Don't know why you say it's an Apple issue because in Canada the iPhone has always been available unlocked from Apple the day they come out even when all of the carriers wouldn't sell you an unlocked phone.
Don't know if it would really be more convenient since then you would have to remember to scan the items when you use them, or at the very least when they are done. If you forget to scan them when they are finished you'll get warnings about food that is about to expire that you already ate. And you probably want to scan the food every time so it can nag you to use the other package as it is going to expire sooner. No thanks, I'll pass on that.
And for having things like the Nest memorize my behaviour in order to save me some money. It's a nice idea in theory but I don't like the practice. Chips are powerful enough that they don't need to send my data off to Google to perform that analysis. If you want me to pay $250 for a thermostat then my data stays with me. If you want my data then give me the thermostat for free. I know they are making money with that data analysis or else Google wouldn't have spent $3.2B on Nest.
Let's take more plant material off of the land which means that we'll have to replace the nutrients. We do that with fertilizer (most of it derived from fossil fuels) that don't completely stay in the fields and contaminate our waterways. Wonderful.
Instead of having a camera taking a picture of a chalkboard every X minutes all the time and uploading the pictures to a website how about replacing the chalkboard with a monitor that shows the menu from the website. Then change the menu on the website to look like a chalkboard. When the chef or manager wants to update the menu they use the computer in the office to change the file and upload the changes to the website. The display in the restaurant would get updated (it could poll the web server every minute or ten) automatically. Plus the menu becomes more accessible to those with disabilities.
You mean terminals in the US. In Canada we've had terminals capable of dealing with NFC enabled credit cards since at least 2007. With MasterCard they called it PayPass.
Try the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. The first two (The Name of the Wind, The Wise Man's Fear) of the trilogy are out now. I enjoyed them much more than GoT.
Wondering who is going to be sending mail after a nuclear war. I think the water bill can wait and Sears isn't going to be doing mail order for a while.
That's okay, we have plans for stopping you from invading. Just leave lots of cases of real beer across the border. You guys won't be able to handle it and we can counterattack.
I read a lot of books but am lousy at remembering the titles. If asked that question about the books I've read concerning food and agriculture I know that I've read at least four in the past year but can only remember the title of one, Cooked. I can give the summary of three but the title escapes me. One of my favourite authors is Patrick Rothfuss and I can remember he's writing The Kingkiller Chronicle but can't remember the books in it.
I'm not familiar how California does their licenses and insurance. Are they tied together so that when you renew your plates you are also paying for your insurance?
A lot of the things they are proposing I don't really need. I don't need my dishwasher or laundry machine to tweet me when they are done. Why? Because I run them in the middle of the night when the electricity is cheaper. I don't care when they finish. Besides if I did care they have this feature called a beep or chime. The Nest had a bit of attraction to me until I found out that all of the information was being sent to a central server. Surely processors are powerful enough that the predictions could be calculated on the thermostat itself. It's bad enough that I'm stuck with a smart meter. I don't need my habits being tracked by another organization. Besides my non-connected programmable thermostat is more than good enough.
I could see a smoke detector with some sort of thermal scanner that would only detect fires that would contact the fire department in emergencies being quite handy. But for the most part I see the Internet of things as doing stuff because we can do them and not because we need them.
I'll get right on it. Oh wait, I remember now, every time I've used a Blackberry I've hated the experience. If I developed apps for your devices then I'd have to use them. No thanks.
I think it was in the 1980s that the business world stopped being a place where you could join a company and expect it to look after you in return for your loyalty. I don't know why the author thinks the tech industry is so special that it would be immune from this.
One thing driving this, or at least in the past that I have seen, is that people are brought onto projects when there is the ability to do so, not when there is the need to. So when the times are good you expand your workforce even if you don't really have need to. Then when things look bad you let them go.
In one company I was doing some contracting for their managers level was determined by the number of people reporting to them. This led to a lot of fighting for projects and a lot of people being hired. And a couple of the "software engineers" were lucky to be able to turn on the computers at the start of the day.
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Don't know why you say it's an Apple issue because in Canada the iPhone has always been available unlocked from Apple the day they come out even when all of the carriers wouldn't sell you an unlocked phone.
Don't know if it would really be more convenient since then you would have to remember to scan the items when you use them, or at the very least when they are done. If you forget to scan them when they are finished you'll get warnings about food that is about to expire that you already ate. And you probably want to scan the food every time so it can nag you to use the other package as it is going to expire sooner. No thanks, I'll pass on that.
And for having things like the Nest memorize my behaviour in order to save me some money. It's a nice idea in theory but I don't like the practice. Chips are powerful enough that they don't need to send my data off to Google to perform that analysis. If you want me to pay $250 for a thermostat then my data stays with me. If you want my data then give me the thermostat for free. I know they are making money with that data analysis or else Google wouldn't have spent $3.2B on Nest.
Have to change modes to hit esc is a big fail. Real developers use vi!
Let's take more plant material off of the land which means that we'll have to replace the nutrients. We do that with fertilizer (most of it derived from fossil fuels) that don't completely stay in the fields and contaminate our waterways. Wonderful.
Where this sort of thing will happen a lot more often when relatively untrained (driving compared to a pilot) people will be in control.
There's lots of good music being made. But then I listen to indie artists so my experience may not be typical.
The camera hanging from the ceiling like the submitter wants to have kind of takes away from the low tech feeling from scene.
Instead of having a camera taking a picture of a chalkboard every X minutes all the time and uploading the pictures to a website how about replacing the chalkboard with a monitor that shows the menu from the website. Then change the menu on the website to look like a chalkboard. When the chef or manager wants to update the menu they use the computer in the office to change the file and upload the changes to the website. The display in the restaurant would get updated (it could poll the web server every minute or ten) automatically. Plus the menu becomes more accessible to those with disabilities.
You mean terminals in the US. In Canada we've had terminals capable of dealing with NFC enabled credit cards since at least 2007. With MasterCard they called it PayPass.
Try the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. The first two (The Name of the Wind, The Wise Man's Fear) of the trilogy are out now. I enjoyed them much more than GoT.
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Wondering who is going to be sending mail after a nuclear war. I think the water bill can wait and Sears isn't going to be doing mail order for a while.
That's okay, we have plans for stopping you from invading. Just leave lots of cases of real beer across the border. You guys won't be able to handle it and we can counterattack.
Or if someone wanted to attack police officers they would probably go to a police station. Might be one or two hanging around there.
I read a lot of books but am lousy at remembering the titles. If asked that question about the books I've read concerning food and agriculture I know that I've read at least four in the past year but can only remember the title of one, Cooked. I can give the summary of three but the title escapes me. One of my favourite authors is Patrick Rothfuss and I can remember he's writing The Kingkiller Chronicle but can't remember the books in it.
I'm not familiar how California does their licenses and insurance. Are they tied together so that when you renew your plates you are also paying for your insurance?
I'm trying to install Solaris on my Vic 20 but transferring the CDs over to cassettes is taking forever!
UPS can't even find the time to knock or ring the doorbell when they deliver a package so I never know when it shows up.
A lot of the things they are proposing I don't really need. I don't need my dishwasher or laundry machine to tweet me when they are done. Why? Because I run them in the middle of the night when the electricity is cheaper. I don't care when they finish. Besides if I did care they have this feature called a beep or chime. The Nest had a bit of attraction to me until I found out that all of the information was being sent to a central server. Surely processors are powerful enough that the predictions could be calculated on the thermostat itself. It's bad enough that I'm stuck with a smart meter. I don't need my habits being tracked by another organization. Besides my non-connected programmable thermostat is more than good enough.
I could see a smoke detector with some sort of thermal scanner that would only detect fires that would contact the fire department in emergencies being quite handy. But for the most part I see the Internet of things as doing stuff because we can do them and not because we need them.
Are we this dumb? Yes, apparently we are. We haven't grasped the idea of just because we can do something doesn't mean that we have to do it.
Oh come on, it's got lad in the domain name. It's obviously a site for child porn!
I know that Nick Frost has done a lot of projects with Simon Pegg but I'd see Brian Blessed as Harry Mudd instead.
With a cricket bat!
I'll get right on it. Oh wait, I remember now, every time I've used a Blackberry I've hated the experience. If I developed apps for your devices then I'd have to use them. No thanks.
I think it was in the 1980s that the business world stopped being a place where you could join a company and expect it to look after you in return for your loyalty. I don't know why the author thinks the tech industry is so special that it would be immune from this.
One thing driving this, or at least in the past that I have seen, is that people are brought onto projects when there is the ability to do so, not when there is the need to. So when the times are good you expand your workforce even if you don't really have need to. Then when things look bad you let them go.
In one company I was doing some contracting for their managers level was determined by the number of people reporting to them. This led to a lot of fighting for projects and a lot of people being hired. And a couple of the "software engineers" were lucky to be able to turn on the computers at the start of the day.