I agree, but this isn't how it works at most colleges in the real world. Colleges have industry at their door demanding well-educated graduates, and in CS this often means fairly proficient in C/Java/what-have-you. Granted, no one straight out of college can walk right into a developer job. But I took a software engineering course for my CS degree. Do you think that has ANYTHING to do with computer science at its core? Not a chance. But it makes for a better developer if I at leave have a clue what a development model is.
I think nowadays, you'd have to be going somewhere like MIT or Cornell to get a *true* CS education, with high-level examples, pseudo-code, etc. and little actual coding.
The point stands, Saul might have been able to make hundreds of thousands off of this device by restricting its usage, charging hefty fees to the micro-entrepreneurs, etc. increasing the cost of the glasses significantly. Frankly, I'm a little surprised MIT hasn't tried to take a bite, unless this was developed outside of MIT, or maybe they are taking a bite. I didn't see anything either way.
And you'd have seen a quote from him stating "I'll get this company going and self-sufficient, providing glasses to third-world nations, and I'll make money elsewhere." He invested the 20k portion of that 30k prize in his company mentioned in the post. The other 10k went to his Thesis advisor.
Just ask any army that used to issue soldiers with glasses.
HA! Then we won't need to market safe sex or distribute condoms to the third world either, because the BCG's will take care of it. (Birth Control Glasses)
From the autotune page linked in the parent: Since then, thousands of ATR-1s have found their way into touring racks, live performance rigs, and recording studios of artists and producers like Cher, Reba, Everclear, Al Schmitt and many, many more.
Is it me, or is naming these artists not that big an attraction for this product? And I don't even know who Al Schmitt is.
Spoken like a true communist! My hat's off to you. What we need to do is hire a two to one ratio of regulators vs. phone company employees. More jobs created, more people doing absolutely nothing for the world. Or better yet, remove all regulation and let the market regulate prices. Because that works with multi-billion dollar corporations.
Socialism/Communism starts to look pretty appealing, until of course it becomes illegal for me to suggest what I just said.
Until the CEO asks where you got them and why you were performing a "pen-test" before an agreement was settled. That is, why you hacked them.
This tactic may get you one job because they're afraid of blackmail/extortion, but that's it. If you set things up with the client properly the first time, you could have a scan-every-six-months client for life.
So send an email to all your family members now, tell them to sign up, and both ignore fowarded and stop forwarding "virus" warnings. And turn off HTML reading in Outlook/Express at the same time.
I'm annoyed to no end when I get emails like those you mention, but at least my parents are [somewhat] aware of the risks present. I'd rather have these warnings than copies of the latest and greatest virus sent to me because I'm in their address book.
I don't disagree. But I guess I should've mentioned that in my experiences, when HR was involved with interviews, they were there as more of a mediator/facilitator. The manager-to-be and another person were there as well.
The good thing about having HR people there is you probably won't end up with a "what's your greatest weakness" question, which, even though I defended it above, is not a great question to ask. It's not terrible, but not great. An HR person can get an answer to that question by asking real questions, though, and you've gotta think on your feet better to handle the round-about way that they took in interviews I've had.
I see and hear a lot of people slam HR, whose job it is to hire and fire, but there are a few things that come of it. First, part of their job is interviewing and resume reviewing. That measn they do a lot of it. Every day. That also means they're picky when screening, as the author of this article is. Along with that, HR people tend to be good at reading people; it makes their job easier every step of the way.
What does that mean to you and I? They can see through your bullshit answers. Also, an honest answer will stand out either because they react the way you did (holy crap, he actually gave a weakness) or they will realize you know your weaknesses, you actually provided a real weakness that isn't all that bad (i.e. mine, poor time management) and you provided some information on what you've done before and are doing to work on that problem.
That's not to say you're wrong though, the whole process is selling your skills. They're potentially going to give you a lot of money for those skills, but they're basing the transaction on what you tell them you can do for them. If you lie, it's obvious and the business partnership won't last a month. If you're honest, it could last a lifetime if you so chose.
And networking will always be the quickest way to a good job, in my opinion. Folks don't stand a chance on monster.com when you consider the volume of people checking that site every day.
With all due respect, I said have a sign saying "Go here to start." Then you put the TOS, billing collection, whatever on that page.
A sign saying "Wireless available. Visit www.wifico.com to start" would not be that taxing on the brain of someone capable of connecting to a wireless network in the first place. Not as simple as the open a browser to anywhere and get redicted method which this patent concerns, but still plenty simple.
Actually, the straight in front and straight behind thing is related more to the human ear/brain/central sound processing unit/whatever. If a sound takes exactly or almost exactly the same amount of time to travel to both ears, there's no way for the brain to determine a direction without echoes or reverberation or something.
If you close your eyes and have someone snap their fingers directly behind or directly above your head, you probably will not be able to determine quite where it's coming from.
Note: this info is based on one intro course I took my freshman year five years ago, and I'm not a doctor/medical student or anything, so I may be off...
However, I am not against giving up some personal freedom to make sure that our nation as a whole survives and hunts these fuggers down
Forgive me for not posting any original material, but this sums it up:
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety --Benjamin Franklin
or would it not be all that difficult for a business to just put up a sign saying "Go to http://blah.com to begin" and deny everything else until a client does so?
Sure URL redirection is neat, but is this that big a deal?
As a standard prior art question, has anyone seen anything like this for wired networks or similar applications?
All you have to do is look at Gates' net worth to see that bland works in big business. And the publicity this kid has gotten is fantastic; he'll have a good chance at having name recognition at any interview he sits down in (were you that guy with the site ten years ago...)
I'm surprised he hasn't had to sell the damn domain just to cover his hosting costs though.
Clearly, something monumental must be going on in the world of computing for these technology titans simultaneously to discover something that is so profound and yet so hard to name.
The marketing departments of these multi-national corporations all simultaneously decided to invent a new, improved, generic computing paradigm/infrastructure/idea/program/something else. And each of these companies are fighting to define what it is the marketing department is marketing.
Hey, if they made them all publicly-accessible, would you care? No longer do you need a 200 GB hdd in your car's PC for mp3s, you can stream them directly from Kazaa on the road! Or shoutcast. Or just check your email. Who am I kidding, they wouldn't make this publicly available, anyway.
That would be cool though, continuous 802.11 connectivity on and near every street in the country.
if the agreement not to sue is legally binding? And if so, what is this agreement with respect to? (i.e. they will not sue at all, or they will not sue users who exploited one particular avenue of transferring media, or they won't sue if one of their lawyers has indigestion?)
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There is nothing you can "customize" on a computer that can't be removed an two minutes.
I think nowadays, you'd have to be going somewhere like MIT or Cornell to get a *true* CS education, with high-level examples, pseudo-code, etc. and little actual coding.
Of course, this is all my opinion.
The point stands, Saul might have been able to make hundreds of thousands off of this device by restricting its usage, charging hefty fees to the micro-entrepreneurs, etc. increasing the cost of the glasses significantly. Frankly, I'm a little surprised MIT hasn't tried to take a bite, unless this was developed outside of MIT, or maybe they are taking a bite. I didn't see anything either way.
And you'd have seen a quote from him stating "I'll get this company going and self-sufficient, providing glasses to third-world nations, and I'll make money elsewhere." He invested the 20k portion of that 30k prize in his company mentioned in the post. The other 10k went to his Thesis advisor.
Is it me, or is naming these artists not that big an attraction for this product? And I don't even know who Al Schmitt is.
Socialism/Communism starts to look pretty appealing, until of course it becomes illegal for me to suggest what I just said.
This tactic may get you one job because they're afraid of blackmail/extortion, but that's it. If you set things up with the client properly the first time, you could have a scan-every-six-months client for life.
I'm annoyed to no end when I get emails like those you mention, but at least my parents are [somewhat] aware of the risks present. I'd rather have these warnings than copies of the latest and greatest virus sent to me because I'm in their address book.
The good thing about having HR people there is you probably won't end up with a "what's your greatest weakness" question, which, even though I defended it above, is not a great question to ask. It's not terrible, but not great. An HR person can get an answer to that question by asking real questions, though, and you've gotta think on your feet better to handle the round-about way that they took in interviews I've had.
What does that mean to you and I? They can see through your bullshit answers. Also, an honest answer will stand out either because they react the way you did (holy crap, he actually gave a weakness) or they will realize you know your weaknesses, you actually provided a real weakness that isn't all that bad (i.e. mine, poor time management) and you provided some information on what you've done before and are doing to work on that problem.
That's not to say you're wrong though, the whole process is selling your skills. They're potentially going to give you a lot of money for those skills, but they're basing the transaction on what you tell them you can do for them. If you lie, it's obvious and the business partnership won't last a month. If you're honest, it could last a lifetime if you so chose.
And networking will always be the quickest way to a good job, in my opinion. Folks don't stand a chance on monster.com when you consider the volume of people checking that site every day.
Thus end my ramblings.
A sign saying "Wireless available. Visit www.wifico.com to start" would not be that taxing on the brain of someone capable of connecting to a wireless network in the first place. Not as simple as the open a browser to anywhere and get redicted method which this patent concerns, but still plenty simple.
If you close your eyes and have someone snap their fingers directly behind or directly above your head, you probably will not be able to determine quite where it's coming from.
Note: this info is based on one intro course I took my freshman year five years ago, and I'm not a doctor/medical student or anything, so I may be off...
Forgive me for not posting any original material, but this sums it up:
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety
--Benjamin Franklin
Sure URL redirection is neat, but is this that big a deal?
As a standard prior art question, has anyone seen anything like this for wired networks or similar applications?
Good thing I just got a new [well-paying] job :)
I'm surprised he hasn't had to sell the damn domain just to cover his hosting costs though.
Crikey! Just imagine what McGuyver could do with even just a few of HST's parts!
Ahh, to work in a large corporation!
Oh, you know...stuff, and things. And stuff.
More like Three years, I think. Oh, that's when George "There ought to be limits to freedom" W. Bush was elected, what a coincidence!
That would be cool though, continuous 802.11 connectivity on and near every street in the country.
I just use SSH/VNC/Terminal Services (for that other OS.) But I don't have a closet for my different servers (yet.)
if the agreement not to sue is legally binding? And if so, what is this agreement with respect to? (i.e. they will not sue at all, or they will not sue users who exploited one particular avenue of transferring media, or they won't sue if one of their lawyers has indigestion?)
Damn. Thanks for deflating any humor present in my post!