Does this technology remind anyone else of Star Trek?
This system simply collects data, its the analysis that ties into emotional cues such as anxiety, fear, 'I wanna peanut butter and jelly sandwich', etc.
The technology seems like a few steps up from monitoring a heartbeat, body temperature, etc. which I think is already under development by the military which has great, practical use in a combat theater.
It's unfortunate that the focus on this article only deals with the military. Mental health professionals could use this to coach patients to improve their self-awareness stressful situations. Understanding the problem is the first step.
I picture a dialog like this: 'How did my body react when I saw my dad?' 'Your response indicates anxiety...'
It's a matter of scale. As the previous poster mentioned, if all the person needs to do is haul a bucket of concrete, use a small kite. A single person should be able to manage that easily enough.
The trick is not in the technology itself, but how you apply the technology. It's a universal idea, no?
McDonalds works for Katz position, but IMO the reach of American media is equally or more disturbing than that of our fast food culture.
When I travel abroad, I expect to experience unfamiliar, foreign things. Unfortunately, Britney Spears songs play throughout the world. And I watched Law and Order in three continents.
Food is simply a small part of the disturbing, world-wide drift to an American center.
OS/2 preceded NT and IBM and Microsoft co-developed NT for a while. Microsoft did the usual guerilla tactics with IBM, so IBM sold the rights to NT to Microsoft for a dollar just to get as far away from Gates as possible.
The key purpose that I see for flex time is that it fosters creativity. There are times when ideas and solutions seem to stop similar to writer's block. If you have freedom with flex time, then you alleviate one of the stressors that prevent you from working in the first place. Does it really matter when I solve a problem?
Another purpose is simple respect. Here's the goal, report in when you reach it. Our work is not built on the military metaphor with structured organization. If we were in a factory, it applies. But if you are in the high tech field, you need freedom to be creative which is a perfect match for flex time.
I met a woman on the plane a few years back and I said (half-joking) that I want to be president.
She thought for a moment, 'That would be refreshing to have a technical president.' Funny, because I'm not even an engineer, but simply a technical writer. But it goes to show the lack of knowledgable, technical people in politics today.
It's not like we have never had any technical politicians. The brightest one was probably Jefferson who was simply amazing.
Look at Jefferson's technical accomplishments: architecture, math, agriculture, politics, writing, etc. Other great politicians have similar qualities. They all knew how to solve problems which, oddly, may be enough to qualify them as a technical politician.
As a side note, wouldn't it be interesting to see what Jefferson could do in today's highly techological world?
So that's what we need IMHO: a technical politician. Someone who can think on their own, solve problems, and develop solutions that we sorely need. I think that it is that simple.
The only thing that I see in politicians today is the ability to listen to people around them as they try to wrangle with the political marketing effort that Katz refers to. And you know, they would go a long way if they had a few good engineers to solve those problems, too.
Saying that a mathematical analysis of music is insolence is like saying DuPont should not analyze paint because painters will become confused, terrified, and incapable of using DuPont paint.
There is nothing wrong with a scientific analysis of artistic expression. A musician may not be able to grasp the fractal expression, but the scientist may not be able to make music.
Besides, the connection between music and math is irrefutable. Does the number 440 mean anything to you?
If you want to create music in peace, please do. Let the poetry of the world inspire you and ignore the analysis of these scientists. No one forced you read their ideas.
E.M. Forster wrote, 'Only connect...only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exhalted.'
I agree entirely that XML conceivably allows us to focus on the matter at hand: writing well.
I'm a technical writer and I've said all along that media means nothing, the tools are irrelevant, and technology is merely a practical means to get a job done.
(Refer to prior posts about the horrors of MS Word and the glories of LaTeX. Which allowed success? LaTeX painlessly produced more thesis papers, correct?)
My professors didn't like to hear my stand on media, but I haven't been proven wrong yet. They were mystified by media because people who use online media are less forgiving than people who read hardcopy. The problem? They didn't realize that to write well takes discipline, hard work, and diligence. Sadly, they were my professors.
If we use XML, we focus on writing well. Presentation becomes secondary, as it should, with the use of XSL, DTDs, or whatever other mechanism is available to output our words.
"Think well, speak well, write well."
Perhaps my dissenting professor forgets, but she defeats her own argument with her mantra.
Sure, the technology is where the cool stuff is, but apply it to business and the real challenge is age-old: brand image, credibility, service, etc.
From a business owners point of view, you have respect for the individual, benefits, and corporate image (internal and external). Stick up for your employees and they'll stick up for you.
Sacrifice. Like the oldest American brick and mortar companies (of if you go to Europe, the companies who have existed for centuries), these companies invest in the people who are, in the end, the business.
The technology will plateau and the ones left standing will be sticking with age-old values. Business that is good for the employees, good for the customers, and good for the competition. Yes, competition.
Think of it this way, if your employer fudges the accounting records, what happens during inevitable bad times? Is your paycheck going to bounce while the employer sun bathes in Florida? Sounds like a shaky employer to me.
Let's see what happens when the startup capital runs out to see who is left standing under what kind of guiding principles.
Slashdot Mirror
Does this technology remind anyone else of Star Trek?
This system simply collects data, its the analysis that ties into emotional cues such as anxiety, fear, 'I wanna peanut butter and jelly sandwich', etc.
The technology seems like a few steps up from monitoring a heartbeat, body temperature, etc. which I think is already under development by the military which has great, practical use in a combat theater.
It's unfortunate that the focus on this article only deals with the military. Mental health professionals could use this to coach patients to improve their self-awareness stressful situations. Understanding the problem is the first step.
I picture a dialog like this:
'How did my body react when I saw my dad?'
'Your response indicates anxiety...'
...except for judges.
...and another reason why it always fails regression testing.
Do you expect anything different from M$?
It's a matter of scale. As the previous poster mentioned, if all the person needs to do is haul a bucket of concrete, use a small kite. A single person should be able to manage that easily enough.
The trick is not in the technology itself, but how you apply the technology. It's a universal idea, no?
It doesn't look like this is a paper-based technology at all. The technical marketing info on their website lists it as a display technology.
McDonalds works for Katz position, but IMO the reach of American media is equally or more disturbing than that of our fast food culture.
When I travel abroad, I expect to experience unfamiliar, foreign things. Unfortunately, Britney Spears songs play throughout the world. And I watched Law and Order in three continents.
Food is simply a small part of the disturbing, world-wide drift to an American center.
OS/2 preceded NT and IBM and Microsoft co-developed NT for a while. Microsoft did the usual guerilla tactics with IBM, so IBM sold the rights to NT to Microsoft for a dollar just to get as far away from Gates as possible.
So, when someone gets tried in cyber court, do they go to cyber jail, in their own cyber cell, where they get a laptop (with an Internet connection)?
Or maybe they restrict the Web pages and the IRC channels that the criminal can frequent.
Or, even worse, the judge unplugs the laptop.
Oh my.
Where can I learn how to see the Web bugs that I suspect are in the spam-like e-mail that I receive?
Thanks,
Tim
The key purpose that I see for flex time is that it fosters creativity. There are times when ideas and solutions seem to stop similar to writer's block. If you have freedom with flex time, then you alleviate one of the stressors that prevent you from working in the first place. Does it really matter when I solve a problem?
Another purpose is simple respect. Here's the goal, report in when you reach it. Our work is not built on the military metaphor with structured organization. If we were in a factory, it applies. But if you are in the high tech field, you need freedom to be creative which is a perfect match for flex time.
Here we go again.
Centralized. Distributed. Centralized. Distributed. Centralized.
Mainframes. PCs. Thin clients. Fat clients. Whatever they call this new one.
You get the picture.
Tim Somero
I met a woman on the plane a few years back and I said (half-joking) that I want to be president.
She thought for a moment, 'That would be refreshing to have a technical president.' Funny, because I'm not even an engineer, but simply a technical writer. But it goes to show the lack of knowledgable, technical people in politics today.
It's not like we have never had any technical politicians. The brightest one was probably Jefferson who was simply amazing.
Look at Jefferson's technical accomplishments: architecture, math, agriculture, politics, writing, etc. Other great politicians have similar qualities. They all knew how to solve problems which, oddly, may be enough to qualify them as a technical politician.
As a side note, wouldn't it be interesting to see what Jefferson could do in today's highly techological world?
So that's what we need IMHO: a technical politician. Someone who can think on their own, solve problems, and develop solutions that we sorely need. I think that it is that simple.
The only thing that I see in politicians today is the ability to listen to people around them as they try to wrangle with the political marketing effort that Katz refers to. And you know, they would go a long way if they had a few good engineers to solve those problems, too.
Tim Somero
Saying that a mathematical analysis of music is insolence is like saying DuPont should not analyze paint because painters will become confused, terrified, and incapable of using DuPont paint.
There is nothing wrong with a scientific analysis of artistic expression. A musician may not be able to grasp the fractal expression, but the scientist may not be able to make music.
Besides, the connection between music and math is irrefutable. Does the number 440 mean anything to you?
If you want to create music in peace, please do. Let the poetry of the world inspire you and ignore the analysis of these scientists. No one forced you read their ideas.
E.M. Forster wrote, 'Only connect...only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exhalted.'
I agree entirely that XML conceivably allows us to focus on the matter at hand: writing well.
I'm a technical writer and I've said all along that media means nothing, the tools are irrelevant, and technology is merely a practical means to get a job done.
(Refer to prior posts about the horrors of MS Word and the glories of LaTeX. Which allowed success? LaTeX painlessly produced more thesis papers, correct?)
My professors didn't like to hear my stand on media, but I haven't been proven wrong yet. They were mystified by media because people who use online media are less forgiving than people who read hardcopy. The problem? They didn't realize that to write well takes discipline, hard work, and diligence. Sadly, they were my professors.
If we use XML, we focus on writing well. Presentation becomes secondary, as it should, with the use of XSL, DTDs, or whatever other mechanism is available to output our words.
"Think well, speak well, write well."
Perhaps my dissenting professor forgets, but she defeats her own argument with her mantra.
Tim Somero
AMEN
Yeah, but everyone lauds the intelligence of younger and younger kids with computers. Maybe they could help mom and dad at home...?
Sure, the technology is where the cool stuff is, but apply it to business and the real challenge is age-old: brand image, credibility, service, etc.
From a business owners point of view, you have respect for the individual, benefits, and corporate image (internal and external). Stick up for your employees and they'll stick up for you.
Sacrifice. Like the oldest American brick and mortar companies (of if you go to Europe, the companies who have existed for centuries), these companies invest in the people who are, in the end, the business.
The technology will plateau and the ones left standing will be sticking with age-old values. Business that is good for the employees, good for the customers, and good for the competition. Yes, competition.
Think of it this way, if your employer fudges the accounting records, what happens during inevitable bad times? Is your paycheck going to bounce while the employer sun bathes in Florida? Sounds like a shaky employer to me.
Let's see what happens when the startup capital runs out to see who is left standing under what kind of guiding principles.