That is exactly what I was thinking. All metals have significant antibacterial properties in pure form due to electron freedom. Stainless steel is similarly naturally antimicrobial.
Since they are using UV, I hope they had the good sense to use a titanium dioxide finish on it as well, since that massively boosts UV efficacy. Actually titanium dioxide has the ability to actually clean small quantities of finger grease and dirt from the surface as well.
The best approach would use a micro spattering of TiO2 (think polka dots smaller than most bacteria) on stainless steel or copper alloys with waterproof keys and construction. Once a month, throw it in the commissary dishwasher to remove dirt and grease which give the little germs homes.
As others have pointed out, the price for this model is ridiculous as well.
Please lie to me and tell me this will be followed by government auction colos, with fat pipes already laid. Might be a good time to pick up rack space cheap. Or we might be just looking at lists of broom closets with two poweredge 1850s in them.
Seriously though, federal auctions are the best place to get used, yet reasonably current hardware cheap. I got a laptop a year ago which still has warranty left that way (had to add a hdd).
I'm pretty sure with just two mics a fixed or known distance apart, you could get 2d coordinates. Just have to look at the timing offset of similar waves and calculate the radial intersection.
On the flip side though, small CCD elements with sufficient resolution for a Wii/Smoothboard or Kinect style setup are more than cheap enough to use and relatively compact. A single mic as demonstrated might be useful for broadening the number of unique touch actions though.
Much like the Linux scene frequently flares up to, we are stuck in the Paradox of Choice paradox with App Stores. I would guess most people would prefer a $50 suite that did everything except games for which their phone is useful to an adequate level.
Same situation with OSes and office productivity suites. Consumers have demonstrated over and over again that they would rather use crappy Windows + MS Office over having to try to pick the *right* distro of Linux and office suite.
Arguably, Apple's recent success figured this out with computer hardware by reducing the choice equation to price and portability.
It would be far more useful to try an approach similar to the relatively recent browser green bar vs. red bar for https.
Green bar - the e-mail client and mail server have verified end to end trust CA SSL certificates and are using SSL encryption point to point.
Red bar - server is not available on SSL or client cannot connect to mail server on an encrypted link (SSL, encrypted Exchange, etc.)
The reality is until Microsoft puts such functionality in Office Outlook and Exchange at the same time (along with free patches for prior versions) as well as Google and Yahoo, there is no expectation for this to be a viable solution.
A few years following such a coordinated switch, maybe one could add a prompt regarding, "Send E-mail Insecurely?" or have a option bit to ask as a policy.
Also, giving out a PGP key is silly from a security standpoint because now your points of failure are every person to which you needed to give a key rather than trusted. Not exactly great for the non-security minded sales guy down the hall.
The download link with one-time or per-recipient passwords options are great for files (I love them) but usually too much trouble for most people as well as inviting people less security conscious to click links in e-mails when maybe we shouldn't.
Actually, regulatory ignorance is exactly why many automobiles available in Europe and Asia with vastly better MPG than current hybrids and compacts are not available domestically.
You see, in order to actually maintain higher levels of fuel consumption, the EPA NOx emission requirements have been tweaked so low, that ultra high efficiency automobile motors can't be sold in the US. NOx requirements are the number one reason we have more high displacement V6 and V8 motors in vehicles that would have higher fuel economy, drivability and more horsepower using small 4 and 6 cylinder turbo charged motors. Example, anything VW sells in Europe with a Blue Motion drivetrain (Scirocco).
Similar reason for the 1UZ 4.0L V8 powered SC400 back in the 90's from Toyota/Lexus, when the 1JZ-GTE 2.5L Turbo was a vastly more advanced and better output engine.
So yes, ignorance of technology on the part of legislators and regulators is a very serious problem and NOT acceptable.
Time to start honey-potting a great deal more. Worked for the Japanese in the late 90's for capacitor electrolyte formulas.
Only caveat might be to actually make the honey pots look harder to get to than the real stuff (double honey pots? one easy, one hard - thank you virtualization).
Plenty of bands play free venues (taking a cut of alcohol sales of course) in the hopes of recognition.
I'm WAY MORE inclined to put down $10-15 for their CD than $5-10 for someone's CD I can't turn the radio on without hearing.
Sure, for big names it's about marketing, but for the "little guy" it's about demonstrating hard work, effort and skill to get all the pirates out their to pay.
I pay for video games all the time, after I sample the torrent and see if it's worth my $$. If not, I delete it.
COD: Modern Warfare 3 was a great example. Played about 30 minutes, found that it was waaay over scripted and felt like an Area 51 game at the arcade with a mouse instead of the lightgun. Not for me, and I'm glad I'm not out $50 to find out something wasn't for me.
I would do demos of games more often, but after awhile I found they were like going to an Italian restaurant and getting a sample of the tiramisu at the door and expecting the gnocchi to be equally good. Not always the case.
Before someone tries to argue the but you pay for what you get at the restaurant regardless of if it is good or merely ok, keep in mind that for many in the community, the pirate download does not cost developers one cent. It makes it for them when the experience is compelling enough to get more buyers for the multiplayer and DLC content. I never return to a restaurant that I get bad food from, and I warn potential customers NOT to go there (excepting fast food chains which are the $0.99 app store of food).
Give the engineers the same cut the sales people get for one time sales. Structure the procedure such that any ongoing or contract sales for services get coordinated with a sales rep to handle the details (after the initial sale is made) and give a split cut between the sales staffer and the engineer (based on time investment).
Also, if this is the kind of sales you are doing, maybe you should look into making your sales people come off more like engineers. Get them some experience with technical matters and some training. It will also help insure they are asking the right questions and getting the right details and most importantly, budgeting properly for projects when sending tasks out to engineers.
If people clam up around their sales reps it's because they put off the slick salesman vibe. Get rid of that. The only people who like that vibe are hip-hop aficionados, drunk guys at the strip club and MBAs. Outside of the whole MBA to MBA community, real people don't like doing business with people like that.
Being at a managed hosting company, I've noticed using the title Account Manager as well as endowing them with the responsibilities of that title reduces the slick sell everything attitude. Your sales people should be focused on long term relationships and the residuals from that powering their paycheck.
You should see the crap being produced by the terrible union of doctors, comp sci majors, and university researchers. The expert systems being designed (primarily for iOS, not PC or generic web interfaces) are guided by the worst research and statistical models.
You're right, but the problem is the implementors are plain wrong. Wrong people, wrong degrees doing the grunt work (PhDs in education and economics doing data entry because they can't hack it in their chosen field, but some idiot signed off on their dissertation). The medical and bio research industry is as backwards as it can get.
I have a close friend doing research in the biology / cancer area while working on her masters at the moment. It's quite clear that a firmer grasp of math would be of great detriment to the entirety of the field of biology research. The underlying mechanism for getting published is to keep running different pre-fab statistics models against a data set until you find "something" you can call meaningful.
Pharmacology and biology right now is statistical alchemy. No self respecting mathematician can stand behind the interpretations drawn on results. Luckily, the mathematicians don't see the interpretations made by the presiding PhD.
Oddly enough, this makes the math majors in the field (biostat majors and mathematics majors with minors in biology) both highly desirable, but feared as being cave dwellers much like IT folk used to be treated. They are slightly more surly than the angst ridden IT admin though.
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True maximization of recursion would require all the drones involved to spray smart dust on the target area on the way down.
BRB, gotta be at USPTO in 26 minutes.
That kind of reasoning is part of the JUST PLAIN STUPID kind why healthcare is overpriced.
That is exactly what I was thinking. All metals have significant antibacterial properties in pure form due to electron freedom. Stainless steel is similarly naturally antimicrobial.
Since they are using UV, I hope they had the good sense to use a titanium dioxide finish on it as well, since that massively boosts UV efficacy. Actually titanium dioxide has the ability to actually clean small quantities of finger grease and dirt from the surface as well.
The best approach would use a micro spattering of TiO2 (think polka dots smaller than most bacteria) on stainless steel or copper alloys with waterproof keys and construction. Once a month, throw it in the commissary dishwasher to remove dirt and grease which give the little germs homes.
As others have pointed out, the price for this model is ridiculous as well.
Please lie to me and tell me this will be followed by government auction colos, with fat pipes already laid. Might be a good time to pick up rack space cheap. Or we might be just looking at lists of broom closets with two poweredge 1850s in them.
Seriously though, federal auctions are the best place to get used, yet reasonably current hardware cheap. I got a laptop a year ago which still has warranty left that way (had to add a hdd).
I'm pretty sure with just two mics a fixed or known distance apart, you could get 2d coordinates. Just have to look at the timing offset of similar waves and calculate the radial intersection. On the flip side though, small CCD elements with sufficient resolution for a Wii/Smoothboard or Kinect style setup are more than cheap enough to use and relatively compact. A single mic as demonstrated might be useful for broadening the number of unique touch actions though.
Much like the Linux scene frequently flares up to, we are stuck in the Paradox of Choice paradox with App Stores. I would guess most people would prefer a $50 suite that did everything except games for which their phone is useful to an adequate level.
Same situation with OSes and office productivity suites. Consumers have demonstrated over and over again that they would rather use crappy Windows + MS Office over having to try to pick the *right* distro of Linux and office suite.
Arguably, Apple's recent success figured this out with computer hardware by reducing the choice equation to price and portability.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html20 minute Ted Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMV4PIEIKY4A longer (1 hr) version from Google Tech Talks
It would be far more useful to try an approach similar to the relatively recent browser green bar vs. red bar for https.
Green bar - the e-mail client and mail server have verified end to end trust CA SSL certificates and are using SSL encryption point to point. Red bar - server is not available on SSL or client cannot connect to mail server on an encrypted link (SSL, encrypted Exchange, etc.)
The reality is until Microsoft puts such functionality in Office Outlook and Exchange at the same time (along with free patches for prior versions) as well as Google and Yahoo, there is no expectation for this to be a viable solution.
A few years following such a coordinated switch, maybe one could add a prompt regarding, "Send E-mail Insecurely?" or have a option bit to ask as a policy.
Also, giving out a PGP key is silly from a security standpoint because now your points of failure are every person to which you needed to give a key rather than trusted. Not exactly great for the non-security minded sales guy down the hall.
The download link with one-time or per-recipient passwords options are great for files (I love them) but usually too much trouble for most people as well as inviting people less security conscious to click links in e-mails when maybe we shouldn't.
Actually, regulatory ignorance is exactly why many automobiles available in Europe and Asia with vastly better MPG than current hybrids and compacts are not available domestically.
You see, in order to actually maintain higher levels of fuel consumption, the EPA NOx emission requirements have been tweaked so low, that ultra high efficiency automobile motors can't be sold in the US. NOx requirements are the number one reason we have more high displacement V6 and V8 motors in vehicles that would have higher fuel economy, drivability and more horsepower using small 4 and 6 cylinder turbo charged motors. Example, anything VW sells in Europe with a Blue Motion drivetrain (Scirocco).
Similar reason for the 1UZ 4.0L V8 powered SC400 back in the 90's from Toyota/Lexus, when the 1JZ-GTE 2.5L Turbo was a vastly more advanced and better output engine.
So yes, ignorance of technology on the part of legislators and regulators is a very serious problem and NOT acceptable.
Time to start honey-potting a great deal more. Worked for the Japanese in the late 90's for capacitor electrolyte formulas.
Only caveat might be to actually make the honey pots look harder to get to than the real stuff (double honey pots? one easy, one hard - thank you virtualization).
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Plenty of bands play free venues (taking a cut of alcohol sales of course) in the hopes of recognition. I'm WAY MORE inclined to put down $10-15 for their CD than $5-10 for someone's CD I can't turn the radio on without hearing. Sure, for big names it's about marketing, but for the "little guy" it's about demonstrating hard work, effort and skill to get all the pirates out their to pay. I pay for video games all the time, after I sample the torrent and see if it's worth my $$. If not, I delete it. COD: Modern Warfare 3 was a great example. Played about 30 minutes, found that it was waaay over scripted and felt like an Area 51 game at the arcade with a mouse instead of the lightgun. Not for me, and I'm glad I'm not out $50 to find out something wasn't for me. I would do demos of games more often, but after awhile I found they were like going to an Italian restaurant and getting a sample of the tiramisu at the door and expecting the gnocchi to be equally good. Not always the case. Before someone tries to argue the but you pay for what you get at the restaurant regardless of if it is good or merely ok, keep in mind that for many in the community, the pirate download does not cost developers one cent. It makes it for them when the experience is compelling enough to get more buyers for the multiplayer and DLC content. I never return to a restaurant that I get bad food from, and I warn potential customers NOT to go there (excepting fast food chains which are the $0.99 app store of food).
Give the engineers the same cut the sales people get for one time sales. Structure the procedure such that any ongoing or contract sales for services get coordinated with a sales rep to handle the details (after the initial sale is made) and give a split cut between the sales staffer and the engineer (based on time investment).
Also, if this is the kind of sales you are doing, maybe you should look into making your sales people come off more like engineers. Get them some experience with technical matters and some training. It will also help insure they are asking the right questions and getting the right details and most importantly, budgeting properly for projects when sending tasks out to engineers.
If people clam up around their sales reps it's because they put off the slick salesman vibe. Get rid of that. The only people who like that vibe are hip-hop aficionados, drunk guys at the strip club and MBAs. Outside of the whole MBA to MBA community, real people don't like doing business with people like that.
Being at a managed hosting company, I've noticed using the title Account Manager as well as endowing them with the responsibilities of that title reduces the slick sell everything attitude. Your sales people should be focused on long term relationships and the residuals from that powering their paycheck.
You should see the crap being produced by the terrible union of doctors, comp sci majors, and university researchers. The expert systems being designed (primarily for iOS, not PC or generic web interfaces) are guided by the worst research and statistical models. You're right, but the problem is the implementors are plain wrong. Wrong people, wrong degrees doing the grunt work (PhDs in education and economics doing data entry because they can't hack it in their chosen field, but some idiot signed off on their dissertation). The medical and bio research industry is as backwards as it can get.
I have a close friend doing research in the biology / cancer area while working on her masters at the moment. It's quite clear that a firmer grasp of math would be of great detriment to the entirety of the field of biology research. The underlying mechanism for getting published is to keep running different pre-fab statistics models against a data set until you find "something" you can call meaningful. Pharmacology and biology right now is statistical alchemy. No self respecting mathematician can stand behind the interpretations drawn on results. Luckily, the mathematicians don't see the interpretations made by the presiding PhD. Oddly enough, this makes the math majors in the field (biostat majors and mathematics majors with minors in biology) both highly desirable, but feared as being cave dwellers much like IT folk used to be treated. They are slightly more surly than the angst ridden IT admin though.