Communists had Zil lanes. Lanes on the roads reserved exclusively for the ruling class being driven around in their bullet-proof limousines. Olympic officials did the same.
San Francisco International airport has shuttle buses - tell them where you want to go, and they would dynamically create a route that went through all destinations. Other cities offer shuttle buses booked in advance - tell them where you want to be picked up, and where you want to go, and they would dynamically create a route.
Some taxi services would allow multiple drop-off points. It was up to the customers to decide how the each segment of the route should be paid.
Communism required central planning to work. The government would decide it needs a new airplane factory. Then all the resources to be provided to build a new city, apartment blocks, schools, hospitals and so on. But there wasn't any incentive to modernize if the existing equipment did the job. Sometimes the politicians would instruct factories and companies to take on as many staff as possible to reduce unemployment.
To me, social network stuff is the current new layer of the internet and computing...
80's - 8-bit console systems & home computers (basic graphics and audio),
X-windows/TCP-IP set the foundations for GUI and the internet 90's - multimedia home computers and console systems (true color graphics and stereo audio), mid 1990's - the internet became accessible to home users. Web page design became a career 2000's - the dot-com era, where startups created online companies like Amazon, Peapod that sold stuff to individuals mid 2000's - the iPhone and other smartphones come out, allowing multimedia technology to go mobile 2010's - the increasing numbers of users allow for services that allow individual-to-selected-people communication rather than business-to-customer or individual-to-individual. So now you see all these startups all geared up to particular social events; tech meetings, presentations, talks, technologies or companies.
There was a theory that protons behave as subatomic black holes. Electrons can spin round them but can't enter. Just ionize some hydrogen gas, chill it down to near absolute zero to get an Einstein-Bose condensate and zap it with the lasers, then measure the returned signal.
The early PC game market accelerated as fast as the smartphone market is now. PC video went from CGA (4 color) to EGA (16 color), VGA (256 color x 320x200), SVGA (256 x 1024x768 and higher) in a couple of years. PC audio went from the speaker to MIDI (AdLib/Soundblaster) and sampled audio in the same time. Clock speeds just about doubled every year (4.77 MHz first IBM clones, followed by 8 MHz the year after, then 16, 20, 25, 40, 60, 80, 120, 166, 325, 450, then 1 GHz, and upwards). After floating-point units became standard, the only option was SIMD instructions and then multiple cores.
The Tropical Rainforests in South America are said to be the lungs of the world due to the purpose. It's a shame they are being cut down to make way for farmland for a couple of years until the soil is exhausted and turns to desert.
Making employees sign Non-Compete Agreements are illegal in California. But by preventing employees from moving around freely, that could have restricted them from getting pay rises and consequently depriving the state and federal government from getting income taxes.
Western countries signed an agreement called "The Lima Declaration of 1975". They promised, in perpetuity, to make sure that the developing world got 30% of manufacturing jobs. So basically, Western employers keep having to look for work to offshore.
The tech work that Americans don't want to do. If you are designing a new ASIC chip, then the design work is what gets you the new job, and the stuff that gets you to the next job. The boring work is writing the verification tests.
It's been like that for nearly two decades now. At least since 1994, when software rendered Quake came out. SGI pushed to get OpenGL out as a software API to eliminate the need for in-house software renderers. Microsoft realized they needed their own 3D software API to keep up to date with the game industry developments. 3Dfx came out with the Glide API for hardware piggyback boards. Nvidia formed from SGI engineers who wanted to see PC boards, then there was a race to be the first fully complete TLC (texturing, lighting and clipping) hardware accelerated boards, then another race for programmable fragment shading, then vertex, geometry and compute shaders.
The ideological battle has continued. Microsoft has always seen themselves as the supplier of software API's. In response, The Khronos consortium formed to provide an open standard alternative to proprietary API's (www.khronos.org).
Even in the shut-down state, nuclear reactor rods still need to be kept cool with water circulating through the system. Some have back systems which rely on gravity fed supply of water. Others require electric motors and diesel generators to keep the water circulating at pressure.
Maybe the backup solution will be to round up prisoners and have them chain-ganged to manually operated pumps like something out of Conan the Barbarian.
The sparks from the CME would probably ignite the gunpowder. During the last CME event in the 1800's, telegraph lines were seen sparking, and the telegraph operators would get electrocuted when they tried to touch the morse code key switch.
I've seen that too - you should have seen traffic at the freeway between Singapore and Malaysia - on each side there's a toll booth with one side for mopeds and motorbikes, and another side for cars. Since all the cars had catalytic converters, the air was clean. On the side with the mopeds, a thick bluish-gray smog obscured visibilty for hundreds of meters.
In Napoleonic times, Paris widened the streets and created these wide boulevards in order to stop rioters from blocking off the streets whenever taxes went up. That also helped the flow off horse-drawn traffic in those days. But it also meant the republic could send down troops rapidly whenever there was trouble. Then the car came along to replace the horse-drawn carriages.
But once you have done that once, that's it, the economic weapon has been used, and you've got nothing left. Of course, there's always the threat of using it, or selling off a few million dollars of shares every now and again just to prove the point.
It's not simply slurping up a sound file and sending it to the sound card. Audio is post-processed in the same way that textures and graphics are. Effects such as echo (reflection shaders), reverberation, radio communication. There was a previous discussion related to the need for games to need to use segments with both data and execution permission.
Like the jokes "It wasn't more than 10 minutes after Maggie Thatcher went down to hell, that she closed down five furnaces to reduce capacity and the devils went on strike".
"Just think what trade with the daleks would do for the British electronics industry"
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Some long-lasting foods are made through the use of various types of radiation; UV light and gamma rays. These break up the DNA of bacteria and fungii which don't have advanced self-repair mechanisms like mammals.
Climb to 45000 feet, depressurize the plane, kill off the passengers, land the plane somewhere, and you've got a nice delivery vehicle for something explosive.
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Communists had Zil lanes. Lanes on the roads reserved exclusively for the ruling class being driven around in their bullet-proof limousines. Olympic officials did the same.
San Francisco International airport has shuttle buses - tell them where you want to go, and they would dynamically create a route that went through all destinations. Other cities offer shuttle buses booked in advance - tell them where you want to be picked up, and where you want to go, and they would dynamically create a route.
Some taxi services would allow multiple drop-off points. It was up to the customers to decide how the each segment of the route should be paid.
Communism required central planning to work. The government would decide it needs a new airplane factory. Then all the resources to be provided to build a new city, apartment blocks, schools, hospitals and so on. But there wasn't any incentive to modernize if the existing equipment did the job. Sometimes the politicians would instruct factories and companies to take on as many staff as possible to reduce unemployment.
To me, social network stuff is the current new layer of the internet and computing...
80's - 8-bit console systems & home computers (basic graphics and audio),
X-windows/TCP-IP set the foundations for GUI and the internet
90's - multimedia home computers and console systems (true color graphics and stereo audio),
mid 1990's - the internet became accessible to home users. Web page design became a career
2000's - the dot-com era, where startups created online companies like Amazon, Peapod that sold stuff to individuals
mid 2000's - the iPhone and other smartphones come out, allowing multimedia technology to go mobile
2010's - the increasing numbers of users allow for services that allow individual-to-selected-people communication rather than business-to-customer or individual-to-individual.
So now you see all these startups all geared up to particular social events; tech meetings, presentations, talks, technologies or companies.
3D Movies?
http://www.3dtv.at/movies/inde...
I'm not upgrading to any smartphone unless it supports the ability to take stereoscopic movies and play them back.
There was a theory that protons behave as subatomic black holes. Electrons can spin round them but can't enter. Just ionize some hydrogen gas, chill it down to near absolute zero to get an Einstein-Bose condensate and zap it with the lasers, then measure the returned signal.
http://www.energydigital.com/g...
The early PC game market accelerated as fast as the smartphone market is now. PC video went from CGA (4 color) to EGA (16 color), VGA (256 color x 320x200), SVGA (256 x 1024x768 and higher) in a couple of years. PC audio went from the speaker to MIDI (AdLib/Soundblaster) and sampled audio in the same time. Clock speeds just about doubled every year (4.77 MHz first IBM clones, followed by 8 MHz the year after, then 16, 20, 25, 40, 60, 80, 120, 166, 325, 450, then 1 GHz, and upwards). After floating-point units became standard, the only option was SIMD instructions and then multiple cores.
The Tropical Rainforests in South America are said to be the lungs of the world due to the purpose. It's a shame they are being cut down to make way for farmland for a couple of years until the soil is exhausted and turns to desert.
Making employees sign Non-Compete Agreements are illegal in California. But by preventing employees from moving around freely, that could have restricted them from getting pay rises and consequently depriving the state and federal government from getting income taxes.
Western countries signed an agreement called "The Lima Declaration of 1975". They promised, in perpetuity, to make sure that the developing world got 30% of manufacturing jobs. So basically, Western employers keep having to look for work to offshore.
The tech work that Americans don't want to do. If you are designing a new ASIC chip, then the design work is what gets you the new job, and the stuff that gets you to the next job. The boring work is writing the verification tests.
But then the liberals can say they've closed the poverty gap between the rich and poor.
It's been like that for nearly two decades now. At least since 1994, when software rendered Quake came out. SGI pushed to get OpenGL out as a software API to eliminate the need for in-house software renderers. Microsoft realized they needed their own 3D software API to keep up to date with the game industry developments. 3Dfx came out with the Glide API for hardware piggyback boards. Nvidia formed from SGI engineers who wanted to see PC boards, then there was a race to be the first fully complete TLC (texturing, lighting and clipping) hardware accelerated boards, then another race for programmable fragment shading, then vertex, geometry and compute shaders.
The ideological battle has continued. Microsoft has always seen themselves as the supplier of software API's. In response, The Khronos consortium formed to provide an open standard alternative to proprietary API's (www.khronos.org).
Even in the shut-down state, nuclear reactor rods still need to be kept cool with water circulating through the system. Some have back systems which rely on gravity fed supply of water. Others require electric motors and diesel generators to keep the water circulating at pressure.
Maybe the backup solution will be to round up prisoners and have them chain-ganged to manually operated pumps like something out of Conan the Barbarian.
The sparks from the CME would probably ignite the gunpowder. During the last CME event in the 1800's, telegraph lines were seen sparking, and the telegraph operators would get electrocuted when they tried to touch the morse code key switch.
Commodity CPU's can be advanced in small steps every six months, while enterprise CPU's can be advanced in large steps every few years.
I've seen that too - you should have seen traffic at the freeway between Singapore and Malaysia - on each side there's a toll booth with one side for mopeds and motorbikes, and another side for cars. Since all the cars had catalytic converters, the air was clean. On the side with the mopeds, a thick bluish-gray smog obscured visibilty for hundreds of meters.
So then you just buy a new second-hand car that has just passed the inspection.
In Napoleonic times, Paris widened the streets and created these wide boulevards in order to stop rioters from blocking off the streets whenever taxes went up. That also helped the flow off horse-drawn traffic in those days. But it also meant the republic could send down troops rapidly whenever there was trouble. Then the car came along to replace the horse-drawn carriages.
But once you have done that once, that's it, the economic weapon has been used, and you've got nothing left. Of course, there's always the threat of using it, or selling off a few million dollars of shares every now and again just to prove the point.
It's not simply slurping up a sound file and sending it to the sound card. Audio is post-processed in the same way that textures and graphics are. Effects such as echo (reflection shaders), reverberation, radio communication. There was a previous discussion related to the need for games to need to use segments with both data and execution permission.
Like the jokes "It wasn't more than 10 minutes after Maggie Thatcher went down to hell, that she closed down five furnaces to reduce capacity and the devils went on strike".
"Just think what trade with the daleks would do for the British electronics industry"
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Please select the amount of item you want delivered,
[_] 50 grammes [_] 100 grammes [_] 250 grammes [_] 500 grammes [_] 1 kilogram [_] 2 kilograms [_] 5 kilograms [_] other
If other, please enter the amount here [____] (maximum 25 kilograms)
Please enter how soon you want the delivery:
[_] Whenever (next three days) [_] Before I get the munchies (next day) [_] Just give me the dope, man! (today)
After the purchase has been approved, please print out the barcode target and place it on a horizontal surface somewhere outdoors and not obscured by any
trees. Our targeting satellites will detect the target and direct the delivery drone to the location.
Some long-lasting foods are made through the use of various types of radiation; UV light and gamma rays. These break up the DNA of bacteria and fungii which don't have advanced self-repair mechanisms like mammals.
Climb to 45000 feet, depressurize the plane, kill off the passengers, land the plane somewhere, and you've got a nice delivery vehicle for something explosive.