Autonomous cars are cool though because they require no connected political reform, just put all the drivers and cabbies out of work (yey!), and save everyone an hour or so per day (double yey!).
Welcome to 1904.
The Wobs may have been too militant for their own success, but they well understood the nature of the battle. IT and business/knowlege workers today are facing the exactly the same threats to their enjoyment of life now, and will need to decide how to respond or be overwhelmed.
Where the machine is put in, some of the workers move out. One worker with a machine, or a small working force with machinery, will produce more goods than a large working force with hand tools. So that machinery displaces laborers. This is the feature of machinery that secures its installation in industry. But machinery does more than merely throw workmen out of jobs, it renders the versatile skill of the craftsman unnecessary. So the machines have won their way into every industry, and wherever they went less labor was required until eventually the aggregate of these surplus laborers grew to such proportions that there came into existence what is known as the army of unemployed.
At first the unemployed were largely of the mechanical trades, but the invention of new mechanical devices, and the improvement of machinery, which has been going on, has reduced the unemployed to a working class contingent in which the unskilled workers predominate.
Ask the average worker what relation machine production has to unemployment, and you will find that he is unaware of the fact that machinery will explain unemployment. Yet this fact, which is potent enough to be self-evident, is a mystery to the average unionist, let alone to the average working man and woman. The unemployed, even after many experiences, on the average only understand that "the job was shut down" by the boss. It is accepted that the employer has an unquestioned right to shut down industry, regardless of the social consequences.
Check out the Gruen Transfer's videos. They ran with this idea a few weeks ago and asked two Australian ad agencies to compete for the production of the best ad to support ASIO spying on Australians,
Ingenic make a few interesting MIPS devices - the iPPea TV http://www.ippea.com/ is a $50 Android thumb drive computer that can be modded to run Debian chroot. They also supplied the SoCs for the Ainol Novo 7 MIPS tablets.
W3schools, which you cited, is in no way associated with W3C.
Thanks for the clarification, much appreciated.
Though it's even more saddening to read W3C's vision on their own site:
Vision
W3C's vision for the Web involves participation, sharing knowledge, and thereby building trust on a global scale. The Web was invented as a communications tool intended to allow anyone, anywhere to share information.
Driverless cars will not do very well in the winter.
They'll drive better than people in the winter.
Snow on the car image sensors will make the car blind.
That's possible, but I suspect Google engineers would be able to rig up some sort of wiper system... Sarcasm aside, they'll be able to use far better snow clearing systems than we can now, with spinning lenses, lasers etc that would be impossible to implement with human drivers.
Ice on the road will be nearly impossible for the car to distinguish.
Road ice is clearly visible using infrared thermometry, but not in visible light. The car will see it more clearly than you will.
I wish I could be more optimistic but driverless cars will be as useful as google glass appears to be.
Both of these things are taking their first tottering steps down what looks like a very long path. They are enabling technologies that will change as our society works out how we want to use them.
The W3C's says themselves that their reason for existence is to standardize the Web to be "accessible to all users (despite differences in culture, education, ability, resources, and physical limitations)" http://www.w3schools.com/w3c/w3c_intro.asp
The reason for DRM's existence is to limit web content to those users who have the money (resources) to pay for it.
W3C's endorsement of DRM is antithetical to W3C's own clearly stated values, and shows that they are no longer a fit group to determine web standards. So yes, as you say by doing this, they have ruined their reputation.
Has W3C jumped the shark?
"Jumping the shark" is an idiom that describes the moment when a brand, design, or creative effort's evolution loses the essential qualities that initially defined its success and begins its decline into irrelevance.
So yes, since W3C has lost the "essential qualities that initially defined its success" as a result of their decision to endorse an internet segregated by wealth, they have clearly met the criteria to be shark jumpers.
DRM's purpose is to limit web content to those users who have the money (resources) to pay for it.
Their endorsement of DRM is antithetical to W3C's own clearly stated values, and shows that they are no longer a fit group to determine web standards. If anything, the "rhetoric" should be scaled up until they retract their approval of a restrictive internet.
"Tens of thousands of Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) Surface tablets with Windows RT, a device the channel has yet to see, are being sold at deeply discounted prices or simply given away to teachers and schools over the next month, prompting some to question if Microsoft's recent price slashing has more to do with unloading inventory than with pushing into the education vertical. "
http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/240157205/microsoft-surface-rt-dumping-inventory-or-investing-in-education.htm
The first is an "everywhere, forever" statistic.
The second is a "United States in Q2 2013" statistic.
Phablets are big in Asia-Pacific
Large-screen phones prove hugely popular in India, China and other countries - creating challenge for Apple as it contemplates next iPhone release. "Phablets", the large-screened phones with screen sizes of between 5in and 7in diagonally, sold as well as tablets and laptops combined in the Asia-Pacific region during the second quarter, says research company IDC.
Excellent point. Apple hints, companies shoot their wad, consumers are "yawn",
Except Apple aren't king of the hill any more, they have less than 20% of the smartphone market.
And they've repeatedly missed the boat on what smartphone buyers really want. Copy-paste, big screens, folders, notifications, etc etc.
Of late, Apple has done well at recognising a game-changing technology (1.8" HDDs, capacitative screens etc) early and releasing a niche-defining product based on it before everyone else. They can then ride the first mover advantage into the growth phase of the category.
That's not the situation with smart watches. There has been a steady trickle of smart watches on the market since the '80s, and I have no doubt there'll be (some) demand for a good one. But Apple be playing in a far more aware field and will have to take their chances just like anybody else.
Chair throwing apps are fine, it was the Ballmer/Zune RIM squirting app that made people sicker than a landlubber with a white iPhone running iOS7 on a fermented herring boat in a typhoon...
Then slap my wrist and call me presumptuous. I've had to sit through that movie more than once, and it most definitely IS a chick-flick.
Of course, that isn't a bad thing, but most of us testicle wearers would find it hard to remain interested for any longer than it took to show moral support to our SOs.
At a supposed price of $327, and as an unlocked android phone, I'd say this is pretty stiff competition for the Nexus 4.
Xiaomi should be scaring the pants of established phone makers. Their Hongmi (Red Rice) phone has a quad-core 1.2Ghz SoC with 4.7-inch 312ppi IPS display and is selling for $130. Even at that price, it looks like they'll have healthy profit margins - TrendForce says their BOM is only $85.
Level 0 is called "deviation", an event with no safety concern.
"TOKYO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean up of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
The storage tank breach of about 300 tonnes of water is separate from contaminated water leaks reported in recent weeks, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Tuesday.
The latest leak is so contaminated that a person standing half a metre (1 ft 8 inches) away would, within an hour, receive a radiation dose five times the average annual global limit for nuclear workers.
After 10 hours, a worker in that proximity to the leak would develop radiation sickness with symptoms including nausea and a drop in white blood cells.
"That is a huge amount of radiation. The situation is getting worse," said Michiaki Furukawa, who is professor emeritus at Nagoya University and a nuclear chemist."
Why would you consider information about a radioactive leak which includes very bio-active beta-emitters to be FUD? The BBC article from TFA doesn't even identify bioaccumulation as the biggest risk factor in this current leak, despite strontium 90 being one of the beta emitters detected in the puddles.
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Autonomous cars are cool though because they require no connected political reform, just put all the drivers and cabbies out of work (yey!), and save everyone an hour or so per day (double yey!).
Welcome to 1904.
The Wobs may have been too militant for their own success, but they well understood the nature of the battle. IT and business/knowlege workers today are facing the exactly the same threats to their enjoyment of life now, and will need to decide how to respond or be overwhelmed.
Where the machine is put in, some of the workers move out. One worker with a machine, or a small working force with machinery, will produce more goods than a large working force with hand tools. So that machinery displaces laborers. This is the feature of machinery that secures its installation in industry. But machinery does more than merely throw workmen out of jobs, it renders the versatile skill of the craftsman unnecessary. So the machines have won their way into every industry, and wherever they went less labor was required until eventually the aggregate of these surplus laborers grew to such proportions that there came into existence what is known as the army of unemployed.
At first the unemployed were largely of the mechanical trades, but the invention of new mechanical devices, and the improvement of machinery, which has been going on, has reduced the unemployed to a working class contingent in which the unskilled workers predominate.
Ask the average worker what relation machine production has to unemployment, and you will find that he is unaware of the fact that machinery will explain unemployment. Yet this fact, which is potent enough to be self-evident, is a mystery to the average unionist, let alone to the average working man and woman. The unemployed, even after many experiences, on the average only understand that "the job was shut down" by the boss. It is accepted that the employer has an unquestioned right to shut down industry, regardless of the social consequences.
http://www.iww.org/history/library/iww/isandisnt/6
Autonomous cars are tangential to the conflict, but apportioning the benefits they will bring will require political reform.
Ideas to sell this?
Check out the Gruen Transfer's videos. They ran with this idea a few weeks ago and asked two Australian ad agencies to compete for the production of the best ad to support ASIO spying on Australians,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JinOn0fu-u0
Hi, ho Silver...
Ingenic make a few interesting MIPS devices - the iPPea TV http://www.ippea.com/ is a $50 Android thumb drive computer that can be modded to run Debian chroot. They also supplied the SoCs for the Ainol Novo 7 MIPS tablets.
I *guarantee* that far fewer people copied those Atari cartridges than copied music, even if you normalize for the market size.
I wouldn't bet on that - my memory says that most of the 2600 carts I saw on people's shelves were pirated multicarts from Asia or South America.
The person who is at fault or negligent, I presume.
W3schools, which you cited, is in no way associated with W3C.
Thanks for the clarification, much appreciated.
Though it's even more saddening to read W3C's vision on their own site:
Vision
W3C's vision for the Web involves participation, sharing knowledge, and thereby building trust on a global scale. The Web was invented as a communications tool intended to allow anyone, anywhere to share information.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission#principles
I guess they'll need to amend it to "Trust anyone who has the cash, share with anyone who has enough money."
Driverless cars will not do very well in the winter.
They'll drive better than people in the winter.
Snow on the car image sensors will make the car blind.
That's possible, but I suspect Google engineers would be able to rig up some sort of wiper system... Sarcasm aside, they'll be able to use far better snow clearing systems than we can now, with spinning lenses, lasers etc that would be impossible to implement with human drivers.
Ice on the road will be nearly impossible for the car to distinguish.
Road ice is clearly visible using infrared thermometry, but not in visible light. The car will see it more clearly than you will.
I wish I could be more optimistic but driverless cars will be as useful as google glass appears to be.
Both of these things are taking their first tottering steps down what looks like a very long path. They are enabling technologies that will change as our society works out how we want to use them.
How long before W3C's reputation is ruined?
The W3C's says themselves that their reason for existence is to standardize the Web to be "accessible to all users (despite differences in culture, education, ability, resources, and physical limitations)" http://www.w3schools.com/w3c/w3c_intro.asp
The reason for DRM's existence is to limit web content to those users who have the money (resources) to pay for it.
W3C's endorsement of DRM is antithetical to W3C's own clearly stated values, and shows that they are no longer a fit group to determine web standards. So yes, as you say by doing this, they have ruined their reputation.
Has W3C jumped the shark?
"Jumping the shark" is an idiom that describes the moment when a brand, design, or creative effort's evolution loses the essential qualities that initially defined its success and begins its decline into irrelevance.
So yes, since W3C has lost the "essential qualities that initially defined its success" as a result of their decision to endorse an internet segregated by wealth, they have clearly met the criteria to be shark jumpers.
Adding something to an open standard is "selling out"? WTF? Calm down and get a sense of perspective before posting these stories,
The W3C's stated purpose is:
"Standardizing the Web
W3C is working to make the Web accessible to all users (despite differences in culture, education, ability, resources, and physical limitations)"
http://www.w3schools.com/w3c/w3c_intro.asp
DRM's purpose is to limit web content to those users who have the money (resources) to pay for it.
Their endorsement of DRM is antithetical to W3C's own clearly stated values, and shows that they are no longer a fit group to determine web standards. If anything, the "rhetoric" should be scaled up until they retract their approval of a restrictive internet.
"Tens of thousands of Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) Surface tablets with Windows RT, a device the channel has yet to see, are being sold at deeply discounted prices or simply given away to teachers and schools over the next month, prompting some to question if Microsoft's recent price slashing has more to do with unloading inventory than with pushing into the education vertical.
" http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/240157205/microsoft-surface-rt-dumping-inventory-or-investing-in-education.htm
The first is an "everywhere, forever" statistic.
The second is a "United States in Q2 2013" statistic.
Phablets are big in Asia-Pacific
Large-screen phones prove hugely popular in India, China and other countries - creating challenge for Apple as it contemplates next iPhone release. "Phablets", the large-screened phones with screen sizes of between 5in and 7in diagonally, sold as well as tablets and laptops combined in the Asia-Pacific region during the second quarter, says research company IDC.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/02/phablets-asia-pacific-tablets-laptops-growth
20% of the market and probably 50% of the profits
Samsung Dethrones Apple in Smartphone Profits
Apple has fallen off the profit throne.
Last quarter, Samsung Electronics made more money selling handsets than Apple for the first time.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/07/26/samsung-dethrones-apple-in-smartphone-profits/
90% of all Androids(!) are sold with screens of 4" or less.
Vs
Android Buyers Have an Appetite for Huge Screens
55 percent of Android smartphones sold in the United States in Q2 2013 were equipped with screens larger than 4.5 inches in diagonal.
http://www.statista.com/topics/840/smartphones/chart/1396/android-phone-sales-by-screen-size/
Who should I believe?
Excellent point. Apple hints, companies shoot their wad, consumers are "yawn",
Except Apple aren't king of the hill any more, they have less than 20% of the smartphone market.
And they've repeatedly missed the boat on what smartphone buyers really want. Copy-paste, big screens, folders, notifications, etc etc.
Of late, Apple has done well at recognising a game-changing technology (1.8" HDDs, capacitative screens etc) early and releasing a niche-defining product based on it before everyone else. They can then ride the first mover advantage into the growth phase of the category.
That's not the situation with smart watches. There has been a steady trickle of smart watches on the market since the '80s, and I have no doubt there'll be (some) demand for a good one. But Apple be playing in a far more aware field and will have to take their chances just like anybody else.
comes pre-loaded with chair throwing app!
Chair throwing apps are fine, it was the Ballmer/Zune RIM squirting app that made people sicker than a landlubber with a white iPhone running iOS7 on a fermented herring boat in a typhoon...
That could explain a lot about both Parkinson's and Tourette's...
I wonder if they realise a significant proportion of humanity have internal clocks based on a lunar cycle?
I can't recall where I saw that stated, and I have no idea how that would work.
It was a potential exploit on Intel's Ivy Bridge RNGs, and it wouldn't work on Linux, as /dev/random etc mix RDRAND with many other sources of entropy.
Only in New Zealand.
The land of the long white cloud and chocolate fush.
Of course, that isn't a bad thing, but most of us testicle wearers would find it hard to remain interested for any longer than it took to show moral support to our SOs.
At a supposed price of $327, and as an unlocked android phone, I'd say this is pretty stiff competition for the Nexus 4.
Xiaomi should be scaring the pants of established phone makers. Their Hongmi (Red Rice) phone has a quad-core 1.2Ghz SoC with 4.7-inch 312ppi IPS display and is selling for $130. Even at that price, it looks like they'll have healthy profit margins - TrendForce says their BOM is only $85.
http://www.slashgear.com/chinese-xiaomi-red-rice-smartphone-has-85-bom-30295442/
I wish I could get a Nokia one.
It's going to be called the "Nokia Sirius". I get the dog bit, but where does the star come in?
http://www.zdnet.com/lumia-tablets-surface-phablets-microsofts-tricky-new-post-nokia-positioning-challenges-7000020179/
Level 0 is called "deviation", an event with no safety concern.
"TOKYO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean up of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
The storage tank breach of about 300 tonnes of water is separate from contaminated water leaks reported in recent weeks, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Tuesday.
The latest leak is so contaminated that a person standing half a metre (1 ft 8 inches) away would, within an hour, receive a radiation dose five times the average annual global limit for nuclear workers. After 10 hours, a worker in that proximity to the leak would develop radiation sickness with symptoms including nausea and a drop in white blood cells.
"That is a huge amount of radiation. The situation is getting worse," said Michiaki Furukawa, who is professor emeritus at Nagoya University and a nuclear chemist."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/20/japan-fukushima-leak-idUSL4N0GL16I20130820
Not nearly as reactive as this FUD however.
Interesting choice of words.
Why would you consider information about a radioactive leak which includes very bio-active beta-emitters to be FUD? The BBC article from TFA doesn't even identify bioaccumulation as the biggest risk factor in this current leak, despite strontium 90 being one of the beta emitters detected in the puddles.