Each GPS satellite transmits a time code along with its ID number. When the receiver is able to locate a signal from four or more satellites, it can determine the distances to those satellites. Some simple spherical trigonometry allows the latitude, longitude and altitude to be calculated for the receiver.
Not really. Many patients have individual problems, like ulcers, sores or burns in particular places. Existing dressings and padding don't always fit perfectly or comfortably, especially around high pressure areas like the feet - the dressing must take the weight off the wound, but yet redistribute the weight so that it doesn't cut off circulation by pressing in elsewhere. So it takes a lot of trial and error to get the bandages wrapped comfortably.
Just go the gaming PC websites, and you'll see that every OS is 64-bit now, and that even the laptop CPU's have at least 4 cores while desktops CPU's can have as many as 8 or more cores. Intel have some CPU's with 6 cores which are hyperthreaded, so that looks like 12 cores to the OS. AMD have at least 8 core CPU's. Then you have dual-socket Intel XEON servers with at two sockets and supporting 18 cores each. Even an old laptop from 2005 is dual-core and hyperthreaded.
Then there are so many ways you can parallelize an application; put different tasks into separate threads, have a data processing task shared across multiple cores, use distributed processing. That's in addition to vectorization using the AVX2 instruction set.
Scientific visualization applications use data sets that are in the Gigabyte range - a volume cube of 1024x1024x1024 representing a supernova and streamed off a supercomputer, or maybe they have a high-resolution grid of an aircraft and jet engines and and want to see where the areas of turbulence are. With all the CPU cores available, it's easier to render on the CPU's that it is to funnel the data into GPU memory just to render one frame.
If high-rise concrete apartment blocks were permitted, they would be made earthquake-proof just as in Japan. It would be easy for the city to grant planning permission for a few blocks to be built high-rise. But the problem is that property developers would still charge $1,000,000 per unit, since it's the proximity to downtown that matters.
However, residents in surrounding areas would oppose the loss of "their sunlight", so it would be opposed. They would also oppose the rapid increase in their property tax due to Market-Value-Assessment which calculates the property tax base on an average of what that property is worth and what the surrounding properties are worth (an a 400 unit apartment block is 400x what a single home costs).
Then many of those residents would have to relocate looking for homes elsewhere, which puts up house prices all over the area.
That's not having your own email server unfortunately. Having the one true local email server is being able to send emails directly to other hosts. That works OK if you have a static commercial IP address. It will also work if you have a dynamic IP address and use your ISP's SENDMAIL, IMAP and POP3 servers. But if you try and send Email straight out from your dynamic IP address, it will get clobbered by various spam filters which filter out dynamic IP addresses (this range has been blocked due to past spam activity) based on registered domain ranges.
They are poor because they don't have any of the skills required in Paris. In France, everyone either gets an Baccalaureate and goes to university or goes to trade school (everything from being a chef, a nurse, a plumber or joiner), does an internship for a couple of years and gets a qualification that allows them to set up their own business.
If you are an illegal immigrant with no formal qualifications or business experience, then there isn't any way of getting out of poverty. You might be able to live day to day as a street trader.
London has fast connections to the rest of Europe; Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Stansted, and embassies to provide support for international workers.
All the cities have universities,with each specializing in a particular field; embedded systems, medical research, computer animation. Smaller cities are usually dominated by one or two industries for the highest salaries (like banking, oil and gas or microelectronics), so that other industries can't compete to provide salaries to afford good schools and housing. Anywhere within an hour of London, and you have tech workers competing against city workers for housing.
It might depend on country. Offices I've worked in still have Centrex telephone systems, but mostly now they are used for participating on committee/group discussions when you can't make it to the conference rooms with the Polycom microphones. The only time anyone ever used voicemail was for receiving calls from people on the other side of the planet and on a different timezone.
I remember those days. If you look at the Byte adverts from that time, the industry was mainly COBOL, FORTRAN-77, punch cards, tape drives and mainframes. PC clones and home computers didn't exist except S-100 systems and desktop calculators. Computer science departments were usually part of the Mathematics or Electrical/Hardware Engineering departments, so they took their work really really seriously. Local jobs advertised were the Programmer/Analyst/Architect/Consultant.
Now, Computer Science will cover everything from web page design to mobile apps and gaming.
Given that it is possible implant spyware into the BIOS, the firmware of graphics boards and micro-controllers of hard disk drives, replacing hardware is the only solution.
Connecting bone together is relative easy using Titanium implants and scaffolding. Skin and muscle tissue will eventually mesh together using just stitches. Blood vessels can be reconnected using microsurgery. The really hard part is reconnecting spinal cord nerves. When any critter is born, the first thing that is formed is a neural tube which is the basis of the brain and spinal cord. Then every block of tissue then specializes into what part of the body there is. With the spinal cord there is something that blocks regeneration - perhaps it is spinal fluid or just the way the cells are programmed.
"Yes, sir, um, you see, Beavis here had the idea of cranking up the voltage to the quantum uncertainty amplifiers. He figured if he did that, then that would be a pure source of randomness. And when you have total randomness, then anything can happen, so we thought that if anything were to happen, it could only improve the results of our experiment, since nothing was happening. Well, something did happen. I told him not to crank up the voltage to the highest setting at once, but to do it in steps. But he was in a hurry to meet his girlfriend, so he just turned the dial and just hit the red button. Didn't even give me time to put on my radiation goggles. Next thing, there's this giant flash in the gravitational reactor. Seconds later, there's a giant white glowing cloud of has which rapidly darkens down into millions of these little spinning glowing whirly things all floating and bouncing around. Yes, I thing the technical term is "galaxies". They just kept floating and bouncing around. That was really something, so I told him not to touch anything until our supervisor came in. When he did come in, he totally freaked out and ran out to the see head of department. That's when he contacted you and were summoned here."
"it was a sheet of metal, very light weight, but you could crush it up like a ball and it would bounce right back no matter what you did, and it would not cut or burn"
I Remember that description. It's always fascinated how UFO reports seem to reflect future technology, even if it was someone tripping out, writing a sci-fi story rather being a real event. Eric von Daniken proposed the idea of quadrocopters, while others propose the idea of 360 panoramic flight decks.
With Newtonian physics, if we could find something that wasn't symmetrical with regards to conservation of motion, we have a perpetual motion system and unlimited energy. So far, every process that converts energy from one form to another always has some loss due to friction or heat.
The system bounces microwaves inside a cone. When a photon hits the base of the cone, that pushes the vehicle forward as it bounces backwards. But the conical shape means that the next "bounce" of the photon will be distributed between a sideways movement and a small backwards movement. But because of the circular shape of the cone, the sideways movements cancel out. The forwards force is greater than the backwards force, so the final velocity is forwards.
The information disclosed by Snowden can be reduced down to "The three letter agencies can convert any electronic device with a microphone into a hidden tape recorder" and "anything sent down The Tubes can also be recorded". So they meet in person and just leave their smartphones in the room outside.
Unfortunately for Airbus, it didn't quite work out when an airshow decided to have an aircraft do a low fly-pass in front of the crowds. The combination of low altitude, low speed with flaps and landing gear lowered made the AI think that the pilots wanted the plane to land. So the flight control system cut the engine power in preparation for landing.
The problem is that blast furnaces aren't simply switched on and off, but have feedback software systems that adjusts fuel feeds, cooling systems and exhaust extraction to achieve the desired temperature while minimizing fuel consumption, cooling and pollution. Much the same way as electronic car ignition. The operating temperature would have to be ramped up and down slowly to avoid any damage through thermal stress.
It's the hardware overrides that would allow the cooling system to be reduced or switched off while the fuel feeds remain on.
Back in those days, start of the art technology in CPU's were "restricted exports". The USA wanted to show that Communism didn't lead to as many advancements in technology as Capitalism, so they restricted exports on technology such as chip design software, CPU's and other chip logic (remember the A-team trying to block smugglers exporting flip-flop chips? It was that serious). This led to the Eastern European countries doing various work-arounds. They could get gray imports through third-party countries that weren't part of the Western trade block, and weren't part of the USSR either. Or they could set up fake companies in the host country that would export the technology.
Another strategy was to make their own logic chips. However, yields for complex logic such as CPU's, wasn't that good, so they ended up with CPU's with missing instructions. But that wasn't a problem, mathematician/software engineers figured out ways of emulating broken instructions using other instructions. If JMP was broken, then use CLR; BCC. Arithmetic operations like ADD could be replaced by NEG and SUB, and so on... So they ended up with an abstraction layer using assembler macros that provided a set of functioning instructions.
In Norway, you can just go online to the bank website, use an authentication system based on a username, password and your mobile phone. Then you just use the IBAN/SWIFT system to transfer the money to the account anywhere else in the world, and you can download your transaction history as a spreadsheet file.
Other banks in the UK require you to go into a branch, and have a clerk use a quill pen to fill out an entry in a giant leatherbound ledger book.
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Each GPS satellite transmits a time code along with its ID number. When the receiver is able to locate a signal from four or more satellites, it can determine the distances to those satellites. Some simple spherical trigonometry allows the latitude, longitude and altitude to be calculated for the receiver.
Not really. Many patients have individual problems, like ulcers, sores or burns in particular places. Existing dressings and padding don't always fit perfectly or comfortably, especially around high pressure areas like the feet - the dressing must take the weight off the wound, but yet redistribute the weight so that it doesn't cut off circulation by pressing in elsewhere. So it takes a lot of trial and error to get the bandages wrapped comfortably.
Just go the gaming PC websites, and you'll see that every OS is 64-bit now, and that even the laptop CPU's have at least 4 cores while desktops CPU's can have as many as 8 or more cores. Intel have some CPU's with 6 cores which are hyperthreaded, so that looks like 12 cores to the OS. AMD have at least 8 core CPU's. Then you have dual-socket Intel XEON servers with at two sockets and supporting 18 cores each.
Even an old laptop from 2005 is dual-core and hyperthreaded.
Then there are so many ways you can parallelize an application; put different tasks into separate threads, have a data processing task shared across multiple cores, use distributed processing. That's in addition to vectorization using the AVX2 instruction set.
Scientific visualization applications use data sets that are in the Gigabyte range - a volume cube of 1024x1024x1024 representing a supernova and streamed off a supercomputer, or maybe they have a high-resolution grid of an aircraft and jet engines and and want to see where the areas of turbulence are. With all the CPU cores available, it's easier to render on the CPU's that it is to funnel the data into GPU memory just to render one frame.
If high-rise concrete apartment blocks were permitted, they would be made earthquake-proof just as in Japan. It would be easy for the city to grant planning permission for a few blocks to be built high-rise. But the problem is that property developers would still charge $1,000,000 per unit, since it's the proximity to downtown that matters.
However, residents in surrounding areas would oppose the loss of "their sunlight", so it would be opposed. They would also oppose the rapid increase in their property tax due to Market-Value-Assessment which calculates the property tax base on an average of what that property is worth and what the surrounding properties are worth (an a 400 unit apartment block is 400x what a single home costs).
Then many of those residents would have to relocate looking for homes elsewhere, which puts up house prices all over the area.
That's not having your own email server unfortunately. Having the one true local email server is being able to send emails directly to other hosts. That works OK if you have a static commercial IP address. It will also work if you have a dynamic IP address and use your ISP's SENDMAIL, IMAP and POP3 servers. But if you try and send Email straight out from your dynamic IP address, it will get clobbered by various spam filters which filter out dynamic IP addresses (this range has been blocked due to past spam activity) based on registered domain ranges.
They are poor because they don't have any of the skills required in Paris. In France, everyone either gets an Baccalaureate and goes to university or goes to trade school (everything from being a chef, a nurse, a plumber or joiner), does an internship for a couple of years and gets a qualification that allows them to set up their own business.
If you are an illegal immigrant with no formal qualifications or business experience, then there isn't any way of getting out of poverty. You might be able to live day to day as a street trader.
London has fast connections to the rest of Europe; Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Stansted, and embassies to provide support for international workers.
All the cities have universities,with each specializing in a particular field; embedded systems, medical research, computer animation. Smaller cities are usually dominated by one or two industries for the highest salaries (like banking, oil and gas or microelectronics), so that other industries can't compete to provide salaries to afford good schools and housing. Anywhere within an hour of London, and you have tech workers competing against city workers for housing.
It might depend on country. Offices I've worked in still have Centrex telephone systems, but mostly now they are used for participating on committee/group discussions when you can't make it to the conference rooms with the Polycom microphones. The only time anyone ever used voicemail was for receiving calls from people on the other side of the planet and on a different timezone.
I remember those days. If you look at the Byte adverts from that time, the industry was mainly COBOL, FORTRAN-77, punch cards, tape drives and mainframes. PC clones and home computers didn't exist except S-100 systems and desktop calculators. Computer science departments were usually part of the Mathematics or Electrical/Hardware Engineering departments, so they took their work really really seriously. Local jobs advertised were the Programmer/Analyst/Architect/Consultant.
Now, Computer Science will cover everything from web page design to mobile apps and gaming.
The foreign workers will always be more willing to shack up four to a room.
Given that it is possible implant spyware into the BIOS, the firmware of graphics boards and micro-controllers of hard disk drives, replacing hardware is the only solution.
Connecting bone together is relative easy using Titanium implants and scaffolding. Skin and muscle tissue will eventually mesh together using just stitches. Blood vessels can be reconnected using microsurgery. The really hard part is reconnecting spinal cord nerves. When any critter is born, the first thing that is formed is a neural tube which is the basis of the brain and spinal cord. Then every block of tissue then specializes into what part of the body there is. With the spinal cord there is something that blocks regeneration - perhaps it is spinal fluid or just the way the cells are programmed.
"Yes, sir, um, you see, Beavis here had the idea of cranking up the voltage to the quantum uncertainty amplifiers. He figured if he did that, then that would be a pure source of randomness. And when you have total randomness, then anything can happen, so we thought that if anything were to happen, it could only improve the results of our experiment, since nothing was happening. Well, something did happen. I told him not to crank up the voltage to the highest setting at once, but to do it in steps. But he was in a hurry to meet his girlfriend, so he just turned the dial and just hit the red button. Didn't even give me time to put on my radiation goggles. Next thing, there's this giant flash in the gravitational reactor. Seconds later, there's a giant white glowing cloud of has which rapidly darkens down into millions of these little spinning glowing whirly things all floating and bouncing around. Yes, I thing the technical term is "galaxies". They just kept floating and bouncing around. That was really something, so I told him not to touch anything until our supervisor came in. When he did come in, he totally freaked out and ran out to the see head of department. That's when he contacted you and were summoned here."
Designed by supercomputer, built by machines, crashed by dummies.
"it was a sheet of metal, very light weight, but you could crush it up like a ball and it would bounce right back no matter what you did, and it would not cut or burn"
I Remember that description. It's always fascinated how UFO reports seem to reflect future technology, even if it was someone tripping out, writing a sci-fi story rather being a real event. Eric von Daniken proposed the idea of quadrocopters, while others propose the idea of 360 panoramic flight decks.
With Newtonian physics, if we could find something that wasn't symmetrical with regards to conservation of motion, we have a perpetual motion system and unlimited energy. So far, every process that converts energy from one form to another always has some loss due to friction or heat.
The system bounces microwaves inside a cone. When a photon hits the base of the cone, that pushes the vehicle forward as it bounces backwards. But the conical shape means that the next "bounce" of the photon will be distributed between a sideways movement and a small backwards movement. But because of the circular shape of the cone, the sideways movements cancel out. The forwards force is greater than the backwards force, so the final velocity is forwards.
The information disclosed by Snowden can be reduced down to "The three letter agencies can convert any electronic device with a microphone into a hidden tape recorder" and "anything sent down The Tubes can also be recorded". So they meet in person and just leave their smartphones in the room outside.
Unfortunately for Airbus, it didn't quite work out when an airshow decided to have an aircraft do a low fly-pass in front of the crowds. The combination of low altitude, low speed with flaps and landing gear lowered made the AI think that the pilots wanted the plane to land. So the flight control system cut the engine power in preparation for landing.
I used acrylic plastic in my dental fillings. Hardened using UV light and still going strong after 20 years.
The problem is that blast furnaces aren't simply switched on and off, but have feedback software systems that adjusts fuel feeds, cooling systems and exhaust extraction to achieve the desired temperature while minimizing fuel consumption, cooling and pollution. Much the same way as electronic car ignition. The operating temperature would have to be ramped up and down slowly to avoid any damage through thermal stress.
It's the hardware overrides that would allow the cooling system to be reduced or switched off while the fuel feeds remain on.
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We already have the slashdot story generator:
http://www.bbspot.com/toys/sla...
Back in those days, start of the art technology in CPU's were "restricted exports". The USA wanted to show that Communism didn't lead to as many advancements in technology as Capitalism, so they restricted exports on technology such as chip design software, CPU's and other chip logic (remember the A-team trying to block smugglers exporting flip-flop chips? It was that serious). This led to the Eastern European countries doing various work-arounds. They could get gray imports through third-party countries that weren't part of the Western trade block, and weren't part of the USSR either. Or they could set up fake companies in the host country that would export the technology.
Another strategy was to make their own logic chips. However, yields for complex logic such as CPU's, wasn't that good, so they ended up with CPU's with missing instructions. But that wasn't a problem, mathematician/software engineers figured out ways of emulating broken instructions using other instructions. If JMP was broken, then use CLR; BCC. Arithmetic operations like ADD could be replaced by NEG and SUB, and so on... So they ended up with an abstraction layer using assembler macros that provided a set of functioning instructions.
In Norway, you can just go online to the bank website, use an authentication system based on a username, password and your mobile phone.
Then you just use the IBAN/SWIFT system to transfer the money to the account anywhere else in the world, and you can download your transaction history as a spreadsheet file.
Other banks in the UK require you to go into a branch, and have a clerk use a quill pen to fill out an entry in a giant leatherbound ledger book.