Indeed, this issue is occuring with greater frequency today than it was 5 years ago. My company does mobile data and part of the data we send is GPS location information. Much of the union and non-union labor (this isn't just an AFL/CIO issue) who drive a vehicle with a GPS installed don't like the idea. Until they find out why they have it.
A police department had GPSs installed in their vehicles as part of their computer dispatching system and the cops always grumbled that the chief could see where they were and that it wasn't right. Then one of the officers got shot on the job. He hit his panic button, the dispatcher (and every other cop on the city!) knew exactly where he was within 2 seconds. They got the bad guy (life in jail, what fun) and saved the one cop's life. Did they apso-positivly love GPS after that? Yeah, a lot.
And I can tell you similiar stories from the commercial sector, too. The point is that anyone will think it's intrusive until they see why there is a direct benefit to themselves as part of this system.
Consider this -- there are members of the Amateur Radio community that get excited by the prospect of sharing their position information on the internet. They can see a benefit.
Once you get beyond the "you're trying to screw me over" arguement, things get better and you just live with it. (As an aside, most union contracts specify that the company will dictate what equipment the employee will use, so there's not much to grieve about when you're driving a truck with a GPS in it).
I am wondering if they are planning on purchasing any of the dark fiber runs that I'm sure are buried all over the place and turning that on, or if they are going to go all-new fiber runs. I'm sure there must be quite a bit of unused fiber runs in the area given the number of high-tech and networking companies that went out of business.
They built this plane with the same set of design tools used on the 777 series aircraft (CATIA). It handles the CAD part of the design, resolving any conflicts that come about (i.e. running an electrial bus through a wing spar). Once the plane is designed, the CATIA design can then be dumped into the manufacuring side and can handle the acutal building of the aircraft (very nice and powerful software). Also leading to its fast introduction is its largely composite airframe design. This was met with some hesitation by the airlines, but Boing is installing sensors throughout all composite structures to diagnose any possible problems and lead to early troubleshooting.
As a Georgia Tech student (on my 5th of 6+ years), my view of the subject is that everyone who was found guilty of cheating deserves it. They deserve it for one very simple reason.
At the beginning of the semester, they bring in the Academic Dean who deals with punishment issues where she tells the class:
"We catch people who cheat. We have a very good program that catches people at cheating. Cheating is working with anyone else regarding the assignment, other than a TA or a professor. If you cheat, you fail. We've failed people before. If you cheat, we'll catch you and we'll fail you."
They clearly define what is and what is not cheating for this particular class. The cheatfinder program was written by CS students to catch other CS students, is very well implemented, and checks everyone's code. It takes a long time to check everything, which is why this guy didn't find out for a while, but it's certainly like he didn't have warning and an understanding of the situation going into things.
One real posiblity for quantum entanglement would be in the area of quantum computing and distributed processing. The theory in a quantum computer is that every possible state of every computation can exist simultaneously. Only after you decide you want to know the answer to a specific problem will you find it - in effect any complex calculation is speeded up my magnitudes of order. In a distributed environment, quantum entanglement would allow for 2 (or more) quantum computers to join together and each work on a distributed/parallel process program and instantly share data, as well as solutions. For example, in gene research the refinement of proteins into useful medications could take place at a much faster rate because each quantum computer could "see" what the other got for evolutionary results and apply those changes along separate lines of reasoning while still being aware of what worked and what did not.
In a non-quantum computing environment, data networking could happen much faster (blowing the doors of gigabit ethernet) by being able to instantly transfer the entire contents of a hard drive from one place to the next along fiber; no longer are you sending electrons at high speed (c), but now you are transferring the entire data packet straight from one network card to the next.
If we have self-cleaning, color changing, size-shifting shirts, what am I going to do with all my trade show accumulated shirts from now-defunct.com's that come in the "one size fits all - or else" XL? I have shirts I haven't even worn yet. From 1996....
> but I beleive that 7.1 million is GREATER than 3.5 million
The way I read it, RAMBUS owes 10.6 million. Which means that if their funding has become limited and their now out $10 million, I suspect that even its royalties would keep it in business for very long, especially when they're not selling their principle product.
So the rest of the world continues to enjoy dirt cheap SDRAM while RAMBUS pays for trying to rip off the little guys.
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Indeed, this issue is occuring with greater frequency today than it was 5 years ago. My company does mobile data and part of the data we send is GPS location information. Much of the union and non-union labor (this isn't just an AFL/CIO issue) who drive a vehicle with a GPS installed don't like the idea. Until they find out why they have it.
A police department had GPSs installed in their vehicles as part of their computer dispatching system and the cops always grumbled that the chief could see where they were and that it wasn't right. Then one of the officers got shot on the job. He hit his panic button, the dispatcher (and every other cop on the city!) knew exactly where he was within 2 seconds. They got the bad guy (life in jail, what fun) and saved the one cop's life. Did they apso-positivly love GPS after that? Yeah, a lot.
And I can tell you similiar stories from the commercial sector, too. The point is that anyone will think it's intrusive until they see why there is a direct benefit to themselves as part of this system.
Consider this -- there are members of the Amateur Radio community that get excited by the prospect of sharing their position information on the internet. They can see a benefit.
Once you get beyond the "you're trying to screw me over" arguement, things get better and you just live with it. (As an aside, most union contracts specify that the company will dictate what equipment the employee will use, so there's not much to grieve about when you're driving a truck with a GPS in it).
I am wondering if they are planning on purchasing any of the dark fiber runs that I'm sure are buried all over the place and turning that on, or if they are going to go all-new fiber runs. I'm sure there must be quite a bit of unused fiber runs in the area given the number of high-tech and networking companies that went out of business.
They built this plane with the same set of design tools used on the 777 series aircraft (CATIA). It handles the CAD part of the design, resolving any conflicts that come about (i.e. running an electrial bus through a wing spar). Once the plane is designed, the CATIA design can then be dumped into the manufacuring side and can handle the acutal building of the aircraft (very nice and powerful software). Also leading to its fast introduction is its largely composite airframe design. This was met with some hesitation by the airlines, but Boing is installing sensors throughout all composite structures to diagnose any possible problems and lead to early troubleshooting.
As a Georgia Tech student (on my 5th of 6+ years), my view of the subject is that everyone who was found guilty of cheating deserves it. They deserve it for one very simple reason.
At the beginning of the semester, they bring in the Academic Dean who deals with punishment issues where she tells the class:
"We catch people who cheat. We have a very good program that catches people at cheating. Cheating is working with anyone else regarding the assignment, other than a TA or a professor. If you cheat, you fail. We've failed people before. If you cheat, we'll catch you and we'll fail you."
They clearly define what is and what is not cheating for this particular class. The cheatfinder program was written by CS students to catch other CS students, is very well implemented, and checks everyone's code. It takes a long time to check everything, which is why this guy didn't find out for a while, but it's certainly like he didn't have warning and an understanding of the situation going into things.
One real posiblity for quantum entanglement would be in the area of quantum computing and distributed processing. The theory in a quantum computer is that every possible state of every computation can exist simultaneously. Only after you decide you want to know the answer to a specific problem will you find it - in effect any complex calculation is speeded up my magnitudes of order. In a distributed environment, quantum entanglement would allow for 2 (or more) quantum computers to join together and each work on a distributed/parallel process program and instantly share data, as well as solutions. For example, in gene research the refinement of proteins into useful medications could take place at a much faster rate because each quantum computer could "see" what the other got for evolutionary results and apply those changes along separate lines of reasoning while still being aware of what worked and what did not.
In a non-quantum computing environment, data networking could happen much faster (blowing the doors of gigabit ethernet) by being able to instantly transfer the entire contents of a hard drive from one place to the next along fiber; no longer are you sending electrons at high speed (c), but now you are transferring the entire data packet straight from one network card to the next.
-cailloux
If we have self-cleaning, color changing, size-shifting shirts, what am I going to do with all my trade show accumulated shirts from now-defunct .com's that come in the "one size fits all - or else" XL? I have shirts I haven't even worn yet. From 1996....
tim
> but I beleive that 7.1 million is GREATER than 3.5 million
The way I read it, RAMBUS owes 10.6 million. Which means that if their funding has become limited and their now out $10 million, I suspect that even its royalties would keep it in business for very long, especially when they're not selling their principle product.
So the rest of the world continues to enjoy dirt cheap SDRAM while RAMBUS pays for trying to rip off the little guys.
tim