Not forgetting that the average adult human needs two litres of water per day for optimum nutrition , not forgetting the need for showers/baths, flushing toilets, washing machines, optional dish washing machines, cooking, and washing cars. Scale all this up by x500,000 for a small city, and the amounts are astronomical. The only way to desalinate this amount of water, is to build a power station to run a desalination, which then needs a considerable supply of water by itself.
That's the heatsink effect for you... For every mile in radius of urbanised land, the core temperature of a city rises by 1 degree. All the heat from the South-East of England is driving away the rain clouds.
Oh Yes! Just like 1976, where they imposed a garden hose/lawn sprinkler ban, if not started rationing water altogether. Not bad for an island state completely surrounded by deep oceans.
and someday, our bodies become the cheap fossil fuel oil for the next intelligent species a few megayears from now. A scenario for those who like happy endings
Actually, that already happened... Even less fortunate were those mummies exported to the US for use in the papermaking industry or even, as Mark Twain reported, to be burnt as railroad fuel.
Research in the construction industry has experimented with robotic house building machines which would automatically cement and place bricks. The problem: The machine would tend to continue off in a straight line. Hint: Professional bricklayers place small pyramids of bricks at the required height then fill in the centres.
Drilling for oil in the North Sea has been partially automated. Instead of having entire crew s of men lifting, loading, holding and connecting drill pipes in shifts, a single crane operator now does the work. The crane operator presses one button to lift up a pipe segment from a stack, presses another button to move it to the drill head, another button to attach it to the existing pipe, and so on...
The textile industry originally required three people to operate a loom. The introduction of the Jacquard loom (punched cards with preprogrammed patterns) took away the need for skilled craftsmen with good memories. The use of the water wheel/steam engine/combustion engine/electric motor took away the need for physical strength and endurance. The use of self-replacing thread reels, and image processing systems reduced the need for technicians from one per machine to one per fifteen machines. Now designs are automatically transferred from standard paint programs to the electronic controllers.
Car manufacturing and painting is done by robotic machinery; at least in Europe and Japan.
The only jobs left are going to be in research, development and design.
I've seen that a lot of times... mainly for programmers in Astronomy, GIS, Genetics, Meteorology and Chemistry research programmes. The supervisors are more interested in someone with a science degree and a knowledge of programming than a professional programmer with basic knowledge of science. But the salary reflects this.
200 Gigabytes are for the online instruction videos. The other 200 Gigabytes are the promotional trailers required by the movie industry as compensation for piracy.
In the UK, all foreign students from countries deemed "a bit dodgy" are required to register with their local police station. For this pleasure, they are charged are 34 pounds and are required to notify the police of any change of address, otherwise face a 5000 pound fine. One wonders why the police are doing the duties of the immigration service. Maybe the Automatic Immigration and Crime Policy Generator is becoming a little too bit realistic.
During my high school education + teachers strike, I had a couple of private tutors. One was a retired teacher, the other was a research assistant with MRI scanners. Their pay was between 10 and 20 pounds per hour ($15 to $30), depending on home or office visits. That was 20 years ago, so I guess the rates have increased bit.
whilst I'm not familiar with digital content creation, I'd imagine they have things like packaging done out of house.
Digital content creation requires vasts amount of memory to store textures, geometry and scenes for distributed render farms, along with intermediate results (depth, lighting maps), and resulting images. Transferring all that data about requires custom ultra high-speed networks.
This reminds me of a documentary I once watched about Singapore trying to keep one step ahead of Hong Kong. They were trying to apply technology to everything in order to reduce overheads. Once example was using AI algorithms to reorder the arrangement of cargo on a container ship in order to minimise the time in dock (Sounded impressive, but in reality it reduced to put the most remote destinations down first and at the sides to preserve symmetry, then put the nearest destinations in last). Another was using the subway tickets to gather usage statistics.
Read the article on geothermal power. Once the water has been heated, it will return as high-pressure steam. In California, the temperature difference can be as much as 3632F per mile drilled downwards.
If they drilled deep enough into the Earth's crust, they could do away with the nuclear reactor bit altogether, and use the natural heat of the planet.
If you really want environmentally friendly computers, why can't more be done to improve reuseability. From experience working in locations where it isn't easy to get laptops and PC's repaired, the following would be useful:
1. Laptops in which the screens have a video-in socket. This would allow the screen of a functioning laptop to allow the use of a laptop with a broken backlight/display.
2. Having LCD backlights which could be replaced without having to take apart the entire display. (I personally had this experience with a laptop repair shop - the PC was completely dead because the invertor had fried; the technician told me nothing could be done. Unplugging the invertor and using an external monitor allowed the PC to start up normally).
3. Have the motherboard of a PC in it's own slot - replacing a motherboard wouldn't require dissassembling the entire system. Many users seem happy to throw out a perfectly usable power-supply, cooling fans, chassis and frame, network, audio and video cards just because the motherboard has fried.
4. With new video cards coming out every six months, and the availabilty of chipsets in the MXM form factor for laptops, would it be possible to design desktop video cards so that the memory chips, and GPU could be inserted/removed individually, rather than having to buy a completely new chip but with exactly the same circuit board.
For any telecommunications equipment used by the government and connected to the public telephone network, I would expect each component to have a network requestable serial number. That would quickly reduce the black market value for such components in a way similar to mobile phones
Good point. You can find the prices (after pretending to make a booking at) Vue Cinemas
It's immediately obvious to me that they seem to charge different prices for adults at different times of the week/day (from £3.50 to £5.80, students and children are £3.50, family tickets are £15.80. For a price of a family ticket, it would be cheaper just buying the movie, let alone renting it.
Or anything to do with local cable and satellite companies (Sky/Telewest) offering Premier viewings of movies for £3.50 each (unlimited number of viewers), or people feeling unsafe due to the large number of public bars next to the cinema's.
I never even knew there was a market out in Ingleston, but making a round trip of seven miles by car/bus/train hardly seems cost-effective just in order to buy dodgy DVD's.
Such data formats already exist - have a look at CATIA to name but one. Fortunately, most of the time such information remains safe. Although, there was the time when customers discovered that a set of plastic multicolored toy keys would actually open the doors of certain makes of car.
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Not forgetting that the average adult human needs two litres of water per day for optimum nutrition , not forgetting the need for showers/baths, flushing toilets, washing machines, optional dish washing machines, cooking, and washing cars. Scale all this up by x500,000 for a small city, and the amounts are astronomical. The only way to desalinate this amount of water, is to build a power station to run a desalination, which then needs a considerable supply of water by itself.
That's the heatsink effect for you... For every mile in radius of urbanised land, the core temperature of a city rises by 1 degree. All the heat from the South-East of England is driving away the rain clouds.
Oh Yes! Just like 1976, where they imposed a garden hose/lawn sprinkler ban, if not started rationing water altogether. Not bad for an island state completely surrounded by deep oceans.
and someday, our bodies become the cheap fossil fuel oil for the next intelligent species a few megayears from now. A scenario for those who like happy endings
...
Actually, that already happened
Even less fortunate were those mummies exported to the US for use in the papermaking industry or even, as Mark Twain reported, to be burnt as railroad fuel.
Source: Egyptians
Research in the construction industry has experimented with robotic house building machines which would automatically cement and place bricks.
The problem: The machine would tend to continue off in a straight line.
Hint: Professional bricklayers place small pyramids of bricks at the required height then fill in the centres.
Drilling for oil in the North Sea has been partially automated. Instead of having entire crew s of men lifting, loading, holding and connecting drill pipes in shifts, a single crane operator now does the work. The crane operator presses one button to lift up a pipe segment from a stack, presses another button to move it to the drill head, another button to attach it to the existing pipe, and so on...
The textile industry originally required three people to operate a loom. The introduction of the Jacquard loom (punched cards with preprogrammed patterns) took away the need for skilled craftsmen with good memories. The use of the water wheel/steam engine/combustion engine/electric motor took away the need for physical strength and endurance. The use of self-replacing thread reels, and image processing systems reduced the need for technicians from one per machine to one per fifteen machines. Now designs are automatically transferred from standard paint programs to the electronic controllers.
Car manufacturing and painting is done by robotic machinery; at least in Europe and Japan.
The only jobs left are going to be in research, development and design.
I've seen that a lot of times... mainly for programmers in Astronomy, GIS, Genetics, Meteorology and Chemistry research programmes. The supervisors are more interested in someone with a science degree and a knowledge of programming than a professional programmer with basic knowledge of science. But the salary reflects this.
this allowed me to get a job at the best convenience store in the state. Highly recommended!
.. Acted as sous-chef in popular lunch venue
... Coordinated order fulfillment
... Interfaced with clients
... Landscaped for private clients
... Accomodation manager for a hotel
... Industrial waste facilitator
... Managed client relations
... Child development consultant
... Sales associate in the fashion industry
... Auto mechanic's assistant
... Health and safety supervisor
.. Restaurant waste disposal manager
... Inventory manager
Don't undersell yourself... you have gained experience "interacting with a diverse client base in a fast-paced environment"
Other descriptions include:
Worked the deep fryer
Supermarket cashier
Answered phones
Mowed lawns
Made beds
Dug ditches
Waited at tables
Babysitter
Folded clothes in department store
Petrol station cashier
Lifeguard
Washed dishes
Lifted boxes in a warehouse
Shop-window-display decorator - Marketing consultant
Street cleaner - Environmental Health and Safety protection officer.
From The worse-case scenerio survival handbook - University
200 Gigabytes are for the online instruction videos. The other 200 Gigabytes are the promotional trailers required by the movie industry as compensation for piracy.
In the UK, all foreign students from countries deemed "a bit dodgy" are required to register with their local police station. For this pleasure, they are charged are 34 pounds and are required to notify the police of any change of address, otherwise face a 5000 pound fine. One wonders why the police are doing the duties of the immigration service.
Maybe the Automatic Immigration and Crime Policy Generator is becoming a little too bit realistic.
Don't forget 'telnetting' to an internal server, only to 'ssh' to an outside host.
This can be explained by the fact that the total sum of all human IQ's on the planet is a fixed constant.
During my high school education + teachers strike, I had a couple of private tutors. One was a retired teacher, the other was a research assistant with MRI scanners. Their pay was between 10 and 20 pounds per hour ($15 to $30), depending on home or office visits. That was 20 years ago, so I guess the rates have increased bit.
whilst I'm not familiar with digital content creation, I'd imagine they have things like packaging done out of house.
Digital content creation requires vasts amount of memory to store textures, geometry and scenes for distributed render farms, along with intermediate results (depth, lighting maps), and resulting images. Transferring all that data about requires custom ultra high-speed networks.
This reminds me of a documentary I once watched about Singapore trying to keep one step ahead of Hong Kong. They were trying to apply technology to everything in order to reduce overheads. Once example was using AI algorithms to reorder the arrangement of cargo on a container ship in order to minimise the time in dock (Sounded impressive, but in reality it reduced to put the most remote destinations down first and at the sides to preserve symmetry, then put the nearest destinations in last). Another was using the subway tickets to gather usage statistics.
Read the article on geothermal power. Once the water has been heated, it will return as high-pressure steam. In California, the temperature difference can be as much as 3632F per mile drilled downwards.
That experiment must be from the research group that discovered that: Fruit flies have conscious experiences
If they drilled deep enough into the Earth's crust, they could do away with the nuclear reactor bit altogether, and use the natural heat of the planet.
All your base metals are belong to us...
Third world demand for stolen components seems to have tailed off, according to this article.
If you really want environmentally friendly computers, why can't more be done to improve reuseability. From experience working in locations where it isn't easy to get laptops and PC's repaired, the following would be useful:
1. Laptops in which the screens have a video-in socket. This would allow the screen of a functioning laptop to allow the use of a laptop with a broken backlight/display.
2. Having LCD backlights which could be replaced without having to take apart the entire display.
(I personally had this experience with a laptop repair shop - the PC was completely dead because the invertor had fried; the technician told me nothing could be done. Unplugging the invertor and using an external monitor allowed the PC to start up normally).
3. Have the motherboard of a PC in it's own slot - replacing a motherboard wouldn't require dissassembling the entire system. Many users seem happy to throw out a perfectly usable power-supply, cooling fans, chassis and frame, network, audio and video cards just because the motherboard has fried.
4. With new video cards coming out every six months, and the availabilty of chipsets in the MXM form factor for laptops, would it be possible to design desktop video cards so that the memory chips, and GPU could be inserted/removed individually, rather than having to buy a completely new chip but with exactly the same circuit board.
For any telecommunications equipment used by the government and connected to the public telephone network, I would expect each component to have a network requestable serial number. That would quickly reduce the black market value for such components in a way similar to mobile phones
Good point. You can find the prices (after pretending to make a booking at) Vue Cinemas
It's immediately obvious to me that they seem to charge different prices for adults at different times of the week/day (from £3.50 to £5.80, students and children are £3.50, family tickets are £15.80. For a price of a family ticket, it would be cheaper just buying the movie, let alone renting it.
Or anything to do with local cable and satellite companies (Sky/Telewest) offering Premier viewings of movies for £3.50 each (unlimited number of viewers), or people feeling unsafe due to the large number of public bars next to the cinema's.
I never even knew there was a market out in Ingleston, but making a round trip of seven miles by car/bus/train hardly seems cost-effective just in order to buy dodgy DVD's.
... in Edinburgh, local cinema managers are blaming declining attendances on pirate DVD's being sold at local flea markets.
Such data formats already exist - have a look at CATIA to name but one. Fortunately, most of the time such information remains safe. Although, there was the time when customers discovered that a set of plastic multicolored toy keys would actually open the doors of certain makes of car.
Obviously, you've never seen a Reliant Robin