I think the market for electric bikes that sacrifice much performance for not looking like an electric bike from the outside is quite small. This thing is only 50-100w whereas you'd want at least 400w for a proper electric bike.
What do they spend these millions on? Taking ludes on a superyacht in the Bahamas?
It is just a service that takes in bits of plaintext and spits them out to multiple users, most of them are using an app so no huge bandwidth cost (although still not as efficient as it could be) there is no valid technical reason for it to cost 100's of millions. A system like Twitter could be completely decentralised and P2P based and nobody would have to spend any extra to run it, the corporation behind Twitter doesn't serve any purpose as far as I can tell.
T'would be nice if they could throw a manual box into this. Only 3, maybe 4 gears needed at the most or maybe just a transfer box with a low range. Combined with an electric motor this would give you a serious amount of torque.
Plenty of stuff gets designed out 'In de Shticks', when you don't have a megacorp waiting to take your cash and pander to your every need you have to get inventive:)
Surely if you have more than a couple of satellites in view it will discard the 13.7mS one as a multipath. The chance of it actually giving you a reading thats off by 4km would be quite low I'd say
No hard decisions, even if they had to 'watch' it they could just sit around chatting with coffee. It is a nice idea to DoS the censor's office but this method that involves horsing 8,500 quid straight into their pockets is not the way to do it
You'll be able to track real people as soon as some hipster startup paid RESTful API company from The Valley starts providing this service. They will gleam this information from Apps, some ISPs will bury a provision in their T&C that allows them sell this information to the said hipster company.
Static MAC addresses are bad news in this big brother-infested world. It was grand in the 80's and 90's when a machine sat on a private LAN and never left it and 'big data' was a twinkle in someone's eye but those days are gone unfortunately
"Companies can pay to reach users" - well that's going to send a lot of users reaching for Telegram and other apps. Do these big corporate f*cks never learn, it's all fun and games when the company is young and full of hipsters giving away this hip new product for free but when the corporate magnates come in and try to milk their userbase for what it's worth it's usually game over.
Swapping out products for an almost identical-looking Chinese copy made to order by some outsourcing factory. They think they'll be able to super-size their profit margins and people will keep buying their stuff. What they don't realise is that any old fool can order generic tools from China for pennies and their hollowed-out "design"-only office-based tool manufacturing company won't serve a purpose any longer.
First of all, nobody really cares about the infotainment except a few Americans who want to bragg to their friends about how their infotainment is better.
Toyota makes some good stuff like the Hilux that will last at least 20 years and will clock up at least 300k+ kms. If the interior is 'shot' the seats just need to be cleaned and re-upholstered, even the underlying foam and springs are still ok.
Where 3D printing comes in is for recreating essential plastic components (like the covers for the timing belt) that the manufacturer doesn't make anymore, not for reprinting the whole interior of a car.
UPS is worthless unless it takes over automatically. Auto-start genny's have been around since the year dot.
Dispatch a tech when something breaks is nothing new. I know a while back some boys were experimenting with bots to replace HDD's but with people moving to more reliable SSD implementing such a system wouldn't be worth the bother for most
There are more than enough Syrians being left in to cover up for the shortfall.
We don't actually need more people in Europe though. Giving people a decent standard of living is all that matters, it's just the old-world financial system that demands a constant supply of new people to pay for the upkeep of the non-working population. Making sure these people have a decent quality of life is not as labour intensive as making sure they get a massive pension that they can spend on importing cheap electronics from China.
In the present, everyone Googles everything through some sort of Chrome/Firefox awesome bar and nobody types in a domain anymore (except me and a few die-hard fellow type-in-traffic generators). Therefore in years to come Google will be just a collection of IPv6 addresses. Google will hardcode a bunch of them into chrome
As a replacement, Google will eventually implement a new system based on HTTP requests to some RESTful API they designed that returns an IPv6 address when queried with a human-readable name, therefore re-inventing DNS in a less efficient manner (but who cares because we'll all have 100GbE to the door by then)
iDunno how it works in the states but most countries in EU have full number portability. So a number that used to belong to the state monopolist can now sit (indirectly) behind some guy's Asterisk server. It is a bit indirect in that the state monopolist agrees to let some other large company take over the traffic from that number and in turn forwards it to the guy's Asterisk server but there is nothing technically stopping them from cutting out the large company middleman and putting a non-profit organisation in charge of doling out the phone numbers
They'll also last far longer if you undervolt them.
Fun fact: The EU incandescent lightbulb ban only affects bulbs of certain shapes, so retro style carbon filament-style (without an actual carbon filament) hipster bulbs that are even less efficient than normal incandescent bulbs have gained popularity 'round these parts
There I was hoping a bunch of young nerds at KAIST had found a way to send a highly directional magnetic field at the Ryugyong hotel or some statue of Kim Il Sung causing it to reverberate to the tune of op, op, oppa Gangnam style...heyyyyy sexy lady and traumatising all loyal Kim dynasty followers within a 4 mile radius
Have the South Koreans made any notable technological advances in increasing the maximum range of a speaker or making highly directional speakers that can reach Pyongyang from across the DMZ?
Used to work for a hosting company and seen it happen all the time. With actual malicious intent a lot of the time - two guys start a business and one of them runs away, has the domain in his name and starts sending mails to the guy still running the business saying "~haha~ you can't have the domain!!". Other times the guy running the business just has a falling out with his IT guy. Real childish carry on, you'd think these guys were old and wise enough not to carry on like this.
Another time we had this 18 y/o guy who made sites for people and the domains were registered to his account but not under his name - the fool threatened to take the site down and keep the domain if she wouldn't go out with him
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I think the market for electric bikes that sacrifice much performance for not looking like an electric bike from the outside is quite small. This thing is only 50-100w whereas you'd want at least 400w for a proper electric bike.
What do they spend these millions on? Taking ludes on a superyacht in the Bahamas?
It is just a service that takes in bits of plaintext and spits them out to multiple users, most of them are using an app so no huge bandwidth cost (although still not as efficient as it could be) there is no valid technical reason for it to cost 100's of millions. A system like Twitter could be completely decentralised and P2P based and nobody would have to spend any extra to run it, the corporation behind Twitter doesn't serve any purpose as far as I can tell.
T'would be nice if they could throw a manual box into this. Only 3, maybe 4 gears needed at the most or maybe just a transfer box with a low range. Combined with an electric motor this would give you a serious amount of torque.
Plenty of stuff gets designed out 'In de Shticks', when you don't have a megacorp waiting to take your cash and pander to your every need you have to get inventive :)
Usually these articles are accompanied by a positive statement about how these 980 people will be replaced by bots and cashless society
Surely if you have more than a couple of satellites in view it will discard the 13.7mS one as a multipath. The chance of it actually giving you a reading thats off by 4km would be quite low I'd say
Y'heard it here first! Don't tell me I didn't tole ya!
Going back in time by a mere 13.7uS doesn't seem very exciting though.
No hard decisions, even if they had to 'watch' it they could just sit around chatting with coffee. It is a nice idea to DoS the censor's office but this method that involves horsing 8,500 quid straight into their pockets is not the way to do it
I'm honestly surprised it wasn't Eric Schmidt who said this. Seems like something he'd say before hopping into his driverless Lexus RX450h
You'll be able to track real people as soon as some hipster startup paid RESTful API company from The Valley starts providing this service. They will gleam this information from Apps, some ISPs will bury a provision in their T&C that allows them sell this information to the said hipster company. Static MAC addresses are bad news in this big brother-infested world. It was grand in the 80's and 90's when a machine sat on a private LAN and never left it and 'big data' was a twinkle in someone's eye but those days are gone unfortunately
"Companies can pay to reach users" - well that's going to send a lot of users reaching for Telegram and other apps. Do these big corporate f*cks never learn, it's all fun and games when the company is young and full of hipsters giving away this hip new product for free but when the corporate magnates come in and try to milk their userbase for what it's worth it's usually game over.
Swapping out products for an almost identical-looking Chinese copy made to order by some outsourcing factory. They think they'll be able to super-size their profit margins and people will keep buying their stuff. What they don't realise is that any old fool can order generic tools from China for pennies and their hollowed-out "design"-only office-based tool manufacturing company won't serve a purpose any longer.
First of all, nobody really cares about the infotainment except a few Americans who want to bragg to their friends about how their infotainment is better.
Toyota makes some good stuff like the Hilux that will last at least 20 years and will clock up at least 300k+ kms. If the interior is 'shot' the seats just need to be cleaned and re-upholstered, even the underlying foam and springs are still ok.
Where 3D printing comes in is for recreating essential plastic components (like the covers for the timing belt) that the manufacturer doesn't make anymore, not for reprinting the whole interior of a car.
Will Netflix ever drop their silly DRM like Apple did?
Self-driving car = Google
Driverless car = Everyone else
UPS is worthless unless it takes over automatically. Auto-start genny's have been around since the year dot.
Dispatch a tech when something breaks is nothing new. I know a while back some boys were experimenting with bots to replace HDD's but with people moving to more reliable SSD implementing such a system wouldn't be worth the bother for most
There are more than enough Syrians being left in to cover up for the shortfall.
We don't actually need more people in Europe though. Giving people a decent standard of living is all that matters, it's just the old-world financial system that demands a constant supply of new people to pay for the upkeep of the non-working population. Making sure these people have a decent quality of life is not as labour intensive as making sure they get a massive pension that they can spend on importing cheap electronics from China.
In the present, everyone Googles everything through some sort of Chrome/Firefox awesome bar and nobody types in a domain anymore (except me and a few die-hard fellow type-in-traffic generators). Therefore in years to come Google will be just a collection of IPv6 addresses. Google will hardcode a bunch of them into chrome
As a replacement, Google will eventually implement a new system based on HTTP requests to some RESTful API they designed that returns an IPv6 address when queried with a human-readable name, therefore re-inventing DNS in a less efficient manner (but who cares because we'll all have 100GbE to the door by then)
iDunno how it works in the states but most countries in EU have full number portability. So a number that used to belong to the state monopolist can now sit (indirectly) behind some guy's Asterisk server. It is a bit indirect in that the state monopolist agrees to let some other large company take over the traffic from that number and in turn forwards it to the guy's Asterisk server but there is nothing technically stopping them from cutting out the large company middleman and putting a non-profit organisation in charge of doling out the phone numbers
WIll those be banned?
They'll also last far longer if you undervolt them.
Fun fact: The EU incandescent lightbulb ban only affects bulbs of certain shapes, so retro style carbon filament-style (without an actual carbon filament) hipster bulbs that are even less efficient than normal incandescent bulbs have gained popularity 'round these parts
The world needs more F00F bugs, for the name alone
There I was hoping a bunch of young nerds at KAIST had found a way to send a highly directional magnetic field at the Ryugyong hotel or some statue of Kim Il Sung causing it to reverberate to the tune of op, op, oppa Gangnam style...heyyyyy sexy lady and traumatising all loyal Kim dynasty followers within a 4 mile radius
Have the South Koreans made any notable technological advances in increasing the maximum range of a speaker or making highly directional speakers that can reach Pyongyang from across the DMZ?
Used to work for a hosting company and seen it happen all the time. With actual malicious intent a lot of the time - two guys start a business and one of them runs away, has the domain in his name and starts sending mails to the guy still running the business saying "~haha~ you can't have the domain!!". Other times the guy running the business just has a falling out with his IT guy. Real childish carry on, you'd think these guys were old and wise enough not to carry on like this.
Another time we had this 18 y/o guy who made sites for people and the domains were registered to his account but not under his name - the fool threatened to take the site down and keep the domain if she wouldn't go out with him