Big data builds -- or partners in -- new cables to mirror their cloud computing centers around the world. More than half the traffic carried by transoceanic submarine cables is between big data centers, not to people using the Net.
Tesla did not have a viable plan. In Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, W. Bernard Carlson explains that Tesla's plan was to transmit radio waves through the air and use them to draw electrical current through the ground to complete the circuit. Tesla had similar problems with other inventions of his later years; the physics didn't work. His early work on electricity was brilliant, and he was a visionary about the potential of radio signal transmission, but in his later years he fell behind the cutting edge of technology. The same happened to many other brilliant inventors.
One person bicycling to work can save the cost of a second car in a family or two-person household. I did that for years when my kids were young and I was working a few miles away, and the savings was important to our budget.
Another vote for the MS Natural Economic Keyboard. It's got just enough split to accommodate the natural position of my wrists and arms. My only complaint is that I wear them out too soon.
My name isn't common, but there must be at least 20 people who use it, and I'm the one who signed up for the first-last name domain first. So I've had some correspondence with some of them.
Google never wanted to run a national network. They wanted to force the big carriers to build a high-speed network that people could use to access Google services. The carriers wanted to sit back and collect monopoly profits and not build anything more. Now the carriers are having to build new services; they aren't everywhere yet, but they're coming. Google won, and whatever you think of Google, they helped us get more bandwidth.
The real problem is that Amazon runs on the cheap. They don't do quality control like screening products being sold or police third-party sellers effectively. They may have some algorithms, but they're not very effective. Instead, they rely on buyers or other third parties to blow the whistle on scams. Sometimes they screw up and block legitimate third-party sellers or self-publishers. And they make it hard to complain effectively or reach a human because that would cost them money.
I knew one case where a newly hired manager didn't show on the Monday morning he was supposed to start. This was somebody hired to edit a computer industry magazine that was big at the time, filling the job that my new boss had held before the publishing company had transferred him to be publisher of the magazine I worked for. I was an editorial manager at the time, so I got called into the drama.
The two magazines were at different locations, and by about 10 a.m. my boss started getting calls saying the new guy had not arrived yet. Before long, my boss called me in and started asking me what could be going on. All we could think of was that something might have happened to him, maybe a car accident or heart attack. He hadn't called or anything/
This was back in the early 80s, and my boss was around 55-60 then, and he had never heard of anything like it. I was a lot younger, and neither had I. We spent quite a while talking -- he was anxious because he had been a founder of that magazine, and knew he would have to deal with that issue as well as try to run the magazine I worked for.
The guy never showed up, and never called in. He had been working for another industry magazine in another state, and I wondered if his family had balked at moving. I could have understood that, but at 30 then, I couldn't imagine not calling to say he had a change of heart.
Looking back and reading other posts, I wonder if there may have been a problem with a recruiter. The recruiter hired to replace me when I left several months later failed to spot a serious potential issue with my replacement, although he did work out eventually.
Eudora was a wonderfully powerful and adaptable email client for the Mac. I used it until about five years ago when it finally became unreliably flaky on the Mac. It had great sorting and filtering capabilities and let me make note on emails, which makes them much more useful for me by putting them in context. It's far more flexible than Apple Mail, but it was getting very flaky in dealing with HTML mail. There were some efforts to replicate it in open-source software, but I don't think they got anywhere.
What's good enough depends on what annoys you. I recorded 4-track 1/4 inch reel to reel tape from vinyl at 3 3/4 inches per second and it was good enough for my ears. I never noticed a significant difference at 7 1/2 inches. Reel to real took a little fiddling, and careful recording, but it held up better than vinyl, which suffered scratches and pops. Reel-to-reel requires some maintenance but is fixable. Cassettes tend to be noisier, the tapes are fragile, and the drives didn't hold up, tending to jam and eat the tapes, and I never found them fixable.
What's going on is complex. Sand is being moved around a lot, as usually happens. Look at the smaller islands in Figure 3 of the (open-access) paper and you can see the above-surface part of small islands actually moves around. The sand-only islands are shrinking on average, but those with gravel are growing, probably because they catch sand being washed around. The living reefs are growing.
Overall, it's encouraging for the near term, but the authors say it is not clear if the islands can continue to maintain their sizes with the faster sea level rise of 7.4 mm/year expected in some future scenarios.
Squirrels gnawed the insulation off a neighbor's Prius here in the Boston 'burbs, so he had to have it rewired. He loaded the car with mothballs afterwards to keep them from coming back. Hadn't heard about the soy-based insulation but it makes sense. The little buggers will eat almost anything - except airline pretzels.
Two others with the same name - I think there are at least a couple dozen in the country - plus two really from me. Only one rant against net neutrality, from one of the others, and a web search confirmed such a person existed. I don't know if the silly rant was his.
A micropayment system that could pay a few pennies per story might help. It's worth 1-5 cents to take a look at a hot news story, and maybe 10-20 cents for a longer magazine read. Generate enough traffic and it will pay the bills for the real news organizations. What it takes is building a micropayment system without somebody skimming more than their share off the top of each transaction.
I don't mind paying for content I read, but I like to read varied content from different sources, so that way I could sample broadly, then subscribe to the handful I read the most. It's much better than wading through crapvertising that sometimes is carrying malware.
I tried one "smart" wireless replacement switch and it lasted maybe four years. Then I had to replace it -- and have the electrician climb into the attic to replace the the controller on the light fixture because the maker of the first one went out of business. That one lasted a year or two, and the replacement didn't work. I finally figured out it had been miswired, but that requires bringing in the electrician yet again.
We go to Whole Foods for the fresh-ground peanut butter. It's better than anything that comes in a jar, but the grinding machines need careful maintenance. Others go for fresh fruit and veggies, fresh fish, organics. That's the stuff that draws customers, but it costs money to do right. Without fresh-ground peanut butter, we don't go to WholeFoods. And if it's just another supermarket, we've got other options.
Drivers on smartphones are hazardous to everybody. Pedestrians on smartphones are hazardous to themselves. Cars can move faster, so distracted drivers are more dangerous per second distracted than slower-moving pedestrians.
And city highway departments add to the problem when they redesign busy intersections so drivers can turn into streets at the same time when pedestrians have a WALK signal to cross them.
Variable-focus lenses have been tried before, but not autofocus. A friend had a manually controlled pair from Superfocus and loved them. But Superfocus is no longer selling them. http://www.allaboutvision.com/... The mechanisms used may differ, but the function is similar.
What's new here is the autofocus feature - look at a scene, and a sensor will measure the distance and use that information to focus the lens as your visual system would do if your organic lens still had its depth adaptation capability. That's cool and potentially useful. They claim 5.8 diopter focusing range, good enough to go from distance to reading. But their prototype lens is 8.4 mm (1/3 inch) thick and weighs 14.4 gm. So there's a way to go yet.
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Stand at a busy corner and watch the drivers making left turns who are clutching a phone. It's scary how many I see.
Big data builds -- or partners in -- new cables to mirror their cloud computing centers around the world. More than half the traffic carried by transoceanic submarine cables is between big data centers, not to people using the Net.
Tesla did not have a viable plan. In Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, W. Bernard Carlson explains that Tesla's plan was to transmit radio waves through the air and use them to draw electrical current through the ground to complete the circuit. Tesla had similar problems with other inventions of his later years; the physics didn't work. His early work on electricity was brilliant, and he was a visionary about the potential of radio signal transmission, but in his later years he fell behind the cutting edge of technology. The same happened to many other brilliant inventors.
One person bicycling to work can save the cost of a second car in a family or two-person household. I did that for years when my kids were young and I was working a few miles away, and the savings was important to our budget.
Another vote for the MS Natural Economic Keyboard. It's got just enough split to accommodate the natural position of my wrists and arms. My only complaint is that I wear them out too soon.
My name isn't common, but there must be at least 20 people who use it, and I'm the one who signed up for the first-last name domain first. So I've had some correspondence with some of them.
Google never wanted to run a national network. They wanted to force the big carriers to build a high-speed network that people could use to access Google services. The carriers wanted to sit back and collect monopoly profits and not build anything more. Now the carriers are having to build new services; they aren't everywhere yet, but they're coming. Google won, and whatever you think of Google, they helped us get more bandwidth.
The real problem is that Amazon runs on the cheap. They don't do quality control like screening products being sold or police third-party sellers effectively. They may have some algorithms, but they're not very effective. Instead, they rely on buyers or other third parties to blow the whistle on scams. Sometimes they screw up and block legitimate third-party sellers or self-publishers. And they make it hard to complain effectively or reach a human because that would cost them money.
I knew one case where a newly hired manager didn't show on the Monday morning he was supposed to start. This was somebody hired to edit a computer industry magazine that was big at the time, filling the job that my new boss had held before the publishing company had transferred him to be publisher of the magazine I worked for. I was an editorial manager at the time, so I got called into the drama. The two magazines were at different locations, and by about 10 a.m. my boss started getting calls saying the new guy had not arrived yet. Before long, my boss called me in and started asking me what could be going on. All we could think of was that something might have happened to him, maybe a car accident or heart attack. He hadn't called or anything/ This was back in the early 80s, and my boss was around 55-60 then, and he had never heard of anything like it. I was a lot younger, and neither had I. We spent quite a while talking -- he was anxious because he had been a founder of that magazine, and knew he would have to deal with that issue as well as try to run the magazine I worked for. The guy never showed up, and never called in. He had been working for another industry magazine in another state, and I wondered if his family had balked at moving. I could have understood that, but at 30 then, I couldn't imagine not calling to say he had a change of heart. Looking back and reading other posts, I wonder if there may have been a problem with a recruiter. The recruiter hired to replace me when I left several months later failed to spot a serious potential issue with my replacement, although he did work out eventually.
Zelle couldn't deliver a payment to me a few months back because I don't use a smartphone to access my bank account.
Eudora was a wonderfully powerful and adaptable email client for the Mac. I used it until about five years ago when it finally became unreliably flaky on the Mac. It had great sorting and filtering capabilities and let me make note on emails, which makes them much more useful for me by putting them in context. It's far more flexible than Apple Mail, but it was getting very flaky in dealing with HTML mail. There were some efforts to replicate it in open-source software, but I don't think they got anywhere.
What's good enough depends on what annoys you. I recorded 4-track 1/4 inch reel to reel tape from vinyl at 3 3/4 inches per second and it was good enough for my ears. I never noticed a significant difference at 7 1/2 inches. Reel to real took a little fiddling, and careful recording, but it held up better than vinyl, which suffered scratches and pops. Reel-to-reel requires some maintenance but is fixable. Cassettes tend to be noisier, the tapes are fragile, and the drives didn't hold up, tending to jam and eat the tapes, and I never found them fixable.
Bought an airline ticket from Orbitz Sept 2016, got hacked around Dec 1, 2017. So I'd say it not just "may have accessed."
What's going on is complex. Sand is being moved around a lot, as usually happens. Look at the smaller islands in Figure 3 of the (open-access) paper and you can see the above-surface part of small islands actually moves around. The sand-only islands are shrinking on average, but those with gravel are growing, probably because they catch sand being washed around. The living reefs are growing. Overall, it's encouraging for the near term, but the authors say it is not clear if the islands can continue to maintain their sizes with the faster sea level rise of 7.4 mm/year expected in some future scenarios.
Squirrels gnawed the insulation off a neighbor's Prius here in the Boston 'burbs, so he had to have it rewired. He loaded the car with mothballs afterwards to keep them from coming back. Hadn't heard about the soy-based insulation but it makes sense. The little buggers will eat almost anything - except airline pretzels.
Time to start looking for the last greater fool so you can cash out on all those tulips.
Two others with the same name - I think there are at least a couple dozen in the country - plus two really from me. Only one rant against net neutrality, from one of the others, and a web search confirmed such a person existed. I don't know if the silly rant was his.
A micropayment system that could pay a few pennies per story might help. It's worth 1-5 cents to take a look at a hot news story, and maybe 10-20 cents for a longer magazine read. Generate enough traffic and it will pay the bills for the real news organizations. What it takes is building a micropayment system without somebody skimming more than their share off the top of each transaction. I don't mind paying for content I read, but I like to read varied content from different sources, so that way I could sample broadly, then subscribe to the handful I read the most. It's much better than wading through crapvertising that sometimes is carrying malware.
I tried one "smart" wireless replacement switch and it lasted maybe four years. Then I had to replace it -- and have the electrician climb into the attic to replace the the controller on the light fixture because the maker of the first one went out of business. That one lasted a year or two, and the replacement didn't work. I finally figured out it had been miswired, but that requires bringing in the electrician yet again.
Far too much white space on a desktop display, and the type is too small to just shrink it. Yech!
We go to Whole Foods for the fresh-ground peanut butter. It's better than anything that comes in a jar, but the grinding machines need careful maintenance. Others go for fresh fruit and veggies, fresh fish, organics. That's the stuff that draws customers, but it costs money to do right. Without fresh-ground peanut butter, we don't go to WholeFoods. And if it's just another supermarket, we've got other options.
We need Skype's audio quality, not more social media and advertising garbage to stumble over.
And it will kill voice mail, another example of advertising destroying something that once was useful.
Drivers on smartphones are hazardous to everybody. Pedestrians on smartphones are hazardous to themselves. Cars can move faster, so distracted drivers are more dangerous per second distracted than slower-moving pedestrians. And city highway departments add to the problem when they redesign busy intersections so drivers can turn into streets at the same time when pedestrians have a WALK signal to cross them.
Variable-focus lenses have been tried before, but not autofocus. A friend had a manually controlled pair from Superfocus and loved them. But Superfocus is no longer selling them. http://www.allaboutvision.com/... The mechanisms used may differ, but the function is similar. What's new here is the autofocus feature - look at a scene, and a sensor will measure the distance and use that information to focus the lens as your visual system would do if your organic lens still had its depth adaptation capability. That's cool and potentially useful. They claim 5.8 diopter focusing range, good enough to go from distance to reading. But their prototype lens is 8.4 mm (1/3 inch) thick and weighs 14.4 gm. So there's a way to go yet.