* Posts by Andrew999

3 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Feb 2013

Seeing as everyone loves cloud subscriptions, get ready for car-as-a-service future

Andrew999

Re: F*** right off

For years car makers have been using their map systems for more than navigating to your destination. You don't get this capability by using google maps. For example Mercedes uses your route to determine how best to optimise battery use - when to use electric, when best to optimise regeneration etc. And its three years old. The one before that had no electric motors, but could use your route to e.g. shut the windows when you went through a tunnel and return them to position when you left it (as required in e.g. Switzerland). And of course my partner loves the car knowing where it is, as the Mercedes app tells her when I'll be home :)

Metro Bank techies placed at risk of redundancy, severance terms criticised

Andrew999

Re: Industry standard redundancy terms?

Why support a race to the bottom? Do companies pay the legal minimum, seeing people merely as a cost to be minimised, or do they see people as an primarily responsible for the wealth a company creates? Not all companies are the former. Most long-term successful ones are the latter.

This 320-gigapixel snap of London is size of Buckingham Palace

Andrew999

More technical detail

The image was taken on four cameras and then processed on a Fujitsu CELSIUS R920 workstation with 256GB RAM and 16 cores running at 3.1GHz. Full technical details here http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/Showarticle.cfm?ArticleID=232D6A7F-5A08-416D-8B24-8912DB1A0332