There are many places where it is hard to find good math / STEM teachers. Here in Denmark, my kids make some of their math homework on a website, but it could be SOOO much better. A website which adapts it speed to the pupil, and turns out a nice daily report for the teacher showing where he needs to put focus in class... School is definitely THE area where automation is still in its infancy...
Now, I'm not a massive climate-change-will-kill-the-planet believer
That is what everybody gets wrong. Climate change will not kill the planet, not even the eco system. It might however very well kill us. (Or most of us)
but the routing tables once more become more complicated. Shit starts slowing down, there is more room for mistakes in BGP.
With all the routers having to do more calculations a gazillion times a day, shit starts using more power.
That is right: our refusal to move to IPV6 is increasing our emission of greenhouse gasses
My thermostat will never be connected to anything and does not need an end of life thank you very much. And I want to see the manager who will approve buying this kind of stuff.
For a cabled connection to your desktop, GB ethernet is probably more than you will ever need. How many HD movies can you see at the same time anyway? Is 5G not going to hit the same barrier? Sure there will be some niche applications, but John Doe doesn't need to be able to download an entire movie in 10 seconds. He definitely doesn't need to be able to use his "unlimited data" for a whole month in under a minute.
If production is 10 years from now, we will have hit the concrete wall by then. 2.5 million scans per second is not going to get processed by a 10$ chip. It will be interesting to see how the end of Moore's law will affect this and similar projects.
The bridge is also subject of a brilliant TV series featuring a Swedish detective with some serious Asperger issues. Pure Nerd material! (And yes, this is the original, the french/british and the american/mexican ones are the knock-offs).
Open Streetmap has (where I live) much better cycling maps than any other. Offline, so no data charges. OSMAND (for android) is free as in beer, and gives you spoken instructions in the language of your choice. And if your favorite track is not on the map, it is very satisfying to draw it yourself and share it with the community.
Safe nuclear power is not a technical problem. It is a political problem. In Fukushima, the authorities knew the generators were crap. So the debate gets a third angle: do you trust the engineers? Well maybe. But do you trust the politicians?
Many eurotrash countries have a stiff government finger in the HV transmission soup, which means their investments might be based on something other than "cheapest stuff that probably won't cause global meltdown in next quarter". I live in Denmark and have had one 10 minutes power cut in the last 5 years.
At one job I spent a lot of time trying to circumvent the helpdesk. Did you know that if network policy forbids you to have automated login after a reboot, you can still do it? Just make a script that sets the correct registry keys, and use the feature where you can run scripts on computer shutdown. The network won't have time to overwrite the registry again. Even the power saving settings of the computer were "administrator only", and we had hundreds of PCs displaying flashy screensavers all night long, because the users didn't want to wait for startup in the morning. Rule no 1: if you forbid something, make sure you have a really good explanation why.
..and often end up in situations where I am using multiple at once. The big problem there is to keep track of which language to speak to whom, not the speaking itself. Switching languages can be harder that speaking them. My guess is the picture of the great wall makes these people flipflop languages in their head.
Been there. Close to the central square, there is a street that is quite steep. To prevent the unavoidable car crashes in winter, they simply heat the asphalt. I guess they could use datacenter heat right there.. Once you get out of the city center, it has beautiful nature..
Best to have a diversified diet. The government needs to do only 2 things: don't subsidize, and make sure every energy form pays for its REAL cost. And that means one motherfucking hefty CO2 tax, and a big piggy bank full of money next to every nuclear plant to pay for dismantling when the time comes.
And in every single Fucking IPV6 discussion this comes up again. Using NAT as a safety is like removing your wheels as a brake. A better solution exists; it is called a firewall. Look it up! Instead of biting the bullet and going IPV6, we are adding layer upon layer of crap and "optimisations" which are hard to maintain and hard to learn. And a billion chinese smartphones, you gonna NAT them as well? The only future of NAT is as a (very long term) transition protocol running in parallel with IPV6. I want my home PC on IPV6, and my smart-TV can then download updates over NAT. Unfortunately I can't get that here in Denmark (yet).
Corrected that for you. My brother is a DA working a lot with international financial crime. Ask the Letvian Police to block a bank-account and it is done within half an hour. Ask the brits and after 2 weeks you get an email back asking if your country support human rights. (And my brother works in Brussels!!!) The city is a no-go area for the police. These bankers can kill each other with machine guns and nobody will ask questions.
India is keeping its ennemies close. The nukes are foremost to keep Pakistan and China under control. Why the heck are they devellooping ICBM capability? Thy really just need to be able to lob them far enough over the border...
OSM is great, it beats Google in my part of the world, and I find drawing bike-tracks a very relaxing alternative to Solitaire. But right now the level of detail I can add to my neighborhood is really limited by the rendering engine. JOSM has a nice plugin for turnlanes, for example, but they don't show up on the map. JOSM shows icons for a carwash, but hese don't make it to the final map either.
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There are many places where it is hard to find good math / STEM teachers. Here in Denmark, my kids make some of their math homework on a website, but it could be SOOO much better. A website which adapts it speed to the pupil, and turns out a nice daily report for the teacher showing where he needs to put focus in class... School is definitely THE area where automation is still in its infancy...
Now, I'm not a massive climate-change-will-kill-the-planet believer
That is what everybody gets wrong. Climate change will not kill the planet, not even the eco system. It might however very well kill us. (Or most of us)
but the routing tables once more become more complicated. Shit starts slowing down, there is more room for mistakes in BGP. With all the routers having to do more calculations a gazillion times a day, shit starts using more power. That is right: our refusal to move to IPV6 is increasing our emission of greenhouse gasses
My thermostat will never be connected to anything and does not need an end of life thank you very much. And I want to see the manager who will approve buying this kind of stuff.
For a cabled connection to your desktop, GB ethernet is probably more than you will ever need. How many HD movies can you see at the same time anyway? Is 5G not going to hit the same barrier? Sure there will be some niche applications, but John Doe doesn't need to be able to download an entire movie in 10 seconds. He definitely doesn't need to be able to use his "unlimited data" for a whole month in under a minute.
If production is 10 years from now, we will have hit the concrete wall by then. 2.5 million scans per second is not going to get processed by a 10$ chip. It will be interesting to see how the end of Moore's law will affect this and similar projects.
But the Fins will pass the traffic on to the Germans...
The bridge is also subject of a brilliant TV series featuring a Swedish detective with some serious Asperger issues. Pure Nerd material! (And yes, this is the original, the french/british and the american/mexican ones are the knock-offs).
Here in Denmark bags cost 40 p (3.5 DKK, 0.5 €). I can assure you you start thinking twice before throwing 3 on the belt!
Open Streetmap has (where I live) much better cycling maps than any other. Offline, so no data charges. OSMAND (for android) is free as in beer, and gives you spoken instructions in the language of your choice. And if your favorite track is not on the map, it is very satisfying to draw it yourself and share it with the community.
Safe nuclear power is not a technical problem. It is a political problem. In Fukushima, the authorities knew the generators were crap. So the debate gets a third angle: do you trust the engineers? Well maybe. But do you trust the politicians?
Does that make them "freedom exploits"?
I'm a foreigner. I had the honor to be subjected to both your border guard and TSA. I wouldn't trust them with a fucking fruitcake.
...burning hydrocarbon is the energy source where the biggest part of the cost is payed for by society. Here, fixed that for ya!
Many eurotrash countries have a stiff government finger in the HV transmission soup, which means their investments might be based on something other than "cheapest stuff that probably won't cause global meltdown in next quarter". I live in Denmark and have had one 10 minutes power cut in the last 5 years.
Brilliant! Instant porn versions of all masterpieces! My kingdom to be hung like a horse!
Better Place, a chain of battry swap stations in Denmark, just went bankrupt.
http://green.autoblog.com/category/better-place/
At one job I spent a lot of time trying to circumvent the helpdesk. Did you know that if network policy forbids you to have automated login after a reboot, you can still do it? Just make a script that sets the correct registry keys, and use the feature where you can run scripts on computer shutdown. The network won't have time to overwrite the registry again. Even the power saving settings of the computer were "administrator only", and we had hundreds of PCs displaying flashy screensavers all night long, because the users didn't want to wait for startup in the morning. Rule no 1: if you forbid something, make sure you have a really good explanation why.
..and often end up in situations where I am using multiple at once. The big problem there is to keep track of which language to speak to whom, not the speaking itself. Switching languages can be harder that speaking them. My guess is the picture of the great wall makes these people flipflop languages in their head.
Been there. Close to the central square, there is a street that is quite steep. To prevent the unavoidable car crashes in winter, they simply heat the asphalt. I guess they could use datacenter heat right there.. Once you get out of the city center, it has beautiful nature..
Best to have a diversified diet. The government needs to do only 2 things: don't subsidize, and make sure every energy form pays for its REAL cost. And that means one motherfucking hefty CO2 tax, and a big piggy bank full of money next to every nuclear plant to pay for dismantling when the time comes.
And in every single Fucking IPV6 discussion this comes up again. Using NAT as a safety is like removing your wheels as a brake. A better solution exists; it is called a firewall. Look it up! Instead of biting the bullet and going IPV6, we are adding layer upon layer of crap and "optimisations" which are hard to maintain and hard to learn. And a billion chinese smartphones, you gonna NAT them as well? The only future of NAT is as a (very long term) transition protocol running in parallel with IPV6. I want my home PC on IPV6, and my smart-TV can then download updates over NAT. Unfortunately I can't get that here in Denmark (yet).
Corrected that for you. My brother is a DA working a lot with international financial crime. Ask the Letvian Police to block a bank-account and it is done within half an hour. Ask the brits and after 2 weeks you get an email back asking if your country support human rights. (And my brother works in Brussels!!!) The city is a no-go area for the police. These bankers can kill each other with machine guns and nobody will ask questions.
India is keeping its ennemies close. The nukes are foremost to keep Pakistan and China under control. Why the heck are they devellooping ICBM capability? Thy really just need to be able to lob them far enough over the border...
OSM is great, it beats Google in my part of the world, and I find drawing bike-tracks a very relaxing alternative to Solitaire. But right now the level of detail I can add to my neighborhood is really limited by the rendering engine. JOSM has a nice plugin for turnlanes, for example, but they don't show up on the map. JOSM shows icons for a carwash, but hese don't make it to the final map either.