I saw this happening in other telecom companies back in the 1990's. At that time they had a 1:3 to 1:5 manager/work ratio at every level. One director would be in the same room with three managers each of whom supervised one or two senior engineers who in turned supervised three or more line engineers (or it could be the help-desk manager and help-desk staff). The senior managers just really maintained spreadsheets containing the task plans of the engineers, printing them out to put in the in-tray of their director would would approve them and put them back in the managers in-tray, who would then hand them to the senior engineers. All of those management levels just got flattened.
Back in the 1990's, Wall Street called it "getting rid of the dead wood".
Most of the IMAX theaters that I know the location of, are right next to the places where they do the film post production (Soho, London), Los Angeles, New York. That's also where there are large tourist markets. So those theaters are always busy, but not with regular visitors.
Creating a google email address is mandatory for using an Android smartphone, even if you don't want to use your existing google email. So you just create a sockpuppet account that is never used. Just keep bashing in usernames until something is found that isn't used. Sometime it will add some numbers onto the end of the name as alternatives.
Audio for movies is actually stored as barcode type data on each frame of the film. This saved the hassle factor of having to synchronize two reels of film and audio - it was enough grief and aggro trying to synchronize two separate reels of the same movie. The size of the film frame dictates the size of the amount of audio information that can be stored. They actually use a laser and CCD sensor to read the audio tracks.
CinemaScope and other widescreen formats were designed for the viewers to see panoramic scenes like mountains and wide open country. True quality color was another obvious improvement, along with stereo sound. 70mm film has the advantage of having a higher dynamic range, resolution and colour gamut that the digital systems.
Films that used 70mm in the past include: “Star Wars” trilogy, ”Tron” (1982) and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” [1988]) but during that period, it was employed on such classics as “White Christmas” (1954), “The Ten Commandments” (1956) and “One-Eyed Jacks” (1961).
"One director who made especially good use of it was Alfred Hitchcock, who utilized the process on “To Catch a Thief” (1955), “The Trouble with Harry” (1955), “The Man Who Knew Too Much” (1956), “Vertigo” (1958) and “North by Northwest” (1959). Of those films, “Vertigo” remains his most impressive use of the format for how it allowed him to use color as a way of further evoking the emotional and psychological journey that he put both his characters and his audience through. Throughout the film, he uses specific colors to underscore certain moods—from the blue for James Stewart’s guilt over the death in the opening scene that he feels responsible for, to the green that comes to represent Kim Novak, the focus of the eventual obsession that threatens to destroy him, to the bright reds that turn up from time to time to serve as unheeded warnings. The deep and rich depictions of these colors made possible by VistaVision are both gorgeous and terrifying to behold."
Entry level graduate earns around 250K NOK (Norwegian Kronor). Senior Engineer earns around 550K NOK.
Mobile smartphones are between 5000 and 6000 NOK. Mobile network connection seemed to come in two bills of about 1500NOK each. Electricity bills were split up into network/distribution and production but didn't cost more than 600NOK/quarter. Internet access costs would be subsidized by the employer. Weekly shopping is around 800NOK for one person (Meny, Rema1000) but use-by-dates were only a couple of days, as everything is imported from the rest of Europe.
There's a vehicle import duty of 25K NOK, so everyone usually ends up buying the high-end range of cars and vans - with large touchscreen at the center of the vehicle. Homes started at 250K NOK. Student places rent for 700NOK, luxury apartments 1500NOK.
You have all the catalog brand names: H&M's, Dressmann. Narvesen is the equivalent of WH Smiths and convenience stores. They stock newspapers, confectionary, magazines as well as hot food like hot dogs wrapped in bacon.
France had a similar schedule. Shops are open 9am to 12am. Then it's lunchtime until 2pm. Then the staff are back working until 7pm. Mainly due to the mid day heat.
They moved to that timetable for the collection of grapes for Silicon Valley wineyards. Only when they needed the cooler temperatures for some solar charged/battery powered automation equipment.
That's the main problem. Those drugs might have been stored in a freezer or air conditioned room for twenty years. But there's no guarantee that there wasn't a hot or cold day. One solution would be to have environment sensitive cards that would have segments that changed colour based on the maximum and minimum temperature and humidity.
I'm sure there are some science fair projects that you could do with them, especially those with the polychromatic rainbow colors:
1. Why does polychromatic metal have different colours? 2. Why is there resistance to a spinner changing axis? 3. Which ones have the greatest angular momentum? 4. Which are the easiest to accelerate?
That's like the story of the UK series "The Avengers". Back in the 1960's, they did an experimental shoot with colour filming, but the contract wasn't to make a colour series. So these films were made, then forgotten about. But the knowledge about the filming remained. Then one day, a woman calls the studio up to say they were clearing out a shed and found tins of film reels up under the roof. These were the lost color episodes.
Many other missing recordings have been found elsewhere:
OK, let's stop work on Internet hardware (replaced digital telephone exchanges, Strowger electro-mechanical systems, telephone operators and telegram delivery people), or how about elevators (replaced the elevator operator, a butler like person who wore white glove and moved the up/down/stop lever), or Photoshop and digital looms (replaced four artisans operating one weaving loom), highway traffic lights (replaced a police officer at each intersection), word processing software and laser printers (replaced print shop workers and typists), washing machines (replaced laundrettes), Email (replaced secretaries), vending machines (replaced shop assistants), parking ticket machines (replaced ticket clerk).
For the case of cancer screening with an X-ray, they look for things like a high-density mass that shouldn't be there - a fuzzy white patch. Maybe it has gained a better blood supply and there are fuzzy white lines around it - enlarged arteries/veins. Maybe there is a cluster of small tumors nearby. But then again, those could just be fat cells. Each of those needs to be checked up.
It's better to have spare parts than have to have downtime. Even with a laptop and living out in the countryside, it saved me many times to have a spare hard disk drive and screwdriver kit.
In East Menlo Park, the solution was to give everyone enough money to buy a house elsewhere. Then that area next to Facebook's HQ now becomes safe enough for middle class homes to be built as well as various shops like Jack-In-The-Box.
Because the GUI and 3D graphics were considered bolt-ons to an existing OS kernel. Not all systems may have 3D acceleration. Some servers even avoid having a desktop as that is considered a security risk.
When the GUI is in use, the user input processing becomes the dominant process; what event happened, which widgets have been changed. A desktop with a good number of windows might have 1000+ widgets, all of which have icon images for various states. TrueType and Unicode fonts are converted into images as well. A thread or process context switch has to happen to process each window.
I've seen it myself; copying data from the hard disk drive to a backup USB drive completely slows down everything. That's with a system with eight CPU cores. The bottleneck is the CPU L1/L2 cache memory and PCI bus. All the external storage data gets swapped in and out again just to do the file transfers. This could be avoided using DMA transfers.
Adaptive 360 projectors that could calibrate the projection settings so that a 360 movie could be played in a regular room. Our family used a slide projector against a wall to view photographic slides. It was fun to walk up to the wall and see everything in high detail; mountain landscapes, ocean waves, clouds viewed from above.
Not everyone has 50/50 vision, some people actually use one eye more than the other in terms of human vision. Trying to use VR glasses just gives them a sore head.
I tried the Samsung VR Gear. Those virtual fairground rides were quite detailed, as well as the Virtual Shark Cage and swimming with deep sea critters.. 360 videos were really good when they first started; tornado chasers, exploring a real volcanic crater, the surface of Pluto, a tour of the Solar System, seeing a full size Space shuttle. They're the sort of things you would visit an IMax theater to do. Only problem is that they sometimes get the front/back cameras mixed up, so you start watching the tornado chasers sitting on top of the roof of a 4x4, driving away from stormclouds, and wonder what they were doing.
Playing Dreadhalls (a VR version of nethack but simplified) with the goal of exploring every map level and collecting every coin was the most intense game.
That's true. The sudden appearance of home internet connections back in 1993. It was a rapid jump from dial-up modems with kermit/crosstalk terminal servers to TCP/IP stacks with SLIP/PPP all within a year. That allowed web browsers, usenet readers and email to be used by everyone.
Modems went from 9600 baud to 19.2K 38.4K, 56K and then ADSL/DSL. Bargain PC's dropped down in price to $600 before being replaced by netbooks, tablets and smartphones running Facebook/Twitter and Linkedin apps.
It was about two decades ago that Sun Microsystems were on that campus space next to the bay. A shuttle bus service would connect between those buildings and the Caltrain station. Inbetween were the low income areas that gave East Menlo Park the highest murder rate in the USA. They got bought out by the tech companies and went elsewhere. Now all that land is being redeveloped. Cities like tech campuses because that brings in property tax as a gain. They dislike family housing because that brings the tax burden of education and social services.
Look at some of the adverts in the old Byte magazines. One floppy disk manufactuer practically predicted 16" tablets with rounded corners and being able to render 3D graphics.
Previous generations had similar problems. It's just they have forgotten about them. Spreading rumours? That happened with kids writing messages about each other and putting them on the school noticeboards. Rumours could spread simply by word of mouth without any need for Twitter, Facebook or IM. Teenagers would spend hours talking to each other by telephone. When we lived in terraced streets, mothers would be desperate not knowing where her daughter was, when it was dinnertime. Then, she would have to call around everyone else to find out where she was.
Teenagers spending too much time playing video games. In the past, they would spend too much time surfing, skateboarding, hanging around the shopping mall, playing football, baseball or any other activity.
You'll be paid in FacebookCredits, and everything will be priced in FacebookCredits, all run through your smartphone with just a tap. You'll even be able to stream in real-time what you just purchased and where.
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I saw this happening in other telecom companies back in the 1990's. At that time they had a 1:3 to 1:5 manager/work ratio at every level. One director would be in the same room with three managers each of whom supervised one or two senior engineers who in turned supervised three or more line engineers (or it could be the help-desk manager and help-desk staff). The senior managers just really maintained spreadsheets containing the task plans of the engineers, printing them out to put in the in-tray of their director would would approve them and put them back in the managers in-tray, who would then hand them to the senior engineers. All of those management levels just got flattened.
Back in the 1990's, Wall Street called it "getting rid of the dead wood".
Most of the IMAX theaters that I know the location of, are right next to the places where they do the film post production (Soho, London), Los Angeles, New York. That's also where there are large tourist markets. So those theaters are always busy, but not with regular visitors.
Creating a google email address is mandatory for using an Android smartphone, even if you don't want to use your existing google email. So you just create a sockpuppet account that is never used. Just keep bashing in usernames until something is found that isn't used. Sometime it will add some numbers onto the end of the name as alternatives.
Audio for movies is actually stored as barcode type data on each frame of the film. This saved the hassle factor of having to synchronize two reels of film and audio - it was enough grief and aggro trying to synchronize two separate reels of the same movie. The size of the film frame dictates the size of the amount of audio information that can be stored. They actually use a laser and CCD sensor to read the audio tracks.
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CinemaScope and other widescreen formats were designed for the viewers to see panoramic scenes like mountains and wide open country. True quality color was another obvious improvement, along with stereo sound. 70mm film has the advantage of having a higher dynamic range, resolution and colour gamut that the digital systems.
Films that used 70mm in the past include: “Star Wars” trilogy, ”Tron” (1982) and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” [1988]) but during that period, it was employed on such classics as “White Christmas” (1954), “The Ten Commandments” (1956) and “One-Eyed Jacks” (1961).
"One director who made especially good use of it was Alfred Hitchcock, who utilized the process on “To Catch a Thief” (1955), “The Trouble with Harry” (1955), “The Man Who Knew Too Much” (1956), “Vertigo” (1958) and “North by Northwest” (1959). Of those films, “Vertigo” remains his most impressive use of the format for how it allowed him to use color as a way of further evoking the emotional and psychological journey that he put both his characters and his audience through. Throughout the film, he uses specific colors to underscore certain moods—from the blue for James Stewart’s guilt over the death in the opening scene that he feels responsible for, to the green that comes to represent Kim Novak, the focus of the eventual obsession that threatens to destroy him, to the bright reds that turn up from time to time to serve as unheeded warnings. The deep and rich depictions of these colors made possible by VistaVision are both gorgeous and terrifying to behold."
Entry level graduate earns around 250K NOK (Norwegian Kronor). Senior Engineer earns around 550K NOK.
Mobile smartphones are between 5000 and 6000 NOK. Mobile network connection seemed to come in two bills of about 1500NOK each. Electricity bills were split up into network/distribution and production but didn't cost more than 600NOK/quarter. Internet access costs would be subsidized by the employer. Weekly shopping is around 800NOK for one person (Meny, Rema1000) but use-by-dates were only a couple of days, as everything is imported from the rest of Europe.
There's a vehicle import duty of 25K NOK, so everyone usually ends up buying the high-end range of cars and vans - with large touchscreen at the center of the vehicle. Homes started at 250K NOK. Student places rent for 700NOK, luxury apartments 1500NOK.
You have all the catalog brand names: H&M's, Dressmann. Narvesen is the equivalent of WH Smiths and convenience stores. They stock newspapers, confectionary, magazines as well as hot food like hot dogs wrapped in bacon.
France had a similar schedule. Shops are open 9am to 12am. Then it's lunchtime until 2pm. Then the staff are back working until 7pm. Mainly due to the mid day heat.
They moved to that timetable for the collection of grapes for Silicon Valley wineyards. Only when they needed the cooler temperatures for some solar charged/battery powered automation equipment.
Maybe nudge up and down arrows? Or sort comments by moderation points?
That's the main problem. Those drugs might have been stored in a freezer or air conditioned room for twenty years. But there's no guarantee that there wasn't a hot or cold day. One solution would be to have environment sensitive cards that would have segments that changed colour based on the maximum and minimum temperature and humidity.
I'm sure there are some science fair projects that you could do with them, especially those with the polychromatic rainbow colors:
1. Why does polychromatic metal have different colours?
2. Why is there resistance to a spinner changing axis?
3. Which ones have the greatest angular momentum?
4. Which are the easiest to accelerate?
That's like the story of the UK series "The Avengers". Back in the 1960's, they did an experimental shoot with colour filming, but the contract wasn't to make a colour series. So these films were made, then forgotten about. But the knowledge about the filming remained. Then one day, a woman calls the studio up to say they were clearing out a shed and found tins of film reels up under the roof. These were the lost color episodes.
Many other missing recordings have been found elsewhere:
http://ianhendry.com/the-aveng...
OK, let's stop work on Internet hardware (replaced digital telephone exchanges, Strowger electro-mechanical systems, telephone operators and telegram delivery people), or how about elevators (replaced the elevator operator, a butler like person who wore white glove and moved the up/down/stop lever), or Photoshop and digital looms (replaced four artisans operating one weaving loom), highway traffic lights (replaced a police officer at each intersection), word processing software and laser printers (replaced print shop workers and typists), washing machines (replaced laundrettes), Email (replaced secretaries), vending machines (replaced shop assistants), parking ticket machines (replaced ticket clerk).
For the case of cancer screening with an X-ray, they look for things like a high-density mass that shouldn't be there - a fuzzy white patch. Maybe it has gained a better blood supply and there are fuzzy white lines around it - enlarged arteries/veins. Maybe there is a cluster of small tumors nearby. But then again, those could just be fat cells. Each of those needs to be checked up.
It's better to have spare parts than have to have downtime. Even with a laptop and living out in the countryside, it saved me many times to have a spare hard disk drive and screwdriver kit.
In East Menlo Park, the solution was to give everyone enough money to buy a house elsewhere. Then that area next to Facebook's HQ now becomes safe enough for middle class homes to be built as well as various shops like Jack-In-The-Box.
Because the GUI and 3D graphics were considered bolt-ons to an existing OS kernel. Not all systems may have 3D acceleration. Some servers even avoid having a desktop as that is considered a security risk.
When the GUI is in use, the user input processing becomes the dominant process; what event happened, which widgets have been changed. A desktop with a good number of windows might have 1000+ widgets, all of which have icon images for various states. TrueType and Unicode fonts are converted into images as well. A thread or process context switch has to happen to process each window.
I've seen it myself; copying data from the hard disk drive to a backup USB drive completely slows down everything. That's with a system with eight CPU cores. The bottleneck is the CPU L1/L2 cache memory and PCI bus. All the external storage data gets swapped in and out again just to do the file transfers. This could be avoided using DMA transfers.
But there are https://stackoverflow.com/ques...">security risks associated with raw DMA file transfers.
Adaptive 360 projectors that could calibrate the projection settings so that a 360 movie could be played in a regular room. Our family used a slide projector against a wall to view photographic slides. It was fun to walk up to the wall and see everything in high detail; mountain landscapes, ocean waves, clouds viewed from above.
Not everyone has 50/50 vision, some people actually use one eye more than the other in terms of human vision. Trying to use VR glasses just gives them a sore head.
I tried the Samsung VR Gear. Those virtual fairground rides were quite detailed, as well as the Virtual Shark Cage and swimming with deep sea critters.. 360 videos were really good when they first started; tornado chasers, exploring a real volcanic crater, the surface of Pluto, a tour of the Solar System, seeing a full size Space shuttle. They're the sort of things you would visit an IMax theater to do. Only problem is that they sometimes get the front/back cameras mixed up, so you start watching the tornado chasers sitting on top of the roof of a 4x4, driving away from stormclouds, and wonder what they were doing.
Playing Dreadhalls (a VR version of nethack but simplified) with the goal of exploring every map level and collecting every coin was the most intense game.
That's true. The sudden appearance of home internet connections back in 1993. It was a rapid jump from dial-up modems with kermit/crosstalk terminal servers to TCP/IP stacks with SLIP/PPP all within a year. That allowed web browsers, usenet readers and email to be used by everyone.
Modems went from 9600 baud to 19.2K 38.4K, 56K and then ADSL/DSL. Bargain PC's dropped down in price to $600 before being replaced by netbooks, tablets and smartphones running Facebook/Twitter and Linkedin apps.
It was about two decades ago that Sun Microsystems were on that campus space next to the bay. A shuttle bus service would connect between those buildings and the Caltrain station. Inbetween were the low income areas that gave East Menlo Park the highest murder rate in the USA. They got bought out by the tech companies and went elsewhere. Now all that land is being redeveloped. Cities like tech campuses because that brings in property tax as a gain. They dislike family housing because that brings the tax burden of education and social services.
Look at some of the adverts in the old Byte magazines. One floppy disk manufactuer practically predicted 16" tablets with rounded corners and being able to render 3D graphics.
Previous generations had similar problems. It's just they have forgotten about them. Spreading rumours? That happened with kids writing messages about each other and putting them on the school noticeboards. Rumours could spread simply by word of mouth without any need for Twitter, Facebook or IM. Teenagers would spend hours talking to each other by telephone. When we lived in terraced streets, mothers would be desperate not knowing where her daughter was, when it was dinnertime. Then, she would have to call around everyone else to find out where she was.
Teenagers spending too much time playing video games. In the past, they would spend too much time surfing, skateboarding, hanging around the shopping mall, playing football, baseball or any other activity.
You'll be paid in FacebookCredits, and everything will be priced in FacebookCredits, all run through your smartphone with just a tap. You'll even be able to stream in real-time what you just purchased and where.