And the corporate application vendors would love that because then they could charge thousands of pounds for applications as they used to be able to do.
There were multiple factions all pushing to get what they wanted; Doctors and hospitals wanting to charge what they liked - some were barred due to their high prices with no obvious improvement in quality of outcome or treatment. Insurance companies wanted to charge what they liked. Those with existing insurance wanted to keep their rates exactly as they were with no loss of cover. Those without insurance wanted all conditions to be covered, even the rare expensive ones. Nobody was going to budge from their position.
Because commuters are constantly "shopping around" for a shorter commute. If they find a short cut, a rat run, or a suburb with a shorter commute time, they will use that.
Because in many cases, they choose to build industrial estates and business parks next to sketchy parts of the city, while the good schools and housing are in the diametrically opposite part of the city. Business owners don't want commuters clogging up their deliveries. Residential owners don't want business parks spoiling their views. So the commutes just keep getting longer.
The same problems happened in small cities. Usually there is one major intersection where circular roads meet arterial roads, or even just two intersections where commuters are trying to go into two different directions simultaneously at the same time, or all trying to go on the same road at the same time, exceeding capacity.
They did that thing with graphics chips witth laptops. Some were designed to have GPU's in a cartridge like format. They were advertised that you could upgrade the GPU whenever a new one became available. The only problem. They needed all the new GPU's for their new laptops.
The way the Roman Empire expanded, they established peace treaties with smaller countries in exchange for wealth and a supply of recruits for the legions. In return the country gets defended as part of the empire.
People have worked in robotics and autonomous subsea vehicles for decades. You want a robotic system that can follow an underwater search path along a pipeline or around an oil rig and sound an alert when it finds something anomalous. Otherwise you need a team of operators watching CCTV cameras and manipulating controls, all working shifts for weeks. And one team for every non-autonomous ROV. Cost of hardware is low enough that you can afford ten or so ROV's.
Some sonar systems have a range of 10km, but at a loss of detail. With enough autonomous ROV's, the seabed of an entire ocean could be scanned.
Then there are CNC machines and programming systems that can be given a CAD model of a shape and they will decide which drill bits to use, which machine paths to use while taking into account multiple degrees of freedom.
For video editing, they can get by with SSE/AVX instructions with maybe some GPU acceleration using CUDA/OpenCL and OpenGL shaders. Try and run a video game. and they are making use of the latest ARB extensions like sparse textures, multisampling, compute and tesselation shaders.
There are dual socket motherboards with quad-SLI and up to 128GB ECC memory intended for desktop supercomputing. Dual socket AMD or Intel CPU's. Some will need an extra larger case (EATX).
There was a golf game that patented the use of the timing chip to generate an interrupt to send byte codes to the sound port. Called RealSound or something similar. Then AdLib sound cards came out with MIDI audio. They were replaced again with stereo sampled sound.
They did try using electrodes to stimulate muscles directly back in the 1980's. But all those wires started to corrode in the saline environment of the human body, leading to deep infections and radical surgery.
There were always social interest groups in the real world. Something like Facebook just replaced the school and college noticeboards that were dotted around campus. Before Internet and smartphones, you would have to trundle round the whole campus to visit every noticeboard. With Email and USENET, you could join mailing lists. But USENET could be censored by your employer. Sometimes your employer would subscribe to the whole collection, sometimes, they would just cherry-pick those channels relevant to company business. The "alt.net.*" hierarchy was an option. The problem with early day USENET was that ISDN lines were so slow, that you would receive a notification of a meeting days after it had actually occurred.
The hazard with Facebook is that you really cannot control the distribution range of an account (private, friends, everyone). USENET would give you the choice of (department, company, region, country, world) with custom domains being possible.
People are actually disconnecting from social media now in the USA and Europe. For somewhere like Linkedin, the problem is that headhunters and recruiters are using these to hunt down people for rather iffy companies. If you did some work in the past decades ago in one field that has a recruitment problem but moved to a better industry, those recruiters for those industries will still chase you like flies after **** . So many are just disconnecting.
In every workplace I've visited, the handicapped bathroom is the luxury one. Large space, handlebars to lower yourself onto the toilet, built in shower, sink and mirror. Compare that to the regular cubicles which just have a toilet and not even large enough to turn around in.
The only shame is to use a resource that might be needed by a genuine disabled person.
That was the problem in many busy cities like Silicon Valley or other university cities. You had a large party of 20 or 30 people, and wanted to go out for a work-day lunch to celebrate someone's promotion, but there wasn't anywhere large enough. Usually a group would have to be split up into separate tables, which really defeated the purpose of the party in the first place.
There was one restaurant places that was basically a large warehouse with rows of tables and several different kitchens. That solved the problem but for smaller quieter parties, everyone went to smaller restaurants
Much of that land will be farms and ranches. One farmhouse has five or six large fields. Then several dozen farms will have a village. A half-dozen villages will have a market town. Market towns surround a city. Then those cities will have one capitol city. All of those will be connected by roads, trains, canals. Add some hydroelectric dams, reservoirs and national parks, military test zones, and every square mile of land is accounted for.
That sounds like the early Virtuality headset systems. They worked off a four Amiga PC's, each pair implementing a graphics pipeline for one CRT in the headset. They had a simple platform game where you were on checkboard platforms with what I thought was a dragon/dinosaur and could shoot a weapon at it.
For VR to take off, it has to complete against all the other 3D project/contracts that are on the marketplace based on likely profit margins.
Slashdot Mirror
Deserts used to be ocean bed. They actually find entire whale skeletons in the Middle East deserts.
Couldn't they use a solar furnace to fuse the sand grains together, then grind them down to get grains of the right size?
And the corporate application vendors would love that because then they could charge thousands of pounds for applications as they used to be able to do.
Cotton Candy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I know you can use a 4K screen as a monitor to a smartphone using a special HDMI cable.
There were multiple factions all pushing to get what they wanted; Doctors and hospitals wanting to charge what they liked - some were barred due to their high prices with no obvious improvement in quality of outcome or treatment. Insurance companies wanted to charge what they liked. Those with existing insurance wanted to keep their rates exactly as they were with no loss of cover. Those without insurance wanted all conditions to be covered, even the rare expensive ones.
Nobody was going to budge from their position.
Because commuters are constantly "shopping around" for a shorter commute. If they find a short cut, a rat run, or a suburb with a shorter commute time, they will use that.
Because in many cases, they choose to build industrial estates and business parks next to sketchy parts of the city, while the good schools and housing are in the diametrically opposite part of the city. Business owners don't want commuters clogging up their deliveries. Residential owners don't want business parks spoiling their views. So the commutes just keep getting longer.
The same problems happened in small cities. Usually there is one major intersection where circular roads meet arterial roads, or even just two intersections where commuters are trying to go into two different directions simultaneously at the same time, or all trying to go on the same road at the same time, exceeding capacity.
It would let them decouple whatever was causing the problem. Long wires are known to cause crosstalk as they operate like antennae.
They did that thing with graphics chips witth laptops. Some were designed to have GPU's in a cartridge like format. They were advertised that you could upgrade the GPU whenever a new one became available. The only problem. They needed all the new GPU's for their new laptops.
The way the Roman Empire expanded, they established peace treaties with smaller countries in exchange for wealth and a supply of recruits for the legions. In return the country gets defended as part of the empire.
People have worked in robotics and autonomous subsea vehicles for decades. You want a robotic system that can follow an underwater search path along a pipeline or around an oil rig and sound an alert when it finds something anomalous. Otherwise you need a team of operators watching CCTV cameras and manipulating controls, all working shifts for weeks. And one team for every non-autonomous ROV. Cost of hardware is low enough that you can afford ten or so ROV's.
Some sonar systems have a range of 10km, but at a loss of detail. With enough autonomous ROV's, the seabed of an entire ocean could be scanned.
Then there are CNC machines and programming systems that can be given a CAD model of a shape and they will decide which drill bits to use, which machine paths to use while taking into account multiple degrees of freedom.
For video editing, they can get by with SSE/AVX instructions with maybe some GPU acceleration using CUDA/OpenCL and OpenGL shaders. Try and run a video game. and they are making use of the latest ARB extensions like sparse textures, multisampling, compute and tesselation shaders.
There are dual socket motherboards with quad-SLI and up to 128GB ECC memory intended for desktop supercomputing. Dual socket AMD or Intel CPU's. Some will need an extra larger case (EATX).
There was a golf game that patented the use of the timing chip to generate an interrupt to send byte codes to the sound port. Called RealSound or something similar. Then AdLib sound cards came out with MIDI audio. They were replaced again with stereo sampled sound.
or #define if(X) ( rand() % 2 )
They did try using electrodes to stimulate muscles directly back in the 1980's. But all those wires started to corrode in the saline environment of the human body, leading to deep infections and radical surgery.
There were always social interest groups in the real world. Something like Facebook just replaced the school and college noticeboards that were dotted around campus. Before Internet and smartphones, you would have to trundle round the whole campus to visit every noticeboard. With Email and USENET, you could join mailing lists. But USENET could be censored by your employer. Sometimes your employer would subscribe to the whole collection, sometimes, they would just cherry-pick those channels relevant to company business. The "alt.net.*" hierarchy was an option. The problem with early day USENET was that ISDN lines were so slow, that you would receive a notification of a meeting days after it had actually occurred.
The hazard with Facebook is that you really cannot control the distribution range of an account (private, friends, everyone). USENET would give you the choice of (department, company, region, country, world) with custom domains being possible.
People are actually disconnecting from social media now in the USA and Europe. For somewhere like Linkedin, the problem is that headhunters and recruiters are using these to hunt down people for rather iffy companies. If you did some work in the past decades ago in one field that has a recruitment problem but moved to a better industry, those recruiters for those industries will still chase you like flies after **** . So many are just
disconnecting.
In every workplace I've visited, the handicapped bathroom is the luxury one. Large space, handlebars to lower yourself onto the toilet, built in shower, sink and mirror. Compare that to the regular cubicles which just have a toilet and not even large enough to turn around in.
The only shame is to use a resource that might be needed by a genuine disabled person.
Many of their employees have these conditions. Some people do get messed up at birth genetically, hormonally and psychologically.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/...
There's always something worrying about a backstreet Chinese restaurant offering Mock Chow Mein.
That was the problem in many busy cities like Silicon Valley or other university cities. You had a large party of 20 or 30 people, and wanted to go out for a work-day lunch to celebrate someone's promotion, but there wasn't anywhere large enough. Usually a group would have to be split up into separate tables, which really defeated the purpose of the party in the first place.
There was one restaurant places that was basically a large warehouse with rows of tables and several different kitchens. That solved the problem but for smaller quieter parties, everyone went to smaller restaurants
Much of that land will be farms and ranches. One farmhouse has five or six large fields. Then several dozen farms will have a village. A half-dozen villages will have a market town. Market towns surround a city. Then those cities will have one capitol city. All of those will be connected by roads, trains, canals. Add some hydroelectric dams, reservoirs and national parks, military test zones, and every square mile of land is accounted for.
That sounds like the early Virtuality headset systems. They worked off a four Amiga PC's, each pair implementing a graphics pipeline for one CRT in the headset. They had a simple platform game where you were on checkboard platforms with what I thought was a dragon/dinosaur and could shoot a weapon at it.
For VR to take off, it has to complete against all the other 3D project/contracts that are on the marketplace based on likely profit margins.
That is the problem. Users with a mega multi-monitor 4K displays would need the same resolution on their VR googles to be happy:
https://superuser.com/question...
A quick image search would show many more examples. Then the headsets are still a bit heavy.