I just noticed, they have moved the live DJ video feed from thewomb to wombmusic. Its listed under video and they now apparently have streaming music videos.
'We are at present the only store to offer very high quality MP3 files,'
I subscribe to eMusic.com which has independent artists. The use the subscription method, but you get MP3s and most are high bit rate. I also buy electronica music at WombMusic.com, they have up and coming DJs and artists and sell MP3s by the song. The bitrates range from 192 to 320 (plenty for my ears). If you want to know if you like a DJ you can listen to the song or watch them spin live at TheWomb.com. (Or I just open my office window and listen to them from accross the street.);)
One thing that you diddnt cover is the car/driving. Assuming I want to go to say CostCo, for example. I must call the front desk of my building and tell them I am going to need my car. Usually they have located and delivered it within 20 minutes. Add to that the 45 to 60 minutes to make it to the nearest group of big boxes (CostCo, Winn-Dixie, Publix, Target, etc) add to that an average of 90 to 120 minutes to shop and then (the longest part) wait in line to check out. Another 45 to 60 minutes to get back to South Beach and another 20 minutes waiting for a valet, unloading the car, waiting for one of the valets to bring my groceries up. Your talking about 3.5 to 4.5 hours. Due to the length of the trip I typically devote an entire weekday to one of these and throw in clothes and sundries shopping as well.
When I'm just hungry I can walk a block and a half to my favorite nieghborhood resturant and have a quick meal in about 30 minutes. I know the chef who is cooking my food, I know the
maitre d' well enough she invites me to her christmas party. Like any other resturant in my nieghborhood, it is good food, they will prepare it to meet any dietary needs I have, and I trust the people cooking it. Given that the valet charges $15 every time I pick up my car, plus the $2 tip, plus the cost of gas. The $20 - $30 for a good meal is competitive to driving to a grocery store.
Most importantly if I were to cook at home that would require going to a local grocery store. There is only one company on the island I live on that sells discount grocieries. (The rest are either organic grocers for the granola bunch or epicureans for the people several tax brackets above mine.) They have three stores, and their food is much more expensive than eating out. Add to that the hassle of the place. . . I personally don't like the stupid Jetson's style people mover that gets you and your cart from floor to floor.
To top it all off when you figure up my other living expenses like rent, parking, utilities, and such, the $20-$30 a meal dissapears between the cracks, its inconsequential. However! An LCD on the splashboard serves a profound purpose. When you have a cocktail party you can put something like Emeril LIVE on and people that are congregating in that room have and easy subject, whether it be his food, the rumor he's putting a resturant in at 15th and Collins, or those obnoxious toothpaste commercials, it keeps the conversation flowing. And quite frankly I think that looks much better than the iCEBOX that I currently have fulfilling that role.
The kitchen of the apartment, while original with its lighting, is just not practical. Not only for people who use their kitchen. If the demo apartment were targeted at people who always eat out, then, especially given its size, why does it have a kitchen at all? In any way, if there is a kitchen that is never used, then why put an LCD monitor in it? If you don't use your kitchen, then why waste money on it? It just doesn't make sense. Got money to burn on it anyway? Then why not convert it into something you will use, such as a bar, or put a supersize hot tub in its place (or both), or something, but don't just let it look cute using up valuable space if you're living small.
When I lived small and ate out all the time, the 'kitchen' area was smaller than a walk-in closet, just big enough to hold the fridge and sink. Why? Because why waste space with it if you never go there.
I haven't seen a condo or apartment yet that did not come with a kitchen.
When calculating the expense of eating out it is important to figure in the when spending an hour or more in the kitchen cooking, you are not making money. Not to mention I'm certain that shushi, food in the raw, low carb, or whatever resturant I'm in the mood for today will do a much better job of creating a well balanced, healthy, and well presented meal than I can.
"In short this demo apt is not for engineering types like most slashdotters, its for your arch nemesis, the marketing guy."
Having met quite a lot of employed marketing people, none of them have the lifestyle you talk about. Actually, most of them have kids and live in a suburb. More so, the group of people that don't use their kitchen mostly consists of students/recent-grads/early20-ers, artists, and the unemployed rich partiers, or wannabies of any of those groups...
You've got me there, I have no friends or even aquantances with kids. Scratch that, I know one couple with a little boy, but noone invites them anymore because the brat is always tearing something up.
Actually not only is the LCD placement not a problem but this apartment looks like many here in South Beach. I don't think they are targeting this design at suburban home owners, as much as trendy urbanites. Out of all my friends here and in New York, no one I know uses thier stove. Its cheaper and easier to eat out, plus its great for social networking. If you notice, this apartment is small enough that every room can be seen from any other room. I would guess the occupant of this apt would spend thier days working, their evenings socializing with other young trendy urbanites under 40 and occasionally have a cocktail party in which the minimal furniture, clean lines, and mood lighting would be perfect.
In short this demo apt is not for engineering types like most slashdotters, its for your arch nemesis, the marketing guy.
Every thought about what kinds of boring everyday social ramifications come from this sort of thing? Like every girl with be shaved a la Shenade O'Connor in fifty years because hair is so unsexy due to all the wealthy trendsetters having shaved their heads because hair gets in the way of the brainwave-monitoring-wraparound-headset-windows-20 48 must have Rodeo Dr. gadget of the future?
And of course French women will still have hairy pits.
Yeah, David Cross made mention of that on his stand-up album "Stop Crying You Fucking Baby." The first floor is all sorts of gizmos and shit, the second... all porn. First floor: empty. Second floor: PACKED!
Yes, but I think what everyone here is looking for is the product that bridges the gap. Whatever happened to virtual reality sex anyway?
Deja Vu man. This will be like when I called the hints line at Virgin Interactive. Took forever to explain to my parents that $3.99 to a 900 line called Virgin Entertainment was not a phone sex line.
Honestly though, I wonder if anyone has though about what a tough sell this will be, not to the target demographic, teenagers (they'll love it), but the source of their disposable income, their very uncool parents.
I live in a city of 5 million and pay $60 a month for a cable modem. My mom lives in a upper class bedroom community of 15,000 and pays $45 a month for a cable modem. My dad lives in a small town of 2,000 and pays $28 a month for a cable modem.
Its all about what the market will bear. My cable modem cost %0.0167 what my rent does. My dad's is %0.0934 of his mortgage. He pays less than 1/2 what I pay because he lives in a small community that as a whole could not support a service that cost as much per month as a weeks groceries. I can swallow $60 a month becuase that's less that dinner for two at a local resturant.
Go read Wealth of Nations and come back tommorrow. As for you socialists out there, sorry about the taxes.
My 1968 Camaro SS 396 Big Block violates no ones privacy and gets me dates. For the required tech appeal I have an empeg in dash MP3 player and a well hidden bluetooth handsfree. If I have a horrible wreck and need emergency assistance some soccer mom driving by in her Onstar equipped SUV will probably report it.
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I bow before the you O Wise One. (and I just ordered my titanium spork)
I am now, and forever, scared by a mental image of Bill Gates in a giant red boufont wig and spandex pants.
So a roadsign tells me to slow down because I am approaching a dangerous area. Car tells roadsign whether I did or not. State legislature needs to pay for expensive two way communicating saftey system. Mandates State Police Dept. mail a speeding ticket if I diddn't slow down, only to recoup safety investment, of course. It will be justifiable because it will only be tracking "criminals".
Not only are mechanical and electronic cruise controls excellent and maintaining an exact throttle, but electronic cruise controls can go well beyond that. My 2002 Dodge Ram 1500 will gear down on a slope to prevent going to fast. My Mom's Mercedes will even slow down if the speed she set is faster than the car in front of her. Both vehicles have antilock brakes and hers has traction control. Both vehicles have GPS navigation and 'know' pretty well were they are. Whether or not you believe vehicles are capable of driving themselves is not the point of the article. The article is making the argument that cars will be able to drive themselves due to function creep. You keep adding more and more automatic driving features and eventually you have a car that capable drive itself, no matter if it actually does or not.
If you need a computer to figure out how to not get hit by a car while @ home, you need to fire your real estate agent.
Check out expansys.us in No. Am. or expansys.com in Eur. Incredible selection of phones, its where I got my SE Z600.
The problem are large, loosely regulated, air pollution producing vehicles. From ABC News:
Diesel fuel isn't as clean or as closely regulated as gasoline. There are various initiatives, such as the one by the EPA, to require sulfur to be removed during refining. There are also government agencies looking to require 18-Wheelers (large producers of airborne particulates) to use more advanced emissions technology.
The important thing to remember, however, is that the lion's share of all toxic gasses and airborne particulates are produced by power plants.
I am in no way defending gasoline powered automobiles, we should be looking for alternative fuels there, but we have much lower apples on the tree to reach for. The only problem is that most of these apples have powerful lobbies and as yet have not produced in the arm chair environmentalist the negative stigma of the gasoline automobile.
My point is, pneumonic devices (and yet I can remember what they are called) are just absolutly useless to some people.
I would like to point out that anyone who grew up in North America (not going to represent all cultures here) in a European decended westernized social group is a complete fucking moron if they can't figure out red is warmer and blue is colder. I do believe that many faucets use these colors.
I do of course make exceptions for the color blind. I have a buddy noone will ride with because some of the stop lights in our town are mounted horizontally with no particular pattern as to whether red will be on the left or right (and vice versa for green). He follows what the other cars are doing, unless there are none, in which case he guesses.
Wow. Your must have one of those fancy new ones. 5 din AT connector on mine, plus ps/2 adaptor, and 6" extension to connect it to the KVM. $20 at Radio Shack to connect my beloved $5 keyboard.
It just needs to hire a lawyer and incorporate. The shares can be held by a trust foundation, with the articles of incorporation naming it president.
There are plenty of companies out there run by mindless machines.
The display technology is very cool but probably has some issues with backlighting to work out, YMMV.
I guess I am most suprised that this sort of thing hasn't taken off. However, at the same time I wrote that I was thinking of the half a dozen light switches in every room of my mom's new house, and explaing to her what each did (and suggesting she invest in a lable maker). Followed by explinations of what the ethernet jacks were for, and how to use her convection+induction microwave to heat a cup of coffee. My personal favorite is her remote control fireplace. The power went out a day after she moved in, and she called to tell me that she had no heat and couldn't turn on the fireplace.
Hmm, maybe the average homeowner doesnt need space age windows.
The have a corner office on the building across the street. As a sort of free advertising they sometimes open thier windows, hang out a banner, and crank up the volume (that's actually how I discovered them).
I just noticed, they have moved the live DJ video feed from thewomb to wombmusic. Its listed under video and they now apparently have streaming music videos.
I subscribe to eMusic.com which has independent artists. The use the subscription method, but you get MP3s and most are high bit rate. I also buy electronica music at WombMusic.com, they have up and coming DJs and artists and sell MP3s by the song. The bitrates range from 192 to 320 (plenty for my ears). If you want to know if you like a DJ you can listen to the song or watch them spin live at TheWomb.com. (Or I just open my office window and listen to them from accross the street.) ;)
When I'm just hungry I can walk a block and a half to my favorite nieghborhood resturant and have a quick meal in about 30 minutes. I know the chef who is cooking my food, I know the maitre d' well enough she invites me to her christmas party. Like any other resturant in my nieghborhood, it is good food, they will prepare it to meet any dietary needs I have, and I trust the people cooking it. Given that the valet charges $15 every time I pick up my car, plus the $2 tip, plus the cost of gas. The $20 - $30 for a good meal is competitive to driving to a grocery store.
Most importantly if I were to cook at home that would require going to a local grocery store. There is only one company on the island I live on that sells discount grocieries. (The rest are either organic grocers for the granola bunch or epicureans for the people several tax brackets above mine.) They have three stores, and their food is much more expensive than eating out. Add to that the hassle of the place. . . I personally don't like the stupid Jetson's style people mover that gets you and your cart from floor to floor.
To top it all off when you figure up my other living expenses like rent, parking, utilities, and such, the $20-$30 a meal dissapears between the cracks, its inconsequential. However! An LCD on the splashboard serves a profound purpose. When you have a cocktail party you can put something like Emeril LIVE on and people that are congregating in that room have and easy subject, whether it be his food, the rumor he's putting a resturant in at 15th and Collins, or those obnoxious toothpaste commercials, it keeps the conversation flowing. And quite frankly I think that looks much better than the iCEBOX that I currently have fulfilling that role.
I haven't seen a condo or apartment yet that did not come with a kitchen.
When calculating the expense of eating out it is important to figure in the when spending an hour or more in the kitchen cooking, you are not making money. Not to mention I'm certain that shushi, food in the raw, low carb, or whatever resturant I'm in the mood for today will do a much better job of creating a well balanced, healthy, and well presented meal than I can.
"In short this demo apt is not for engineering types like most slashdotters, its for your arch nemesis, the marketing guy." Having met quite a lot of employed marketing people, none of them have the lifestyle you talk about. Actually, most of them have kids and live in a suburb. More so, the group of people that don't use their kitchen mostly consists of students/recent-grads/early20-ers, artists, and the unemployed rich partiers, or wannabies of any of those groups...
You've got me there, I have no friends or even aquantances with kids. Scratch that, I know one couple with a little boy, but noone invites them anymore because the brat is always tearing something up.
In short this demo apt is not for engineering types like most slashdotters, its for your arch nemesis, the marketing guy.
And of course French women will still have hairy pits.
Yes, but I think what everyone here is looking for is the product that bridges the gap. Whatever happened to virtual reality sex anyway?
$4.99..................Weed
Deja Vu man. This will be like when I called the hints line at Virgin Interactive. Took forever to explain to my parents that $3.99 to a 900 line called Virgin Entertainment was not a phone sex line.
Honestly though, I wonder if anyone has though about what a tough sell this will be, not to the target demographic, teenagers (they'll love it), but the source of their disposable income, their very uncool parents.
My crystal ball keeps showing me a Chevy Nova.
Damn. Adam Smith, my bad.
Its all about what the market will bear. My cable modem cost %0.0167 what my rent does. My dad's is %0.0934 of his mortgage. He pays less than 1/2 what I pay because he lives in a small community that as a whole could not support a service that cost as much per month as a weeks groceries. I can swallow $60 a month becuase that's less that dinner for two at a local resturant.
Go read Wealth of Nations and come back tommorrow. As for you socialists out there, sorry about the taxes.
Its not like we're married. Don't you like to drive fast and have sex in your back seat?
My 1968 Camaro SS 396 Big Block violates no ones privacy and gets me dates. For the required tech appeal I have an empeg in dash MP3 player and a well hidden bluetooth handsfree. If I have a horrible wreck and need emergency assistance some soccer mom driving by in her Onstar equipped SUV will probably report it.