They have another market in high end engineering desktops. For people who design chips and other detailed components and need to simulate them there is still a market for their work stations.
Now, the other chips are catching quick on this so they need to stay ahead or they could loose that market too.
I have a big problem with suns that drives me nuts. If they are turned off wrong you can break them. Why would I want to buy that?
I may have to pay a little more for another system but if you have brain dead people who break them so easily in the long run you make your money back.
I think future cars will be fixable at home but you will need to know a lot more to fix it. Not only will you need to know mechanics but computers too.
Large things such as battery structures and power cell will have to be big units that need to be turned in and replace like car batteries now. And they will have safety features so some idiot doesn't kill him/her self.
But, in the end it should be fixable at home still.
we need a department of anti-spam for the us government. They would bring in real experts on the internet and work with ISPs to track down and take care of spammers. And by experts I mean real nerds./.ers, mail experts and not run by M$ or Yahoo or any of the other big namers.
I have used wireless products with all different kinds of security (including WEP) with the mac internal, linksys, cisco and others on os x, win 2k and xp.
I have found little to no problems. The problems I have run into are where maybe the software wasn't easy to use which goes back to the manufacturer.
The easiest I have found is mac followed by linksys.
Remarkably, the use of parallel processing (five tape channels) and short gate delay time (1.2 microseconds) allows the Colossus to match the speed of a modern PC."
This definitely shows you what a good design can do. WIth all the advancement I expected that thing to be slower than my TI-89 calculator.
Of course being able to use wireless handsets would be even better, especially if we could use the same ones to make normal telephone calls. Is this possible?
Wireless headsets are expensive. If you are looking at cutting your costs wireless headsets might not be the way to go.
if you're producing a device like this for the general public, you'd better not make it hard to use or install.
It should be simple to use and the OS should be transparent to the user. It should be about as easy as using a DVD player. So simple my mom could use it. And if there is ever a problem a simple turning it off and then on again should fix.
There are just too many electronic gadgets on the market that are poorly designed and frustrating to use.
Engineers have a lot of great ideas and can even make them happen but there are a lot of angles they don't see or even think of. Many of the engineers aren't even the target users and don't really understand how something gets used.
This is one place I will give props to the military. They require Quality Assurance and testing by the user before they will sign off on something.
Maybe a better punishment is to make them live in the hell they created. They have to spend all day working at computers running windows that are left unsecure and always being infected.
When I was in college we were required to take an ethics course for engineers. We design so many things and don't take many of the risks into account.
Because of that, universities are trying to teach students about risk/reward, ethics and the rest. Turns out there needs to be someone looking out for things. If something isn't insured and it costs as much as nanotech then odds are it will run into a lot of problems getting financed. I see this as a good checks and balance thing.
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They have another market in high end engineering desktops. For people who design chips and other detailed components and need to simulate them there is still a market for their work stations.
Now, the other chips are catching quick on this so they need to stay ahead or they could loose that market too.
I have a big problem with suns that drives me nuts. If they are turned off wrong you can break them. Why would I want to buy that?
I may have to pay a little more for another system but if you have brain dead people who break them so easily in the long run you make your money back.
No system should be so fragile.
most likely won't be possible with future cars
I think future cars will be fixable at home but you will need to know a lot more to fix it. Not only will you need to know mechanics but computers too.
Large things such as battery structures and power cell will have to be big units that need to be turned in and replace like car batteries now. And they will have safety features so some idiot doesn't kill him/her self.
But, in the end it should be fixable at home still.
Yeah, I have a problem. You may have fat chicks chasing down your car.
I know it's not PC to say that but oh well.
Get it cheaper here
So, let me get this straight. Open Source awards are given out 4 times a year. Why so ofter? Doens't that downplay the importance of the awards.
we need a department of anti-spam for the us government. They would bring in real experts on the internet and work with ISPs to track down and take care of spammers. And by experts I mean real nerds. /.ers, mail experts and not run by M$ or Yahoo or any of the other big namers.
So, if the goggles intensify the light then wear all black, use a camcorder that is black and isn't showing any light. then they can't see it.
watch all those goggles get stolen. the minimum wage kids will take them. The studios are helping support the next generation of peeping toms.
First, the guys working in the theatres who make minimum wage are not going to report anyone for pirating a movie. They aren't paid enough to care
Second, all the good pirated coppies come out before the movies hit the theatres and are from the studio themselves.
Sounds like the guys trying to thwart the pirating aren't very knowlegeable themselves about what/how it happens.
I have used wireless products with all different kinds of security (including WEP) with the mac internal, linksys, cisco and others on os x, win 2k and xp.
I have found little to no problems. The problems I have run into are where maybe the software wasn't easy to use which goes back to the manufacturer.
The easiest I have found is mac followed by linksys.
Make him faster, stronger.....
Remarkably, the use of parallel processing (five tape channels) and short gate delay time (1.2 microseconds) allows the Colossus to match the speed of a modern PC."
This definitely shows you what a good design can do. WIth all the advancement I expected that thing to be slower than my TI-89 calculator.
Of course being able to use wireless handsets would be even better, especially if we could use the same ones to make normal telephone calls. Is this possible?
Wireless headsets are expensive. If you are looking at cutting your costs wireless headsets might not be the way to go.
broadband is easy to get. just live in an apartment where there are 3 or 4 unprotected wireless nodes.
makes my dreams of building KITT that much closer to reality.
That is the Knight Industries Two Thousand
It serves him right for stealing identities. I am still in counseling for getting that email from my grandma telling me to enlarge my penis.
Will this same technology work on my girlfriend. She can be like one of those movies that is better on mute.
Will the same technology also work on my girlfriend? She is like one of those movies that is just better on mute.
if you're producing a device like this for the general public, you'd better not make it hard to use or install.
It should be simple to use and the OS should be transparent to the user. It should be about as easy as using a DVD player. So simple my mom could use it. And if there is ever a problem a simple turning it off and then on again should fix.
There are just too many electronic gadgets on the market that are poorly designed and frustrating to use.
Engineers have a lot of great ideas and can even make them happen but there are a lot of angles they don't see or even think of. Many of the engineers aren't even the target users and don't really understand how something gets used.
This is one place I will give props to the military. They require Quality Assurance and testing by the user before they will sign off on something.
appears to put part of the blame on its Linux-based OS and software.
I doubt it is Linux itself but the person(s) who set it up on that box. Probubally didn't really know what they were doing.
Maybe a better punishment is to make them live in the hell they created. They have to spend all day working at computers running windows that are left unsecure and always being infected.
When I was in college we were required to take an ethics course for engineers. We design so many things and don't take many of the risks into account.
Because of that, universities are trying to teach students about risk/reward, ethics and the rest. Turns out there needs to be someone looking out for things. If something isn't insured and it costs as much as nanotech then odds are it will run into a lot of problems getting financed. I see this as a good checks and balance thing.
nano tech didn't hurt Jake 2.0
It made him faster, stronger and able to control computers with his mind.