To reduce the cost of the Nano Tata's engineers have virtually re-invented *how* a car is made.
So if the Nano is successful it's going to change the assembly line that was invented by Americans and perfected by the Japanese. From an engineering perspective this may have huge impact on auto industry in coming years.
Traffic cops keep coming up with tricks to maximize number of fines and commuters have to actively watch out.
One trick which I feel is a crime is to turn off traffic lights for a intersection completely with no traffic cops in sight.
Commuters think they've got a free day and race through only to find a whole army of cops just before the next intersection fining everyone for over speeding.
It's not. It's a huge improvement over the first version and at the rate it's evolving I'm sure multi touch is coming soon.:)
My kids - ages 3.5 and 5, have used TouchSmart and they take to touch intuitively. Touch is easier to learn than using a mouse. With a touch sensitive keyboard and other touch based controls usability will improve.
We are a very small software development co. in India and have have been powering down everything from the beginning - mainly to save electricity costs and increase life of equipment. Now we need to have some servers available all the time and prefer to use data centers in USA for this - the reliability is awesome, we get offsite backup and are able postpone the day we need to setup high availability server infrastructure internally.
TFA says they are combining receiver reputation with IP number of the Sender.
So they are factoring in who is sending the message and the population to which the message is being sent.
I can imagine our friends in Russia grinning from ear to ear. Botnets are getting old fashioned already.
Getting to command an army of global robots much more fun.
About 10 years ago in Bangalore a software company got a piracy operation raided by the police with a bunch of floppies being the major evidence collected. When evidence was presented in court the police had punched the floppies and filed them like paper. The pirates literally laughed their way out of court.
These days the police in India are technology savvy and most serious crime cases are solved quickly within days. This is possible because criminals use technology like mobile phones and internet to plan and coordinate. For the most part people are thankful for all this - a few years ago it was looking like criminals were smarter than most people.
India had a law named Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) that had draconian provisions and was repealed by the current government. Right now there isn't any law in India to arrest people on the basis of suspicion alone. The police need solid evidence to book people under regular laws.
Episode 2.8 - Baby Grobags - is still fiction, since we can't grow humans outside a womb.
We are getting there. This may be possible in a few years esp. when declining population in Europe overcomes their ethical and moral concerns.
Japanese scientists have grown goat foetus in artificial womb.
http://www.nrlc.org/Killing_Embryos/ArtificialWomb s.html
And premature human babies around 22 weeks now have decent survival chance.
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Right now focus is on the size and cost of Nano.
To reduce the cost of the Nano Tata's engineers have virtually re-invented *how* a car is made.
So if the Nano is successful it's going to change the assembly line that was invented by Americans and perfected by the Japanese. From an engineering perspective this may have huge impact on auto industry in coming years.
One trick which I feel is a crime is to turn off traffic lights for a intersection completely with no traffic cops in sight.
Commuters think they've got a free day and race through only to find a whole army of cops just before the next intersection fining everyone for over speeding.
They're risking lives to collect traffic fines.
My kids - ages 3.5 and 5, have used TouchSmart and they take to touch intuitively. Touch is easier to learn than using a mouse. With a touch sensitive keyboard and other touch based controls usability will improve.
Interesting. Do you recall where you got this figure from. I'd love to see this.
We are a very small software development co. in India and have have been powering down everything from the beginning - mainly to save electricity costs and increase life of equipment. Now we need to have some servers available all the time and prefer to use data centers in USA for this - the reliability is awesome, we get offsite backup and are able postpone the day we need to setup high availability server infrastructure internally.
TFA says they are combining receiver reputation with IP number of the Sender.
So they are factoring in who is sending the message and the population to which the message is being sent.
NASA had to come up with something like this quickly.
They risk losing the entire low end satellite launch market to countries like China and India.
And are these robots running on Vista?
I can imagine our friends in Russia grinning from ear to ear. Botnets are getting old fashioned already. Getting to command an army of global robots much more fun.
About 10 years ago in Bangalore a software company got a piracy operation raided by the police with a bunch of floppies being the major evidence collected. When evidence was presented in court the police had punched the floppies and filed them like paper. The pirates literally laughed their way out of court.
These days the police in India are technology savvy and most serious crime cases are solved quickly within days. This is possible because criminals use technology like mobile phones and internet to plan and coordinate. For the most part people are thankful for all this - a few years ago it was looking like criminals were smarter than most people.
India had a law named Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) that had draconian provisions and was repealed by the current government. Right now there isn't any law in India to arrest people on the basis of suspicion alone. The police need solid evidence to book people under regular laws.
Episode 2.8 - Baby Grobags - is still fiction, since we can't grow humans outside a womb. We are getting there. This may be possible in a few years esp. when declining population in Europe overcomes their ethical and moral concerns. Japanese scientists have grown goat foetus in artificial womb. http://www.nrlc.org/Killing_Embryos/ArtificialWomb s.html
And premature human babies around 22 weeks now have decent survival chance.