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Post by nautonnier on Sept 22, 2018 0:13:03 GMT
When I read that 'Wired' article I thought there's a market there for a 'Linux' copy left software for agricultural machinery. There is a lot more capability in such machines than most people realize. I was given a demonstration by a road construction company where they 'accessed' a site and there in pseudo 3D were all the vehicles working on the site and for example the 'dozer blade heights and the track were all being controlled by the company mainframe. Same for the backhoes and graders etc. If someone starts building an open source variant of the various ag and construction software they could corner the market. I will mention that to my son, the freshman computer science major ... and see if challenge (greed) for Generation Z overpowers the millennials proclivity to laziness. This is what machine-heavy manufacturing and constructing sectors have been coming to. Another reason Trump is right. Bring back that plant and equipment to here ... knowing that the number of jobs per unit of product is going down ... but the wage per job that will design, maintain and operate the plant will continue to go up. Concentrate those jobs and their product here. Imagine - Internet-of-things meets agriculture/construction equipment open source copy left software; 'there's an app for that' approach to tailoring 'open source' networked farm equipment. Add the bandwidth from 5G or WIMACS. Farm drone providing comes backbone and surveying telling irrigation where it's needed..... There's a whole world out there waiting to be captured by software engineering and an Ag App Shop
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Post by sigurdur on Sept 22, 2018 1:58:27 GMT
wonder if this is the same for other manufactures? Sig do you know? Case-IH somewhat the same. JD sued a farmer for modifying the code in his tractor. I can't remember the outcome, think it was appealed because the farmer won the 1st go around. JD threatened to remove the brain box. Farmer said go ahead. He was going to put a better one on.
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Post by blustnmtn on Sept 22, 2018 12:17:22 GMT
I will mention that to my son, the freshman computer science major ... and see if challenge (greed) for Generation Z overpowers the millennials proclivity to laziness. This is what machine-heavy manufacturing and constructing sectors have been coming to. Another reason Trump is right. Bring back that plant and equipment to here ... knowing that the number of jobs per unit of product is going down ... but the wage per job that will design, maintain and operate the plant will continue to go up. Concentrate those jobs and their product here. Imagine - Internet-of-things meets agriculture/construction equipment open source copy left software; 'there's an app for that' approach to tailoring 'open source' networked farm equipment. Add the bandwidth from 5G or WIMACS. Farm drone providing comes backbone and surveying telling irrigation where it's needed..... There's a whole world out there waiting to be captured by software engineering and an Ag App Shop I saw Matthew McConaughey do it in the movie Interstellar but he’s an astronaut capable of time travel 🤓
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Post by Ratty on Sept 22, 2018 12:58:36 GMT
Imagine - Internet-of-things meets agriculture/construction equipment open source copy left software; 'there's an app for that' approach to tailoring 'open source' networked farm equipment. Add the bandwidth from 5G or WIMACS. Farm drone providing comes backbone and surveying telling irrigation where it's needed..... There's a whole world out there waiting to be captured by software engineering and an Ag App Shop I saw Matthew McConaughey do it in the movie Interstellar but he’s an astronaut capable of time travel 🤓 As a former programmer, it's the touch-typing of complex computer code and/or commands that gets to me. Makes me feel so inadequate .....
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 22, 2018 16:21:37 GMT
I saw Matthew McConaughey do it in the movie Interstellar but he’s an astronaut capable of time travel 🤓 As a former programmer, it's the touch-typing of complex computer code and/or commands that gets to me. Makes me feel so inadequate ..... Touch typing in APL was really impressive Mind you I have heard it said that the Unix Vi editor was developed for one handed touch typing with the keyboard on your lap, while holding a slice of pizza or a can of 'Jolt' in the other hand.
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Post by Ratty on Sept 23, 2018 0:55:37 GMT
As a former programmer, it's the touch-typing of complex computer code and/or commands that gets to me. Makes me feel so inadequate ..... Touch typing in APL was really impressive Mind you I have heard it said that the Unix Vi editor was developed for one handed touch typing with the keyboard on your lap, while holding a slice of pizza or a can of 'Jolt' in the other hand. I always spilled the drink ....
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 11, 2018 19:10:41 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Oct 12, 2018 0:54:34 GMT
Yes, they were one of the driving forces behind WOTUS.
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Post by sigurdur on Oct 12, 2018 6:37:54 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Oct 12, 2018 7:28:49 GMT
It feels nearly that cold here (17c): Cold and miserable with rain and shower forecast into the foreseeable future ..... I knew I shouldn't have stored the portable column heaters.
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Post by nautonnier on Oct 12, 2018 10:55:39 GMT
When you see 'trading markets' - what is meant is making a fortune out of what people normally had for free. I would not be surprised to find Goldman Sachs involved in something like that. They invented the futures market in agriculture to allow traders to make a fortune out of food years before harvests.
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 12, 2018 14:30:21 GMT
When Vikings start complaining about cold, does that mean WE Southrons are in trouble?
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 12, 2018 15:23:07 GMT
It feels nearly that cold here (17c): Cold and miserable with rain and shower forecast into the foreseeable future ..... I knew I shouldn't have stored the portable column heaters. Ratty. Do you know that that is bikini weather in Alaska?
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Post by Ratty on Oct 12, 2018 22:51:35 GMT
[ Snip ]Ratty. Do you know that that is bikini weather in Alaska? Pictures?
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 13, 2018 19:32:36 GMT
[ Snip ]Ratty. Do you know that that is bikini weather in Alaska? Pictures? Nope. The rats ate them.
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