OK, first of all, much of this is cultural Second, this is "new development" Third, this is not pervasive. This is like talking about new services in some of the biggest coastal cities (the gold coast).
Having lived in Asia, I found myself saying "Hmm, I've seen a lot of this before elsewhere".
I would break the article down into these areas: Parts 1 (Cell phones), 7 (Wireless service bells), 8 (Parking data)
These are new developments, allowed by the jump allowed by not having an infrastructure. They are being done elsewhere, but it's a "wow, we hopped by the stuff over there"
Parts 2, 3, 9, 10
These I know I have seen in Hong Kong and Singapore, to name some places. They styles may be new, but timed lights are nothing, really.
Seating in Asian theaters has often been by row and seat number, and I have used touch screen theater seating (even self serve) way back in 1998 in Singapore.
Parts 4 5
These are cultural. Shoot, there's a park near my house that has exercise path. That's not so uncommon. As for a place for people to congregate, that's also because there's not a lot of privacy living in a multigenerational house.
Anti-theft slipcovers. Nice touch, but cultural and talks about the problems due to the range of incomes there.
All and all, this smells like someone who is either bragging or suffering some "culture shock" that China isn't the backward place so often projected in the west.
FYI, this is old news. Started in 2002, and I was given a bottle at the Singapore National Day Parade (2002).
So, it's mega filtered. Yes, the concept is *yech*, but astronauts and others do this type of reuse.
It's a water issue in the area driving it, like it will in other places sooner than later. Malaysia and Singapore don't see eye-to-eye on fresh water rights...
So before you condemn, it's still better than many 'local', rural water sources to the north.
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OK, first of all, much of this is cultural
Second, this is "new development"
Third, this is not pervasive. This is like talking about new services in some of the biggest coastal cities (the gold coast).
Having lived in Asia, I found myself saying "Hmm, I've seen a lot of this before elsewhere".
I would break the article down into these areas:
Parts 1 (Cell phones), 7 (Wireless service bells), 8 (Parking data)
These are new developments, allowed by the jump allowed by not having an infrastructure. They are being done elsewhere, but it's a "wow, we hopped by the stuff over there"
Parts 2, 3, 9, 10
These I know I have seen in Hong Kong and Singapore, to name some places. They styles may be new, but timed lights are nothing, really.
Seating in Asian theaters has often been by row and seat number, and I have used touch screen theater seating (even self serve) way back in 1998 in Singapore.
Parts 4 5
These are cultural. Shoot, there's a park near my house that has exercise path. That's not so uncommon. As for a place for people to congregate, that's also because there's not a lot of privacy living in a multigenerational house.
Anti-theft slipcovers. Nice touch, but cultural and talks about the problems due to the range of incomes there.
All and all, this smells like someone who is either bragging or suffering some "culture shock" that China isn't the backward place so often projected in the west.
FYI, this is old news. Started in 2002, and I was given a bottle at the Singapore National Day Parade (2002).
So, it's mega filtered. Yes, the concept is *yech*, but astronauts and others do this type of reuse.
It's a water issue in the area driving it, like it will in other places sooner than later. Malaysia and Singapore don't see eye-to-eye on fresh water rights...
So before you condemn, it's still better than many 'local', rural water sources to the north.
Hey, this has already been doing this for years.
Pretty cool, but I wish they would do tricolor lasers and then blast full color into they eye. Power might be an issue... ah, retina over easy?
But at the Gateway in Austin, there's a 6 foot tall cutout of I with "robot" running down the I and "staring 'Will Smith'. That clued us in.
3 laws safe....
Isn't this what Micro$oft 2003 server with ShadowCopy is for?
Duh,
747 orbits 300 miles from target area (say over well defended battle group) at 40,000 feet.
Hostile country launches missle
Infrared and other detectors spot it.
Point laser
*** FIRE ***
Laser moves 186,000 mps, much faster than the missle. Speed of platform and target (almost) irrelavent.
This is most overlooked: Many, many watches failed this Y2K event! At least 1/3 on the floor I work on.