$20 billion would put 5000 new electric cabs on the street and pay each driver $50k for the next 26 years.
So that's an extra 5000 extra cars on the city roads, inefficiently moving people one at a time through slightly worse traffic than current. I haven't even attempted to do the numbers but I've a feeling this would be a non starter as a replacement for mass transit.
I would however say that the future of transport will be a hybrid approach. Trains can still play an important role complimented by medium and mini autonomous vehicles + feet for the last mile.
Sydney, a fairly low density sprawl of some 5m people all trying to get to a single hub (on the east side) made a valiant start on a subway system in the late 1800's and then....stopped pretty much. Some original platforms and entire stations have never been used and some terminals were just meant to be a temporary 'breather'.
I envy cities like Tokyo, London and indeed NYC for what seems to me the possibility to pick a destination in the city and 'just got there' pretty quickly in a way that's impossible in Sydney.
Here, it's the total self-interest that has permeated both sides of politics. What's the point in a politician sticking their neck out for a 10+ year build when someone else might get the thanks down the line? That said, there is actually a decent new line being constructed now, but it's a drop in the ocean and no more seem to be in the planning, instead stupid light rails that are slower than walking in some cases, and certainly slower than a taxi or driving.
Perhaps NYC has gone the same way, but at least you got a good start.
A modern cell phone takes better pictures than a top-of-the-line DSLR from ~10 years ago. Those DSLR photos were touted as being great quality.
This is just a case of a large part of the populace (and this poster) having no concept of quality cameras. You don't even need to look at a top of the line camera. I have a Canon 40D (not even a full frame) with a few low ($80 plastic case 50mm f1.6 fixed) and my general med-high end lense ($1600 EF 24-70mm f2.8).
I bought this in Sept 2007 for my sons birth, so it's literally a 10-year old camera.
Nearly without exception, anytime I whip it out, take a few shots, and send to whoever was at my house etc, I'll get comments along the lines of "OMG - what a great shot. How many mega-pixels was that thing????!!!!" and some assumption I'm really into photography. No, I'm rubbish and usually had it on auto. It's just a half decent old camera that isn't even 'full frame'. 10.1 mega pixels was even low compared to the cheap non-SLRs at the time, but has never been a good measure of camera quality.
I've got an iPhone 8. It takes great happy snaps, but even with some effort they are often underexposed or no wow factor as it's so unnatural in whatever way it compensated for lack of optics.
"The best camera is the one you have with you", because there's no way I'm lugging 2 or 3kgs everywhere, but lets not pretend any of these phones are technical better than a real camera.
It was more widespread than just a three states. I'm in the most populous state (NSW, where Sydney is) and many people at work today commended that they were down, as I was. iiNet is the #2 DSL provider and I suspect it was a lot more than this 2% they spout.
Bottom line, a significant amount os Australian residential customers and business had no Internet. Someone is saying "inept isn't the Internet" but if the pipe from someones computer to the Internet isn't working, "the Internet is down" to that person.
It's about balance. My view is that to actively stop them playing what has been a normal part of kids lives for towards 40 years is wrong. My son got into games very early, the new Donkey Kong in 2010 when he was 3 and a bit. The next Christmas he took an interest in Zelda and actively played Twilight Princes and Skyward Sword - with me checking it wasn't TOOOO scary. He's playing Skylanders Swap Force as I type, now 6 ands a bit.
However, he's also one of the 3 good swimmers (he can 'do' butterfly, most are on the doggy paddle and many still have floats) and 4 kids who get a separate reading class out of the 44 in his Kindy year. We didn't teach him to read, he didn't get tutored like the other 3 but in Zelda you have to read and in Minecraft he was insistent on writing hundreds of signs and needed to know how to spell. He's strong in Karate, something we enrolled him for of course, and when I took him onto a real golf course just a week ago after a year or so of kids golf clinics, he hit his drive 130m and reached the par-4 green for 4. He's doing that because he sees me to golfing every chance I get and I guess is copying there too like he did with games.
Within reason, I won't force my kids to DO or NOT do anything. I will force them to eat their veggies though.
I've avoided all painfully DRM'd titles, but I genuinely want the latest Settlers but just can't buy into the DRM requirement. Every time I see a headline like this I hope the detail is that they are getting rod of the DRM. Disappointed again, so no Settlers 7.
Issue 1, New Zealand Story coverdisk. I bought the magazine out of interest and fantasised about having the actual computer to put the disk into for a few months. I may have even made the motions to the side of my c64! Eventually I raised the 400 quid but there was certainly something magical about that era.
SOME Folks? Since 2007 or 2008 it's more like "Some folk DON'T run multiple VMs on a single system". Wasted RAM, CPU and Disk IO is now expensive for most companies as you actively need to beef up for it.
Windows servers need GUIs to run common third party software installation programs (vmware netchk) or AV consoles (Symantec Endpoint Protection) via RDP. Without a GUI, you'd be forced to serve up yet another port to clients to run the GUI consoles (that have tons of graphs and other things that are actually useful), or run them via a shoehorned webpage via IIS or apache (SEP already tries to do this). Do you really want unnecessarily open ports just to satisfy an urge to remove the GUI?
Novell NetWare had MANY GUI installers (first and third party) that ran on workstations but installed on the server. In fact, I think that was the most common situation. As one of many options, that could be done for Windows Server. Getting the compulsory GUI (2008 Core didn't count...), Solitare and 3D screen-savers off the server can only be a good thing. I'm glad MS has stopped beating that horse.
So do you think that children just magically know how to open a document in word and change a font?
Well, my 4 years does, and has done for 6 months or so and I didn't teach him. He has a logon on my Mac (no password, just has to click to switch user etc) and access to nothing but Office. He calls it "doing letters" and types basic sentences and formats. He's found lots of features. There's a reason the Amiga GUI was called "Intuition" and the promise of the GUI on all platforms has been just that.
Maybe you're suggesting that schools should teach "pulling up pants after wee-wee" because they won't magically know? Parents and intuition should be allowed to to their bit and keep school for the really non-obvious stuff.
The thing is, they have been progressively dumbing this down.
I did BBC Basic at primary school (P7 1984-1985) as well as some weird 3D cube thing which I remember loving. Then I kept going on my Vic-20 (had from 81), other kids had their Amstrads, CPCs, PCWs etc. Then at high school around 3rd year we picked up again and while getting BBC Basic again, some assembly was included and other reasonably simple but worthwhile concepts were taught.
Roll forward 5 years and my brother played games in primary school and was taught what a word processor was in those same classes that showed my class assembler.
I'm relieved to see that this is starting tog et fixed, and can't help feel it's because my generation (late 30's) is now starting to be pretty representative in government and can see how big an opportunity has been missed.
The headline says that IT Pros can't resist, which got me clicking as I have never had any difficulty 'not peeking'. Then I see it's only 26% which actually means the majority ARE resisting. I'd have been annoyed if it was the other way around as it's one of the strongest points I make to juniors as they get started - the need to respect that elevated access is a privilege not to be abused.
I work in an office of 300 (company of 35,000) and all I see are iPhones for those who can and 'other' (mostly Android) for those picking the cheapest bundled plan. Most that I see arer iPhones, ie people actually using them as a smartphone.
My wife put an open water bottle in her handbag in May and her 3GS was gone. Maybe my fault for thinking that charging it might help. Eitherway, with the iPhone 5 on the way I told her she had to get something non-contract to pass the time. The Galaxy S whatever has been enough for her to beg for a 4 regardless of what was coming. All she wants is a phone that hangs up when she asks it to, has a decent UI etc. I've put the time into rooting it, gingerbreading it, samgunghacksFTW.com'ing it (yes, i made that up) and had the Andriod geek at swimming tell me all about the kernel hack I need to apply that "everyone knows" that will speed up the general responsiveness but not the battery issue, but frankly I'm not interested. Junks Junk.
At last. I've long cringed when I discover what passes for computer studies in school AND Uni (not counting comp sci degress etc, I mean the computer studies classes in non computer degrees). Primary school in the early 80's introduced these principals on the BBC's and high schools tried to add a little more. It was a good grounding which I know I still benefit from even though I ended up in the infrastructure rather than development space.
I was fairly horrified at the story early this week that the colour Kindle is LCD. I've got an iPad and a Kindle for precisely the reason that I just don't enjoy the Kindle as a book replacement the way I do the Kindle.
Hopefully the timing here isn't a coincidence and Amazon are sticking with e-ink.
If you have a payment due on X date, you wait until day X - 1, and something goes wrong and delays you by one day, this is your fault, not your bank's fault.
I disagree entirely. In todays age of electronic payments and daily interest, it's important to pay things ON TIME. Paying early for most people means losing interest elsewhere. I pay on X date, not even X-1. I schedule most of this. Noone pays me 7 days early, the banks certainly don't clear a cheque early on assumption it'll be fine.
The NAB appear to be acting very fairly on this matter, which is more than I've seen other banks (CBA) doing when a computer glitch duplicated a debit on my account. I was 50k down on an interest bearing mortgage offset account for a week - they didn't even remotely entertain my request $60 interest it lost me. They don't waste any time when the shoe is on the other foot though so good on NAB.
More like, if maths were just learning to use a calculator
Bingo. When I read the summary, I figured the article would be complaining that kids just don't want to know what's going on inside the machine. I was truly horrified to find that they are actually being taught 'spreadsheets'. So what are they learning in 'Business Studies' or "Admin Assistant Studies" then?
My school didn't teach enough in the way or computing, but at least what it did do revolved around basic, file systems, networking. This was all BBC orientated when I had a Vic-20 then C-64/Amiga but their message worked for me.
Not for the first time, this explains why when I try to hire juniors, they rate themselves highly and I discover they know nothing.
The reasons can be very simple. For about 5 or 6 years, basically before I had kids, I regularly did 60-70 hour weeks. It was a combination of enjoying what I did and that there was work to be done. I didn't get paid overtime, the efforts was never openly acknowledged, but by the end of 4 years my salary in the same job had quadrupled from a reasonable starting point. Now I can do my 35-40 hour weeks as the manager, with those tough years paying dividends indefinitely. Admittedly, I can't help myself from working on the couch most evenings, but again, I enjoy it and it's my chance to stay involved in the technical aspects I don't have time for during the day.
IIRC, some Amiga games completely took over the computer
The good old "hitting the hardware directly" was a common turn of phrase at the time. Pinball Fantasies AGA did launch from Workbench and I think that was the main reason it got so much play in my uni flat as my flatmates didn't have to risk my wrath by rebooting my machine, if I was out , to play it.
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$20 billion would put 5000 new electric cabs on the street and pay each driver $50k for the next 26 years.
So that's an extra 5000 extra cars on the city roads, inefficiently moving people one at a time through slightly worse traffic than current. I haven't even attempted to do the numbers but I've a feeling this would be a non starter as a replacement for mass transit. I would however say that the future of transport will be a hybrid approach. Trains can still play an important role complimented by medium and mini autonomous vehicles + feet for the last mile.
Sydney, a fairly low density sprawl of some 5m people all trying to get to a single hub (on the east side) made a valiant start on a subway system in the late 1800's and then....stopped pretty much. Some original platforms and entire stations have never been used and some terminals were just meant to be a temporary 'breather'. I envy cities like Tokyo, London and indeed NYC for what seems to me the possibility to pick a destination in the city and 'just got there' pretty quickly in a way that's impossible in Sydney. Here, it's the total self-interest that has permeated both sides of politics. What's the point in a politician sticking their neck out for a 10+ year build when someone else might get the thanks down the line? That said, there is actually a decent new line being constructed now, but it's a drop in the ocean and no more seem to be in the planning, instead stupid light rails that are slower than walking in some cases, and certainly slower than a taxi or driving. Perhaps NYC has gone the same way, but at least you got a good start.
A modern cell phone takes better pictures than a top-of-the-line DSLR from ~10 years ago. Those DSLR photos were touted as being great quality.
This is just a case of a large part of the populace (and this poster) having no concept of quality cameras. You don't even need to look at a top of the line camera. I have a Canon 40D (not even a full frame) with a few low ($80 plastic case 50mm f1.6 fixed) and my general med-high end lense ($1600 EF 24-70mm f2.8).
I bought this in Sept 2007 for my sons birth, so it's literally a 10-year old camera.
Nearly without exception, anytime I whip it out, take a few shots, and send to whoever was at my house etc, I'll get comments along the lines of "OMG - what a great shot. How many mega-pixels was that thing????!!!!" and some assumption I'm really into photography. No, I'm rubbish and usually had it on auto. It's just a half decent old camera that isn't even 'full frame'. 10.1 mega pixels was even low compared to the cheap non-SLRs at the time, but has never been a good measure of camera quality.
I've got an iPhone 8. It takes great happy snaps, but even with some effort they are often underexposed or no wow factor as it's so unnatural in whatever way it compensated for lack of optics.
"The best camera is the one you have with you", because there's no way I'm lugging 2 or 3kgs everywhere, but lets not pretend any of these phones are technical better than a real camera.
It was more widespread than just a three states. I'm in the most populous state (NSW, where Sydney is) and many people at work today commended that they were down, as I was. iiNet is the #2 DSL provider and I suspect it was a lot more than this 2% they spout. Bottom line, a significant amount os Australian residential customers and business had no Internet. Someone is saying "inept isn't the Internet" but if the pipe from someones computer to the Internet isn't working, "the Internet is down" to that person.
... And people wonder why Blockbuster went out of business.... :-0
Wow - you must watch a lot of movies!!!
Yet, here you are...
I've seen kids raised by video games. No thanks.
It's about balance. My view is that to actively stop them playing what has been a normal part of kids lives for towards 40 years is wrong. My son got into games very early, the new Donkey Kong in 2010 when he was 3 and a bit. The next Christmas he took an interest in Zelda and actively played Twilight Princes and Skyward Sword - with me checking it wasn't TOOOO scary. He's playing Skylanders Swap Force as I type, now 6 ands a bit.
However, he's also one of the 3 good swimmers (he can 'do' butterfly, most are on the doggy paddle and many still have floats) and 4 kids who get a separate reading class out of the 44 in his Kindy year. We didn't teach him to read, he didn't get tutored like the other 3 but in Zelda you have to read and in Minecraft he was insistent on writing hundreds of signs and needed to know how to spell. He's strong in Karate, something we enrolled him for of course, and when I took him onto a real golf course just a week ago after a year or so of kids golf clinics, he hit his drive 130m and reached the par-4 green for 4. He's doing that because he sees me to golfing every chance I get and I guess is copying there too like he did with games.
Within reason, I won't force my kids to DO or NOT do anything. I will force them to eat their veggies though.
You mean "imagine Teletext".
I've avoided all painfully DRM'd titles, but I genuinely want the latest Settlers but just can't buy into the DRM requirement. Every time I see a headline like this I hope the detail is that they are getting rod of the DRM. Disappointed again, so no Settlers 7.
Issue 1, New Zealand Story coverdisk. I bought the magazine out of interest and fantasised about having the actual computer to put the disk into for a few months. I may have even made the motions to the side of my c64! Eventually I raised the 400 quid but there was certainly something magical about that era.
Some folks run multiple VMs on a single system.
SOME Folks? Since 2007 or 2008 it's more like "Some folk DON'T run multiple VMs on a single system". Wasted RAM, CPU and Disk IO is now expensive for most companies as you actively need to beef up for it.
Windows servers need GUIs to run common third party software installation programs (vmware netchk) or AV consoles (Symantec Endpoint Protection) via RDP. Without a GUI, you'd be forced to serve up yet another port to clients to run the GUI consoles (that have tons of graphs and other things that are actually useful), or run them via a shoehorned webpage via IIS or apache (SEP already tries to do this). Do you really want unnecessarily open ports just to satisfy an urge to remove the GUI?
Novell NetWare had MANY GUI installers (first and third party) that ran on workstations but installed on the server. In fact, I think that was the most common situation. As one of many options, that could be done for Windows Server. Getting the compulsory GUI (2008 Core didn't count...), Solitare and 3D screen-savers off the server can only be a good thing. I'm glad MS has stopped beating that horse.
Are you saying students need to learn Power Point before they can learn programming?
This may finally explain why our "open defects" presentations are both so long and use the woodgrain background.
So do you think that children just magically know how to open a document in word and change a font?
Well, my 4 years does, and has done for 6 months or so and I didn't teach him. He has a logon on my Mac (no password, just has to click to switch user etc) and access to nothing but Office. He calls it "doing letters" and types basic sentences and formats. He's found lots of features. There's a reason the Amiga GUI was called "Intuition" and the promise of the GUI on all platforms has been just that.
Maybe you're suggesting that schools should teach "pulling up pants after wee-wee" because they won't magically know? Parents and intuition should be allowed to to their bit and keep school for the really non-obvious stuff.
The thing is, they have been progressively dumbing this down. I did BBC Basic at primary school (P7 1984-1985) as well as some weird 3D cube thing which I remember loving. Then I kept going on my Vic-20 (had from 81), other kids had their Amstrads, CPCs, PCWs etc. Then at high school around 3rd year we picked up again and while getting BBC Basic again, some assembly was included and other reasonably simple but worthwhile concepts were taught. Roll forward 5 years and my brother played games in primary school and was taught what a word processor was in those same classes that showed my class assembler. I'm relieved to see that this is starting tog et fixed, and can't help feel it's because my generation (late 30's) is now starting to be pretty representative in government and can see how big an opportunity has been missed.
The headline says that IT Pros can't resist, which got me clicking as I have never had any difficulty 'not peeking'. Then I see it's only 26% which actually means the majority ARE resisting. I'd have been annoyed if it was the other way around as it's one of the strongest points I make to juniors as they get started - the need to respect that elevated access is a privilege not to be abused.
Or more correctly, according to what I'd always understood but never checked(!): "Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services"
I work in an office of 300 (company of 35,000) and all I see are iPhones for those who can and 'other' (mostly Android) for those picking the cheapest bundled plan. Most that I see arer iPhones, ie people actually using them as a smartphone. My wife put an open water bottle in her handbag in May and her 3GS was gone. Maybe my fault for thinking that charging it might help. Eitherway, with the iPhone 5 on the way I told her she had to get something non-contract to pass the time. The Galaxy S whatever has been enough for her to beg for a 4 regardless of what was coming. All she wants is a phone that hangs up when she asks it to, has a decent UI etc. I've put the time into rooting it, gingerbreading it, samgunghacksFTW.com'ing it (yes, i made that up) and had the Andriod geek at swimming tell me all about the kernel hack I need to apply that "everyone knows" that will speed up the general responsiveness but not the battery issue, but frankly I'm not interested. Junks Junk.
At last. I've long cringed when I discover what passes for computer studies in school AND Uni (not counting comp sci degress etc, I mean the computer studies classes in non computer degrees). Primary school in the early 80's introduced these principals on the BBC's and high schools tried to add a little more. It was a good grounding which I know I still benefit from even though I ended up in the infrastructure rather than development space.
I was fairly horrified at the story early this week that the colour Kindle is LCD. I've got an iPad and a Kindle for precisely the reason that I just don't enjoy the Kindle as a book replacement the way I do the Kindle. Hopefully the timing here isn't a coincidence and Amazon are sticking with e-ink.
A ladyboy i think is an asian transexual....
A *WHAT*???
No. in fact it's just a cocktail of Lager, Gin, Tonic and a small baileys cream.
If you have a payment due on X date, you wait until day X - 1, and something goes wrong and delays you by one day, this is your fault, not your bank's fault.
I disagree entirely. In todays age of electronic payments and daily interest, it's important to pay things ON TIME. Paying early for most people means losing interest elsewhere. I pay on X date, not even X-1. I schedule most of this. Noone pays me 7 days early, the banks certainly don't clear a cheque early on assumption it'll be fine. The NAB appear to be acting very fairly on this matter, which is more than I've seen other banks (CBA) doing when a computer glitch duplicated a debit on my account. I was 50k down on an interest bearing mortgage offset account for a week - they didn't even remotely entertain my request $60 interest it lost me. They don't waste any time when the shoe is on the other foot though so good on NAB.
Bingo. When I read the summary, I figured the article would be complaining that kids just don't want to know what's going on inside the machine. I was truly horrified to find that they are actually being taught 'spreadsheets'. So what are they learning in 'Business Studies' or "Admin Assistant Studies" then? My school didn't teach enough in the way or computing, but at least what it did do revolved around basic, file systems, networking. This was all BBC orientated when I had a Vic-20 then C-64/Amiga but their message worked for me. Not for the first time, this explains why when I try to hire juniors, they rate themselves highly and I discover they know nothing.
The reasons can be very simple. For about 5 or 6 years, basically before I had kids, I regularly did 60-70 hour weeks. It was a combination of enjoying what I did and that there was work to be done. I didn't get paid overtime, the efforts was never openly acknowledged, but by the end of 4 years my salary in the same job had quadrupled from a reasonable starting point. Now I can do my 35-40 hour weeks as the manager, with those tough years paying dividends indefinitely. Admittedly, I can't help myself from working on the couch most evenings, but again, I enjoy it and it's my chance to stay involved in the technical aspects I don't have time for during the day.
The good old "hitting the hardware directly" was a common turn of phrase at the time. Pinball Fantasies AGA did launch from Workbench and I think that was the main reason it got so much play in my uni flat as my flatmates didn't have to risk my wrath by rebooting my machine, if I was out , to play it.