The Italian carmaker Fiat made trains and trams since 1917.
some trolleybuses were made too.
What happened in the '60 with the mass marketing of cheap cars made possible to people to rely less on public transportation, so the urban sprawl was possible. Expanding the tramway and railway network is slower and more costly than make a new road. Adding a bus route was easier because in the '60 the bus engines become efficient so using a bus instead of a tram was feasible, so public transpotation switched from electric to diesel.
This happens also on regular petrol cars. The 1400 cc 16 valves turbocharged petrol engine made by Fiat is available in three versions: 120 HP, 145 HP and 170 HP.
You can reprogram the ECU from a 120 HP to a 175 HP version quite easily and It will works for some time. But transmission, brakes, air manifold and exhaust are different. This is the official FIat upgrade kit
So you can for a moment overboost the petrol engine power, but without changing other components you'' get a coffin on four wheels.
I suppose that the power capacity difference could be linked to some different parts for the car that coul do the work ok for some times but can't be span the same lifetime if used on higher power.
There are nuve pizza ovens and breadmakers that make the job easier. I suppose that making a full automated pizza machine is possible and easier than a self driving veichle.
Or going actually to an Italian restaurant to eat pizzas, oer even ask a these restaurans to delive could and is a better option.
Simply think about a radio signal, man made. An analogue signal is pretty recognizable because has an unbalanced spectrum and a repetition rate, so if yuo listen say an NTSC TV signal with an FM radio you'll reconize that there's something. But if you are using a digital signal like DVB and you don't know how is coded you can easily think that is noise, add encryption and you can't bossibly decode the signal even having a suitable receiver.
The Marconi patent on radio was made in 1897 and after 120 years we're phasing out analogue radio. If another civilization analogue signal was receivable from Earth in 1897 we can't find their presence, And I could guess that a two century window is really small, given distances and volumes of the universe.
AT&T offered the first comercial Video phone system in 1964 and telecom industries have tried to sell the service for years, but didn't catch up, and for sure wowadays you could have a personal computer with a wecam or a smetphone with an application and make cheap video calls.
But nobody is interested: voice calls are a bit in decline, but the main proble with video calls is that people don't like to be seen in shorts and the old tattered t-shirt because they were cleaning the oven while the video call arrived.
Video conferences are a really niche market and I suppose that isn't the Facebook target.
Don't know, but here in Italy event the poorest could sometimes afford a coffee in a bar Caffè sospeso , is calles the tradistion, and anyway a coffee at home is cheap, if you make it with ground coffee and a moka.
You have to also consider the genetics factor, that has to be added to behavioural one.
When I was living in the country side I've always had a a couple of cat as pet and for mousing. I gave them some food but in a spotty fashion to make the interested to catch the vermin, Naturally they were vaccinated and if they were ill I called the vet. They were big and fat, even if I was giving them a small quantity of food, but I think that being kept sane and with a lot of live food to choose make them to gain weight.
The solution is simple: change local grocery store it this is possible. I suppose that offering low wages, long working hours and a bad workplace, makes really easy to attract people that can't find other works and then demotivate them further.
I know several grocery store and supermarket with clerks that are making a really good work, have a big attention to the clients and the store is always spotless. I konow other grocery stores and supermarkets that are a hellhole.
I've found that the combination of no cash payment, cumbersomeness if one knows what to order makes the use of the kiosks a nuisance for the cafeteria part.
When the local McD made mandatory the kiosk use, I stopped to take coffee in the morning. Luckily at the other side of the road opened a cafeteria where for a little more you get an espresso in a ceramic cup instead of a paper one and a small glass of water.
I suppose that was the cafeteria owner to make the use of the kiosk mandatory.
By the way there are a lot of McD that are still without kiosk and you can order an "american" decaf. In the ones with mandatory kiosk you can't.
The fact is that a lot of things you but have IoT functionality buried somewhere even for low-end models. You can't but a new TV without "smart" features, even of off brand cheap brands, and the few non-smart tv are actually smart tv without the ethernet or wifi connection. Same thing on some injet printer that have a network port and phone home to check for firmware update or "cloud" services.
There's a marketing force to put IoT functionality, because is cheap and is a selling point
"All court proceedings must be motivated", the article 111 of the Italian constitution says. When a judge, makes a sentence has to write a document explaining why has chosen a sentence and why the drfendant is either guilty or innocent, even if there's a jury involved.
So in Italy a closed sourced system used to mke sentences is uncostitutional. If a judge uses is stealthly, I think could risk a misconduit .
You could go to the doctor's offices or phone the doctor and kindly ask an home visit, if you feel too weak or have an high fever.
I've asked very few sick days, but when I asked them was only because the doctor ordered me to stay at bed or when I was rushed to A&E.
That ever since the 80s, those copper lines simply plug into a digital phone switch anyway?
Because in case of power failure the phone system, even ISDN is designed to continue to work on racks of 48V batteries at CO even if poer is lost ti the subscriber site. ISDN TA and PABX are designed to switch in low power/reduced mode if mains goes out. At the CO there are a couple of generator and a tank of petrol designed to power the system for two days.
For this very reason mountain refuges have an UHF phone patch link with a battery backup even if there is 2G/#g or even LTE coverages in most cases.
Cellphones are ok in normal times, but in emergency they tend to klock up.
The US has the highest proportion of obese children of any rich nation, so lack of fat is probably not what holds back brain development in children in America
Eating too many foods with sugars and carbohydrates is a sure way to get fatter even one eats a diet low on fats.
100 ml of Coca cola are 42 calories and 100 ml of whole cow milk are 61 calories, the latter contains more fats. On the othe hand one feels more full after drinking a glass of latte or better milk and coffee rather than a glass of coke, so one will normally eat less calories in total.
This could be actually a good thing, but for their unintended consequences.
After the publication in 1980 of
USDA dietary guidelines the percentage of obese people in USA started to rise.
Same thing happened in the UK with the introduction of the Eatwell plate.
I think that all stems from the idea that eating fats and cholesterol make one fat, so the energy intake should be based on starchy foods like rice, potatoes and refined wheat: these are foods with a really high glycemic index so the starches are rapidly converted in glucose, the pancreas stats to produce insulin and the glucose is transformed in fat. Then normally the level of glucose in food decreases and the brain registers it as starving and if food is readily available one eats again the starchy foods, that are healthy. Unfortunately this is a sure way to eat too much.
Eating some fatty food, like cheese, eggs, olive oil, nuts or meat requires more times to be digested and the glycemic response is much lower, so one feels more satisfied to eat.
In this case I think thast giving to kids "boring" foods makes them eat more "tasty" food like snacks and fried potatoes, that are high in calories and surely not "gourmet" foods, making the whole dietary advice moot.
If in schools they start to serve a real pizza margherita made with buffalo mozzarella, olive oil, fresh tomato sauce and freh basil, maybe the kids will get a more decent taste for good food, istead to eat some baked thing called pizza made with leftovers
You could but them on a separate network, disconnected from the main Internet, or even not using TCP/IP. One could use PSTN and a modem, or use the cellphone network to send SMS or even use a separate radio UHF network. By the way because they have also laid cables and fiber optics having a separate WAN could be feasible.
I have the audio gear from the '90 so I can listen to Audio CD, cassette tapes and vinyl records. I still prefer to but the physical media, especially used CD, because you actually own it, there's not digital restriction management, so I can listen to material made in 1960s from little and now dead record companies.
Convert CD to mp3 is a no-brainer and Amazon does this for you. From analogue media it's a bit more time consuming, but it's doable.
In this case they seem to be making quite a profit out of the $400 press too.
I suppose the price point is due to the extra techology and infrastucure in minimal part, and because an high price makes them Veblen goods where an high price increades the demand, because are luxury goods.
If they sold the juicer at $40 I suppose nobody have talked about it.
That's not easy. Keurig got all the parameters right, starting with the story they tell you about how your life will be different with their product. You get up in the morning in a caffeine-withdrawal fog, you pop the pod into the machine and your coffee comes out. Then you toss the pod in the trash. What they are selling is the will-o-the-wisp of convenience, and they've managed to sell it at a staggering markup. The truth is that it's just as easy to make that cup of coffee with an Aeropress, especially if you have an electric tea kettle, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper.
You can easily use ground coffee and make it Neapolitan-style or moka-style.
If you prefer the espresso, there are also al lot of electric coffee makers that use either ground coffee or ESE pods, like these or automatic grinding ones, like these.
If you look at coffee advertising either you have the advents for ground coffees or for proprietary pods and machines. Some coffee makers that also sell ESE pods are advertising proprietary pods.
I have an ESE and ground coffee machine and a moka and I absolutely like that I could chage type and brad of coffee without any problem
Diabetes could not be esily be separated in type 1 and type 2, there are also less than common types, like LADA, that is a type 1 diabetes that starts in adults and the destruction of beta cells is slower than type 1 in child, or type various MODY types.
Some research has found that people with type 1 and type 2 have common
genetic components.
Classic Type 2 diabetes could be controlled with weight control, exercise, and diet, and of course other types of diabetes are better controlled with the same method.
Unfortunately the informations on correct dieting are a lot misleading, so people are thinking that the problem is sugar and not starches, so a "sane" potato mash or a rice casserole or "alfredo pasta" with margarine are really a bad choiche regarding the calorie and carbohydrate content. The fact that also not so sane foods like margarine or fructose arre advertised as "sane" doesn't help.
The fact is, when a programme is filled with too much advertising, even if it's free, people could decide to change channel or stop watching TV.
In Italy, in the sixties and seventies the adverts were rare (like only four in the evening) and were very refined, like
"When the night goes away" that look more an advert from the Tourist Ofiice rather than from an instant coffee maker and the director was Ermanno Olmi. Kids actually wanted to watch the adverts.
Nowadays There are some channels where you are forced to watch a program wit a small bumper for the current and next program , a bumper advertising something, and do on...
I am a Chartered Engineer, actually.
I work as a programmer for now.
But for instance I could legally design and sign network and electrical wiring and lighting protection systems.
I think that people didn't throw away older analogue TV sets until the switch off . So older TV with only a RF antenna input so almost all of black and white TV sets where thrown away. I remember stacks of b/W and older TV at the recycle factory.
So people kept say a b/w TV set in guests rooms and when the TV became useless they didn't bought another TV set because was not really necessary.
Here we go. Real HP LaserJet Presentation from 1985.
Same faded videos and odd haircuts of the fake one. I'm not sure why them haven't used an HP '80s laser printer. Maybe because the comparision between a dot matrix printer and al laser wasn't so funny? Or because if you connect a PCL-speaking printer to a machine that acts as a printer server you could print from a cellphone anyway?
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The Italian carmaker Fiat made trains and trams since 1917.
some trolleybuses were made too.
What happened in the '60 with the mass marketing of cheap cars made possible to people to rely less on public transportation, so the urban sprawl was possible. Expanding the tramway and railway network is slower and more costly than make a new road. Adding a bus route was easier because in the '60 the bus engines become efficient so using a bus instead of a tram was feasible, so public transpotation switched from electric to diesel.
This happens also on regular petrol cars. The 1400 cc 16 valves turbocharged petrol engine made by Fiat is available in three versions: 120 HP, 145 HP and 170 HP. You can reprogram the ECU from a 120 HP to a 175 HP version quite easily and It will works for some time. But transmission, brakes, air manifold and exhaust are different. This is the official FIat upgrade kit So you can for a moment overboost the petrol engine power, but without changing other components you'' get a coffin on four wheels. I suppose that the power capacity difference could be linked to some different parts for the car that coul do the work ok for some times but can't be span the same lifetime if used on higher power.
There are nuve pizza ovens and breadmakers that make the job easier.
I suppose that making a full automated pizza machine is possible and easier than a self driving veichle.
Or going actually to an Italian restaurant to eat pizzas, oer even ask a these restaurans to delive could and is a better option.
Simply think about a radio signal, man made. An analogue signal is pretty recognizable because has an unbalanced spectrum and a repetition rate, so if yuo listen say an NTSC TV signal with an FM radio you'll reconize that there's something. But if you are using a digital signal like DVB and you don't know how is coded you can easily think that is noise, add encryption and you can't bossibly decode the signal even having a suitable receiver. The Marconi patent on radio was made in 1897 and after 120 years we're phasing out analogue radio. If another civilization analogue signal was receivable from Earth in 1897 we can't find their presence, And I could guess that a two century window is really small, given distances and volumes of the universe.
AT&T offered the first comercial Video phone system in 1964 and telecom industries have tried to sell the service for years, but didn't catch up, and for sure wowadays you could have a personal computer with a wecam or a smetphone with an application and make cheap video calls.
But nobody is interested: voice calls are a bit in decline, but the main proble with video calls is that people don't like to be seen in shorts and the old tattered t-shirt because they were cleaning the oven while the video call arrived.
Video conferences are a really niche market and I suppose that isn't the Facebook target.
Don't know, but here in Italy event the poorest could sometimes afford a coffee in a bar Caffè sospeso , is calles the tradistion, and anyway a coffee at home is cheap, if you make it with ground coffee and a moka.
You have to also consider the genetics factor, that has to be added to behavioural one.
When I was living in the country side I've always had a a couple of cat as pet and for mousing. I gave them some food but in a spotty fashion to make the interested to catch the vermin, Naturally they were vaccinated and if they were ill I called the vet. They were big and fat, even if I was giving them a small quantity of food, but I think that being kept sane and with a lot of live food to choose make them to gain weight.
The solution is simple: change local grocery store it this is possible. I suppose that offering low wages, long working hours and a bad workplace, makes really easy to attract people that can't find other works and then demotivate them further. I know several grocery store and supermarket with clerks that are making a really good work, have a big attention to the clients and the store is always spotless. I konow other grocery stores and supermarkets that are a hellhole.
I've found that the combination of no cash payment, cumbersomeness if one knows what to order makes the use of the kiosks a nuisance for the cafeteria part.
When the local McD made mandatory the kiosk use, I stopped to take coffee in the morning. Luckily at the other side of the road opened a cafeteria where for a little more you get an espresso in a ceramic cup instead of a paper one and a small glass of water.
I suppose that was the cafeteria owner to make the use of the kiosk mandatory.
By the way there are a lot of McD that are still without kiosk and you can order an "american" decaf. In the ones with mandatory kiosk you can't.
The fact is that a lot of things you but have IoT functionality buried somewhere even for low-end models. You can't but a new TV without "smart" features, even of off brand cheap brands, and the few non-smart tv are actually smart tv without the ethernet or wifi connection. Same thing on some injet printer that have a network port and phone home to check for firmware update or "cloud" services.
There's a marketing force to put IoT functionality, because is cheap and is a selling point
"All court proceedings must be motivated", the article 111 of the Italian constitution says. When a judge, makes a sentence has to write a document explaining why has chosen a sentence and why the drfendant is either guilty or innocent, even if there's a jury involved. So in Italy a closed sourced system used to mke sentences is uncostitutional. If a judge uses is stealthly, I think could risk a misconduit .
You could go to the doctor's offices or phone the doctor and kindly ask an home visit, if you feel too weak or have an high fever. I've asked very few sick days, but when I asked them was only because the doctor ordered me to stay at bed or when I was rushed to A&E.
That ever since the 80s, those copper lines simply plug into a digital phone switch anyway?
Because in case of power failure the phone system, even ISDN is designed to continue to work on racks of 48V batteries at CO even if poer is lost ti the subscriber site. ISDN TA and PABX are designed to switch in low power/reduced mode if mains goes out. At the CO there are a couple of generator and a tank of petrol designed to power the system for two days. For this very reason mountain refuges have an UHF phone patch link with a battery backup even if there is 2G/#g or even LTE coverages in most cases. Cellphones are ok in normal times, but in emergency they tend to klock up.
The US has the highest proportion of obese children of any rich nation, so lack of fat is probably not what holds back brain development in children in America
Eating too many foods with sugars and carbohydrates is a sure way to get fatter even one eats a diet low on fats.
100 ml of Coca cola are 42 calories and 100 ml of whole cow milk are 61 calories, the latter contains more fats. On the othe hand one feels more full after drinking a glass of latte or better milk and coffee rather than a glass of coke, so one will normally eat less calories in total.
This could be actually a good thing, but for their unintended consequences.
After the publication in 1980 of USDA dietary guidelines the percentage of obese people in USA started to rise.
Same thing happened in the UK with the introduction of the Eatwell plate.
I think that all stems from the idea that eating fats and cholesterol make one fat, so the energy intake should be based on starchy foods like rice, potatoes and refined wheat: these are foods with a really high glycemic index so the starches are rapidly converted in glucose, the pancreas stats to produce insulin and the glucose is transformed in fat. Then normally the level of glucose in food decreases and the brain registers it as starving and if food is readily available one eats again the starchy foods, that are healthy. Unfortunately this is a sure way to eat too much.
Eating some fatty food, like cheese, eggs, olive oil, nuts or meat requires more times to be digested and the glycemic response is much lower, so one feels more satisfied to eat.
In this case I think thast giving to kids "boring" foods makes them eat more "tasty" food like snacks and fried potatoes, that are high in calories and surely not "gourmet" foods, making the whole dietary advice moot.
If in schools they start to serve a real pizza margherita made with buffalo mozzarella, olive oil, fresh tomato sauce and freh basil, maybe the kids will get a more decent taste for good food, istead to eat some baked thing called pizza made with leftovers
You could but them on a separate network, disconnected from the main Internet, or even not using TCP/IP. One could use PSTN and a modem, or use the cellphone network to send SMS or even use a separate radio UHF network. By the way because they have also laid cables and fiber optics having a separate WAN could be feasible.
I have the audio gear from the '90 so I can listen to Audio CD, cassette tapes and vinyl records. I still prefer to but the physical media, especially used CD, because you actually own it, there's not digital restriction management, so I can listen to material made in 1960s from little and now dead record companies. Convert CD to mp3 is a no-brainer and Amazon does this for you. From analogue media it's a bit more time consuming, but it's doable.
In this case they seem to be making quite a profit out of the $400 press too.
I suppose the price point is due to the extra techology and infrastucure in minimal part, and because an high price makes them Veblen goods where an high price increades the demand, because are luxury goods. If they sold the juicer at $40 I suppose nobody have talked about it.
That's not easy. Keurig got all the parameters right, starting with the story they tell you about how your life will be different with their product. You get up in the morning in a caffeine-withdrawal fog, you pop the pod into the machine and your coffee comes out. Then you toss the pod in the trash. What they are selling is the will-o-the-wisp of convenience, and they've managed to sell it at a staggering markup. The truth is that it's just as easy to make that cup of coffee with an Aeropress, especially if you have an electric tea kettle, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper.
You can easily use ground coffee and make it Neapolitan-style or moka-style.
If you prefer the espresso, there are also al lot of electric coffee makers that use either ground coffee or ESE pods, like these or automatic grinding ones, like these.
If you look at coffee advertising either you have the advents for ground coffees or for proprietary pods and machines. Some coffee makers that also sell ESE pods are advertising proprietary pods.
I have an ESE and ground coffee machine and a moka and I absolutely like that I could chage type and brad of coffee without any problem
Diabetes could not be esily be separated in type 1 and type 2, there are also less than common types, like LADA, that is a type 1 diabetes that starts in adults and the destruction of beta cells is slower than type 1 in child, or type various MODY types. Some research has found that people with type 1 and type 2 have common genetic components. Classic Type 2 diabetes could be controlled with weight control, exercise, and diet, and of course other types of diabetes are better controlled with the same method.
Unfortunately the informations on correct dieting are a lot misleading, so people are thinking that the problem is sugar and not starches, so a "sane" potato mash or a rice casserole or "alfredo pasta" with margarine are really a bad choiche regarding the calorie and carbohydrate content. The fact that also not so sane foods like margarine or fructose arre advertised as "sane" doesn't help.
..broadcast TV is dying.
The fact is, when a programme is filled with too much advertising, even if it's free, people could decide to change channel or stop watching TV.
In Italy, in the sixties and seventies the adverts were rare (like only four in the evening) and were very refined, like "When the night goes away" that look more an advert from the Tourist Ofiice rather than from an instant coffee maker and the director was Ermanno Olmi. Kids actually wanted to watch the adverts.
Nowadays There are some channels where you are forced to watch a program wit a small bumper for the current and next program , a bumper advertising something, and do on...
"I am an engineer."
I am a Chartered Engineer, actually.
I work as a programmer for now. But for instance I could legally design and sign network and electrical wiring and lighting protection systems.
As in don Camillo movie By the way Russian tractors made nowadays are nice: website.
I think that people didn't throw away older analogue TV sets until the switch off . So older TV with only a RF antenna input so almost all of black and white TV sets where thrown away. I remember stacks of b/W and older TV at the recycle factory.
So people kept say a b/w TV set in guests rooms and when the TV became useless they didn't bought another TV set because was not really necessary.
Here we go.
Real HP LaserJet Presentation from 1985.
Same faded videos and odd haircuts of the fake one. I'm not sure why them haven't used an HP '80s laser printer. Maybe because the comparision between a dot matrix printer and al laser wasn't so funny? Or because if you connect a PCL-speaking printer to a machine that acts as a printer server you could print from a cellphone anyway?