Likely they will start with some African or Asian nation that they can push around, while finding ways to break the back of the Euro and NA nations financially.
Indeed. The biggest corporations are babied into sizes that if allowed to fail, is likely to bring down a national economy or two along with them (some of their yearly gross is larger then the GDP of the worlds poorer nations). The core problem is twofold, a economic "science" that is cult like in its behavior, and a revolving door between regulators and the regulated.
If one look at how certain buses and such are set up, the distinction between computer and network becomes very blurred. The largest distinction will be the latency between a local and remote component.
Oh so very much this. Corporations are less and less aligned with a specific nation. I just wonder how long before one or more of them try to declare their properties as sovereign territory, styled on the legal framework of embassies.
I wonder if it is an effect of leadership coming in with MBAs or economist educations of the neoclassical kind, as the cut sounds like some textbook move that is basically divorced from reality.
Then again, IBM iron is not as much sold as rented. As such, IBM is to big iron what Apple is to computers. The OS is just there to sell the hardware. I wonder if IBM would pay MS to port Windows if that was what their market wanted.
And then the next time you fail to respond to a call or mail in time, the manager may put your name at the top of the list for the cost cutting process.
"Therefore the liquid oxygen supply used for the environmental control system was eliminated, and with it the oxygen cart and its associated technician and logistics tail."
Meh, i don't think the punk part of cyberpunk was ever about the music and fashion.
I think we find a clearer meaning of it in "the street finds its one use for things". This in that kids with a lot of smarts, and not much fear of the authorities beaten into them, will take technology and use it in ways never intended by the powers that be.
My understanding is that making a profit on the Apple App Store is a crap shot these days. Unless your some big name outside the store or get mentioned on some top 10 list your just another sardine in the school. The software business has always been like that. Pages like download.com are overflowing with various "me too" programs.
A human invention that by now stress test the central nervous system to the limit every day. We humans get tunnel vision just by running. Driving a car or similar puts us several magnitudes above that. Thankfully nature appear to have provided us with a serious case of belt and suspenders in the sensory department, or we would see a lot more deaths out there.
During these times i find myself wondering about having some kind of shared taxi system that will reroute depending on available capacity and such. Provide a destination when ordering a pickup, wait for the transport to arrive, pay and take a seat. Basically an attempt at combining the best of taxi and bus.
I find myself wondering if the difference between software failure and mechanical failure (observe the early British passenger jet that broke apart because of sharply cornered windows) is the added element of decision making. The mechanics are all dumb as a brick, move forward, move back, flex this way but not that way. And it stays that way. But code is "smart" in that it changes behavior based on conditions. Sure it may remove human error from the "checklist". But if the code throws up its metaphorical arms on a task, the humans need time to figure out what is going on before taking action themselves. And time is rarely something one have in abundance at those moments.
There is also the issue of going from mechanical to fly by wire, and the loss of feedback that entails.
AF477 Seemed to have gone down because one pilot reflexively pulled back on the stick (a side stick not unlike a computer game joystick, not the big thing between the pilots legs one is used to seeing in movies and such) to try and get out of the storm, while thinking the computer would not allow him to stall the aircraft. Because the stick do not have a feedback system, there was no movement of the other pilots stick. Nor was there any resistance when he pushed this stick forward to bring the nose down.
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I said based on, not that it would be embassies directly.
Then again, being a recognized state can probably be arranged if one give the right incentives...
Likely they will start with some African or Asian nation that they can push around, while finding ways to break the back of the Euro and NA nations financially.
Indeed. The biggest corporations are babied into sizes that if allowed to fail, is likely to bring down a national economy or two along with them (some of their yearly gross is larger then the GDP of the worlds poorer nations). The core problem is twofold, a economic "science" that is cult like in its behavior, and a revolving door between regulators and the regulated.
Not that PowerPC is the same as the Power cpu used in them big beasts.
If one look at how certain buses and such are set up, the distinction between computer and network becomes very blurred. The largest distinction will be the latency between a local and remote component.
Oh so very much this. Corporations are less and less aligned with a specific nation. I just wonder how long before one or more of them try to declare their properties as sovereign territory, styled on the legal framework of embassies.
The impression i have gotten of Japanese corporate life is that it is a modernized bushido.
Interesting point. I had all but forgotten about the 141, and it seems to never having entered service.
And yes, comparisons do reveal a certain similarity:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Yak-141_3D.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/F-35A_three-view.PNG
The F-35 do have a very different engine design tho.
I wonder if it is an effect of leadership coming in with MBAs or economist educations of the neoclassical kind, as the cut sounds like some textbook move that is basically divorced from reality.
Then again, IBM iron is not as much sold as rented. As such, IBM is to big iron what Apple is to computers. The OS is just there to sell the hardware. I wonder if IBM would pay MS to port Windows if that was what their market wanted.
And then the next time you fail to respond to a call or mail in time, the manager may put your name at the top of the list for the cost cutting process.
Dunno, a recent news in Norway talked about the economic inequality in the nation being similar to the 1950s.
And our economy keep battling "dutch disease", as anything not related to petroleum seems to hold a second class status.
"Therefore the liquid oxygen supply used for the environmental control system was eliminated, and with it the oxygen cart and its associated technician and logistics tail."
Lovely...
Even so there will be legal fees and temporary sales restraints involved before then, costing the competition dearly...
Wikipedia claims that Onstar uses Verizon's mobile network.
Meh, i don't think the punk part of cyberpunk was ever about the music and fashion.
I think we find a clearer meaning of it in "the street finds its one use for things". This in that kids with a lot of smarts, and not much fear of the authorities beaten into them, will take technology and use it in ways never intended by the powers that be.
This, by the way, also applies for corporations.
My understanding is that making a profit on the Apple App Store is a crap shot these days. Unless your some big name outside the store or get mentioned on some top 10 list your just another sardine in the school. The software business has always been like that. Pages like download.com are overflowing with various "me too" programs.
Becoming? Freakin' 1984 ad was a exercise in self-deprecation.
Or the hollywood presentation of secure computing.
A human invention that by now stress test the central nervous system to the limit every day. We humans get tunnel vision just by running. Driving a car or similar puts us several magnitudes above that. Thankfully nature appear to have provided us with a serious case of belt and suspenders in the sensory department, or we would see a lot more deaths out there.
During these times i find myself wondering about having some kind of shared taxi system that will reroute depending on available capacity and such. Provide a destination when ordering a pickup, wait for the transport to arrive, pay and take a seat. Basically an attempt at combining the best of taxi and bus.
And that is why IT do not install the latest and "greatest" at the drop of a packet.
I find myself wondering if the difference between software failure and mechanical failure (observe the early British passenger jet that broke apart because of sharply cornered windows) is the added element of decision making. The mechanics are all dumb as a brick, move forward, move back, flex this way but not that way. And it stays that way. But code is "smart" in that it changes behavior based on conditions. Sure it may remove human error from the "checklist". But if the code throws up its metaphorical arms on a task, the humans need time to figure out what is going on before taking action themselves. And time is rarely something one have in abundance at those moments.
There is also the issue of going from mechanical to fly by wire, and the loss of feedback that entails.
AF477 Seemed to have gone down because one pilot reflexively pulled back on the stick (a side stick not unlike a computer game joystick, not the big thing between the pilots legs one is used to seeing in movies and such) to try and get out of the storm, while thinking the computer would not allow him to stall the aircraft. Because the stick do not have a feedback system, there was no movement of the other pilots stick. Nor was there any resistance when he pushed this stick forward to bring the nose down.