I would think that art and humanities majors, such as a history major, would be able to discern the global macro trend and ride the big wave to financial prosperity, no? An example that comes to mind is Overstock chairman Patrick Byrne, who is a great visionary, probably owing to his PhD in philosophy.
If we were in the midst of a "service economy," that would indeed be depressing. Fortunately, we are transitioning into what Dr. Stiglitz calls a "Creative economy". Google it.
American economy is going through a phase change. Most of the manufacturing jobs have moved to Asia. Yet, schools teach students skills for the 20th century; like following orders, memorizing facts and applying formulas.
21st century organizations need rule breakers -- agile, inventive, and interconnected with specialists on the 'Net, those who directly challenge the outdated mass-production model with laser-sharp focus on a niche to deliver incorporeal benefits increasingly demanded by modern consumers.
In other words, children trained in the right brain skills during their developmental age will be the winners of the upcoming "Creative Economy"
The aggressive policy of blocking executable files is hurting my shareware business.
I've come across quite a number of software company web sites that contain a page telling their customer their software is not Malware even though Chrome says it is. e.g., http://portforward.com/virus_h...
Also, they usually have a screen capture that shows you need to ignore the message "This file will harm your computer" and click the scary button that says "Hurt me plenty". e.g., https://www.outsystems.com/for...
As for me, I have an identical program hosted on two sites (It is a free version of a maze program I sell).
Interestingly, Chrome blocks (2) but not (1). This tells me that Chrome is probably making a decision based on the "popularity" of the web site where the file is coming from. I.e., (2) is brand new, whereas (1) has been up for many years.
That probably has been true in the past but it looks like Micro$oft is now trying to make money from their compilers. I say that because programmers can no longer purchase the Pro version of Visual C++. Instead, they make you buy the more expensive Visual STUDIO.Net Pro, which also includes Basic and C#.
The Pong system is a little different from the scroll wheel in that it senses the ABSOLUTE angle of a variable resistor whereas the scroll wheel detects RELATIVE angle of a rotary encoder. I know because I actually built a PONG system using GI's famous AY chip.
I really miss the scroll wheel that used to be on the keyboard of a HP workstation. IIRC, regular spinning provided horizontal movement and spinning while holding down the shift key provided vertical movement. It was more productive than a mouse IMO. I wonder why it did not catch on.
By the way, it works by a rotary encoder consisting of a slotted wheel and two photo interruptors. Rotating causes square waves PI/2 apart in phase. Angle is determined by the count, and direction by which wave is leading in phase.
If you are saying the countries on the receiving end of the outsourcing well-deserves it thanks to their diligence, you are wrong. Have you ever seen a marathon runner who appears out of nowhere and receives a big applause from the crowd? Only until the crowd discovers that he was a clown who jumped into the race from behind the previous corner near the goal line. So, to have apples-to-apples comparison, let's see the foreign programmers start from the invention of a programming language. Or better, start from the invention of IC or transistor, from which computers are made of.
If I really wanted to steal, two methods immediately come into mind; (1) write a software UART in C and transmit via blinking white block on screen, which is read out to another laptop through a photo transistor or (2) generate FSK on sound card, which is listened to by an old-style analog modem.
CEO's don't create any value; scientists, engineers, and programmers do. Without the technological infrastructure invented and perfected in the USA, the workers doing the outsourced work won't have a platform to work from. By treating American tech workers as disposable commodity, the CEO's and high level managers are in effect stealing from the very people who created the technology. Bush or Kerry, whoever is elected for '05, needs to start creating laws to protect the IP rights of tech workers, thereby empowering the individual workers against the corporations. For example, many companies require new-hires to sign a form that says any idea one thinks of while being employed in the company belongs to the company. This practice should be made illegal. Also, if one participated in a group project, one should be able to claim partial ownership to the intellectual rights associated with the project even after he or she leaves the company. Currently obtaining a patent requires significant work, whereas obtaining copyright is very easy. I would like to see a middle-of-the-ground, semi-pattent law so to speak.
FWIW, according to http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20040504-0000002 7-mai-soci
Latest Japan youth poll - what do you want to become when you grow up?
Boys: #1 Soccer player #2 Baseball player #3 Chef #4/#5 Medical Doctor / Carpenter
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In America, you see many ads saying brand A (ours) is better than brand B (our competitor's), and I think there's nothing wrong with that. FWIW, in Japan, you aren't alowed to mention your competitor by name and trash them, because doing so is considered undignified.
Interesting. Technically speaking, the fact that you could single-step the 1802 by hand-toggling the clock is not an artifact of being CMOS, but that it did not use dynamic circuits for any internal state element. Other CPUs popular at that time such as the 8080 used dynamic circuits so single-stepping had to be done by leaving the clock running and asserting wait signal upon each instruction fetch.
Mine was two 74S181 ALU's with 16 bytes of RAM, toggle switches for entering program, 8 LED's for output, and second-hand paper tape punch/reader for external storage.
>But what happens if you go on holiday for a month?
Good point. I neglected to check email from one of my ISPs for 3 months. Last Saturday, I finally decided that it's time to do some cleaning up, so I tried to open Outlook but kept getting errors. When I called up that ISP, the support person gave me the shocking news that my mailbox contained 14,000 messages! So I used Telnet to go into Pine, did a final skim for important messages, and finally closed down my account of 7 years.
IIRC, Apple-II's schematic was easily obtainable. I say this because I remember seeing the diagram for the "simple minimum-chip paddle circuit" and being very impressed. An ordinary engineer would have implemented this by forming a voltage divider with a pot and feeding the output into an A/D converter. Instead, Steve did it by varying the RC constant of a cheap oneshot timer and made the CPU measure the period through just one bit of I/O port to sense the dial position. This is what I call being creative.
I founded a physics club when I was in high school. At first, my attempt was met with resistance. The physics teacher was mean-spirited and tried to prevent me. He told me clubs were for sports and I was only trying to get money from the school for selfish reasons. In the second year I got a lucky break. A new physics teacher, who just transferred in, told me he would be very happy to be our advisor. As for members, I enlisted 4 people by looking up the names of people who were checking out books on advanced circuit design from the library. Although the club name was "physics", the activities were mostly electronics-related. One member wanted to build a music synthesizer, another a pinball machine, and the rest, including me, a computer. We did end up getting funded by the school, and built 2 functioning computers. (FYI, the phrase "building a computer" in 1977 meant soldering TTLs together.) In the third year, due to some PR, we got a couple of female students to join.
When I first started writing shareware, I tried out an honor system -- "please send me money if you found this product useful." This didn't work. I experimented with lowering the price, from $10 to $5, $2, or even $0.50. But in a four-year period only about two people actually mailed me a check.
So I changed my strategy. When I switched to a system where customers have to type in their credit card number in order to download my program, hundreds of people started buying.
I observed that from time to time there are people who try to defeat my system by trying to guess a hidden URL or use random or stolen credit card numbers. Perhaps this means I've alienated some people. But so what? This is business.
After I've overcome the self-guilt, I feel like I'm at a higher level. The way I currently operate is to first decide upon the target price of the product (e.g. $20), then start writing the C++ code to create a product that is worth the price.
If you are an aspiring shareware author, don't feel guilty to find some way of enforcing payment for your product.
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I would think that art and humanities majors, such as a history major, would be able to discern the global macro trend and ride the big wave to financial prosperity, no? An example that comes to mind is Overstock chairman Patrick Byrne, who is a great visionary, probably owing to his PhD in philosophy.
If we were in the midst of a "service economy," that would indeed be depressing. Fortunately, we are transitioning into what Dr. Stiglitz calls a "Creative economy". Google it.
American economy is going through a phase change. Most of the manufacturing jobs have moved to Asia. Yet, schools teach students skills for the 20th century;
like following orders, memorizing facts and applying formulas.
21st century organizations need rule breakers -- agile, inventive, and interconnected with specialists on the 'Net, those who directly challenge the outdated mass-production model with laser-sharp focus on a niche to deliver incorporeal benefits increasingly demanded by modern consumers.
In other words, children trained in the right brain skills during their developmental age will be the winners of the upcoming "Creative Economy"
I feel your pain.
The aggressive policy of blocking executable files is hurting my shareware business.
I've come across quite a number of software company web sites that contain a page telling their customer their software is not Malware even though Chrome says it is. e.g., http://portforward.com/virus_h...
Also, they usually have a screen capture that shows you need to ignore the message "This file will harm your computer" and click the scary button that says "Hurt me plenty". e.g., https://www.outsystems.com/for...
As for me, I have an identical program hosted on two sites (It is a free version of a maze program I sell).
(1) http://www.puz.com/sw/amorphou...
(2) http://www.puz.biz/sw/amorphou...
Interestingly, Chrome blocks (2) but not (1). This tells me that Chrome is probably making a decision based on the "popularity" of
the web site where the file is coming from. I.e., (2) is brand new, whereas (1) has been up for many years.
>is pretty much a tertiary benefit.
.Net Pro, which also includes Basic and C#.
That probably has been true in the past but it looks like Micro$oft is now trying to make money from their compilers. I say that because programmers can no longer purchase the Pro version of Visual C++. Instead, they make you buy the more expensive Visual STUDIO
The Pong system is a little different from the scroll wheel in that it senses the ABSOLUTE angle of a variable resistor whereas the scroll wheel detects RELATIVE angle of a rotary encoder. I know because I actually built a PONG system using GI's famous AY chip.
I really miss the scroll wheel that used to be on the keyboard of a HP workstation. IIRC, regular spinning provided horizontal movement and spinning while holding down the shift key provided vertical movement. It was more productive than a mouse IMO. I wonder why it did not catch on.
By the way, it works by a rotary encoder consisting of a slotted wheel and two photo interruptors. Rotating causes square waves PI/2 apart in phase. Angle is determined by the count, and direction by which wave is leading in phase.
Blog for America is the best! Go to google, type "america president 2004" and hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button.
If you are saying the countries on the receiving end of the outsourcing well-deserves it thanks to their diligence, you are wrong. Have you ever seen a marathon runner who appears out of nowhere and receives a big applause from the crowd? Only until the crowd discovers that he was a clown who jumped into the race from behind the previous corner near the goal line. So, to have apples-to-apples comparison, let's see the foreign programmers start from the invention of a programming language. Or better, start from the invention of IC or transistor, from which computers are made of.
I think the article you read was probably talking about kudouka, an effect of outsourcing. The Japanese translation of outsourcing is gaibu-itaku.
If I really wanted to steal, two methods immediately come into mind; (1) write a software UART in C and transmit via blinking white block on screen, which is read out to another laptop through a photo transistor or (2) generate FSK on sound card, which is listened to by an old-style analog modem.
Tariff for IP produced through outsoucing is a good idea. Seriously.
Good post.
The law definitely needs to be rewritten to give individual contributors more protection against the corporation.
I agree.
As a shareware author, I surely hope "everything yours is mine, everything mine is mine" does not prevail.
Would he mind if I secretly taped all of his lectures and made them available for free on the net?
CEO's don't create any value; scientists, engineers, and programmers do. Without the technological infrastructure invented and perfected in the USA, the workers doing the outsourced work won't have a platform to work from. By treating American tech workers as disposable commodity, the CEO's and high level managers are in effect stealing from the very people who created the technology. Bush or Kerry, whoever is elected for '05, needs to start creating laws to protect the IP rights of tech workers, thereby empowering the individual workers against the corporations. For example, many companies require new-hires to sign a form that says any idea one thinks of while being employed in the company belongs to the company. This practice should be made illegal. Also, if one participated in a group project, one should be able to claim partial ownership to the intellectual rights associated with the project even after he or she leaves the company. Currently obtaining a patent requires significant work, whereas obtaining copyright is very easy. I would like to see a middle-of-the-ground, semi-pattent law so to speak.
FWIW, according to http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20040504-0000002 7-mai-soci
Latest Japan youth poll -
what do you want to become when you grow up?
Boys:
#1 Soccer player
#2 Baseball player
#3 Chef
#4/#5 Medical Doctor / Carpenter
In America, you see many ads saying brand A (ours) is better than brand B (our competitor's), and I think there's nothing wrong with that. FWIW, in Japan, you aren't alowed to mention your competitor by name and trash them, because doing so is considered undignified.
Interesting. Technically speaking, the fact that you could single-step the 1802 by hand-toggling the clock is not an artifact of being CMOS, but that it did not use dynamic circuits for any internal state element. Other CPUs popular at that time such as the 8080 used dynamic circuits so single-stepping had to be done by leaving the clock running and asserting wait signal upon each instruction fetch.
Mine was two 74S181 ALU's with 16 bytes of RAM, toggle switches for entering program, 8 LED's for output, and second-hand paper tape punch/reader for external storage.
And if we adopt the Hawaiian language, we only need 12 alphabet keys.
>But what happens if you go on holiday for a month?
Good point. I neglected to check email from one of my ISPs for 3 months. Last Saturday, I finally decided that it's time to do some cleaning up, so I tried to open Outlook but kept getting errors. When I called up that ISP, the support person gave me the shocking news that my mailbox contained 14,000 messages! So I used Telnet to go into Pine, did a final skim for important messages, and finally closed down my account of 7 years.
IIRC, Apple-II's schematic was easily obtainable. I say this because I remember seeing the diagram for the "simple minimum-chip paddle circuit" and being very impressed. An ordinary engineer would have implemented this by forming a voltage divider with a pot and feeding the output into an A/D converter. Instead, Steve did it by varying the RC constant of a cheap oneshot timer and made the CPU measure the period through just one bit of I/O port to sense the dial position. This is what I call being creative.
I founded a physics club when I was in high school. At first, my attempt was met with resistance. The physics teacher was mean-spirited and tried to prevent me. He told me clubs were for sports and I was only trying to get money from the school for selfish reasons. In the second year I got a lucky break. A new physics teacher, who just transferred in, told me he would be very happy to be our advisor. As for members, I enlisted 4 people by looking up the names of people who were checking out books on advanced circuit design from the library. Although the club name was "physics", the activities were mostly electronics-related. One member wanted to build a music synthesizer, another a pinball machine, and the rest, including me, a computer. We did end up getting funded by the school, and built 2 functioning computers. (FYI, the phrase "building a computer" in 1977 meant soldering TTLs together.) In the third year, due to some PR, we got a couple of female students to join.
When I first started writing shareware, I tried out an honor system -- "please send me money if you found this product useful." This didn't work. I experimented with lowering the price, from $10 to $5, $2, or even $0.50. But in a four-year period only about two people actually mailed me a check.
So I changed my strategy. When I switched to a system where customers have to type in their credit card number in order to download my program, hundreds of people started buying.
I observed that from time to time there are people who try to defeat my system by trying to guess a hidden URL or use random or stolen credit card numbers. Perhaps this means I've alienated some people. But so what? This is business.
After I've overcome the self-guilt, I feel like I'm at a higher level. The way I currently operate is to first decide upon the target price of the product (e.g. $20), then start writing the C++ code to create a product that is worth the price.
If you are an aspiring shareware author, don't feel guilty to find some way of enforcing payment for your product.