The USA has always prioritised private company profits over people. Here in civilised countries like Australia we have: Unfair dismissal laws The right to made a permanent employee after six months 4 weeks paid holiday, 1 weeks sick leave as a minimum Universal health care Fair trade bodies Truth in advertising (yes companies often fined for fibbing) No phones ringing with spam calls and faked caller ID Metric Police we trust High minimum wage so dumb people have a life.... and with this evil socialism, companies still make a decent profit...
AI is bit a of dumb term. Automation and closed loop feedback would be a better description for what is happening in mining. For example Rio have recently completed a large automated heavy rail network in Australia. http://www.railpage.com.au/new... Companies like http://www.petradatascience.co... are using big data to increase reliability and reduce ore dilution.
Take for example sub level mining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... A phd was recently presented that looked at three parameters to do with explosive density, ring spacing & tunnel spacing and dilution and fragmentation. It found varying just these three parameters had the OPPOSITE effect to what was commonly understood by industry. AI is useless unless you understand the fundamentals!
Now here where you get the big culture differences. A consultant plans the mine, a contractor builds out the infrastructure (which can be $5 Billion+), and someone else operates the mine. The operator just cares about pulling out as much ore as possible. To do real R&D that helps improve mine productivity, usually involves disruptions, which means preparing budgets years in advance and executing programs over multiple years, then trying to convince the operator to change their process based on the R&D. It takes a lot of effort, money and time. For example: to drill one 100mm hole 1km long to put sensors in, can cost one million dollars!
So yes, tech continues to ramp up in mines, with increased sensors, automation and data feedback, but the gains are slow and hard won!
I think it's an American consumerism thing. If you as a seller deliver goods that are as stated and not defective, should limit the right for a buyer to return them. Why should the seller have to bear the cost of your fickle choice.
Yep. Consumerism is a disease. My 15 YO son gave me the 'if you love me' line for a pair of shoes that sold out in few hours (only to be scalped online the next day). I didn't buy them and he is still alive!
If scalpers are making a profit, then the sellers need to raise their prices!
This is the reason I use Firefox. I do electronic design and often have 100 tabs open. Chrome had experimental vertical tabs then some dweeb developer decided no one needed them. Do it now. Type in tree style tabs into FF and live a more productive life! Not my windows start menu also love as a vertical tab, which makes sense since Hollywood forced us all to 16:9
NFC (Near Field Coupling) is primarily inductive coupling, mostly in the ISM band of 13.56MHz. NFC antennas are small compared to their wavelength making them very inefficient far field radiators, but fine at near field inductive coupling.
Think of near field as the area in which you can influence the radiating device and far field as the propagating wave that has 'left' the radiating device. Near fields attenuate 1/r3 to distance compared 1/r for Far fields. Thus it is difficult to pick up NFC comms unless you are very close.
We use to manufacture alcohol breathalysers.. the proper ones that used used platinum cell catalysation. Alcohol in the blood has a ratio to alcohol in the breath of 2300:1. This is why law enforcement in many countries can prosecute based on breath alcohol sample because of its well established ratio to what's in your blood. So we were approached to do the same for 'weed' aka THC. There is a dye called Fast Blue B that changes colour in the presence of THC vapour. Well, to cut a very long and interesting story short, it turns out there is no real relation to THC in blood to breath because of the volatility difference of the molecules. Glucose is another dastardly hard thing to measure without going directly to blood. The holy grail of reliable non invasive glucose monitoring for diabetics is still elusive, but good on Alphabet (such a dumb name) for trying.
I played a dozen times on my sons computer and found that I spend 15minutes roaming collecting my loot, then bam I die, often never seeing who got me. Gets boring after a while. Yes, I suck, but the long respawn times and low success rates made me lose interest pretty quick.
If you have a penis but want to be called a woman, then my gut response is you have a mental health issue. It doesn't mean I hate you, or wish anything bad to happen to you but I would treat you with caution, because if you deny fundamental biological reality then that may be symptomatic of other mental issues.
I did the training for CMC (Chrome Management Console) for a non school related project and I can see why schools are adopting it. CMC is WAY easier for IT admins to use over active directory. You can control exactly what version of chrome devices use, when they update, what wifi networks they can connect to, what apps are allowed, where devices are (on a map even!), high security built in and its cheap. Its as close to nirvana that overworked school IT pros can get.
AD will still win on corporate networks, but MS have lost the education space and the mobile/cell phone space. Unfortunately their office/Win10 grip will hold firm in the corporate space for the foreseeable future.
Clive Palmer is a local billionaire mining magnate/nutter has been trying to get this project up since 2012. Famous for starting a political party that went nowhere, buying up a north Queensland nickle refinery that then went broke and buying a nice local resort in coolum that also went broke after he put garish models of dinosaurs in it. He also seems to love litigation... so i hope he doesn't read my post! I'll believe it when I see it.
Really, its a click bait question. An automated car seeing a pedestrian it may collide with with will brake as hard as possible while avoiding other obstacles and staying in its prescribed lane. The chances of this happening as well as the car having to swerve into an obstacle that would also injure the driver is so small as to be irrelevant noise.
Seriously. Iran had a moderate shah who was overthrown by the USA. Iran has never gone to war, unlike the USA which has attacked many middle eastern countries without due cause (except for oil)
I've been running various versions of ms exchange for 15 years now for 50 people. I now use an external spam filtering service (spamhero). I would average about 2 days a year on it and can't even remember the last time it went down.
Scooters have a fundamental problem for adults. Small wheels combined with high centre of gravity gives a very small reaction time for unexpected or misjudged obstacles. Who funds this crap anyway? Too easy too steal, too easy to have accidents, littering side walks. What's wrong with 'gasp' walking?
Which is why the USA has been really quiet about the Syria conflict lately. America did a deal with Saudi Arabia to always price it's oil in USD, which we call the petrodollar. This has been critical to USA world power and why the Saudis get a free pass when most of 9/11 attackers came from there and they fund much of the worlds Islamic terrorism.
USAs relationship with the Saudis has always puzzled me. The Saudis were mostly responsible for 9/11 and funded much of the Islamic terrorism around the world. So why does the USA give them a free pass? The most simple explanation, is Saudi Arabia promised to always sell oil in USD in return for protection. The Petro dollar is critical to the USD, and every country that has dared sell on the world stage in another currency has met with the wrath of either the CIA or US military. This relationship is criminally sad.
From Wikipedia. The Associated Press reported in 2018 that "Xi is waging the most severe systematic suppression of Christianity in the country since religious freedom was written into the Chinese constitution in 1982.", which has involved "destroying crosses, burning bibles, shutting churches and ordering followers to sign papers renouncing their faith
I belong to a Christian community and am from Australia where the vaccine was invented and there is ZERO objection to it here. The real problem is your screwed up healthcare system that throws poor people on the scrapheap of humanity. Our vaccination rates are high, simply because it is given free of charge to all school girls during school hours. No need to drag your bigotry into the discussion.
So why Just boards? What about Primary school teacers, nurses, childcare workers.... Or riggers, pipeline workers, garbage collectors. Equality of opportunity NOT outcome. Today it is women on boards, tomorrow it is non binary black... It nuts because requiring women IS discrimination, discrimination against who might be the best fit for the job by excluding 50% of the candidates.
I've noticed in my business world, skype is rarely used anymore. It's either zoom or less often google meetings. The Skype UI is confusing, the whole business skype/normal skype was confusing. (Hello windows and windows RT!, and having the same Microsoft login name requiring different accounts because they still have two different back ends that are not fully integrated)
I think, once you become a big fat bloated organization, innovation becomes almost impossible.
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The USA has always prioritised private company profits over people. ... and with this evil socialism, companies still make a decent profit...
Here in civilised countries like Australia we have:
Unfair dismissal laws
The right to made a permanent employee after six months
4 weeks paid holiday, 1 weeks sick leave as a minimum
Universal health care
Fair trade bodies
Truth in advertising (yes companies often fined for fibbing)
No phones ringing with spam calls and faked caller ID
Metric
Police we trust
High minimum wage so dumb people have a life.
Our business is one of the leaders in sensors for underground mines, so we are privy to the culture of some of the biggest players in this space.
Check this out as an example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... as to where at least cave style mining is heading.
AI is bit a of dumb term. Automation and closed loop feedback would be a better description for what is happening in mining. For example Rio have recently completed a large automated heavy rail network in Australia. http://www.railpage.com.au/new...
Companies like http://www.petradatascience.co... are using big data to increase reliability and reduce ore dilution.
Take for example sub level mining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
A phd was recently presented that looked at three parameters to do with explosive density, ring spacing & tunnel spacing and dilution and fragmentation. It found varying just these three parameters had the OPPOSITE effect to what was commonly understood by industry. AI is useless unless you understand the fundamentals!
Now here where you get the big culture differences. A consultant plans the mine, a contractor builds out the infrastructure (which can be $5 Billion+), and someone else operates the mine. The operator just cares about pulling out as much ore as possible. To do real R&D that helps improve mine productivity, usually involves disruptions, which means preparing budgets years in advance and executing programs over multiple years, then trying to convince the operator to change their process based on the R&D. It takes a lot of effort, money and time. For example: to drill one 100mm hole 1km long to put sensors in, can cost one million dollars!
So yes, tech continues to ramp up in mines, with increased sensors, automation and data feedback, but the gains are slow and hard won!
If you have lots of tabs open, use Firefox and treestyle tabs. Thank me later!
I think it's an American consumerism thing.
If you as a seller deliver goods that are as stated and not defective, should limit the right for a buyer to return them.
Why should the seller have to bear the cost of your fickle choice.
Yep. Consumerism is a disease.
My 15 YO son gave me the 'if you love me' line for a pair of shoes that sold out in few hours (only to be scalped online the next day).
I didn't buy them and he is still alive!
If scalpers are making a profit, then the sellers need to raise their prices!
This is the reason I use Firefox.
I do electronic design and often have 100 tabs open.
Chrome had experimental vertical tabs then some dweeb developer decided no one needed them.
Do it now. Type in tree style tabs into FF and live a more productive life!
Not my windows start menu also love as a vertical tab, which makes sense since Hollywood forced us all to 16:9
You forget the micro controller space where code is 99% C and C++
"NFC chip" (whatever that is)
NFC (Near Field Coupling) is primarily inductive coupling, mostly in the ISM band of 13.56MHz.
NFC antennas are small compared to their wavelength making them very inefficient far field radiators, but fine at near field inductive coupling.
Think of near field as the area in which you can influence the radiating device and far field as the propagating wave that has 'left' the radiating device.
Near fields attenuate 1/r3 to distance compared 1/r for Far fields. Thus it is difficult to pick up NFC comms unless you are very close.
We use to manufacture alcohol breathalysers.. the proper ones that used used platinum cell catalysation. Alcohol in the blood has a ratio to alcohol in the breath of 2300:1. This is why law enforcement in many countries can prosecute based on breath alcohol sample because of its well established ratio to what's in your blood.
So we were approached to do the same for 'weed' aka THC. There is a dye called Fast Blue B that changes colour in the presence of THC vapour. Well, to cut a very long and interesting story short, it turns out there is no real relation to THC in blood to breath because of the volatility difference of the molecules.
Glucose is another dastardly hard thing to measure without going directly to blood. The holy grail of reliable non invasive glucose monitoring for diabetics is still elusive, but good on Alphabet (such a dumb name) for trying.
Seriously,
You spend 250k capturing footage and don't have ANY backups?
I played a dozen times on my sons computer and found that I spend 15minutes roaming collecting my loot, then bam I die, often never seeing who got me. Gets boring after a while.
Yes, I suck, but the long respawn times and low success rates made me lose interest pretty quick.
If you have a penis but want to be called a woman, then my gut response is you have a mental health issue. It doesn't mean I hate you, or wish anything bad to happen to you but I would treat you with caution, because if you deny fundamental biological reality then that may be symptomatic of other mental issues.
I did the training for CMC (Chrome Management Console) for a non school related project and I can see why schools are adopting it.
CMC is WAY easier for IT admins to use over active directory.
You can control exactly what version of chrome devices use, when they update, what wifi networks they can connect to, what apps are allowed, where devices are (on a map even!), high security built in and its cheap. Its as close to nirvana that overworked school IT pros can get.
AD will still win on corporate networks, but MS have lost the education space and the mobile/cell phone space. Unfortunately their office/Win10 grip will hold firm in the corporate space for the foreseeable future.
Clive Palmer is a local billionaire mining magnate/nutter has been trying to get this project up since 2012.
Famous for starting a political party that went nowhere, buying up a north Queensland nickle refinery that then went broke and buying a nice local resort in coolum that also went broke after he put garish models of dinosaurs in it.
He also seems to love litigation... so i hope he doesn't read my post!
I'll believe it when I see it.
Really, its a click bait question. An automated car seeing a pedestrian it may collide with with will brake as hard as possible while avoiding other obstacles and staying in its prescribed lane. The chances of this happening as well as the car having to swerve into an obstacle that would also injure the driver is so small as to be irrelevant noise.
Plastics go in, plastics go out? Whats the problem?
Do they get into the blood stream? Do they degrade in the body and produce toxins?
Seriously. Iran had a moderate shah who was overthrown by the USA. Iran has never gone to war, unlike the USA which has attacked many middle eastern countries without due cause (except for oil)
I've been running various versions of ms exchange for 15 years now for 50 people. I now use an external spam filtering service (spamhero). I would average about 2 days a year on it and can't even remember the last time it went down.
Scooters have a fundamental problem for adults. Small wheels combined with high centre of gravity gives a very small reaction time for unexpected or misjudged obstacles.
Who funds this crap anyway? Too easy too steal, too easy to have accidents, littering side walks. What's wrong with 'gasp' walking?
Which is why the USA has been really quiet about the Syria conflict lately. America did a deal with Saudi Arabia to always price it's oil in USD, which we call the petrodollar. This has been critical to USA world power and why the Saudis get a free pass when most of 9/11 attackers came from there and they fund much of the worlds Islamic terrorism.
USAs relationship with the Saudis has always puzzled me. The Saudis were mostly responsible for 9/11 and funded much of the Islamic terrorism around the world. So why does the USA give them a free pass?
The most simple explanation, is Saudi Arabia promised to always sell oil in USD in return for protection. The Petro dollar is critical to the USD, and every country that has dared sell on the world stage in another currency has met with the wrath of either the CIA or US military.
This relationship is criminally sad.
From Wikipedia.
The Associated Press reported in 2018 that "Xi is waging the most severe systematic suppression of Christianity in the country since religious freedom was written into the Chinese constitution in 1982.", which has involved "destroying crosses, burning bibles, shutting churches and ordering followers to sign papers renouncing their faith
I belong to a Christian community and am from Australia where the vaccine was invented and there is ZERO objection to it here.
The real problem is your screwed up healthcare system that throws poor people on the scrapheap of humanity.
Our vaccination rates are high, simply because it is given free of charge to all school girls during school hours. No need to drag your bigotry into the discussion.
So why Just boards?
What about Primary school teacers, nurses, childcare workers.... Or riggers, pipeline workers, garbage collectors.
Equality of opportunity NOT outcome. Today it is women on boards, tomorrow it is non binary black... It nuts because requiring women IS discrimination, discrimination against who might be the best fit for the job by excluding 50% of the candidates.
I've noticed in my business world, skype is rarely used anymore. It's either zoom or less often google meetings. The Skype UI is confusing, the whole business skype/normal skype was confusing. (Hello windows and windows RT!, and having the same Microsoft login name requiring different accounts because they still have two different back ends that are not fully integrated)
I think, once you become a big fat bloated organization, innovation becomes almost impossible.