Exactly! IoT is a terminology for suit-wearing people so they can agree on almost what they are talking about when they decide to invest some money in a startup. I don't know why everyone seems surprised, upsetted or annoyed by this new terminology. This is the whole story of the Information Technology since the ages. Why are they expecting something different here?
My mayor loves IoT because he can talk about something he doesn't understand but have a fuzzy image of what it is and how it could help improve management of certain city services. It is handy for him, he doesn't need to try to explain anything, those who really understand IoT know this is just a convenient terminology.
Okay, I admit I replaced intentionally the I by a l to make this joke working. Neverthless, it seems obvious the IoT evades many of us. It is not about toasters, coffemakers and fridges on the Internet. It can be, but it is probably not where this will be useful to anyone. In fact, the article mentioned bad usage of IoT and warn readers against overengineering it into products. The mass market isn't probably the first market for IoT. Think about monitoring infrastructures and make them smarts after analyzing the data in real time. Can you make a better usage of the infrastructures to avoid the cost of building more infrastructures or costly infrastructures that will not have the expected impact? Provided the Western countries will have to spend litterally trillions of dollars on infrastructures in the next decades, it worth thinking about it and how they can be made smarter. The toy example of the toaster is not an appropriate one understand to potential impact of the IoT.
There isn't supposed to be any loopholes in the wording of a law. That is why you have a bunch of elected guys making and discussing the laws, voting for them, amending propositions, etc. A law with loopholes in the wording is a law that should not have been voted for in first place.
If you cannot find a way to word the law to avoid loopholes a catch-all clause will not do good to it anyway.
I went to primary school late 60's and early 70's and we were allowed only pencil. In HS, we did learn typing on typewriters with inked ribbons because the boys only school I went to believe this skill will be of great use in the future. They were spot on, that was one of the greatest skills I learned there. I learned to type blind with all my fingers and it was a long time between the time I actually learned typing and the time I actually needed it. Something like 4 or 5 years between both events.
Today, I would say cursive writing and typewriting were almost equally useful for me. Needless to say these days I rarely write with a pencil, but it happens often enough to say I am glad I did learn it. Sometimes the computer screen and the keyboard is not the appropriate media to run a brainstorming session. Scribing on a piece of paper, a white or blackboard happens to still be useful and productive.
It seems the summary is a lost art here. At near 450 words, this is no longer a summary. Please/. if you cannot summarize the subject within a single paragraph with a few links forget it. There is no need to make the summary a thesis.
Anyone here can tell us the technical specifications for drones available to customers. I don't mean specifialized commercial drones, I mean mass market drones.
I am asking because the article reports altitudes as high as 4 000 feet. As far as I know, DIJ and Parrot drones have a battery autonomy of about 15 minutes and I wonder if they can actually reach 4 000 feet altitude and land within 15 minutes. What about the radio communication module, can it still control the drone at such an altitude? Because I believe if the drone is out of reach by the remote controller, it initiates a return flight until it is again within the radio communication perimeter.
Probably a custom made drone could reach 4 000 feet and be still remote controlled, I have doubts about the customer grade ones.
Quantum teleportation is not matter teleportation at all. You have to transport the entangled particle with all the limiting factors (speed of light) to destination before performing the second part of the experiment. It is abusive to use quantum teleportation as a gateway to state the "real" teleportation may exists. This is purely speculative and totally unrelated.
I believe you are having a limited knowledge of the physics and how discoveries work.
First of all, the physics in the next 1000 years will not be that much different from the physics known today. The Newtonian mechanics is still a pretty good approximation of the macroscopic world and nobody declared it is over and replaced by quantum mechanics all the way. In the next thousand years and beyond, the physics will have to take into account for everything we already discovered so far.
Second, each discovery has an energy cost. That cost has increased at a tremendous rate since Einstein wrote his paper on special relativity. The LHC is consuming very large amounts of energy to keep working. The computers required to analyze the data are consuming very large amounts of energy. There is a limit on the amount of energy we can consume overall and we can dedicate to research. This is a limiting factor that will slow down the pace at which new discoveries are possible. There is a trade-off to maintain between research and sustain life here. We cannot dedicate all the resources to research because we will eventually deplet the pool of genius needed to perform this research. So, we need to sustain life at a scale sufficiently large to keep genetically and intellectually gifted people coming.
Third, in case you haven't notice, it is now more than a century we haven't discovered something that revolutionized the physics like relativity and quantum mechanics. Scientists these days are working on decimals and number of significant digits trying to discriminate between two equally valuable models.
Why? Because it is how you create new markets for goods and services. Starving people without a dime are not a market you can sell them anything. Helping them in a way to improve their economy is a win-win situation provided it works. So, you then need to invest first and expect the outcome will pay for the initial investment. Big ideas are launching Big Businesses for Big people expecting Big outcome. Help here is just another word for economic stimulation.
It seems you didn't get it right. Before getting a customer you need a product. Before getting a product, you need to develop it. To develop it, you need people and to get them you need to pay them. You then need an accountant, a lawyer and some of the basics to run a business. You cannot wait until you are ready to sell a product developed over a two year period to hire/contract an accountant. You need to start it right on day one.
I wonder how someone can happily identifies the balloons as being He filled on Wikipedia without an authoritative source saying so? I mean, nothing on the Loon website itself clearly says the balloons are He filled. The most it says, is the balloons are He filled for leaking tests where they use an He detector to identify the leaks. Nowhere the website says the balloons are filled with He when flying. Maybe they are intentionally obscure about He to let us think it is air filled or filled with another gas.
This is not the only article talking about hot air filled balloons. The text is talking about hot air, not matter what the picture is. Even the Loon project web site is not clear about this.
Altitude is controlled pumping air in and out. There is a solar cells which could be use to maintain air temperature. The Loon site is unclear about the gas. The only reference to helium is for leak detection tests.
One more thing which advocate in favor of an hot air filled balloon is the altitude control system which pump in and out AIR, not helium since there is none available to pump in. Since this mechanism is used to navigate using high altitude winds if helium would be required it wouldn't last 100 days beside the fact pumping air would not change the altitude. The only reference I have found about helium on the Loon site is about the leak tests. They use helium to test the envelope for leaks.
There is also many references talking about hot air balloons for the Loon project. This is pretty confusing. It seems in its early phase the project used helium. Someone can provide an authoritative answer and reference about this project? Wikipedia doesn't fit the bill. It refers to an article for the helium thing, however you can also find many ones on tech magazines refering to hot air.
That is a good one. Sometimes, managers are having too many projects to manage at once and are experiencing the exact same problem as lead developers. They have to switch context so often they lose completely the focus when time comes to a particular project.
Usually, when a position post description mention: "must work well under pressure", "must be able to multi-task", "seeking for rockstar developer", etc; you can be sure you don't want to work there. It is symptomatic of a shop which operates without enough staff and on low budget expecting miracles to come out from the process.
Interesting, however there is still a possibility these women are under pressure to step back from the initial accusations given the reaction of Julian Assange's supporters. This kind of game is played by both sides. Plots are not unidirectional, if any.
You bet! It is pretty much stupid they could have conceived the idea they have some sort of right to decide how the Harvard's investments portfolios should be managed.
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Exactly! IoT is a terminology for suit-wearing people so they can agree on almost what they are talking about when they decide to invest some money in a startup. I don't know why everyone seems surprised, upsetted or annoyed by this new terminology. This is the whole story of the Information Technology since the ages. Why are they expecting something different here?
My mayor loves IoT because he can talk about something he doesn't understand but have a fuzzy image of what it is and how it could help improve management of certain city services. It is handy for him, he doesn't need to try to explain anything, those who really understand IoT know this is just a convenient terminology.
Okay, I admit I replaced intentionally the I by a l to make this joke working. Neverthless, it seems obvious the IoT evades many of us. It is not about toasters, coffemakers and fridges on the Internet. It can be, but it is probably not where this will be useful to anyone. In fact, the article mentioned bad usage of IoT and warn readers against overengineering it into products. The mass market isn't probably the first market for IoT. Think about monitoring infrastructures and make them smarts after analyzing the data in real time. Can you make a better usage of the infrastructures to avoid the cost of building more infrastructures or costly infrastructures that will not have the expected impact? Provided the Western countries will have to spend litterally trillions of dollars on infrastructures in the next decades, it worth thinking about it and how they can be made smarter. The toy example of the toaster is not an appropriate one understand to potential impact of the IoT.
Define "loopholes in the wording".
There isn't supposed to be any loopholes in the wording of a law. That is why you have a bunch of elected guys making and discussing the laws, voting for them, amending propositions, etc. A law with loopholes in the wording is a law that should not have been voted for in first place.
If you cannot find a way to word the law to avoid loopholes a catch-all clause will not do good to it anyway.
It has nothing to do with "Western democraties", totalitarian regimes are spying and much more on their own citizen. Very stupid comment.
I went to primary school late 60's and early 70's and we were allowed only pencil. In HS, we did learn typing on typewriters with inked ribbons because the boys only school I went to believe this skill will be of great use in the future. They were spot on, that was one of the greatest skills I learned there. I learned to type blind with all my fingers and it was a long time between the time I actually learned typing and the time I actually needed it. Something like 4 or 5 years between both events.
Today, I would say cursive writing and typewriting were almost equally useful for me. Needless to say these days I rarely write with a pencil, but it happens often enough to say I am glad I did learn it. Sometimes the computer screen and the keyboard is not the appropriate media to run a brainstorming session. Scribing on a piece of paper, a white or blackboard happens to still be useful and productive.
It seems the summary is a lost art here. At near 450 words, this is no longer a summary. Please /. if you cannot summarize the subject within a single paragraph with a few links forget it. There is no need to make the summary a thesis.
Anyone here can tell us the technical specifications for drones available to customers. I don't mean specifialized commercial drones, I mean mass market drones.
I am asking because the article reports altitudes as high as 4 000 feet. As far as I know, DIJ and Parrot drones have a battery autonomy of about 15 minutes and I wonder if they can actually reach 4 000 feet altitude and land within 15 minutes. What about the radio communication module, can it still control the drone at such an altitude? Because I believe if the drone is out of reach by the remote controller, it initiates a return flight until it is again within the radio communication perimeter.
Probably a custom made drone could reach 4 000 feet and be still remote controlled, I have doubts about the customer grade ones.
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Quantum teleportation is not matter teleportation at all. You have to transport the entangled particle with all the limiting factors (speed of light) to destination before performing the second part of the experiment. It is abusive to use quantum teleportation as a gateway to state the "real" teleportation may exists. This is purely speculative and totally unrelated.
I believe you are having a limited knowledge of the physics and how discoveries work.
First of all, the physics in the next 1000 years will not be that much different from the physics known today. The Newtonian mechanics is still a pretty good approximation of the macroscopic world and nobody declared it is over and replaced by quantum mechanics all the way. In the next thousand years and beyond, the physics will have to take into account for everything we already discovered so far.
Second, each discovery has an energy cost. That cost has increased at a tremendous rate since Einstein wrote his paper on special relativity. The LHC is consuming very large amounts of energy to keep working. The computers required to analyze the data are consuming very large amounts of energy. There is a limit on the amount of energy we can consume overall and we can dedicate to research. This is a limiting factor that will slow down the pace at which new discoveries are possible. There is a trade-off to maintain between research and sustain life here. We cannot dedicate all the resources to research because we will eventually deplet the pool of genius needed to perform this research. So, we need to sustain life at a scale sufficiently large to keep genetically and intellectually gifted people coming.
Third, in case you haven't notice, it is now more than a century we haven't discovered something that revolutionized the physics like relativity and quantum mechanics. Scientists these days are working on decimals and number of significant digits trying to discriminate between two equally valuable models.
Already done, you haven't seen pope Bono of Ireland lately?
Why? Because it is how you create new markets for goods and services. Starving people without a dime are not a market you can sell them anything. Helping them in a way to improve their economy is a win-win situation provided it works. So, you then need to invest first and expect the outcome will pay for the initial investment. Big ideas are launching Big Businesses for Big people expecting Big outcome. Help here is just another word for economic stimulation.
It seems you didn't get it right. Before getting a customer you need a product. Before getting a product, you need to develop it. To develop it, you need people and to get them you need to pay them. You then need an accountant, a lawyer and some of the basics to run a business. You cannot wait until you are ready to sell a product developed over a two year period to hire/contract an accountant. You need to start it right on day one.
I wonder how someone can happily identifies the balloons as being He filled on Wikipedia without an authoritative source saying so? I mean, nothing on the Loon website itself clearly says the balloons are He filled. The most it says, is the balloons are He filled for leaking tests where they use an He detector to identify the leaks. Nowhere the website says the balloons are filled with He when flying. Maybe they are intentionally obscure about He to let us think it is air filled or filled with another gas.
This is not the only article talking about hot air filled balloons. The text is talking about hot air, not matter what the picture is. Even the Loon project web site is not clear about this.
Altitude is controlled pumping air in and out. There is a solar cells which could be use to maintain air temperature. The Loon site is unclear about the gas. The only reference to helium is for leak detection tests.
One more thing which advocate in favor of an hot air filled balloon is the altitude control system which pump in and out AIR, not helium since there is none available to pump in. Since this mechanism is used to navigate using high altitude winds if helium would be required it wouldn't last 100 days beside the fact pumping air would not change the altitude. The only reference I have found about helium on the Loon site is about the leak tests. They use helium to test the envelope for leaks.
There is also many references talking about hot air balloons for the Loon project. This is pretty confusing. It seems in its early phase the project used helium. Someone can provide an authoritative answer and reference about this project? Wikipedia doesn't fit the bill. It refers to an article for the helium thing, however you can also find many ones on tech magazines refering to hot air.
Why do you say they are not hot air balloons? The article is pretty clear they are. You quote do not say otherwise.
RTFA, these balloons are HOT AIR balloons, no helium is involved.
That is a good one. Sometimes, managers are having too many projects to manage at once and are experiencing the exact same problem as lead developers. They have to switch context so often they lose completely the focus when time comes to a particular project.
Usually, when a position post description mention: "must work well under pressure", "must be able to multi-task", "seeking for rockstar developer", etc; you can be sure you don't want to work there. It is symptomatic of a shop which operates without enough staff and on low budget expecting miracles to come out from the process.
Interesting, however there is still a possibility these women are under pressure to step back from the initial accusations given the reaction of Julian Assange's supporters. This kind of game is played by both sides. Plots are not unidirectional, if any.
You bet! It is pretty much stupid they could have conceived the idea they have some sort of right to decide how the Harvard's investments portfolios should be managed.
That's what makes it profitable.