I knew a biologist who was doing surveys on the growth rates, sizes and population rates of rat populations. Rats will grow to the size of small dogs in places like rubbish tips.
These countries do it deliberately. They know that having the lowest tax rates in Europe will attract the multinationals to their country. That's why Ireland was called the Celtic Tiger for having such a strong economy back in the 2000's. So strong, that salaries and house prices were going up and up. Every young couple was achieving their life ambition of owning a house in its own field. Then the EU demanded that housing was made at higher densities (terraced homes), to the point the housing market and economy collapsed, and graduates had to start leaving, to be replaced by refugees.
Samsung or Sony will come out with a 88" inch 3D HD SmartTV OLED. Last time I checked the UK Argos catalog, the cheapest TV was £75 and the most expensive was a TV costing around £6500. Highest price now is 75 Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart TV at £3500
He wasn't the one shouting. The one doing all the shouting and "Simon says" got everyone nervous. What happened to "Stand against the wall with your hands up and against the wall."?
If they had those little drone cameras, think how it could have turned out differently, if they could have been able to send one close to the house and asked to look round. No risk to the officer or the home owner.
They are already there. Many doctors use Apple workstations or PC's to view online patient notes and bookings. That in turn requires networks and servers.
Then they have to charge everyone else higher rates, even those on low incomes. It's the equivalent of net neutrality. The post office can charge different rates for parcels by their size, their weight, or the distance being shipped, but they can't charge by who is sending the parcel or who is receiving the item.
> Or, as I've said many times in the past: Computers used to be fun. Not so much anymore.
Amen.
We have just piled layer and layer of software on top of hardware with these smartphones; Android is built on top of Linux, X-windows, EGL, GLES (OpenGL) from UNIX workstations. Add on all sorts of sensors like cameras, microphones, accelerometers, GPS, thermometers, barometers, hydrometers. Advertising agencies are prepared to pay for access to all that data in order to aggregate it and do data mining. Even if you as a developer don't want to participate, they'll find someone willing to clone your app and put in their advertising.
Remember TiVo. It tried to profile people based on the few programs that they had watched. Watch M*A*S*H and you are a liberal anti-war peace protestor. Watch A-Time or a World War II Action movie and you are right-wing gun nut with neo-nazi sympathies.
The Japanese noticed this too. If someone became too ill/weak to walk around and could only sit in a chair, everything else deteriorated (bones, vascular system, weight). Just getting up out of a chair and walking around the house doing housework was better than sitting. Going outside into the garden was even better, and walking around the village and talking to people even better still.
Even worse, if you do have an unlocked phone, every time you change telco with a new SIM card, they'll force you to update with some new crudware that may just brick your phone. Just crossing international borders is enough to do this the minute you turn off flight mode and the phone starts "ROAMing"
There are plenty of stories of technologies that were ahead of their time, but the market didn't exist at that time. On the other side, there are stories of technologies that arrived on the market late in the game and couldn't get past the incumbent who already had majority market share.
Xerox were geared up to do R&D, not marketing, sales, advertising, customer feedback, technical support and all the other corporate divisions required by a whole systems manufacturer. The usual product development cycle is put something out to market, get customer feedback, look at what other competitors are doing, get one step ahead of them, add new features requested by customers and marketing, then repeat.
Just look at the size of the main chassis. How would you convince office departments that they need workstations the size of office desks?
I see what you mean - in order to "make education relevant to the 21st century", the Conservatives gave local business the right to dictate what the school computer studies course syllabuses would be about - local companies didn't want programmers or software engineers, they just wanted IT training.
That's what happens when local business gets involved with the specification of course syllabuses - they want office IT training, not Computer Science 101
Coal and Gas plants have to be powered up and down slowly, in order to all the components to heat up and cool down gradually and avoid any heat stress that could cause metal fatigue.
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I knew a biologist who was doing surveys on the growth rates, sizes and population rates of rat populations. Rats will grow to the size of small dogs in places like rubbish tips.
These countries do it deliberately. They know that having the lowest tax rates in Europe will attract the multinationals to their country. That's why Ireland was called the Celtic Tiger for having such a strong economy back in the 2000's. So strong, that salaries and house prices were going up and up. Every young couple was achieving their life ambition of owning a house in its own field. Then the EU demanded that housing was made at higher densities (terraced homes), to the point the housing market and economy collapsed, and graduates had to start leaving, to be replaced by refugees.
Why else would they want to collect our rubbish unless it was to see what we are throwing out?
Samsung or Sony will come out with a 88" inch 3D HD SmartTV OLED. Last time I checked the UK Argos catalog, the cheapest TV was £75 and the most expensive was a TV costing around £6500. Highest price now is 75 Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart TV at £3500
He wasn't the one shouting. The one doing all the shouting and "Simon says" got everyone nervous. What happened to "Stand against the wall with your hands up and against the wall."?
If they had those little drone cameras, think how it could have turned out differently, if they could have been able to send one close to the house and asked to look round. No risk to the officer or the home owner.
They need to build it to the airport and build something around it, like a Disney resort.
You can look at cross-sections of undersea umbilical cables
These are shielded and wrapped in multiple layers of waterproof rubber, carbon fibre, rubber, insulation, copper shielding and power cables.
They are already there. Many doctors use Apple workstations or PC's to view online patient notes and bookings. That in turn requires networks and servers.
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Then they have to charge everyone else higher rates, even those on low incomes. It's the equivalent of net neutrality. The post office can charge different rates for parcels by their size, their weight, or the distance being shipped, but they can't charge by who is sending the parcel or who is receiving the item.
> Or, as I've said many times in the past: Computers used to be fun. Not so much anymore.
Amen.
We have just piled layer and layer of software on top of hardware with these smartphones; Android is built on top of Linux, X-windows, EGL, GLES (OpenGL) from UNIX workstations. Add on all sorts of sensors like cameras, microphones, accelerometers, GPS, thermometers, barometers, hydrometers. Advertising agencies are prepared to pay for access to all that data in order to aggregate it and do data mining. Even if you as a developer don't want to participate, they'll find someone willing to clone your app and put in their advertising.
Remember TiVo. It tried to profile people based on the few programs that they had watched. Watch M*A*S*H and you are a liberal anti-war peace protestor. Watch A-Time or a World War II Action movie and you are right-wing gun nut with neo-nazi sympathies.
They give the people who are living on their own little robots to give them advice to encourage them to become more active and keep them company
The Japanese noticed this too. If someone became too ill/weak to walk around and could only sit in a chair, everything else deteriorated (bones, vascular system, weight). Just getting up out of a chair and walking around the house doing housework was better than sitting. Going outside into the garden was even better, and walking around the village and talking to people even better still.
Even worse, if you do have an unlocked phone, every time you change telco with a new SIM card, they'll force you to update with some new crudware that may just brick your phone. Just crossing international borders is enough to do this the minute you turn off flight mode and the phone starts "ROAMing"
In the USA, it's around $3497 per eye. In the UK, with the NHS, it costs between £1000 and £5500
https://www.privatehealth.co.u...
There are plenty of stories of technologies that were ahead of their time, but the market didn't exist at that time. On the other side, there are stories of technologies that arrived on the market late in the game and couldn't get past the incumbent who already had majority market share.
Xerox were geared up to do R&D, not marketing, sales, advertising, customer feedback, technical support and all the other corporate divisions required by a whole systems manufacturer. The usual product development cycle is put something out to market, get customer feedback, look at what other competitors are doing, get one step ahead of them, add new features requested by customers and marketing, then repeat.
Just look at the size of the main chassis. How would you convince office departments that they need workstations the size of office desks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I see what you mean - in order to "make education relevant to the 21st century", the Conservatives gave local business the right to dictate what the school computer studies course syllabuses would be about - local companies didn't want programmers or software engineers, they just wanted IT training.
Export them to Africa and pick up African woman as wives.
That's what happens when local business gets involved with the specification of course syllabuses - they want office IT training, not Computer Science 101
They could make even more money if they could do cryptocurrency mining while the car was idle.
Coal and Gas plants have to be powered up and down slowly, in order to all the components to heat up and cool down gradually and avoid any heat stress that could cause metal fatigue.
Same with electric heater. The thermostat has built in AI so that it knows when to turn the heater off when it is too hot.