Umm, read it more carefully, and check up on a few economic principles.
The raw materials are refined into finished products. Thus increasing skilled labor in your country and adding value to the raw materials, meaning the wealth stays in the country or grows. Sending raw materials (ideas, unresolved tech support calls, technology, etc.) out of the country and then paying others to process those materials into more valuable products: stupid.
I drive a Ford. I buy from American companies whenever possible, American-made products whenever possible. I don't eat at McDonald's. Nike is an American company, started in America by Americans. My job isn't at stake because I haven't been able to find one in this market. I'm not a computer programmer and don't write software.
How does that even apply? You're talking about a bill collector, we're talking about telemarketers. You bought something and did not pay for it on time, even though you agreed to. A telemarketer is trying to force you to buy something whether or not you need it.
A bill collector has a legit reason to call you: you screwed up. So, I don't see why they would hate their job, they're helping people get what is rightfully theirs.
I'd say that video spying via nanites is perfectly feasible. The whole gray-goo premise is the massive parallelism, right? So get around the wavelength limit by using several thousand or hundred thousand nanites as a sensor array.
It's like saying that "oh, bunk, one nanite could never hurt a person" when the whole point is the massive, collaborative efforts of millions of nanites.
What happens if, say, I have my MP3 collection on my computer at home. I get permission to temporarily use the storage at work while doing a reformat of my computer. When I download all the files back to my computer at home, is the RIAA going to come knocking?
Two choices: encrypt the entire collection or re-rip from CD. I don't know which would take longer.
No, they won't send you something like "MAGNA-STALLION MALE ENHANCEMENT 100% GUARANTEED MONEY BACK OFFER!"
But the previous poster is on the right track. Now imagine if The Spam (self-aware entity, selling out to highest bidder of processing time and bandwidth) crafted a letter such as the one above. But instead of being generic, The Spam would craft a completely personal message, based on the buying habits and other records of you and your relatives. The Spam would craft a message tone based on past success, measuring what types of messages made you look. The Slam (self-aware filtering entity) would have to be aware of mass mailings, predict the method that The Spam uses to craft messages, watch sources of spam messages, and look for tone characteristics common across a wide range of recipients and senders.
Of the two, The Spam probably has the easiest job. Too many gullible people in the world.
Yeah, I played your game (too much) a year or two ago. I eventually got sick and my fingers curled up and I nearly blacked out.
I still remember the time you put that game up on the projector after statistics class, to show the new math teacher. She was impressed with the sea-sickness of it all. And confused by the Precious Moments boy.
Tetanus on Drugs should definitely count as a *different* game.
And the conflict rages on. The better filters we use, the sneakier the spam artists get. Now we're developing self-modifying algorithms to detect and kill spam, and I'm sure the spammers are developing self-modifying algorithms to craft filter-tricking spam.
How long before the back-and-forth of spam filters and spam crafters becomes self-aware? It's got to happen. Eventually the spam filters will become a skeptic consciousness that *feels* its way through spam and spots the phoneys, and the spam crafters will become a persuasive consciousness that tries to think and write as a close friend or relative.
I also like that at least one of the devices will have RS232-C output. That will make connection to older devices a lot easier, and drivers easy to write.
The PS/2 interface is easy enough. Easier, in fact, than RS-232: you have a clock line and a data line. No oversampling or edge-correcting-clock necessary.
Not to mention that, for the most part, these are pure wisps of vapor.
The first one (Virtual Devices), especially, appears that it will never solidify. They have $100K investment and five employees. Can't eat very long on that money (unless it's the CEO, his wife, and three kids). A couple of them said "unable to locate patent by USPTO search." What did they do, go on the web and punch in "laser AND keyboard AND input"? On the same page, the *most promising* developer states that they do have patents. If you really intend to develop a piece of technology and patent it (in order to twist Logitech into paying you big money) you need to invest in a real patent search.
Waving the vapor aside, I would definitely love to have this integrated into my PDA and cell phone. What good is wireless messaging if the best you have is T9? Seems that, given a reliable incarnation, the clamshell-form of the laptop computer would disappear. You have a tablet, and a foldout prop. Perhaps a very thin slide-out projection sheet for typing on your lap. The sheet could double as a screen cover, and flip to the back of the tablet when not in use.
The universally accepted meaning of the word "sample" is a measurement of amplitude at a given time. Using two or more samples per cycle, a sine wave can be accurately reconstructed according to amplitude, frequency, and "offset from the 0 axis" (phase, if you actually mean offset from the y axis along the x axis).
And I did state that there would be some loss. My point was that, with current and available technology, the loss can be reduced to nearly unmeasurable levels. It merely depends on how much processing and equipment you want to invest. Analog components are continually far off from specified values, subject to noise, and guaranteeing a perfect, lossless copy across a transmission line is almost a joke.
I'm not seeing where you think I'm arrogant. Just pointing out some facts. If you don't understand what I just said (which is first or second year engineering material) then you have some serious gaps you need to study up on. At least if you plan to speak authoritatively on this subject.
I'm also employed, just in a mechanical engineering position at the present time. My education prepared me well enough, so that I am able to pick up the skills I need pretty quickly. I'd like a more EE-based job, perhaps I'll get yours after your superiors get tired of your attitude.
Ships routinely have degaussing coils run along the inside of the hull.
The earth's magnetic field tends to magnetize a ship over time. During the second world war, torpedoes and mines used magnetism as one method of detecting that a ship was near. The magnetism would also mess with the compasses, of course. Large ships, lacking degaussing coils, would routinely go back to port and dock in a way that used the earth's magnetic field to gradually cancel out the ship's magnetism.
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Umm, read it more carefully, and check up on a few economic principles.
The raw materials are refined into finished products. Thus increasing skilled labor in your country and adding value to the raw materials, meaning the wealth stays in the country or grows. Sending raw materials (ideas, unresolved tech support calls, technology, etc.) out of the country and then paying others to process those materials into more valuable products: stupid.
I drive a Ford. I buy from American companies whenever possible, American-made products whenever possible. I don't eat at McDonald's. Nike is an American company, started in America by Americans. My job isn't at stake because I haven't been able to find one in this market. I'm not a computer programmer and don't write software.
So, what was your point?
If the jobs are going out of the country, and The Country as a concept does nothing about it, then it's time to go where the jobs are.
I'm as patriotic as the next guy, but if all the U.S. companies are content with the economic sabotage currently going on, I'll move to India.
This is all backwards. You want raw materials in >> refined products out, to keep wealth in the country. Not the other way around.
How does that even apply? You're talking about a bill collector, we're talking about telemarketers. You bought something and did not pay for it on time, even though you agreed to. A telemarketer is trying to force you to buy something whether or not you need it.
A bill collector has a legit reason to call you: you screwed up. So, I don't see why they would hate their job, they're helping people get what is rightfully theirs.
No, not microscopic, just really small. And I was kind of more going along the lines of the "grey goo" being capable of imaging technology.
Any decent resolution would end up with a camera around a half millimeter across, or more.
Thanks.
Sucks that someone might think I mis-accented my words, I hope no one is stupid enough to make that a hiring point.
I was raised by an English teacher, and was one of the few engineers I knew at my school with a perfect SAT score on the verbal section.
Well.
I'd say that video spying via nanites is perfectly feasible. The whole gray-goo premise is the massive parallelism, right? So get around the wavelength limit by using several thousand or hundred thousand nanites as a sensor array.
It's like saying that "oh, bunk, one nanite could never hurt a person" when the whole point is the massive, collaborative efforts of millions of nanites.
My favorite is a simple question:
"So. Is this really what you wanted to be when you grew up?"
Not necessarily. Could have been "Not one eye was put out that summer." as opposed to spring, winter, and fall.
Not one eye was put out that summer.
Three, then? Four? Five?
I'm afraid we Americans have the corner on potato-launching weaponry: Mega-Launcher
If the Germans manage to craft one of these, they can start bombarding London again.
No such chips were built or developed by you.
"Gi" is about the only two-letter combination that isn't an element.
And helium, eh? Were they lighter than air?
Does anyone else think the subject size limit worked out REALLY funny this time?
That's the point. The RIAA wants to know whenever someone transfers music over the internet.
They just got a subpoena for Verizon, to find out who the downloader was. Can you see where this road goes?
Ok.
What happens if, say, I have my MP3 collection on my computer at home. I get permission to temporarily use the storage at work while doing a reformat of my computer. When I download all the files back to my computer at home, is the RIAA going to come knocking?
Two choices: encrypt the entire collection or re-rip from CD. I don't know which would take longer.
No, they won't send you something like "MAGNA-STALLION MALE ENHANCEMENT 100% GUARANTEED MONEY BACK OFFER!"
But the previous poster is on the right track. Now imagine if The Spam (self-aware entity, selling out to highest bidder of processing time and bandwidth) crafted a letter such as the one above. But instead of being generic, The Spam would craft a completely personal message, based on the buying habits and other records of you and your relatives. The Spam would craft a message tone based on past success, measuring what types of messages made you look. The Slam (self-aware filtering entity) would have to be aware of mass mailings, predict the method that The Spam uses to craft messages, watch sources of spam messages, and look for tone characteristics common across a wide range of recipients and senders.
Of the two, The Spam probably has the easiest job. Too many gullible people in the world.
Yeah, I played your game (too much) a year or two ago. I eventually got sick and my fingers curled up and I nearly blacked out.
I still remember the time you put that game up on the projector after statistics class, to show the new math teacher. She was impressed with the sea-sickness of it all. And confused by the Precious Moments boy.
Tetanus on Drugs should definitely count as a *different* game.
And the conflict rages on. The better filters we use, the sneakier the spam artists get. Now we're developing self-modifying algorithms to detect and kill spam, and I'm sure the spammers are developing self-modifying algorithms to craft filter-tricking spam.
How long before the back-and-forth of spam filters and spam crafters becomes self-aware? It's got to happen. Eventually the spam filters will become a skeptic consciousness that *feels* its way through spam and spots the phoneys, and the spam crafters will become a persuasive consciousness that tries to think and write as a close friend or relative.
I also like that at least one of the devices will have RS232-C output. That will make connection to older devices a lot easier, and drivers easy to write.
The PS/2 interface is easy enough. Easier, in fact, than RS-232: you have a clock line and a data line. No oversampling or edge-correcting-clock necessary.
Not to mention that, for the most part, these are pure wisps of vapor.
The first one (Virtual Devices), especially, appears that it will never solidify. They have $100K investment and five employees. Can't eat very long on that money (unless it's the CEO, his wife, and three kids). A couple of them said "unable to locate patent by USPTO search." What did they do, go on the web and punch in "laser AND keyboard AND input"? On the same page, the *most promising* developer states that they do have patents. If you really intend to develop a piece of technology and patent it (in order to twist Logitech into paying you big money) you need to invest in a real patent search.
Waving the vapor aside, I would definitely love to have this integrated into my PDA and cell phone. What good is wireless messaging if the best you have is T9? Seems that, given a reliable incarnation, the clamshell-form of the laptop computer would disappear. You have a tablet, and a foldout prop. Perhaps a very thin slide-out projection sheet for typing on your lap. The sheet could double as a screen cover, and flip to the back of the tablet when not in use.
It'll be great if these manage to catch on. There's a bit of prior art for the whole pen-based concept anyway. (number 8 is especially striking, Palm Inc. all the way)
The universally accepted meaning of the word "sample" is a measurement of amplitude at a given time. Using two or more samples per cycle, a sine wave can be accurately reconstructed according to amplitude, frequency, and "offset from the 0 axis" (phase, if you actually mean offset from the y axis along the x axis).
And I did state that there would be some loss. My point was that, with current and available technology, the loss can be reduced to nearly unmeasurable levels. It merely depends on how much processing and equipment you want to invest. Analog components are continually far off from specified values, subject to noise, and guaranteeing a perfect, lossless copy across a transmission line is almost a joke.
I'm not seeing where you think I'm arrogant. Just pointing out some facts. If you don't understand what I just said (which is first or second year engineering material) then you have some serious gaps you need to study up on. At least if you plan to speak authoritatively on this subject.
I'm also employed, just in a mechanical engineering position at the present time. My education prepared me well enough, so that I am able to pick up the skills I need pretty quickly. I'd like a more EE-based job, perhaps I'll get yours after your superiors get tired of your attitude.
Ships routinely have degaussing coils run along the inside of the hull.
The earth's magnetic field tends to magnetize a ship over time. During the second world war, torpedoes and mines used magnetism as one method of detecting that a ship was near. The magnetism would also mess with the compasses, of course. Large ships, lacking degaussing coils, would routinely go back to port and dock in a way that used the earth's magnetic field to gradually cancel out the ship's magnetism.
Not to mention the 2002-2003 thing. Fixed. ;-)
*grabs yellow Goldeneye key*
One high-energy EMP coming up!
Actually...the only thing that hasn't been updated since then, is that particular line.