would be great and would accomplish the goals set for most of our current science mission shuttle trips.
BUT designing experimenter robots is another story. You can either design and build specialized for each variation of each experiment, which would be ludicruously expensive. Or, you can build experiment-independent, programmable, complete-freedom-of-motion robots w/ an extensive system of sensors and experiment-specific AI...also very expensive. The second option, while probably the more reasonable of the two would require _each_ experiment to also have extensive data acquisition/analysis/AI software routines to be generated, making the cost of individual experiments skyrocket even more.
It's not as simple as saying 'send up an auto-pipetter to do all the experiments'.
The best option I can think of, aside from real people, would be develop the best damn robot w/ as much degrees of freedom imaginable, w/ good sensors and make it tele-operatable, then you have to deal w/ transmission delays and poor feedback
go grab the compost. (?)
seriously though, decomposing biomass is not always all that pleasant. DO you think they envision filling stations? While it's somewhat nasty it seems feasible to refuel at home, as long as the catalyst components are cheap enough for the home user.
Yeah Duke's done a bunch of work along those lines.
http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jliu/labgroup/research.h tml
scroll down to 2. AFM "Dip-Pen" Nanolithography
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I think it's "chodes"
Shielding RFID against security
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Anyone who has used an RFID-based security pass card knows that they are easily shielded. Placing your RFID-secured product in an discreetly shielded bag would render the product nonexistant from RFID-probing security. I hope store that use it to augment theft security don't get lazy and think its unbeatable.
Okay, you are correct in thinking that the $600b does not jive with GNP. That's because the $600b reflects the industry revenue. The $600b amount includes the entire sale price of the products/services they are selling, not just their profit off the sale.
In the end, I would suspect a majority of the revenue is piped back to their clients who hired them in the first place. That's still a pretty effective sales channel if your product is marketable to dolts.
They also claim 180 million sales transactions, which is probably correct. That means the average transaction is more than $3000! Do you know anyone who bought $3000 worth of stuff from a telemarketer?
Assuming those figures are correct, It is likely not a unimodal distribution of sales. Like I said above, you have the lower-tier t'marketers with the affordable price-point, mid-tier, and then the corporate sales that often carry a pretty hefty pricetag. Taking the average of a (at least) trimodal distribution and attributing it to a single target population is of course going to sound ridiculous.
I hope this clears things up...
Telemarketing is defined in:
US Code, Title 18, Part I, Chapter 113A, Sec. 2325
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2325.html
(1)means a plan, program, promotion, or campaign that is conducted to induce -
(A)purchases of goods or services;
(B)participation in a contest or sweepstakes; or
(C)a charitable contribution, donation, or gift of money or any other thing of value,by use of 1 or more interstate telephone calls initiated either by a person who is conducting the plan, program, promotion, or campaign or by a prospective purchaser or contest or sweepstakes participant or charitable contributor, or donor; but...
... Basically, if 1 division of MS uses telemarketing, they include ALL of MS' revenue as part of the "Telemarketing industry."
It sounds like you are refering to a specific study/reference. I don't know where you grabbed your 50k figure, but across the industry the amount of revenue generated by a single employee is going to be much higher than that, considering operational overhead that must be accounted for. Maybe that is a reasonable figure for the creeps that try to sell cheap trinkets and what not. A significant portion of the industry also targets big businesses, which can include _very_ large products.
Granted I have not scoured over each telemarketing company's ledger,I do not think the figure is so unreasonable. While you may have exercised your math skills, try to get the proper figures to compute from...
Perhaps you can file a complaint with the FTC that you have uncovered some industry-wide fraud.
As long as they are not selling anything it's not telemarketing. From political polls to what "toilet paper do you wipe your ass with", they can still call you.
...contributing nothing to the actual economic output of the country
While I despise the practices of telemarketing it would be hard to say they don't contribute anything to the economoy. Last figure i saw in 2002, telemarketing was a $600+ billion dollar industry.
this doesn't affect market researchers calling you. Don't get me wrong i'm not complaining, but it would be great if we could somehow get them under the umbrella.
Damn that is really impressive. If only I had that cartridge way back when.
Although, we don't see what the frame rates for DOOM are on the original hardware. If that were the case, I'm guessing that might have taken quite awhile to record.
Roughly, an Intellivision includes:...
a 'Standard Television Interface Chip' (STIC) with a resolution of 160x96 in 16 colors + up to 8 'Moving OBjects' (MOBS)
I was curious if someone familiar with older processors could explain the significance of independent MOBS? Are these small independent caches for storing sprites or something?
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would be great and would accomplish the goals set for most of our current science mission shuttle trips.
BUT designing experimenter robots is another story. You can either design and build specialized for each variation of each experiment, which would be ludicruously expensive. Or, you can build experiment-independent, programmable, complete-freedom-of-motion robots w/ an extensive system of sensors and experiment-specific AI...also very expensive. The second option, while probably the more reasonable of the two would require _each_ experiment to also have extensive data acquisition/analysis/AI software routines to be generated, making the cost of individual experiments skyrocket even more. It's not as simple as saying 'send up an auto-pipetter to do all the experiments'. The best option I can think of, aside from real people, would be develop the best damn robot w/ as much degrees of freedom imaginable, w/ good sensors and make it tele-operatable, then you have to deal w/ transmission delays and poor feedback
go grab the compost. (?)
seriously though, decomposing biomass is not always all that pleasant. DO you think they envision filling stations? While it's somewhat nasty it seems feasible to refuel at home, as long as the catalyst components are cheap enough for the home user.
Yeah Duke's done a bunch of work along those lines.h tml
http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jliu/labgroup/research.
scroll down to 2. AFM "Dip-Pen" Nanolithography
I think it's "chodes"
Anyone who has used an RFID-based security pass card knows that they are easily shielded. Placing your RFID-secured product in an discreetly shielded bag would render the product nonexistant from RFID-probing security. I hope store that use it to augment theft security don't get lazy and think its unbeatable.
In the end, I would suspect a majority of the revenue is piped back to their clients who hired them in the first place. That's still a pretty effective sales channel if your product is marketable to dolts.
Assuming those figures are correct, It is likely not a unimodal distribution of sales. Like I said above, you have the lower-tier t'marketers with the affordable price-point, mid-tier, and then the corporate sales that often carry a pretty hefty pricetag. Taking the average of a (at least) trimodal distribution and attributing it to a single target population is of course going to sound ridiculous.
I hope this clears things up...
Telemarketing is defined in: ...
US Code, Title 18, Part I, Chapter 113A, Sec. 2325
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2325.html
(1)means a plan, program, promotion, or campaign that is conducted to induce -
(A)purchases of goods or services;
(B)participation in a contest or sweepstakes; or
(C)a charitable contribution, donation, or gift of money or any other thing of value,by use of 1 or more interstate telephone calls initiated either by a person who is conducting the plan, program, promotion, or campaign or by a prospective purchaser or contest or sweepstakes participant or charitable contributor, or donor; but
As long as they are not selling anything it's not telemarketing. From political polls to what "toilet paper do you wipe your ass with", they can still call you.
this doesn't affect market researchers calling you. Don't get me wrong i'm not complaining, but it would be great if we could somehow get them under the umbrella.
Damn that is really impressive. If only I had that cartridge way back when. Although, we don't see what the frame rates for DOOM are on the original hardware. If that were the case, I'm guessing that might have taken quite awhile to record.
That's funny... Under their demo, Click tools, then CPU Load and watch the digits fly.
I don't think we get enough Mozilla RC updates. Maybe we can start getting updates letting us know the status of nightly builds.