I was doing all that a few years before I took the actual math classes. I learned the math by programming it and creating simulations. I rarely ever use math in my field (engineering), it's mostly about getting two pieces of hardware to talk together (a dozen really). Yeah, I do math, but it's because I like it, but there are many who don't.
The most fun I ever had on a job was 80 hour weeks (70 mandatory). I was a zombie after a few months and it nearly killed me, but still it was a lot of fun. I wish I was young enough to do it again.
No it's not. A 1955 tv could not do DTV. Things were connected to the internet almost from its inception. Anything that is connected to a computer that is connected to the internet is separated only by a few lines of code.
Actually the leisure society is not that difficult to achieve and maintain. It's just a few (not to many) decades behind the modern society that people seem to want.
All problems above have been done for many decades. The only difference is now the dataflow goes through a switched packet network (invisible to the application) instead of a radio link or telephone line. So patent it because it's done on the internet of things like people patented all kinds of things that everyone did because it's now done on a computer.
ca. 1995 I put a Mr. Coffee machine on the internet with linux, pc104 and slip. In the late 80's there were all kinds of networked and remotely operated devices and sensors. Cobbling on internet connectivity is a few lines, not even dozen, of code.
Flushing the toilet from your cellphone is the goal (and trivially easy to implement), but now will take a $50/month cox cable subscription as well as half a dozen licensing fees and a $300 plumber call at 3am because a connector fell off the solenoid that replaced the handle.
Almost everyone had an idea of something you could do with the internet, good or bad or unknown. I haven't heard of a single idea of what makes the iot new or revolutionary or even evolutionary. Every idea, or even in realization, existed pre internet.
Connected predates internet. This just takes advantage of infrastructure to make it easier, but is in no way revolutionary. Maybe it is to people 'unversed in the trade' kinda like how you get patents on rounded window corners or one click ordering.
Eg, I designed and built a lab power supply. It had a digitally controlled front panel with a CPU that had built in RS-232 port. So I spent an hour hacking together a remote link so you could turn it on or off from across the lab or ramp up the power supply at a specific rate (useful when doing ceramics). It would have been mind blowingly trivial, about 20 lines of code and ten minutes to make it talk over the internet. Maybe iot is just another way of patenting trivial ideas.
I've been an embedded systems engineer since high school. Well, not officially (I am now), but building with electronics since grade school (thank you radio shack and heathkit) as well as plugging things into the internet since before it was called the internet, and I still haven't figured it out either so don't feel bad.
Why? Batteries have been researched for hundreds of years and is limited to mixing chemicals with known electric potentials. Lipo's are 25 years old now and were the last of major significance.
I have a separate shed for my solar (inverter, batteries and charger). Feeds directly into the house on a 120v line. Charger also has a programmable fan option to turn on a vent fan while charging. I don't us it, but it's there.
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I was doing all that a few years before I took the actual math classes. I learned the math by programming it and creating simulations. I rarely ever use math in my field (engineering), it's mostly about getting two pieces of hardware to talk together (a dozen really). Yeah, I do math, but it's because I like it, but there are many who don't.
Why work in the bay area then? I did tech for 30 years and only went to SF to get drunk.
Making rockets is fun!
http://phys.org/news/2011-06-a...
A clock running at 4x normal speed will be right more than twice a day.
No it's not. A 1955 tv could not do DTV. Things were connected to the internet almost from its inception. Anything that is connected to a computer that is connected to the internet is separated only by a few lines of code.
Seabirds May Be Eating Steak by 2020
Seabirds May Be Living on the Moon by 2020
Seabird May Become the Dominant Species on the Planet by 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (Note: It's not a topic you want to research unless you want to get really depressed)
Actually the leisure society is not that difficult to achieve and maintain. It's just a few (not to many) decades behind the modern society that people seem to want.
All problems above have been done for many decades. The only difference is now the dataflow goes through a switched packet network (invisible to the application) instead of a radio link or telephone line. So patent it because it's done on the internet of things like people patented all kinds of things that everyone did because it's now done on a computer.
ca. 1995 I put a Mr. Coffee machine on the internet with linux, pc104 and slip. In the late 80's there were all kinds of networked and remotely operated devices and sensors. Cobbling on internet connectivity is a few lines, not even dozen, of code.
Power line communications
dry cycle has completed Most washers run on a fixed preset timer. set your watch alarm for 24minutes. Nothing to break.
everyone needs a Thneed.
In my city, traffic lights were connected together back in the late 70's/early 80's.
Flushing the toilet from your cellphone is the goal (and trivially easy to implement), but now will take a $50/month cox cable subscription as well as half a dozen licensing fees and a $300 plumber call at 3am because a connector fell off the solenoid that replaced the handle.
1993
Washing machine, you throw a load of laundry set to wash near the end of the day
You mean like this? but with more failure modes and a higher cost?
Connected predates internet. This just takes advantage of infrastructure to make it easier, but is in no way revolutionary. Maybe it is to people 'unversed in the trade' kinda like how you get patents on rounded window corners or one click ordering. Eg, I designed and built a lab power supply. It had a digitally controlled front panel with a CPU that had built in RS-232 port. So I spent an hour hacking together a remote link so you could turn it on or off from across the lab or ramp up the power supply at a specific rate (useful when doing ceramics). It would have been mind blowingly trivial, about 20 lines of code and ten minutes to make it talk over the internet. Maybe iot is just another way of patenting trivial ideas.
So, just internet then?
I've been an embedded systems engineer since high school. Well, not officially (I am now), but building with electronics since grade school (thank you radio shack and heathkit) as well as plugging things into the internet since before it was called the internet, and I still haven't figured it out either so don't feel bad.
Ah x volts = kwh
battery tech is going to take off
Why? Batteries have been researched for hundreds of years and is limited to mixing chemicals with known electric potentials. Lipo's are 25 years old now and were the last of major significance.
I have a separate shed for my solar (inverter, batteries and charger). Feeds directly into the house on a 120v line. Charger also has a programmable fan option to turn on a vent fan while charging. I don't us it, but it's there.
Existing lithium cells don't have a known shelf-life
My laptop would beg to differ.