It's their myopic abitiuos government, they don't set a good example for the population. Take for example their leading wireless provider. The chinese stole the technology from American wireless companies, grew to a billion dollars in size, and is now competing directly with them.
In fact, every product that's sold in China from a foreign source need's to go through a rigourous inspection program whereby government sponsored scientists reverse engineer every piece of technology. They even go so far as to request the blue prints and building instructions!
It's a severe problem. China has no intellectual property enforcements nor do they ever innovate; this is why it's so cheap to buy from china, because their products do not bear the incremental cost of technology and IP.
Their government is doing nothing to stop this. And the US government's work along these lines is embarassing at best.
Which is why their students are cheating on their tests. They figure if their future employers are copying off the business plans and product designs of the Americans, then why can't they?
For lotus users....Go with my attachments to keep the mail size down, and setup auto-archiving rules around all of your mail folders to ensure automated archiving.
Most importantly to find all that old mail... if you download google desktop enterprise edition it will archive everything,, the problem is once it's been archived the links to the actual messages die.
The upside is it puts everything in a easily searched cache, so most of the message is there including any contact information that you may be looking for. And to get all your attachments just search the my attachments database.
Is this another scientific application that will take years to produce before the rest of us can afford it? probably. Much less have some level of style where we weren't embarrased to wear them in public? I think so.
Ok, so I am a little skeptical... the computers and sensors they plan to attach to the glasses will be cumbersome, and the piece about "dynamic adjustments" sounds a little far fetched. And where do the batteries go??
You might as well add a zoom and x-ray vision to the product suite.
I think better applications that weren't mentioned would be for when good vision is required for safety or a cool factor - snowboard/ski goggles, commercial airline/helicopter pilots, bus drivers, police, military (mentioned), professional atheletes, etc......
This could be an advantageous venture for the software giant, and but not for the consumer.. if he/she is willing to pay a little more. 2 likely scenarios most likely will play out in paralell.
(1) Microsoft instates some sort of seal of quality, whereby manufactures who shovel sh*t products will likey be filtered. In exchange for paying this royalty, Microsoft could also provide the manufactures with detailed specs and the companies would invest in differentiating themselves to sell their preimium controllers and niche add ons.
(2) However - Most probably, the only specs they will be passing out are how to validate the security function, similar to how the serial number works for their OS's - a we all know how well those work. Alternatively, a new under ground market would emerege producing accessories provided at cheaper prices from other countries (e.g. China).
In either case... the companies manufacturing these accessories are for-profit organizations, they have margins to meet... so the cost will most definetly be passed to the consumer - Yeah that's YOU!
Well what if WE [Earth] are the successful terraformation of life that once debated this same concept on Mars?
The reason they are not predominant to day is...
Their wildly inaccurate predictions of how long it would take for them to be able to convert our atmosphere. We are claiming decades but the realization was probably billions of years. And life on Mars slowly gave way before their world collapsed. Perhaps by a cataclysmic event or by way of nature [entropy].
One can only acertain the feeling of nostalgia that dominates that site. We almost forget what the advances of modern civilization will inevitably become.
It reminds us that we will be consumed by our own creation, entropic in nature.
This is quite true, I hope the national networks are ready to lay the fiber to compensate for their $3billion dollar investment or upgrade their existing network.
A possibility is to convert the current fiber framework to support fiberoptic dense wave division multiplexing which takes light, bends it through a prism to split it into 32 seperate colors and alternate the sequence of flashes to produce a on/off 1/0. This is technology that can be applied to current fiber lines, and can expand their bandwidth by a factor of 32!
This almost seems like we are back to square one with the evolution of these devices. Sure the 3g technology for the phone is there but should this be a gaming device too?
It seems to bulky to be a phone and too undeveloped to be a gaming device. Let's get a little more creative and start adding some better features to these phones besides blue tooth and better gaming capability.
They are trying to defend their current capital investments in their local framework. VoIP is doing much what the MCI's and Sprints of the a while back did, by bypassing the Bell Atlantic monopoly. VoIP bypasses the very expensive "last-mile" of phone lines to reach each public house hold that are only being utilized by incoming calls (for now).
When you make a VoIP call it routes the calls online to the proper local server which then dials out in the city that it resides as a local call. MCI did this a while back with microwave towers, that bypassed the long distance lines that Bell lay down between cities nationwide. To solve the problem they "taxed" your local phone bill $4-5 or so each month. So you can see why this is a threat to all of the phone companies, (1) because they are not recieving this tax, (2) they have lay a framework that will soon become absolete.
As a result the big businesses and small local providers that utilize the existing framework are losing alot of money in investments that they once thought they would have control over for times to come. The only way they see revenue coming in is some sort of government regulation.
VoIP is a great technology and I would love to see it developed even further, but we just need to find somewhere in the middle that the phone companies and VoIP technology can both benefit, so we don't destroy our economy.
Currently, I am conducting some MIS research at the University of Arizona that does just this: mines information from a website and stores it to a database. I am mostly concerned with the pricing information, however I do not believe it to be illeagal to mine such info. I am thinking of some commercial applications I can use the information for.
If the information is posted on a webpage then it is public knowledge. Hence mining of this information is perfectly ok. Look at how a search engine crawler works.
What about the ideas that don't make it?
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Do they just say that they are tempet ideas and will not succeed, keep the cash, and harvest the idea? Banking upon your thoughts at no charge at all. Or, They are probably selling off the ideas that are not "Microsoft" oriented; the ones that win are plans of copying existing software programs and improving on them.
Could this be the beginning of a new Gattica driven world? The possibility of creating the ultimate human with uber-characteristics? This could possibly be the pushing evolution into overdrive, all in a new form of human advancement science.
I welcome the future, even though I probably won't be effected by it.
Tariffs are used to boost the US economy (or any other nation that uses them). A Tariff on incoming software will BOOST the sales of US produced software and encourage corporations to make the software within the US. As a result there would be more demand for more programming jobs.
Tariffs are used for a reason (or else they would not exist) however complex to approve. The NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) is an alliance between US, Canada, Mexico and is growing to include the Carribean Islands and Argentina. It was put into play to decrease the over all Tariffs percentages (I believe the average for the US is around 5%) in the involved countries. Instating a Tariff must first be approved by the WTO (World Trade Organization) which takes a very long time because an individual agreement must be made with each country affected.
I think the real challenge is finding a percentage that will in a sense, "equalize" the software industry in the US with it's foriegn competitors.
As far as out sourcing works it is a complicated task to Tariff. Some corporations such as Keane Consulting have two locations in India where all of the programming is done. So in a sense they are not outsourcing and it would be difficult to Tariff such a thing. However other companies do outsource their programming to other countries.
Overall they are an effective strategy for to increase US made products, let me know what you think.
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The problem is not schools.
It's their myopic abitiuos government, they don't set a good example for the population. Take for example their leading wireless provider. The chinese stole the technology from American wireless companies, grew to a billion dollars in size, and is now competing directly with them.
In fact, every product that's sold in China from a foreign source need's to go through a rigourous inspection program whereby government sponsored scientists reverse engineer every piece of technology. They even go so far as to request the blue prints and building instructions!
It's a severe problem. China has no intellectual property enforcements nor do they ever innovate; this is why it's so cheap to buy from china, because their products do not bear the incremental cost of technology and IP.
Their government is doing nothing to stop this. And the US government's work along these lines is embarassing at best.
Which is why their students are cheating on their tests. They figure if their future employers are copying off the business plans and product designs of the Americans, then why can't they?
For lotus users....Go with my attachments to keep the mail size down, and setup auto-archiving rules around all of your mail folders to ensure automated archiving.
Most importantly to find all that old mail... if you download google desktop enterprise edition it will archive everything,, the problem is once it's been archived the links to the actual messages die.
The upside is it puts everything in a easily searched cache, so most of the message is there including any contact information that you may be looking for. And to get all your attachments just search the my attachments database.
Is this another scientific application that will take years to produce before the rest of us can afford it? probably. Much less have some level of style where we weren't embarrased to wear them in public? I think so.
Ok, so I am a little skeptical... the computers and sensors they plan to attach to the glasses will be cumbersome, and the piece about "dynamic adjustments" sounds a little far fetched. And where do the batteries go??
You might as well add a zoom and x-ray vision to the product suite.
I think better applications that weren't mentioned would be for when good vision is required for safety or a cool factor - snowboard/ski goggles, commercial airline/helicopter pilots, bus drivers, police, military (mentioned), professional atheletes, etc......
This could be an advantageous venture for the software giant, and but not for the consumer.. if he /she is willing to pay a little more.
2 likely scenarios most likely will play out in paralell.
(1) Microsoft instates some sort of seal of quality, whereby manufactures who shovel sh*t products will likey be filtered. In exchange for paying this royalty, Microsoft could also provide the manufactures with detailed specs and the companies would invest in differentiating themselves to sell their preimium controllers and niche add ons.
(2) However - Most probably, the only specs they will be passing out are how to validate the security function, similar to how the serial number works for their OS's - a we all know how well those work. Alternatively, a new under ground market would emerege producing accessories provided at cheaper prices from other countries (e.g. China).
In either case... the companies manufacturing these accessories are for-profit organizations, they have margins to meet... so the cost will most definetly be passed to the consumer - Yeah that's YOU!
Well what if WE [Earth] are the successful terraformation of life that once debated this same concept on Mars?
The reason they are not predominant to day is...
Their wildly inaccurate predictions of how long it would take for them to be able to convert our atmosphere. We are claiming decades but the realization was probably billions of years. And life on Mars slowly gave way before their world collapsed. Perhaps by a cataclysmic event or by way of nature [entropy].
One can only acertain the feeling of nostalgia that dominates that site. We almost forget what the advances of modern civilization will inevitably become.
It reminds us that we will be consumed by our own creation, entropic in nature.
And also disturbing.
why are we celebrating SPAM? So our marketers can get richer about stalking/annoying us?
Interesting, but when are the high quality, stand alone holographic displays coming out? that's what i'm waiting for!
here's a link to that:
DWDM
This is quite true, I hope the national networks are ready to lay the fiber to compensate for their $3billion dollar investment or upgrade their existing network.
A possibility is to convert the current fiber framework to support fiberoptic dense wave division multiplexing which takes light, bends it through a prism to split it into 32 seperate colors and alternate the sequence of flashes to produce a on/off 1/0. This is technology that can be applied to current fiber lines, and can expand their bandwidth by a factor of 32!
This almost seems like we are back to square one with the evolution of these devices. Sure the 3g technology for the phone is there but should this be a gaming device too?
It seems to bulky to be a phone and too undeveloped to be a gaming device. Let's get a little more creative and start adding some better features to these phones besides blue tooth and better gaming capability.
They are trying to defend their current capital investments in their local framework. VoIP is doing much what the MCI's and Sprints of the a while back did, by bypassing the Bell Atlantic monopoly. VoIP bypasses the very expensive "last-mile" of phone lines to reach each public house hold that are only being utilized by incoming calls (for now).
When you make a VoIP call it routes the calls online to the proper local server which then dials out in the city that it resides as a local call. MCI did this a while back with microwave towers, that bypassed the long distance lines that Bell lay down between cities nationwide. To solve the problem they "taxed" your local phone bill $4-5 or so each month. So you can see why this is a threat to all of the phone companies, (1) because they are not recieving this tax, (2) they have lay a framework that will soon become absolete.
As a result the big businesses and small local providers that utilize the existing framework are losing alot of money in investments that they once thought they would have control over for times to come. The only way they see revenue coming in is some sort of government regulation.
VoIP is a great technology and I would love to see it developed even further, but we just need to find somewhere in the middle that the phone companies and VoIP technology can both benefit, so we don't destroy our economy.
Currently, I am conducting some MIS research at the University of Arizona that does just this: mines information from a website and stores it to a database. I am mostly concerned with the pricing information, however I do not believe it to be illeagal to mine such info. I am thinking of some commercial applications I can use the information for.
If the information is posted on a webpage then it is public knowledge. Hence mining of this information is perfectly ok. Look at how a search engine crawler works.
Do they just say that they are tempet ideas and will not succeed, keep the cash, and harvest the idea? Banking upon your thoughts at no charge at all. Or, They are probably selling off the ideas that are not "Microsoft" oriented; the ones that win are plans of copying existing software programs and improving on them.
Could this be the beginning of a new Gattica driven world? The possibility of creating the ultimate human with uber-characteristics? This could possibly be the pushing evolution into overdrive, all in a new form of human advancement science.
I welcome the future, even though I probably won't be effected by it.
Tariffs are used to boost the US economy (or any other nation that uses them). A Tariff on incoming software will BOOST the sales of US produced software and encourage corporations to make the software within the US. As a result there would be more demand for more programming jobs.
Tariffs are used for a reason (or else they would not exist) however complex to approve. The NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) is an alliance between US, Canada, Mexico and is growing to include the Carribean Islands and Argentina. It was put into play to decrease the over all Tariffs percentages (I believe the average for the US is around 5%) in the involved countries. Instating a Tariff must first be approved by the WTO (World Trade Organization) which takes a very long time because an individual agreement must be made with each country affected.
I think the real challenge is finding a percentage that will in a sense, "equalize" the software industry in the US with it's foriegn competitors.
As far as out sourcing works it is a complicated task to Tariff. Some corporations such as Keane Consulting have two locations in India where all of the programming is done. So in a sense they are not outsourcing and it would be difficult to Tariff such a thing. However other companies do outsource their programming to other countries.
Overall they are an effective strategy for to increase US made products, let me know what you think.
- Austin T Smith
Get a law team together of some pretty good lawyers, because you are dealing with a huge Corporation. Chances are, you won't win. Tough =P.