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Think of PC as standing for an innovative pocket computer not personal computer. This is a made-in-Finland computing rethink called Solu, now up on Kickstarter seeking funds.
It's a tiny box, made out of wood, that serves as a pocket computer which you can use independently but it can also be connected up to a screen at the office, becoming your full blown desktop computer. Softpedia's Marius Nestor said they are using a Linux kernel based operating system, the SoluOS.
North America technology reporter for the BBC, Dave Lee, reported on this attempt from Helsinki-based Solu Machines to reinvent the PC.
Computing power is packed into the small touchscreen device. "It can be hooked up to a bigger display at which point the handheld device is used as a controller. Various gestures - swiping, tapping, pinching - are used to control what happens on the bigger screen," said Lee.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Sunday October 25 2015, @01:43AM
One thing about those liasing with each other all the time... they are usually the ones bringing the money into an organization.
I can tell you that you may be the engine that makes the car go. And it won't go without you. But you are useless without the driver who wants you to take him from here to there.
I speak as an engineer who has studied hard... has all the "graduation with honors" stuff, 3.94 GPA, workaholic type ( no family - as I was too busy ), and unemployed - most likely because of failure to subordinate to those whose technical prowess I had no respect for.
"Dare to defy". I fall in that category. If it does not make sense to me, I will bicker.
Seems money comes to them as easily as making an old computer I pulled out of the dumper work again is for me.
As an example, look at all the money we all see going into bad science and unworkable concepts - but its only money. A lot of people are just as good at Machiavellian techniques as I am at sciency stuff. The sciency stuff gives me the assurance that I understand the stuff around me enough to maintain it, whereas others' social skills give them the assurance that their needs will be met as well.
I am one of the type that if I need something, I build it. When the social type need something, they buy it.
When you look at society, there are a lot more social types than builder types. They know economics and politics a lot better than we do. So we end up serving them. Also ending up with a lot of very complex law written so as to target one specific entity while masquerading as "justice for all". So when we want something they have - we have to meet their terms... they want something I have... they will do something like run to their social city councils and have eminent domain declared or something like that. I want to build something - they claim patent rights. They want me to build something for them... "work for hire!", and so far only wedding photographers seem to have stood up for themselves.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Sunday October 25 2015, @11:35AM
You make some good points, but you are wrong about the "social" types bringing the money in and driving things - they are only good at taking money out. They have no route for bringing money in In my case, running power stations, it is the electricity generated that brings the money in - made by the engineers and sold by our dealers on the wholesale spot market. The "social" types have nothing to do witheither of these activities - they just swan around at conferences on "How to organise conferences" or "How to liase with other social people" or "New fangled management systems that will never be implemented", and then claim expenses for it all.
If you have not read H.G.Wells book "The Time Machine", you should. I read it at one sitting in my teens (the only book I have ever done so) and it has haunted me ever since. Wells describes a far future world in which humans have split into two sub-species, the Eloi who just swan around in luxury on the surface and the Morlocks who live in factories underground and, though living in "hell", do actually run the whole place. There is a lot of our own time in it. You and I are Morlocks; those "social" people are the Eloi.
I also make and mend stuff - my PC is put together from bits averaging ~10 years old, like I think I am also pretty good at helping to keeping old-ish power stations going as one of the senior engineers in the decision making. I have just changed cars from one 23 years old to one 10 years old; I maintain them myself, and the "new" one cost only a quarter of what it did new and is just as good as far as I can see. But in my case I am well-off, basically from saving all that money on new cars and PCs every 2-3 years, and because electrical power generation is one area where Morlocks can still get a good salary.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Sunday October 25 2015, @12:19PM
Interesting you picked that book from H.G. Wells. One of my favorites as well.
Funny about the cars too. I have an old completely mechanical Toyota. I am going to have to let it go because its getting very difficult to get parts for it. Especially a little diaphragm that goes in the carburetor that was made in the days before the alcohol-laced fuels we have today that destroys them.
So I have my eye on some ten year old diesel vans. Something I can retrofit and not feel too bad if I drill holes in it.
If I could do it all over again, I would not been so starry-eyed with aerospace stuff and went into something far more practical like you did. Utilities or railroad.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]