Yes. All that's true. Aberdeen had a oil boom back in the 1980's. Traditionally terraced apartments and townhouses when to young graduate families, and everyone could live in the city. Then the oil companies started offering £40K/contracts for 2 weeks on/off. The idea was that workers could just stay wherever they were in the country. But they soon realized that going to the city offered a higher standard of living that staying elsewhere. So they all came up. There was a housing shortage, and townhouses were converted into bachelor pad apartments. Then years later, there's a shortage of homes for families in the city because... they were all turned into apartments. So they had to build new homes elsewhere. When it does come to granting planning permission for new homes on the edge of the city, Labour and Conservatives have adopted the same policy. New homes should be built on the edge of the other parties constituencies. So the new home are usually buily beyond the green belt zone and require a car to get anywhere since bus services aren't profitable serving little population "islands".
Same story in Edinburgh. Labour invented "tolerance zones" for prostitutes (who wanted to work somewhere residential for safety). Needless to say, residents didn't want them, especially not the kerbcrawlers and drug dealers that came along with the prostitutes. But such intolerance was ignored, the residents sold up, property developers moved in and converted the homes into luxury apartments for single professionals. They then shouted and screamed about the damage to their property prices. Many people I know tried living in Edinburgh, but everyone really wanted to live in the areas with good schools while the council was absolutely determined to get professionals to move into the deprived areas in order to push up house prices, so they left the city instead.
My parents got council houses when they were children as their parents homes were literally blown up the Germans. The council estates back then had a higher standard of living then than they do now. Backyard gardens, streets wide enough for bus services. Getting a council house back then required that you proved you were respectable and had ties to the local community. Now it's almost the opposite.
It's the EU laws on "sustainable land development" that is pushing for high density. Ireland was building "a house in a field" developments which sold like hotcakes. Then the EU stepped in and demanded a density of at least 40 homes/acre, which is the density of a large village street.
It's strange how homes that were built over 150 years ago and were affordable to the young people of the time are no longer affordable to young people of the same age now.
That would mean that the application has to keep allocated every texture, framebuffer and memory block ever reserved by the GPU. If anything, the GPU is going to have to maintain a "must-be-wiped" list of memory blocks that are cleared when the application is closed or when they are reused.
There was an article some time ago on how you could get an application to scan the USB devices for keyboards and other devices, figure out the location of the device driver in memory and the character buffers used by interrupts, then pass this information onto a CUDA or OpenCL application and do all the snooping on the GPU. The application containing the original USB scanner could then terminate.
I've got a similar problem happening with one of my applications with a mobile GPU (980m). Resizing a texture causes all sorts of odd contents to appear in the mip-map levels of that texture.
Maybe have some type of robot Olympics where the goal isn't to mash each other up, but to get around various obstacles. BBC also used to have the cartoon series "Ludwig" and the "The Great Egg Race" which would be a similar theme. That usually involved trying to transport an egg in some way without harm.
Only option would be to bounce radio waves off the ionosphere. It worked back in 1989. People in Scotland could receive local FM stations from Norway. But you need a high class solar flare for that to work.
Reminds me of a showdown between a Jamaican cafe (which liked to blast out Reggae) and another shop which was South Korean. They placed a loudspeaker above their doorway and just played South Korean news.
I know the 720p version of this movie would send one Intel multi-core CPU into shutdown. That was with 3D TV and an NVidia 3D Vision setup. The same graphics boards and display had no problem with another motherboard/CPU combination. Still wondering whether it was the CPU or the cooling. No problems with anything GPU related.
Some properties the rent covers the cost of utilities and property tax other times the utilities are separately paid. In the UK, the tenants pay the rent and the property tax separately as well as the utilities. Landlords usually expect that tenants will pay 1/3rd their monthly salary as rent. Divide your annual salary by 40, and that's what you'll be expected to pay.
Sometimes people invest their savings in property rather than a private pension. Then when they go into care, they rent out the property as source of income, then sell it off.
Well said. My parents saved and scrimped to buy a terraced Victorian flat worth £6000. Now, it's priced at £210,000. Even council housing that was bought under the "right-to-buy" is now worth £250,000 and more. What were originally single-layer red-brick homes with Georgian windows, were modernized with cladding and heat insulation, gas central-heating, double or triple glazing, shower units, fitted kitchens, an extension (two or more rooms added at the back). landscaped backyards.
Some of the council estates built in the 1950's have better features than a modern privately built housing estate (early council estates had roads wide enough for cars to be parked on either side and two double decker buses to pass each other. There were no cul-de-sacs, just junctions, straight roads and 90 degree curved turns. Modern privately built housing estates are all cul-de-sacs that branch off each other, the roads are barely wide enough for two cars to pass each other, let alone allow any bus service to operate. Having to visit friends in these areas required trying to navigate round a fractal tree where every road had the same name (Skyview Terrace, Skyview Street, Skyview Avenue, Skyview Viaduct, Skyview Lane, Skyview Road, Skyview Close, Skyview Walk).
Just to make things even worse, all the new housing has been built in flood plains, while trees and other vegetation on hillsides were cut down as part of a EU program to increase the amount of agricultural land. Rivers haven't been dredged because the sludge has to be considered to be toxic waste. Result, whole towns end up being flooded and all the experts will say is, "oh, it's due to global warming".
1980's TV's had large bulky CRT's and maybe a couple of large electronic circuit boards. Even in the 1990's, those widescreen TV's would fill up an entire corner of a living room and cost over £600. Now supermarkets are selling 50" flatscreens for less than £300. Those just consist of a flatscreen, plastic bezel, backcover, stand and a circuit board with CPU's, ASIC's, a dozen connectors. Smart TV's come with an OS like Android.
The traditional rule of the road (and sea) is that the largest vehicle has priority: 40 ton truck > doubledecker bus > singledecker bus > stretch limo > black cab taxi > flatbed truck > 4x4 offroader > estate car > compact car > mini smartcar > motorcyclist > cyclist.
In a single lane road, the smaller vehicle has to reverse back if someone is coming the other way. Does lead to some interesting situations where two vehicles are exactly the same size.
The driver isn't even in the car. The default behavior will be for the car to stop if there's any obstacle. But what if that obstacle is someone who has just collapsed and had a heart attack, a leaking water pipe dripping water onto that parking space. How will it handle a driver coming up at high speed like an ambulance or police car? Other drivers would just move out the way.
Deep learning is based on "neural networks", which is basically saying "Oh, let the software work it out for itself what the important attributes are". How do you know a neural network isn't creating it's own biometric identifiers or "feature vectors"? It has to create some way of measuring the attributes of a face then determining how closely two faces match. There were papers on Eigenfaces in the past which developed sets of monochrome filters to measure different attributes of a face.
What if the owner is wearing gloves, or has had fingers cut due to the fight requiring the use of a weapon? The goal of the system is to prove that the person holding the gun is the one permitted to use it. What if a criminal forces the victim to hold the weapon, then puts their finger over the trigger? Voice recognition or DNA recognition won't work for the same reason.
I know something was written out because the disk drive light turned to the "writing data out" color, and since the disk was readable before and unreadable afterwards (and also unrecoverable), I know that something got mashed. Making other disks read-only prevented this from happening. It could simply have been the age of the disk. With the "dir" command set to show hidden and system files, sometimes filenames with name like ~filesys.dat~ would appear.
I did this myself. I had some old MSDOS 3.0 floppy disks, and placed them in a Windows 95 PC. It tried to do something. Either windows attempted to restructure the file system from regular 8.3 FAT to extended FAT, rewrite a new BIOS, or a virus scanner placed checkmarks.
Remember many file systems write out the date that a file was last accessed, not just when it was first created.
It would be cool if you could print out a desktop PC case that could be assembled as a flat-pack unit. I'd also like to print out a backcover for a MSI gaming laptop so that it doesn't take the removal of seven screws just to add a new SSD. Older laptops used to have little covers for each component that only required a single screw to remove.
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They don't need to. They can just wait for the high-end desktop applications to move to mobile and augmented reality.
Yes. All that's true. Aberdeen had a oil boom back in the 1980's. Traditionally terraced apartments and townhouses when to young graduate families, and everyone could live in the city. Then the oil companies started offering £40K/contracts for 2 weeks on/off. The idea was that workers could just stay wherever they were in the country. But they soon realized that going to the city offered a higher standard of living that staying elsewhere. So they all came up. There was a housing shortage, and townhouses were converted into bachelor pad apartments. Then years later, there's a shortage of homes for families in the city because ... they were all turned into apartments. So they had to build new homes elsewhere. When it does come to granting planning permission for new homes on the edge of the city, Labour and Conservatives have adopted the same policy. New homes should be built on the edge of the other parties constituencies. So the new home are usually buily beyond the green belt zone and require a car to get anywhere since bus services aren't profitable serving little population "islands".
Same story in Edinburgh. Labour invented "tolerance zones" for prostitutes (who wanted to work somewhere residential for safety). Needless to say, residents didn't want them, especially not the kerbcrawlers and drug dealers that came along with the prostitutes. But such intolerance was ignored, the residents sold up, property developers moved in and converted the homes into luxury apartments for single professionals. They then shouted and screamed about the damage to their property prices. Many people I know tried living in Edinburgh, but everyone really wanted to live in the areas with good schools while the council was absolutely determined to get professionals to move into the deprived areas in order to push up house prices, so they left the city instead.
My parents got council houses when they were children as their parents homes were literally blown up the Germans. The council estates back then had a higher standard of living then than they do now. Backyard gardens, streets wide enough for bus services. Getting a council house back then required that you proved you were respectable and had ties to the local community. Now it's almost the opposite.
It's the EU laws on "sustainable land development" that is pushing for high density. Ireland was building "a house in a field" developments which sold like hotcakes. Then the EU stepped in and demanded a density of at least 40 homes/acre, which is the density of a large village street.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q...
It's strange how homes that were built over 150 years ago and were affordable to the young people of the time are no longer affordable to young people of the same age now.
That would mean that the application has to keep allocated every texture, framebuffer and memory block ever reserved by the GPU. If anything, the GPU is going to have to maintain a "must-be-wiped" list of memory blocks that are cleared when the application is closed or when they are reused.
There was an article some time ago on how you could get an application to scan the USB devices for keyboards and other devices, figure out the location of the device driver in memory and the character buffers used by interrupts, then pass this information onto a CUDA or OpenCL application and do all the snooping on the GPU. The application containing the original USB scanner could then terminate.
I've got a similar problem happening with one of my applications with a mobile GPU (980m). Resizing a texture causes all sorts of odd contents to appear in the mip-map levels of that texture.
Maybe have some type of robot Olympics where the goal isn't to mash each other up, but to get around various obstacles. BBC also used to have the cartoon series "Ludwig" and the "The Great Egg Race" which would be a similar theme. That usually involved trying to transport an egg in some way without harm.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/g...
There are international maze exploration competitions:
https://www2.meijo-u.ac.jp/~ic...
Only option would be to bounce radio waves off the ionosphere. It worked back in 1989. People in Scotland could receive local FM stations from Norway. But you need a high class solar flare for that to work.
Is that classified information?
Reminds me of a showdown between a Jamaican cafe (which liked to blast out Reggae) and another shop which was South Korean. They placed a loudspeaker above their doorway and just played South Korean news.
I know the 720p version of this movie would send one Intel multi-core CPU into shutdown. That was with 3D TV and an NVidia 3D Vision setup. The same graphics boards and display had no problem with another motherboard/CPU combination. Still wondering whether it was the CPU or the cooling. No problems with anything GPU related.
http://www.3dtv.at/Movies/Skyd...
Some properties the rent covers the cost of utilities and property tax other times the utilities are separately paid. In the UK, the tenants pay the rent and the property tax separately as well as the utilities. Landlords usually expect that tenants will pay 1/3rd their monthly salary as rent. Divide your annual salary by 40, and that's what you'll be expected to pay.
Sometimes people invest their savings in property rather than a private pension. Then when they go into care, they rent out the property as source of income, then sell it off.
Well said. My parents saved and scrimped to buy a terraced Victorian flat worth £6000. Now, it's priced at £210,000. Even council housing that was bought under the "right-to-buy" is now worth £250,000 and more. What were originally single-layer red-brick homes with Georgian windows, were modernized with cladding and heat insulation, gas central-heating, double or triple glazing, shower units, fitted kitchens, an extension (two or more rooms added at the back). landscaped backyards.
Some of the council estates built in the 1950's have better features than a modern privately built housing estate (early council estates had roads wide enough for cars to be parked on either side and two double decker buses to pass each other. There were no cul-de-sacs, just junctions, straight roads and 90 degree curved turns. Modern privately built housing estates are all cul-de-sacs that branch off each other, the roads are barely wide enough for two cars to pass each other, let alone allow any bus service to operate. Having to visit friends in these areas required trying to navigate round a fractal tree where every road had the same name (Skyview Terrace, Skyview Street, Skyview Avenue, Skyview Viaduct, Skyview Lane, Skyview Road, Skyview Close, Skyview Walk).
Just to make things even worse, all the new housing has been built in flood plains, while trees and other vegetation on hillsides were cut down as part of a EU program to increase the amount of agricultural land. Rivers haven't been dredged because the sludge has to be considered to be toxic waste. Result, whole towns end up being flooded and all the experts will say is, "oh, it's due to global warming".
1980's TV's had large bulky CRT's and maybe a couple of large electronic circuit boards. Even in the 1990's, those widescreen TV's would fill up an entire corner of a living room and cost over £600. Now supermarkets are selling 50" flatscreens for less than £300. Those just consist of a flatscreen, plastic bezel, backcover, stand and a circuit board with CPU's, ASIC's, a dozen connectors. Smart TV's come with an OS like Android.
The traditional rule of the road (and sea) is that the largest vehicle has priority:
40 ton truck > doubledecker bus > singledecker bus > stretch limo > black cab taxi > flatbed truck > 4x4 offroader > estate car > compact car > mini smartcar > motorcyclist > cyclist.
In a single lane road, the smaller vehicle has to reverse back if someone is coming the other way. Does lead to some interesting situations where two vehicles are exactly the same size.
Here's a video of another car auto-parking:
http://www.wimp.com/carparking...
The driver isn't even in the car. The default behavior will be for the car to stop if there's any obstacle. But what if that obstacle is someone who has just collapsed and had a heart attack, a leaking water pipe dripping water onto that parking space. How will it handle a driver coming up at high speed like an ambulance or police car? Other drivers would just move out the way.
Deep learning is based on "neural networks", which is basically saying "Oh, let the software work it out for itself what the important attributes are". How do you know a neural network isn't creating it's own biometric identifiers or "feature vectors"? It has to create some way of measuring the attributes of a face then determining how closely two faces match. There were papers on Eigenfaces in the past which developed sets of monochrome filters to measure different attributes of a face.
What if the owner is wearing gloves, or has had fingers cut due to the fight requiring the use of a weapon? The goal of the system is to prove that the person holding the gun is the one permitted to use it. What if a criminal forces the victim to hold the weapon, then puts their finger over the trigger? Voice recognition or DNA recognition won't work for the same reason.
Couldn't the cops have a radio with replaceable batteries that could be charged from the cigarette lighter?
A "paradigm shift" from "disruptive technology" that goes beyond "24/7"
I know something was written out because the disk drive light turned to the "writing data out" color, and since the disk was readable before and unreadable afterwards (and also unrecoverable), I know that something got mashed. Making other disks read-only prevented this from happening. It could simply have been the age of the disk. With the "dir" command set to show hidden and system files, sometimes filenames with name like ~filesys.dat~ would appear.
I did this myself. I had some old MSDOS 3.0 floppy disks, and placed them in a Windows 95 PC. It tried to do something. Either windows attempted to restructure the file system from regular 8.3 FAT to extended FAT, rewrite a new BIOS, or a virus scanner placed checkmarks.
Remember many file systems write out the date that a file was last accessed, not just when it was first created.
Yes, that's the one ... used to run a custom scripting application to monitor ICL bridges and network traffic.
Those observers haven't seen the way some of these low-budget house moving companies pack stuff up.
It would be cool if you could print out a desktop PC case that could be assembled as a flat-pack unit. I'd also like to print out a backcover for a MSI gaming laptop so that it doesn't take the removal of seven screws just to add a new SSD. Older laptops used to have little covers for each component that only required a single screw to remove.