We were in that situation back in the 1980's - "The Coming of the Chip" or "When the Chips are down". Back then the UK knew that a digital revolution was coming... the microprocessor... the paperless office... the digital workplace... all sorts of names... home computing... IT skills...
The first wave was when the newpaper printing presses were replaced with digital laser printers and workstations. Whole departments disappeared overnight. Email, spreadsheets and word processors changed the roles of secretaries and PA's. Tall thin pyramids of managers disappeared. Back office work was offshored. Manufacturing jobs disappeared.
Now we are putting vast resources into getting computer vision and autonomous driving to work in the same way we did with CPU's, multimedia, human genomics and window based GUI.
Are peapod.com still around? getgooey.com? That website that would let you get all your financial letters scanned in digitally and sent by email so you wouldn't have to have the hassle of opening them yourself?
To extract fresh water from sea-water, you have to separate the H2O molecules from whatever other crap has been dissolved. That includes virus particles and metal elements; salts, sodium, calcium, chloride, mercury, etc... First way is through porous membranes or micorpore clay filters. Then you have to force the water through these at pressure. That takes energy. You can try evaporating the water. That too requires energy to make the water reach 100C. Even if you tried to force the water into a vacuuum to lower the boiling point that will still take energy - either from pumping air out or from propellor cavitation. Some systems use solar power, others use tidal wave power. Nuclear is the most attractive.
They are working on generating bio-fuels from captured CO2.
Desktop PC's moved from CGA (4-color palettes) to EGA (16 colors), VGA (256 x 320x200 colors) to SVGA/SXVGA 16-bit and then 32-bit color. CPU performance was doubling in performance. Every Intel/AMD chip had some super optimization that Byte magazine would document every few months. There were all sorts of different accelerator boards based on i860's, TMS340x0's, transputers. Audio boards just came out. Adlib Soundblaster etc... I still remember the first 256-color demo I saw for VGA, the first four 24-bit color images I saw from the Hercules graphics boards.
Today, we've got desktop PC's with dual socket motherboards, quad SLI with hundreds of streaming processors, CPU's with 16+ cores, gaming wall projectors, VR, real-time computer vision with OpenCV (that's what the i860's and TMS340x0's were used for back then), tablets and smartphones with more powerful GPU's than SGI workstations from the 1990's.
Sometimes it works just as well the other way round. Look at Amazon to see all the different products available and what features they provide. Then go to the local store, order that item and pick it up at a convenient time. I do this with new parts for my PC's - I prefer to just walk into the store and get the memory chips, HD drives and CPU's rather than risk having them lost in the post.
For someone wanting to receive money via Bitcoin, it's easy to create an anonymous account, get Bitcoins deposited to that account. The hard part is getting the value converted into real money. That requires a broker. Then it becomes identifiable as to where the money came from. Usually they will be online. You would need a real-world currency cash transfer to be anonymous. Some convenience stores have ATM machines to do this.
Sending money involves transferring money into a Bitcoin account, requiring a broker to transfer that currency into a Bitcoin account. Same rules apply with conversion of real-world cash into Bitcoins.
"feature recognition" would be another term. These system look at petabytes of data (individual genomes, gene interactions) and try and identify which mutations or interactions correlate to a particular genetic problem. No human could print out all this data, sit down at a desk and compare then line for line.
Imagine taking millions of lithographic electron microscope photographs of CPU/GPU cores, then trying to corrrelate those to broken logic circuits. Eventually, you would be able to associate particular regions with particular faults.
Containerization replaced dockworkers. Digital printing replaced print shop workers. Automated telephone exchanges replaced telephone operators. It's getting to the point where they can eliminate editors and allow anyone to automatically create a local newspaper anywhere simply by filtering for keywords, events and categories. Automated weaving looms replaced the need for four artisans to make one garment in several months to making hundreds of uniform garments in a week.
We've tried for decades. As the charities say, they want someone else to pay their lunch for them.
To solve the food crisis, we send them aid in the form of corn and grain seeds so they plant crops and have a self-sustaining agriculture. They either eat the grain or sell it for fast cash, then wait for the next airplane to deliver more aid.
We can build self-maintaining water treatment works. These systems work on long-wave radio and satellite communications. Everything is designed to be animal proof. Satellite and radio antennae are high up, grounded to protect against lightning and lined with a box mesh to stop primates getting anywhere near. Any faults are broadcast upstream and a repair team is sent out. Systems have fault-tolerant redundancy built in. There isn't any way these systems could fail. Except that the operator in the control room would change the satellite channel to watch local soap operas and take the system off-line to do so.
If we try and build roads, anyone with any equipment will suddenly have breakdowns and needs money to buy spare parts. If you provide your spare parts from warehouse, there will be break in and suddenly those spare parts turn up on the market.
The only thing that can be done and that's what the Chinese do, is pay them to rent their land.
Imagine being able to covertly send a message to someone simply by writing some data into a pile of smart-dust and let it blow around by the global wind currents such as the jet stream. Might take a few days but that's quicker than most international postal services.
I remember seeing this as a pedestrian. Mother and grandmother were talking to each other with their back to the traffic. Two small children were beside her. One decides to run out into road past the parked cars, pause, turns around and runs back again. Second later, a large container trucks zooms by. Didn't see the child, and the adults didn't even realize that an accident very nearly happened.
These cars have multiple sensors to detect obstacles; ultrasonic/sonar, stereo vision systems. If something is detected, then the vehicle stops. That really moves the blame onto the person. I've seen people who would run across the road when they saw a truck or bus come up the side road. Motivation being that those vehicles would completely block the ability to cross the road because they take up so much space when they try and turn the corner.
We had courses at my work place. Things to look for include mis-spelt words, links that didn't use https and/or moved to a different domain from the sender. Which makes me ask, why couldn't an email filter pick this up.
Did the same to the debt collection department of my credit card bank who called me up; Indian accent - check, city with high social deprivation - check, telephone number with no SMART id (don't know what SMART is, but if the number doesn't have it, it must be a phishing attempt - check). Just make up some names and numbers and drop the call when they asked for my debit card number. Wouldn't they know that if they were from the bank? Tell them the cheques in the post.
Or even robots like the ones Boston Dynamics are always promoting. This would be a perfect opportunity for them. What would be the best robot to collect household items from an unstable building? Quadruped with donkey baskets or biped with backpack?
Other stories say they were loading testing the bridge at the time. Pictures in the UK Daily Mail show that there was green crane that seems to have snapped the cable holding whatever it was carrying. That cable ended up wrapped around the street light away from the mashed up side of the bridge.
It works with mountains as well. Used to worked in a city surrounded by mountains and high hills. Any time there were thunderstorms, lightning flashes seem to take a particular liking to one mountain peak. Maybe it was more metallic and/or simply had sharper terrain.
I'd guess that you could combine geological data (for metallic nature) with radar data (to get fractal spikiness and height), then determine if there was any correlation.
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We were in that situation back in the 1980's - "The Coming of the Chip" or "When the Chips are down". Back then the UK knew that a digital revolution was coming ... the microprocessor ... the paperless office ... the digital workplace ... all sorts of names ... home computing ... IT skills ...
The first wave was when the newpaper printing presses were replaced with digital laser printers and workstations. Whole departments disappeared overnight. Email, spreadsheets and word processors changed the roles of secretaries and PA's. Tall thin pyramids of managers disappeared. Back office work was offshored. Manufacturing jobs disappeared.
Now we are putting vast resources into getting computer vision and autonomous driving to work in the same way we did with CPU's, multimedia, human genomics and window based GUI.
Are peapod.com still around? getgooey.com? That website that would let you get all your financial letters scanned in digitally and sent by email so you wouldn't have to have the hassle of opening them yourself?
To extract fresh water from sea-water, you have to separate the H2O molecules from whatever other crap has been dissolved. That includes virus particles and metal elements; salts, sodium, calcium, chloride, mercury, etc... First way is through porous membranes or micorpore clay filters. Then you have to force the water through these at pressure. That takes energy. You can try evaporating the water. That too requires energy to make the water reach 100C. Even if you tried to force the water into a vacuuum to lower the boiling point that will still take energy - either from pumping air out or from propellor cavitation. Some systems use solar power, others use tidal wave power. Nuclear is the most attractive.
They are working on generating bio-fuels from captured CO2.
Make it a self-contained dome and recycle the water like a giant polytunnel agriculture project.
Desktop PC's moved from CGA (4-color palettes) to EGA (16 colors), VGA (256 x 320x200 colors) to SVGA/SXVGA 16-bit and then 32-bit color. CPU performance was doubling in performance. Every Intel/AMD chip had some super optimization that Byte magazine would document every few months. There were all sorts of different accelerator boards based on i860's, TMS340x0's, transputers. Audio boards just came out. Adlib Soundblaster etc... I still remember the first 256-color demo I saw for VGA, the first four 24-bit color images I saw from the Hercules graphics boards.
Today, we've got desktop PC's with dual socket motherboards, quad SLI with hundreds of streaming processors, CPU's with 16+ cores, gaming wall projectors, VR, real-time computer vision with OpenCV (that's what the i860's and TMS340x0's were used for back then), tablets and smartphones with more powerful GPU's than SGI workstations from the 1990's.
Sometimes it works just as well the other way round. Look at Amazon to see all the different products available and what features they provide. Then go to the local store, order that item and pick it up at a convenient time. I do this with new parts for my PC's - I prefer to just walk into the store and get the memory chips, HD drives and CPU's rather than risk having them lost in the post.
Even the sub-station transformers aren't safe. Thieves will cut them down in order to extract the PCB based oils to sell for cooking.
https://www.aljazeera.com/inde...
More or less, anything that happens in Detroit, happens in Africa.
The satellite communication could be intercepted if it were broadcast. Just like those numbers radio stations.
For someone wanting to receive money via Bitcoin, it's easy to create an anonymous account, get Bitcoins deposited to that account. The hard part is getting the value converted into real money. That requires a broker. Then it becomes identifiable as to where the money came from. Usually they will be online. You would need a real-world currency cash transfer to be anonymous. Some convenience stores have ATM machines to do this.
Sending money involves transferring money into a Bitcoin account, requiring a broker to transfer that currency into a Bitcoin account. Same rules apply with conversion of real-world cash into Bitcoins.
"feature recognition" would be another term. These system look at petabytes of data (individual genomes, gene interactions) and try and identify which mutations or interactions correlate to a particular genetic problem. No human could print out all this data, sit down at a desk and compare then line for line.
Imagine taking millions of lithographic electron microscope photographs of CPU/GPU cores, then trying to corrrelate those to broken logic circuits. Eventually, you would be able to associate particular regions with particular faults.
Containerization replaced dockworkers. Digital printing replaced print shop workers. Automated telephone exchanges replaced telephone operators. It's getting to the point where they can eliminate editors and allow anyone to automatically create a local newspaper anywhere simply by filtering for keywords, events and categories. Automated weaving looms replaced the need for four artisans to make one garment in several months to making hundreds of uniform garments in a week.
We've tried for decades. As the charities say, they want someone else to pay their lunch for them.
To solve the food crisis, we send them aid in the form of corn and grain seeds so they plant crops and have a self-sustaining agriculture. They either eat the grain or sell it for fast cash, then wait for the next airplane to deliver more aid.
We can build self-maintaining water treatment works. These systems work on long-wave radio and satellite communications. Everything is designed to be animal proof. Satellite and radio antennae are high up, grounded to protect against lightning and lined with a box mesh to stop primates getting anywhere near. Any faults are broadcast upstream and a repair team is sent out. Systems have fault-tolerant redundancy built in. There isn't any way these systems could fail. Except that the operator in the control room would change the satellite channel to watch local soap operas and take the system off-line to do so.
If we try and build roads, anyone with any equipment will suddenly have breakdowns and needs money to buy spare parts. If you provide your spare parts from warehouse, there will be break in and suddenly those spare parts turn up on the market.
The only thing that can be done and that's what the Chinese do, is pay them to rent their land.
Imagine being able to covertly send a message to someone simply by writing some data into a pile of smart-dust and let it blow around by the global wind currents such as the jet stream. Might take a few days but that's quicker than most international postal services.
I remember seeing this as a pedestrian. Mother and grandmother were talking to each other with their back to the traffic. Two small children were beside her. One decides to run out into road past the parked cars, pause, turns around and runs back again. Second later, a large container trucks zooms by. Didn't see the child, and the adults didn't even realize that an accident very nearly happened.
There's a reason people are recommended to wear high visibilty clothing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
But from the news reports on TV, it looks like the woman was on a bicycle and there was a garden sprinkler nearby.
These cars have multiple sensors to detect obstacles; ultrasonic/sonar, stereo vision systems. If something is detected, then the vehicle stops. That really moves the blame onto the person. I've seen people who would run across the road when they saw a truck or bus come up the side road. Motivation being that those vehicles would completely block the ability to cross the road because they take up so much space when they try and turn the corner.
Even Amish have mobile phones, but they keep them in a little box outside of the house.
We had courses at my work place. Things to look for include mis-spelt words, links that didn't use https and/or moved to a different domain from the sender. Which makes me ask, why couldn't an email filter pick this up.
Did the same to the debt collection department of my credit card bank who called me up; Indian accent - check, city with high social deprivation - check, telephone number with no SMART id (don't know what SMART is, but if the number doesn't have it, it must be a phishing attempt - check). Just make up some names and numbers and drop the call when they asked for my debit card number. Wouldn't they know that if they were from the bank? Tell them the cheques in the post.
That's just a cartoon. Real world idiots playing with tannerite:
Blowing up a fridge with tannerite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
How to lose a leg while shooting a rusted lawnmower filled with tannerite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Or even robots like the ones Boston Dynamics are always promoting. This would be a perfect opportunity for them. What would be the best robot to collect household items from an unstable building? Quadruped with donkey baskets or biped with backpack?
This bridge had to withstand hurricane force winds, thunderstorms and salt water erosion, plus not get in the way of traffic
Other stories say they were loading testing the bridge at the time. Pictures in the UK Daily Mail show that there was green crane that seems to have snapped the cable holding whatever it was carrying. That cable ended up wrapped around the street light away from the mashed up side of the bridge.
You mean the M7 motion-detection chip?
https://www.technologyreview.c...
It works with mountains as well. Used to worked in a city surrounded by mountains and high hills. Any time there were thunderstorms, lightning flashes seem to take a particular liking to one mountain peak. Maybe it was more metallic and/or simply had sharper terrain.
I'd guess that you could combine geological data (for metallic nature) with radar data (to get fractal spikiness and height), then determine if there was any correlation.