MIT probably pays 10 times more for illegal mp3 downloads than this will cost.
Most larger universities already have at least several OC-3s. Textual web based content is tiny compared to student net usage, most of which is non-educational.
Anyways, I wish to subscribe to your newsletter, kind sir.
Heh.
I want to know how you came to your conclusions,
A very bad experience at a large university. I won't name any names, but I think it is apparent which I am referring to. Lets just say I am not from Vermont.
I find it difficult to believe that someone's competence in such an open-ended and abstract field can be assessed by a score on an exam taken in the span of a few hours.
In the end, a college course measures that competence with several quizzes, a couple tests, maybe a project or two, and an exam. I don't think that accurately reflects competence any more than a certification exam could.
perhaps there were problems with your department and those should be addressed.
You bet, huge problems.
there are hundreds/thousands of courses to choose from as electives
Only that I would have had to take 17 or more hours a semester to take courses that wouldn't have counted toward degree in order to take them. Most engineering/CS/business programs have a strong set of required courses that take up your complete time from start to finish, with "general studies" requirements that only give you a couple choices.
One of the great things about higher education is that it's optional! If you don't want to attend class, don't. If you don't think the degree is worth your time, move on to the next part of your life.
That's the thing, I wanted to learn, I never want to stop learning. When I went to college, it was under the assumption that learning would be a main goal. What I found was a system of learning that was utterly incompatible with the way that I, and many other people, actually learn.
I don't mean static material would have to completely replace interaction with people more experienced, only that the lecture paradigm is obselete. People learn by doing, as you pointed out. The open source community is a great example of this. There are thousands of self trained people who learned by reading material online, talking to the more skillful through email or through IRC, and just experimenting on their own.
My point is, mentoring isn't obselete, but the current college/university paradigm was designed centuries ago, and it shows. Classes with 500+ students only serve to highlight the weaknesses of this obselete paradigm.
There would be certifications in algorithm design, certifications in algorithm analysis, etc... They would be the same material that is taught in the course of a normal degree, only that the person and employer could pick and choose which skill set they wanted to pay for, on a micro level.
You are thinking about certifications as they exist today, i.e. specific training and certification usually tied to a commercial product. This is why I mentioned Brainbench, they had several abstract certifications that were approaching this goal.
Care to wager how many of those students would jump at the chance to avoid this old windbag?
I jumped at that chance as much as I could. Several courses I was able to only attend exams and get an A nonetheless.
Most of the other classes I took, this was impossible, due to the professor rigging up some contrived system where grade depended on attendance, such as only accepting assignments during classtime, at the end, from only those who attended the full class. There is obviously a problem if most professors must resort to such tactics to get their captive audience.
Don't get me wrong, I respect knowledge, and the knowledgable. I think it is the framework that is wrong, the whole paradigm is wrong. There are certain things that can only be learned from those with the experience to teach it, but I think the current system fails at accomplishing that.
what if we know a large portion of a certain course... how do we go about proving it?"
This is the thing. Colleges and universities are obselete. I think Brainbench had the right idea, just have many little certifications that make up the summary of your qualifications. What is the difference if someone learns something by reading online documents or by going to hear some windbag talk about it for 50 minutes? There isn't.
I think in the next 20 years we will see the demise of higher education as we know it. As older people that have obselete ideas about degrees meaning something die off, the new generation of managers that will value skills above sheepskins will come into power. Then we will see real reform in the education and training markets.
Higher education, as it exists now, is something like an organized religion, with plenty of dogma and rabid followers and supporters. I'm sure I will be flamed by those people shortly. I went to college, I did my four years, it was really pointless.... I couldn't recommend it to anyone with the intelligence to learn things on their own.
It wasn't bad in 1994, believe it or not. The lines were rarely busy, etc... The only reason I know is because I live out in BFE and back then the major services were the only thing going, it wasn't like there were many options.
The cable spec for parallel ATA is 18 inches, but up to 36 works reliably. I'd imagine SATA will likely work well past the original spec of 1 meter... and who's to say the standard won't be expanded in the future?
-A car is an electrically noisy environment -Plenty of sheet metal to block signals -FM broadcast frequencies are going to limit your sound quality a large amount (insert nyquist stuff that is mostly over my head here) -Almost all FM frequencies have a signal on them that may overpower your feeder, especially if you drive long distances. -If everyone used higher power FM transmitters, then you would constantly pick up the guy next to you at stop lights, so higher power won't solve anything.
In all, it's just a really dumb solution to the problem of a stereo that doesn't include an input jack.
Once SATA gets more of a foothold... I don't see what would be stopping the use of SATA to replace all these other options, when speed is of importance, considering it is more than three times faster than USB2.0 or Firewire.
Cable length spec is 1 meter, hot swap.... And the interface is basically free. Imagine that the device already uses a SATA hard disk internally, you just pop the disk out and plug it in to your computer, that way the external device doesn't have to have electronics to support any connections to a host.
Power connections may need some tweaking, I'm not sure how that would be handled. On a side note, MS says about SATA hot swap:
When does Microsoft plan to support true "hot plug" for Serial ATA devices? The Microsoft plan of record is to provide support in the next version of the Windows operating system.
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/storage/seri al ATA_FAQ.asp
This seems like a reasonable future direction for this to go in. It won't happen right away, but it almost seems inevitable now that SATA is finally snowballing.
That tube is only going to resonate at a few frequencies that are harmonics of each other. Yeah, you will hit one certain spot really really hard, but other frequencies will be attenuated.
Alternative weapon systems are usually called "less than lethal", as a reminder that they can and do seriously injure people. As it is, there is a backlash against police overuse of pepper spray and things of that sort. Really I don't think police need too many options. A club, or a sap, and a sidearm are all I personally think they should carry. All these toys might look neat, but I think it encourages abuse. Sometimes technology isn't the answer, when the question already had perfectly good low-tech answers.
I wish you luck in your endeavors, but I think I would have taken you a lot more seriously had you posted the technical details, or at least a summary of them, rather than just the link to the site. The way it comes off is that you just want to drive traffic to your company's site, not discuss the technical merits of your company's technology. Hence my post.
I propose that a working group be formed to incorporate the same type of Authentication we know works with email
And what would that be?
As long as anyone can send anyone else email, there is nothing to be gained from redesigning the email protocols, and using legislation to force a solution on people. Authentication will require a central authority that one would have to beseech before running a mail server.
until it can be implemented as a required medium.
Yeah, I'm sure everyone wants a central authority that controls all email. It's bad enough what happened with DNS, now you want email to be at the whim of Verisign too?
SolidBlue is a leader in networked communications and protocol development.
Your message reads like a press release. I can't believe that this spam got modded up in a story about spam. Ironic.
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MIT probably pays 10 times more for illegal mp3 downloads than this will cost.
Most larger universities already have at least several OC-3s. Textual web based content is tiny compared to student net usage, most of which is non-educational.
My point is, I don't think this will be an issue.
Anyways, I wish to subscribe to your newsletter, kind sir.
Heh.
I want to know how you came to your conclusions,
A very bad experience at a large university. I won't name any names, but I think it is apparent which I am referring to. Lets just say I am not from Vermont.
I think GigsVT is an idiot.
Yay! Another convert!
I don't appreciate being told I'm wasting $100,000.
That is the crux of the issue, now isn't it.
It's not my fault the emperor wears no clothes, even if he paid a huge sum for it, I'm just pointing the fact out.
what did you choose to study in college and do you practice in that field today
CS, yes.
I find it difficult to believe that someone's competence in such an open-ended and abstract field can be assessed by a score on an exam taken in the span of a few hours.
In the end, a college course measures that competence with several quizzes, a couple tests, maybe a project or two, and an exam. I don't think that accurately reflects competence any more than a certification exam could.
perhaps there were problems with your department and those should be addressed.
You bet, huge problems.
there are hundreds/thousands of courses to choose from as electives
Only that I would have had to take 17 or more hours a semester to take courses that wouldn't have counted toward degree in order to take them. Most engineering/CS/business programs have a strong set of required courses that take up your complete time from start to finish, with "general studies" requirements that only give you a couple choices.
One of the great things about higher education is that it's optional! If you don't want to attend class, don't. If you don't think the degree is worth your time, move on to the next part of your life.
That's the thing, I wanted to learn, I never want to stop learning. When I went to college, it was under the assumption that learning would be a main goal. What I found was a system of learning that was utterly incompatible with the way that I, and many other people, actually learn.
I don't mean static material would have to completely replace interaction with people more experienced, only that the lecture paradigm is obselete. People learn by doing, as you pointed out. The open source community is a great example of this. There are thousands of self trained people who learned by reading material online, talking to the more skillful through email or through IRC, and just experimenting on their own.
My point is, mentoring isn't obselete, but the current college/university paradigm was designed centuries ago, and it shows. Classes with 500+ students only serve to highlight the weaknesses of this obselete paradigm.
I don't think you understand what I am saying.
There would be certifications in algorithm design, certifications in algorithm analysis, etc... They would be the same material that is taught in the course of a normal degree, only that the person and employer could pick and choose which skill set they wanted to pay for, on a micro level.
You are thinking about certifications as they exist today, i.e. specific training and certification usually tied to a commercial product. This is why I mentioned Brainbench, they had several abstract certifications that were approaching this goal.
Care to wager how many of those students would jump at the chance to avoid this old windbag?
I jumped at that chance as much as I could. Several courses I was able to only attend exams and get an A nonetheless.
Most of the other classes I took, this was impossible, due to the professor rigging up some contrived system where grade depended on attendance, such as only accepting assignments during classtime, at the end, from only those who attended the full class. There is obviously a problem if most professors must resort to such tactics to get their captive audience.
Don't get me wrong, I respect knowledge, and the knowledgable. I think it is the framework that is wrong, the whole paradigm is wrong. There are certain things that can only be learned from those with the experience to teach it, but I think the current system fails at accomplishing that.
what if we know a large portion of a certain course... how do we go about proving it?"
This is the thing. Colleges and universities are obselete. I think Brainbench had the right idea, just have many little certifications that make up the summary of your qualifications. What is the difference if someone learns something by reading online documents or by going to hear some windbag talk about it for 50 minutes? There isn't.
I think in the next 20 years we will see the demise of higher education as we know it. As older people that have obselete ideas about degrees meaning something die off, the new generation of managers that will value skills above sheepskins will come into power. Then we will see real reform in the education and training markets.
Higher education, as it exists now, is something like an organized religion, with plenty of dogma and rabid followers and supporters. I'm sure I will be flamed by those people shortly. I went to college, I did my four years, it was really pointless.... I couldn't recommend it to anyone with the intelligence to learn things on their own.
It wasn't bad in 1994, believe it or not. The lines were rarely busy, etc... The only reason I know is because I live out in BFE and back then the major services were the only thing going, it wasn't like there were many options.
That enron auction link rocks, thanks.
The thing is though, do you really want it Slashdotted? It will drive up the prices!
Actually, all these numbers point out how badly IRC scales, and by extension p2p, even when you have a clearly defined set of servers.
AOL, Prodigy, CServe all had many times over 100,000 users easily on 1994 server hardware.
The cable spec for parallel ATA is 18 inches, but up to 36 works reliably. I'd imagine SATA will likely work well past the original spec of 1 meter... and who's to say the standard won't be expanded in the future?
FM feeders are always going to suck.
-A car is an electrically noisy environment
-Plenty of sheet metal to block signals
-FM broadcast frequencies are going to limit your sound quality a large amount (insert nyquist stuff that is mostly over my head here)
-Almost all FM frequencies have a signal on them that may overpower your feeder, especially if you drive long distances.
-If everyone used higher power FM transmitters, then you would constantly pick up the guy next to you at stop lights, so higher power won't solve anything.
In all, it's just a really dumb solution to the problem of a stereo that doesn't include an input jack.
Once SATA gets more of a foothold... I don't see what would be stopping the use of SATA to replace all these other options, when speed is of importance, considering it is more than three times faster than USB2.0 or Firewire.
i al ATA_FAQ.asp
Cable length spec is 1 meter, hot swap.... And the interface is basically free. Imagine that the device already uses a SATA hard disk internally, you just pop the disk out and plug it in to your computer, that way the external device doesn't have to have electronics to support any connections to a host.
Power connections may need some tweaking, I'm not sure how that would be handled. On a side note, MS says about SATA hot swap:
When does Microsoft plan to support true "hot plug" for Serial ATA devices?
The Microsoft plan of record is to provide support in the next version of the Windows operating system.
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/storage/ser
This seems like a reasonable future direction for this to go in. It won't happen right away, but it almost seems inevitable now that SATA is finally snowballing.
At a couple frequencies.
That tube is only going to resonate at a few frequencies that are harmonics of each other. Yeah, you will hit one certain spot really really hard, but other frequencies will be attenuated.
it requires no crossover
How is that? Do you really want your sub trying to produce 10khz tones?
Alternative weapon systems are usually called "less than lethal", as a reminder that they can and do seriously injure people. As it is, there is a backlash against police overuse of pepper spray and things of that sort. Really I don't think police need too many options. A club, or a sap, and a sidearm are all I personally think they should carry. All these toys might look neat, but I think it encourages abuse. Sometimes technology isn't the answer, when the question already had perfectly good low-tech answers.
You don't need a compressor, NPR doesn't need one after all. :)
Preventing overmod is definitely something that is not optional however. A good limiter will keep the FCC off your ass.
spam company in a story about spam.
:)
A spam company spamming in a story about spam?
I wish you luck in your endeavors, but I think I would have taken you a lot more seriously had you posted the technical details, or at least a summary of them, rather than just the link to the site. The way it comes off is that you just want to drive traffic to your company's site, not discuss the technical merits of your company's technology. Hence my post.
It's called astroturfing.
It's just the principle, a news site should not take money for content that is not clearly marked as ads. It really hurts credibility.
I propose that a working group be formed to incorporate the same type of Authentication we know works with email
And what would that be?
As long as anyone can send anyone else email, there is nothing to be gained from redesigning the email protocols, and using legislation to force a solution on people. Authentication will require a central authority that one would have to beseech before running a mail server.
until it can be implemented as a required medium.
Yeah, I'm sure everyone wants a central authority that controls all email. It's bad enough what happened with DNS, now you want email to be at the whim of Verisign too?
SolidBlue is a leader in networked communications and protocol development.
Your message reads like a press release. I can't believe that this spam got modded up in a story about spam. Ironic.