This is going to be geared towards small communities with maybe 5 simultaneous conversations. I don't think they'll be using this in the arrival hall at JFK. And the big boys nowadays have to get their revenue from 3G toys anyway...
Chemical companies are very slowly starting to look at this. It is called MSPC, multivariate statistical process control. Combine all thermometer readings, pumps, heaters, chemical and physico-chemical analyses in one big "understanding" of your process. These models are hower f*cking difficult to validate, and are often sensitive to the error on one sensor. So how are these dudes going to check the accuracy of all their sensors? It will be difficult to spot the butterfly causing the hurricanes if the local sensor is 5 % off due to corrosion.
I find it amazing how old technology is in this field. Here in denmark, infrastructure is still resonably well maintained. We deliver power to Sweden and when the swedes kicked the bucket, the line to Sweden was broken and we found ourselves producing TOO MUCH electricity. That was enough to blackout Copenhagen. I also noticed all the windmills here stopped, even though wind was strong enough. The only reason mainland Denmark was spared, is because there is no connection with it! (They are hooked up to Germany.) Regulating the flow of power still has a loooong way to go.
I found out who represented my poltical party in the EU. Went back to the national website and tracked down his home adress. Read his website and found out he is mostly interested in third world politics. Wrote him a nice LETTER explaining patents hit OS and OS is important for emerging economies to reduce cost, employ local talent,....
Posted the letter so he can read it during the weekend when he comes home from Brussels.
GPS is not only an American system, it is a MILITARY system. Unless the boys who own it decide to join the great brotherhood of men, and yield control to some international board of directors, it can not be trusted for civilian applications.
Seriously, heatsinks (and blinkenlights) seem to crawl up everywhere. First it was the CPU, then GPU, now chipset, GB ethernet and memory. What is this going to do to PC prices? Do we need a new motherboard factor completely designed around "the mother of all heatsinks"? How long before heat-transfer costs more than the actual components?
the "few modifications" are engine chip mods that give you more power but are illegal in Europe because they cause the engine to produce excessive amounts of ultra-fine particles which cause lung cancer. In recent research on street-dogs in Mexico-city, the particles were found back in the dogs' brains.
Nevertheless, a Golf(Rabbit) or Beetle TDI will straight out of the factory kick the buts of an awefull lot these US hovercr^H^H^H SUV's.
Yeah, the UK...
Where you can get a bank account by showing a letter adressed to yourself. I went voting twice in the same election there once.
Does Barclays still check your account on a paper filebox? (I was a student there in 1994.)
They should consider cutting bandwith cost by making the free distro's available only through bittorrent, specially in the first weeks after launch. Want FTP? Get a membership.
If you RTFA, the laptop sends different lightbeams to your left and right eyes. You can only do that if you are sitting straight in front. You won't be able to share that pr0n with your mother...
You don't seem to be familiar with the European situation. The idea about sattelite-based tracing is to make it more expensive to drive during rush-hour then at night, more expensive in city centers then in the country etc. If you take a car in Paris then you are a pretentious twit who deserves to get his socks taxed off. In rural france however, there are many areas where there is no public transport and the car is the only way to move about.
In Brussels, we are considering a whole new suburban railway network. Problem is: if 5% of the people who stand in a traffic jam every day take the train, the traffic jam is gone. But these 5% are not enough to pay back the investment. So if we build it, we will have to artificially increase the jams (I am NOT kidding!!!), or make the other 95 % pay extra.
The thing with GZIP and others is they have to send the dictionary together with the data they send.
Imagine that both sides of the dial-up have the same static, HUGE dictionary (distributed on CDROM) with commonly used data, like common english words/syllables, common email/http headers etc. You would get a HELL of a lot better compression then your average zipfile.
Remember the spambots that collect email adresses will use your bandwith too. A couple does't matter, but if you get 50 a day, things start adding up for the amateur ADSL-er.
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This is going to be geared towards small communities with maybe 5 simultaneous conversations. I don't think they'll be using this in the arrival hall at JFK. And the big boys nowadays have to get their revenue from 3G toys anyway...
Chemical companies are very slowly starting to look at this. It is called MSPC, multivariate statistical process control. Combine all thermometer readings, pumps, heaters, chemical and physico-chemical analyses in one big "understanding" of your process. These models are hower f*cking difficult to validate, and are often sensitive to the error on one sensor. So how are these dudes going to check the accuracy of all their sensors? It will be difficult to spot the butterfly causing the hurricanes if the local sensor is 5 % off due to corrosion.
The cost doesn't lie in the database, silly! The cost lies in finding those wax-cilinders, digitising them, cataloguing them......
But will it have ctrl-alt-del buttons?
I find it amazing how old technology is in this field. Here in denmark, infrastructure is still resonably well maintained. We deliver power to Sweden and when the swedes kicked the bucket, the line to Sweden was broken and we found ourselves producing TOO MUCH electricity. That was enough to blackout Copenhagen. I also noticed all the windmills here stopped, even though wind was strong enough. The only reason mainland Denmark was spared, is because there is no connection with it! (They are hooked up to Germany.) Regulating the flow of power still has a loooong way to go.
If we combine this with the space elevator, we can send shit to the moon on 6 AA batteries!!!
My eyesight is so bad from looking at screens all day that you can easily switch to PAL/SECAM halfway the show: I'll never notice!!!
If the swedes now can find out how to keep their powerplants up and running....
I found out who represented my poltical party in the EU. Went back to the national website and tracked down his home adress. Read his website and found out he is mostly interested in third world politics. Wrote him a nice LETTER explaining patents hit OS and OS is important for emerging economies to reduce cost, employ local talent,.... Posted the letter so he can read it during the weekend when he comes home from Brussels.
GPS is not only an American system, it is a MILITARY system. Unless the boys who own it decide to join the great brotherhood of men, and yield control to some international board of directors, it can not be trusted for civilian applications.
They could put a tax on keystrokes though, or mouseclicks. But then, maybe they should just tax pr0n.
Every John Doe sits at home with WIFI.... Lets pray to big Bill that Windows enables this by default.....
Gimme SAP Business warehouse under Linux and I give you 1000 users in my company alone.
Seriously, heatsinks (and blinkenlights) seem to crawl up everywhere. First it was the CPU, then GPU, now chipset, GB ethernet and memory. What is this going to do to PC prices? Do we need a new motherboard factor completely designed around "the mother of all heatsinks"? How long before heat-transfer costs more than the actual components?
Best theft protection ever: just put the goatse guy on.
Cows would stop giving milk you know...
Jesus fscking Christ. Now I suffer from eyestrain when working, in a couple of years I'll be seasick.
the "few modifications" are engine chip mods that give you more power but are illegal in Europe because they cause the engine to produce excessive amounts of ultra-fine particles which cause lung cancer. In recent research on street-dogs in Mexico-city, the particles were found back in the dogs' brains. Nevertheless, a Golf(Rabbit) or Beetle TDI will straight out of the factory kick the buts of an awefull lot these US hovercr^H^H^H SUV's.
Yeah, the UK... Where you can get a bank account by showing a letter adressed to yourself. I went voting twice in the same election there once. Does Barclays still check your account on a paper filebox? (I was a student there in 1994.)
They should consider cutting bandwith cost by making the free distro's available only through bittorrent, specially in the first weeks after launch. Want FTP? Get a membership.
If you RTFA, the laptop sends different lightbeams to your left and right eyes. You can only do that if you are sitting straight in front. You won't be able to share that pr0n with your mother...
You don't seem to be familiar with the European situation. The idea about sattelite-based tracing is to make it more expensive to drive during rush-hour then at night, more expensive in city centers then in the country etc. If you take a car in Paris then you are a pretentious twit who deserves to get his socks taxed off. In rural france however, there are many areas where there is no public transport and the car is the only way to move about. In Brussels, we are considering a whole new suburban railway network. Problem is: if 5% of the people who stand in a traffic jam every day take the train, the traffic jam is gone. But these 5% are not enough to pay back the investment. So if we build it, we will have to artificially increase the jams (I am NOT kidding!!!), or make the other 95 % pay extra.
The thing with GZIP and others is they have to send the dictionary together with the data they send. Imagine that both sides of the dial-up have the same static, HUGE dictionary (distributed on CDROM) with commonly used data, like common english words/syllables, common email/http headers etc. You would get a HELL of a lot better compression then your average zipfile.
Sure, we are all working on these 386 computers nowadays, and there is only that much they can handle at any given time...
Remember the spambots that collect email adresses will use your bandwith too. A couple does't matter, but if you get 50 a day, things start adding up for the amateur ADSL-er.