How can anyone be right? The whole concept of comparing a job in the US with a job in a developing country is crazy. You may be able to track the movement of certain business elements, but the value equation is generally completely different.
How do we know that a new outsourced job isn't taking some business processes off the plate of a US worker so they can be more efficient with other business processes?
How do we know that someone working for a US company in India isn't actually creating jobs in the US through their work?
When Linus was creating Linux in Europe, who knew he would be creating tons of IT jobs doing Linux work in the US? Would it have mattered if Linus lived in Bangalore?
This whole "your job" concept is invalid. You don't own your job (unless you own your own company). Jobs are mutually beneficial opportunities for companies to pay people to do things. They are not property. They are a privilege of your current skillset meeting market needs, not a right. They are transient. Get used to it.
Smaller economies will always be losers in free trade agreements.
That's nice rhetoric, but aparently there are a lot of democratically elected governments of small countries that are begging the G8 countries for freer trade.
My NAFTA experience is that where I work, we are buying a lot of Canadian high tech equipment (satellite receivers, modulators, and television scheduling software). Not having to pay tariffs is nice (compared to the satellite receivers we import from Sweden).
Yes, you are right, the price drops will happen only when broadband adoption saturates, and then companies will be forced to achieve higher efficiencies to keep customers from moving to other broadband modalities.
I have a 100 MHz PC I use for web browsing on a stationary bike. It has a very small amount of RAM. No combination of Linux and Mozilla could provide me with a better graphical user experience than Windows 98...Linux was very, very slow on this machine.
Popular titled could be broadcasted over cable channels at night, the same way they send the short teasers.
There are mechanisms for the multicast of on-demand video shows (Digital Fountain had a technology for this, but it wasn't their main product). Generally you need more than 5-10 people watching for it to be more efficient than unicasting, because it uses multiple multicast addresses. If the routers at cable head-ends effectively prune unused multicast routes, you would only need about 2-3 times the video bandwidth in the last mile to the user for it to work.
Here is an example multicast video-on-demand scheme.
For personal use, I am still a big fan of Tagged Message Delivery Agent which I use mainly for its challenge-response and auto-whitelisting functionality. I don't get any spam, and this on an email address that has been on a popular public website for years.
Of course, TMDA is probably not what you want to use for a business, but for personal use it is great!
I am really afraid of a combination of phobias of cloning and genetic engineering pushing all research work on these subjects out of the U.S. We have already seen China's plan to become the world leader in theraputic cloning research.
"Witness the first Transit of Venus in 122 years Join the Department of Astronomy Tuesday, June 8 from 5:30 - 7:30 AM 5th Floor Balcony, Plant Sciences Building Park (free) on Level 3 in the Regent's Drive Parking Garage (entrance on Stadium Dr.). Walk across the bridge (near section 3-4) in the southwestern corner of the garage. Enter the building and take the elevator (you will be on the 2nd floor) to the 5th floor. Walk out onto the balcony. In case of cloudy weather, join us in the Computer and Space Science Building (on Stadium Drive), in the Computer Lab, Room 1220. We will view the transit using the computers."
There has been a spate of fish hacking (what else do you do with a Big Mouth Billy Bass after the five-minute period it can hold your interest?)
Recently I exhibited my seven-bass animatronic work called School of Fish Pain at the DC Museum of Contemporary Art. I used Audacity to edit the audio clips the fish say. The fish cry out and whap their tails in pain. It hurts to be dry.
Biofuels become much more practical when produced usng genetically engineered enzymes (such as high-activity cellulase to digest cellulose waste products from existing crops), or genetically-engineering microbes that do their own enhanced photosynthesis-to-fuel production.
There are two solutions to the soot problem. There are diesel oxidation catalysts that get rid of much of the problem (cost ~$500/car), or soot filters that get rid of almost all of the problem (cost ~several $1000's per car).
VS-OFCDM (variable spreading factor orthogonal frequency AND code division multiplexing) is a special case of MC-CDMA (multi-carrier CDMA).
CDMA has lots of advantages for ease of frequency-reuse, as you can have a lot of people on the same frequency, but each one spread with different codes.
OFDM has a lot of resistance against fading (i.e. signal going in and out as you move through diffracted and relected signal peaks and valleys), because you are putting out your signal on a wide range of frequencies. You also get additional frequency diversity from OFDM.
Put them together by doing CDMA spreading first and OFDMing the result, and as much like in the combination of peanut butter and chocolate that results in peanut butter cups, you get an excellent result!
The Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives is currently shotgun-sequencing genes from the world's oceans to find genes that would be useful for producing fuels with high energy content in an environmentally sound fashion using genetically engineered microbes.
Atmospheric airship with crew of three takes payload to 140,000 ft. Airship uses lift and buoyancy, and driven by propellers designed to operate in near vacuum.
Dark Sky Station (DSS) at 140,000 ft. Permanent, crewed facility.
Airship that flies from DSS to orbit. Over a mile long. Uses buoyancy to climb to 200,000 ft. From there uses solar/electric propulsion to reach orbital velocity over several days.
Continuing to use solar/electic propulsion, it can keep on going to anywhere in the solar system.
Several "DSS" platforms have been flown. All equipment has been flown at 100,000 ft. and tested in the environment. Ion engine tests of the orbital airship at 120,000 ft. will occur in the next five months.
Every segment of the plan has funding. DoD is funding the atmospheric airship for reconnaissance. Telecom companies are funding DSS.
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How can anyone be right? The whole concept of comparing a job in the US with a job in a developing country is crazy. You may be able to track the movement of certain business elements, but the value equation is generally completely different.
How do we know that a new outsourced job isn't taking some business processes off the plate of a US worker so they can be more efficient with other business processes?
How do we know that someone working for a US company in India isn't actually creating jobs in the US through their work?
When Linus was creating Linux in Europe, who knew he would be creating tons of IT jobs doing Linux work in the US? Would it have mattered if Linus lived in Bangalore?
Considering the millions of Muslims who believe in Sharia law, there are also plenty of people to the right of most Americans...
This whole "your job" concept is invalid. You don't own your job (unless you own your own company). Jobs are mutually beneficial opportunities for companies to pay people to do things. They are not property. They are a privilege of your current skillset meeting market needs, not a right. They are transient. Get used to it.
Smaller economies will always be losers in free trade agreements.
That's nice rhetoric, but aparently there are a lot of democratically elected governments of small countries that are begging the G8 countries for freer trade.
My NAFTA experience is that where I work, we are buying a lot of Canadian high tech equipment (satellite receivers, modulators, and television scheduling software). Not having to pay tariffs is nice (compared to the satellite receivers we import from Sweden).
Wow, someone on Slashdot understands economics!
Yes, you are right, the price drops will happen only when broadband adoption saturates, and then companies will be forced to achieve higher efficiencies to keep customers from moving to other broadband modalities.
I have a 100 MHz PC I use for web browsing on a stationary bike. It has a very small amount of RAM. No combination of Linux and Mozilla could provide me with a better graphical user experience than Windows 98...Linux was very, very slow on this machine.
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Popular titled could be broadcasted over cable channels at night, the same way they send the short teasers.
There are mechanisms for the multicast of on-demand video shows (Digital Fountain had a technology for this, but it wasn't their main product). Generally you need more than 5-10 people watching for it to be more efficient than unicasting, because it uses multiple multicast addresses. If the routers at cable head-ends effectively prune unused multicast routes, you would only need about 2-3 times the video bandwidth in the last mile to the user for it to work.
Here is an example multicast video-on-demand scheme.
For personal use, I am still a big fan of Tagged Message Delivery Agent which I use mainly for its challenge-response and auto-whitelisting functionality. I don't get any spam, and this on an email address that has been on a popular public website for years.
Of course, TMDA is probably not what you want to use for a business, but for personal use it is great!
Just FYI, to be fully legit, Webcasters must pay fees to copyright holders BMI, ASCAP, and SESAC, as well as to the RIAA.
Heh, cool!
I am really afraid of a combination of phobias of cloning and genetic engineering pushing all research work on these subjects out of the U.S. We have already seen China's plan to become the world leader in theraputic cloning research.
Web page for University of Maryland, College Park, venus transit
"Witness the first Transit of Venus in 122 years
Join the Department of Astronomy
Tuesday, June 8
from 5:30 - 7:30 AM
5th Floor Balcony, Plant Sciences Building
Park (free) on Level 3 in the Regent's Drive Parking Garage (entrance on Stadium Dr.).
Walk across the bridge (near section 3-4) in the southwestern corner of the garage.
Enter the building and take the elevator (you will be on the 2nd floor) to the 5th floor.
Walk out onto the balcony.
In case of cloudy weather, join us in the Computer and Space Science Building (on Stadium Drive), in the Computer Lab, Room 1220. We will view the transit using the computers."
There has been a spate of fish hacking (what else do you do with a Big Mouth Billy Bass after the five-minute period it can hold your interest?)
Recently I exhibited my seven-bass animatronic work called School of Fish Pain at the DC Museum of Contemporary Art. I used Audacity to edit the audio clips the fish say. The fish cry out and whap their tails in pain. It hurts to be dry.
Of course, there is transcranial magnetic stimulation.
I'm happy a more inovative, less 'brute force' approach seems to be winning
Yes, and let's not forget airship-to-orbit!
You only need an artificial horizon if you are below cloud level...otherwise, the real one works fine.
Biofuels become much more practical when produced usng genetically engineered enzymes (such as high-activity cellulase to digest cellulose waste products from existing crops), or genetically-engineering microbes that do their own enhanced photosynthesis-to-fuel production.
There are two solutions to the soot problem. There are diesel oxidation catalysts that get rid of much of the problem (cost ~$500/car), or soot filters that get rid of almost all of the problem (cost ~several $1000's per car).
You can also combine the two.
I think if biodiesel begins to take off, we can expect soot-reducing technologies to come down in price.
VS-OFCDM (variable spreading factor orthogonal frequency AND code division multiplexing) is a special case of MC-CDMA (multi-carrier CDMA).
CDMA has lots of advantages for ease of frequency-reuse, as you can have a lot of people on the same frequency, but each one spread with different codes.
OFDM has a lot of resistance against fading (i.e. signal going in and out as you move through diffracted and relected signal peaks and valleys), because you are putting out your signal on a wide range of frequencies. You also get additional frequency diversity from OFDM.
Put them together by doing CDMA spreading first and OFDMing the result, and as much like in the combination of peanut butter and chocolate that results in peanut butter cups, you get an excellent result!
This paper and this paper gives some background.
VS-OFCDM changes the spreading factor adaptively based on cell structure, channel load, radio link conditions, etc.
The cell phone model works well for software. You pay for continuous connectivity to the cellular telephony infrastructure.
Similarly with Windows, you pay for continuous bug fixes...
The Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives is currently shotgun-sequencing genes from the world's oceans to find genes that would be useful for producing fuels with high energy content in an environmentally sound fashion using genetically engineered microbes.
With genetic engineering, it is possible that the efficiency could be increased.
http://www.jpaerospace.com/atohandout.pdf
Here are the details:
Atmospheric airship with crew of three takes payload to 140,000 ft. Airship uses lift and buoyancy, and driven by propellers designed to operate in near vacuum.
Dark Sky Station (DSS) at 140,000 ft. Permanent, crewed facility.
Airship that flies from DSS to orbit. Over a mile long. Uses buoyancy to climb to 200,000 ft. From there uses solar/electric propulsion to reach orbital velocity over several days.
Continuing to use solar/electic propulsion, it can keep on going to anywhere in the solar system.
Several "DSS" platforms have been flown. All equipment has been flown at 100,000 ft. and tested in the environment. Ion engine tests of the orbital airship at 120,000 ft. will occur in the next five months.
Every segment of the plan has funding. DoD is funding the atmospheric airship for reconnaissance. Telecom companies are funding DSS.