Yeah, instead train operators are installing devices to keep the train engineer awaked and have him push a button at regular interval as a proof since driving a train is a very boring job the day the coal tender was removed. It is kind of automating the engineer to make sure he actually drive the train.

I went to the cemetery on Mother's day and spent few hours to clean and prepare the soil for flowers I just planted few hours ago (a week later). She passed away four years ago and was killed by the doctors while she never asked for assisted suicide or anything like that. Nobody care about it here because she was old and disabled. Even after all this time, I cannot wrap my mind around this event. Even the police don't want to investigate. My only desire is to quit this country once and for all. I don't want to contribute anymore to a society which does not respect the life of its members.

What future? Solar sailing is of very limited use. Do you imply our future is to sail to the Moon or Mars? So far, there is nothing there we can benefit much. And beyond Mars, solar sailing become much less efficient. Interstellar travel is out of question.

Exactly what I was seeking for to answer telemarketers.

It seems there is a lot of confusion about IoT. It is not about house automation at all, it may be about it, but it is not the main target for IoT. However, the vendors are jumping in the marketing bandwagon and decide to rename everything they were already providing or extend the capabilities of their gizmo with useless internet extensions just to call it an IoT device. Unfortunately, many conclude the IoT is about useless gizmo that are spying at you or whatever.

IoT is rather than about devices to monitor parking space and let car drivers know where there is spots available in order to save time and reduce gas consumption in the dense areas of the city, it is about monitoring the garbage collection for a city to make it more efficient or ensure proper billing and so on. It is not about your f...g fridge or your f...g lights or your f...g thermostat or whatever else stupid you can think about.

Which trail? There is two trails.

It is much more easier to predict election results than an earthquake.

I'm very sorry, but I have to agree with the poster you reply to. This isn't as simple as you think. Yes you can create customers out of the blue. Ask Facebook, Google and many others. However, yes, without customers no business is viable, except the government.

So, the business process is rather than, find out something you believe there is a market for and customers for and create it. That is where it starts, not the reverse.

I guess you don't know what is a transformer.

Frankly, who cares?

Exactly.

Janitor is great on this basis.

BTW, if your mission critically depend on your laptop, you are in much deeper troubles than you think and not metal case can save you.

Yes, but even the metal case doesn't guarantee it is shock proof. I got another Thinkpad, did I say I used to buy Thinkpads only for business purpose for a long time, and it was the fancy one when titanium was first introduced. It fell from about 2-3 feet in its padded case and just cracked as any other plastic one.

Plastic doesn't equate to fragile. There is planes build with composite material which is essentially plastic. This is a bit short to say a plastic case cannot endure.

Right, I am tired of these fucking bullshit reports. Someone can get his pants down to show us what he really got in? If not, just shut the fuck up.