#Mobile Data Size

[riya2510]

Mobile Data Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast

Mobile Data Market Research

According to Straits Research, the global Mobile Data market size was valued at USD 640.56 Billion in 2023. It is projected to reach from USD 683.98 Billion in 2024 to USD 1,156.02 Billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 6.78% during the forecast period (2024–2032).

The Mobile Data market, an evolving segment in the industry, is witnessing substantial expansion fueled by avant-garde technologies and escalating consumer demand. Market analysts scrupulously gather data through polls, focus groups, and in-depth scrutiny of industry patterns. These analysts utilize both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to ensure a comprehensive and precise market report. The report encompasses intricate insights on market size, growth prospects, competitive milieu, and consumer predilections. By harnessing advanced analytical instruments and expert acumen, the report delivers invaluable recommendations and strategic guidance for stakeholders, empowering them to make enlightened decisions and seize emerging prospects within the Mobile Data market.

Competitive Players

The competitive landscape of the Mobile Data market includes several key players who have a significant impact on market dynamics. Major companies operating in this market include:

AT&T Inc.

China Telecom Corp. Ltd.

Deutsche Telekom AG

Vodafone Group Plc

Verizon Communications Inc.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)

Telefonica SA

KT Corporation

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited

Orange SA

Get a free sample of the Mobile Data Market @ https://straitsresearch.com/report/mobile-data-market/request-sample

Mobile Data Market Segmentation

The comprehensive Mobile Data market analysis has been divided into categories such as category, application, and delivery mode, with each subset examined according to geographical segmentation. This research will keep marketers updated and assist in pinpointing target demographics for a product or service, including insights into market share.

By Transmission

Wireline

Wireless

By Service type

Basic communication

Value added

By End-Use

Consumer/Residential

Business

You can check In-depth Segmentation from here: https://straitsresearch.com/report/mobile-data-market/segmentation

Regional Analysis

The Mobile Data market is studied, and market size insights and trends are offered by nation, kind, form, and application, as previously said. The report's regional analysis section provides a thorough study of many regional and national industries to help players establish successful development strategies.

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Key Highlights

The purpose of this study is to examine the manufacturers of Mobile Data, including profiles, primary business activities, news, sales and price, revenue, and market share.

It illustrates the market subdivided by type and application, with details on sales, price, revenue, market share, and growth rate broken down by type and application.

The research covers key regions by manufacturers, categories, and applications, including North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and South America, with sales, revenue, and market share segmented by manufacturers, types, and applications.

It also investigates production costs, essential raw materials, and production methods.

Principal Motives Behind the Purchase:

To gain deep analyses of the industry and understand the commercial landscape of the global market.

To analyze production processes, key problems, and potential solutions to mitigate future issues.

To understand the most influential driving and restraining factors in the Mobile Data industry and their global market impact.

To gain insights into the market strategies employed by the most successful firms.

To understand the market's future and potential.

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[krakhatoa]

the mfers too stupid to use their goddamn brains and are instead blaming third party voters when Harris would NOT have won even if every single third party voter in the swing states went to her just shows how stupid you bitches be and refuse to ACKNOWLEDGE THAT A PARTY DELIBERATELY ALLOWING A FOREIGN COUNTRY TO CONTROL THEM IS THE FUCKING ISSUE THAT LEAD TO THIS LOSS

do some goddamn math with the data IN FRONT OF YOU TO SEE ITS NOT THE THIRD PARTY VOTERS BUT THE LIBS AND DEMS ALIENATION OF PPL CARING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS THAT LEAD TO THIS LOSS

[doctahpants]

In case anyone wonders, I probably won't be around much the next week or so. We're moving house and won't have WiFi until next week.

[caleism-1]

Bold of them to assume I only have 100 tabs anyways

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

WHO IS USING THIS

AN APP??? THEY HAVE A FUNCTIONING WEBSITE

THE LAST FUNCTIONING WEBSITE

[maxlearnmicrolearningplatform]

How to Create ‘Fail-Safe’ Microlearning Lessons

Microlearning has revolutionized the way organizations deliver training to their employees. Its bite-sized format allows learners to acquire knowledge quickly and efficiently, making it an ideal solution for busy professionals with limited time. However, creating effective microlearning lessons requires careful planning and execution to ensure maximum engagement and retention. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore how to create 'fail-safe' microlearning lessons that deliver results consistently.

Understanding the Concept of 'Fail-Safe' Microlearning

Before delving into the specifics of creating fail-safe microlearning lessons, it's essential to understand what we mean by 'fail-safe' in this context. A fail-safe microlearning lesson is one that is designed to minimize the risk of learners not achieving the desired learning outcomes. It anticipates potential obstacles or challenges that learners may encounter and addresses them proactively to ensure successful learning.

Key Principles for Creating Fail-Safe Microlearning Lessons

Clear Learning Objectives: Begin by clearly defining the learning objectives for each microlearning lesson. What specific knowledge or skills do you want learners to gain? Clearly articulating these objectives will guide the development process and help ensure that the content remains focused and relevant.

Relevant Content: Ensure that the content of your microlearning lesson is directly relevant to the learning objectives. Avoid including extraneous information that may distract or overwhelm learners. Keep the content concise and to the point, focusing on delivering key insights or actionable takeaways.

Interactive Engagement: Incorporate interactive elements into your microlearning lessons to keep learners engaged and actively involved in the learning process. This could include quizzes, simulations, scenario-based challenges, or interactive videos. Interactive elements not only enhance engagement but also reinforce learning by providing opportunities for practice and feedback.

Adaptive Learning Paths: Consider incorporating adaptive learning paths into your microlearning lessons to cater to the individual needs and preferences of learners. Adaptive learning uses data analytics and algorithms to personalize the learning experience based on learners' performance, preferences, and learning styles. By adapting the content and delivery methods to each learner, you can maximize engagement and retention.

Micro-Assessments: Integrate frequent assessments into your microlearning lessons to gauge learners' understanding and progress. These assessments could take the form of quizzes, knowledge checks, or scenario-based assessments. By providing immediate feedback on performance, learners can identify areas for improvement and reinforce their learning effectively.

Multi-Modal Delivery: Recognize that learners have different preferences when it comes to how they consume information. Some may prefer reading text-based content, while others may prefer watching videos or listening to audio. To accommodate these preferences, consider offering microlearning lessons in multiple modalities, such as text, audio, video, and interactive simulations.

Mobile Accessibility: Ensure that your microlearning lessons are accessible across a variety of devices, including smartphones, tablets, and laptops. Mobile accessibility allows learners to access training content anytime, anywhere, making it convenient for them to fit learning into their busy schedules.

Practical Strategies for Creating Fail-Safe Microlearning Lessons

Now that we've covered the key principles of creating fail-safe microlearning lessons, let's explore some practical strategies for implementing these principles:

Storyboarding: Begin by creating a storyboard for your microlearning lesson to outline the flow of content and interactions. This will help ensure that the lesson remains focused and cohesive, with clear objectives and a logical progression of information.

Chunking Content: Break down the content of your microlearning lesson into small, digestible chunks to make it more manageable for learners. Each chunk should focus on a single concept or idea, allowing learners to absorb information gradually without feeling overwhelmed.

Visual Design: Pay attention to the visual design of your microlearning lesson to make it visually appealing and easy to navigate. Use clear, concise visuals, such as icons, images, and infographics, to enhance understanding and retention.

Simulations and Scenarios: Incorporate real-life simulations and scenarios into your microlearning lessons to provide context and relevance to the content. This could involve presenting learners with a hypothetical situation and asking them to make decisions or solve problems based on their knowledge.

Feedback Mechanisms: Implement feedback mechanisms into your microlearning lessons to provide learners with immediate feedback on their performance. This could include automated feedback for quizzes and assessments or interactive simulations with branching scenarios based on learner choices.

Gamification Elements: Introduce gamification elements into your microlearning lessons to increase motivation and engagement. This could include points, badges, leaderboards, and rewards for completing activities or achieving milestones.

Continuous Improvement: Finally, recognize that creating fail-safe microlearning lessons is an ongoing process of continuous improvement. Solicit feedback from learners and stakeholders, analyze performance data, and iterate on your lessons based on insights gained. By continuously refining and optimizing your microlearning content, you can ensure that it remains relevant, effective, and engaging over time.

Conclusion

Creating fail-safe microlearning lessons requires careful planning, execution, and continuous improvement. By adhering to key principles such as clear learning objectives, relevant content, interactive engagement, adaptive learning paths, and multi-modal delivery, you can create microlearning lessons that consistently deliver results. Incorporating practical strategies such as storyboarding, chunking content, visual design, simulations, feedback mechanisms, gamification elements, and continuous improvement will further enhance the effectiveness of your microlearning initiatives. With the right approach, microlearning can be a powerful tool for providing engaging, effective, and personalized training to employees, ultimately driving improved performance and organizational success.

[agent4justice]

Scammers sophistication technique have reached a new apex, making Banking Fraud just like a walk in the park to this crime syndicates with richer background helter-skelters depositors and has been keeping most retirees that reinvested most of their retirement plan sleepless after words of the threat that swept the streets does not seem to have not weakened at all.

Masses are appealing for a more stringent countermeasure to be in place as soon as possible, such are adding more authentication request. Although retina scanner can slow down the process with the amount or rather the size of the data, but it also gives us an opportunity of having time to lockout perpetrators. The size of the data makes it at least 70% better than an iris scan and many more folds multiplied compared to a fingerprint.

Several years ago, I foresaw that the mCommerce (mobile commerce) would be ruled out as the mainstay of electronic processing for the sole reason that it is the most affordable business appliance that can serve the majority, representing the poor to medium class and the trending plot of global economic structure just like a triangle.

Having mCommerce | Mobile Technology as our economic transport offers the possibility of catering and adding the biggest chunk of our global population to pitch in the global trade for us to achieve having reserves and surplus will be more conceivable.

To make it a little impenetrable and globally under tighter scrutiny, I proposed that we adopt the universal identification system. We will integrate every other form of identity attached to it using our mobile number as the key index that will permanently our lifetime phone number. In the event of loss, the telco will make a SIM based on a secret code given to the subscriber upon the receipt of your subscription and issuance, which will be honored and will be service by other Telcos if subscriber opt to change carrier. The number coding of telcos should also compliment tracking effort, narrowed down within the radius and range of a few kilometers apart where the last signal was received or transmitted. The succeeding successful connection recorded by cell sites would enable us to speculate the linear direction as it trends.

We will enable the mobile technology to be a conduit of payment gateways or as a payment gateway itself. Our objective is to open the global trade and cover a larger scope and as far-reaching it could service most specially the marginalized poor a chance to lift their social status getting connected and finally be able to join our bandwagon to the brighter future. The fact can't be denied that they have been left without an adequate means to tap the convenience and business opportunity through eCommerce. Through the mobile payment gateway, even in the absence of a banking system in their region, they can now fulfill the checkout process by loading or charging it from your telco which is even less intricate than having a debit card or as to many known financial credibility.

#mobilepaymentgateway

#mobiletechnology

#mCommerce

#onlinefraud

#RetinaScan

Scammers sophistication technique have reached a new apex, making Banking Fraud just like a walk in the park to this crime syndicates with richer background helter-skelters depositors and has been keeping most retirees that reinvested most of their retirement plan sleepless after words of the threat that swept the streets does not seem to have not weakened at all.

Masses are appealing for a more stringent countermeasure to be in place as soon as possible, such are adding more authentication request. Although retina scanner can slow down the process with the amount or rather the size of the data, but it also gives us an opportunity of having time to lockout perpetrators. The size of the data makes it at least 70% better than an iris scan and many more folds multiplied compared to a fingerprint.

Several years ago, I foresaw that the mCommerce (mobile commerce) would be ruled out as the mainstay of electronic processing for the sole reason that it is the most affordable business appliance that can serve the majority, representing the poor to medium class and the trending plot of global economic structure just like a triangle.

Having mCommerce | Mobile Technology as our economic transport offers the possibility of catering and adding the biggest chunk of our global population to pitch in the global trade for us to achieve having reserves and surplus will be more conceivable.

To make it a little impenetrable and globally under tighter scrutiny, I proposed that we adopt the universal identification system. We will integrate every other form of identity attached to it using our mobile number as the key index that will permanently our lifetime phone number. In the event of loss, the telco will make a SIM based on a secret code given to the subscriber upon the receipt of your subscription and issuance, which will be honored and will be service by other Telcos if subscriber opt to change carrier. The number coding of telcos should also compliment tracking effort, narrowed down within the radius and range of a few kilometers apart where the last signal was received or transmitted. The succeeding successful connection recorded by cell sites would enable us to speculate the linear direction as it trends.

We will enable the mobile technology to be a conduit of payment gateways or as a payment gateway itself. Our objective is to open the global trade and cover a larger scope and as far-reaching it could service most specially the marginalized poor a chance to lift their social status getting connected and finally be able to join our bandwagon to the brighter future. The fact can't be denied that they have been left without an adequate means to tap the convenience and business opportunity through eCommerce. Through the mobile payment gateway, even in the absence of a banking system in their region, they can now fulfill the checkout process by loading or charging it from your telco which is even less intricate than having a debit card or as to many known financial credibility.

#mobilepaymentgateway

#mobiletechnology

#mCommerce

#onlinefraud

#RetinaScan

#FraudAlert

#FraudAlert

[andrevasims]

Pretersolaria Institute: CC-Free Uni & Individual Lots

Eventually I want to share the entirety of Rhyolite Valley, but it's a bit hairy with the 47 sims & CC hood deco & the garbage data I let seep in while playing (so I'd have to remake all of that before sharing).

I thought I'd "practice" the process of remaking the hood by starting a little smaller: The uni subhood. Since I only made a handful of sims for it (which are not included... yet) and it works aesthetically without CC hood deco. Sounds simple, right? Weelllll it took about a week of near daily effort to actually do. Makes the prospect of doing the actual hood soooo much more exciting lol /s

Anyway, that's what this is: A new university subhood template that's CLEAN & EMPTY. As a bonus (or if you just don't like the subhood), I've also included individual lot packages for every lot in the subhood to use wherever you want.

The "gimmick" of this hood is that Rhyolite Valley, and by extension Pretersolaria Institute, is entirely self-sufficient & cobbled together by the local residents. Which means there's no indoor plumbing lol.

That also means simply sitting down at a computer to write a term paper isn't as easy as a regular uni. Students have to go to THE BOOKMOBILE to access computers. Same goes for the skill building required for each semester/major. You have to venture out to the relevant community lot to find the means for skill building.

I've included in the uni's photo album & the lot descriptions which skills are available to build on each lot. It'll say "+Cooking" or whatever skill(s) the lot can provide based on the objects it has.

— WHERE/HOW TO INSTALL: —————————

Place the "PRTR" folder in its entirety in the "Program Files > EA GAMES > The Sims 2 University > TSData > Res > NeighborhoodTemplate" directory. Or whatever equivalent location you have for a TS2 University folder in the Program Files section.

Mootilda's Subhood Selection Mod is required to see additional universities below the main 3 pre-made ones.

You can then select Pretersolaria Institute in the list of options when creating a new uni subhood in a neighborhood.

— UNI SUBHOOD LOT INFO: ——————————

• Dorms: 1 (Klaatu Mobile Park)

6br / 5ba | Value: §20,444 | Size: 30 x 20

• Residential: 3 (Fulquard, Mushnick, & Burson Shack)

1br / 1ba | Value: §3,816-§3,862 | Size: 10 x 10

• Greek House: 1 (Tobor Testing Bureau)

10br / 10ba | Value: §30,363 | Size: 30 x 20

• Community: 6 (Wiploc Amphitheatre, THE BOOKMOBILE, Ikron Confectioneries, Zarkov Training Center, Big Heart Dude, Krelboined Horticulture)

• Secret Society: 1 (Temple of Laganaphyllis)

Value: §56,035 | Size: 20 x 20 | Zone: Community (individual version)

— NOTES: ———————————————————

• On 2 lots (Big Heart Dude & Wiploc Amphitheatre), I used the Seasons Music career reward The Rock Hammer for speaker deco. I used MoveObjects to delete the guitar but keep the speakers.

It's possible that either A. The guitars will respawn when you move the lot in the hood, or B. Sims will attempt to play the guitar and complain about being blocked (because I purposely blocked them).

If the guitars respawn, open the lot in Buy/Build mode and with MoveObjects On use the sledgehammer tool to remove the guitar.

If sims are complaining about not being able to reach the guitar, well they're not supposed to be able to lol. If hearing them complain is annoying, you can either use this mod that makes them stop yelling when something blocks them and leaves only the thought bubble, or delete the whole object.

• The Wiploc Amphitheatre may also have some glitchy-looking ground that you can see in neighborhood view when the camera moves. This is because I shortened the lot with Lot Adjuster. I don't know how to make it stop doing that, because I've transferred the lot to other hoods, packaged the lot, Lot Cleaner'd it, Lot Compressor'd it, moved it to the Lots & Houses Bin, etc. and it has never stopped looking like that. So again if that annoys you, remove the lot I guess?

• Please let me know if there are any additional problems.

I've never done this before specifically with a uni subhood, so it's very likely I messed up somewhere.

Additional Interior/Detail Pictures

DOWNLOAD UNI SUBHOOD: SFS | MF

DOWNLOAD INDIVIDUAL LOTS: SFS | MF

[wip]

For a long time now, it's been impossible to see comments or reblogs with comment/tags on posts over a certain age when using the mobile app or blog view. Today I was looking at a post from 2015 that I knew had at least one reblog comment and lots of tags, but all the reblogs were under "other". I found the comment (but couldn't see any tags) by going to the [blog name].tumblr.com/post/[###] link and scrolling through all the notes in one list, but it's impossible anywhere else.

I know this probably has to do with the many changes Tumblr has gone through in that time, but it's still really inconvenient to have disappearing notes on the platform where part of the charm is that posts can survive for, at this point, almost a decade and a half.

Is it even possible to fix this, and of so, is it something you would consider?

Answer: Hey there, @maplerosekisses!

It is possible to fix this, and we would like to fix it, but it’s a daunting problem at Tumblr’s scale. Buckle up for storytime.

Long, long ago, Tumblr was created, and in the beginning, there weren’t even notes on posts. There weren’t even reblogs or likes. In fact, we were one of the first platforms to introduce the heart icon and the concept of “likes”! We created the reblog! Back in those days, each of these actions were tracked separately. Likes were tracked in one database table and reblogs weren’t tracked at all as notes. When we introduced replies, those had yet another way of being tracked in our database. Totally separate entities on the platform for years.

Eventually, we wanted to consolidate these into one number—so we had to count each of those different places. That’s horribly inefficient, and as Tumblr grew in size and popularity, this became a bottleneck that hurt the whole platform. So one of the things we did was to invent a new denormalized database table called “notes,” to track all of these different things in one place so we could easily count them. We still have that table, and it’s still the fallback whenever we need to count the notes on a post.

But this itself is ancient history. Since then, the product has changed even more, and we removed replies and re-added them later, back in 2015 or so—and made some changes in that process to help further improve efficiency. These improvements allowed us to include media in the notes view, and be able to split out replies versus reblogs-with-comment versus likes (kind of going back to the way it was originally.) Even then, we didn’t yet support showing tag usage in the notes—that would come even later.

In the process of making all of these changes for efficiency and functionality, we had to ask ourselves, as you point out: should we try to backfill these new database tables with all of the data from before? For a long while, we were using both systems to power the notes view, so we could display as much information from “before” as we could. Eventually, we didn’t need to do that anymore, because the number of people scrolling back to that “before” time became infinitesimally small. And that's the situation we’re in today.

Because if we wanted to backfill the data, we would need to process literally tens of billions of posts and notes from before 2015, at a conservative estimate. Let’s say it’s 10,000,000,000, for the sake of argument: if we started an automated process to go through them at ~100 per second (which would be relatively safe at our scale, so Tumblr doesn’t break as we’re digging up these old rows in the database), it would take over three years of continuous operation to complete that task.

In situations like this, we have to ask ourselves if that’s worth it. So far, the answer we’ve determined is no. But we may find a more efficient way to do it, there’s undoubtedly a way, and when we do, we will re-evaluate the decision again. We hope that makes sense—trying to make changes to Tumblr can be really, really hard.

But thank you for your question. We appreciate them and hope that goes some way to answering your query. Keep 'em coming, y'all.

[politicalprof]

The polling conundrum

So we are there. Less than 36 hours until campaign ads (basically) end. We can make it!

For those who are poll-obsessed (Politcalprof is NOT), this is the time of tea leaves. Every detail, every hint, every turn is parsed and participled and probed beyond the tensile strength of titanium.

And yet no one really knows anything.

I want to suggest we are in of two basic situations, but we can't know which one until the event is over. (Paging Dr. Heisenberg!)

--1): Things are indeed as tight as they seem. The pollsters have figured out how to build representative pools in a time when no one answers their phones, and they've figured out to massage the data into a representative mix that accurately reflects who will vote on election day. Thus, their predictions are roughly accurate, and while there is always a margin of error, the election is a nail-biter that will come down to seven swing states and a couple of hundred thousand votes.

--2): There's an anomaly in this year's voting pool that the pollsters haven't caught. In other words, there's a surprise distribution of voters in 2024 that pollsters haven't accounted for in their predictions. So their models are wrong. This surprise distribution could, of course, be a mobilized right OR a mobilized left; there is no scientific reason to assume one "surprise" group is going to be mobilized while another isn't. In either case, the election is not actually that close, and one side or the other is heading for a decent-sized win.

If you're Elon Musk, you're convinced that the second path is true, and that the mobilized force is aggrieved white men and their allies who are going to go to the polls to "save" America. (Hence the heavy reliance on anti-immigrant and anti-trans messaging.) He certainly has been promoting this line heavily.

But I'd guess that IF there is a "secret" force out there whose voting percentage is higher than normal and whose force the pollsters' models haven't accounted for, it's women. Most of whom will have been mobilized by Dobbs and its aftermath.

Beyond the anecdotal, one piece of evidence suggests this may be the case: the Selzer poll from Iowa that has Kamala Harris leading in that state. Even if the poll is wrong, and Harris loses Iowa anyway, if the size of Harris' loss is unexpectedly small, that suggests that women have mobilized to a greater extent than pollsters have realized. It may also suggest that fewer men are voting Trump than predicted. In either case, it suggests the polls have been leaning Trump as an artifact of the pollsters' algorithms, not political reality.

Of course we won't know which, if either, of these situations is real until *after* the election. Perhaps not even by tomorrow. But if Iowa is close I'd expect the blue wall of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to hold, and several states like Arizona and Georgia to be in play. If Iowa reverts to type and the Selzer poll is just wrong, then Trump's chances are pretty good.

How's that for reading tea leaves?

[the-cat-ara]

My fandesign portal 2

GlaDos

She is connected to the mainframe, but she can be separated from it thanks to cables that serve as extensions, but they are not so long that she can take a walk around the facility (not that she needs to leave her room or is interested in doing so) the only thing that would prevent her from being able to move freely away from her mainframe is having cores connected to it or when a core transfer occurs, either of these situations activates a latch that is on her back, taking away her mobility at the same time, in case she is separated from the mainframe the cables will start to retract pulling her back to the mainframe (recommendation, do not force or you will cause damage to the circuits). She is equipped with Long Fall Boots

Her hands and arms have the ability to project holograms, usually small (although the size of the hologram can also increase if she projects with two or more hands) she uses them to view important information and files. also to monitor test subjects, she can also record herself but it's not a function she uses

(as an added bonus I was thinking that where the projectors would be on her arms I was thinking of making it where they connect to the personality cores, but it would be too easy for her to rip them out from there so I discarded the idea completely).

Intelligence Dampening Core (Wheatley)

on him back him panel with the Aterture Science logo can be opened to connect to panels or transfer rails, but also cables can be connected to him back at the bottom, but it is mostly for battery recharging or simple data transfers, in case you want to transmit more complex data or check the core database you will need to open her back panel, you can also connect pendrives XD

him hands and feet have emergency connectors and magnets, in case when connected to the glados mainframe she tries to reject them or remove them by shaking, but him main connector as personality core is the one near the neck on her sword

he is very light, surprisingly light, which makes it easy to be connected to her rail and to move on it quickly (also to be carried by a person). He is is equipped with Long Fall Boots

normally cores have the serial number engraved on the side of their chest but wheatley and Rick seem to be one of the few cores with a proper name, maybe it was just a whim of one of the researchers who let them keep a proper name or simply gave them those names.

in their deteriorated state, their arms fall off or stop working for short periods of time (along with his tik in the eye, it was all caused by the microbot Jerry).

his exposed wires are a constant risk of an explosion or his circuits melting, so he may just be a bit more nervous than usual when he remember this

he still has his flashlight function in his eye, his head (and that of all the cores) can be detached from his body (that's how his head ends up in GlaDos' body XD) if his head isn't connected to anything he can still continue to have control over his body

Adventure Core (Rick)

to begin with, as in the game all the cores are the same in terms of design…. More or less, the variations are in the location or number of handles, and their characteristic color, in Rick's case he has an extra crank on his neck.

Some scientist thought it was funny to simply give him a cowboy hat (I also leave a drawing without his hat just in case).

apart from that, all the cores have the same functions as mentioned above with Wheatley

Fact Core

the data core has a unique crank on its hips, unlike the other cores that have a crank on each side of the hip, it also has a little bow that someone from the staff put on it, he likes it, he says it goes with his intellectual tone, his serial number was erased with time and the wear and tear of his paint.

Space Core

the space core has a glass helmet, he thinks it is a space helmet but it is just a noise muffler as he always seems to talk shouting which annoyed some people, I think at this point the scientist who stuck all those decals on him was fired or maybe something worse? either way it doesn't seem to bother him, he is capable of sticking more on if he could find more decals of course, his serial number was also erased by the wear of the paint

What also differentiates it from the other cores is that it has more battery than the rest, due to its restlessness, its battery is usually consumed faster, if it had the same amount of battery as the others it would have to be recharged several times.

Chell

she still has the same design, I just added some scars on her arms; some are from burns, scrapes, and bullet impacts from turrets.

WheatDOS or Wheatle in the body of glados

He still has the same functions as GLaDOS, only he doesn't know how to use them properly. I can only imagine him as a dad trying to use a phone for the first time, just clicking on the first thing he sees without bothering to read. The only function he learned to use was recording himself, and he loves to have that omnipresent villain vibe.

He has difficulty walking due to GLaDOS's high heels (he pretends to know how to walk gracefully in them, but his heels have bent in so many ways that if he were human, he would need surgery to walk again)

Just like with the Aperture Laboratories logo, which he replaces with his name, he crosses out GLaDOS's name on his chest and simply writes his name with a blue marker. When GLaDOS sees this, she scolds him for daring to vandalize her body.

He also changes his lab coat to one that is more fitting for a villain, so he decides to dye it a dark color (this also annoys GLaDOS; he just keeps adding reasons to her list of "reasons to kill him")

statures

all cores have the same size, so just add Wheatley to the size comparison picture

I wouldn't know how to express their heights with numbers so I'll just leave you with the guys standing side by side.

statures but with wheatle in the body of glados

here wheatley is still smaller than glados despite being on his body XD

Well, I think that would be all the information on these designs; more than data, they were like random ideas, haha.

I apologize for the bombardment of information and the excess of text and thoughts I had for each design.

I don't know if the Portal/Portal 2 fandom is still alive (from 2011 to 2024, that's a long time💀💀💀), I have the bad habit of getting into fandoms too late, haha, but I hope you like it.

In the future, I plan to make humanized versions (well, I already have Wheatley's ready, but it needs some touch-ups, XD).

If you have any other questions you want to know about them, feel free to ask; I will gladly answer your questions! :D!!

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A First-Timer’s Guide to Implementing Microlearning with Ease

Microlearning has rapidly become a favored approach in corporate training and education, offering a flexible and efficient way to deliver bite-sized learning content. Its appeal lies in its ability to cater to the modern learner’s need for quick, targeted learning experiences that can be seamlessly integrated into their daily routines. However, for first-timers, the process of implementing microlearning can seem daunting. Fear not, as with the right strategies, you can navigate this terrain smoothly and effectively. Here are five essential tips to help you implement microlearning with ease.

1. Understand Your Audience

The success of any learning initiative begins with a deep understanding of your audience. Knowing who your learners are, their preferences, learning habits, and specific needs will guide the development of effective microlearning content.

Conduct a Needs Analysis: Start by conducting a thorough needs analysis to identify the knowledge gaps and learning requirements of your audience. Surveys, interviews, and focus groups can provide valuable insights into what your learners need and how they prefer to consume content.

Create Learner Personas: Develop detailed learner personas that represent different segments of your audience. Consider factors such as job roles, levels of experience, preferred learning styles, and technological proficiency. These personas will help you tailor content that resonates with your learners and addresses their specific needs.

Leverage Analytics: Use existing data from your learning management system (LMS) or other training tools to understand learner behavior. Analytics can reveal patterns such as which types of content are most engaging and which learning formats are most effective. This data-driven approach ensures that your microlearning content is both relevant and impactful.

2. Start Small and Scale Gradually

Microlearning’s modular nature makes it ideal for a phased implementation approach. Starting small allows you to refine your strategies and gradually scale up as you gain experience and confidence.

Pilot Programs: Begin with a pilot program targeting a small group of learners. This allows you to test your microlearning content, gather feedback, and make necessary adjustments before rolling it out to a larger audience. A pilot program also helps in identifying any technical issues or learner challenges early on.

Focus on Key Topics: Initially, focus on key topics that address critical knowledge gaps or skills. Choose content that is essential and can be easily broken down into bite-sized modules. This focused approach ensures that your initial microlearning efforts are impactful and manageable.

Iterative Development: Adopt an iterative development process where you continuously create, test, and refine content. This agile approach helps you to adapt quickly to feedback and improve the quality of your microlearning modules over time. Each iteration allows you to build on previous successes and learn from any challenges encountered.

3. Design Engaging and Interactive Content

The effectiveness of microlearning lies in its ability to engage learners and facilitate active learning. Creating engaging and interactive content is crucial to maintaining learner interest and promoting knowledge retention.

Use Multimedia: Incorporate a variety of multimedia elements such as videos, infographics, podcasts, and interactive simulations. Multimedia not only makes content more engaging but also caters to different learning styles. For instance, visual learners may benefit from infographics, while auditory learners might prefer podcasts.

Keep It Short and Focused: Each microlearning module should be concise and focused on a single learning objective. Aim for content that can be consumed in 5 to 10 minutes, allowing learners to easily fit learning into their busy schedules. This brevity ensures that learners can quickly grasp and retain the information.

Interactive Elements: Include interactive elements such as quizzes, polls, and scenario-based activities. These elements encourage active participation and reinforce learning by providing immediate feedback. Interactivity also helps learners apply what they’ve learned in a practical context, enhancing retention and understanding.

Storytelling: Use storytelling techniques to make content relatable and memorable. Real-life scenarios, case studies, and anecdotes can help learners connect with the material and see its practical application. Storytelling adds a human element to the learning experience, making it more engaging and impactful.

4. Leverage Technology and Tools

Effective microlearning implementation requires the right technological infrastructure and tools. Leveraging modern technology can enhance the delivery and accessibility of your microlearning content.

Learning Management Systems (LMS): Utilize an LMS that supports microlearning. An LMS can streamline content delivery, track learner progress, and provide valuable analytics to measure the effectiveness of your microlearning initiatives. Choose an LMS that offers features such as mobile compatibility, easy content integration, and robust reporting capabilities.

Mobile Learning: Ensure your microlearning content is mobile-friendly. Mobile learning allows learners to access content anytime, anywhere, making it convenient for those who prefer learning on the go. Design your content to be responsive and compatible with various devices, ensuring a seamless learning experience.

Microlearning Platforms: Consider using dedicated microlearning platforms that offer specialized features such as micro-lesson creation, gamification, and social learning components. These platforms can simplify the process of developing and managing microlearning content, providing you with tools to create engaging and interactive modules.

Content Creation Tools: Invest in user-friendly content creation tools that enable you to design professional-quality microlearning modules without requiring extensive technical expertise. Tools like Articulate Rise, Adobe Captivate, and H5P can be valuable assets, allowing you to create visually appealing and interactive content with ease.

5. Measure and Evaluate Effectiveness

Measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of your microlearning initiatives is essential to ensure they are meeting their intended goals and to identify areas for improvement.

Set Clear Objectives: Establish clear, measurable objectives for each microlearning module. These objectives will serve as benchmarks for evaluating the success of your microlearning efforts. Define what success looks like and what metrics you will use to measure it.

Collect Feedback: Regularly collect feedback from learners to understand their experiences and identify any challenges they may face. Use surveys, focus groups, and informal check-ins to gather qualitative insights. Learner feedback is invaluable for identifying areas of improvement and ensuring the content meets their needs.

Analyze Data: Leverage analytics to track learner engagement, completion rates, and performance metrics. Analyze this data to identify trends and areas where learners may be struggling. Data analysis helps you make informed decisions about content adjustments and future learning initiatives.

Continuous Improvement: Use the insights gained from feedback and data analysis to make continuous improvements to your microlearning content. Regularly update and refine modules to keep them relevant and effective. An iterative approach to content development ensures that your microlearning initiatives remain aligned with learner needs and organizational goals.

Case Studies and Success Stories: Document case studies and success stories that highlight the impact of your microlearning initiatives. These stories can provide evidence of effectiveness and help to build support for future microlearning projects. Sharing success stories also motivates learners and demonstrates the value of microlearning to stakeholders.

Conclusion

Implementing microlearning for the first time can be a rewarding endeavor when approached with careful planning and a learner-centric mindset. By understanding your audience, starting small, designing engaging content, leveraging technology, and continuously measuring effectiveness, you can create impactful microlearning experiences that drive real results. With these five tips, you’ll be well-equipped to navigate the challenges and harness the full potential of microlearning in your organization. Embrace the journey of microlearning implementation and watch as it transforms your corporate training and education landscape, making learning more accessible, engaging, and effective.

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crowdstrike: hot take 1

It's too early in the news cycle to say anything truly smart, but to sum things up, what I know so far:

there was no "hack" or cyberattack or data breach*

a private IT security company called CrowdStrike released a faulty update which practically disabled all its desktop (?) Windows workstations (laptops too, but maybe not servers? not sure)

the cause has been found and a fix is on the way

as it stands now, the fix will have to be manually applied (in person) to each affected workstation (this could mean in practice maybe 5, maybe 30 minutes of work for each affected computer - the number is also unknown, but it very well could be tens (or hundreds) of thousands of computers across thousands of large, multinational enterprises.

(The fix can be applied manually if you have a-bit-more-than-basic knowledge of computers)

Things that are currently safe to assume:

this wasn't a fault of any single individual, but of a process (workflow on the side of CrowdStrike) that didn't detect the fault ahead of time

[most likely] it's not that someone was incompetent or stupid - but we don't have the root cause analysis available yet

deploying bugfixes on Fridays is a bad idea

*The obligatory warning part:

Just because this wasn't a cyberattack, doesn't mean there won't be related security breaches of all kinds in all industries. The chaos, panic, uncertainty, and very soon also exhaustion of people dealing with the fallout of the issue will create a perfect storm for actually malicious actors that will try to exploit any possible vulnerability in companies' vulnerable state.

The analysis / speculation part:

globalization bad lol

OK, more seriously: I have not even heard about CrowdStrike until today, and I'm not a security engineer. I'm a developer with mild to moderate (outsider) understanding of vulnerabilities.

OK some background / basics first

It's very common for companies of any size to have more to protect their digital assets than just an antivirus and a firewall. Large companies (Delta Airlines) can afford to pay other large companies to provide security solutions for them (CrowdStrike). These days, to avoid bad software of any kind - malware - you need a complex suite of software that protects you from all sides:

desktop/laptop: antivirus, firewall, secure DNS, avoiding insecure WiFi, browser exploits, system patches, email scanner, phishing on web, phishing via email, physical access, USB thumb drive, motherboard/BIOS/UEFI vulnerabilities or built-in exploits made by the manufacturers of the Chinese government,

person/phone: phishing via SMS, phishing via calls, iOS/Android OS vulnerabilities, mobile app vulnerabilities, mobile apps that masquerade as useful while harvesting your data, vulnerabilities in things like WhatsApp where a glitched JPG pictures sent to you can expose your data, ...

servers: mostly same as above except they servers have to often deal with millions of requests per day, most of them valid, and at least some of the servers need to be connected to the internet 24/7

CDN and cloud services: fundamentally, an average big company today relies on dozens or hundreds of other big internet companies (AWS / Azure / GCP / Apple / Google) which in turn rely on hundreds of other companies to outsource a lot of tasks (like harvesting your data and sending you marketing emails)

infrastructure - routers... modems... your Alexa is spying on you... i'm tired... etc.

Anyway if you drifted to sleep in the previous paragraph I don't blame you. I'm genuinely just scratching the surface. Cybersecurity is insanely important today, and it's insanely complex too.

The reason why the incident blue-screened the machines is that to avoid malware, a lot of the anti-malware has to run in a more "privileged" mode, meaning they exist very close to the "heart" of Windows (or any other OS - the heart is called kernel). However, on this level, a bug can crash the system a lot more easily. And it did.

OK OK the actual hot lukewarm take finally

I didn't expect to get hit by y2k bug in the middle of 2024, but here we are.

As bad as it was, this only affected a small portion of all computers - in the ballpark of ~0.001% or even 0.0001% - but already caused disruptions to flights and hospitals in a big chunk of the world.

maybe-FAQ:

"Oh but this would be avoided if they weren't using the Crowdwhatever software" - true. However, this kind of mistake is not exclusive to them.

"Haha windows sucks, Linux 4eva" - I mean. Yeah? But no. Conceptually there is nothing that would prevent this from happening on Linux, if only there was anyone actually using it (on desktop).

"But really, Windows should have a better protection" - yes? no? This is a very difficult, technical question, because for kernel drivers the whole point is that 1. you trust them, and 2. they need the super-powerful-unrestrained access to work as intended, and 3. you _need_ them to be blazing fast, so babysitting them from the Windows perspective is counterproductive. It's a technical issue with no easy answers on this level.

"But there was some issue with Microsoft stuff too." - yes, but it's unknown if they are related, and at this point I have not seen any solid info about it.

The point is, in a deeply interconnected world, it's sort of a miracle that this isn't happening more often, and on a wider scale. Both bugfixes and new bugs are deployed every minute to some software somewhere in the world, because we're all in a rush to make money and pay rent and meet deadlines.

Increased monoculture in IT is bad for everyone. Whichever OS, whichever brand, whichever security solution provider - the more popular they are, the better visible their mistakes will be.

As much as it would be fun to make jokes like "CrowdStroke", I'm not even particularly mad at the company (at this point - that might change when I hear about their QA process). And no, I'm not even mad at Windows, as explained in the pseudo-FAQ.

The ultimate hot take? If at all possible, don't rely on anything related to computers. Technical problems are caused by technical solutions.