Did you write that the wrong way around?? I.e. did you mean that the Russian air force would be decimated in the first 20 minutes? From what I read of the Six-Day war, the Israelis were very successful and their air force dominated ...

Thanks.

I would have given you points for this if you hadn't posted AC ;)

As an Australian, this is a big relief. iiNet are actually a pretty good ISP too: great network, good service, reasonable prices.

Thanks - the analogy is actually pretty helpful.

Wikipedia says this about Mott insulators: Mott insulators are a class of materials that should conduct electricity under conventional band theories, but are insulators when measured (particularly at low temperatures). This effect is due to electron-electron interactions which are not considered in conventional band theory.

Can someone actually explain this? I am trying to get my head around a one-dimensional anything ...

Well, maybe the problem is the MBA course they are doing. In Accounting at my MBA, the failure rate was massive - like 20%. That was probably the hardest course, but there are plenty that are tough.

I wonder as well if the problem is the people who are doing the MBA where you are. If you take an good engineer and make him do an MBA, he doesn't suddenly become an idiot ... what he will become is more aware of the other issues involved in running a business.

Honestly, as a long-time IT geek and industry participant, I get tired of hearing this over an over. I am half-way through an MBA (in Australia mind you) and the focus is NOT on short-term gains. We do a lot of different things, from Statistics to Accounting and general Personnel Management. The focus is on understanding and improving the situation .. not on running things into the ground to make a bonus for the year.

Thanks for explaining .... I don't envy you your job!

What methods are people using to provide these transcripts? Piping it to Google Voice? Splitting out the audio and running through Dragon Dictate? Farming out to Mechanical Turk?

I was thinking about trying to provide transcripts for a large number of videos and nothing strikes me as particularly easy or reliable. Any suggestions?

Hi Quasi, I have been reading your transcripts too and I really want to know one thing: how are you doing them? Are you seriously doing this manually???

Hey QuasiSteve, How did yo generate the transcript?

I don't know that I am that young anymore, but I love my NAS (old PC, 2 x 2TB drives mirrored, Solaris, ZFS). I store all my photos, personal documents and videos of the kids. Everything is mirrored, snapshotted and stored offsite in the cloud for $5 a month (thank you CrashPlan). It takes no time to manage and keeps everything safe. Why would this creep you out?

MOD UP please. It is a big mistake telling kids that they are smart - because then they will fear failure. Instead of telling them they are smart, tell them that they succeeded because they worked hard. Tell them that the brain is a MUSCLE and can be improved with exercise. Teach them to try.