At the moment, maintaining a robot costs as much as employing a human. It requires other humans to repair it when things break, even with built-in diagnostic software that detects faults before they cause other problems.
I see hundreds of science related programming research positions. But they aren't C/C++, they are usually Matlab/Python and require an advanced degree in Physics, Mathematics or Natural Sciences.
Department heads and directors get paid bonuses based on the cost savings they make. Some times they were charging interns £1000/month to get work experience.
The same thing happened to nursing. Originally, the salaries were high enough to qualify as middle-class wage earners. But the government claimed there was going to be a nursing shortage. Dozens new nursing colleges opened everywhere. Then suddenly, there was an oversupply of nurses; salaries fell through the floor, the hospitals soaked up the savings. Now they are dependent on foreign labor. Family butchers used to be a middle class profession, then the supermarkets open meat factories out of state, hired cheap labor and undercut those family businesses.
It's interesting to see the use of hashing to optimize the computations of the Life grid, especially the metapixels (which are like FPGA cells). Which basically reduces everything down to lookup tables.
They made all the standard logic gates, but implementing a NOT with CA is tricky because there is no signal coming down. If a glider is the 1 bit, then no glider is the 0 bit, so you need something that acts as a timer and sends out a glider if no bit is received.
There were some designs for hardware that made use of incremental changes or even asychronous updates and thus eliminate the need for clock lines.
I agree. Life was a popular topic even back in the 1970's with low res screens. Writing simulators using VGA graphics modes and graphics accelerators was always the first things I did. Going beyond CA, there are 3D reaction diffusion equations.
It was the same in the UK before the wars. The village shops (butchers, fishmonger, bakery) would all have their delivery boys/girls who would use a bicycle with basket to deliver items. In the cities, the lady of the house would make her weekly order and items would be delivered by van. Department stores had their catalogs and items would be delivered overnight from the warehouses in London, by overnight train and delivered next day.
I believe him. It was a prediction back then. It was going to be cheaper to stream data across the Internet from cached memory on a server than it was going to be to deliver and store on a PC from disk.
I remember those experiments in chemistry lab. Only the teacher did that experiment. Glass jar, water in a perspex box, with the sodium/potassium on a long spoon, dropped in while he was wearing safety goggles.
One of the most interesting experiment was when I was in a computer lab at college, they had just installed a new extractor fan wrongly, and so it actually extracted the waste fumes from the chemistry lab isolation boxes from the floor below right into the chemistry lab. People were turning interesting shades of red and green.
British supermarkets do this all the time. You can order home deliveries of fresh, frozen and chilled items. Companies like Tescos, Sainsburys and Waitrose all offer the home delivery or pick up and collect. The trick is that you normally have to book before 11.45pm, but you can get delivery starting at 7am. Smart people make a booking with a few basic items, then come back and make the full order. They can do kitchen deliveries, but some people just prefer front door delivery.
The fear of a massive DDoS attack, somebody breaks into the digital records of the inland revenue, Parliament (already happened with an email server), an encryption malware worm or an attempt to shut down or overload the electricity grid.
Their monopoly really took off around 1996. Before then there were plenty of magazines for Atari/Amiga and all the other home computers of the time. By 1995, it was all Windows 95/Windows NT and Internet Explorer with Microsoft walking around everywhere banging a big drum and shouting "UNIX is legacy, Windows NT is the future". They even went as far as demanding that companies assign their brightest staff to their projects. Microsoft and Intel covered each others back so they were known as Wintel. That was the Netscape vs. Internet Explorer legal battle or the Browser Wars. Then for another decade there was SCO UNIX vs. Linux Groklaw
The most important things are keeping control of overheads, especially office leases, operating in stealth mode, and avoiding FGB (Fat Grinning Bastards).
I've worked for and heard about several startups that were successful and failed. One guy set up his own website from home (Carphone warehouse). Being a businessman with a company car he realized the most important thing was being able to buy accessories for his car right when he needed, and not just when he was at a gas station). That was a winner. By the time anyone else saw that he was making millions (Amazon), he had made his fortune.
Some people borrowed money from banks with their home as security for the loan. When their business took a downturn, the bank called in the loan and took their house. That's a lose. Other set up startup companies using university incubators. Their business model was to compete for research grants. The first one that they won, the university jacked up their property lease and the company folded. That's a lose. Even having a newspaper article can tip off the property owner and cause them to raise the property lease, causing the company to have a forced relocation and then lose staff, then implode. That's a lose.
One company bought their own plot of land, got special favors from the council in exchange for helping regenerate the local area by keeping staff salaries down and forcing them to live locally. The company grew, but the tension between staff wanting to move to upmarket areas of the city with good schools, and the deal with the council eventually caused an implosion, leading to the company being sold off. That was a winner.
I knew one guy who set up a small summer job startup by printing OCR forms for his parents business and selling them. Worked perfectly, until he started receiving forms that did process correctly. The hazard was FGB who he knew and liked to make things awkward. The guy had made his own forms but slightly different because the text was outside the scanning boxes. But there wasn't anything he could do.
Some postgrads set up their own company based on their research and patents. Worked perfectly until their university asked if they had any project work needed researching. So they gave some ideas, only to find out that the student then patented his work on their ideas, which then restricted their profit margins. That's a lose.
You ordered DVD's over the (Inter)net from Netflix, Amazon or CinemaNow, rather than going to the Blockbuster chain, renting a video and posting it back. Thus saving on late return fines.
Video-On-Demand was a concept anticipated in the mid-1990's. At some point, download speeds would match and exceed video compression streaming rates for data on a server. Cable companies offered some basic services like watch a selected movie for $10, but the choice was restricted due to their limited server storage space. P2P applications like Napster, broke this model for music. Then Youtube allowed instant viewing of any pop music video and allowed users to put up their own videos. Netflix, CinemaNow and others see the trend and move to having far larger selections.
Every country/city has a pecking order of who earns the most doctors/consultants, lawyers, estate agents, directors, managers, hardware/software engineers, architects. Then this is shaped according to the availability of different categories of housing. In an area where there is a housing shortage like university cities, the dual career-path option between management and technical gets eliminated, so the promotion path is purely into management, leading to tech flight into the rural areas.
Slashdot Mirror
Same here. There was some mention of SSL certificates of not being valid until a particular date.
At the moment, maintaining a robot costs as much as employing a human. It requires other humans to repair it when things break, even with built-in diagnostic software that detects faults before they cause other problems.
I see hundreds of science related programming research positions. But they aren't C/C++, they are usually Matlab/Python and require an advanced degree in Physics, Mathematics or Natural Sciences.
Department heads and directors get paid bonuses based on the cost savings they make. Some times they were charging interns £1000/month to get work experience.
The same thing happened to nursing. Originally, the salaries were high enough to qualify as middle-class wage earners. But the government claimed there was going to be a nursing shortage. Dozens new nursing colleges opened everywhere. Then suddenly, there was an oversupply of nurses; salaries fell through the floor, the hospitals soaked up the savings. Now they are dependent on foreign labor. Family butchers used to be a middle class profession, then the supermarkets open meat factories out of state, hired cheap labor and undercut those family businesses.
It's interesting to see the use of hashing to optimize the computations of the Life grid, especially the metapixels (which are like FPGA cells). Which basically reduces everything down to lookup tables.
They made all the standard logic gates, but implementing a NOT with CA is tricky because there is no signal coming down. If a glider is the 1 bit, then no glider is the 0 bit, so you need something that acts as a timer and sends out a glider if no bit is received.
There were some designs for hardware that made use of incremental changes or even asychronous updates and thus eliminate the need for clock lines.
I agree. Life was a popular topic even back in the 1970's with low res screens. Writing simulators using VGA graphics modes and graphics accelerators was always the first things I did. Going beyond CA, there are 3D reaction diffusion equations.
It will provide insight into development of other more advanced projects.
Only during regular office hours. Outside of those it goes in the opposite direction.
It was the same in the UK before the wars. The village shops (butchers, fishmonger, bakery) would all have their delivery boys/girls who would use a bicycle with basket to deliver items. In the cities, the lady of the house would make her weekly order and items would be delivered by van. Department stores had their catalogs and items would be delivered overnight from the warehouses in London, by overnight train and delivered next day.
I believe him. It was a prediction back then. It was going to be cheaper to stream data across the Internet from cached memory on a server than it was going to be to deliver and store on a PC from disk.
The Guild of Candlemakers of France will join you with their petition against windows:
https://mises.org/library/cand...
I remember those experiments in chemistry lab. Only the teacher did that experiment. Glass jar, water in a perspex box, with the sodium/potassium on a long spoon, dropped in while he was wearing safety goggles.
One of the most interesting experiment was when I was in a computer lab at college, they had just installed a new extractor fan wrongly, and so it actually extracted the waste fumes from the chemistry lab isolation boxes from the floor below right into the chemistry lab. People were turning interesting shades of red and green.
"Never let the facts get in the way of a good story" - 1930's newspaper editor
British supermarkets do this all the time. You can order home deliveries of fresh, frozen and chilled items. Companies like Tescos, Sainsburys and Waitrose all offer the home delivery or pick up and collect. The trick is that you normally have to book before 11.45pm, but you can get delivery starting at 7am. Smart people make a booking with a few basic items, then come back and make the full order. They can do kitchen deliveries, but some people just prefer front door delivery.
The fear of a massive DDoS attack, somebody breaks into the digital records of the inland revenue, Parliament (already happened with an email server), an encryption malware worm or an attempt to shut down or overload the electricity grid.
Their monopoly really took off around 1996. Before then there were plenty of magazines for Atari/Amiga and all the other home computers of the time. By 1995, it was all Windows 95/Windows NT and Internet Explorer with Microsoft walking around everywhere banging a big drum and shouting "UNIX is legacy, Windows NT is the future". They even went as far as demanding that companies assign their brightest staff to their projects. Microsoft and Intel covered each others back so they were known as Wintel. That was the Netscape vs. Internet Explorer legal battle or the Browser Wars. Then for another decade there was SCO UNIX vs. Linux
Groklaw
The most important things are keeping control of overheads, especially office leases, operating in stealth mode, and avoiding FGB (Fat Grinning Bastards).
I've worked for and heard about several startups that were successful and failed. One guy set up his own website from home (Carphone warehouse). Being a businessman with a company car he realized the most important thing was being able to buy accessories for his car right when he needed, and not just when he was at a gas station). That was a winner. By the time anyone else saw that he was making millions (Amazon), he had made his fortune.
Some people borrowed money from banks with their home as security for the loan. When their business took a downturn, the bank called in the loan and took their house. That's a lose. Other set up startup companies using university incubators. Their business model was to compete for research grants. The first one that they won, the university jacked up their property lease and the company folded. That's a lose. Even having a newspaper article can tip off the property owner and cause them to raise the property lease, causing the company to have a forced relocation and then lose staff, then implode. That's a lose.
One company bought their own plot of land, got special favors from the council in exchange for helping regenerate the local area by keeping staff salaries down and forcing them to live locally. The company grew, but the tension between staff wanting to move to upmarket areas of the city with good schools, and the deal with the council eventually caused an implosion, leading to the company being sold off. That was a winner.
I knew one guy who set up a small summer job startup by printing OCR forms for his parents business and selling them. Worked perfectly, until he started receiving forms that did process correctly. The hazard was FGB who he knew and liked to make things awkward. The guy had made his own forms but slightly different because the text was outside the scanning boxes. But there wasn't anything he could do.
Some postgrads set up their own company based on their research and patents. Worked perfectly until their university asked if they had any project work needed researching. So they gave some ideas, only to find out that the student then patented his work on their ideas, which then restricted their profit margins. That's a lose.
You ordered DVD's over the (Inter)net from Netflix, Amazon or CinemaNow, rather than going to the Blockbuster chain, renting a video and posting it back. Thus saving on late return fines.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
https://slashdot.org/story/06/...
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
https://slashdot.org/story/13/...
Video-On-Demand was a concept anticipated in the mid-1990's. At some point, download speeds would match and exceed video compression streaming rates for data on a server. Cable companies offered some basic services like watch a selected movie for $10, but the choice was restricted due to their limited server storage space. P2P applications like Napster, broke this model for music. Then Youtube allowed instant viewing of any pop music video and allowed users to put up their own videos. Netflix, CinemaNow and others see the trend and move to having far larger selections.
Every country/city has a pecking order of who earns the most doctors/consultants, lawyers, estate agents, directors, managers, hardware/software engineers, architects. Then this is shaped according to the availability of different categories of housing. In an area where there is a housing shortage like university cities, the dual career-path option between management and technical gets eliminated, so the promotion path is purely into management, leading to tech flight into the rural areas.
The fun begins when someone creates a nanobot that can replicate itself.
Banker Approved Refund Form?
Cover them with giant glass domes as Buckminster proposed. No further problems with bad weather.
Probably because it was some complex mathematics/statistics/image processing algorithm that had to be converted.