Power lines overheat due to overload. They can either literally melt or trip switches are set off which cut power to entire neighborhoods of Silicon Valley. The power workers once grounded a live power line which took out the power to at least a third of the Bay Area. We could tell something was up because everyone was pouring out of their offices.
Open-plan offices were designed after World War II to eliminate any remaining cold war paranoia about spies being in the office.
Even with a closed-plan office, cheap plasterboard walls wouldn't guarantee peace and quiet. One office was so tightly packed that when your neighbour turned on his CRT monitors, your monitors would flicker as well. That led to degaussing wars between some occupants. With the cheap chipboard floors, a heavy person would make the office floor sag and you could hear them thumping by even when in their office.
My last open office had around six teams of forty arranged in a 4 x 10 grid. If any other grid cell occupant within a 2 square distance had a conversation with one or more people it was practically impossible to get any work done. Sometimes there would be group stand-up meetings with 20+ people. Then they would just stand around and chatting for another 30 minutes. If anyone not in that group was typing, they would proceed to shout at each other. Never mind people banging their work folders on their desk, delivery people dropping heavy boxes on the floor. They actually installed a spring hinge on one lab door so that it would automatically close. Invariably, the occupants would keep entering and leaving that lab every five minutes. A couple of goofballs actually went around sneaking behind other people and squeaking a rubber chicken as loud as possible.
Detroit has it's own problems with the residents. Any abandoned house becomes a crackhouse. The druggies then raid other homes, street lights and traffic lights for copper to resell for drug money. Anyone who tries to renovate property to make a profit is like to find themselves having squatters with the full support of the police and city.
It then becomes more cost-effective to demolish abandoned properties, especially if they have water damage and mold.
Canada and the UK did the same with recycling old paper. Paper mills went out of business due to lack of demand and even the price of waste paper fell because there was so much of it.
But at least it gives low performing employees something to do - oh not that kind of drone. I just imagined a Dilbert cartoon with the employees tied to weather balloons and made to wave glowsticks around.
The attraction of SF for workers is that it is somewhere where they can walk out of an office and within a block have a half dozen places where they can eat. Similarly with job interviews. Other corporate campuses in the Bay Area only have their own in-house cafes/restaurants and anywhere else is at least a half-hour drive away. Just going out for a one hour lunch takes two hours.
Mom'n'Pop shop might just earn enough to pay the lease and a salary to cover food and property tax on their home. Multiply that by 1000 shops.
MegaCorp pays executives, directors, managers, employs engineers, admins, interns, does collaboration with the local university, pays tax on a corporate campus. Then those highly paid senior management also spend megabucks at high-end department stores.
Current jets can make sonic booms. That's due to the shape of the aircraft and the wings so that there are two sonic booms due to areas of high air pressure. They can reduce that by a small amount by making minor changes to the airframe and wings:
For me, it's "None of your goddamned business whether I'm at my computer or not, idle or not idle, playing whatever game or starting to surf the web (thanks startup pages), or the last website I visited (thanks web-page referral links), or whether I'm doing software development (thanks 3rd party applications that require you to log in."
Subsidence farmers have a few chickens, a mud hut and a bit of ground scratched up to grow vegetables. They also spend their day walking hours to and from the nearest stream to get water.
Fortunately, charities come along and build water wells as well as solar powered satellite TV systems, so they can do more productive things like watch soap operas.
In the late 1800's, Jacquard punch card looms and Luddites - when it took four artisans to make one garment, and no two garments were ever identical due to human error, a punched card look allowed for the mass production of clothing. We're actually at the point where one technician can supervise 15 automated looms and there is more surplus clothing than there are humans on the planet.
Electromechanical calculator systems used to calculate tide tables and range tables for artillery in the 1950's
Strowger Automated telephone systems replaced telephone operators. Digital exchanges replace electromechanical telephone exchanges freeing up space and allowing that physical space to be resold. Copper trunk telephone lines replaced with fibre-optic links.
Mass production in the 1940's replace hand production of consumer items.
Digital font workstations and laser printer replace hundreds of manual printshop workers in the 1980's, leading to the Wapping Street riots. Unions refused slow continuous modernization of shop floor practises. Ultimately they found themselves unemployed overnight because there simply wasn't any need for anyone to convert journalist shorthand into boilerplate letters.
There are things that Europe do that the USA still doesn't. The USA still seems to employ third-world workers to transcribe doctors medical notes and prescriptions to digital form. In Europe everything is digitized and your prescription goes straight to the pharmacy.
It's possible to activate the various other photo modes by sliding a finger across to the right, then picking the option (Auto, Pro, Panorama, Selective focus, Slow motion, Hyperlapse, Food, Virtual shot, Video collage or Live Broadcast) then pressing the back button. Sometimes that gets activated by accident. I've had my phone switch to front-camera mode simply because of this sensitivity.
In the main article, this is a problem in the high-density apartment block areas of New York. Anyone can operate a pirate station simply by installing a transmitter on the roof and running some cable down into an apartment studio. Sometimes they can make use of the existing coaxial cable TV network of the apartment block.
Legal radio stations can either be non-profit where they are not allowed to run any kind of advertising, or for-profit where they have to pay hefty license fees and are able to charge for advertising. There isn't anything in between.
The company is trying to fill at least two positions; project manager and engineer. The company may have said to the recruiter "we are looking for a project manager and engineer with salaries between $projectmanagersalary and $engineersalary", Agency picks that up literally and assumes that the engineer will get paid the same as project manager. Now there is confusion. The company wants you but can only offer you the salary if you become project manager.
There was a guy in our MSc class who did facial recognition. It works on a roughly trapezoidal shape around the eyes nose and mouth. Simplest systems just create a number based on the ratio of the eye pupil distance to the mouth/nose length. Other systems use more measurements. like corners of eyebrows, eyes, mouth and other things. But whatever system they have, it's usually 95% accuracy, which is good for 95 out of 100 people, but totally sucks for the other 5 who are detained for no reason.
Opera allows a user to save a webpage as a PDF file. Maybe it's time to just create webpages as PDF files with checksums, and not have the network fiddleware mash up images and documents.
The only problem with archived files on official archive websites, is that many of the zip files contain viruses and other malware.
You can convert a software algorithm in a high level language into a silicon compiler language like Verilog or VHDL. These support variable types like floating point and variable sized integers. But everything is done using bits. Each function takes in inputs as sets of bits, and outputs as sets of bits along with a clock signal. The silicon compiler will convert this code into a series of logic blocks. Variables become hardware registers. Conditional statement become AND, OR and NOT logic gates. Maths libraries will become transistor logic and lookup tables. Presupplied templates provide optimized transistor logic for arbitrary sized integer arithmetic like multiplication and division, video compression and so on. Many other libraries will already have been precompiled and optimized for side/speed) that are connected together. Using tiling algorithms these logic blocks are arranged into the tightest space taking into account power and clock lines.
It was tried by both Americans and USSR. But the problems were shielding and contamination of the environment. Maybe now, there could be electric engines and nuclear batteries like in The Fifth Element.
Try quitting Skype on Windows 10. It looks like the application has finished, after all there is no icon on the control bar. But run task manager, and those Skype processes are still running...
Cloud-enabled cameras allow you to stream your camera onto your smartphone. It's a nice idea so long as there isn't network congestion. Whenever I tried to stream video off my camera, the connection was unavailable. Then using wireshark, I once caught someone from AWS in Austin, Texas streaming the camera video.
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Power lines overheat due to overload. They can either literally melt or trip switches are set off which cut power to entire neighborhoods of Silicon Valley. The power workers once grounded a live power line which took out the power to at least a third of the Bay Area. We could tell something was up because everyone was pouring out of their offices.
Open-plan offices were designed after World War II to eliminate any remaining cold war paranoia about spies being in the office.
Even with a closed-plan office, cheap plasterboard walls wouldn't guarantee peace and quiet. One office was so tightly packed that when your neighbour turned on his CRT monitors, your monitors would flicker as well. That led to degaussing wars between some occupants. With the cheap chipboard floors, a heavy person would make the office floor sag and you could hear them thumping by even when in their office.
My last open office had around six teams of forty arranged in a 4 x 10 grid. If any other grid cell occupant within a 2 square distance had a conversation with one or more people it was practically impossible to get any work done. Sometimes there would be group stand-up meetings with 20+ people. Then they would just stand around and chatting for another 30 minutes. If anyone not in that group was typing, they would proceed to shout at each other. Never mind people banging their work folders on their desk, delivery people dropping heavy boxes on the floor. They actually installed a spring hinge on one lab door so that it would automatically close. Invariably, the occupants would keep entering and leaving that lab every five minutes. A couple of goofballs actually went around sneaking behind other people and squeaking a rubber chicken as loud as possible.
Or Minions
Detroit has it's own problems with the residents. Any abandoned house becomes a crackhouse. The druggies then raid other homes, street lights and traffic lights for copper to resell for drug money. Anyone who tries to renovate property to make a profit is like to find themselves having squatters with the full support of the police and city.
It then becomes more cost-effective to demolish abandoned properties, especially if they have water damage and mold.
Canada and the UK did the same with recycling old paper. Paper mills went out of business due to lack of demand and even the price of waste paper fell because there was so much of it.
Then you end up daisy chaining three or more power extension connectors from the one electric socket and coiling up all the excess cable.
But at least it gives low performing employees something to do - oh not that kind of drone. I just imagined a Dilbert cartoon with the employees tied to weather balloons and made to wave glowsticks around.
The attraction of SF for workers is that it is somewhere where they can walk out of an office and within a block have a half dozen places where they can eat. Similarly with job interviews. Other corporate campuses in the Bay Area only have their own in-house cafes/restaurants and anywhere else is at least a half-hour drive away. Just going out for a one hour lunch takes two hours.
Mom'n'Pop shop might just earn enough to pay the lease and a salary to cover food and property tax on their home. Multiply that by 1000 shops.
MegaCorp pays executives, directors, managers, employs engineers, admins, interns, does collaboration with the local university, pays tax on a corporate campus. Then those highly paid senior management also spend megabucks at high-end department stores.
Current jets can make sonic booms. That's due to the shape of the aircraft and the wings so that there are two sonic booms due to areas of high air pressure. They can reduce that by a small amount by making minor changes to the airframe and wings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
With the X-59, they completely redesign the airframe and wings so that the pressure waves cancel each other out rather than reinforce each other.
For me, it's "None of your goddamned business whether I'm at my computer or not, idle or not idle, playing whatever game or starting to surf the web (thanks startup pages), or the last website I visited (thanks web-page referral links), or whether I'm doing software development (thanks 3rd party applications that require you to log in."
Subsidence farmers have a few chickens, a mud hut and a bit of ground scratched up to grow vegetables. They also spend their day walking hours to and from the nearest stream to get water.
Fortunately, charities come along and build water wells as well as solar powered satellite TV systems, so they can do more productive things like watch soap operas.
There are also shipping container homes and offices, and shipping container hospitals
https://inhabitat.com/cite-a-d...
http://www.clinicinacan.org/
They are already doing farms in a container
http://cropbox.co/index.php/cr...
Not forgetting shipping container server rooms
https://www.renewableenergywor...
There are also mobile solar power plants in containers
About time? They've had 200 years.
In the late 1800's, Jacquard punch card looms and Luddites - when it took four artisans to make one garment, and no two garments were ever identical due to human error, a punched card look allowed for the mass production of clothing. We're actually at the point where one technician can supervise 15 automated looms and there is more surplus clothing than there are humans on the planet.
Electromechanical calculator systems used to calculate tide tables and range tables for artillery in the 1950's
Strowger Automated telephone systems replaced telephone operators. Digital exchanges replace electromechanical telephone exchanges freeing up space and allowing that physical space to be resold. Copper trunk telephone lines replaced with fibre-optic links.
Mass production in the 1940's replace hand production of consumer items.
Digital font workstations and laser printer replace hundreds of manual printshop workers in the 1980's, leading to the Wapping Street riots. Unions refused slow continuous modernization of shop floor practises. Ultimately they found themselves unemployed overnight because there simply wasn't any need for anyone to convert journalist shorthand into boilerplate letters.
There are things that Europe do that the USA still doesn't. The USA still seems to employ third-world workers to transcribe doctors medical notes and prescriptions to digital form. In Europe everything is digitized and your prescription goes straight to the pharmacy.
It's possible to activate the various other photo modes by sliding a finger across to the right, then picking the option (Auto, Pro, Panorama, Selective focus, Slow motion, Hyperlapse, Food, Virtual shot, Video collage or Live Broadcast) then pressing the back button. Sometimes that gets activated by accident. I've had my phone switch to front-camera mode simply because of this sensitivity.
In the main article, this is a problem in the high-density apartment block areas of New York. Anyone can operate a pirate station simply by installing a transmitter on the roof and running some cable down into an apartment studio. Sometimes they can make use of the existing coaxial cable TV network of the apartment block.
Legal radio stations can either be non-profit where they are not allowed to run any kind of advertising, or for-profit where they have to pay hefty license fees and are able to charge for advertising. There isn't anything in between.
The company is trying to fill at least two positions; project manager and engineer. The company may have said to the recruiter "we are looking for a project manager and engineer with salaries between $projectmanagersalary and $engineersalary", Agency picks that up literally and assumes that the engineer will get paid the same as project manager. Now there is confusion. The company wants you but can only offer you the salary if you become project manager.
There was a guy in our MSc class who did facial recognition. It works on a roughly trapezoidal shape around the eyes nose and mouth. Simplest systems just create a number based on the ratio of the eye pupil distance to the mouth/nose length. Other systems use more measurements. like corners of eyebrows, eyes, mouth and other things. But whatever system they have, it's usually 95% accuracy, which is good for 95 out of 100 people, but totally sucks for the other 5 who are detained for no reason.
Opera allows a user to save a webpage as a PDF file. Maybe it's time to just create webpages as PDF files with checksums, and not have the network fiddleware mash up images and documents.
The only problem with archived files on official archive websites, is that many of the zip files contain viruses and other malware.
Set up your own company, create a website listing your past projects (presumably successful) and blog. Write magazine articles.
You can convert a software algorithm in a high level language into a silicon compiler language like Verilog or VHDL. These support variable types like floating point and variable sized integers. But everything is done using bits. Each function takes in inputs as sets of bits, and outputs as sets of bits along with a clock signal. The silicon compiler will convert this code into a series of logic blocks. Variables become hardware registers. Conditional statement become AND, OR and NOT logic gates. Maths libraries will become transistor logic and lookup tables. Presupplied templates provide optimized transistor logic for arbitrary sized integer arithmetic like multiplication and division, video compression and so on. Many other libraries will already have been precompiled and optimized for side/speed) that are connected together. Using tiling algorithms these logic blocks are arranged into the tightest space taking into account power and clock lines.
It was tried by both Americans and USSR. But the problems were shielding and contamination of the environment. Maybe now, there could be electric engines and nuclear batteries like in The Fifth Element.
#http://mentalfloss.com/article/53184/brief-history-nuclear-airplanes
Try quitting Skype on Windows 10. It looks like the application has finished, after all there is no icon on the control bar. But run task manager, and those Skype processes are still running...
Cloud-enabled cameras allow you to stream your camera onto your smartphone. It's a nice idea so long as there isn't network congestion. Whenever I tried to stream video off my camera, the connection was unavailable. Then using wireshark, I once caught someone from AWS in Austin, Texas streaming the camera video.