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| eti:
--- Quote from: Faringdon on January 22, 2022, 10:49:14 am ---Hi, We are looking for a software engineer to come and work for us. We have a product which installs onto lamp-posts in town centres/underground stations/football grounds/bus stops, and counts the number of people who pass by. We need you to not necessarily write the software for it, but pretend that you did....you must be able to sound like you did write the software...you see, we are seeking funding from the UK government to bring this product to the UK market. Even though we simply received the product from our master Chinese company, we must make it look like we made the product ourselves, in order that the UK government will give us the money to take this product forward and market it. We are bandstanding that "British designed and built" thing...even though none of us designed or built the product, ...we do have engineering degrees which make us "look the part". Anyway, please get in touch if you can...we stand to be millionaires by the end of the year. We can get you over to China where you can speak with the actual software engineers...there you can learn to "talk the talk"!!......and get ready for a very bloated bank account!!! We have targeted people in the funding sector, who know what we're up to, but will "turn a blind eye"...but we still need to fool the "system" generally....there's big bucks to be had from the funding sector alone!......even before we start talking actual profits! "Pro-British" type people need not apply..... after all, this is all about forwarding the decline of the UK ,while seriously augmenting our personal bank accounts! --- End quote --- Hello. My ex boss and family friend (England) already invented this system. He called it “PFM” for “People Flow Monitoring”, back in the 90s, and I used to travel with him and the team, installing these. This is not some small fry btw - they installed them in many, many train stations, shopping malls, airports etc. The name of his company at the time (1997 ish) was “Lee Integer Ltd” of Bowling Green Road, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England. It was then renamed to “Counting Solutions”, and a few years later, sold to Ferranti group, where the technology has evolved and thrives very healthily. Here is the website of the current company that runs the show: https://www.pfm-footfall.com/ and I installed this in: ~ London Trocadero (No. 1 Piccadilly, London). ~ Kingdom Centre (shopping centre) Glenrothes, Scotland. ~ Runcorn shopping centre. They also had contracts with British train stations, many other shops and malls, and I remember him saying they had a contract with “Schuh” shoe shops. I’m sure that many have copied and emulated the idea, but believe you me, back in the 90s he was the pioneer of this system, even if others existed. |
| eti:
--- Quote from: Faringdon on January 22, 2022, 10:49:14 am ---Hi, We are looking for a software engineer to come and work for us. We have a product which installs onto lamp-posts in town centres/underground stations/football grounds/bus stops, and counts the number of people who pass by. We need you to not necessarily write the software for it, but pretend that you did....you must be able to sound like you did write the software...you see, we are seeking funding from the UK government to bring this product to the UK market. Even though we simply received the product from our master Chinese company, we must make it look like we made the product ourselves, in order that the UK government will give us the money to take this product forward and market it. We are bandstanding that "British designed and built" thing...even though none of us designed or built the product, ...we do have engineering degrees which make us "look the part". Anyway, please get in touch if you can...we stand to be millionaires by the end of the year. We can get you over to China where you can speak with the actual software engineers...there you can learn to "talk the talk"!!......and get ready for a very bloated bank account!!! We have targeted people in the funding sector, who know what we're up to, but will "turn a blind eye"...but we still need to fool the "system" generally....there's big bucks to be had from the funding sector alone!......even before we start talking actual profits! "Pro-British" type people need not apply..... after all, this is all about forwarding the decline of the UK ,while seriously augmenting our personal bank accounts! --- End quote --- You are full of false bravado, and, erm, also a greater amount of something else. |
| BradC:
--- Quote from: eti on January 23, 2022, 01:05:33 am ---I’m sure that many have copied and emulated the idea, but believe you me, back in the 90s he was the pioneer of this system, even if others existed. --- End quote --- They've been around much longer than the 90's. Traditional "foot fall counters" started to really take hold as PE beams and electro-mechanical counters in retail in the late 70's and early 80's. I'm sure there are plenty of examples older than that. I wasn't sure if the post was a spoof or treez was off his meds. |
| eti:
--- Quote from: BradC on January 23, 2022, 01:17:36 am --- --- Quote from: eti on January 23, 2022, 01:05:33 am ---I’m sure that many have copied and emulated the idea, but believe you me, back in the 90s he was the pioneer of this system, even if others existed. --- End quote --- They've been around much longer than the 90's. Traditional "foot fall counters" started to really take hold as PE beams and electro-mechanical counters in retail in the late 70's and early 80's. I'm sure there are plenty of examples older than that. I wasn't sure if the post was a spoof or treez was off his meds. --- End quote --- Yes I’m sure that’s true, but this was and is fully automated and logged to a computer system. I didn’t get involved with the programming or detailed installation, I was mainly the “hand me the drill please” assistant, and back at the lab I was in charge of duplicating PICs and calibrating ceramic humidity sensors for other projects. I’ve no idea as the the state of the this sector now. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: jpanhalt on January 22, 2022, 11:19:20 pm --- --- Quote from: tooki on January 22, 2022, 10:01:04 pm --- --- Quote from: jpanhalt on January 22, 2022, 08:05:28 pm ---In the US, it's called retirement by incarceration. It's better than starving to death, and affords one the best medical care anyone could want. That is, you can demand and get the best specialists at Mayo Clinic or claim cruel and inhuman punishment. --- End quote --- For those who don't know, this is either a joke, or an insane level of misinformation, as this couldn't be further from the truth, with the possible exception of inmates of the luxury prisons for the richest of white-collar criminals. Inmates at normal prisons, including federal, get basic medical care, if they're lucky. (And no, the phrase "retirement by incarceration" is not a thing. Try googling it in quotes. The only other result is from jpanhalt himself, on a different electronics forum.) --- End quote --- I give up. This site has the worst system for deleting and restoring I have seen! Posting images can be a nightmare. I hit a wrong key and my whole response was deleted. Apparently no recovery. I will not waste time on repeating it. Suffice it to be said that my attorney and I coined that term during a period of levity. I had no idea it was so unique. If you want to know the rest, read about why vaccinations cannot be mandated on prisoners and why prisoners on death row get transplants ahead of those who are not in prison. Our Federal prisons are better than some resorts. --- End quote --- Uh huh. And I have a bridge to sell you. It’s in Brooklyn, lovingly pre-owned. It’s one thing to find examples of where the legally mandated healthcare in prison is better than the zero healthcare some civilians “have”. It’s quite another to extrapolate that to seeing prisons as resorts. That’s absolute lunacy. --- Quote from: jpanhalt on January 23, 2022, 12:16:18 am ---Sorry. Perhaps Tooki would be wisely advised not to rely on Google for American culture. --- End quote --- I think I can rely on the fact that I am American for that. (Who keeps close tabs on what’s going on in my home country, even if I’m not living there at the moment.) But regardless Google is a decent way for seeing if any phrase has been uttered publicly in the last 20 years, in the sense of a sanity check of “has this entered the lexicon, even rarely?”. |
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