Some of the ideas put forth are old. Motor assist for pedal bicycles has been around practically since small gas engines were available. Electric assist is newer, but still not by much. Battery and solid state technology are making it much more capable than what we had even a few decades ago.
What is interesting is combining all this into a unit which can be installed "in seconds". That opens its use up to some applications for which motor assist may not have made much sense in the past.
Oh, and all the carping about 3D printing? Sure, its not economic for mass production. But it has its place for smaller shops who need too knock off a few prototypes quickly and cheaply. Once the design is finalized, more traditional fabrication techniques can be used.
I'd like some more information on how these dams' structures are monitored. Embedded sensor networks? Or do they just hope some vigilant employee will notice "something odd"? That would be news for nerds.
That is the most poorly written article I've ever seen on here
Stand by....
and I'd wager that most would find it completely off-topic for the site.
Why? It deals with engineering and technology. If it was a crack in a Shuttle SRB seal we'd be discussing it. It may not be cool and sexy like the latest s/w SNAFU, but infrastructure gobbles up a lot of money and its maintenance (or lack thereof) is a major issue in this country and others.
I don't know how much of it's revenue Apple spends on these sorts of things. But assuming it isn't significant in its effect on the bottom line; its all about Apple's pubic image. Much in the way companies spend money on fancy corporate headquarters and associated landscaping, it gives both the public and its employees a better image of the company. And that is worth something both to the brand's value as well as employee morale and productivity.
These sorts of effects are difficult to quantify, although they are real. So it's pretty much up to the CEO and upper management as to how much to spend and on what.
Danhof might have a good point about mandatory standards. But if Apple and others don't voluntarily step in and fund such investments, that's an excuse for the government to do so. And the underlying argument should be one of who (private business or a government bureaucracy) is best suited to make such investment allocation decisions.
I know of one other company in the area who says that their experience with Google is completely different. Of course, the biggest difference is that this company is engaged in 6 and 7 figure contracts with Google on a regular basis.
Reading between the lines: Do more business with Google or they'll make your life miserable with crappy listings. That's a nice little business ya' got there buddy. It'd be a shame if something happened to it......[Heh, heh, heh.]
... watch their streaming video on their phones and tablets. That way, they can carry their downloaded content with them away from the car.
Built-in entertainment systems are stuck in the vehicle. And unless you have a service that allows it, they require additional service plans for those devices. A phone/tablet needs (for longer trips) a USB power port. A 12 volt port with suitable adapter does just fine.
Although imperfect, we do have an FDA and FTC to call bullshit on false claims. Should we have the same for bogus religious dogma? I know: Constitutional protection. But other countries do have forms of this. Not just any wacko with a motel room bible and a single-wide trailer can set themselves up as a church.
But that's an important distinction to make. These solutions are demonstrating good library support. Not the syntax of the basic language itself. Are those libs even written in Wolfram?
I can solve a traveling salesman problem using Perl with not too many lines.
Looking at TFA maps, the highest concentration appears to be in the outflow from the Mediterranean. That's probably a result of all the wars fought over there.
Back when I used to work for Boeing, our internal TLD was.com. Anything looking for a.boeing.com domain would be resolved via our internal DNS system. All other.com (and any other TLDs) were forwarded to the public DNS services through a firewall.
Were someone to take their laptop out of the company,.boeing.com requests would be resolved via their external DNS service. And they could deal with erroneous requests for internal services in a number of ways. Deny then, or divert them to some sort of error handling service (web page: "Aren't you supposed to be at work right now?") Hand them over to some sort of VPN login service or other firewall portal. Or obfuscate the response, keeping people outside from probing around and guessing at the internal company network structure.
It all worked and it handled everything secure within the companies systems.
so that if a technie working for a company affected is roaming with their laptop, and they try to access "exchange-server.nyoffice.intranet" forgetting to put up the VPN, and ".intranet" is a new TLD, and they can't connect because the VPN isn't up, and they decide to check their Windows Event Logs to figure out why, then instead of "domain not found" which would immediately make them think "Oh wait, of course it can't be resolved, it's not a real domain and I'm not on the VPN", they'd see a weird IP address, and think "That's odd, let me Google that, there's obviously a problem with DNS."
Which is fine for a techie.
I see millions of support calls when non-techie people can't find the cute cat pictures.
UAVs are already used for commercial applications in other countries. Like agriculture in Japan, for example.
Thanks to our FAA's habit of sitting quietly like a lap dog until one of the major US aerospace manufacturers give them a command, foreign UAV development is decades ahead of us. When they are approved for use here, manufacturers with experience will overrun this market.
You can not sue someone for exposing your criminal activity.
Slow down cowboy. What criminal activity?
Cops want to search my house. I say no but roommate gives them permission. If they find something, too bad for me. If not, I'm taking roommate to court.
You are operating under the false impression that cops are always or even often right.
It depends on your tenancy agreement. What sorts of agreements you and your roommates need to come to to admit guests. What the boundaries are between shared and private areas are, etc.
Things don't have to be "on the books" as laws or regulations to be grounds for civil suits. If you have a contract with someone and they fail to meet the terms, you can file a civil suit. If you rented or (worse yet) bought a residence in partnership with someone without some sort of agreement, you have more to worry about than an occasional police search.
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Some of the ideas put forth are old. Motor assist for pedal bicycles has been around practically since small gas engines were available. Electric assist is newer, but still not by much. Battery and solid state technology are making it much more capable than what we had even a few decades ago.
What is interesting is combining all this into a unit which can be installed "in seconds". That opens its use up to some applications for which motor assist may not have made much sense in the past.
Oh, and all the carping about 3D printing? Sure, its not economic for mass production. But it has its place for smaller shops who need too knock off a few prototypes quickly and cheaply. Once the design is finalized, more traditional fabrication techniques can be used.
Seems to me, I've heard this plot somewhere before.
It seems they've brought the scheme up to date by outsourcing the actual work.
Right now, he'd be doing his "man on the street" interviews, asking Americans if they know where the Crimea River is.
I'd like some more information on how these dams' structures are monitored. Embedded sensor networks? Or do they just hope some vigilant employee will notice "something odd"? That would be news for nerds.
Louie, Louie
"Think of the Sea Lions"
FTFY.
Not just the Internet. But that guy with the fedora, mink coat and lots of bling.
That is the most poorly written article I've ever seen on here
Stand by ....
and I'd wager that most would find it completely off-topic for the site.
Why? It deals with engineering and technology. If it was a crack in a Shuttle SRB seal we'd be discussing it. It may not be cool and sexy like the latest s/w SNAFU, but infrastructure gobbles up a lot of money and its maintenance (or lack thereof) is a major issue in this country and others.
I don't know how much of it's revenue Apple spends on these sorts of things. But assuming it isn't significant in its effect on the bottom line; its all about Apple's pubic image. Much in the way companies spend money on fancy corporate headquarters and associated landscaping, it gives both the public and its employees a better image of the company. And that is worth something both to the brand's value as well as employee morale and productivity.
These sorts of effects are difficult to quantify, although they are real. So it's pretty much up to the CEO and upper management as to how much to spend and on what.
Danhof might have a good point about mandatory standards. But if Apple and others don't voluntarily step in and fund such investments, that's an excuse for the government to do so. And the underlying argument should be one of who (private business or a government bureaucracy) is best suited to make such investment allocation decisions.
I know of one other company in the area who says that their experience with Google is completely different. Of course, the biggest difference is that this company is engaged in 6 and 7 figure contracts with Google on a regular basis.
Reading between the lines: Do more business with Google or they'll make your life miserable with crappy listings. That's a nice little business ya' got there buddy. It'd be a shame if something happened to it......[Heh, heh, heh.]
Note: Need to order that heavy duty spudger to pry the top off.
Built-in entertainment systems are stuck in the vehicle. And unless you have a service that allows it, they require additional service plans for those devices. A phone/tablet needs (for longer trips) a USB power port. A 12 volt port with suitable adapter does just fine.
Although imperfect, we do have an FDA and FTC to call bullshit on false claims. Should we have the same for bogus religious dogma? I know: Constitutional protection. But other countries do have forms of this. Not just any wacko with a motel room bible and a single-wide trailer can set themselves up as a church.
LMGTFY
But that's an important distinction to make. These solutions are demonstrating good library support. Not the syntax of the basic language itself. Are those libs even written in Wolfram?
I can solve a traveling salesman problem using Perl with not too many lines.
Looking at TFA maps, the highest concentration appears to be in the outflow from the Mediterranean. That's probably a result of all the wars fought over there.
And did the prison staff know who he was? Or did he go in undercover, like in Brubaker/a??
I don't know about facial recognition. But I'll bet they have a pretty good algorithm developed for solving the "M girls in N cups" polynomial.
I'll bet. "Oh God!!! My eyes!!!" was overheard more than once in that division.
Back when I used to work for Boeing, our internal TLD was .com. Anything looking for a .boeing .com domain would be resolved via our internal DNS system. All other .com (and any other TLDs) were forwarded to the public DNS services through a firewall.
Were someone to take their laptop out of the company, .boeing.com requests would be resolved via their external DNS service. And they could deal with erroneous requests for internal services in a number of ways. Deny then, or divert them to some sort of error handling service (web page: "Aren't you supposed to be at work right now?") Hand them over to some sort of VPN login service or other firewall portal. Or obfuscate the response, keeping people outside from probing around and guessing at the internal company network structure.
It all worked and it handled everything secure within the companies systems.
so that if a technie working for a company affected is roaming with their laptop, and they try to access "exchange-server.nyoffice.intranet" forgetting to put up the VPN, and ".intranet" is a new TLD, and they can't connect because the VPN isn't up, and they decide to check their Windows Event Logs to figure out why, then instead of "domain not found" which would immediately make them think "Oh wait, of course it can't be resolved, it's not a real domain and I'm not on the VPN", they'd see a weird IP address, and think "That's odd, let me Google that, there's obviously a problem with DNS."
Which is fine for a techie.
I see millions of support calls when non-techie people can't find the cute cat pictures.
UAVs are already used for commercial applications in other countries. Like agriculture in Japan, for example.
Thanks to our FAA's habit of sitting quietly like a lap dog until one of the major US aerospace manufacturers give them a command, foreign UAV development is decades ahead of us. When they are approved for use here, manufacturers with experience will overrun this market.
Pikop Andropov. Russian delivery service.
You can not sue someone for exposing your criminal activity.
Slow down cowboy. What criminal activity?
Cops want to search my house. I say no but roommate gives them permission. If they find something, too bad for me. If not, I'm taking roommate to court.
You are operating under the false impression that cops are always or even often right.
It depends on your tenancy agreement. What sorts of agreements you and your roommates need to come to to admit guests. What the boundaries are between shared and private areas are, etc.
Things don't have to be "on the books" as laws or regulations to be grounds for civil suits. If you have a contract with someone and they fail to meet the terms, you can file a civil suit. If you rented or (worse yet) bought a residence in partnership with someone without some sort of agreement, you have more to worry about than an occasional police search.