A lot of vehicles are now looking at common operating systems like Android, Windows, iOS etc. just because they are common on the market.
Just be aware that the proprietary systems they are leaving are a lot worse when it comes to bugs, so it's not an option to stick to a proprietary system. However some people in the vehicle industry are still not having a very good knowledge on how to segment networks.
In closed source you don't know anything at all about bugs lurking until someone accidentally encounters it.
Running a third party library with closed source in a closed source application - well, you have many potential problems there that can be flying for a long time.
Don't forget that it wasn't long ago that a considerable bug in Windows was found that had been around since Windows 95.
Some I/O won't catch up that easily, you can't speed up a keyboard much, and even though we have SSDs we have a limit there too.
But if you break up the I/O as well into sectors so that I/O contention on one area don't impact the I/O on another by using a NUMA architecture for I/O as well as RAM then it's theoretically possible to redistribute some processing.
It won't be a perfect solution, but it will be less sensitive.
In any case - a multi-core machine can also handle multiple different tasks simultaneously, it's not always necessary to break down a single task into sub problems.
The future for computing will be to have a system that can adapt and avoid single resource contention as much as possible.
The bats aren't as sensitive to Ebola as humans. Probably because they have had this disease among them for a long time.
The Black Death during medieval times was worst the first time around, the second and third time it wasn't as deadly because the survivors from the first hit had the opportunity to spread their genes while those that perished obviously hadn't.
And it's still not entirely clear if Black Death really was Yersina Pestis or something else.
In any case - as long as a disease don't have 100% lethality there will be survivors with better genes improving the genetic stock.
As I see it - the core engine(s) used aren't the key problem, the key problem is rather that many browsers today have been bloated to no end with additional crap.
At the same time the Vikings started to become a factor in Northern Europe. So it's not improbable that this was a global phenomenon where many other changes also occurred.
Wikipedia attributes the fall of the Mayan Civilization to the 10th century, but some delay from cause to effect is not unexpected.
In any case - this overall indicates that changes topples some structures while new ones starts to thrive. If your civilization starts to relax then nature will throw something unexpected at you and if you have become too stagnant then you are out and will become a footnote in history.
They can make a Faraday's cage of the hotel preventing all external radio signals to enter or exit the hotel, but it's going to be expensive. And it might also be questionable from an emergency service point of view.
Or locate the hotel in a location far away from everything else. But nobody would want to stay at that hotel.
The only reason that the hotels want this is to be able to profit from services that people are used to get for next to nothing.
Well - I assume that they could be checked in as ordinary luggage as long as they don't have any fuel in them, but if people get them as carry-on luggage it's a tad unusual.
Obfuscating the matter with Time Lords won't help.
I'd say that the abuse of methods used by the authorities against normal citizens was revealed and that has also caused some trouble for the authorities when trying to monitor criminals.
Of course the criminals are following with interest the ways the authorities can monitor them. But then this will just highlight the need for inventing new methods in crime fighting.
That PC had a touch screen using the same tech, and it was a bad idea at that time, the idea of touch screens in some solutions haven't become better. It's OK to have a touch screen on a phone or small handheld device, but in a vehicle in motion it's a traffic hazard. On a PC with a mouse and keyboard it's just stupid.
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And still that's something you can fix with next to nothing in tools in the middle of nowhere in the dark.
Electronic ignition system - nope, then you can just start to walk.
Add to it all the special tools needed.
What you forget is that some workshops take shortcuts and use the cheapest possible oil and filter - if they even do the change.
And then you can realize that Subies are one of the more DIY-friendly brands out there.
Other brands are next to impossible unless you first detach the driveline and lift up the body from the driveline.
What we see is that the expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating, but what if there's another explanation?
A lot of vehicles are now looking at common operating systems like Android, Windows, iOS etc. just because they are common on the market.
Just be aware that the proprietary systems they are leaving are a lot worse when it comes to bugs, so it's not an option to stick to a proprietary system. However some people in the vehicle industry are still not having a very good knowledge on how to segment networks.
In closed source you don't know anything at all about bugs lurking until someone accidentally encounters it.
Running a third party library with closed source in a closed source application - well, you have many potential problems there that can be flying for a long time.
Don't forget that it wasn't long ago that a considerable bug in Windows was found that had been around since Windows 95.
And what most usage is on a computer is actually concurrency.
Massive parallelism is a special case, and even then you suffer from concurrency.
Some I/O won't catch up that easily, you can't speed up a keyboard much, and even though we have SSDs we have a limit there too.
But if you break up the I/O as well into sectors so that I/O contention on one area don't impact the I/O on another by using a NUMA architecture for I/O as well as RAM then it's theoretically possible to redistribute some processing.
It won't be a perfect solution, but it will be less sensitive.
Only if you have a single I/O device and channel.
NUMA architectures can also apply to disks and other I/O devices.
Of course - it comes with a new set of problems, but there's no golden solution.
In any case - a multi-core machine can also handle multiple different tasks simultaneously, it's not always necessary to break down a single task into sub problems.
The future for computing will be to have a system that can adapt and avoid single resource contention as much as possible.
The bats aren't as sensitive to Ebola as humans. Probably because they have had this disease among them for a long time.
The Black Death during medieval times was worst the first time around, the second and third time it wasn't as deadly because the survivors from the first hit had the opportunity to spread their genes while those that perished obviously hadn't.
And it's still not entirely clear if Black Death really was Yersina Pestis or something else.
In any case - as long as a disease don't have 100% lethality there will be survivors with better genes improving the genetic stock.
Big Brother is watching you doing wrong at all times.
"Since 1994, Tucows has provided simple, useful services that help people unlock the power of the Internet."
Their aim does not seem to become the greatest service of the internet, but a stable useful service without unnecessary bloat.
They must be doing something right otherwise they wouldn't have been around for 20+ years.
As I see it - the core engine(s) used aren't the key problem, the key problem is rather that many browsers today have been bloated to no end with additional crap.
Like the "Accelerators" that Microsoft provides.
At the same time the Vikings started to become a factor in Northern Europe. So it's not improbable that this was a global phenomenon where many other changes also occurred.
Wikipedia attributes the fall of the Mayan Civilization to the 10th century, but some delay from cause to effect is not unexpected.
In any case - this overall indicates that changes topples some structures while new ones starts to thrive. If your civilization starts to relax then nature will throw something unexpected at you and if you have become too stagnant then you are out and will become a footnote in history.
And I prefer the Keytronic keyboards.
But you can't get them anymore.
They can make a Faraday's cage of the hotel preventing all external radio signals to enter or exit the hotel, but it's going to be expensive. And it might also be questionable from an emergency service point of view.
Or locate the hotel in a location far away from everything else. But nobody would want to stay at that hotel.
The only reason that the hotels want this is to be able to profit from services that people are used to get for next to nothing.
Steve McQueen might pull that one off.
But it would probably shock the viewers of today that have an attention span of 5 seconds.
My opinion is that "First Contact" is the best Star Trek movie we have seen so far.
And I think that if we are going to see an interesting Star Trek movie - throw in Quentin Tarantino.
But to get a Star Trek movie more aligned with TOS where the social norms of the time were challenged I think that Steve McQueen should be the choice.
And a windowless building won't attract returning customers.
And a cannon ball? Well - you can of course cause some injuries with it if it starts to roll around, but so can a bowling ball.
Well - I assume that they could be checked in as ordinary luggage as long as they don't have any fuel in them, but if people get them as carry-on luggage it's a tad unusual.
Obfuscating the matter with Time Lords won't help.
I'd say that the abuse of methods used by the authorities against normal citizens was revealed and that has also caused some trouble for the authorities when trying to monitor criminals.
Of course the criminals are following with interest the ways the authorities can monitor them. But then this will just highlight the need for inventing new methods in crime fighting.
Go back to the HP 150 from 1983.
That PC had a touch screen using the same tech, and it was a bad idea at that time, the idea of touch screens in some solutions haven't become better. It's OK to have a touch screen on a phone or small handheld device, but in a vehicle in motion it's a traffic hazard. On a PC with a mouse and keyboard it's just stupid.