True innovators innovate for the challenge and because that's just what they LIKE doing. Profiting from it is just a side effect.
Bingo! The challenging part (since now true innovators can accomplish big things with less reliance on others) in the coming years and decades is to figure out how to transform a labor-based (I.E., your time=money to buy stuff/feed family) system of remuneration into something else.
This is a really big problem, but given social inertia and fear of change (not to mention the elephants in the room), it is not being discussed outside of small circles. There's always that hypothetical burger-flipping job for the unemployed.
Likely the non-critical workers (those that are not garbage collectors, plumbers, construction, nurses - essentially any occupation that requires tangible work not doable by robots or software) will have "busy work" jobs at a low pay scale.
Hey, I *like* drop shadows and semi-transparency on menus and the like, it provides a "rich" environment and also helps to prioritize open windows. Perhaps you are a command line guru, I work with CAD software a lot and I appreciate the eye candy as a visual indicator. Then again, if it were up to me we'd toss all the CAD software and hardware and go back to board drafting - less "it's easy to revise because it's on the computer so let's do it a lot" attitude and more forethought required when designing.
"Keeping up to speed" these days has more to do with updating one's computer knowledge quotient and not enough to do with actually doing real-world stuff and improving skills in the disciplines that we use computers to help us with in the first place.
Maybe that should be respelled as, "ghey". Or maybe be re-written as "uncool". As a het (or maybe "breeder") I dunno why "gay" is associated with "undesireable". Surely it's a teenage thing that develops during puberty and eventually they'll grow up and understand.
I suppose I should add a, "not that there's anything wrong with that" reference here.
Nah, it's more like, "don't let yer britches get too big for ya". Or, "your eyes are bigger than your belly". Sadly, with all this "good to go" and other trendy, pop culture (often coined by marketing types to sell a product) catchphrase overuse, we've largely lost these old pearls of word wisdom. Thanks Dad, RIP.
Dry ice in the drinks instead of ice cubes, smashing LN2-dipped corsages or lighting controlled LOX fires? Which is the best crowd-pleaser in your experience?
I'm no physicist, but I work in cryogenic plant design and try to convince anyone that will listen that cryo is cool and liquefied gases are really neat things with lots of uses. Yup, I'm a real big hit at parties.
Yeah, it blew up just like an truck carrying gasoline would
I used to work for the head office of a major (I.E., supplies liquid hydrogen and oxygen for the space shuttle and that sort of stuff) company, and they have a media room. Because I had access to their library of films, I checked out one which was a compilation of news reports of an overturned liquid hydrogen trailer tanker. I think it happened near Ottawa, and I wish I could post a link to the video here.
We used to transport cold boxes, which would be stencilled with PCB1, PCB2 and these were/are very large road transported loads c/w police escort in many cases.
That was a pretty big event for some small towns and once the train was stopped by a local official because of concern that the "PCB" designation referred to hazardous materials.
So does hydroelectricity, which is abundant in Quebec. There was a recent H2 "explosion" here but no one heard about it - nobody was hurt.
I'm looking forward to the next generation of hydrogen systems and generation plants - a lot of it depends on teams from multiple disciplines working together effectively.
Maybe the longer-term goal was to focus most anger towards an "invading force" (as perceived by people wanting to do harm to the US), thus placing soldiers in harm's way instead of average Americans living in America.
A powerful force like America has lots of options when confronted with real threats, and redirection is one of them.
Jon Stewart is funny, but also smart, which makes him better suited for a somewhat more intelligent audience who has plenty of common ground with him.
I think it's more that Stewart (by using comedy) can expose things as a comedian that other "interviewers" cannot, and guests on his show already know that they're not there just to plug their latest product (even though they really often are).
Inland big cities/ports on the Great Lakes would survive. Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Detroit, etc. (although Montreal might be hardest hit due to the narrowing of the river leading up to the island). If there wasn't a novel written about this possibility already there are certainly a few in the works now.
Earthquakes and other natural disasters in that area of North America are relatively unknown if you discount violent snow and icestorms, but the locals know how to deal with these regular problems.
Maybe this is a good application for above-the-weather blimps that provide communication services.
But as you say, there are a lot of other basic issues to be solved in those parts as well.
Besides that, an evacuation alert might just cause more loss of life due to panic than the impending disaster - not to mention the inevitable hoaxes that might occur.
Many 3D packages produce poor 2D drawings. While working with the model in the design phase is very helpful, when the project gets to the prefab shop or field construction phase many of the model's advantages go away.
This is usually because the fab/erection contractor cannot easily work with the model and keeping track of revisions can be a problem.
I'm referring to plant design projects that feature a lot of piping in case you missed my URL.
Great to see that the source is released, maybe we'll see an open-source 3D plant/piping design package running on Linux someday!
Paul
PS: Is BRL written for SMP? I'm pretty sure it must be.
Do the fans suffer because of it? Is there an advantage in leaving it on all the time? I usually leave my lame W2K box on all the time because it takes so long to reboot. Overall, I find it to be pretty stable for what I do with it.
My W2K machine hasn't crashed for weeks (is that good?). I keep it clear of spyware and viruses though.
It started acting flaky a couple of months ago and went crashy but that was due to one of the Athlon CPUs overheating because of a CPU fan failure (the stock fans are not up to running 24/7 in a "high-traffic" area - AKA my computer room). It kind of pissed me off that the other CPU didn't see this happening and disable the non-working one plus notify me of the problem.
I wonder how many machines are replaced just due to one faulty part or spyware infection.
Critical processes for aircraft and nuke plants, etc, are very carefully designed and dedicated, don't worry too much. Do you know what a HAZOP is? It's a killer for those are fast and loose with proper engineering and construction procedures.
The terms, "Conan O'Brian" and "classic humour" should never be combined.*
Conan, Leno and Letterman are crap compared to Johhny (see below), John Stewart is my favourite "late night guy" and I'm not even homosexual!
Maybe you were thinking of
John William Carson. He's an old dead guy that no one has heard about. I think he acted in some of those silent films in the early '20s.
One of his quotes: "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die."
* Except for his having contributed to certain hilarious Simpsons episodes
I do it for the love of it. There are many others in the world with a similar view. I would write software even if I didn't get paid to do it - sure, I'd need another job to keep body and soul together, but I'd still hack.
You have hit the nail right on the head. With the increased power of computers and software, it no longer takes 10 people to do the job that can now be done by 1 or 2.
The long-term question is what do we do (economically) with these people whose work is no longer required? Before anyone starts freaking-out , "no longer required" refers to the displaced people that will be without jobs and are essentially unemployable, not some sort of Soylent Green-type scenario.
Marshall Brain of howstuffworks.com is thinking about this and has some proposals. I think that this coming reality is largely ignored because it challenges modern western societies' concept of worth.
I'm one of those people that gets self-motivated for the love of the work and am not particularly impressed with expensive, essentially useless toys, status and ownership of stuff.
With F/OSS we might be seeing a return to where we were (but with incredibly increased knowledge) before computers started taking over the workplace.
In my opinion, the software/computer invasion into the mainstream business community of about 15 years ago (I.E., use it or lose your job even if the software replacement was then crappier than what a human could do) caused many older, experienced workers to just retire and not have to worry about it. At that time, computer geeks were mysterious, stinky people with beards that worked in climate-controlled rooms and were threatening your job security. Now, so many people use computers that that threat of the unknown has largely been eliminated.
It is truly amazing what technology can do but that doesn't mean that we have to all become automatons and slaves to the machine.
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When faced with your daily mountain of mindless, repetitive, do nothing, corporate bullshit work it's hard to get yourself motivated to anything.
Maybe you're in the wrong work environment for your skills / aptitude.
True innovators innovate for the challenge and because that's just what they LIKE doing. Profiting from it is just a side effect.
Bingo! The challenging part (since now true innovators can accomplish big things with less reliance on others) in the coming years and decades is to figure out how to transform a labor-based (I.E., your time=money to buy stuff/feed family) system of remuneration into something else.
This is a really big problem, but given social inertia and fear of change (not to mention the elephants in the room), it is not being discussed outside of small circles. There's always that hypothetical burger-flipping job for the unemployed.
Likely the non-critical workers (those that are not garbage collectors, plumbers, construction, nurses - essentially any occupation that requires tangible work not doable by robots or software) will have "busy work" jobs at a low pay scale.
Hey, I *like* drop shadows and semi-transparency on menus and the like, it provides a "rich" environment and also helps to prioritize open windows. Perhaps you are a command line guru, I work with CAD software a lot and I appreciate the eye candy as a visual indicator. Then again, if it were up to me we'd toss all the CAD software and hardware and go back to board drafting - less "it's easy to revise because it's on the computer so let's do it a lot" attitude and more forethought required when designing.
"Keeping up to speed" these days has more to do with updating one's computer knowledge quotient and not enough to do with actually doing real-world stuff and improving skills in the disciplines that we use computers to help us with in the first place.
repetative slogans
Somehow I am reminded of people with too much money (the PWTMM) protesting to allow the cloning of Fido.
Maybe that should be respelled as, "ghey". Or maybe be re-written as "uncool". As a het (or maybe "breeder") I dunno why "gay" is associated with "undesireable". Surely it's a teenage thing that develops during puberty and eventually they'll grow up and understand.
I suppose I should add a, "not that there's anything wrong with that" reference here.
Nah, it's more like, "don't let yer britches get too big for ya". Or, "your eyes are bigger than your belly". Sadly, with all this "good to go" and other trendy, pop culture (often coined by marketing types to sell a product) catchphrase overuse, we've largely lost these old pearls of word wisdom. Thanks Dad, RIP.
Dry ice in the drinks instead of ice cubes, smashing LN2-dipped corsages or lighting controlled LOX fires? Which is the best crowd-pleaser in your experience?
I'm no physicist, but I work in cryogenic plant design and try to convince anyone that will listen that cryo is cool and liquefied gases are really neat things with lots of uses. Yup, I'm a real big hit at parties.
I hear that Hawking is quite the break-dancer when nobody's looking.
Yeah, it blew up just like an truck carrying gasoline would
I used to work for the head office of a major (I.E., supplies liquid hydrogen and oxygen for the space shuttle and that sort of stuff) company, and they have a media room. Because I had access to their library of films, I checked out one which was a compilation of news reports of an overturned liquid hydrogen trailer tanker. I think it happened near Ottawa, and I wish I could post a link to the video here.
We used to transport cold boxes, which would be stencilled with PCB1, PCB2 and these were/are very large road transported loads c/w police escort in many cases.
That was a pretty big event for some small towns and once the train was stopped by a local official because of concern that the "PCB" designation referred to hazardous materials.
So does hydroelectricity, which is abundant in Quebec. There was a recent H2 "explosion" here but no one heard about it - nobody was hurt.
I'm looking forward to the next generation of hydrogen systems and generation plants - a lot of it depends on teams from multiple disciplines working together effectively.
Maybe the longer-term goal was to focus most anger towards an "invading force" (as perceived by people wanting to do harm to the US), thus placing soldiers in harm's way instead of average Americans living in America.
A powerful force like America has lots of options when confronted with real threats, and redirection is one of them.
Sure, but what if the oil mafia guys run around smashing solars cells thus increasing the lifecycle cost?
Jon Stewart is funny, but also smart, which makes him better suited for a somewhat more intelligent audience who has plenty of common ground with him.
I think it's more that Stewart (by using comedy) can expose things as a comedian that other "interviewers" cannot, and guests on his show already know that they're not there just to plug their latest product (even though they really often are).
Inland big cities/ports on the Great Lakes would survive. Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Detroit, etc. (although Montreal might be hardest hit due to the narrowing of the river leading up to the island). If there wasn't a novel written about this possibility already there are certainly a few in the works now.
Earthquakes and other natural disasters in that area of North America are relatively unknown if you discount violent snow and icestorms, but the locals know how to deal with these regular problems.
Maybe this is a good application for above-the-weather blimps that provide communication services.
But as you say, there are a lot of other basic issues to be solved in those parts as well.
Besides that, an evacuation alert might just cause more loss of life due to panic than the impending disaster - not to mention the inevitable hoaxes that might occur.
Many 3D packages produce poor 2D drawings. While working with the model in the design phase is very helpful, when the project gets to the prefab shop or field construction phase many of the model's advantages go away.
This is usually because the fab/erection contractor cannot easily work with the model and keeping track of revisions can be a problem.
I'm referring to plant design projects that feature a lot of piping in case you missed my URL.
Great to see that the source is released, maybe we'll see an open-source 3D plant/piping design package running on Linux someday!
Paul
PS: Is BRL written for SMP? I'm pretty sure it must be.
Do the fans suffer because of it? Is there an advantage in leaving it on all the time? I usually leave my lame W2K box on all the time because it takes so long to reboot. Overall, I find it to be pretty stable for what I do with it.
Just stick 'em in the basement with a computer and a broadband connection and see what happens, it's the American way.
My W2K machine hasn't crashed for weeks (is that good?). I keep it clear of spyware and viruses though.
It started acting flaky a couple of months ago and went crashy but that was due to one of the Athlon CPUs overheating because of a CPU fan failure (the stock fans are not up to running 24/7 in a "high-traffic" area - AKA my computer room). It kind of pissed me off that the other CPU didn't see this happening and disable the non-working one plus notify me of the problem.
I wonder how many machines are replaced just due to one faulty part or spyware infection.
Critical processes for aircraft and nuke plants, etc, are very carefully designed and dedicated, don't worry too much. Do you know what a HAZOP is? It's a killer for those are fast and loose with proper engineering and construction procedures.
The terms, "Conan O'Brian" and "classic humour" should never be combined.*
Conan, Leno and Letterman are crap compared to Johhny (see below), John Stewart is my favourite "late night guy" and I'm not even homosexual! Maybe you were thinking of John William Carson. He's an old dead guy that no one has heard about. I think he acted in some of those silent films in the early '20s.
One of his quotes: "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die."
* Except for his having contributed to certain hilarious Simpsons episodes
I do it for the love of it. There are many others in the world with a similar view. I would write software even if I didn't get paid to do it - sure, I'd need another job to keep body and soul together, but I'd still hack.
You have hit the nail right on the head. With the increased power of computers and software, it no longer takes 10 people to do the job that can now be done by 1 or 2.
The long-term question is what do we do (economically) with these people whose work is no longer required? Before anyone starts freaking-out , "no longer required" refers to the displaced people that will be without jobs and are essentially unemployable, not some sort of Soylent Green-type scenario.
Marshall Brain of howstuffworks.com is thinking about this and has some proposals. I think that this coming reality is largely ignored because it challenges modern western societies' concept of worth.
I'm one of those people that gets self-motivated for the love of the work and am not particularly impressed with expensive, essentially useless toys, status and ownership of stuff.
I notice that 3D CAD is not in there, but likely you have no need for it.
Maybe CAD is something that should not be open source.
With F/OSS we might be seeing a return to where we were (but with incredibly increased knowledge) before computers started taking over the workplace.
In my opinion, the software/computer invasion into the mainstream business community of about 15 years ago (I.E., use it or lose your job even if the software replacement was then crappier than what a human could do) caused many older, experienced workers to just retire and not have to worry about it. At that time, computer geeks were mysterious, stinky people with beards that worked in climate-controlled rooms and were threatening your job security. Now, so many people use computers that that threat of the unknown has largely been eliminated.
It is truly amazing what technology can do but that doesn't mean that we have to all become automatons and slaves to the machine.
Just look at the horrible pixellation at http://members.cox.net/richw/4-6.jpg.