Yah to be honest it seems a bit of creepy. I doubt they need factory floor managers, I'm sure their is a backdoor so they can fulfil their legally required handing over of data to requests by the american govenment. But as a non-american, thats not really a good thing that the american govenment can do that. I dont see Angela Merkel picking one up.
I'd rather smaller lines for each story. I can scroll in and out if I want it bigger. I'd also like to see a different font used. I don't like the logo placement as its distracting and in the way.
Learning another alphabet usually only takes a week or two with flashcards though. I wouldn't imagine that will hold anyone back. Though encouragement would help.
They probally have enough information to convict him. But you know that Kilos is just how most of the world handles weight? If I wanted to put lets say a speaker or computer in there, id also be interested in what weight it can hold.
If they actually wanted to carry money, they would also need to know as money is pretty heavy.
That is really unfortunate. Especially considering english is second language of choice of so much of the world. It would be helpful for more great works to be translated.
Thats good news that you still enjoyed Ringworld. I was wondering if the orginality of the work was the main strength of it at the time. I still hear mixed things about the Halo books. Goodreads is still giving the first one a good rating, but the reviews are all over the place.
It looks like that a lot of russian sci-fi is hard to get english translations of. For example a search for "Kir Bulychov" on amazon.co.uk doesnt return anything of the childrens sci-fi he wrote, which you would expect to still sell well.
After reading Ringworld as a kid, Halo was a bit of a let down. For all those who grew up with Halo, I wonder if Ringworld stands up. I'd add the new Young Miles omnibus by Lois McMaster Bujold. Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon. Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones (read it again recently and the quantum computer is interesting). Moon of Three Rings and Sargasso of Space by Andre Norton.
Do people still use travel agents? The only time I used one (trip was a gift) we had a bad experience. I think pretty much all the younger generation/tech savy people plan their own trips online manually.
You have just found a hard problem. :) More seriously I find depending on the users needs, different documentation are needed. Documentation for beginners. Specifications which include any gotcha that anyone ever tells you, also what it doesnt do that people try. And how-tos to get stuff done. And never believe anyone who tells you the code/test documents itself. It doesn't. It just means your trying to get the users to document it for you. Which isn't terrible if you have to do it to lower cost, but lowers uptake, and gives a worse experience.
I found your comment an interesting read, and I want to think about it some more. However this one part struck me as why I wanted to comment earlier, " assume that you upset the status quo at your peril ", this is the exact opposite strategy to "disrupt everything" that comes from silicon valley, so I think there is a bit of a sw/manufacturing ideology gap. I suspect neither side is 100% wrong, more disruption chances could success in manufacturing, some software should take a more conservative
stance off the bat, but I think where your speaking from, we don't hear enough about.
You kind of ignoring that we live in the age of the internet and word-of-mouth can work a lot better than sales/marketing. Returns too, only matter if it actually does fail, which given the premiss it doesnt.
No reason why a exponential improvement in lightbulbs would be less popular than anything else people have looked at and said this is way better than that.
Plus that kind of person can make you money just by the talent who will work with you to work with them.
Also great rewards from the right question from the expert to the up-and-coming talent.