hm, maybe you should read some Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) numbers:
Here is America's job future for the next 10 years:
Forgotten was military service.
Given those predictions (and this has been said before here) you have to go for a field that cannot be outsourced or off-shored if you want something safe, employment-wise.
Please don't forget that the whole boom in IT employment was largely initiated by the development and popularization of the web. A lot of young people jumped on the bandwagon when it was hot. Now that that is done (to the extent that "everyone" knows about it and uses it), there is less demand for people. Is that so hard to understand?
However, if you are smart you can use your desalination plant only at times when the demand on the power grid is below average, and i'll burn electricity which would have otherwise been wasted.
Err when would that be?
Isn't this the well-known concept of peak-shaving?
...Linux could never go mainstream because there were no office apps...
Whoever provides the world with a decent Linux-based, 3D CAD program will probably make a lot of money. ISTR that AutoCAD's founder knew nothing about engineering, but now we have at least a few dozen (non-computer) engineers and graphics people worldwide that like to tinker with and develop software.
Not to mention that many of them are unsatisfied with the current constant upgrade parade and incompatibilty between different programs.
Some months ago my connection speed went from 1.5 DSL to 28.8 (previous local provider got bought out and my modem/router was incorrectly configured for the new provider, so I had to use a backup external dial-up).
It wasn't all that bad, actually. It required a bit of planning and no Daily Show video downloads, but it made me wonder why I was paying CAN$40/month for DSL while only getting double FAX speed.
It's like the old 'telephone' game everybody used to play in kindergarten-- pass the message along and see how it changes four or five kids down the line.
I've heard it called "muscle memory". Apparently it's your subconcious at work. That, or you're like Rainier Wolfcastle and your finger muscles are self-aware.
All that the two articles *may* have found is the location of a part of VISUAL working memory. This would be the area that tracks objects through space and binds features that are processed seperately by the visual system (say color and form) into the same object. This is NOT the seat of all intelligence.
Do you suppose that colour-blind (or, more accurately, colour perception-impaired [1]) people have some enhanced visual abilities in order to compensate for this handicap?
Using CAD (there I go again with a CAD reference, sorry) is quite a challenge when green, red and yellow get smooshed into the same spectrum. Come to think of it, is there any other computer-related work that relies heavily on colour perception? I'm talking about fields where colour was never an issue before we all were looking at CRT/LCDs daily, not the graphic arts/photography/imaging areas.
[1] Not PC-speak. Most "colour-blind" people only have difficulties with some colours and not others.
Isn't Purdue where George Goble teaches? I wonder why his LOX BBQ lighting page was taken down.
Anyway, back on topic, there's no question that CAD is more precise but during early design stages, precision is not the goal and too much focus on computer-generated perfection hinders the process. People tend to get wrapped-up in the workings of the software and can produce brilliant-looking, but comepletely stupid drawings and unworkable designs.
My opinion is that CAD people should learn how to draw by hand before they even get to touch drafting software. This would weed out the wannabes and ensure that people learning the field are not completely useless when working onsite or when having to graphically communicate ideas quickly without the use of a machine.
Bad analogies: do grade school kids get to use calculators for addition/subtraction exercises? Do phones without numeric keypads (0-9) sound like a good idea (I.E., all phone numbers pre-programmed or voice-activated)?
I catch your drift (do people actually say that any more?) but your future and distant future examples are dangerous and violate physics laws, respectively. Of course, neither of us knows what TNBT will be, I'm just suggesting that the net will continue to be the biggest thing for the foreseeable future. Will the next big thing be social rather than technological? The pace of change is fast enough now that it is becoming difficult to adapt, but these changes are all based on extending existing technology, not revolutionary discoveries/inventions. Unless you count Ginger/It/Segway...
You patent the idea, and then go and find someone to back the project and produce the prototype.
Used to be that the default status of inventor-to-backer relationship was mutual trust. Some uncontrollable social developments have changed that; I can think of three, off the top of my head:
1) Popularization/validization of the greed instinct (getting used to a 20% ROI),
B) More popular focus on "having stuff" rather than achieving things,
III) The internet and "free" information-flinging, where everything is freewheeling and open to scams that could only be imagined before.
You might also add to this list the fact that, over the past few (20?) years, the traditional establishment has been confused by the emergence of software and computers. They are old thinkers and don't quite know how to deal with the new reality. Then again, I myself would rather go back to Rotrings and adjustable drafting tables.
Until "The Next Big Thing" comes along (very unlikely - you can't go much further than having everyone on the net, don't hold your breath) expect more of the same.
Expect intelligent aliens to contact us within the next 50 years. Unfortunately, they will be Canadians.
Give the guy a fine large enough to destroy any profits he could make...
Who is likely to be the person doing the filming in the theatre - (A) the guy that is going to upload/sell the crappy copy for profit or leet points, or (B) some broke, un-sue-able dupe paid $50 for "services"?
I agree that this is for the civil courts, not criminal though.
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Waitress:...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...
Waitress:...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
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hm, maybe you should read some Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) numbers: Here is America's job future for the next 10 years:
Forgotten was military service.
Given those predictions (and this has been said before here) you have to go for a field that cannot be outsourced or off-shored if you want something safe, employment-wise.
Please don't forget that the whole boom in IT employment was largely initiated by the development and popularization of the web. A lot of young people jumped on the bandwagon when it was hot. Now that that is done (to the extent that "everyone" knows about it and uses it), there is less demand for people. Is that so hard to understand?
They should try talking to the arab states which produce 60% of the worlds desalinated water .
This shouldn't come as any surprise as they have lived on arid land; they're not exactly enineeringly clueless over there.
Oh, and the excess energy can be used to power the baby seal slaughterhouse and for rendering whale blubber.
Yeah, sure, but then the Inuit are unemployed and angry.
However, if you are smart you can use your desalination plant only at times when the demand on the power grid is below average, and i'll burn electricity which would have otherwise been wasted.
Err when would that be?
Isn't this the well-known concept of peak-shaving?
...Linux could never go mainstream because there were no office apps...
Whoever provides the world with a decent Linux-based, 3D CAD program will probably make a lot of money. ISTR that AutoCAD's founder knew nothing about engineering, but now we have at least a few dozen (non-computer) engineers and graphics people worldwide that like to tinker with and develop software.
Not to mention that many of them are unsatisfied with the current constant upgrade parade and incompatibilty between different programs.
Some months ago my connection speed went from 1.5 DSL to 28.8 (previous local provider got bought out and my modem/router was incorrectly configured for the new provider, so I had to use a backup external dial-up).
It wasn't all that bad, actually. It required a bit of planning and no Daily Show video downloads, but it made me wonder why I was paying CAN$40/month for DSL while only getting double FAX speed.
It's like the old 'telephone' game everybody used to play in kindergarten-- pass the message along and see how it changes four or five kids down the line.
Purple monkey dishwasher.
those of you that can not only see it and it's texture but smell it have the higher processor cache
...um, sorry, I just lost focus.
I tried your mental experiment but replaced "rose" with "boobies". It worked! Most fascinating was
I've heard it called "muscle memory". Apparently it's your subconcious at work. That, or you're like Rainier Wolfcastle and your finger muscles are self-aware.
All that the two articles *may* have found is the location of a part of VISUAL working memory. This would be the area that tracks objects through space and binds features that are processed seperately by the visual system (say color and form) into the same object. This is NOT the seat of all intelligence.
Do you suppose that colour-blind (or, more accurately, colour perception-impaired [1]) people have some enhanced visual abilities in order to compensate for this handicap?
Using CAD (there I go again with a CAD reference, sorry) is quite a challenge when green, red and yellow get smooshed into the same spectrum. Come to think of it, is there any other computer-related work that relies heavily on colour perception? I'm talking about fields where colour was never an issue before we all were looking at CRT/LCDs daily, not the graphic arts/photography/imaging areas.
[1] Not PC-speak. Most "colour-blind" people only have difficulties with some colours and not others.
. . .my head gets extremely hot when I do my Calculus exams.
Like, dude. That's what the propeller beanie is for.
I use this technology, myself. Wrap the whole thing in Engineered Reflective Insulation Products (AKA tinfoil) and you have a multi-function device!
Isn't Purdue where George Goble teaches? I wonder why his LOX BBQ lighting page was taken down.
Anyway, back on topic, there's no question that CAD is more precise but during early design stages, precision is not the goal and too much focus on computer-generated perfection hinders the process. People tend to get wrapped-up in the workings of the software and can produce brilliant-looking, but comepletely stupid drawings and unworkable designs.
My opinion is that CAD people should learn how to draw by hand before they even get to touch drafting software. This would weed out the wannabes and ensure that people learning the field are not completely useless when working onsite or when having to graphically communicate ideas quickly without the use of a machine.
Bad analogies: do grade school kids get to use calculators for addition/subtraction exercises? Do phones without numeric keypads (0-9) sound like a good idea (I.E., all phone numbers pre-programmed or voice-activated)?
the user's ability to sketch.
Do designers/engineers/draftsmen actually learn to draw these days, or is it all CAD-based?
I catch your drift (do people actually say that any more?) but your future and distant future examples are dangerous and violate physics laws, respectively. Of course, neither of us knows what TNBT will be, I'm just suggesting that the net will continue to be the biggest thing for the foreseeable future. Will the next big thing be social rather than technological? The pace of change is fast enough now that it is becoming difficult to adapt, but these changes are all based on extending existing technology, not revolutionary discoveries/inventions. Unless you count Ginger/It/Segway...
... you should actually use your own brain!
He's on a ventilator. It does his breathing for him. - Nurse
And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker. - Homer
Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
In the days of old, fat women used to be considered the most attractive, and often appeared in classical art.
That's because they had huge...tracts of land
You'd think so, wouldn't you? But I know a guy who had a bunch of trouble one night.
Mark, is that you?
make new episodes of Futurama, but it is a extremely expensive show to make
Yeah, I think most of the expense goes towards all those costly futuristic sets they have to build every week.
(Animated before a live audience?)
"Very few cartoons are broadcast live. It's a terrible strain on the animator's wrist."
You patent the idea, and then go and find someone to back the project and produce the prototype.
Used to be that the default status of inventor-to-backer relationship was mutual trust. Some uncontrollable social developments have changed that; I can think of three, off the top of my head:
1) Popularization/validization of the greed instinct (getting used to a 20% ROI),
B) More popular focus on "having stuff" rather than achieving things,
III) The internet and "free" information-flinging, where everything is freewheeling and open to scams that could only be imagined before.
You might also add to this list the fact that, over the past few (20?) years, the traditional establishment has been confused by the emergence of software and computers. They are old thinkers and don't quite know how to deal with the new reality. Then again, I myself would rather go back to Rotrings and adjustable drafting tables.
Until "The Next Big Thing" comes along (very unlikely - you can't go much further than having everyone on the net, don't hold your breath) expect more of the same.
Expect intelligent aliens to contact us within the next 50 years. Unfortunately, they will be Canadians.
Give the guy a fine large enough to destroy any profits he could make...
Who is likely to be the person doing the filming in the theatre - (A) the guy that is going to upload/sell the crappy copy for profit or leet points, or (B) some broke, un-sue-able dupe paid $50 for "services"?
I agree that this is for the civil courts, not criminal though.
Back in my day, we used to light up BEFORE the exam.
My guess is that most schools' exams would have been finished by 4:20.
If you get the reference, you might also infer that my sig means something that it does not.
Just how much hacking is needed to take the red light out of a consumer camcorder?
Yeah but then the VCR clock would flashing 12:00 again.
"But I'll only watch ten of them, can I only pay for those?"
...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam... ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Post recycling:
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Waitress:
Waitress:
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!