Thinkings of an Old Baby Boomer

Kansas City, Kansas to get Google high speed network

Guy Pelletier — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:15:32 +0000

yes, it is true, KCK is now going to get the Google high speed network. The possibilities are amazing!!

We can now use the internet to its full potential, for example:

First we had radio stations then TV stations, now we can have internet stations. Yes that is right we can have a full blown media station that produces content for the internet and can be consumed by all the homes that are connected with a gigabyte network.

How about pairing the high speed network with a fast wireless system and you have a hyper 911 system, imagine all of the police fire and medical services connected to the Hyper 911 anytime you have a fire, your house connects to the Hyper 911 and gives the 911 operator a real time HD presentation of the fire, its exact location in the house and what the temperature is of the other rooms. This real time information is then re-transmitted to the dispatched fire trucks who get real time updates to the fire. (could I use real time any more?)

This scenario works for the police with HD transmission of the criminal act in progress while on its way to the scene.

Medical can transmit real time data and HD video to the hospital for triage while on the way to have the hospital ready by the time the patient gets there.

All of this is just the tip of the ice berg, we haven’t even talked about education, Community groups.

Along with all of this potential, the economic growth will start to snow ball, just the developers alone that want to exploit this gigabyte network who knows.

Man, I cant wait for the future.

Guy

Filed under: Communications, Computers, Google, Internet Tagged: Google, High Speed Internet, Kansas City Kansas

Thats why it hurts to wake up

Guy Pelletier — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:02:34 +0000

This is an interesting article on baby boomers.

http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/baby-boomers-03152011/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MyMint+%28Mint+Personal+Finance+Blog%29

Guy

Filed under: Blogging Tagged: Baby Boomers

Communication tools

Guy Pelletier — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 06:09:55 +0000

As I continue to use my brande new IPad, I discovered that it is outstanding in collecting and presenting information form social networks, news agencies, and blogs. This is great as now I can, hopefully, fully discover what is happening in the world that I am interested in.

I am an Automation Engineer, I design computer systems for industrial machines, and like all technologies, this area grows at an astonishing rate. I can now stay up to date on all the current improvements, technologies, and regulations. There are several philosophies out there on what is automation and each one brings a different method of development that produces different results.

I live in the Kansas City area and here we have over 30 Mom and Pop automation shops along with a couple of SI (System Integrators), I mention this as one of the biggest issues I se with automation development is:

1. A lack of understanding on what a customer needs

2. What the customer can support

3. The Biggie – you do not have to use all the bells and whistles just because you can.

Wow, I did not mean to sideways like that.

Anyway, I have trained my self on almost everything I know about development and I now find that I have access to a lot more data/information than ever before. I am currently reviewing a series of lectures on iTunes U form Berkley the I am using now is on Analysis of Algorithms, man all the crap that I forgot comes flooding back.

To sum up Internet + iPad = good information dissemination.

Guy

Filed under: Automation, Communications, Control Engineering, Crap, Electrical, iPad, manufacturing control Tagged: Automation, Controls

Addiction

Guy Pelletier — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:03:36 +0000

Ok I will be the first to admit I am addicted to stuff. Put a doughnut in front Of me and it will be gone! My besets wife has given me a present, an iPad and I must admit that with this I can inhale content like nothing ever before. I started with a couple of free apps like Flipboard and angry birds, clipboard is a great app however it could use some additional tweaks for instance, with all of the different sources that I can read from it would be nice to have a single location that I could send favorite articles to. This would give a single app/location/spot that I would go to for all of my favorites instead of each source favorites. As I get older it is harder for me to remember where I saw stuff.
As for the angry birds, it is another one of those that will kill several hours for me.

Guy

Filed under: Blogging Tagged: blogging iPad

Testing apps on my iPad

Guy Pelletier — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:25:12 +0000

This is a test of the WordPress app

Filed under: Blogging Tagged: blogging, iPad

I has me a new iPad

Guy Pelletier — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:36:35 +0000

Welp, I just purchase an iPad (version 1) and I like it so far, Scoble has it right, the race for the best tablet will be apps. I have downloaded a few free apps and have enjoyed all of them.

I have the Kindle app which allows me to get books from Amazon, which has a large assortment of free books (Heinlein will be read yet again!!).

I can also download collage courses from iTunes U and catch up on the stuff I forgot.

All in all, I enjoy the fact that I can use computers to work and the iPad to read (Flipboard is great).

What I need now is somebody to collect all my interests and let me bookmark and/or share what I read. This would be similar to Daves river of news but on steroids with the options to add indexes and bookmarks.

Guy

Filed under: blog, Computers, iPad

Chiefs 29 – 49

Guy Pelletier — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:35:07 +0000

What is that!!!!!
We were doing good, you need to wake up and play football.

Last season is over.

Filed under: Blogging Tagged: football

Now is the time for you to show me what you are made of!

Guy Pelletier — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:29:17 +0000

What do you think of that sports fans.

Guy

Filed under: Life

Yes We Did!!!

Guy Pelletier — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:34:19 +0000

You need to read this:

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100808/22161110540.shtml

Guy

Filed under: Blogging

Wisdom

Guy Pelletier — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:45:28 +0000

Data is defined (by me) as a single point point of value that occurs in a specific place at a specific time. (I was in a meeting at 10:30 am in conference room Zebra, the water was 27 degrees Celsius)

Information is a collection of related data that defines a common occurrence. (The steering committee was in a meeting this morning, all of the pressure cookers took an average of 45 minutes to heat the fluid)

Wisdom is the collection of information that has been evaluated and common themes are exposed, this then is used to determine future decisions.

Guy

Filed under: Blogging