It's safe to assume Alias was shopped to
Apple, and Apple passed or was outbid.
One wonders why Apple didn't buy it --
Apple has paid 30-50 M USD in
cash for pro video and audio software
companies in the past, so the price
Autodesk paid is not wildly out of sync
with that. As a wedge to move PC users
to Apple hardware, it's well worth writing
the check.
I'm not an expert in this domain at all, but
from what I understand, Documentum can
interoperate with the US Food and Drug
Administration's requirements for electronic
submissions of pharmacutical paperwork,
and did so earlier than some competitors.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was a
backstory like this for other government agencies too.
The person who makes a technology
popular receives technical fame for
a good reason -- by making more of
the world aware of a good technology,
in a way that leads to deployment,
the world becomes a better place.
Sometimes, popularization adds more
value than invention to an idea.
What about all those efferent projections
from higher levels to primary areas? It
seems quite plausible that they work to
fine-tune sensory perception to the demands
of a particular high-level task.
If fMRI can resolve the effects those efferents
have on primary cortex... it could be sensing
high-level activity.
The language mistake that has the most potential
for disaster using a word whose meaning you
don't really know. Perhaps you saw the word in
a newspaper or heard it in a movie, thought you
understood it from context, so you start using it.
Everyone misunderstands you, and if you get
unlucky, very bad things can happen...
You could do 2 DRAM accesses in
the time it took for CPU clock cycle
(1000 ns). Woz used this trick to
do video DRAM access on one clock
phase, and CPU DRAM access on
the other... oh how times have
changed since 1977 in this regard.
Error in the posting -- this work was
done at USC (University of Southern
California), which isn't part of the
UC (University of California, the
umbrella term for the public
university system in California).
Oh, and to pre-empt the followups,
UC is also the University of Chicago
and the University of Cincinnati,
among others... but not the
University of Colorado, which calls
itself CU to avoid this name overloading problem:-)
The FCC is hoping that residental broadband
adds a competitive player coming out of left field --
some form of wireless, power-line, etc. The
business case for new companies becomes
easier if the FCC lets cable and Baby Bells
pursue agendas that alienate early-adopter
consumers. Historical example is satellite TV: if cable
companies were forced by regulation to provide
a good customer experience, DirectTV would
have never made it beyond the rural marketplace.
Many graduate students draw salaries that
are taxable (Teaching Assistants, Research
Assistants, etc) and an SSN is required for
tax reporting to the IRS + Franchise Tax Board.
What Moto is saying here is that the marketing
of a phone is different than the marketing of
a normal consumer product, because the chain
of sales has so many links. Moto sells in bulk to
carriers, a carrier markets though an array of
retail and wholesale channels, and it simply
isn't possible to pave the way for a new product
through those channels with "need to know" secrecy.
It's interesting, 50 undergrads took the course
in 2003 at Caltech that did technology surveys
for the vehicle, and there are about 1000 undergrads
at Caltech total. So, 5% of the undergraduate population
took part...
Gene Amdahl's dad (Gene should need no
introduction for the Slashdot crowd) was
a rancher in South Dakota who didn't make
it to high school, yet alone college. But he encouraged his
son to do a liberal arts degree in college,
because he felt the purpose of education
was to "find your place in the world", not
to be an intellectual supermarket where
you pick up technical skills and check them
out on graduation day.
If we change the high school and college
experience, I think we have to orient it
back towards self-discovery and away from
skill accumulation -- once you know who you are and
where you want to be in the world, you can
find a way to gear up to make it happen.
But if you are drifting through life, all of the skills
in the world won't help much.
The Indian diaspora, like the China diaspora,
is already a knowledge superpower -- as a
look at the nationalities of the IEEE Fellows,
the US NAS and NAE, and the equivalent
academies in other countries will attest. All we're discussing
here is the current mailing address of the
talent.
The habits of "most ordinary people" change
with the generations. Many people still alive
in the US remember when horse racing, boxing,
and baseball were the three major sports that
"most ordinary people" cared about. Today,
only baseball hangs on to that claim...
I used iChat AV for a Berkeley (CA, USA) to
Yokahama (Japan) call a few months ago,
and the quality of the call was excellent.
Apart from the latency, indistinguishable
from a local land-line call in Berkeley.
I think its important to remember that the
most newspaper coverage
about science treats scientists with kid gloves.
There's a ritual each week,
when Science, Nature, and PNAS comes
out -- the mainstream press sees the
palette of stories, chooses a few accessable
ones, and writes articles about them. In
the vast majority of cases, the story translates
the science into public-speak, and quotes a
few other scientists who are in violent agreement
with the main result of the paper. Most
weekly science features (example: San
Francisco Chronicle's Monday science feature
story) follow the same pattern.
It's only the science stories where there's a
controversial social issue embedded in the
story that reporters go into "balanced mode".
And the odds of a randomly chosen research
agenda falling into that bin is really low... it
takes funded opposition to light the fuse, in
most cases.
Compare this fate to economists, who can't
catch a break when it comes to newspaper
stories -- the story always beings with the
"dismal science" and the "find me a one
handed economist" gags, and ends up mocking
the economist with a reduction to absurdity
argument. Physical science has it easy by comparison.
Animals do better than machines right now on
odor identification problems -- that's why dogs
are pressed into action as sniffing machines for
all sorts of compounds (including, as proof of
concept, compounds that identify growing cancers).
But its a hassle to use a dog, and it limits how
olfaction can be used to solve clinical
problems. If understanding the DNA of smell
leads to inexpensive sensors that work as well
as a dog, then we can look back and say this
Nobel was for "life stuff" too.
I'd nominate GarageBand. It ships with iLife
for a reason: the number of consumers who
can play a musical instrument or can plan out
loop music is large. Music lessons are a staple of
youth, and people don't lose the skills or the
interest as they age -- people stop playing
and writing because of the "hassle factor", and
Garageband lowers that barrier. And just like
John Carmack can saturate any gaming platform
with good ideas, a creative amateur music producer
can saturate any CPU/hardware combination with
better instrument models and effects chains.
Even if you have no interest in the
material (clothes and makeup for
20-something women), pick up a
copy of Jane and analyze it for its
design and its point of view.
Google should consider "giving back" by
providing a platform for
services to run on -- a
PlanetLab for the
SourceForge world. Google code isn't
about a single server, it's about
clusters of servers, and few people
have the budget and experience to
set up distributed clusters on their own.
Black Hats are dynamic actors -- if the
world changes so that Figure 2 in Eric's paper
is the norm rather than Figure 1, the Black Hat
community will evolve to live in the new world.
Their new goal will be to maximize area under the
"Private Exploitation" part of Figure 2. We
may be better off with the current state of affairs.
Slashdot Mirror
One wonders why Apple didn't buy it -- Apple has paid 30-50 M USD in cash for pro video and audio software companies in the past, so the price Autodesk paid is not wildly out of sync with that. As a wedge to move PC users to Apple hardware, it's well worth writing the check.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was a backstory like this for other government agencies too.
iTunes 5 lets you remove Podcasts from the list of sources now, although you need to do so via the Parental Controls menu and not the General menu.
The person who makes a technology popular receives technical fame for a good reason -- by making more of the world aware of a good technology, in a way that leads to deployment, the world becomes a better place. Sometimes, popularization adds more value than invention to an idea.
What about all those efferent projections from higher levels to primary areas? It seems quite plausible that they work to fine-tune sensory perception to the demands of a particular high-level task.
If fMRI can resolve the effects those efferents have on primary cortex ... it could be sensing
high-level activity.
The language mistake that has the most potential for disaster using a word whose meaning you don't really know. Perhaps you saw the word in a newspaper or heard it in a movie, thought you understood it from context, so you start using it. Everyone misunderstands you, and if you get unlucky, very bad things can happen ...
You could do 2 DRAM accesses in the time it took for CPU clock cycle (1000 ns). Woz used this trick to do video DRAM access on one clock phase, and CPU DRAM access on the other ... oh how times have
changed since 1977 in this regard.
Error in the posting -- this work was done at USC (University of Southern California), which isn't part of the UC (University of California, the umbrella term for the public university system in California). Oh, and to pre-empt the followups, UC is also the University of Chicago and the University of Cincinnati, among others ... but not the
University of Colorado, which calls
itself CU to avoid this name overloading problem :-)
Low-latency interactive services (VoIP, video conferencing, games, more esoteric things ...) are not
on their radar. Surprising ...
The FCC is hoping that residental broadband adds a competitive player coming out of left field -- some form of wireless, power-line, etc. The business case for new companies becomes easier if the FCC lets cable and Baby Bells pursue agendas that alienate early-adopter consumers. Historical example is satellite TV: if cable companies were forced by regulation to provide a good customer experience, DirectTV would have never made it beyond the rural marketplace.
Many graduate students draw salaries that are taxable (Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, etc) and an SSN is required for tax reporting to the IRS + Franchise Tax Board.
What Moto is saying here is that the marketing of a phone is different than the marketing of a normal consumer product, because the chain of sales has so many links. Moto sells in bulk to carriers, a carrier markets though an array of retail and wholesale channels, and it simply isn't possible to pave the way for a new product through those channels with "need to know" secrecy.
It's interesting, 50 undergrads took the course in 2003 at Caltech that did technology surveys for the vehicle, and there are about 1000 undergrads at Caltech total. So, 5% of the undergraduate population took part ...
Gene Amdahl's dad (Gene should need no introduction for the Slashdot crowd) was a rancher in South Dakota who didn't make it to high school, yet alone college. But he encouraged his son to do a liberal arts degree in college, because he felt the purpose of education was to "find your place in the world", not to be an intellectual supermarket where you pick up technical skills and check them out on graduation day.
See this short bio for more details.
If we change the high school and college experience, I think we have to orient it back towards self-discovery and away from skill accumulation -- once you know who you are and where you want to be in the world, you can find a way to gear up to make it happen. But if you are drifting through life, all of the skills in the world won't help much.
The Indian diaspora, like the China diaspora, is already a knowledge superpower -- as a look at the nationalities of the IEEE Fellows, the US NAS and NAE, and the equivalent academies in other countries will attest. All we're discussing here is the current mailing address of the talent.
The habits of "most ordinary people" change with the generations. Many people still alive in the US remember when horse racing, boxing, and baseball were the three major sports that "most ordinary people" cared about. Today, only baseball hangs on to that claim ...
They zoomed in on this press photo of an engineer holding a die.
I used iChat AV for a Berkeley (CA, USA) to Yokahama (Japan) call a few months ago, and the quality of the call was excellent. Apart from the latency, indistinguishable from a local land-line call in Berkeley.
I think its important to remember that the most newspaper coverage about science treats scientists with kid gloves. There's a ritual each week, when Science, Nature, and PNAS comes out -- the mainstream press sees the palette of stories, chooses a few accessable ones, and writes articles about them. In the vast majority of cases, the story translates the science into public-speak, and quotes a few other scientists who are in violent agreement with the main result of the paper. Most weekly science features (example: San Francisco Chronicle's Monday science feature story) follow the same pattern.
It's only the science stories where there's a controversial social issue embedded in the story that reporters go into "balanced mode". And the odds of a randomly chosen research agenda falling into that bin is really low ... it
takes funded opposition to light the fuse, in
most cases.
Compare this fate to economists, who can't catch a break when it comes to newspaper stories -- the story always beings with the "dismal science" and the "find me a one handed economist" gags, and ends up mocking the economist with a reduction to absurdity argument. Physical science has it easy by comparison.
Animals do better than machines right now on odor identification problems -- that's why dogs are pressed into action as sniffing machines for all sorts of compounds (including, as proof of concept, compounds that identify growing cancers).
But its a hassle to use a dog, and it limits how olfaction can be used to solve clinical problems. If understanding the DNA of smell leads to inexpensive sensors that work as well as a dog, then we can look back and say this Nobel was for "life stuff" too.
I'd nominate GarageBand. It ships with iLife for a reason: the number of consumers who can play a musical instrument or can plan out loop music is large. Music lessons are a staple of youth, and people don't lose the skills or the interest as they age -- people stop playing and writing because of the "hassle factor", and Garageband lowers that barrier. And just like John Carmack can saturate any gaming platform with good ideas, a creative amateur music producer can saturate any CPU/hardware combination with better instrument models and effects chains.
Even if you have no interest in the material (clothes and makeup for 20-something women), pick up a copy of Jane and analyze it for its design and its point of view.
Google should consider "giving back" by providing a platform for services to run on -- a PlanetLab for the SourceForge world. Google code isn't about a single server, it's about clusters of servers, and few people have the budget and experience to set up distributed clusters on their own.
The SIP RFC you linked to is obsoleted by RFC 3261
Black Hats are dynamic actors -- if the world changes so that Figure 2 in Eric's paper is the norm rather than Figure 1, the Black Hat community will evolve to live in the new world. Their new goal will be to maximize area under the "Private Exploitation" part of Figure 2. We may be better off with the current state of affairs.