We are manufacturing fabrics and textiles so cheaply now using automated print looms (requiring 1 technician for 15 multi-color looms) that there is a surplus of clothing on the planet. All the native skills in Africa and India are disappearing.
Good job WYSIWYG and Postscript laser printers never replaced printshop workers who assemble copper plate letters onto rotating print drums and strip them off afterwards.
There was a sci-fi website called "Science Faction" or something similar. They had a device called a "gribbler" which would bury itself deep in the ocean bed using a tail, and activate itself when required. Based on the real-world critter called a Gribble which buries itself in wood.
Some game companies now have only a 10 or so programmers for the graphics, AI and gameplay, while there will be over 500 3D modelers, texture artists, concept artists, testing. What you put in is what you get out in terms of artwork in terms of detail, texture layers going all the way up to normal and displacement maps.
They came out with ideas like TRON . Have smart appliances that could interact with each other. Turn the cooker on, and the extractor fan goes on as well. Turn the stereo on and the windows close (to stop neighbors hearing loud music). If your alarm clock goes on, the lights in the house go on.
There was considerable research into expert systems back then. They thought everything could be solved using binary decision trees. But then they realized that things weren't yes/no but more definitely/possibly/no effect/definitely not and had to move into fuzzy logic. That extended into machine learning, creating hypothesizes with vast amounts of data and then proving them right or wrong.
"...The nail that sticks out the most is the first to be hammered in..."
It's not that they aren't capable of original thought and creativity, it's that the society is very conformist, and no-one will risk trying to do things differently. There are European cities like that too. In Summer everyone wears the exact same clothes that are shown in an H&M catalog.
Most companies do some kind of code review and automated testing as well as user-interface studies. Compilers will be set to the highest level of warnings and even mark unused variables as errors and not warnings. Device drivers will be from third parties and have the similar standards. There won't be anything to be embarrassed about.
You can fix the problem caused by increasing the number of stops. Have express trains that travel to the furthest end of the network and skip everything inbetween.
Other buses are kneeling buses where they can lower the suspension to reduce the gap between the bus floor and pavement. They they can extend out a ramp. Some buses have a ramp that extends outwards, others have an unfolding ramp.
London double-decker buses used to have that system. There was no door at the back, just a pole to give people something to grip onto. They gave up on that system due to the risks of someone falling off into the adjacent traffic lane. They would have a multi-million dollar lawsuit if that happened to someone highly paid.
Those doing the protecting were usually highly paid and trained. Knights got the best meat steaks, training, the best armor, and they were given some land as well. Archers got similar perks with food. They needed the strength to be able to fire six arrows a minute using a 2 meter long English longbow with a range of 25 meters.
That's what many city councils discovered. If all services are run by the council, the government procurement suppliers take over. If all services are run privately, they create a monopoly and the corporations charge what they like. Keep 50% of work in-house and out-source the other 50%, and you get to know what the real costs are, while still having some competition.
Because before Hitler, Germany's civilian population was heavily burdened by high taxes to pay war reparations back to the Allied powers as compensation for starting World War I. The major cities had become decadent along with high crime. Now, this little man with a funny mustache and promises that his militias of smart young men will clean up the country and end the high taxation regime. What could go wrong?
Perhaps it's possible to place the game pieces on the board so that it is possible to win regardless of what the next players move. Like that situation in 5-in-a-row or tic-tac-toe where you can create two lines and whichever one the opponent blocks, you can win the next move.
Imagine having scrolling messages displayed on the outside of the hotel as different combinations of room lights went on and off. Even more fun if they used those smart LED lightbulbs that can be pre-programmed with a particular color out of range of 4096.
Before the immigration problem in Europe, Germany was better off. But then that has overloaded those countries close to the Mediterranean with debt, and they are needing to bailed out by Germany, who now has there own problems with 1 million+ refugees. France has her own problems with immigrants from their former colonies and the UK is starting to panic with the threat of a potential invasion.
>Would you feel safe on roads occupied by autonomous vehilcles with malware and trojans installed in them?
It's going to be a lot safer that with someone in the country illegally, driving while drunk and with no insurance.
Some of the worst accidents have happened when one car has had a breakdown, the driver has put on the hazard warning lights, gone to the back of the car to get a toolkit or spare tire, only to be crushed when a drunk driver couldn't slow down in time.
I don't believe the bubble will pop this time. We did have a bubble that popped back in the 1990's. Back then every Londoner was panicking that they wouldn't get onto the property ladder so they used every single last penny that they had. Then prices rose so fast that eventually demand failed to match supply by speculators. Then everything came crashing down.
Now, there is unlimited demand from the international market, and the supply of brownfield sites is about to run out. Now they are panicking about where to build next. Either on green space parks, the green belt on the outside edge of the city or in the satellite towns like Oxford.
Slashdot Mirror
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Probably a googleplex of ergs
How about KLOC's per kilogram?
We are manufacturing fabrics and textiles so cheaply now using automated print looms (requiring 1 technician for 15 multi-color looms) that there is a surplus of clothing on the planet. All the native skills in Africa and India are disappearing.
Good job WYSIWYG and Postscript laser printers never replaced printshop workers who assemble copper plate letters onto rotating print drums and strip them off afterwards.
There was a sci-fi website called "Science Faction" or something similar. They had a device called a "gribbler" which would bury itself deep in the ocean bed using a tail, and activate itself when required. Based on the real-world critter called a Gribble which buries itself in wood.
I missed a zero there. 300 meters isn't a bad range. That's the length of Ryde pier on the Isle of Wight.
Some game companies now have only a 10 or so programmers for the graphics, AI and gameplay, while there will be over 500 3D modelers, texture artists, concept artists, testing. What you put in is what you get out in terms of artwork in terms of detail, texture layers going all the way up to normal and displacement maps.
They came out with ideas like TRON . Have smart appliances that could interact with each other. Turn the cooker on, and the extractor fan goes on as well. Turn the stereo on and the windows close (to stop neighbors hearing loud music). If your alarm clock goes on, the lights in the house go on.
There was considerable research into expert systems back then. They thought everything could be solved using binary decision trees. But then they realized that things weren't yes/no but more definitely/possibly/no effect/definitely not and had to move into fuzzy logic. That extended into machine learning, creating hypothesizes with vast amounts of data and then proving them right or wrong.
"...The nail that sticks out the most is the first to be hammered in..."
It's not that they aren't capable of original thought and creativity, it's that the society is very conformist, and no-one will risk trying to do things differently. There are European cities like that too. In Summer everyone wears the exact same clothes that are shown in an H&M catalog.
Most companies do some kind of code review and automated testing as well as user-interface studies. Compilers will be set to the highest level of warnings and even mark unused variables as errors and not warnings. Device drivers will be from third parties and have the similar standards. There won't be anything to be embarrassed about.
You can fix the problem caused by increasing the number of stops. Have express trains that travel to the furthest end of the network and skip everything inbetween.
Other buses are kneeling buses where they can lower the suspension to reduce the gap between the bus floor and pavement. They they can extend out a ramp. Some buses have a ramp that extends outwards, others have an unfolding ramp.
London double-decker buses used to have that system. There was no door at the back, just a pole to give people something to grip onto. They gave up on that system due to the risks of someone falling off into the adjacent traffic lane. They would have a multi-million dollar lawsuit if that happened to someone highly paid.
Those doing the protecting were usually highly paid and trained. Knights got the best meat steaks, training, the best armor, and they were given some land as well. Archers got similar perks with food. They needed the strength to be able to fire six arrows a minute using a 2 meter long English longbow with a range of 25 meters.
That's what many city councils discovered. If all services are run by the council, the government procurement suppliers take over. If all services are run privately, they create a monopoly and the corporations charge what they like. Keep 50% of work in-house and out-source the other 50%, and you get to know what the real costs are, while still having some competition.
Because before Hitler, Germany's civilian population was heavily burdened by high taxes to pay war reparations back to the Allied powers as compensation for starting World War I. The major cities had become decadent along with high crime. Now, this little man with a funny mustache and promises that his militias of smart young men will clean up the country and end the high taxation regime. What could go wrong?
Perhaps it's possible to place the game pieces on the board so that it is possible to win regardless of what the next players move. Like that situation in 5-in-a-row or tic-tac-toe where you can create two lines and whichever one the opponent blocks, you can win the next move.
Imagine having scrolling messages displayed on the outside of the hotel as different combinations of room lights went on and off. Even more fun if they used those smart LED lightbulbs that can be pre-programmed with a particular color out of range of 4096.
The Travelodge in Clapham Junction used (uses?) Ving card which have a random combination of 100 holes in them.
Before the immigration problem in Europe, Germany was better off. But then that has overloaded those countries close to the Mediterranean with debt, and they are needing to bailed out by Germany, who now has there own problems with 1 million+ refugees. France has her own problems with immigrants from their former colonies and the UK is starting to panic with the threat of a potential invasion.
You could transfer those genes into fish and insects. Then they would devour everything plastic in sight.
>Would you feel safe on roads occupied by autonomous vehilcles with malware and trojans installed in them?
It's going to be a lot safer that with someone in the country illegally, driving while drunk and with no insurance.
Some of the worst accidents have happened when one car has had a breakdown, the driver has put on the hazard warning lights, gone to the back of the car to get a toolkit or spare tire, only to be crushed when a drunk driver couldn't slow down in time.
I don't believe the bubble will pop this time. We did have a bubble that popped back in the 1990's. Back then every Londoner was panicking that they wouldn't get onto the property ladder so they used every single last penny that they had. Then prices rose so fast that eventually demand failed to match supply by speculators. Then everything came crashing down.
Now, there is unlimited demand from the international market, and the supply of brownfield sites is about to run out. Now they are panicking about where to build next. Either on green space parks, the green belt on the outside edge of the city or in the satellite towns like Oxford.
What if the owner of the device is dead. Do they call for Beetlejuice or the Preacher?
The police actually changed the password which in effect deleted the cloud backup storage. So, they need to get inside the box.