No, you're just thinking too small-scale ;)

They nailed it!

And at 2 years old, the body might be able to even develop and learn from scratch again.

There's more to it than that though... I contribute to wikia.com, and find that even with the federated style, there's really a lack of people willing to do more than a couple of legitimate edits before moving on -- and more often than not, they don't have the domain knowledge to get it right, meaning someone else has to come in and make minor corrections. It all comes back to "editors" being required to exercise extreme control in order to preserve data integrity.

So it doesn't really matter whether you treat people poorly or not; the entire Wiki thing has gone stale, and it's hard to get /qualified/ people to get involved no matter how you treat them.

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Different physical network. Someone in GAO misread the original report.

You've come full circle -- the reason the "open source" door opener guy fails to pick some items from inside the fridge and opens the door very slowly is that some compartments in the fridge are hidden and the manufacturer won't say where they are, and the open source guy has to pick the lock every time he wants to open the door, as the key he was given isn't all that accurate.

My point exactly (the last one)... making the devices respond to signals, and making the concentration point "in the cloud" means that people hacking into your home computer is a thing of the past -- all they have to do is get your Apple/FaceBook/Google ID, and suddenly they've got access/control for every device you own.

Vacuum cleaner won't be chasing you, but your lights will be tracking you and your power meter might just send an extra few amps to your digital doorknob just as you go to open it....

I thought Segway got bought out by a UK guy prior to this?

But the UK doesn't have the most powerful supercomputer and lost their number 1 spot a long time ago....

I'll be really excited when they've scaled it down to the size of vapor. Then we can have REAL "cloud computing!"

However, this isn't really a computer, as it still needs a power source and I/O. It's just a small wafer of etched silicon until it has those things.

If they used this as the basis for an environment-powered computer and it contained bluetooth and/or WiFi capabilities as well as decent storage, this could be interesting. Get a bunch of these self-powering in a mesh network and you've got something interesting.

To self-power, they could just stick some PV chips on top. For WiFi, use the new quantum-state on-wafer antennas. With these two things on board, you've got something that has a power source, a sensor, and data I/O -- it can truly be called a computer, and a handful of them could be programmed to do all sorts of things (distributed streaming video camera, security system, control any other device that requires motion/light sensitivity, etc.).

That's *one* IoT... but how does that relate to my lightbulbs that track me around the house or my garage door opener that lets me open it remotely from my Apple Watch after seeing who's standing outside?

The IoT is about networking commodity hardware and aggregating telemetry and sensor data remotely. For some reason, it seems to have significant overlap with Cloud Computing such that we really have a CloT with access control nightmares.

Funny thing is, vending machines were on the Internet almost 20 years ago. This was useful for the parent's illustration (service tech knows what to restock and when, and if the machine's out of service / bil cartridge is full / etc). But we didn't call it the IoT back then; just the Internet. That was part of the original vision, before .com got involved and morphed it into some sort of a "display your web browser banner here" place.

In other words, the IoT is closer to the original concept of the Internet than what most people have thought of as "the Internet" for the past decade or so. A bunch of internetworked hardware talking to each other and to humans, all around the world.

True, it would come with one, and they'd swap out a new one when that one got outdated. But they wouldn't be free. They come with a bunch of conditions, including the ones I outlined. They also require a key to your house, and you only have the distributor's word on what they will/won't do.

Why not? And what about other GPU-intensive operations, such as real-time rendering or (some) bitcoin mining?

What I'd like to know though is what features are locked out of the OSS driver?

I was going to respond with the same thing about the cars -- but "you can fully use your GPU with the proprietary driver" is false.

They've slaved their hardware to their software, so the hardware no longer belongs to you. Without their software, it's (almost) useless.

It would be like buying a refrigerator, and discovering that in order to use it, you need to hire someone from the distributor to stand there and open the doors for you whenever you want something -- and it's backed up by legislation that says any attempt to get into the refrigerator yourself is a criminal offense (with a few exceptions, such as moving the contents to a new refrigerator, or for officially recocognized research purposes).

Want to use your refrigerator somewhere where the professional door opener won't go (because, say, it doesn't meet Accessibility Standards regulations)? Well, it's no longer your refrigerator to do with as you want -- you can't open the door, and you can't hire anyone to do it for you. The solution is to move it to somewhere that the professional door opener is allowed to operate.

Indeed... my raw editing platform for HD video is a MBP -- and even with the new drives, the R/W is still the bottleneck (but just barely).

Any post production work goes onto beefier hardware, but for initial splicing and storyboarding of video, the MBP works quite well.

My 2015 Retina MacBook Pro says otherwise. Unless you mean that Thunderbolt was replaced with Thunderbolt 2, which is true.