Have barcoded boxes on the shelves. Put the books in the boxes. No need to rfid or barcode the actual books. It could be done with existing technology.
In a general sense. They won't invest in new ideas, so while you can have all the brilliant ideas you like, unless you are independantly wealthy you won't get it off the ground here.
The Ariane space agency? You mean ESA, CNSA etc. While the original poster is probably an American and can't see anything outwith the US borders, he does basically have a point that governments currently monopolise space access and by doing so they are artificially restricting development and keeping costs high.
Your analogies of the Californian power utilities and US media are not particularly apt, much better would be the airlines. Deregulation of those across Europe in the last 20 years has lead to massive competition from many new companies like RyanAir, EasyJet. I can now fly to Milan from London for £30, I can't even drive to Manchester for that amount. This would simply have been inconceivable in the days of the government monopolised, flag carrying airlines.
The time for the government monopolisation of space is past. In order for ordinary people to gain access to space travel, it must be deregulated.
This is why the key is the humanoid shape and artificial intelligence. They can then simply take over from people without having to spend time designing something specific like a burger flipping robot.
They'll start out as spectacularly expensive, military hardware and there won't be any laws preventing them from killing people. Then as the costs come down they'll end up in other hazardous situations and gradually as manufacturing capacity increases, costs will fall to the point that like the automobile/TV/mobile phone, any business could own them, but this time instead of increasing human productivity and putting relatively small percentages of the population out of work, it'll be almost everyone.
You aren't extrapolating advances in knowledge about how the human brain works. It's naive to believe that you are any more than a chemical machine which couldn't some day be replaced by something manufacturable.
If it gets really bad there will simply be revolution. As AI and robotics make larger proportions of the population economically redundant there will be increased ghettoisatisation, civil disturbance, possibly even revolution. I don't believe that capitalism will survive truely artificially intelligent humanoid robots.
Truly economy shaking. AI will have to advance significantly in order to handle our environment, I can't think of a reason it couldn't advance to the point where it can outperform most humans. This means that 90%, 95% unemployment (euphemistically called leisure time) will be the order of the day. The world economy will have to change.
They are normal lithium ion batteries, but the further you run down a lithium ion battery before recharging the fewer recharge cycles you will get out of them. The circuitry protects against gross problems like too fast charging/discharging, it doesn't protect against normal usage patterns.
e.g. http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-3 4.htm
It just means charge it up when you can rather than running it to empty before recharge.
It all depends what the definition of crime is.
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At the moment we have assault, rape, mugging, brawling, pickpocketing etc. In the UK though, we can also add... peaceful political protest.
So there you go. It all depends what the political elite think should be defined as a crime.
BTW, experience of cameras in the UK is that they don't reduce crime, at all, they just move it around a bit. Manchester for instance installed cameras throughout the city center and the result? Crime still went up 12% after they went live. Installing decent lighting is significantly cheaper and more effective.
They don't like to be repeatedly fully discharged. Fully discharging them and recharging them is the quickest way to wear them out. To get the longest use out of them recharge after every use, discharged or not.
Sure, I can't get everything on to a single card... yet... but the cards are 4Gb+ these days and batteries last much longer than players with moving parts.
First, you must have some experience of having brought another major corporation to it's knees in the past.
On a serious note, why is it that CEOs are rewarded very handsomely for poor performance and failure when the rest of us get fired when we don't get the job done, or even are perceived as not being value for money?
Hmm, scan word docs looking for legalese adding and removing the word "not" at appropriate points.
should/will/must should/will/must not
Fairly simple but that alone could cause some interesting effects on contracts etc. I'm sure there are other simple and more effective ways of changing the meaning of sentences which would require the re-reading of them by the authors to guarantee that the meaning is correct.
I didn't say anything about them being in production. It's just that the range limit problem for electric vehicles had been overcome by 1996
http://www.solectria.com/about/milestones.html Check the 1996 entry if you don't believe the 370 mile figure.
And with the rapid advance in battery technology since then (lithium ion, lithium polymer, low cost Cr-F-Li batteries and soon even more powerful Li-S), they will soon have potential ranges in the thousands of miles.
They're in testing just now, and yup, cracking is a problem which I believe they may have overcome with recent materials advances. Low thermal conductivity increases the efficiency.
Can increase the efficiency over metal based ones. The temperatures they can withstand are far higher, raising the efficiency substantially over conventional ones.
They're also much lighter, the materials don't expand/contract and can be machined to closer tolerances and they wear out much slower than metal ones.
http://www.solectria.com/products/accomp.html#sunr ise
And that was in 1997 with old NiMH batteries. Current LiONs would double that to around 700 miles and next generation Li-Ss should pretty much double that again to around 1,300 miles.
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Have barcoded boxes on the shelves. Put the books in the boxes. No need to rfid or barcode the actual books. It could be done with existing technology.
They don't know what to do with the space station?
It's obvious they should turn it into a hotel.
Yeah, there's a good excuse. "It's a kludge because we couldn't be fucked to do it properly".
They're encoding the information into TXT records! Ugh, that is a complete hack.
Why not simply create a new record type?
In a general sense. They won't invest in new ideas, so while you can have all the brilliant ideas you like, unless you are independantly wealthy you won't get it off the ground here.
The Ariane space agency? You mean ESA, CNSA etc. While the original poster is probably an American and can't see anything outwith the US borders, he does basically have a point that governments currently monopolise space access and by doing so they are artificially restricting development and keeping costs high.
Your analogies of the Californian power utilities and US media are not particularly apt, much better would be the airlines. Deregulation of those across Europe in the last 20 years has lead to massive competition from many new companies like RyanAir, EasyJet. I can now fly to Milan from London for £30, I can't even drive to Manchester for that amount. This would simply have been inconceivable in the days of the government monopolised, flag carrying airlines.
The time for the government monopolisation of space is past. In order for ordinary people to gain access to space travel, it must be deregulated.
It's all improving the Chinese economy, increasing their wages, creating markets for products which *you* make.
Coca Cola, Pepsi, Mc Donalds, KFC
You have franchises instead.
This is why the key is the humanoid shape and artificial intelligence. They can then simply take over from people without having to spend time designing something specific like a burger flipping robot.
They'll start out as spectacularly expensive, military hardware and there won't be any laws preventing them from killing people. Then as the costs come down they'll end up in other hazardous situations and gradually as manufacturing capacity increases, costs will fall to the point that like the automobile/TV/mobile phone, any business could own them, but this time instead of increasing human productivity and putting relatively small percentages of the population out of work, it'll be almost everyone.
You aren't extrapolating advances in knowledge about how the human brain works. It's naive to believe that you are any more than a chemical machine which couldn't some day be replaced by something manufacturable.
If it gets really bad there will simply be revolution. As AI and robotics make larger proportions of the population economically redundant there will be increased ghettoisatisation, civil disturbance, possibly even revolution. I don't believe that capitalism will survive truely artificially intelligent humanoid robots.
Truly economy shaking. AI will have to advance significantly in order to handle our environment, I can't think of a reason it couldn't advance to the point where it can outperform most humans. This means that 90%, 95% unemployment (euphemistically called leisure time) will be the order of the day. The world economy will have to change.
They are normal lithium ion batteries, but the further you run down a lithium ion battery before recharging the fewer recharge cycles you will get out of them. The circuitry protects against gross problems like too fast charging/discharging, it doesn't protect against normal usage patterns.
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e.g.
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-
It just means charge it up when you can rather than running it to empty before recharge.
At the moment we have assault, rape, mugging, brawling, pickpocketing etc. In the UK though, we can also add... peaceful political protest.
i gh t-to-protest.shtml
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/issues/r
So there you go. It all depends what the political elite think should be defined as a crime.
BTW, experience of cameras in the UK is that they don't reduce crime, at all, they just move it around a bit. Manchester for instance installed cameras throughout the city center and the result? Crime still went up 12% after they went live. Installing decent lighting is significantly cheaper and more effective.
Where do I sign up to get my hands on one of these?
They don't like to be repeatedly fully discharged. Fully discharging them and recharging them is the quickest way to wear them out. To get the longest use out of them recharge after every use, discharged or not.
Sure, I can't get everything on to a single card... yet... but the cards are 4Gb+ these days and batteries last much longer than players with moving parts.
Simple.
But but but what about their spouse? What about dependants? Get real... life insurance, savings, investments just like everyone else on the planet.
First, you must have some experience of having brought another major corporation to it's knees in the past.
On a serious note, why is it that CEOs are rewarded very handsomely for poor performance and failure when the rest of us get fired when we don't get the job done, or even are perceived as not being value for money?
Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Hmm, scan word docs looking for legalese adding and removing the word "not" at appropriate points.
should/will/must should/will/must not
Fairly simple but that alone could cause some interesting effects on contracts etc. I'm sure there are other simple and more effective ways of changing the meaning of sentences which would require the re-reading of them by the authors to guarantee that the meaning is correct.
I didn't say anything about them being in production. It's just that the range limit problem for electric vehicles had been overcome by 1996
http://www.solectria.com/about/milestones.html
Check the 1996 entry if you don't believe the 370 mile figure.
And with the rapid advance in battery technology since then (lithium ion, lithium polymer, low cost Cr-F-Li batteries and soon even more powerful Li-S), they will soon have potential ranges in the thousands of miles.
They're in testing just now, and yup, cracking is a problem which I believe they may have overcome with recent materials advances. Low thermal conductivity increases the efficiency.
Can increase the efficiency over metal based ones. The temperatures they can withstand are far higher, raising the efficiency substantially over conventional ones.
They're also much lighter, the materials don't expand/contract and can be machined to closer tolerances and they wear out much slower than metal ones.
http://www.solectria.com/products/accomp.html#sunr ise
And that was in 1997 with old NiMH batteries. Current LiONs would double that to around 700 miles and next generation Li-Ss should pretty much double that again to around 1,300 miles.