While I didn't find the broadcast show as insightful as the original article in Scientific American article preciously posted, I did find the show very entertaining. It was interesting to see the different contestants, and the projects they spent so much time working on.
I can honestly say I'm ready to have an automated vehicle. It will give me more time to do the things I like versus spending copious amounts of time on the road.
Wouldn't it be cool to have mobile online access, and a vehicle to drive you from point a to b, and you get to be reading/.
P-)
It seems the patent office is going to dictate symantics and who gets paid for them. It boggles the mind to belive someone should have a patent for the "single-click"http://www.eolas.com/technology.html use of a hyperlink. Does that also mean that I need to rush out and try to get the patent on the wheel, or the @ symbol in email addresses?
While I don't claim to be an expert in patent law, it seems that things are continuing on the path of certain destruction. Call me a naysayer, or whatever you like, but something needs to change.
I was pretty tied up for space to build my sandbox, so I opted for 4u rack systems to alleviate cost in the beginning. After I got started with that I found Cubix systems on eBay relatively inexpensive. I now have 2 1210 systems and 6 ERS FT II systems. They are 6u cases with 8 single board computers. They save me space, are redundant, have a built in KVM system, and are realtively easy to manage. I now house over 48 machines in a single 42u rack, and still have room to spare. Now I've expanded to another rack to house my SCSI and Fibre Channel storage systems. It's been a great experience using Cubix systems. All of the rest of my systems are either Compaq, Dell, or beige boxes.
I just got tired of the crappy customer service from SBC (1.5 Mbps up / 6.0 Mbps down) that was really 384K up/900K down for $200/mo, and cable blocked port 80 disallowing me the opportunity to run a web server from my home, so I found some good competition and got a T1 piped in and now I work from home for $400/mo. I use the bandwidth up, and this has helped me out immensely in doing my work from home. I still hold down a full-time job but now run a hosting service out of the house and run a service based computer company out of my office.
If it had not been for competition in the market I would be paying $1600/mo for a T1. I think that good competition in the market keeps the prices low and give customers a better chance of getting a deal within their means.
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While I didn't find the broadcast show as insightful as the original article in Scientific American article preciously posted, I did find the show very entertaining. It was interesting to see the different contestants, and the projects they spent so much time working on. I can honestly say I'm ready to have an automated vehicle. It will give me more time to do the things I like versus spending copious amounts of time on the road. Wouldn't it be cool to have mobile online access, and a vehicle to drive you from point a to b, and you get to be reading /.
P-)
So where do we go from here?
It seems the patent office is going to dictate symantics and who gets paid for them. It boggles the mind to belive someone should have a patent for the "single-click" http://www.eolas.com/technology.html use of a hyperlink. Does that also mean that I need to rush out and try to get the patent on the wheel, or the @ symbol in email addresses?
While I don't claim to be an expert in patent law, it seems that things are continuing on the path of certain destruction. Call me a naysayer, or whatever you like, but something needs to change.
I was pretty tied up for space to build my sandbox, so I opted for 4u rack systems to alleviate cost in the beginning. After I got started with that I found Cubix systems on eBay relatively inexpensive. I now have 2 1210 systems and 6 ERS FT II systems. They are 6u cases with 8 single board computers. They save me space, are redundant, have a built in KVM system, and are realtively easy to manage. I now house over 48 machines in a single 42u rack, and still have room to spare. Now I've expanded to another rack to house my SCSI and Fibre Channel storage systems. It's been a great experience using Cubix systems. All of the rest of my systems are either Compaq, Dell, or beige boxes.
I just got tired of the crappy customer service from SBC (1.5 Mbps up / 6.0 Mbps down) that was really 384K up/900K down for $200/mo, and cable blocked port 80 disallowing me the opportunity to run a web server from my home, so I found some good competition and got a T1 piped in and now I work from home for $400/mo. I use the bandwidth up, and this has helped me out immensely in doing my work from home. I still hold down a full-time job but now run a hosting service out of the house and run a service based computer company out of my office. If it had not been for competition in the market I would be paying $1600/mo for a T1. I think that good competition in the market keeps the prices low and give customers a better chance of getting a deal within their means.