That's like Japan when they decided to go on a water conservation program to save both water and money. Showers were installed in bathrooms, toilet cisterns were modified to reduce consumption, storage tanks used to recycle rainwater for gardens. The project was a success, water consumption was reduced by 50%. But the water company had to double rates as they were now running at a loss.
Touch tablets have been around for ages. 8-bit home computers could always be connected to an RS-232 graphics tablet. Atari 800 had a touch tablet with Atari Paint. Wacom tablets have a stylus systems that is pressure and tilt/orientation sensitive.
Palm pilot allowed you to enter letters using a unique shorthand squiggle shape for each letter. It was quite effective and allowed you to take notes as someone was speaking. Though, these days it's quicker just to record audio.
You get a gaming PC (hardware only) for £600, but Windows 7/8/whatever costs an extra £200. Same in Norway, Get a gaming PC for 6000 Kronar, but Windows whatever costs another 2000 Kronar, which amounts to the cost of another GPU card, external backup drive, some extra memory or simply 2/3 weeks food shopping.
What is the major difference between Windows 7/8 and XP or a Linux distro? Just the GUI
Have you ever been in a underground station (or even glassy college campus corridors in Summer) where there are hundreds of people walking through. The humidity and heat does build up, even when they are wearing winter jackets and shoes. Places which do suck out all the heat just feel ice cold, and will be avoided when possible.
Hate to break it to you bubba, but you can get run over by cars, buses, lorries, trucks. You can die falling down a staircase, or even being push backwards and hitting the back of your skull against a paving stone (thunderclap headache). There's always the danger of someone dropping or throwing bricks, stones, traffic cones from a bridge onto a freeway. Some crazy can push you off a subway platform onto the tracks. Don't forget the hazard of food poisoning from unhygienic chefs who don't manage food expiration dates properly.
Even if you do ban guns, then criminals will use knives. Ban knives, and they use drinking glasses and bottles instead. Replace drinking glasses and bottles with plastic, and they use stiletto shoes instead.
"You don't keep all of your money at home, under your bed, you keep it in a bank; so why keep all of your data at home?"
You keep your money in a bank, because the bank provides a safe storage medium in exchange for a commission from making more money by lending it out to other people.
You don't keep all of your furniture in your home because you want to use it when you need it, not when some store is open business hours.
This was the router that Cisco attempted to grant access through a centralised cloud computing service. If you allowed them to automatically update the firmware, you would find that the only way to enable and disable features such as VPN's, IPsec, user account and passwords was through Cisco's website.
I knew programmers who committed suicide because of the projects they were working on back in the 1980's - Look up GEC Marconi suicides. Some companies CEO's were so determined that a high-profile project should be a success that they hired City law firms to send "threatening letters" to all employees, promising to hold them personally responsible for all financial losses if the project wasn't completed. And permission to resign was refused.
Make companies have buildbot's with waterfall charts that show the effect of every commit to the main source code repository. Just about every software manager will have this webpage open on one of their screens. The goal is to give every employee the "fear" of doing something wrong:
That happened 30 years ago with consoles. Japanese console manufacturers figured they would corner the market if they adopted a standard console system called MSX. It would be extensible enough for the systems to be used as home computers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX
Didn't last simply because each manufacturer used the standard as a base level and added their own custom features - extra sound channels, larger screen resolutions, more cartridge memory, extra peripherals like light pens, light guns.
In the end games designed on one system wouldn't run on others, and the system become forgotten.
Some military stuff was designed to do that - electronics on fighter planes as well as disk drives. You pulled a tab off, allowing oxygen into the disk drive and that would react with something like magnesium which would rapidly oxide and melt.
Insurance companies did provide insurance rates risk tables based on post codes (eg. SW10 A34, first four digits give an area of the city, last three digits give the street and number). I once combined a post-code map from the post office with a set of such insurance tables, and it was immediately obvious that the high-rise council blocks were the epicenter of home burglaries. It figures. What could be a better surveillance method than to be 100 metres up in the air with a birds-eye video of all the surrounding terraced streets?
Burglaries can happen anywhere in the UK. Farmers have the problem of "travellers", ie. Tony Martin. Londoners have to put up with random burglaries, or even home takeovers by Romanians. Anyone parking on the street has the risk of having their car insurance disks and contents stolen. Even home invasions aren't unknown. There's also the risk of having garden property stolen regardless of weight:
Cigarette smoke can go through floors, and very often smokers set fire to their own apartments when they fall asleep. I wouldn't want to rent an apartment where the downstairs neighbor smoked.
Heavy drinkers tend to have loud parties, that would be good to know about. They tend to get violent.
With mobile devices, the CPU as well as many other logic components (GPU, accelerometers, compass, GPS, video decompression) are provided as licensed silicon designs. These designs are combined together by a separate vendor to form a complete system, thus System-On-A-Chip. These companies don't make boards, connectors, chips, or even silicon dies, they just license designs and device drivers. MEMS alone allows sensors like accelerometers, compasses to be implemented using standard silicon manufacturing processes with no additional hardware required. Other companies may provide profiling and debugging tools. So a complete ecosystem forms.
With Samsung being able to get down to 14nm, that means every company benefits. There is now space for more transistors, so everyone can add more features, more cache memory, more cores.
Just like Linux. One group does kernel work, another group does compilers and debuggers, someone else does GUI, X-windows, and others maintain web browsers, device drivers and command line applications. These are all combined to form a Linux distribution ISO file.
Property developers were after the Victorian buildings with high ceilings and bay windows - that architecture had been specifically chosen to provide patients with plenty of sunlight (cure against depression) and fresh air (cure against lung infections).
MP's spun this as saving costs in maintaining dilapidated buildings (could have been renovated instead) and social integration (allowing the patients to live in the community. They did the same with special-needs schools.
You should have some kind of "lint" program which does the coding style checking automatically. Alternatively, a "cb" (C-beautifier) which does the coding style formatting automatically. There is also "doxygen" which can create manuals out of comments placed above functions.
goto and label are used as equivalents for throw/catch
You have a number of tasks that need to be performed, that each involve allocating/resizing/deallocating memory or getting exclusive access via mutex's. If one task fails, you have to unwind/undo the other tasks. You could create a nested set of parenthesis: if ( PASS == setup_one() ) {
if ( PASS == setup_two() )
{
if ( PASS == setup_three() )
{
complete_request();
return PASS;
}
else
{
undo_three();
undo_two();
undo_one();
}
} else
{
undo_two();
undo_one();
} } else {
undo_one(); }
return FAIL;
Or you can have:
if ( FAIL == setup_one() ) {
goto label_failone; }
if ( FAIL == setup_two() ) {
goto label_failtwo; }
if ( FAIL == setup_three() ) {
goto label_failthree; }
There's webcam software that can perform motion detection, and do shape recognition. You also have image segmentation and texture classification.
Motion detection looks for changes between two frames. Image segmentation splits an image by looking for edges and creating silhouettes. Texture classification works on looking for different types of texture (walls, ground, trees, bushes, sand). Shape recognition works on trying to convert 2D images into 3D shapes and orientations. Image processing researchers usually end up building these long pipelines of image processing transformations (noise filtering, image perpective processing, edge detection, sharpening), all to just differentiate between cyclists and joggers.
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That's like Japan when they decided to go on a water conservation program to save both water and money. Showers were installed in bathrooms, toilet cisterns were modified to reduce consumption, storage tanks used to recycle rainwater for gardens. The project was a success, water consumption was reduced by 50%. But the water company had to double rates as they were now running at a loss.
Touch tablets have been around for ages. 8-bit home computers could always be connected to an RS-232 graphics tablet.
Atari 800 had a touch tablet with Atari Paint. Wacom tablets have a stylus systems that is pressure and tilt/orientation sensitive.
Palm pilot allowed you to enter letters using a unique shorthand squiggle shape for each letter. It was quite effective and allowed you to take notes as
someone was speaking. Though, these days it's quicker just to record audio.
You get a gaming PC (hardware only) for £600, but Windows 7/8/whatever costs an extra £200. Same in Norway, Get a gaming PC for 6000 Kronar, but Windows whatever costs another 2000 Kronar, which amounts to the cost of another GPU card, external backup drive, some extra memory or simply 2/3 weeks food shopping.
What is the major difference between Windows 7/8 and XP or a Linux distro? Just the GUI
And the American Eagle chicks attempt to push each other out of the nest until only one is left.
Have you ever been in a underground station (or even glassy college campus corridors in Summer) where there are hundreds of people walking through. The humidity and heat does build up, even when they are wearing winter jackets and shoes. Places which do suck out all the heat just feel ice cold, and will be avoided when possible.
What worries me is that the input and out signals to that portion of the brain will get rerouted elsewhere ... perhaps to the pain center of the brain.
Hate to break it to you bubba, but you can get run over by cars, buses, lorries, trucks. You can die falling down a staircase, or even being push backwards and hitting the back of your skull against a paving stone (thunderclap headache). There's always the danger of someone dropping or throwing bricks, stones, traffic cones from a bridge onto a freeway. Some crazy can push you off a subway platform onto the tracks. Don't forget the hazard of food poisoning from unhygienic chefs who don't manage food expiration dates properly.
Even if you do ban guns, then criminals will use knives.
Ban knives, and they use drinking glasses and bottles instead.
Replace drinking glasses and bottles with plastic, and they use stiletto shoes instead.
He wasn't wearing body armour:
http://nhregister.com/articles/2012/12/27/news/doc50dce5187860b303917697.txt?mobredir=false
"You don't keep all of your money at home, under your bed, you keep it in a bank; so why keep all of your data at home?"
You keep your money in a bank, because the bank provides a safe storage medium in exchange for a commission from making more money by lending it out to other people.
You don't keep all of your furniture in your home because you want to use it when you need it, not when some store is open business hours.
Cisco E4200 does. Though there seems to be restrictions on the file system format (NTFS) and that only a single partition would work:
Appendix B: How to Connect and Access USB Storage
http://www.manualowl.com/m/Cisco/E4200/Manual/242917
This was the router that Cisco attempted to grant access through a centralised cloud computing service. If you allowed them to automatically update the firmware, you would find that the only way to enable and disable features such as VPN's, IPsec, user account and passwords was through Cisco's website.
I knew programmers who committed suicide because of the projects they were working on back in the 1980's - Look up GEC Marconi suicides. Some companies CEO's were so determined that a high-profile project should be a success that they hired City law firms to send "threatening letters" to all employees, promising to hold them personally responsible for all financial losses if the project wasn't completed. And permission to resign was refused.
Marconi suicides
Make companies have buildbot's with waterfall charts that show the effect of every commit to the main source code repository. Just about every software manager will have this webpage open on one of their screens. The goal is to give every employee the "fear" of doing something wrong:
Waterfall chart
http://www.chromium.org/developers/testing/chromium-build-infrastructure/tour-of-the-chromium-buildbot
That happened 30 years ago with consoles. Japanese console manufacturers figured they would corner the market if they adopted a standard console system called MSX. It would be extensible enough for the systems to be used as home computers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX
Didn't last simply because each manufacturer used the standard as a base level and added their own custom features - extra sound channels, larger screen resolutions, more cartridge memory, extra peripherals like light pens, light guns.
In the end games designed on one system wouldn't run on others, and the system become forgotten.
Some military stuff was designed to do that - electronics on fighter planes as well as disk drives. You pulled a tab off, allowing oxygen into the disk drive and that would react with something like magnesium which would rapidly oxide and melt.
Insurance companies did provide insurance rates risk tables based on post codes (eg. SW10 A34, first four digits give an area of the city, last three digits give the street and number). I once combined a post-code map from the post office with a set of such insurance tables, and it was immediately obvious that the high-rise council blocks were the epicenter of home burglaries. It figures. What could be a better surveillance method than to be 100 metres up in the air with a birds-eye video of all the surrounding terraced streets?
Burglaries can happen anywhere in the UK. Farmers have the problem of "travellers", ie. Tony Martin. Londoners have to put up with random burglaries, or even home takeovers by Romanians. Anyone parking on the street has the risk of having their car insurance disks and contents stolen. Even home invasions aren't unknown. There's also the risk of having garden property stolen regardless of weight:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6951786.stm
Cigarette smoke can go through floors, and very often smokers set fire to their own apartments when they fall asleep. I wouldn't want to rent an apartment where the downstairs neighbor smoked.
Heavy drinkers tend to have loud parties, that would be good to know about. They tend to get violent.
With mobile devices, the CPU as well as many other logic components (GPU, accelerometers, compass, GPS, video decompression) are provided as licensed silicon designs. These designs are combined together by a separate vendor to form a complete system, thus System-On-A-Chip. These companies don't make boards, connectors, chips, or even silicon dies, they just license designs and device drivers. MEMS alone allows sensors like accelerometers, compasses to be implemented using standard silicon manufacturing processes with no additional hardware required. Other companies may provide profiling and debugging tools. So a complete ecosystem forms.
With Samsung being able to get down to 14nm, that means every company benefits. There is now space for more transistors, so everyone can add more features, more cache memory, more cores.
Just like Linux. One group does kernel work, another group does compilers and debuggers, someone else does GUI, X-windows, and others maintain web browsers, device drivers and command line applications. These are all combined to form a Linux distribution ISO file.
In this case, it is the responsibility of the Homeland Security Investigations.
http://www.ice.gov/about/offices/homeland-security-investigations/
Property developers were after the Victorian buildings with high ceilings and bay windows - that architecture had been specifically chosen to provide patients with plenty of sunlight (cure against depression) and fresh air (cure against lung infections).
MP's spun this as saving costs in maintaining dilapidated buildings (could have been renovated instead) and social integration (allowing the patients to live in the community. They did the same with special-needs schools.
You should have some kind of "lint" program which does the coding style checking automatically. Alternatively, a "cb" (C-beautifier) which does the coding style formatting automatically. There is also "doxygen" which can create manuals out of comments placed above functions.
goto and label are used as equivalents for throw/catch
You have a number of tasks that need to be performed, that each involve allocating/resizing/deallocating memory or getting exclusive access via mutex's. If one task fails, you have to unwind/undo the other tasks. You could create a nested set of parenthesis:
if ( PASS == setup_one() )
{
if ( PASS == setup_two() )
{
if ( PASS == setup_three() )
{
complete_request();
return PASS;
}
else
{
undo_three();
undo_two();
undo_one();
}
}
else
{
undo_two();
undo_one();
}
}
else
{
undo_one();
}
return FAIL;
Or you can have:
if ( FAIL == setup_one() )
{
goto label_failone;
}
if ( FAIL == setup_two() )
{
goto label_failtwo;
}
if ( FAIL == setup_three() )
{
goto label_failthree;
}
complete_request();
return PASS;
label_failthree:
undo_three();
label_failtwo:
undo_two();
label_failone:
undo_one();
return FAIL;
}
You should write a book on all these projects - 20 electronics experiments for a rainy day. Especially the guitar made from moped parts.
There's webcam software that can perform motion detection, and do shape recognition. You also have image segmentation and texture classification.
Motion detection looks for changes between two frames. Image segmentation splits an image by looking for edges and creating silhouettes. Texture classification works on looking for different types of texture (walls, ground, trees, bushes, sand). Shape recognition works on trying to convert 2D images into 3D shapes and orientations. Image processing researchers usually end up building these long pipelines of image processing transformations (noise filtering, image perpective processing, edge detection, sharpening), all to just differentiate between cyclists and joggers.
Before New Deal, there was the YTS (Youth Training Service).