Because they can charge customers more for the extra bandwidth and speed like Virgin Media do. They don't need to charge them exclusively to watch Netflix.
CGA/EGA/VGA programming. Those were the fast moving days; Hercules monochrome cards, CGA four color 320x200 modes. Your card could display 16 colors, but only 4 at any time, so it was a choice of four palettes. EGA allowed 16 colors, VGA did 320x200x256,or 640x480x16 then SVGA with accelerated pix-blitting for 800x600x256 and upwards. You needed a multi-sync monitor to handle all those modes. The MK_FP macro to make a far pointer to access the VGA memory space. then the SSE/AVX Intel instructions to do vector processing on images.
Until a few years ago, my parents were still using a 16" CRT TV with a built in VCR player. Really looked quite Space 1999'ish with the square 4:3 aspect ratio. Still have a memory of seeing those monochrome globe TV sets along with a sphere chair and thinking that would be so cool for my room. (Apparently, the fibreglass chipped really easily so they broke quickly)
You can get wallets for smartphones that cover up the camera lenses when not in use. The other risk is leaving the Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity of the smartphone on. Then there's the fun with Bluetooth headphone headsets with microphones. But even the microphone of the smartphone can be used to determine keypresses on a keyboard. A thermal imaging camera for a smartphone can be used to read pincode keypresses.
They want to have custom extensions that give them an "advantage" over other users. Yes, they could submit ideas to Firefox, but they would lose that "advantage". So they just keeping creating their own custom plugins in secret, and then when the ground gets pulled from under their feet because nobody knew how many users were using that feature, then they complain.
Google and Facebook require fresh content in order to remain popular with users. Big Telecom dreams of the day of taking the Internet back to the days of "Value-Added" services where you pay an extra $5 for services like Caller-ID, Three-way calling, Anonymous phone-call barring, Voicemail, Last Number Callback. Some Mobile companies already do this with bundles of internet sites like Video, Social, Messaging (MEO in Portugal).
This is for mobile, but you end having to pay an extra $5 for every "bundle" of mainstream web sites (Video, Social, Messaging) that you want unlimited access.
Any large city will have problems with smog, nitrous oxides and diesel soot (small particles that can settle in your lungs). Then there's stress due to being caught up in traffic and living in high density. Other environmental hazards include the dust from open top trucks transporting demolition materials from house conversions; wood dust, chipboards, plaster dust. All that just gets blown into the air as the truck goes over the bumps and dips in the roads. I'd see them rumbling along the roads leaving a dust trail behind them. Houses on those streets had the lowest prices in the city.
One of the people in my workplace used to ride a bicycle to get to work. When he arrived, he'd have so much diesel soot on his face, he looked like a World War I pilot.
We have the Data Protection Act in the UK. Every individual has the right to request a copy of all the data any corporation or company holds about them. Failure to provide the data in the format requested within a fixed period of time or to confirm that the data doesn't exist, can lead to the company being fined.
When someone explains it to them in terms they can understand.
1. Smartphones have more functionality and display systems more advanced that the UNIX workstations used back in the 1990's. Computing power; multi-core CPU's and GPU's able to run the same extensions as desktop GPU's/
3. Modern day silicon chips make use of MEMS technology (Miniature Electromechanical Systems) that allow microscopic sensors to be built straight onto chip silicon; magnetometers, motion sensors. Even a GPS receiver can be put in the space the size of a key on a regular keyboard. Advanced fractal designs of antennae mean no wires poking out.
4. Power management; separate components of the smartphone can be powered down when not in use; others can switch to internal batteries (M9 - motion processor)
5. Wireless network connectivity - able to triangulate location from cellphone towers (network processor automatically logs network providers, towers and their signal strength. Same with Wi-Fi. Google has already created a database of wi-fi routers and their locations.
6. "To seek permission is to seek denial" - Silicon Valley attitude to privacy.
You could try this idea out with Blender. I've done architectural modeling of apartments and homes. The fundamental component that any type of piece would be a cube like Minecraft. The height would be one floor level. The width and depth would be one or two meters. Basic shapes are a crossroads, walls, T-junctions and corners. Some walls are solid, others have windows, patio doors, front doors with letter boxes, bay windows, garage doors, etc... indoor staircases are added later as assembled kits. Victorian homes would do this so you could replace the staircase whenever you wanted to.
Good few people have made homes out of shipping containers. Of course, they cut holes for windows, add hinges so the steel can be shuttered, and many add wood or brick panels to the outside to give it a more architectural look.
There was that guy who built his own nuclear bomb shelter out of old school buses, That's pretty cool idea to build a tornado shelter on the cheap - just excavate a ramp plus hole, lower down a container/old bus, then build on top of it.
This market isn't. The previous market was for retirees cruising across the USA and hipsters working remotely. They are served perfectly by these mobile homes who require custom builds. But now there is a new market segment that will be looking for mass produced homes that have modular configurable option choices for a kitchen/bedroom/living room and bathrooms. They won't need all the expensive options.
They will block random ports and unapproved services unless you pay a premium. But WebSockets lets you effectively run a VPN between a server and the client PC. All the individual connections used to download images, video and scripts go through one permanently on and encrypted https connection.
Every time a small town or village does that, guess what happens? The burglars, thieves and muggers come out. They even stick to those bits of the street where every other street light has been switched off to save money.
A "Cloud" is when you don't know the routing paths, servers or interconnects used. ISDN was built on the X.25 packet switching system. As a customer all you had was that little socket in the wall, which plugged into your PC. There was no way of finding out the traffic route taken for data as every packet could conceivably follow a different route based on congestion.
Modern day "cloud services" would just dynamically allocate you a virtual machine on a virtual server, suck up the data from your systems and return it back to you, then have the VM disappear.
Sometimes the cookies are used to store your username/password so that you can log in automatically in on the website, even though you have opened a new window.
They will go back to using whatever unique ID's are available on the system. Remember CPU-ID? Where special CPU instructions mapped onto web-browser script keywords allowed a website to know your CPU. Now they could access the UUID of your file system.
Probably because if they were to rewrite whatever blocks of code they needed, they would end up with the same things; file system explorer routine; file scanner, encryptor/decryptor, anti-virus detectors, user-name scanners, event handlers for file system operations.By the time an optimizing compiler is finished, it might just end up the same code anyway. Why waste time?
Maybe they were in a hurry to get those features added for the new generation of smartphone and didn't want the time penalty of retro-porting and testing. No different from device driver support for old versions of Linux. Though eventually someone does get around to do retro-ports.
Weren't there other problems where they had the problems of generating the magnetic fields strong enough (superconducting magnets), find metals strong enough to resist melting and fracturing. Then when the fields were strong enough they had the problems of the plasma pinching and twisting into singularities (solved with a stellerator). Now they have the problem with the Helium byproducts corroding the metal (solved with the use of layered metals like the punch-arms of of a Mantis Shrimp).
They need money to solve the problems that they run into.
>Makes me wonder if there's a market of people who go back to school to "reset" their NCG status bit just so they can get a job in something other than "exactly what they were doing at their previous job."
Yes, that's what many people do - sometimes it is a MSc, other times it is simply a 1 week training course. Enough to make new contacts and gain some skills. I did a MSc when career promotions at my employer were blocked by small-town political interference. Back then, that was enough to gain skills in C++ and parallel programming. Modern day, people have done this to become data scientists.
The main advantage of living in SV and other major tech hubs, was that you could find a new job the same day if you were laid off. Other parts of the world you could be unemployed between three months and a year unless you relocated elsewhere; which could require air flights or hotel stays. My criteria for any position now is having access to "Meetup" groups in that location.
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Because they can charge customers more for the extra bandwidth and speed like Virgin Media do. They don't need to charge them exclusively to watch Netflix.
Modern smart TV's give you multi-color static at HD 4K resolutions. Haven't tried it with 3D glasses yet.
CGA/EGA/VGA programming. Those were the fast moving days; Hercules monochrome cards, CGA four color 320x200 modes. Your card could display 16 colors, but only 4 at any time, so it was a choice of four palettes. EGA allowed 16 colors, VGA did 320x200x256,or 640x480x16 then SVGA with accelerated pix-blitting for 800x600x256 and upwards. You needed a multi-sync monitor to handle all those modes. The MK_FP macro to make a far pointer to access the VGA memory space. then the SSE/AVX Intel instructions to do vector processing on images.
Until a few years ago, my parents were still using a 16" CRT TV with a built in VCR player. Really looked quite Space 1999'ish with the square 4:3 aspect ratio. Still have a memory of seeing those monochrome globe TV sets along with a sphere chair and thinking that would be so cool for my room.
(Apparently, the fibreglass chipped really easily so they broke quickly)
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You can get wallets for smartphones that cover up the camera lenses when not in use. The other risk is leaving the Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity of the smartphone on. Then there's the fun with Bluetooth headphone headsets with microphones. But even the microphone of the smartphone can be used to determine keypresses on a keyboard. A thermal imaging camera for a smartphone can be used to read pincode keypresses.
They want to have custom extensions that give them an "advantage" over other users. Yes, they could submit ideas to Firefox, but they would lose that "advantage". So they just keeping creating their own custom plugins in secret, and then when the ground gets pulled from under their feet because nobody knew how many users were using that feature, then they complain.
Google and Facebook require fresh content in order to remain popular with users. Big Telecom dreams of the day of taking the Internet back to the days of "Value-Added" services where you pay an extra $5 for services like Caller-ID, Three-way calling, Anonymous phone-call barring, Voicemail, Last Number Callback. Some Mobile companies already do this with bundles of internet sites like Video, Social, Messaging (MEO in Portugal).
This is the future if we are not careful:
https://www.meo.pt/telemovel/t...
This is for mobile, but you end having to pay an extra $5 for every "bundle" of mainstream web sites (Video, Social, Messaging) that you want unlimited access.
Any large city will have problems with smog, nitrous oxides and diesel soot (small particles that can settle in your lungs). Then there's stress due to being caught up in traffic and living in high density. Other environmental hazards include the dust from open top trucks transporting demolition materials from house conversions; wood dust, chipboards, plaster dust. All that just gets blown into the air as the truck goes over the bumps and dips in the roads. I'd see them rumbling along the roads leaving a dust trail behind them. Houses on those streets had the lowest prices in the city.
One of the people in my workplace used to ride a bicycle to get to work. When he arrived, he'd have so much diesel soot on his face, he looked like a World War I pilot.
We have the Data Protection Act in the UK. Every individual has the right to request a copy of all the data any corporation or company holds about them. Failure to provide the data in the format requested within a fixed period of time or to confirm that the data doesn't exist, can lead to the company being fined.
When someone explains it to them in terms they can understand.
1. Smartphones have more functionality and display systems more advanced that the UNIX workstations used back in the 1990's. Computing power; multi-core CPU's and GPU's able to run the same extensions as desktop GPU's/
3. Modern day silicon chips make use of MEMS technology (Miniature Electromechanical Systems) that allow microscopic sensors to be built straight onto chip silicon; magnetometers, motion sensors. Even a GPS receiver can be put in the space the size of a key on a regular keyboard. Advanced fractal designs of antennae mean no wires poking out.
4. Power management; separate components of the smartphone can be powered down when not in use; others can switch to internal batteries (M9 - motion processor)
5. Wireless network connectivity - able to triangulate location from cellphone towers (network processor automatically logs network providers, towers and their signal strength. Same with Wi-Fi. Google has already created a database of wi-fi routers and their locations.
6. "To seek permission is to seek denial" - Silicon Valley attitude to privacy.
You could try this idea out with Blender. I've done architectural modeling of apartments and homes. The fundamental component that any type of piece would be a cube like Minecraft. The height would be one floor level. The width and depth would be one or two meters. Basic shapes are a crossroads, walls, T-junctions and corners. Some walls are solid, others have windows, patio doors, front doors with letter boxes, bay windows, garage doors, etc... indoor staircases are added later as assembled kits. Victorian homes would do this so you could replace the staircase whenever you wanted to.
Good few people have made homes out of shipping containers. Of course, they cut holes for windows, add hinges so the steel can be shuttered, and many add wood or brick panels to the outside to give it a more architectural look.
https://www.containerhomeplans...
There was that guy who built his own nuclear bomb shelter out of old school buses, That's pretty cool idea to build a tornado shelter on the cheap - just excavate a ramp plus hole, lower down a container/old bus, then build on top of it.
This market isn't. The previous market was for retirees cruising across the USA and hipsters working remotely. They are served perfectly by these mobile homes who require custom builds. But now there is a new market segment that will be looking for mass produced homes that have modular configurable option choices for a kitchen/bedroom/living room and bathrooms. They won't need all the expensive options.
They will block random ports and unapproved services unless you pay a premium. But WebSockets lets you effectively run a VPN between a server and the client PC. All the individual connections used to download images, video and scripts go through one permanently on and encrypted https connection.
Every time a small town or village does that, guess what happens? The burglars, thieves and muggers come out. They even stick to those bits of the street where every other street light has been switched off to save money.
A "Cloud" is when you don't know the routing paths, servers or interconnects used. ISDN was built on the X.25 packet switching system. As a customer all you had was that little socket in the wall, which plugged into your PC. There was no way of finding out the traffic route taken for data as every packet could conceivably follow a different route based on congestion.
Modern day "cloud services" would just dynamically allocate you a virtual machine on a virtual server, suck up the data from your systems and return it back to you, then have the VM disappear.
Sometimes the cookies are used to store your username/password so that you can log in automatically in on the website, even though you have opened a new window.
They will go back to using whatever unique ID's are available on the system. Remember CPU-ID? Where special CPU instructions mapped onto web-browser script keywords allowed a website to know your CPU. Now they could access the UUID of your file system.
What about the security risk from: Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins
Those were the biggest security risk. You could have a secure browser, but one dodgy plugin allows all that spyware crud to creep back in.
Probably because if they were to rewrite whatever blocks of code they needed, they would end up with the same things; file system explorer routine; file scanner, encryptor/decryptor, anti-virus detectors, user-name scanners, event handlers for file system operations.By the time an optimizing compiler is finished, it might just end up the same code anyway. Why waste time?
Not that bacteria do any different:
https://www.newscientist.com/a...
Maybe they were in a hurry to get those features added for the new generation of smartphone and didn't want the time penalty of retro-porting and testing. No different from device driver support for old versions of Linux. Though eventually someone does get around to do retro-ports.
Weren't there other problems where they had the problems of generating the magnetic fields strong enough (superconducting magnets), find metals strong enough to resist melting and fracturing. Then when the fields were strong enough they had the problems of the plasma pinching and twisting into singularities (solved with a stellerator). Now they have the problem with the Helium byproducts corroding the metal (solved with the use of layered metals like the punch-arms of of a Mantis Shrimp).
They need money to solve the problems that they run into.
>Makes me wonder if there's a market of people who go back to school to "reset" their NCG status bit just so they can get a job in something other than "exactly what they were doing at their previous job."
Yes, that's what many people do - sometimes it is a MSc, other times it is simply a 1 week training course. Enough to make new contacts and gain some skills. I did a MSc when career promotions at my employer were blocked by small-town political interference. Back then, that was enough to gain skills in C++ and parallel programming. Modern day, people have done this to become data scientists.
The main advantage of living in SV and other major tech hubs, was that you could find a new job the same day if you were laid off. Other parts of the world you could be unemployed between three months and a year unless you relocated elsewhere; which could require air flights or hotel stays.
My criteria for any position now is having access to "Meetup" groups in that location.