This begs for research on how the neural system in the eye compresses raw data into information that can be transmitted through the limited bandwidth optic nerve. Collecting data is great but we can drown in data. We need information processing near to the source.
When I went to college 40 years ago I went took the opposite path of that proposed by the poster. I got an electrical engineering degree and a bachelor of arts in humanities as well in 5 years study. My career was in engineering but I firmly believe that it was the broader view of the world I had that set me apart and allowed me to excel. I worked primarily as an individual contributor but achieved a salary more commonly reserved for middle management. I am now retired from engineering and pursuing the other half of my education working in photography, video and web design. I have never regretted the extra work to get the arts degree.
It seems that this proposed law is trying to fix something that has already been resolved. When a video is uploaded to YouTube, Google's computers compare the sound to a huge archive of licensed music. If there is a match then the up-loader gets a notice that reports the match and tells them that their video will still be shown but that the content owner can show ads with it and receive the ad revenue. This works for most music publishers with a few exceptions Warner Music Group was blocking the sound of their songs. This may have changed recently with WMG not blocking but it now appears that UPMG may be blocking sound. This solution by the majority of content providers seems eminently logical allowing content owners to receive income and YouTube viewers to see creative performances with recorded but unlicensed music.
I worked in a small specialized high tech company that build semi custom process monitoring systems based on spectroscopy. We tried having direct sales force and independent sales representatives and a mix of both with varying success. For about a year we also compensated engineers with a sales override of 5% on the products they were specifically responsible for. While it wasn't a scientific test, sales that year were significantly better and went down when it was removed. The sales force got better help from the engineers and the engineers felt more appreciated.
Or product group is still in business after over 30 years but I don't think it ever made a profit because the cost of providing a fully capable staff for such a complex product was never supported by our sales volume. We continue to exist because of the value we created for our customers. We were bought by a series of companies who each though they could add the magic ingredient to make us profitable with such a valuable product line. We are now a tiny footnote in a 40 billion dollar conglomerate.
I personally am retired to New Mexico doing photography video and web design.
I read the comments to see if I needed to post something like this comment. There are worse things than doing work of dubious value. It was when the geniuses were so smart that they almost destroyed the economic world that things really got bad. Greed and more greed is our problem.
The only thing that I would ask her is if she plans to do any video editing. I have a Dell Studio 17 and now that I am recording and editing HiDef video the performance is not suitable. I plan to get a low end gaming desktop with one of the NVIDA cards that is supported by Adobe Premier Pro. I don't know if any of the reasonably priced laptops will be suitable.
Really long wavelengths is right. I worked with early versions of this in Infrared spectroscopy out to beyond 10um about 15-20 years ago. It was very brittle and hard to work with.
I could see this being a very useful evolution of either the mac or windows operating systems if it gave us users the ability to instantly and economically access cloud computing power for some of the really computation intensive tasks like Video editing. I would actually prefer it if it were Microsoft because they seem now less intrusive than the new Apple. I am not willing to have anyone control my user experience to the extent that they do.
During most of my regular career I was sort of the person that had my own rules because I was central to many of the things that had to get done. When the company president was to be fired the board called me to be sure I wouldn't quit. I worked hard not to abuse that position but you would have to go back to my former co-workers to see how successful I was. In a small group working in a very specialized field there may be several largely essential people. If any of them are jerks life can be hell.
I was going to suggest this to but using multiple poles or an RFID would make the system much more robust. It does seem that adding collision avoidance sensors using radar or photography would be prudent.
I had a mackintosh (sp?) vacuum tube amplifier in a metal case circa 1950. When the top was removed all one could see was black potting compound enclosing all the components except the connectors and tube sockets.
I have Verizon EVDO near Santa Fe NM and I am very happy with it. I can't compare it with cable or DSL because I am off the grid. I previously had satellite internet and this is far better. I have an 11 mile line of sight to the nearest tower and get about 600K down and 256k up. When I use it on the road I often get 1mb down. For me the cost is moderate and I don't expect any much better option to come up before the contract is up. I do web design and the only negative is that large site uploads take a while. I just have the transfer go on in the background and do something else
In 1967 I was in the advanced development group of the GE radio receiver department. We set out to build a consumer electronic calculator. What we originally built wasn't very good having 6 digits and strange math but that wasn't what killed the progject. It was the marketing department saying nobody would ever want a home calculator because they already had adding machines. I later headed the project to create the first electronic clock radio. The LSI chip we designed had 826 transistors in it. That was a much more successful project and is the ancestor of the clock radios almost everyone has now. Even for that project the GE Telecron department (since diseased) said you could never make an electronic timer as cheaply and reliably as an electric clock.
I am now retired from a life in technology, developing scientific instruments and software. I am now also a far left liberal. In college I read Ayn Rand and thought that was how things should work. Well I think that this is just the need for successful or fortunate people to believe that their success is due to their own superiority. I have now come to believe that luck and birth situation is really what determines how successful most people are.
If California passes this resolution I can see two outcomes.
1 The state recognizes that ODF has to be used and scraps Office and loads OpenOffice or StarOffice.
Big win for the citizens of California big loss for Microsoft.
2 The state recognizes that ODF has to be used and because older versions of Office won't work with ODF they purchase Vista and Office 2007 for all state agencies.
Huge loss for the citizens of California huge win for Microsoft.
Guess which is more likely?
I purchased my Mini to support creating dual format disks with data created on my Windows systems. I found to my great pleasure that I can use my firewire 40 and 160GB external drives to transfer data quickly between systems. This article prompts me to try a faster 300GB firewire drive to let me start editing video on the Mini.
If anyone reading this post sees his or her writing style I have a suggestion. Re-read and edit. Because e-mail is so quick and easy we tend to just dash it off and click send. If you read over what you have just read and think how it will sound to your recipient you will often be able to make changes to clarify what you are trying to get across.
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This begs for research on how the neural system in the eye compresses raw data into information that can be transmitted through the limited bandwidth optic nerve. Collecting data is great but we can drown in data. We need information processing near to the source.
When I went to college 40 years ago I went took the opposite path of that proposed by the poster. I got an electrical engineering degree and a bachelor of arts in humanities as well in 5 years study. My career was in engineering but I firmly believe that it was the broader view of the world I had that set me apart and allowed me to excel. I worked primarily as an individual contributor but achieved a salary more commonly reserved for middle management. I am now retired from engineering and pursuing the other half of my education working in photography, video and web design. I have never regretted the extra work to get the arts degree.
It seems that this proposed law is trying to fix something that has already been resolved. When a video is uploaded to YouTube, Google's computers compare the sound to a huge archive of licensed music. If there is a match then the up-loader gets a notice that reports the match and tells them that their video will still be shown but that the content owner can show ads with it and receive the ad revenue. This works for most music publishers with a few exceptions Warner Music Group was blocking the sound of their songs. This may have changed recently with WMG not blocking but it now appears that UPMG may be blocking sound. This solution by the majority of content providers seems eminently logical allowing content owners to receive income and YouTube viewers to see creative performances with recorded but unlicensed music.
I worked in a small specialized high tech company that build semi custom process monitoring systems based on spectroscopy. We tried having direct sales force and independent sales representatives and a mix of both with varying success. For about a year we also compensated engineers with a sales override of 5% on the products they were specifically responsible for. While it wasn't a scientific test, sales that year were significantly better and went down when it was removed. The sales force got better help from the engineers and the engineers felt more appreciated. Or product group is still in business after over 30 years but I don't think it ever made a profit because the cost of providing a fully capable staff for such a complex product was never supported by our sales volume. We continue to exist because of the value we created for our customers. We were bought by a series of companies who each though they could add the magic ingredient to make us profitable with such a valuable product line. We are now a tiny footnote in a 40 billion dollar conglomerate. I personally am retired to New Mexico doing photography video and web design.
I read the comments to see if I needed to post something like this comment. There are worse things than doing work of dubious value. It was when the geniuses were so smart that they almost destroyed the economic world that things really got bad. Greed and more greed is our problem.
The only thing that I would ask her is if she plans to do any video editing. I have a Dell Studio 17 and now that I am recording and editing HiDef video the performance is not suitable. I plan to get a low end gaming desktop with one of the NVIDA cards that is supported by Adobe Premier Pro. I don't know if any of the reasonably priced laptops will be suitable.
Really long wavelengths is right. I worked with early versions of this in Infrared spectroscopy out to beyond 10um about 15-20 years ago. It was very brittle and hard to work with.
I could see this being a very useful evolution of either the mac or windows operating systems if it gave us users the ability to instantly and economically access cloud computing power for some of the really computation intensive tasks like Video editing. I would actually prefer it if it were Microsoft because they seem now less intrusive than the new Apple. I am not willing to have anyone control my user experience to the extent that they do.
During most of my regular career I was sort of the person that had my own rules because I was central to many of the things that had to get done. When the company president was to be fired the board called me to be sure I wouldn't quit. I worked hard not to abuse that position but you would have to go back to my former co-workers to see how successful I was. In a small group working in a very specialized field there may be several largely essential people. If any of them are jerks life can be hell.
I was going to suggest this to but using multiple poles or an RFID would make the system much more robust. It does seem that adding collision avoidance sensors using radar or photography would be prudent.
I had a mackintosh (sp?) vacuum tube amplifier in a metal case circa 1950. When the top was removed all one could see was black potting compound enclosing all the components except the connectors and tube sockets.
I have Verizon EVDO near Santa Fe NM and I am very happy with it. I can't compare it with cable or DSL because I am off the grid. I previously had satellite internet and this is far better. I have an 11 mile line of sight to the nearest tower and get about 600K down and 256k up. When I use it on the road I often get 1mb down. For me the cost is moderate and I don't expect any much better option to come up before the contract is up. I do web design and the only negative is that large site uploads take a while. I just have the transfer go on in the background and do something else
In 1967 I was in the advanced development group of the GE radio receiver department. We set out to build a consumer electronic calculator. What we originally built wasn't very good having 6 digits and strange math but that wasn't what killed the progject. It was the marketing department saying nobody would ever want a home calculator because they already had adding machines. I later headed the project to create the first electronic clock radio. The LSI chip we designed had 826 transistors in it. That was a much more successful project and is the ancestor of the clock radios almost everyone has now. Even for that project the GE Telecron department (since diseased) said you could never make an electronic timer as cheaply and reliably as an electric clock.
I am now retired from a life in technology, developing scientific instruments and software. I am now also a far left liberal. In college I read Ayn Rand and thought that was how things should work. Well I think that this is just the need for successful or fortunate people to believe that their success is due to their own superiority. I have now come to believe that luck and birth situation is really what determines how successful most people are.
If California passes this resolution I can see two outcomes. 1 The state recognizes that ODF has to be used and scraps Office and loads OpenOffice or StarOffice. Big win for the citizens of California big loss for Microsoft. 2 The state recognizes that ODF has to be used and because older versions of Office won't work with ODF they purchase Vista and Office 2007 for all state agencies. Huge loss for the citizens of California huge win for Microsoft. Guess which is more likely?
I purchased my Mini to support creating dual format disks with data created on my Windows systems. I found to my great pleasure that I can use my firewire 40 and 160GB external drives to transfer data quickly between systems. This article prompts me to try a faster 300GB firewire drive to let me start editing video on the Mini.
If anyone reading this post sees his or her writing style I have a suggestion. Re-read and edit. Because e-mail is so quick and easy we tend to just dash it off and click send. If you read over what you have just read and think how it will sound to your recipient you will often be able to make changes to clarify what you are trying to get across.