The car buyers are not buying the smaller cars, they are buying the larger ones - just like in the last dot com boom. There's a cartoon somewhere (LA times) where the car dealer shows the customer the largest 4x4 they have on sale. It towers over the car dealership with a huge shadow.
Mothers, pregnant, with children and elderly relatives. They don't have to crouch down to get into a car, limbo dance into the back seats through the narrow shaped gaps. Large flappy doors for two door cars (Peugeot) are another dislike. They are impossible to get out of in a supermarket car park. So sliding doors are preferred. Basically like having a personal Hackney cab. All the cars that people drive now seem to be either four wheel drive or something between an estate car and a van.
Those fins even more so. Either at the back or the front. Cyclists and pedestrians would get impaled on them like something out of Mad Max. Even the handlebars on BMX bicycles had the same hazard. Those solid steel bumpers may last for decades but they were like having blocks of concrete at the front of your car. So they moved to carbon fibre that would crumple and deform to absorb the impact for both driver and victim.
They did that with CRT's as well. There was a circuit board at the base of the TV set, held in place by screws at the bottom. Above that, the CRT and the top of the case, The top of the case also had screws that held it to the lower part of the case, but there were also another couple that tied it to the motherboard. These were hidden inside a panel.
I believe they have patented a technique for sending the magnetic and electrical field information of a photon from one point to another but without actually sending the actual photon itself. However, this method is still limited by the speed of light.
I've noticed on some Linux PC's that using lsmod will provide a list of modules and how many modules plus their names are depending on it. But in some cases the "Intel" module has about 5 other modules using, but they aren't listed.
So if they can modernize the coal stations so that they don't emit carbon soot that would be a good thing. There are systems to scrub and collect all those gases and pollutants. Same with nuclear power. The old slashdot joke states that the nuclear industry wanted to decommission old plants and build new ones. The environmentalists wanted no more new plants and to decommission the old ones. So they compromised. Keep the old plants running and don't build any new plants.
They tried that in the past. AI Researchers sat down with doctors and thought it was a yes/no branch tree all the way down. Then they realized that the doctors were doing something a bit more complex when they started saying things like "well, there's a good chance it might be.... but then the patient has been out in this region where there is this parasite..... so it could be.... " So they factored in probabilities and got fuzzy logic which was a bit more accurate. But then they also have to factor in family history, personal diet, weight, height, body-mass ratio, persons in contact, foods eaten recently, weight gain/loss, any food cravings, feeling hot, itchy, sick, hungry or not hungry. Skin conditions are easy. They can be matched with photographs.
They can't even diagnose sepsis or meningitis in many cases, even though there are simple tests; meningitis requires a sample of spinal fluid. Sepsis just needs a glass pressed against a rash. There are blood tests, but these need to be specified precisely. If someone has a blister and it gets infected, then turns black, is that Bubonic plague, cancer or some other condition.
You missed out the sudden change of PCI bus architecture for graphics boards. One minute anyone could upgrade their PC simply by changing the graphics card. Suddenly they had to buy a brand new motherboard.
In the 1980's, they said that spy satellites could take a photograph of a newspaper and read all the printed text on that paper. That would be an extremely useful capability. If you are able to see people standing around an outdoor table, then you would want to know what they were reading. What if the optics of the satellite were used to project light or microwaves instead of receive it?
The voice of God can be heard at 315.25MHz . One evangelist was caught out by investigators using a radio earpiece to let him know the names of people in the audience as he walked around. Claimed he was talking directly to God.
Read the Vancouver property market situation. Some people have been buying visas from Montreal, moving to Vancouver and speculating on apartment and home prices. At the same time, salaries have been falling.
It would be used to check out possible links. If Agent Black is known to make calls to Pizza Hut, they have to check out whether that is a false front for deliveries or whether it's just a pizza order.
Anyone remember USENET and Kibo? You just had to mention his name on a USENET discussion board and he would appear. Turns out that the company he worked for was logging every post ever made. Eventually those archives were made public.
I've always wondered whether these "old wives tales" weren't some kind of massively parallelized genetic algorithm. Every person tries something random. These are then compared against their neighbors. Results that are successful or partially successful are reported to neighbors. Results that have no success are discarded. Some methods back then were using cobwebs and mildew to pack deep wounds.
A current day example would be whether applying honey to an open wound like a burn improves healing or not.
Because the UK has a "window tax" on fibre optic cabling:
https://www.uctoday.com/featur... https://www.theregister.co.uk/... The Tax Valuations Office considers fibre-optic cabling a value-added asset to a company. The more kilometers and strands of fibre-optic cabling to your premises, the more thousands of pounds of tax your company has to pay each year (starting at £2000 for the first km). For BT and Virgin Media, that runs to billions of pounds of tax each year. Thus the pressure to gets as much capacity out of a single strand of fibre-optic as possible, and the government loves the revenue. They don't want competition that would simply bring prices down.
It's like astro-physics, which seems to be have been written by a Wall Street legal team. Something like "pair production" where two gamma rays form an electron and positron seems harmless enough. But combine that with an extremely large star, and all that mass compresses the stellar core such that only gamma rays are formed, the positrons are annihilated, leading to a supernova.
There was an Amish guesthouse / hotel with turret bedrooms that each had different themes. One was "Swimming with the fishes" and had trunks, fishing nets, boat lamps and other items.
Conspiracy theorists used to think the maintenance barcodes on the back of street signs were some secret code for FEMA trucks to find their way around.
But when you think about it, why not have those 2D barcodes on street signs so that they could be scanned by a smartphone.
One of the things I was told was that if you asked for directions in a rural area, you should just follow the instructions they gave you by what you thought they felt meant than trying to logically deduce what they meant. So if someone told you, "go along the road, go over the hill, turn right after passing the two lanes, take the road that leads to the valley, then continue on until you cross the railway lines and can see the trees." it was better just to follow instinct that try and figure out what they meant by the two lanes (is that a lane crossing the road or two adjacent lanes on the same side, or the pair that are different distances along the road on eah side).
Do those smartphones have some kind of anti-tamper logic that calls 911 if the phone is pulled apart. That's the sort of thing Apple would put in their software to deter thieves who would steal a phone and sell for spare parts.
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And at the speed-of-light trading where they can buy and sell magnitudes faster than the punter from a home computer. Basically profiting from the s
The car buyers are not buying the smaller cars, they are buying the larger ones - just like in the last dot com boom. There's a cartoon somewhere (LA times) where the car dealer shows the customer the largest 4x4 they have on sale. It towers over the car dealership with a huge shadow.
Mothers, pregnant, with children and elderly relatives. They don't have to crouch down to get into a car, limbo dance into the back seats through the narrow shaped gaps. Large flappy doors for two door cars (Peugeot) are another dislike. They are impossible to get out of in a supermarket car park. So sliding doors are preferred. Basically like having a personal Hackney cab. All the cars that people drive now seem to be either four wheel drive or something between an estate car and a van.
Those fins even more so. Either at the back or the front. Cyclists and pedestrians would get impaled on them like something out of Mad Max. Even the handlebars on BMX bicycles had the same hazard. Those solid steel bumpers may last for decades but they were like having blocks of concrete at the front of your car. So they moved to carbon fibre that would crumple and deform to absorb the impact for both driver and victim.
They did that with CRT's as well. There was a circuit board at the base of the TV set, held in place by screws at the bottom. Above that, the CRT and the top of the case, The top of the case also had screws that held it to the lower part of the case, but there were also another couple that tied it to the motherboard. These were hidden inside a panel.
I believe they have patented a technique for sending the magnetic and electrical field information of a photon from one point to another but without actually sending the actual photon itself. However, this method is still limited by the speed of light.
You can always create a message, encrypt it, run it through uuencode, then send it as an SMS. Reverse the process at the other end.
Mother Nature was the first to create nuclear reactors
http://www.alamut.com/proj/98/...
I've noticed on some Linux PC's that using lsmod will provide a list of modules and how many modules plus their names are depending on it. But in some cases the "Intel" module has about 5 other modules using, but they aren't listed.
So if they can modernize the coal stations so that they don't emit carbon soot that would be a good thing. There are systems to scrub and collect all those gases and pollutants. Same with nuclear power. The old slashdot joke states that the nuclear industry wanted to decommission old plants and build new ones. The environmentalists wanted no more new plants and to decommission the old ones. So they compromised. Keep the old plants running and don't build any new plants.
They tried that in the past. AI Researchers sat down with doctors and thought it was a yes/no branch tree all the way down. Then they realized that the doctors were doing something a bit more complex when they started saying things like "well, there's a good chance it might be .... but then the patient has been out in this region where there is this parasite ..... so it could be .... " So they factored in probabilities and got fuzzy logic which was a bit more accurate. But then they also have to factor in family history, personal diet, weight, height, body-mass ratio, persons in contact, foods eaten recently, weight gain/loss, any food cravings, feeling hot, itchy, sick, hungry or not hungry. Skin conditions are easy. They can be matched with photographs.
They can't even diagnose sepsis or meningitis in many cases, even though there are simple tests; meningitis requires a sample of spinal fluid. Sepsis just needs a glass pressed against a rash. There are blood tests, but these need to be specified precisely. If someone has a blister and it gets infected, then turns black, is that Bubonic plague, cancer or some other condition.
It sucks when you put up an electric distribution system, only to have the transformers raided for their cooking oil.
You missed out the sudden change of PCI bus architecture for graphics boards. One minute anyone could upgrade their PC simply by changing the graphics card. Suddenly they had to buy a brand new motherboard.
In the 1980's, they said that spy satellites could take a photograph of a newspaper and read all the printed text on that paper. That would be an extremely useful capability. If you are able to see people standing around an outdoor table, then you would want to know what they were reading. What if the optics of the satellite were used to project light or microwaves instead of receive it?
The voice of God can be heard at 315.25MHz . One evangelist was caught out by investigators using a radio earpiece to let him know the names of people in the audience as he walked around. Claimed he was talking directly to God.
Read the Vancouver property market situation. Some people have been buying visas from Montreal, moving to Vancouver and speculating on apartment and home prices. At the same time, salaries have been falling.
It would be used to check out possible links. If Agent Black is known to make calls to Pizza Hut, they have to check out whether that is a false front for deliveries or whether it's just a pizza order.
Anyone remember USENET and Kibo? You just had to mention his name on a USENET discussion board and he would appear. Turns out that the company he worked for was logging every post ever made. Eventually those archives were made public.
I've always wondered whether these "old wives tales" weren't some kind of massively parallelized genetic algorithm. Every person tries something random. These are then compared against their neighbors. Results that are successful or partially successful are reported to neighbors. Results that have no success are discarded.
Some methods back then were using cobwebs and mildew to pack deep wounds.
A current day example would be whether applying honey to an open wound like a burn improves healing or not.
Because the UK has a "window tax" on fibre optic cabling:
https://www.uctoday.com/featur...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
The Tax Valuations Office considers fibre-optic cabling a value-added asset to a company. The more kilometers and strands of fibre-optic cabling to your premises, the more thousands of pounds of tax your company has to pay each year (starting at £2000 for the first km). For BT and Virgin Media, that runs to billions of pounds of tax each year. Thus the pressure to gets as much capacity out of a single strand of fibre-optic as possible, and the government loves the revenue. They don't want competition that would simply bring prices down.
It's like astro-physics, which seems to be have been written by a Wall Street legal team. Something like "pair production" where two gamma rays form an electron and positron seems harmless enough. But combine that with an extremely large star, and all that mass compresses the stellar core such that only gamma rays are formed, the positrons are annihilated, leading to a supernova.
There was an Amish guesthouse / hotel with turret bedrooms that each had different themes. One was "Swimming with the fishes" and had trunks, fishing nets, boat lamps and other items.
Conspiracy theorists used to think the maintenance barcodes on the back of street signs were some secret code for FEMA trucks to find their way around.
But when you think about it, why not have those 2D barcodes on street signs so that they could be scanned by a smartphone.
One of the things I was told was that if you asked for directions in a rural area, you should just follow the instructions they gave you by what you thought they felt meant than trying to logically deduce what they meant. So if someone told you, "go along the road, go over the hill, turn right after passing the two lanes, take the road that leads to the valley, then continue on until you cross the railway lines and can see the trees." it was better just to follow instinct that try and figure out what they meant by the two lanes (is that a lane crossing the road or two adjacent lanes on the same side, or the pair that are different distances along the road on eah side).
Do those smartphones have some kind of anti-tamper logic that calls 911 if the phone is pulled apart. That's the sort of thing Apple would put in their software to deter thieves who would steal a phone and sell for spare parts.