Even more importantly, tags were meant to be universal and compatible: a medium of sharing and conveying info across the blogosphere Oh my god what rubbish.
Mostly due to low quality social housing of the past. It isn't necessarily the case though, there are pre-fabricators who will design a house to your spec, manufacture it in a factory and build it on site.
Supply and demand. Sure it'll start that way, but as the number of robots increase, competition will push down the price. Of course supply also depends on land, planning permission, business regulations etc.
Do you really want to live in a concrete house in the English climate? Concrete is good for tropical and warm climates where rainfall is not too high, but in the UK where humidity is high most of the year it is a recipe for damp and mould. And, as the formet Soviet Union showed us, it does not make for a particularly attractive architecture. Nothing to do with concrete. You can build pretty much anything you like with concrete. The Romans used it thousands of years ago.
This is just a symptom of the systems we're putting in place. They're over complex and as a result unreliable, expensive and difficult to maintain, requiring relatively menial maintenance which shouldn't really be the responsibility of the user.
Users should simply be able to sit down at a system, log in and have all of the applications they need (and no more) available at the touch of a button. They should be unable to break the system, or otherwise infect it with spyware or viruses. And it should work that way day in, day out without fail.
Everyone would be happy. The users would have a consistent, easy to use and reliable system which means they wouldn't have to call IT three times a day. IT would be able to add value to the business, increase business productivity instead of having to fight fires or re-train users constantly.
We use ICEs primarily because of their ability to provide instant torque, without that requirement there's no particular reason (beyond cost) to use them, they're cheap and well tested but require regular maintenance, have large numbers of moving parts and are relatively heavy for the power they produce.
Given a couple of years of manufacturing and both Stirlings and gas turbines will be cheaper to manufacture, they're simpler with fewer moving parts as well as being more efficient.
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and we're stuck maintaining or converting an app in a technology we wouldn't have chosen that looks like it was designed by a pack of drunken monkeys. And yet it performs a useful function for the business... If you don't like it, you could always move to a different job or business.
Or.
Perhaps you might want to extend your remit to advocating the technologies you would choose, to the business management. Perhaps you might even want to create a development environment for personnel to produce adhoc applications in the technologies you prefer. Or shock, horror, you could even provide that service within the IT department and actively go looking for opportunities to improve productivity.
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As horrible as it might be and as crap as the developers may be, they actually produce useful software. VB is programming for people who don't really want to program. They don't want to learn a beautiful or elegant language they just want the result to be x, y and z and they don't care how to get there, they don't even care very much about performance. It's good enough and that's all that matters.
Dont li-ion batteries lose capacity rather quickly? Not any more. They last the life of the vehicle. 9000 cycles at say 250 miles per charge is 2,250,000 miles. At say 20,000 miles per year the battery should last about a hundred years. My last car started falling apart after about 15 years.
Is it significantly better than a gas turbine or Stirling engine? If not, it might be better to run a Diesel powered gas turbine to charge the battery.
Build a search engine which reads my mind better than google does and brings me results which are more relevant. Perhaps something which learns what I want and what I don't.
they use an on page keypad where the numbers change position each time you use it. It defeats keystroke and pointer position loggers.
In terms of "something you have", you could try securid. There are agents and software tokens available for phones and the like. Or say, a security code sent out with every paper statement.
Two sets of standards is economically inefficient and introduces conversion error. NASA famously missed hitting a planet due to conversion error. Not exactly getting on fine.
Actually, most of the world measures fuel economy in liters per 100km. So that should be: It's much easier to just divide the number of miles/kilometers on the trip meter by the number of litres on the petrol pump to work out the real fuel economy. I wouldn't actually mind ml per km but why the arbitrary 100 multiplier thing?
It's always feet and inches when buying anything in hardware stores for example. I just installed an electric fire, millimeters. Shelves... Millimeters. You want nails, screws? millimeters, nuts bolts, millimeters. Fuel, litres. Milk, water, orange juice; litres. Cheese, meat, fruit, coffee kilograms.
It's all metric but for a couple of cases. Cars and roads being the notable ones. given the cost of changing all the signs at once it's easy to see why. The UK government should just begin introducing km signs to replace old ones.
Everybody here uses metric daily (including you) and it works just fine.
That explains all. Looks like intelligent design didn't quite work out for him! And yet he's out-evolving you. By having 7 children his genes are going to push yours out of the population.
When I'm really inebriated and need to come down fast, I just think of how many manufacturing concerns there were in the US 20 years ago. Then I drive home and count the number remaining in my community. Guaranteed buzzkill. Piece of genius created in the early 1970s when the OPEC nations were persuaded to sell oil in dollars only. It created a huge demand for dollars. Made America very wealthy and Americans almost unemployably expensive. The same will happen to the EU if the Euro replaces the dollar as the main reserve currency.
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Mostly due to low quality social housing of the past. It isn't necessarily the case though, there are pre-fabricators who will design a house to your spec, manufacture it in a factory and build it on site.
e.g.
http://www.maplehomes.com/
http://www.yurtworks.com/
http://www.potton.co.uk/
Supply and demand. Sure it'll start that way, but as the number of robots increase, competition will push down the price. Of course supply also depends on land, planning permission, business regulations etc.
The profit is in the £500,000 you charge at the end and saving £50,000 on the build.
http://www.romanconcrete.com/photos.htm
This is just a symptom of the systems we're putting in place. They're over complex and as a result unreliable, expensive and difficult to maintain, requiring relatively menial maintenance which shouldn't really be the responsibility of the user.
Users should simply be able to sit down at a system, log in and have all of the applications they need (and no more) available at the touch of a button. They should be unable to break the system, or otherwise infect it with spyware or viruses. And it should work that way day in, day out without fail.
Everyone would be happy. The users would have a consistent, easy to use and reliable system which means they wouldn't have to call IT three times a day. IT would be able to add value to the business, increase business productivity instead of having to fight fires or re-train users constantly.
Really this is down to poor IT leadership.
We use ICEs primarily because of their ability to provide instant torque, without that requirement there's no particular reason (beyond cost) to use them, they're cheap and well tested but require regular maintenance, have large numbers of moving parts and are relatively heavy for the power they produce.
Given a couple of years of manufacturing and both Stirlings and gas turbines will be cheaper to manufacture, they're simpler with fewer moving parts as well as being more efficient.
Or.
Perhaps you might want to extend your remit to advocating the technologies you would choose, to the business management. Perhaps you might even want to create a development environment for personnel to produce adhoc applications in the technologies you prefer. Or shock, horror, you could even provide that service within the IT department and actively go looking for opportunities to improve productivity.
As horrible as it might be and as crap as the developers may be, they actually produce useful software. VB is programming for people who don't really want to program. They don't want to learn a beautiful or elegant language they just want the result to be x, y and z and they don't care how to get there, they don't even care very much about performance. It's good enough and that's all that matters.
http://www.altairnano.com/markets_amps.html#temper ature
e.g.
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?rele
Is it significantly better than a gas turbine or Stirling engine? If not, it might be better to run a Diesel powered gas turbine to charge the battery.
Build a search engine which reads my mind better than google does and brings me results which are more relevant. Perhaps something which learns what I want and what I don't.
they use an on page keypad where the numbers change position each time you use it. It defeats keystroke and pointer position loggers.
In terms of "something you have", you could try securid. There are agents and software tokens available for phones and the like. Or say, a security code sent out with every paper statement.
That'd be that there are "email designers"...
Though I have no idea what's wrong with Joules.
Two sets of standards is economically inefficient and introduces conversion error. NASA famously missed hitting a planet due to conversion error. Not exactly getting on fine.
It's all metric but for a couple of cases. Cars and roads being the notable ones. given the cost of changing all the signs at once it's easy to see why. The UK government should just begin introducing km signs to replace old ones.
Everybody here uses metric daily (including you) and it works just fine.
The only value something (anything) has is the demand for the item... The want for it.
e.g.
http://www.quiverfull.com/
Open Office is an office suite, ODF a file format.
The functionality of Outlook & Exchange can be replaced through the use of CalDAV/LDAP/IMAP/SMTP/NNTP & Evolution.