Indeed, if they don't expand out accessibility to high speed broadband and just use net neutrality to boost profits while not investing in improving services, they'll get hauled in front of a congressional committee like the tobacco executives.
That's very true. Before this project, our school computer lab consisted of a couple of Apple 2 computers. Due to some politics, one of those was moved into the library under instructions of the principal to make computing more "accessible" to students. By the time I left, they were just installing their network of BBC model B's into the computer lab room. The course syllabus would still involve teaching flowcharts and the fundamentals of BASIC programming. One week it would be INPUT keyword, another week IF-THEN-ELSE and the week after PRINT.
Everyone had their home computers, and were playing around with assembly language, interrupts, player-missile graphics or sprites and graph drawing programs.
The decisions made back then were based on the ability of buildings to withstand earthquakes, that residents didn't want to live in the sun-shadow of high-rise buildings, nor did they want MVA (market-value assessment) of a high-rise condo to suddenly blow their property tax valuation into the stratosphere.
Other cities across the world are now working on the idea of walkable cities, where shops, homes and offices are close enough so that everyone can just walk around.
The first thing I look for in a digital watch is a metal wristband. A basic image search will show whole screens of smartwatches with black plastic wristbands. Search for Casio watches and they all look classy with silver or gold metal chrome. Even their calculator watches are gold, and the batteries are designed to last 10 years.
You haven't heard of the company called ARM? The money invested by Acorn into the BBC Micro and the associated training programs, helped to develop ARM CPU architecture that went into mobile CPU's, GPU's and the entire ecosystem.
"The Tube interface allowed Acorn to use BBC Micros with ARM CPUs as software development machines when creating the Acorn Archimedes. This resulted in the ARM development kit for the BBC Micro in 1986, priced at around £4000."
I've had medical tests done on myself. They need a full syringe full of blood, and even then that is only valid for a few hours between it being extracted and sent to the lab. Some tests are so time sensitive they need the sample to be taken at the lab and processed immediately. Since every medication you take can change your blood chemistry, even the results of a blood test are only valid up until you have a new prescription.
As a teenager I used to go round all the second hand bookstores and pick up dozens of old sci-fi books, collections and anthologies. I could read a handful of short stories for a hour or two while in bed, or a novel over a week. Having to go to bed at 10pm because that's when my parents went to bed and turned off the heating to the rest of the house. One shelf on my wall was crammed full of sci-fi books.
Between 1996 and 2000, PC's began to displace UNIX workstations as 3D graphics boards became affordable as Windows NT/95 came out. Many workstation vendors buckled and just gave in to Windows NT. The height of the dot com boom in 2000 was when sales of sub $600 desktop PC's at Walmart and other department stores were also at their peak. As laptop, notebooks, netbooks and web-books became cheaper, the market adjusted Then around 2005, the mobile market took off when it was possible to use GPRS/GSM modems.
PDA's, gorilla glass, wireless internet, touch screens, digital cameras, video compression, GPS and other MEMS sensors converged to make smartphones. PDA's like the Palm pilot were around then but synchronizing documents between a PC, laptop and PDA, then uploading them to the web was awkward. Social networking media took off as it solved this problem and it became possible to instantly broadcast a video or picture from any device to Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin or Google.
The convergence of two segments creates new problems to be solved, and the solution to those problems creates a focus point for startups to grow from.
One of the problems in the UK, is that HMRC, and the valuation office agency actually charge companies by how much lit fibre-optic cable they have, since it is considered a business asset.
Some agencies have compared this to an 18th century window tax. What's the point of getting property developers to install FTTP when the business owner gets clobbered with annual taxes in the end.
Their basic idea/vision wasn't wrong - low budget labs-on-chips for blood tests. The only problem is that existing medical blood sampling systems have required decades of research and development, validation, medical board approval and other requirements.
They should have moved into other things like smart wound dressings that could measure bacterial activity and release iodine or hydrogel in order to maintain optimum healing conditions.
The military have long flight duration drones that fly around the desert and provide HD resolution video of the surrounding area. Some of the sensors provide 360 degree views like Argus-IV. These can provide 70 hours of uninterrupted video of an entire city; everything from people walking around, cars, trucks and buses driving around.
But the problem is, just for one days worth of video, it is going to take hundreds of analysts to look for things of interest such as people loading boxes into vehicles, testing weapons, and doing any kind of suspicious militia type things. So that's where the video analysis AI comes in. It can be trained to look for various types of motion related to these types of activities. Since it never gets tired, it can sift through all of the video footage, ignore the boring static imagery and categorize every bit of human motion ready for the analysts to do a review.
They even took way the little [v] and [^] buttons in the scroll bars. When a web browser was jammed up with downloading content, I could still scroll up and down with those little buttons. Now the scrollbars just look broken.
Most Windows distributions come with Remote Administration enabled. That allows for remote monitoring. A relative had a problem with her PC, called up technical support and got a technician to fix her PC remotely. She saw the cursor whizzing around, windows opening and closing, text being typed in. She thought it was marvelous. Didn't quite understand that meant anyone could be monitoring what she typed. Then some applications seem to stream telemetry via Amazon Web Services (AWS). Even a web browser has access to the root window.
It's easy enough for the police to scan through the various websites that allow free downloading of screen backgrounds. In the past, even those websites has problems trying to implement porn filters that would allow basketball teams to be permitted, but not porn.
Look at the uses for high-temperature alloys like Inconel and Hastelloy. Everything from cryogenic conditions to rocket engine parts and nuclear reactors. Just the things you would want from a UFO
The "whales" started moving currency around. People convert their savings into Bitcoins when their local currency is unstable. Then they convert it back again once things settle down.
Laser printers use a laser to create an electro-static charge on a metal drum. This drum then attracts the ink which is then heated and applied to the paper. It replaces the need for having hundreds of people to do the manual type-setting of metal letters onto metal drums, lithography and stripping of the metalwork afterwards.
The UK had the Wapping Street riots because the unions had refused to modernize for years, and literally overnight found themselves replaced by word processors and commercial laser printers.
The UK ISP's have to buy their connectivity from BT's OpenReach. They are the company that handle the provision of fibre-optic connections to exchanges, which ISP's lease and resell onto home and business customers:
In the words of BT OpenReach https://www.homeandbusiness.op... "We’ve already given more than 27.1 million homes and business premises access to fibre broadband. And we’re adding around 20,000 each week."
The only other alternative is Virgin Media who bougtht up Telewest and NTL back in the 2000's. But they are only interested in providing service to areas with a stable residential population that has been established at least three years.
>All said, I suspect that unless you routinely suck down multi-GB files all day long, or use it to watch like three 4k Netflix/Hulu/whatever streams all at the same time?
Like say a freelance/contract animator/texture artist/modeller artist or CAD engineer/ programmer who wants to live in the countryside and work remotely with clients? Who wants to use the latest versions of software including Linux distros, Windows updates, CAD/animation applications (3DMax, Maya). Each and every time a new release is given out, that requires a gigabyte download of one application or another.
The basic problem with the UK is that it is always London that gets the latest technology first (Home counties and Central London will get the pilot schemes, then the national rollout for other major cities like Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh, then smaller towns and finally a decade later, the smaller rural villages across England and the Highlands. By that time these areas are upgraded, the next big thing in communications has rolled along in London. This has been going on since the time that BT first moved from analogue to digital exchanges in the 1980's, and everything ever since: baud rates, A(DSL). It's a matter of how many engineers they wish to employ and where they want to employ them.
Slashdot Mirror
I guess they will just start mugging customers for their credit and debit cards and demand the PIN for each card.
Paypal become unusable for me when it now requires a mobile telephone number to register an account.
Indeed, if they don't expand out accessibility to high speed broadband and just use net neutrality to boost profits while not investing in improving services, they'll get hauled in front of a congressional committee like the tobacco executives.
That's very true. Before this project, our school computer lab consisted of a couple of Apple 2 computers. Due to some politics, one of those was moved into the library under instructions of the principal to make computing more "accessible" to students. By the time I left, they were just installing their network of BBC model B's into the computer lab room. The course syllabus would still involve teaching flowcharts and the fundamentals of BASIC programming. One week it would be INPUT keyword, another week IF-THEN-ELSE and the week after PRINT.
Everyone had their home computers, and were playing around with assembly language, interrupts, player-missile graphics or sprites and graph drawing programs.
The decisions made back then were based on the ability of buildings to withstand earthquakes, that residents didn't want to live in the sun-shadow of high-rise buildings, nor did they want MVA (market-value assessment) of a high-rise condo to suddenly blow their property tax valuation into the stratosphere.
Other cities across the world are now working on the idea of walkable cities, where shops, homes and offices are close enough so that everyone can just walk around.
The first thing I look for in a digital watch is a metal wristband. A basic image search will show whole screens of smartwatches with black plastic wristbands. Search for Casio watches and they all look classy with silver or gold metal chrome. Even their calculator watches are gold, and the batteries are designed to last 10 years.
You haven't heard of the company called ARM? The money invested by Acorn into the BBC Micro and the associated training programs, helped to develop ARM CPU architecture that went into mobile CPU's, GPU's and the entire ecosystem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"The Tube interface allowed Acorn to use BBC Micros with ARM CPUs as software development machines when creating the Acorn Archimedes. This resulted in the ARM development kit for the BBC Micro in 1986, priced at around £4000."
I've had medical tests done on myself. They need a full syringe full of blood, and even then that is only valid for a few hours between it being extracted and sent to the lab. Some tests are so time sensitive they need the sample to be taken at the lab and processed immediately. Since every medication you take can change your blood chemistry, even the results of a blood test are only valid up until you have a new prescription.
As a teenager I used to go round all the second hand bookstores and pick up dozens of old sci-fi books, collections and anthologies. I could read a handful of short stories for a hour or two while in bed, or a novel over a week. Having to go to bed at 10pm because that's when my parents went to bed and turned off the heating to the rest of the house. One shelf on my wall was crammed full of sci-fi books.
Between 1996 and 2000, PC's began to displace UNIX workstations as 3D graphics boards became affordable as Windows NT/95 came out. Many workstation vendors buckled and just gave in to Windows NT. The height of the dot com boom in 2000 was when sales of sub $600 desktop PC's at Walmart and other department stores were also at their peak. As laptop, notebooks, netbooks and web-books became cheaper, the market adjusted Then around 2005, the mobile market took off when it was possible to use GPRS/GSM modems.
PDA's, gorilla glass, wireless internet, touch screens, digital cameras, video compression, GPS and other MEMS sensors converged to make smartphones. PDA's like the Palm pilot were around then but synchronizing documents between a PC, laptop and PDA, then uploading them to the web was awkward. Social networking media took off as it solved this problem and it became possible to instantly broadcast a video or picture from any device to Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin or Google.
The convergence of two segments creates new problems to be solved, and the solution to those problems creates a focus point for startups to grow from.
One of the problems in the UK, is that HMRC, and the valuation office agency actually charge companies by how much lit fibre-optic cable they have, since it is considered a business asset.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ra...
Appendix 1 contains the tax rates. It is based on distance in kilometers and number of fibre optic cable strands.
https://assets.publishing.serv...
Some agencies have compared this to an 18th century window tax. What's the point of getting property developers to install FTTP when the business owner gets clobbered with annual taxes in the end.
Their basic idea/vision wasn't wrong - low budget labs-on-chips for blood tests. The only problem is that existing medical blood sampling systems have required decades of research and development, validation, medical board approval and other requirements.
They should have moved into other things like smart wound dressings that could measure bacterial activity and release iodine or hydrogel in order to maintain optimum healing conditions.
The military have long flight duration drones that fly around the desert and provide HD resolution video of the surrounding area. Some of the sensors provide 360 degree views like Argus-IV. These can provide 70 hours of uninterrupted video of an entire city; everything from people walking around, cars, trucks and buses driving around.
https://newatlas.com/argus-is-...
But the problem is, just for one days worth of video, it is going to take hundreds of analysts to look for things of interest such as people loading boxes into vehicles, testing weapons, and doing any kind of suspicious militia type things. So that's where the video analysis AI comes in. It can be trained to look for various types of motion related to these types of activities. Since it never gets tired, it can sift through all of the video footage, ignore the boring static imagery and categorize every bit of human motion ready for the analysts to do a review.
They even took way the little [v] and [^] buttons in the scroll bars. When a web browser was jammed up with downloading content, I could still scroll up and down with those little buttons. Now the scrollbars just look broken.
That was about the cost of using a GPRS/GSM wireless model back in the 1990/2000's. Just downloading a single slashdot page cost around $10
It never worked out for the Iridium satellite network:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What if every cell-phone tower had it's own satellite dish?
Most Windows distributions come with Remote Administration enabled. That allows for remote monitoring. A relative had a problem with her PC, called up technical support and got a technician to fix her PC remotely. She saw the cursor whizzing around, windows opening and closing, text being typed in. She thought it was marvelous. Didn't quite understand that meant anyone could be monitoring what she typed. Then some applications seem to stream telemetry via Amazon Web Services (AWS). Even a web browser has access to the root window.
It's easy enough for the police to scan through the various websites that allow free downloading of screen backgrounds. In the past, even those websites has problems trying to implement porn filters that would allow basketball teams to be permitted, but not porn.
Look at the uses for high-temperature alloys like Inconel and Hastelloy. Everything from cryogenic conditions to rocket engine parts and nuclear reactors. Just the things you would want from a UFO
https://www.hpalloy.com/Alloys...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But rocket motors are already beyond alloys. They also require ceramics and other materials based on silica
https://www.extremetech.com/ex...
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/...
The "whales" started moving currency around. People convert their savings into Bitcoins when their local currency is unstable. Then they convert it back again once things settle down.
There's always Amazoogle
Laser printers use a laser to create an electro-static charge on a metal drum. This drum then attracts the ink which is then heated and applied to the paper.
It replaces the need for having hundreds of people to do the manual type-setting of metal letters onto metal drums, lithography and stripping of the metalwork afterwards.
The UK had the Wapping Street riots because the unions had refused to modernize for years, and literally overnight found themselves replaced by word processors and commercial laser printers.
As long as no first year students try and refill the toner with coffee, a laser printer will last years.
The UK ISP's have to buy their connectivity from BT's OpenReach. They are the company that handle the provision of fibre-optic connections to exchanges, which ISP's lease and resell onto home and business customers:
In the words of BT OpenReach
https://www.homeandbusiness.op...
"We’ve already given more than 27.1 million homes and business premises access to fibre broadband. And we’re adding around 20,000 each week."
The only other alternative is Virgin Media who bougtht up Telewest and NTL back in the 2000's. But they are only interested in providing service to areas with a stable residential population that has been established at least three years.
>All said, I suspect that unless you routinely suck down multi-GB files all day long, or use it to watch like three 4k Netflix/Hulu/whatever streams all at the same time?
Like say a freelance/contract animator/texture artist/modeller artist or CAD engineer/ programmer who wants to live in the countryside and work remotely with clients? Who wants to use the latest versions of software including Linux distros, Windows updates, CAD/animation applications (3DMax, Maya). Each and every time a new release is given out, that requires a gigabyte download of one application or another.
The basic problem with the UK is that it is always London that gets the latest technology first (Home counties and Central London will get the pilot schemes, then the national rollout for other major cities like Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh, then smaller towns and finally a decade later, the smaller rural villages across England and the Highlands. By that time these areas are upgraded, the next big thing in communications has rolled along in London. This has been going on since the time that BT first moved from analogue to digital exchanges in the 1980's, and everything ever since: baud rates, A(DSL). It's a matter of how many engineers they wish to employ and where they want to employ them.
LG G4 bought in 2015. None of the mobile phone shops sell spare batteries. Not even CEX (Computer Exchange). They only sell complete smartphones.