Millions of fast food workers will be replaced in the future by automated burger machines
I'd probably be willing to buy one at 1.5x the normal price if I could watch the manufacturing line make my burger. Even better if there are signs at each station explaining what it is doing and how the interesting part of the station works. for example, how they pick up a lettuce leaf at the condiment station.
Granted it is likely that even an automated burger joint would still need a small number of people, for things like unloading trucks, loading hoppers, fixing the machine when it breaks, cleaning the machine. I suspose i could a floor washing robot for the floors, but cleaning chairs and tables seems like it will be a long way off.
Lots of places are already semi-automated. Next time you are in a McDonalds, pay attention to the fry machine, most only require the human to add fries to a basket, and press a button. I'm not sure why they haven't gone a step farther, and decided to automate putting fires in baskets. they could use historical sales data, current orders, and what ever other info is relevant to adjust fry production so it would match demand very closely and reduce possible waste, and provide a higher quality product to the customer. I.E. hot fries.
some examples of breakage this would likely cause...
UK decides that it would like to have control over *.com. Implements rules for it, and give out www.google.com to Microsoft (they paid more). Now what happens in the USA when I ask the root DNS servers for the IP(s) for www.google.com? Do I sometimes get UK Bing?
If your answer was "simple, each country runs its own namesever!" How do I get to www.bbc.co.uk? Does the BBC have to setup a server in the USA?
Actully what i think should happen is all non-countrycode TLDs should go away. Then we could have a international internet body (IIB) that basically agrees that the only allowed TLDs are country codes and that each country is responsable for maintaing them. *.com would then become *.com.usa *.gov would become *.gov.usa. In Australia they could have *.com.au, and *.gov.au. This would allow each country to have control, and wouldn't break the internet.
Also it could be decided by this IIB that all servers must use the country code of the country they are located in. Recognized countries are the same set that the UN recognizes. So if google wants to setup www.google.bz they would have to have at least a forwarding server in Belize.
I agree with the games thing. There are many ways they could use more CPU/GPU and still be useful. For example when have you seen wind in trees in a game that actually looks like wind in real trees? Trees in games are always some sort of leaf pattern on a plane with holes in it. Any games with a good deform-able environment? How about reflection in water ripples? Bullets that are actually computed using wind and movement of the player? Actual gravity and friction?
As a note, last i knew incandescents were not explicitly banned, bulbs below some lumen/watt were banned. Normal incandescents happened to be below that line.
I will say that the CFLs I finally put in my kitchen fan/lamp have lasted far longer than the weeks to a month the incandescent lasted. I think it's been a few months. The incandescent didn't like the vibrations.
Take a walk to get the mail after getting home from work in January in MN. It was dark around 5PM today here. A minute or two round trip, and you just turned them on in -15F (sometimes down to -35F though that is rare these days) after they had been out for at least 12 hours (if not 24). By the time you get back to the house they have almost gotten to full brightness. A lot of outdoor lighting is short term most of the time around here, motion security lights, mail box runs, taking the dog out, etc.
Anyways, I agree that for shoveling the driveway a CFL would probably work fine as that usually can take double digit minutes.
i wrote a similar thing for mencoder when i ripped all of my DVDs. I was a bit lazier though. It trusts the disk name in the TOC and handled collisions by adding a time stamp.
In my case, the lights on a local hwy are sync'ed for good driving by the city. The issue is that every time you cross city lines (about 4 times in 6 miles) the timing changes again.
I have also heard stories where there was pressure on the city to raise the speed limit from say 45MPH to 50MPH for a bit of road. Well the city gave in and raised the limit, but didn't change the timing. Driving the speed limit will get you stuck at lights, but driving the limit the city wanted it to be will mean lots of greens. There are roads around here where this is the case, 5 under and you hit every light green, so I mostly believe the story.
Please provide the exact text that will show up on each menu/button. ohh right, UEFI did not spec the menu/configuration structure and nameing conventions. So directions for a VENDOR1 may not work for VENDOR2, and worse than that VENDOR1-2012 may not work for VENDOR1-2013.
So yea, that is really the issue here. It's like explaining to someone (who has issues with why Gmail and their computer can have different passwords) how to boot their computer from a USB stick. There is no common layout to BIOS and the same goes for UEFI.
Care to show me the game on the PS3 that will cause the fan to spin up like folding@home would cause? Until you find one, I'll say that none of them are making full use of the hardware.
I agree that mini-ITX isn't as small as a mac mini, but here I am with a 125W AMD CPU (1050T x6) and a GTS450 all shoved into something about the size of 2 loaves of bread. Way more power than the mini as well. Granted it consumes more power than a mini. The idle is around 80W, and full out (FFmpeg doing a h264 encode on 6 threads, and furmark via wine) is somewhere around the 280W range.
So the big thing with Mini-ITX is that it is about as small as you can go and still get a PCIE-16X slot on the board.
How many kW in a battery pack? What charge time would you like the filling station to need? How many kW/h is that? How many batteries would a "gas station" need to change out per day (assume every diver needs to swap every other day on average)? How many kW/h is that total? Assume that 1/2 of those batteries are swapped during the two rush hours and are charged in between, what electrical service does each "gas station" need? (hint, fsking huge).
As for charging yourself, how do you want to wait around a "gas station" while your battery charges? assuming 460/3/60 power, each cable is still huge to get the times down to under 5 minutes, even assuming you could charge modern battery tech that quickly. (sorry I did math all day at work similar to this and my second rum and coke is just not letting me do it now.)
95% of all maintenance Saturn S series parts are the same from 1992-2004. Things like the body panels are not interchangeable between all models, but i suspect a lot of them are (92-97 front ends, and 98 and later front ends). It's really a shame saturn basically packed up in 2004-2005 when they became mostly a GM re-badger.
please remember that google announced that they were working on android before smichdt was on apple's board and the smichdt by all accounts left all iOS/iPhone meetings.
Most of the companies that hold FRAND patents publicly disclose their rates. Samsung's for example is 2.4% of the retail cost of a device. Most FRAND holders will accept a cross license as part or all of the payment depending on what is on offer. As Microsoft really doesn't have any really essential patents in that space they get to pay in cash. Welcome to the world of FRAND patents on communications related things.
Are any of those parties somewhat close together? would you also not feel like you needed to move out of the country if one of them were elected?
Right my issue is that the guy from one of our two major parties is always so bad that I feel compelled to vote for the other major party just to avoid him. So it's not that I vote for the guy i like, but against the guy I dislike most.
Also, why can't i have a no confidence vote, a "yes I voted, but no one gets credit for it".
downtime is solveable by swapping them out on the ground. I agree though, the amount of power required is huge. Efficient electric motors tend to have lots of copper, and copper is heavy.
Can I add to this "The ability to control, as a user, which CDNs are trustworthy, and that there be no way for the app to tell the difference between network failure and an un-trusted CDN."
I want this for a few reasons: 1) There could easily be a 0-day for a picture loading lib. See libjpeg issues from a while back. 2) I don't want to waste my precious cell bandwidth loading your ad. 3) I selfishly don't care about your flashing noisy ad.
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Millions of fast food workers will be replaced in the future by automated burger machines
I'd probably be willing to buy one at 1.5x the normal price if I could watch the manufacturing line make my burger. Even better if there are signs at each station explaining what it is doing and how the interesting part of the station works. for example, how they pick up a lettuce leaf at the condiment station.
Granted it is likely that even an automated burger joint would still need a small number of people, for things like unloading trucks, loading hoppers, fixing the machine when it breaks, cleaning the machine. I suspose i could a floor washing robot for the floors, but cleaning chairs and tables seems like it will be a long way off.
Lots of places are already semi-automated. Next time you are in a McDonalds, pay attention to the fry machine, most only require the human to add fries to a basket, and press a button. I'm not sure why they haven't gone a step farther, and decided to automate putting fires in baskets. they could use historical sales data, current orders, and what ever other info is relevant to adjust fry production so it would match demand very closely and reduce possible waste, and provide a higher quality product to the customer. I.E. hot fries.
some examples of breakage this would likely cause...
UK decides that it would like to have control over *.com. Implements rules for it, and give out www.google.com to Microsoft (they paid more). Now what happens in the USA when I ask the root DNS servers for the IP(s) for www.google.com? Do I sometimes get UK Bing?
If your answer was "simple, each country runs its own namesever!" How do I get to www.bbc.co.uk? Does the BBC have to setup a server in the USA?
Actully what i think should happen is all non-countrycode TLDs should go away. Then we could have a international internet body (IIB) that basically agrees that the only allowed TLDs are country codes and that each country is responsable for maintaing them. *.com would then become *.com.usa *.gov would become *.gov.usa. In Australia they could have *.com.au, and *.gov.au. This would allow each country to have control, and wouldn't break the internet.
Also it could be decided by this IIB that all servers must use the country code of the country they are located in. Recognized countries are the same set that the UN recognizes. So if google wants to setup www.google.bz they would have to have at least a forwarding server in Belize.
I agree with the games thing. There are many ways they could use more CPU/GPU and still be useful. For example when have you seen wind in trees in a game that actually looks like wind in real trees? Trees in games are always some sort of leaf pattern on a plane with holes in it. Any games with a good deform-able environment? How about reflection in water ripples? Bullets that are actually computed using wind and movement of the player? Actual gravity and friction?
As a note, last i knew incandescents were not explicitly banned, bulbs below some lumen/watt were banned. Normal incandescents happened to be below that line.
I will say that the CFLs I finally put in my kitchen fan/lamp have lasted far longer than the weeks to a month the incandescent lasted. I think it's been a few months. The incandescent didn't like the vibrations.
Take a walk to get the mail after getting home from work in January in MN. It was dark around 5PM today here. A minute or two round trip, and you just turned them on in -15F (sometimes down to -35F though that is rare these days) after they had been out for at least 12 hours (if not 24). By the time you get back to the house they have almost gotten to full brightness. A lot of outdoor lighting is short term most of the time around here, motion security lights, mail box runs, taking the dog out, etc.
Anyways, I agree that for shoveling the driveway a CFL would probably work fine as that usually can take double digit minutes.
i wrote a similar thing for mencoder when i ripped all of my DVDs. I was a bit lazier though. It trusts the disk name in the TOC and handled collisions by adding a time stamp.
In my case, the lights on a local hwy are sync'ed for good driving by the city. The issue is that every time you cross city lines (about 4 times in 6 miles) the timing changes again.
I have also heard stories where there was pressure on the city to raise the speed limit from say 45MPH to 50MPH for a bit of road. Well the city gave in and raised the limit, but didn't change the timing. Driving the speed limit will get you stuck at lights, but driving the limit the city wanted it to be will mean lots of greens. There are roads around here where this is the case, 5 under and you hit every light green, so I mostly believe the story.
Please provide the exact text that will show up on each menu/button. ohh right, UEFI did not spec the menu/configuration structure and nameing conventions. So directions for a VENDOR1 may not work for VENDOR2, and worse than that VENDOR1-2012 may not work for VENDOR1-2013.
So yea, that is really the issue here. It's like explaining to someone (who has issues with why Gmail and their computer can have different passwords) how to boot their computer from a USB stick. There is no common layout to BIOS and the same goes for UEFI.
oie! Kids! Keep it down and get off mah lawn! (sorry finally found someone with higher UIDs than me to do that to).
Care to show me the game on the PS3 that will cause the fan to spin up like folding@home would cause? Until you find one, I'll say that none of them are making full use of the hardware.
I agree that mini-ITX isn't as small as a mac mini, but here I am with a 125W AMD CPU (1050T x6) and a GTS450 all shoved into something about the size of 2 loaves of bread. Way more power than the mini as well. Granted it consumes more power than a mini. The idle is around 80W, and full out (FFmpeg doing a h264 encode on 6 threads, and furmark via wine) is somewhere around the 280W range.
So the big thing with Mini-ITX is that it is about as small as you can go and still get a PCIE-16X slot on the board.
which case did you use? At that price i assume it was a steel and plastic job with no expansion slot.
just a quick series of questions.
How many kW in a battery pack?
What charge time would you like the filling station to need?
How many kW/h is that?
How many batteries would a "gas station" need to change out per day (assume every diver needs to swap every other day on average)?
How many kW/h is that total?
Assume that 1/2 of those batteries are swapped during the two rush hours and are charged in between, what electrical service does each "gas station" need? (hint, fsking huge).
As for charging yourself, how do you want to wait around a "gas station" while your battery charges? assuming 460/3/60 power, each cable is still huge to get the times down to under 5 minutes, even assuming you could charge modern battery tech that quickly. (sorry I did math all day at work similar to this and my second rum and coke is just not letting me do it now.)
95% of all maintenance Saturn S series parts are the same from 1992-2004. Things like the body panels are not interchangeable between all models, but i suspect a lot of them are (92-97 front ends, and 98 and later front ends). It's really a shame saturn basically packed up in 2004-2005 when they became mostly a GM re-badger.
please remember that google announced that they were working on android before smichdt was on apple's board and the smichdt by all accounts left all iOS/iPhone meetings.
Most of the companies that hold FRAND patents publicly disclose their rates. Samsung's for example is 2.4% of the retail cost of a device. Most FRAND holders will accept a cross license as part or all of the payment depending on what is on offer. As Microsoft really doesn't have any really essential patents in that space they get to pay in cash. Welcome to the world of FRAND patents on communications related things.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20121022054044954 for the discussion about Samsung being investigated.
Are any of those parties somewhat close together? would you also not feel like you needed to move out of the country if one of them were elected?
Right my issue is that the guy from one of our two major parties is always so bad that I feel compelled to vote for the other major party just to avoid him. So it's not that I vote for the guy i like, but against the guy I dislike most.
Also, why can't i have a no confidence vote, a "yes I voted, but no one gets credit for it".
downtime is solveable by swapping them out on the ground. I agree though, the amount of power required is huge. Efficient electric motors tend to have lots of copper, and copper is heavy.
You could buy a OTG usb cable and plug in a harddrive...
I agree the 8GB one is a bit small, if/when I get one it'll be the 16GB.
Amazon MP3 with CloudDrive storage solves the balance of my music problem
Provided you're using your phone on Wi-Fi at home or at a public hotspot, or you can afford a big data plan.
Or that you got t-mobiles unlimited 4G value plan...
And for me when I'm out in the boonies, I'm usually camping and really don't want the cell signal anyways.
T-Mobile has pay-as-you-go plans, they are GSM and will work with the nexus 4.
Can I add to this "The ability to control, as a user, which CDNs are trustworthy, and that there be no way for the app to tell the difference between network failure and an un-trusted CDN."
I want this for a few reasons:
1) There could easily be a 0-day for a picture loading lib. See libjpeg issues from a while back.
2) I don't want to waste my precious cell bandwidth loading your ad.
3) I selfishly don't care about your flashing noisy ad.