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| SeanB:
--- Quote from: Richard Crowley on May 31, 2015, 05:53:13 pm --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on May 31, 2015, 01:52:20 am ---Video conferencing really does suck :-- --- End quote --- Anybody who watches TWIT knows that is not true. Even internationally. --- End quote --- They did a lot of work to get it that good, and even then it will barf in them on air. Especially on those who are calling in on a non VPN connection where the ISP is doing throttling on VOIP calls. |
| jolshefsky:
I'm not sure what I expected from an interview—after all, the part I find interesting is in hundreds of pages sitting on my desk (and, shamelessly bought from Adafruit.) It was interesting to hear the history of how the book came to be. In all, as an interview, I didn't think it was that bad ... I've seen much better interviewers, but that's not Lady Ada's forté anyhow. What I did find a little distracting was that I perceived a bit of, for lack of a better word, flirtation—on both sides. Not like blatant 16-year-old kind of flirtation, or the kind of smitten flirtation, but more of a "gee I think you're swell but there's no way this can work" kind of thing. She had a kind of "I admire your work and desire acknowledgement from you but I'm going to try not to be an ass" and he had a kind of "if I had met an attractive, techie, intelligent woman like you 40 years ago I would have been so tongue-tied, but I'm old enough to just smile and enjoy the thought now". Since this technical field is currently male-dominated, it's usually men interviewing other men, and without any underlying physical or sexual attraction, so everything is entirely academic. But I know how I am, and I would (and do) find it very difficult to hide my attraction if I were to interview an attractive, techie, intelligent woman. Put another way, no amount of editing could make me look anything but flirtatious if I were to interview Fried herself. |
| zapta:
--- Quote from: Richard Crowley on May 31, 2015, 05:53:13 pm --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on May 31, 2015, 01:52:20 am ---Video conferencing really does suck :-- --- End quote --- Anybody who watches TWIT knows that is not true. Even internationally. --- End quote --- Delay is good, more time to speak before the interruption ;-) |
| Howardlong:
--- Quote from: mtdoc on May 31, 2015, 05:23:17 pm ---The Wavebubble she designed and built for her Masters thesis is especially cool IMO. --- End quote --- ... with the help of an RF dude, which is interesting, because fundamentally this is an RF project. It does also resonate (!) with her apparent difficulty in understanding the termination thing in the video. Having said that I thought that the transmission line termination part of the video was probably one of the most educating parts, explaining that that 200pF capacitance (apparently) disappears when terminated with the characteristic impedance. If I am to be picky, when LA starts talking about "bounce" I really don't think she has a clue what Horowitz was saying when he originally used the term, confusing the reflection "bounce" of the signal with the constructive and destructive wave effects when the frequency is changed. The other bit that was really good, and at this point she had me shouting at the monitor, was about the amount of power used from a satellite compared to doing a terrestrial transmission. Then she was talking about the power in the receive antenna. Maybe that was a setup, I don't know. The disposal of the databooks reminded me of what I did about a year or so ago. I dumped 85% of my paper library, pretty much a history of my career, but realistically, I hardly ever used them, it's all online now, and/or on my iPad. So, pros and cons, and definitely a net plus. I just wish she'd have used those oft quoted MIT bachelors and masters degrees of hers and think before spouting, that's all. |
| monksod:
Christ some of you guys are harsh! I watched the interview & thought it flowed along just fine! The two of them bounced off each other quite naturally, it was a good little interview! Sheesh! |
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