Author: blogger
Old technology paved the way
Technology is something that makes our world change in ways it hasn’t before. Science isn’t just a job, or profession. It’s something we all have deep within us. As our bodies and our thoughts evolve, we accomplish new things and it’s then that science begins to change what we know as life and what we wish to achieve. Just as in the past, there are thousands of discoveries and changes within the field of science that are having a great effect on the world. Imagine older generations without cars, without telephones, without computers. When humans took science by the reigns and accomplished so much within decades, everyone and everything began to change for the better. It’s these inventions and gadgets that we’ve created that serve as stepping stones to greater things.
Aside from what’s happened in the past, how about what’s going on now, and the many inventions, gizmo’s and science that is altering the world today? It’s definitely a possibility that inventions today are happening more low key, without the drastic factor that they had before, but they are still happening quickly and effecting the world more than you probably realize. Take the iPhone and the iPad into example, both hugely important technologies just created recently. They’re both extremely innovative, magnificent creations that are starting to catch the eye of not just consumers, but electronic companies as well. Suddenly there are several copycats of the iPhone and iPad beginning to be mass produced, as well as other products that are attempting to rival Apple.
New Technology is making the future
Now you might be thinking, these inventions are nothing compared to the creation of the car, the phone, and other monumental moments in human history. It may even seem like production is slowing down, or capabilities are reached and we’re not discovering anymore life changing technology. Well stop, because that belief couldn’t be further from the truth. Just take the latest production, the 3D HD flat screen television which are now pencil thin, and compare those to older television produced just years ago. You could make a similar comparison to regular DVD’s and Bluray. These are small adaptations that are sparked by an evolving world in science. These inventions might not be drastic enough for you, but consider them as once again, stepping stones for the future.
In fact, science has already evolved today and discovered inventions that would be as life changing as the phone or car. It’s unfortunate that with any new technology, there are still worries. What is the most dominant concern that inventors face today? There’s no disagreeing that it’s money and business. Money drives everything and if there is profit to be made, it will be put into production sooner. However, sometimes the world isn’t ready for things immediately. One excellent comparison is electric vehicles. Despite the fact we’ve made them, tested them, and are starting to sell them, not everyone is buying them. It’s a slow process to transform people into wanting new things. They’re going to analyze it and find that their gas car sounds better, drives stronger, and is more attractive. Now these are significant cons that electric cars face when compared to gas, and their cons that developers will need to address in order to help the world. Maybe it will take time for science to create a mean sounding electric engine, and that’s the exact moment that electric cars will spark and spread throughout. You can’t ever have a sure answer with business, but its these changes that show science is moving even quicker than it was generations ago. It’s these defining moments in life that we’re breaching the capabilities we thought we had and going beyond our beliefs in science. Spaceflight offers a whole new realm of capabilities for mankind, and just imagine what we can accomplish there. What we’re doing right now with science is what’s going to help us get into space and potentially allow us to travel to new galaxies, find new planets, and one day maybe meet different life forms. No one could ever fathom how incredible those discoveries would be. These types of incredible discoveries aren’t things that would just effect our daily life like phones and television has, they’re things that would change how we think, change our beliefs, change everything we know.
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With the revolutionizing changes occurring in the satellite technology, more and more people are turning to global internet service providers. Most reliable internet service providers offer high-end Internet Protocol Paradigm like dial-up, DSL, cable modem, wireless or committed high-speed connection, with the help of data transmission technology. Through the internet e-mail accounts provided by the internet service providers, one can easily transmit and receive electronic messages through their servers.
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by Anthony W. Hawks, Chief Legal Officer, e-LYNXX Corporation
AVS Technology is the basic procedural component of any automated solution for buying custom goods and services that must be defined by production or performance specifications at the time of purchase. It includes the following steps:
ENTER vendor attributes
ENTER project specifications
MATCH vendor attributes to project specifications to determine sub-set of qualified vendors
SEND project specifications to sub-set of qualified vendors
RECEIVE a bid response from at least one vendor
When these steps are applied using a computer-operated system, a unique competitive bidding environment can be established where vendors of custom goods and services are now willing to offer their lowest prices to fill idle production capacity. This strategy is called “contribution pricing”. When vendors bid work (even when bidding well below normal rates), any income obtained above out-of-pocket costs “contributes” to fixed costs and overhead and, when absorbed, to their bottom lines.
Prior to AVS Technology, buyers of custom goods and services were faced with the “iron triangle” of quality, timeliness, and cost. Regardless of the industry involved, every procurement or supply chain solution seeks to attract business customers that want to achieve the purchasing trifecta of “good, fast, and cheap.” Before AVS Technology, however, a buyer could only achieve two of these three goals at any one time, not all three simultaneously.
AVS Technology breaks the “iron triangle” because it allows pre-qualified vendors with excess idle capacity to provide an extraordinary low price without risk of establishing future buyer price expectations. In other words, price is no longer tied to quality and timeliness of delivery. This is what makes AVS Technology integral to all current and future e-commerce methods and systems for buying custom goods and services including ERP systems, general supply chain management systems, specialized product or service procurement systems, and even older legacy systems. One such system for organizations with significant buying needs in direct mail, marketing, publications, packaging, labeling and other types of print is currently being offered by American Print Management. Regardless of the industry or buying need, however, all users and providers of such e-commerce methods or systems are required to license AVS Technology if they wish to benefit from this revolutionary innovation.
AVS Technology is unique in creating a controlled bidding environment in which repetitive purchasers of custom goods and services can leverage the open production capacity of their preferred vendors in a way that virtually guarantees “contribution pricing” that is, below normal pricing that seeks primarily to absorb out-of-pocket costs and some level of fixed costs and overhead. This is accomplished by allowing qualified vendors to bid high, low, or not at all (1) without having to consider buyer pricing expectations; (2) without fear of setting either high or low precedent for future bid prices; and (3) without worrying about being denied future bid opportunities for which the vendor is qualified. Freed from these concerns, bidders offer pricing based on their open production capacity at the time each job is bid, knowing that if they bid low this week when they are hungry for work, they are not bound to offer the same low price next week when they are busy with other orders.
The technology is based on a series of patents that the U.S. Patent Office awarded to e-LYNXX Corporation, including Patent No. 6,397,197, Patent No. 7,451,106, post-Bilski Patent No. 7,788,143, and Continuing Application 12/8885,423 (collectively, the “AVS Technology”). This thicket of patents covers all custom goods and services, not just print.
Licensing AVS Technology should be viewed as both a strategic benefit and a legal requirement. Any organization with a computer-operated system that procures custom goods and services, by following the steps outlined in AVS Technology, is required to obtain a license to use (or continue using) the patented procedure protected by AVS Technology. This applies to systems that are developed internally as well as those used through third-party brokers, procurement services and system providers. Organizations should check with their system or service providers to ensure that the system being used is in compliance with AVS Technology licensing requirements.
About e-LYNXX Corporation
e-LYNXX Corporation patented the technology integral to e-commerce. Endorsed by Educational & Institutional Cooperative Purchasing (E&I) and Printing Industries of America (PIA), e-LYNXX drives results through its three divisions. AVS TechnologyTM licenses the patented* automated vendor selection procedure used in e-commerce and procurement systems. American Print Management provides web-based system, services and patented AVS TechnologyTM to reduce substantially the procured costs of direct mail, marketing, publications, packaging, labels and other procured print. Government Print Management offers effective U.S. GPO bid services and strategies. www.e-LYNXX.com 888-876-5432
Microscopes have come an unbelievably long way since they were first developed in the late 16th century. While Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is often credited with being the creator of the first microscope, it was actually one of two optics pioneers who is the real father of the instrument: Zacharias Jansen or Hans Lippershey. Of the three, it is Lippershey who is most widely considered to be its inventor, an idea which is especially credible given that he was also the designer of the first modern-style telescope. Leeuwenhoek would not be born for nearly half a century after the earliest models were first built.
The microscopes of van Leeuwenhoek’s invention provided at best 275 x magnification. For its time it was truly impressive and broke new ground, enabling a host of scientific discoveries and advancing scientific knowledge and medicine in almost every way imaginable. Today of course, even many inexpensive of microscopes are capable of much higher levels of magnification and a variety of new microscopy technologies are available to allow scientists, physicians and researchers to get a close up look at the invisible world around us.
Optics have increased in sophistication by orders of magnitude in the last four centuries, with the lenses being used in microscopes being immeasurably improved and more powerful with every passing year. It’s not only in the design of the lenses used that microscopy has advanced – there are an array of new technologies behind the magnification power of the modern laboratory microscope.
Over the long history of these instruments, we have seen them advance to having a single objective to multiple objectives, the addition of adjustable viewing stages, improved focus mechanisms and the development of the stereomicroscope (actually two microscopes which focus on a single point rather than being one microscope with two lenses).
Microscope illumination has advanced by leaps and bounds along the way. From the earliest days of microscopy when illumination would have meant sunlight or perhaps candles, we have progressed to an age where we have not just high power microscope lenses with magnification power of up to 1000x, but illumination to light the slide from below (known as bright field microscopy) and illumination technologies which exclude scattered light to allow the observer a view of the specimen on the slide and nothing else (a method called dark field microscopy which is also used in non-optical microscopy).
Not only have optical microscopes made progress which would be unimaginable to Hans Lippershey, but there are now microscopy technologies which do not rely on optics and provide us with an incredibly powerful tool for looking deep within the natural world. Electron microscopy has been able to show us the microscopic world in greater detail and at magnifications which go beyond anything van Leeuwenhoek would have dreamed; as high as 1,000,000,000x by using a carefully directed electron particle beam to produce high resolution images.
From the lenses used in modern high power microscopes to stereomicroscopy, advances in microscope illumination and electron microscopy and other non-optical instruments, the history of the microscope has been one stunning advance after another. With each improvement comes new insight and revelations about the world around us. In an uncertain world, one thing that can be counted on is that these instruments will continue to progress and amaze us with the discoveries they facilitate.