Re: You expect it to "know" facts?
Is there a "in a nutshell" switch? I nearly fell asleep trying to read all that.
"what is religion?"
"It's when 2 groups who believe in God beat the crap out each other."
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FCC, just bite the bullet, get over the whole "it must be an ISP" thing, and rollout Starlink (or whoever) and everyone will be happy. No ISP is going to drag their ass into the bushes for what you are willing to pay.
Teams or whatever chews through around 6GB a day so mobile is no use and mobile is all Wi-Fi calling these days anyway because there are no tower costs.
My "connection" to Starlink is always >300mbps down and 30mbps up, around 30ms latency and 45€ a month and I don't give a fuck which ISP it hooks up to as long as it works.
This is all good stuff. Tree counting is the easy bit, the ballbreaker is the satellite soil and light data resolution which is woeful, so probably why you need "AI" to guess the bits in between the sampling points.
Note to ESA (and by extension NASA). Your site says all data is free to everyone and it is but the access method if you are not "one of the club" is from the 1990s. Surely you have a public access API these days rather than the FTP kludge that is on offer.
Maybe you should train your people in a world adopted measurement system. The amount of American stuff I really liked but HAVEN'T bought online because the measurements are in pounds and inches is huge. Even just put the kgs, cms in brackets, but I'm not wasting my time doing conversions. Sorry.
Having spent my entire life avoiding people like the plague, the thought of "rent-a-friend" makes me want to puke. I've never understood what the purpose of a "friend" is for a start so I'll be avoiding this rent-a-friend thingy... and this morning I woke up to the news that I've got a follower on some website. For a start, I wouldn't follow me, so God help whoever the "follower" is. Am I supposed to feed it, take it for walkies or what?
Whatever happened to the good old "he kept himself to himself" notion. Where's me axe?
I have 1 Husqvarna thing and it's shite and I'm pretty sure Husqvarna has been badge engineering for a while now. Anyway, given that both Husqvarna and Stihl seem to have decided that the domestic market is where growth will come from, I presume everything will be app connected, battery powered and probably come with cup holders soon (for your coffee from your Husqvarna or Stihl coffee machine).
Mind you I haven't bought anything Stihl since their designers got new CAD software and everything got made with sexy corners, which is a health and safety hazard when your trying to start a chainsaw on a wet, freezing January morning.
Bought a Makita telescopic pole chainsaw last week and it's the nads.
You think that's crap, you should try the Policia Nacional site for foreigners in Spain... You can only book an appointment when the police station is open!! 9-14h and it's shut in the summer for 3 months and you can't go to one outside of where you live.
Maybe they know something we don't, like the Earth becomes toxic soon, or maybe to let everyone think they've put compute in orbit when they've put it in the med, otherwise it's a completely stupid, bonkers idea. And why is a military (ok, it's the Italian military) publically announcing where it's thinking of sticking its command and control capability?
Note to editors... There are 350 million Americans who know what a pound is and umpteen billion non Americans who don't. Same goes for things like 3/8 of a bushels quart or whatever. I mean, you lot even have gallons that aren't gallons. Stop it please. Metric is not a commie pinko plot to turn American yoof into raging transvestites.
That's been the problem with IoT from day one. What was supposed to be cheap got "cloud" fever (amongst other things) and it all went titsup after that. I keep my IoT stuff as far away from the big boys as poss, until I need to stick the data into an SQL database (my choice) which I get from Hostgator for about 4USD a month. What will really be the gamechanger is when Starlink (or whoever) ties the knot with the mobile 'phone companies and we get wrap 'round mobile signals to send data with.
IMHO obviously.
I've been trying to find these Taylor Swift deepfake hot hot hot images for days and all I get is pictures of some woman's head and a lot of words about how naughty these pictures are...
I can even find pictures of a Forida man in a mankini which is truly disturbing, but no TS fiddly bits.
The internet is disappointing.
Yesterday my GF was trying to Teams someone and all she got was screen after screen of "see what's new in Teams" infomercials. She ended up screaming "I'm just wanting to fucking make a call". The day before she was trying to write a document and couldn't without internet access and bellowed "I'm just trying to write a fucking document". She's a C suite and the CTO is a "friend of Linux".
I don't rate highly, MSs chances of survival at her company. INHO, MS your current cloud strategy is shit.
I am confident there are off-grid homes that it is nearly impossible to dig fiber to.
Yup, I live in one. 2kms down a track in a nature reserve. There is no mobile signal, water, gas or electricity or chance that I would even get the necessary permits to install the above. There is brand new sparkly fibre at the head of the track on the main road, but it may as well be on Mars for all the good it does me. So Starlink (>300mbs down and 30mbs up for 45€ a month) and solar for me.
Considering that the price was 100€ a month 18 months ago and has dropped steadily, I can only presume that Starlink is trying to compete on price (eg DiGi is 500mbs fibre + 20gb mobile for 21€pcm but the average price for any provider is around 40€pcm), so that's why Musk is moaning. He doesn't want market competition and especially doesn't want subsidised market competition.
The big answer (IMHO) is to change expectations (and maybe make things a bit more efficient). Everyone is an energy addict these days and maybe they should try to kick the habit.
I'm off grid and use energy when I can and don't when I can't. It's a right PITA but I'll stick with it because it teaches me responsibility.
Examples...
My 20 year old DVD player uses 2 of my normal days of power just watching a film.
My Starlink dish chews great gobs of wattage.
Everything else I've got is very efficient, but it was all made someplace, shipped someplace else and the shipped to me. This has to stop but it won't unless people decide to cut back.
As for the fascist greenshirts.. First against the wall etc in my book.
I once had to extract a Notes DB to SQL server and then build the users a front end.
According to IBM it was impossible (obviously they'd say that) but it was pretty easy except for the mulitmedia files, but there was an undocumented API call that sorted that out.
The horror was the amount of times Notes (when just using it as a user) would gobble up all the available memory and crash windows (can't remember which version of windows) and is obviously where windows got a rep for dropping its kecks. Notes is ghastly and I'm glad it's been spread apart (like that computer that was responsible for the war before the Kricket wars) so it never again is allowed to reign terror over office staff. These days we have Microsoft for that... The student becomes the master it seems.
Yeah, that's what it used to do. Now you just get fed personalised crap. Google will be DMA compliant up to its ass but unless you agree to allow Google to give you a good butt fuck, bet pretty much nothing will work.
Sorry, but I'm still pissed because my English device language phone showed me a completely different set of results (useless crap results) from a Spanish device language phone (exactly what I was looking for) for the same effin query.
And dont get me going on about different results for the same query on a different tab.
Mind you, Bing still cant find me and I have a unique name combo.
Any large website has to cope with "thousands of terminals", all different, all configured by someone else and everybody just accepts that fact and gets on with it. And don't give me any crap about security either. Fujitsu et al are just repeddling the 1990s to dumb management fucks and coining it.
On the one hand you have businesses wanting to maximise their returns by using "gig workers" .
On the other hand you have the govt wanting to maximise its slice of cheese by reclassifying "gig workers" as employees.
And in the middle of all this is the "gig worker" just trying to feed its family.
Basically, you have 2 groups, each trying to suck your blood for their benefit.
For me, I prefer to have my blood sucked for a financial return than sucked to keep some public servant's pension pot happy.