It would probably also behoove whoever is designing this algorithm to consider items purchased together, assuming that the robot is capable of pulling more than one bin at a time, or if pulling multiple bins from a single shelf or tight physical location to feed to a common conveyor belt makes more sense. Thinking of examples like diapers, diaper wipes, baby shampoo, and baby powder.
I'm honestly a little surprised that it didn't happen sooner. When I was a kid I got to tour a printing press for a newspaper. The bulk of the heavy lifting was done with robotic carts that would automatically go retrieve fresh rolls of paper based on the consumption rate as the newspapers were printed. The robots were able to retrieve rolls from the paper room without those rolls having to be specifically stacked, the robot could find the paper and could mount it onto the special cradle/cart and take it to the printing room, and then with only slight human involvement, mount the roll on the printer.
As specialized as that work is, re-sorting items in a warehouse that are initially sorted into appropriate-sized bins seems like a no-brainer. Worst-case a human has to manually load the bins and then put them onto a conveyor-belt system that finds storage space and parks them, and then when a human fulfills an order the same machine retrieves the correct bins so that the picker can grab what's needed and sort into boxes. In a more highly automated scenario the common bulk items are sorted into bins by machine with only human supervision over multiple simultaneous sorting operations, and even most of the retrieval and picking for shipment is automated and multiple packing operations are simultaneously supervised or spot-checked to ensure that they're fulfilled properly.
Either way, if humans don't need to go into the warehouse storage area then that storage area can be designed with much narrower aisles and much less lighting. It still may be necessary to conduct manual audits of merchandise and obviously maintenance and reconfiguration must be allowed for, but if a warehouse has to shut down quarterly for a day for those tasks then that may still allow for proper worker safety while still making the place run much more efficiently and without as much problem with employee theft or injury.
That's why modern electronics has changed, why the old beige look from the late seventies into about 2002 or so was replaced. Because white robots can't jump.
Sure. And they're bolted to footings that are either piles driven into the earth or are poured reinforced concrete.
It's reasonable to consider standardizing on a mounting system for the pylons so that most pylons could mount to most bases. It's also reasonable to maintain pylon and blade maintenance equipment with a ratio of so many generators to a set of maintenance equipment, so that large plants will have the necessary equipment on-hand and smaller plants in close geography may share a set. If the foundations are designed properly they could support multiple generations of individual windmills. Drive up, set up, idle the windmill, remove the blades and lower them down to cart them off, remove the generator room, lower it down, cart it off. Secure to the pylon and free it from the foundation, lower it down, cart it off. You're looking at a few days or weeks depending on weather conditions and planning.
...and really, most products should get terrible marks to start with.
This is in many ways what IIHS did, that compelled the auto industry to make ever safer cars. The NHTSA crash testing is so hobbied by laws designed to make it ineffective that it took the insurance companies, tired of paying out claims for AD&D to embarrass car makers into making safer cars.
I have a feeling that if Consumer Reports isn't successful, increasing payouts by insurance companies when breaches occur might be.
Not really. She basically only uses Facebook to look at what a few family members post from time to time. She's taken all non-family out entirely. Even with this scant usage she's still annoyed with it and is considering dropping it altogether.
indoor and outdoor air pollution, second-hand smoke, unsafe water, lack of sanitation, and inadequate hygiene
This last one doesn't seem like it really fits in with the others too well. Certainly impoverished people may not necessarily be able to afford the chemicals needed for good hygiene, or they might lack the education to know why hygiene is important, but impoverished people in countries with good anti-pollution policies and with otherwise strong economies may also have problems with hygiene and possibly for the same reasons.
For the rest, everyone wants to set up their walled-garden and to find a way to make money from people entering through the gate. That's been the way it is long before Facebook was a thing.
But it's not a consequence of Facebook, I've never had an account. It's more likely because I managed to settle down and get married so I don't need to go out to look for that sort of companionship anymore. The friendships that I have now are stronger than those with the acquaintances within the various scenes that I participated in as well, so while I may not socialize as much, when I do I get more meaning from it as it's not mere pleasantries or superficial trappings.
Where is that latency introduced in the system though? As far as I know, a lot of that is due to the digital television signal being received and then processed from packet data back into a picture again, which was not a problem with analog signals like NTSC.
Across an MPLS network to a remote facility, Four hops away of equipment that I touch, unknown number of devices for the MPLS provider, the end-device is 100BaseTX:
~$ ping 10.8.4.101 PING 10.8.4.101 (10.8.4.101) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.8.4.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=1.04 ms 64 bytes from 10.8.4.101: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=1.00 ms 64 bytes from 10.8.4.101: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=0.970 ms 64 bytes from 10.8.4.101: icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=1.01 ms 64 bytes from 10.8.4.101: icmp_seq=5 ttl=60 time=1.02 ms 64 bytes from 10.8.4.101: icmp_seq=6 ttl=60 time=1.05 ms ^C --- 10.8.4.101 ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5006ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.970/1.019/1.058/0.046 ms
Across another MPLS network, this time a colocated facility six hops away, including a crappy as hell mode-conditioning link because 2500' of multimode direct-bury fiber is expensive to replace:
~$ ping 10.8.21.102 PING 10.8.21.102 (10.8.21.102) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.8.21.102: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=1.26 ms 64 bytes from 10.8.21.102: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=1.22 ms 64 bytes from 10.8.21.102: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=1.22 ms 64 bytes from 10.8.21.102: icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=1.16 ms 64 bytes from 10.8.21.102: icmp_seq=5 ttl=60 time=1.21 ms 64 bytes from 10.8.21.102: icmp_seq=6 ttl=60 time=1.28 ms ^C --- 10.8.21.102 ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5006ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.163/1.230/1.286/0.044 ms
Tell us again how LAN latency would even be a factor.
You do know that javascript, java, and flash exploits are still a thing, right?
I would not be surprised if the FBI has learned of an exploit for one of these or in the Tor implementation itself, and has chosen to not disclose it because they can continue to use it for parallel-construction cases, or because their knowledge of it came from another agency that still wants to use it for international crimes.
Well, if you go into the Amazon unprepared you'll almost certainly die. If you go into the Amazon prepared, you still have a fairly significant risk of dying.
I would not be surprised if going to the Moon is a lot like that. Unfortunately none of those Amazon women are actually on the Moon, especially since Phil Spektor murdered one of them.
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It would probably also behoove whoever is designing this algorithm to consider items purchased together, assuming that the robot is capable of pulling more than one bin at a time, or if pulling multiple bins from a single shelf or tight physical location to feed to a common conveyor belt makes more sense. Thinking of examples like diapers, diaper wipes, baby shampoo, and baby powder.
Heh. I would like to see a defrag process run upon such a warehouse. I expect it would look something like playing Freecell...
I'm honestly a little surprised that it didn't happen sooner. When I was a kid I got to tour a printing press for a newspaper. The bulk of the heavy lifting was done with robotic carts that would automatically go retrieve fresh rolls of paper based on the consumption rate as the newspapers were printed. The robots were able to retrieve rolls from the paper room without those rolls having to be specifically stacked, the robot could find the paper and could mount it onto the special cradle/cart and take it to the printing room, and then with only slight human involvement, mount the roll on the printer.
As specialized as that work is, re-sorting items in a warehouse that are initially sorted into appropriate-sized bins seems like a no-brainer. Worst-case a human has to manually load the bins and then put them onto a conveyor-belt system that finds storage space and parks them, and then when a human fulfills an order the same machine retrieves the correct bins so that the picker can grab what's needed and sort into boxes. In a more highly automated scenario the common bulk items are sorted into bins by machine with only human supervision over multiple simultaneous sorting operations, and even most of the retrieval and picking for shipment is automated and multiple packing operations are simultaneously supervised or spot-checked to ensure that they're fulfilled properly.
Either way, if humans don't need to go into the warehouse storage area then that storage area can be designed with much narrower aisles and much less lighting. It still may be necessary to conduct manual audits of merchandise and obviously maintenance and reconfiguration must be allowed for, but if a warehouse has to shut down quarterly for a day for those tasks then that may still allow for proper worker safety while still making the place run much more efficiently and without as much problem with employee theft or injury.
That's why modern electronics has changed, why the old beige look from the late seventies into about 2002 or so was replaced. Because white robots can't jump.
Sure. And they're bolted to footings that are either piles driven into the earth or are poured reinforced concrete.
It's reasonable to consider standardizing on a mounting system for the pylons so that most pylons could mount to most bases. It's also reasonable to maintain pylon and blade maintenance equipment with a ratio of so many generators to a set of maintenance equipment, so that large plants will have the necessary equipment on-hand and smaller plants in close geography may share a set. If the foundations are designed properly they could support multiple generations of individual windmills. Drive up, set up, idle the windmill, remove the blades and lower them down to cart them off, remove the generator room, lower it down, cart it off. Secure to the pylon and free it from the foundation, lower it down, cart it off. You're looking at a few days or weeks depending on weather conditions and planning.
And how do you propose to do that when the party in-power is threatening to do away with departments like the EPA whose job is to regulate this stuff?
Windmills do not work that way!
Or they're just like any other contractor that pays to be on the list. They pay for referrals.
Why? He's supplying enough pressure to keep 'em running his whole presidency.
Then we'll be left with a lot of wind plants, I wonder how they'll be able to afford to provide fuel for them...
No one likes getting locked up, and try getting that out of the upholstery after the surprise of seeing a dragon...
...and really, most products should get terrible marks to start with.
This is in many ways what IIHS did, that compelled the auto industry to make ever safer cars. The NHTSA crash testing is so hobbied by laws designed to make it ineffective that it took the insurance companies, tired of paying out claims for AD&D to embarrass car makers into making safer cars.
I have a feeling that if Consumer Reports isn't successful, increasing payouts by insurance companies when breaches occur might be.
Mmmhmm.
They're trying to establish a distinction between merely watching something and recording it.
Not really. She basically only uses Facebook to look at what a few family members post from time to time. She's taken all non-family out entirely. Even with this scant usage she's still annoyed with it and is considering dropping it altogether.
indoor and outdoor air pollution, second-hand smoke, unsafe water, lack of sanitation, and inadequate hygiene
This last one doesn't seem like it really fits in with the others too well. Certainly impoverished people may not necessarily be able to afford the chemicals needed for good hygiene, or they might lack the education to know why hygiene is important, but impoverished people in countries with good anti-pollution policies and with otherwise strong economies may also have problems with hygiene and possibly for the same reasons.
Isn't this giving people what they want?
It's giving them what they ask for, not what they want. There's a fairly significant difference between the two.
When did Facebook buy-out MySpace?
For the rest, everyone wants to set up their walled-garden and to find a way to make money from people entering through the gate. That's been the way it is long before Facebook was a thing.
Less.
But it's not a consequence of Facebook, I've never had an account. It's more likely because I managed to settle down and get married so I don't need to go out to look for that sort of companionship anymore. The friendships that I have now are stronger than those with the acquaintances within the various scenes that I participated in as well, so while I may not socialize as much, when I do I get more meaning from it as it's not mere pleasantries or superficial trappings.
Uberseeboot, would that be a flying boat?
Where is that latency introduced in the system though? As far as I know, a lot of that is due to the digital television signal being received and then processed from packet data back into a picture again, which was not a problem with analog signals like NTSC.
Across an MPLS network to a remote facility, Four hops away of equipment that I touch, unknown number of devices for the MPLS provider, the end-device is 100BaseTX:
~$ ping 10.8.4.101
PING 10.8.4.101 (10.8.4.101) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.8.4.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=1.04 ms
64 bytes from 10.8.4.101: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=1.00 ms
64 bytes from 10.8.4.101: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=0.970 ms
64 bytes from 10.8.4.101: icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=1.01 ms
64 bytes from 10.8.4.101: icmp_seq=5 ttl=60 time=1.02 ms
64 bytes from 10.8.4.101: icmp_seq=6 ttl=60 time=1.05 ms
^C
--- 10.8.4.101 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.970/1.019/1.058/0.046 ms
Across another MPLS network, this time a colocated facility six hops away, including a crappy as hell mode-conditioning link because 2500' of multimode direct-bury fiber is expensive to replace:
~$ ping 10.8.21.102
PING 10.8.21.102 (10.8.21.102) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.8.21.102: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=1.26 ms
64 bytes from 10.8.21.102: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=1.22 ms
64 bytes from 10.8.21.102: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=1.22 ms
64 bytes from 10.8.21.102: icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=1.16 ms
64 bytes from 10.8.21.102: icmp_seq=5 ttl=60 time=1.21 ms
64 bytes from 10.8.21.102: icmp_seq=6 ttl=60 time=1.28 ms
^C
--- 10.8.21.102 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.163/1.230/1.286/0.044 ms
Tell us again how LAN latency would even be a factor.
You do know that javascript, java, and flash exploits are still a thing, right?
I would not be surprised if the FBI has learned of an exploit for one of these or in the Tor implementation itself, and has chosen to not disclose it because they can continue to use it for parallel-construction cases, or because their knowledge of it came from another agency that still wants to use it for international crimes.
You don't teach calculus to a ten year old. You introduce lessons gradually and as they student is best able to benefit from them.
Damn, and all I received was this space station.
Well, if you go into the Amazon unprepared you'll almost certainly die. If you go into the Amazon prepared, you still have a fairly significant risk of dying.
I would not be surprised if going to the Moon is a lot like that. Unfortunately none of those Amazon women are actually on the Moon, especially since Phil Spektor murdered one of them.