A Win/Win Proposition for Leveraging Strategic Community Synergies
It is a well-known fact that at the current point in time unprecedented opportunities for leveraging win/win strategies arise through emergent social-dynamics synergies heralding revolutionary technology breakthroughs in world-wide media applications.
This post presents to the Slashdot community a proposal for an exciting new roadmap that delineates a win/win strategy integrating unique potentials for reaping the benefits of emergent synergistic effects arising from a major paradigm shift in focus group dynamics and from leveraging cost/benefit appraisals in the resulting market-share contribution matrix.
I think we can all agree that innovative win/win strategies to facilitate the on-going paradigm shifts in market model convergence scenario implementations spearheding cutting-edge technology utilization are paramount to the success of a comprehensive assessment of the emergent Slashdot win/win market penetration focus group convergence synergy potential.
This revolutionary proposal comprises a visionary win/win scenario for leveraging factors that consume all resources, in other words, resource hogs. The new strategy implements enhanced information flows wherein the resultant rise in information flow constitutes a major asset in the win/win strategy for enhancing countermeasures against this particular type of resource-consuming factor, in that the resultant friction will wash them away.
This unique win/win/win scenario comprises state-of-the-art paradigm shifts in community-building strategies for leveraging burgeoning cutting-edge visions of innovative synergized implementation models that underscore the win/win/win/win potentials of a comprehensive market-share focus to facilitate the sustainable spearheading of integrated emergent convergence-orientated industry exposures utilizing win/win/win/win/win propositions for heralding the introduction of unprecedented new win/win/win/win/win/win technology cost/benefit appraisals in order to enhance your browsing experience.
(If you read this post very carefully, you'll notice that if you remove all the buzzwords, what remains is hogwash. Literally.)
Design and development is the major cost of spacecraft,
Why don't they send three nearly identical copies of the same lander (re-using the same design and development effort), and have them land close enough to communicate directly with each other by radio? Then if one lander loses the ability to communicate with the orbiters or with Earth, or even two of them lose it, the third can relay their data. If something goes wrong on a lander, debugging should become far easier if you can still communicate with the broken system.
The scientific instruments could be distributed among them, each carrying roughly a third of the load. This would greatly reduce the size and weight of each lander, which I suppose would simplify the parachute system, the landing system, and many other parts.
Some instruments might be repeated on two landers or on all three, especially some very small and lightweight instruments.
If the landers are small and light enough, all three can travel on the same ship from Earth to Mars.
The Phoenix was a mythological bird that rose from the ashes of the fire that killed it. I bet they meant that this project is a Phoenix in that it rises from the ashes of the failed Mars Polar Lander.
he had been suffering from terrible, terrible headaches. But just a few days into his vacation, they were totally gone. However, the moment he came back and picked up his work laptop again, he started feeling a stabbing pain between his eyes.
Sounds like he's suffering from an initial stage of burnout or chronic fatigue syndrome. If he does, it's a serious matter. Then, unless he changes his habits radically or gets treatment, he may become seriously handicapped. But with proper changes in habits, or with treatment, he may gain a lot of strength and well-being.
Tell him to see a psychologist, they know about these things.
If you work at a helpdesk, those users are the reason you have a job. They are the ones who pay your rent and food.
From the viewpoint of an architect or a lawyer, you and I look just as foolish, if we start asking technical questions about their fields. Believe me, I've had a few different jobs. Almost always people from the outside look foolish.
Of course I do agree that users can drive you raving mad. The only solution is to be extremely, extremely patient, breathe deeply, smile, try to see it from the user's viewpoint, and always remember that the person you're talking to at the moment is paying your bills.
Is the bottleneck really in the transmission through the control channel? Keep in mind that not all those millions of phones are in the same cell, so different transmissions can occur at the same time in different cells. To calculate the time needed for transmission of all those messages through the control channel, I think you should calculate the number of phones in the largest cell.
I get the impression that when these systems are swamped, the bottleneck is in a central spot where all the messages are handled, a centrally placed computer or group of computers. If that's correct, it seems to me that you could upgrade the capacity at a reasonable cost, since computer capacity is cheap.
I suppose you notice that I don't really know any details. I'm just saying what seems likely to me.
Here in the US I don't even think you can send an SMS message from most cell network providers.
I believe this is one of the few areas where US lags behind Europe and some other regions. Here in Sweden SMS is taken for granted.
Seems like having a warning system with a loud siren (similar to areas in the midwest where we have tornado warning sirens) in coastal areas would make more sense.
Of course you wouldn't have just one warning system. You also need warnings by siren, radio, TV etc.
The important advantage of SMS is that it's already there. Arranging a system of sirens in such a huge region will take time. Note that you also have to inform people about their meaning. Still it must be done. But the SMS system should be set up now, quickly, since it can be done quickly.
Are you sure they can do that? I can't see any reference to SMS broadcast in the GSM specifications (though it's a dense document, could easily have missed it).
An engineer friend told me this, but maybe I misunderstood what he said.
Even if they have to be sent individually I think it would be very efficient. In the days after the tsunami the government of my country, Sweden, used SMS to try to locate the 20 000 Swedes in the affected region. They simply sent SMS to all mobiles in the region that had a Swedish subscription.
(Of course this was just one of several means used to try to find them.)
SMS? That has got to be the slowest way to cordinate anything... EVER.
Cellphone network operators can broadcast one SMS simultaneously to all cellphones in an area. If they had broadcast a tsunami warning by SMS right after the earthquake, a huge number of people would have been saved. Not only rich people with cellphones would be saved, since they would spread the warning to people around them, and those in turn would spread the warning further.
proove to my girlfriend that I really did tell her
Don't! Girlfriends tend to disappear when you show them proof of their mistakes. Or, even worse, she might start showing you proofs of your mistakes! Let her keep her illusions, then maybe she'll stick around and let you keep your illusions.
A Win/Win Proposition for Leveraging Strategic Slashdot Synergies
It is a well-known fact that at the current point in time unprecedented opportunities for leveraging win/win strategies arise through emergent social-dynamics synergies heralding revolutionary technology breakthroughs in world-wide media applications.
This post presents to the Slashdot community a proposal for an exciting new roadmap that delineates a win/win strategy integrating unique potentials for reaping the benefits of emergent synergistic effects arising from a major paradigm shift in focus group dynamics and from leveraging cost/benefit appraisals in the resulting market-share contribution matrix.
I think we can all agree that innovative win/win strategies to facilitate the on-going paradigm shifts in market model convergence scenario implementations spearheding cutting-edge technology utilization are paramount to the success of a comprehensive assessment of the emergent Slashdot win/win market penetration focus group convergence synergy potential.
This revolutionary proposal comprises a visionary win/win scenario for leveraging factors that consume all resources, in other words, resource hogs. The new strategy implements enhanced information flows wherein the resultant rise in information flow constitutes a major asset in the win/win strategy for enhancing countermeasures against this particular type of resource-consuming factor, in that the resultant friction will wash them away.
This unique win/win/win scenario comprises state-of-the-art paradigm shifts in community-building strategies for leveraging burgeoning cutting-edge visions of innovative synergized implementation models that underscore the win/win/win/win potentials of a comprehensive market-share focus to facilitate the sustainable spearheading of integrated emergent convergence-orientated industry exposures utilizing win/win/win/win/win propositions for heralding the introduction of unprecedented new win/win/win/win/win/win technology cost/benefit appraisals in order to enhance your browsing experience.
(If you read this post carefully, you'll notice that if you remove the bullshit, what remains is hogwash. Literally.)
One thing that is rare for them to admit is not knowing why something happens.
Rare? It's what they do all the time! It's the very first step in every single research project, and most of the subsequent steps too.
Some religious preachers and journalists and Hollywood writers portray scientists as believing that they know everything. But for real scientists, wondering what happens is the very basis of their work.
You should read more Scientific American and less clueless tabloids.
You'd obviously want to turn this thing off if your kids come home late though.. otherwise they'd innocently step onto the driveway and *boom*... the neighbourhood turns into a warzone.
What is it with parents today? Why can't you be firm about the time when they should come home?
Yes, within hours the media were in a frenzy, quoting radiation experts at universities, nuclear plants and radiation authorities.
And suppose the Western governments denied the whole thing,
Deny? With thousands of experts and students able to measure and confirm? The Soviet Union put a lid on it. Democracies don't work that way, they can't deny things of this magnitude.
I find your pessimistic scenario extremely unlikely. Development has a strong tendency to go forward rather than backward. When it does go backward there is a strong tendency to make sure the backward movement is only temporary.
People want improvement, they strive for improvement. This drives our societies toward improvement.
Of course, if a huge majority in the US should choose to strive for regression and poverty, then you'd get such a tendency. I don't consider that likely. Do you?
Trade barriers are one such political problem. People who can work and gain a salary will fare better than people who can't. This is true in the global community just like it's true in the local community.
Look again: inventing, developing and buying. The buyers are important since they finance the development. They won't buy this kind of stuff as long as they stay devastatingly poor.
As for the inventors and developers, if, say, 5% of the population invent and develop things, then 5% of 500 million rich people is 25 million inventors, whereas 5% of 6 billion is 300 million inventors. The growth is still the same. You may get somewhere around twelve times the current number.
With life getting more comfortable the percentage will rise too, as more people who have the talents also get the opportunity.
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A Win/Win Proposition for Leveraging Strategic Community Synergies
It is a well-known fact that at the current point in time unprecedented opportunities for leveraging win/win strategies arise through emergent social-dynamics synergies heralding revolutionary technology breakthroughs in world-wide media applications.
This post presents to the Slashdot community a proposal for an exciting new roadmap that delineates a win/win strategy integrating unique potentials for reaping the benefits of emergent synergistic effects arising from a major paradigm shift in focus group dynamics and from leveraging cost/benefit appraisals in the resulting market-share contribution matrix.
I think we can all agree that innovative win/win strategies to facilitate the on-going paradigm shifts in market model convergence scenario implementations spearheding cutting-edge technology utilization are paramount to the success of a comprehensive assessment of the emergent Slashdot win/win market penetration focus group convergence synergy potential.
This revolutionary proposal comprises a visionary win/win scenario for leveraging factors that consume all resources, in other words, resource hogs. The new strategy implements enhanced information flows wherein the resultant rise in information flow constitutes a major asset in the win/win strategy for enhancing countermeasures against this particular type of resource-consuming factor, in that the resultant friction will wash them away.
This unique win/win/win scenario comprises state-of-the-art paradigm shifts in community-building strategies for leveraging burgeoning cutting-edge visions of innovative synergized implementation models that underscore the win/win/win/win potentials of a comprehensive market-share focus to facilitate the sustainable spearheading of integrated emergent convergence-orientated industry exposures utilizing win/win/win/win/win propositions for heralding the introduction of unprecedented new win/win/win/win/win/win technology cost/benefit appraisals in order to enhance your browsing experience.
(If you read this post very carefully, you'll notice that if you remove all the buzzwords, what remains is hogwash. Literally.)
Design and development is the major cost of spacecraft,
Why don't they send three nearly identical copies of the same lander (re-using the same design and development effort), and have them land close enough to communicate directly with each other by radio? Then if one lander loses the ability to communicate with the orbiters or with Earth, or even two of them lose it, the third can relay their data. If something goes wrong on a lander, debugging should become far easier if you can still communicate with the broken system.
The scientific instruments could be distributed among them, each carrying roughly a third of the load. This would greatly reduce the size and weight of each lander, which I suppose would simplify the parachute system, the landing system, and many other parts.
Some instruments might be repeated on two landers or on all three, especially some very small and lightweight instruments.
If the landers are small and light enough, all three can travel on the same ship from Earth to Mars.
The Phoenix was a mythological bird that rose from the ashes of the fire that killed it. I bet they meant that this project is a Phoenix in that it rises from the ashes of the failed Mars Polar Lander.
he had been suffering from terrible, terrible headaches. But just a few days into his vacation, they were totally gone. However, the moment he came back and picked up his work laptop again, he started feeling a stabbing pain between his eyes.
Sounds like he's suffering from an initial stage of burnout or chronic fatigue syndrome. If he does, it's a serious matter. Then, unless he changes his habits radically or gets treatment, he may become seriously handicapped. But with proper changes in habits, or with treatment, he may gain a lot of strength and well-being.
Tell him to see a psychologist, they know about these things.
This is important, it's a serious matter.
What? You expect us to work through a whopping 915 words to understand the pointlessness of work? You don't understand the pointlessness of work!
If you work at a helpdesk, those users are the reason you have a job. They are the ones who pay your rent and food.
From the viewpoint of an architect or a lawyer, you and I look just as foolish, if we start asking technical questions about their fields. Believe me, I've had a few different jobs. Almost always people from the outside look foolish.
Of course I do agree that users can drive you raving mad. The only solution is to be extremely, extremely patient, breathe deeply, smile, try to see it from the user's viewpoint, and always remember that the person you're talking to at the moment is paying your bills.
And get out before it drives you totally mad.
I'll try to take this up in some forum where there may be experts lurking, and see what the reaction is.
Good idea. Maybe the idea will spread and reach the right people. Good luck!
Is the bottleneck really in the transmission through the control channel? Keep in mind that not all those millions of phones are in the same cell, so different transmissions can occur at the same time in different cells. To calculate the time needed for transmission of all those messages through the control channel, I think you should calculate the number of phones in the largest cell.
I get the impression that when these systems are swamped, the bottleneck is in a central spot where all the messages are handled, a centrally placed computer or group of computers. If that's correct, it seems to me that you could upgrade the capacity at a reasonable cost, since computer capacity is cheap.
I suppose you notice that I don't really know any details. I'm just saying what seems likely to me.
Here in the US I don't even think you can send an SMS message from most cell network providers.
I believe this is one of the few areas where US lags behind Europe and some other regions. Here in Sweden SMS is taken for granted.
Seems like having a warning system with a loud siren (similar to areas in the midwest where we have tornado warning sirens) in coastal areas would make more sense.
Of course you wouldn't have just one warning system. You also need warnings by siren, radio, TV etc.
The important advantage of SMS is that it's already there. Arranging a system of sirens in such a huge region will take time. Note that you also have to inform people about their meaning. Still it must be done. But the SMS system should be set up now, quickly, since it can be done quickly.
Are you sure they can do that? I can't see any reference to SMS broadcast in the GSM specifications (though it's a dense document, could easily have missed it).
An engineer friend told me this, but maybe I misunderstood what he said.
Even if they have to be sent individually I think it would be very efficient. In the days after the tsunami the government of my country, Sweden, used SMS to try to locate the 20 000 Swedes in the affected region. They simply sent SMS to all mobiles in the region that had a Swedish subscription.
(Of course this was just one of several means used to try to find them.)
SMS? That has got to be the slowest way to cordinate anything... EVER.
Cellphone network operators can broadcast one SMS simultaneously to all cellphones in an area. If they had broadcast a tsunami warning by SMS right after the earthquake, a huge number of people would have been saved. Not only rich people with cellphones would be saved, since they would spread the warning to people around them, and those in turn would spread the warning further.
> > Beyond using IT to coordinate post-disaster relief efforts,
> Ham Radio.
Sorry, no, that won't work. In large parts of the tsunami region, ham is taboo. They're Moslems.
proove to my girlfriend that I really did tell her
Don't! Girlfriends tend to disappear when you show them proof of their mistakes. Or, even worse, she might start showing you proofs of your mistakes! Let her keep her illusions, then maybe she'll stick around and let you keep your illusions.
Personally, I loved Clinton,
You too? How many interns did he have?
I'd much rather get robbed & beaten than killed.
Sissy. Real men don't mind getting killed.
Who can come up with worse?
A Win/Win Proposition for Leveraging Strategic Slashdot Synergies
It is a well-known fact that at the current point in time unprecedented opportunities for leveraging win/win strategies arise through emergent social-dynamics synergies heralding revolutionary technology breakthroughs in world-wide media applications.
This post presents to the Slashdot community a proposal for an exciting new roadmap that delineates a win/win strategy integrating unique potentials for reaping the benefits of emergent synergistic effects arising from a major paradigm shift in focus group dynamics and from leveraging cost/benefit appraisals in the resulting market-share contribution matrix.
I think we can all agree that innovative win/win strategies to facilitate the on-going paradigm shifts in market model convergence scenario implementations spearheding cutting-edge technology utilization are paramount to the success of a comprehensive assessment of the emergent Slashdot win/win market penetration focus group convergence synergy potential.
This revolutionary proposal comprises a visionary win/win scenario for leveraging factors that consume all resources, in other words, resource hogs. The new strategy implements enhanced information flows wherein the resultant rise in information flow constitutes a major asset in the win/win strategy for enhancing countermeasures against this particular type of resource-consuming factor, in that the resultant friction will wash them away.
This unique win/win/win scenario comprises state-of-the-art paradigm shifts in community-building strategies for leveraging burgeoning cutting-edge visions of innovative synergized implementation models that underscore the win/win/win/win potentials of a comprehensive market-share focus to facilitate the sustainable spearheading of integrated emergent convergence-orientated industry exposures utilizing win/win/win/win/win propositions for heralding the introduction of unprecedented new win/win/win/win/win/win technology cost/benefit appraisals in order to enhance your browsing experience.
(If you read this post carefully, you'll notice that if you remove the bullshit, what remains is hogwash. Literally.)
One thing that is rare for them to admit is not knowing why something happens.
Rare? It's what they do all the time! It's the very first step in every single research project, and most of the subsequent steps too.
Some religious preachers and journalists and Hollywood writers portray scientists as believing that they know everything. But for real scientists, wondering what happens is the very basis of their work.
You should read more Scientific American and less clueless tabloids.
What? You expect a Slashdot editor to understand the difference between a noun and a verb?
You'd obviously want to turn this thing off if your kids come home late though.. otherwise they'd innocently step onto the driveway and *boom*... the neighbourhood turns into a warzone.
What is it with parents today? Why can't you be firm about the time when they should come home?
But Japan has an airforce and navy that could wipe the floor with the German equivalents.
How can they be equivalent if Japan can wipe the floor with them?
Ah but did they tell the world about it?
Yes, within hours the media were in a frenzy, quoting radiation experts at universities, nuclear plants and radiation authorities.
And suppose the Western governments denied the whole thing,
Deny? With thousands of experts and students able to measure and confirm? The Soviet Union put a lid on it. Democracies don't work that way, they can't deny things of this magnitude.
So much anger, so much excitement... Chill off, relax, you'll be much happier.
(Yes indeed, I am telling you you're trolling. Now just stay calm... Don't get all excited... There, there. Better? Just relax. Be happy.)
I find your pessimistic scenario extremely unlikely. Development has a strong tendency to go forward rather than backward. When it does go backward there is a strong tendency to make sure the backward movement is only temporary.
People want improvement, they strive for improvement. This drives our societies toward improvement.
Of course, if a huge majority in the US should choose to strive for regression and poverty, then you'd get such a tendency. I don't consider that likely. Do you?
Trade barriers are one such political problem. People who can work and gain a salary will fare better than people who can't. This is true in the global community just like it's true in the local community.
Look again: inventing, developing and buying. The buyers are important since they finance the development. They won't buy this kind of stuff as long as they stay devastatingly poor.
As for the inventors and developers, if, say, 5% of the population invent and develop things, then 5% of 500 million rich people is 25 million inventors, whereas 5% of 6 billion is 300 million inventors. The growth is still the same. You may get somewhere around twelve times the current number.
With life getting more comfortable the percentage will rise too, as more people who have the talents also get the opportunity.