Re: All I want...
I just found out about the HP Tango X which has... Voice Control!
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He left Hewlett-Packard following an inquiry into whether he violated the company's code of conduct in the course of interactions with a greeter at HP events and reality TV personality who filed a sexual harassment claim that was later settled privately.
I wonder if Oracle has various diversity schemes, to me, employing him after that sends quite a clear message about how much the company values diversity.
> I think they might also have burger flipping machines in some places so they've started on the cooking robots.
I can imagine that most of the operations would be quite easy to sort (think burgers on conveyors etc), but the "salad" would be much less homogeneous. I guess if they could make the chips the same size then that'd help the automation too.
I can't think of anything a typical residential customer would want 1Gb/s for. Certainly not at the kind of price point that speed would command.
That's probably true for most households, but people trying to download big games etc or a photographer trying to back their photos up . might disagree. However, the same infrastructure would also be used by small-mid size businesses where the connection will be shared by more people and also might have large bandwidth requirements (eg graphic designers).
Now, Iceland and Turkey are hardly research giants, but Switzerland and Israel are. Has anyone told them how their research funding is about to be cut? I suspect the answer is no :-)
"Switzerland’s exile from EU research is a cautionary tale for the UK" - for a few years Switzerland was booted out of H2020 and Erasmus+.
I took a bit of Apple kit* bought there** once, the manager couldn't disguise how much she enjoyed telling me they couldn't/wouldn't take it back; the really crap thing is that she came over and stopped a trainee who was actually trying to be helpful. As a contrast I went into an Apple store who couldn't have been more helpful and swapped out without question.
* The original iPad Pro keyboard had a known fault so Apple swap them out
** I asked a friend to pick one up with a UK keyboard and to minimise her effort said grabbing one in an airport would be fine
I know Cisco CCIE's who run crappy, ISP provided routers at home for this exact reason!
My day job is mostly HPC, I spent last night partially recovering my Ubiquiti setup which had borked itself again. After a while I started to wonder if I shouldn't just pull out my old Netgear "Nighthawk" or even take the ISP "router" out of bridge mode (enabling WiFi etc) and do something more interesting instead...