Posted on 03/06/2005 9:09:18 PM PST by freedom44
Those of you who just do a bit of web surfing, typing and e-mail may be struggling to figure out how to get a little more out of that new 3.6GHz chip. Have no fear. In ten years time, you can try and figure out how to use 100 core processors many, many times more powerful than your current Pentium.
So said Intel senior fellow Justin Rattner today at the Intel Developer Forum. Intel is one of a number of companies turning today's single core processors into dual-core, four-core and then multicore chips. Much of this horsepower is aimed at the server market where some customers clamor for as much juice as possible. Rattner, however, thinks consumers can make use of the technology as well.
"Imagine a home that helps you live a healthy lifestyle," he said, during a keynote address. "It actually monitors as you live (and) looks for signs of early disease."
So there's Intel's 100-core chip helping your toilet examine the morning delivery for signs of blood or god knows what else. The powerful toilet can call the doctor and schedule an appointment if it notices suspicious stool - checking, of course, with your online calendar for an appropriate time. Or, should you collapse right then and there, the toilet can call for an ambulance. Brilliant!
All kidding aside, such a toilet could be helpful and even witty. Who wouldn't want a reminder like, "Easy, big boy. The 10 oz cut will do next time." in the morning. Or even, "You've got mail and a herpes outbreak."
Intel Inside indeed.
Rattner continued on by promising that future computers will use multi-core chips to deliver voice and sight interfaces beyond today's boring GUI.
"Instead of file not found, (the computer will ask), "Did you mean this or that?" he said. "Much like Google does today but expanded a hundred times."
As always seems to happen in these types of speeches, Rattner was forced to point to today's video gamers as the major users of fast PCs in the consumer market. They'll be the ones loving multi-core chips. What companies like Intel, Dell and Microsoft would do without gamers is beyond us. The futurists sure struggle on their own to talk about anything other than really smart fridges, toasters and walls.
Will these gamers help deliver intelligent toilets to people everywhere? Looks like it. 2015 can't come soon enough. ®
A smart toilet, examining my stool?
I'm sorry, I just don't know where to begin . . .
Better hope it doesn't do a 'core dump.' :-)
It could have saved Elvis.
I'm sorry, I just don't know where to begin . . .
But it does. Just hold still for a sec . . . . .
Begin by hoping that it doesn't get made by Microsoft.
Toilets calling doctors and ambulances? Must be the new software called "STOOL Pigeon!"
I'd be impressed if it kept the toilet from backing up and overflowing.
ROTFLMAO!
God help us! I really don't want a talking toilet. The Islamonazi-defending FReepers are bad enough. LOL! Yechhhhh!
The powerful toilet can call the authorities if it notices suspicious stool wearing a turban and thumping a copy of the Koran. LOL!
Generally hemmorhoid blood is bright red, internal bleeding is black by the time it shows up.
LOL! Everybody HAS TO follow that link! Thanks for the laugh!
Just what I need ... to be un-manned by an automatic tampon remover.
There was a country comedian who talked about a country store who had a two seater privy.
He put a speaker between the seats and when a woman went into the outdoor toilet.
He would say into the microphone "Lady, could you use the other seat, I'm working down here".
Generally hemmorhoid blood is bright red, internal bleeding is black by the time it shows up.
Do NOT go by that.
The color of the blood depends on how long the blood has been sitting around in your G.I. tract before it comes out. The color is bright red with cancers of the rectum and sigmoid colon, but is usually thick, black, and "tarry" if the cancer is higher up in the digestive tract.
Thirty percent of all colon cancers develop in the rectum thereby potentially presenting with "bright red" blood.
So, don't be lulled into a false sense of security by "bright red" blood. That could very well be a rectal cancer.
If you bleed, see your doctor. Once you are 50, get your colonoscopy.
Ditto here. I'd rather have an analog of a slave or sentry rather than a nanny.
Talk about being able to flush the cache!
or
"cough, cough, just WHAT DID YOU EAT??, gasp, I'm gagging here, can't you go outside or something?"
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