mod parent up. look at the housing markets of hong kong or japan - down 2/3 from highs taking >10 years to recover in hk case, and still havent recovered in over 15 years in japan.
I remember reading before the internet that France had some internet for their country. It was much like our gopher system in the early days of the internet. But everyone was identifiable, and they could remove useless content. I think I remember reading it is still popular and is in use. I wish I could remember the name of it.
The bank I work for currently stores 1.5 Tb a day worth of data. Almost none of it is ever looked at again, but a huge proportion of it is required by regulators. Of course this all goes on tape, since there is no requirement for speedy access.
I went to Cambridge in England and studied Maths as an undergrad. Whilst I was there lecture notes were starting to be distributed by the web, and were a useful source of information (and still are). However they were no subsititute for attending a lecture - by reading a text book you have no idea where a section is difficult and you should take time over it, or where a section is easy and you can skim over it. This is easy to figure out if you go to a lecture. The most valuable seciton of the course though was the supervisions which took students through problems to teach them by experience.
A collection of some of the lecture notes is available at:
a rather harder technical prank (IMHO) involving vehicles in mysterious places at Cambridge University can be found
here.
"At six in the morning on Sunday, 8 June 1958, an early bird on the watch for worms in the Senate House lawn would have seen a strange sight. On the steep slates of the Seely Library there sat, huddled together with a faraway look in their eyes, three admiring policemen, a professional photographer in morning dress, two plimsolled undergraduates who looked as if they had not slept that night, and a shivering girl. Opposite them, on the leaded apex of the 85 ft high Senate House was parked an elderly black Austin Seven van, battered but outwardly complete. The roof party had climbed up convenient scaffolding to get a better view of this phenomenon. I cannot vouch for the policemens' thoughts - it was too late to prove any suspicions they may have had - but for one of the undergraduates this was the moment of victory, the climax to a year of dreams"
Slashdot Mirror
That's more because in hong kong other non electric cars have a ~100% import tax, versus none for the tesla.
think the AMULET (out of Manchester University ?) was an earlier asynchronous chip
mod parent up. look at the housing markets of hong kong or japan - down 2/3 from highs taking >10 years to recover in hk case, and still havent recovered in over 15 years in japan.
Minitel is what you're looking for
The bank I work for currently stores 1.5 Tb a day worth of data. Almost none of it is ever looked at again, but a huge proportion of it is required by regulators. Of course this all goes on tape, since there is no requirement for speedy access.
Until it comes to succession...
A collection of some of the lecture notes is available at:
notes.htm
and "how to listen to a lecture is at":
Lecture.ps
"At six in the morning on Sunday, 8 June 1958, an early bird on the watch for worms in the Senate House lawn would have seen a strange sight. On the steep slates of the Seely Library there sat, huddled together with a faraway look in their eyes, three admiring policemen, a professional photographer in morning dress, two plimsolled undergraduates who looked as if they had not slept that night, and a shivering girl. Opposite them, on the leaded apex of the 85 ft high Senate House was parked an elderly black Austin Seven van, battered but outwardly complete. The roof party had climbed up convenient scaffolding to get a better view of this phenomenon. I cannot vouch for the policemens' thoughts - it was too late to prove any suspicions they may have had - but for one of the undergraduates this was the moment of victory, the climax to a year of dreams"