FPGAs are great mind you but to do RAM on this scale would require more density than I have seen in an FPGA. There is also the fact that there are still many who don't even know anything about FPGA technology.
The problem I would see with this is the addressing of the ram. You couldn't use straight pins to do that high of number for addressing and what speeds would the buss work at. There are other limiting factors on how much ram you can really work with.
More people rely on AOL for everything and AOL is going with Apple. Don't forget about the HP deal so it will be right on the desktop. M$ might fidn it harder than they think.
You are right to think they will probubally have success though. If they use the WMV format and only do licensing where you have to keep the service (like all the other WMV vendors have done) then that will be a way to lock their customers in too.
I wonder if M$ will integrate this too into the operating system? They probubally will. Apple already has it come with their OS so M$ won't be doing something new. I wonder if there will be a way to remove it though (unlike IE). HP is already going with ITunes so I would hope they remove the M$ one.
My money says it'll be integrated into the first service pack release after it's release and there won't be a way to remove it.
I wonder if the M$ service will be like the others using their format.... That shortly after you cancel the service all the songs will stop working??? Can they actually get a license deal like apple?? If not is it even worth considering.
"Whats this mean for the Ipod? Firmware upgrade? I was going to buy but if I should wait for a 4th gen Dolby 5.1 edition to come out I will."
As far as ipod updates go it's fairly easy. ITunes will pull down updates when new ones are released and updated your ipod when it's connected. Not very difficult and apple is on top of their updates. Apple makes updates easy.
" that's if you don't mind a low resolution low framerate compressed-to-hell pixellated blob resembling vomit!"
So, what your saying is that what you shoot with this camera will look like scrambled p0rn we used to watch. you hope on occasion there is a boob or something you can make out.
Who says this will just be used on sophisticated criminals. They already are useing encryption and are already getting around phone bugging. This would help them catch the dumb ones. And there are a lot of those.
So, it's ok to tap the phone but if the communication goes over the internet it's not ok to tap???? Why is one ok but not the other???
To tap either one they would still need a court order. The same approval process. It's not like they can just go monitor anyone they want whenever they want.
So, how do you tap something with 128bit or better encryption???? What happens when it gets to 512bit encryption???? Can the FBI really decrypt that to tap it???
"Wouldn't the open source of these viruses be an advantage to the Antivirus folks? (Symantec, Norton, etc.) I mean, if they know the basics of the virus, wouldn't it be easier to defend against them?"
I don't bvelieve it's a problem where the antivirus software can't detect and do something about them but more of a fact that many computers aren't up to date on virus definitions, have many security holes and the like. If you keep norton antivirus up to date sure it can detect them but if it hasn't been updated in 2 years your screwed and there are many people with computers like that.
Well at the rate we are going there will be something like a 90% divorce rate, sex and drugs will be rampant, athletes will be cyborgs. I mean will there really be families as we know it?? Will marriage even be something really??? It's going to be law meets star trek meets larry flint.
" I bet those old systems were probably quite easy to subvert"
I doubt they were easy to subvert. First you have to gain access to the facility, then you have to have access to that area and then you have to have access to the files. It is not that easy to just stroll in there and get a copy of them.
Secure data would be physically secure. It's not like you can just walk in a building and get that stuff that is locked up. It's pretty tough.
"It doesn't seem very different from a common laptop... batteries' life is still a big problem."
If you look at the weight of the laptop 2 pounds for the 3 hours and 2.6 pounds of 6 additional hours. That is lighter than a conventional laptop. Hell, my battery prolly weighhs 2 punds for 3 and a half hours. So this does use less power. The battery is just smaller.
It's a gnutella network. All the machines connect to each other rather than a central localtion. As long as a central server is up somewhere for a starting point then it will work. I do believe that it is almost impossible to take the gnutella network down.
I can see it now. A poor cripple in school has this exoskeleton. Then the school bully hacks it to beat up the kid wearing it. Then the bully can be lazy, have virtually no evidence he did the beating and stillbe the bully.
I wonder if this violates any of the antitrust laws??? Can this bring them back to court??? They are paying another company to try and take down tke competition.
Remote diagnostics and prognostics isn't out of the questions. A lot of the diagnostics/prognostics is already done just not sent up remotely. The problem that arises with the remotely is for that to work you have to be in some kind of network area like with cell phones to send the data. How would they accomplish this??? Then, who wants to pay all that money to take it to a dealer when a dealer is priced much higher than a lot of local mechanics that can do the same thing.
What about me, the home mechanic. "approved Volvo delaers and mechanics". I can work on my own cars and know enough about car electronics to handle all that work too. They are pushing away from the home mechanic and that's where my beef is. I don't take anything to the dealer or mechanic.
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FPGAs are great mind you but to do RAM on this scale would require more density than I have seen in an FPGA. There is also the fact that there are still many who don't even know anything about FPGA technology.
"18Tb of RAM"
The problem I would see with this is the addressing of the ram. You couldn't use straight pins to do that high of number for addressing and what speeds would the buss work at. There are other limiting factors on how much ram you can really work with.
I'll be dead in 100 years so what good will it do me. I'm not seeing a plus to being dead and owning a domain.
I can see it now...... I am eating ice cream cause my hands are free and i blow the game cause of brain freeze.
"people rely on MSN for everything"
More people rely on AOL for everything and AOL is going with Apple. Don't forget about the HP deal so it will be right on the desktop. M$ might fidn it harder than they think.
You are right to think they will probubally have success though. If they use the WMV format and only do licensing where you have to keep the service (like all the other WMV vendors have done) then that will be a way to lock their customers in too.
I wonder if M$ will integrate this too into the operating system? They probubally will. Apple already has it come with their OS so M$ won't be doing something new. I wonder if there will be a way to remove it though (unlike IE). HP is already going with ITunes so I would hope they remove the M$ one.
My money says it'll be integrated into the first service pack release after it's release and there won't be a way to remove it.
I wonder if the M$ service will be like the others using their format.... That shortly after you cancel the service all the songs will stop working??? Can they actually get a license deal like apple?? If not is it even worth considering.
"Whats this mean for the Ipod? Firmware upgrade? I was going to buy but if I should wait for a 4th gen Dolby 5.1 edition to come out I will."
As far as ipod updates go it's fairly easy. ITunes will pull down updates when new ones are released and updated your ipod when it's connected. Not very difficult and apple is on top of their updates. Apple makes updates easy.
" that's if you don't mind a low resolution low framerate compressed-to-hell pixellated blob resembling vomit!"
So, what your saying is that what you shoot with this camera will look like scrambled p0rn we used to watch. you hope on occasion there is a boob or something you can make out.
"That kind of thing won't work."
Who says this will just be used on sophisticated criminals. They already are useing encryption and are already getting around phone bugging. This would help them catch the dumb ones. And there are a lot of those.
"It's called adding a keystroke logger to your machine."
Actually that is different than a wiretap. With the right court orders they can do that now. Totally diffent issue.
So, it's ok to tap the phone but if the communication goes over the internet it's not ok to tap???? Why is one ok but not the other???
To tap either one they would still need a court order. The same approval process. It's not like they can just go monitor anyone they want whenever they want.
So, how do you tap something with 128bit or better encryption???? What happens when it gets to 512bit encryption???? Can the FBI really decrypt that to tap it???
I wonder if you could get a license for a virus under the GPL???
"Wouldn't the open source of these viruses be an advantage to the Antivirus folks? (Symantec, Norton, etc.) I mean, if they know the basics of the virus, wouldn't it be easier to defend against them?"
I don't bvelieve it's a problem where the antivirus software can't detect and do something about them but more of a fact that many computers aren't up to date on virus definitions, have many security holes and the like. If you keep norton antivirus up to date sure it can detect them but if it hasn't been updated in 2 years your screwed and there are many people with computers like that.
Well at the rate we are going there will be something like a 90% divorce rate, sex and drugs will be rampant, athletes will be cyborgs. I mean will there really be families as we know it?? Will marriage even be something really??? It's going to be law meets star trek meets larry flint.
" I bet those old systems were probably quite easy to subvert"
I doubt they were easy to subvert. First you have to gain access to the facility, then you have to have access to that area and then you have to have access to the files. It is not that easy to just stroll in there and get a copy of them.
Secure data would be physically secure. It's not like you can just walk in a building and get that stuff that is locked up. It's pretty tough.
"It doesn't seem very different from a common laptop... batteries' life is still a big problem."
If you look at the weight of the laptop 2 pounds for the 3 hours and 2.6 pounds of 6 additional hours. That is lighter than a conventional laptop. Hell, my battery prolly weighhs 2 punds for 3 and a half hours. So this does use less power. The battery is just smaller.
It's a gnutella network. All the machines connect to each other rather than a central localtion. As long as a central server is up somewhere for a starting point then it will work. I do believe that it is almost impossible to take the gnutella network down.
I can see it now. A poor cripple in school has this exoskeleton. Then the school bully hacks it to beat up the kid wearing it. Then the bully can be lazy, have virtually no evidence he did the beating and stillbe the bully.
FOr a military application. Imagine a soldier that could roll over a 70 ton tank. It would be like having an army of He-men. We could rule the world.
" If the discovery process yields the original email, Microsoft is fucked."
Talk about an alibi for loosing an email. They use M$ for the mail server.
I wonder if this violates any of the antitrust laws??? Can this bring them back to court??? They are paying another company to try and take down tke competition.
Remote diagnostics and prognostics isn't out of the questions. A lot of the diagnostics/prognostics is already done just not sent up remotely. The problem that arises with the remotely is for that to work you have to be in some kind of network area like with cell phones to send the data. How would they accomplish this??? Then, who wants to pay all that money to take it to a dealer when a dealer is priced much higher than a lot of local mechanics that can do the same thing.
What about me, the home mechanic. "approved Volvo delaers and mechanics". I can work on my own cars and know enough about car electronics to handle all that work too. They are pushing away from the home mechanic and that's where my beef is. I don't take anything to the dealer or mechanic.