Appearance on "The Alyona Show" regarding Obama's strategic "pivot" to Asia
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 12:01AM Driven by my WPR column. Did it Tuesday night.
Worrisome to me in the new house: the upload speed on my cable connection was problematic here, as you'll see in the resulting video via Skype.
I would greatly welcome any ideas on how to improve.
Talking to my AV guy, he said make sure everybody in the house (2 other laptops and 2 desktops) were off the web. That I didn't do. He said also to shut down everything on my MacBook Pro, go wired to the modem and turn off my wifi.
Speed testing the wifi just now, I'm 24 mps down and 4 up, so there shouldn't have been a problem. But honestly, there could have been 30 web windows open among the 4 other machines, and I didn't exactly clean up my laptop prior.
NEXT TIME: I'll go wired in the living room that doubles as my video production center and I'll have a Wikistrat pattern behind me and I'll be lit from both sides (with screen forming third point). I'll also take all the steps Greg, my AV guy, outlined.
But again, any other ideas welcomed.
Reader Comments (9)
You should probably change your service from an asymmetric residential to symmetric style business line. The ISPs have a long tradition of overloading the residential lines and "cheating" in ways that they don't dare do to business lines. Yes, it's a little more money. It's worth it. You also get an upgrade in time to respond when your line goes down and the technicians are more experienced and have more training too so the front line guys can do more before punting your problem to level 2 (which always adds to down time).
HI Dr. Barnett...so to her last question....WILL our financial situation with the Chinese be the saving grace? You have often said that politics lags far behind business as a prime mover of events. Do you project that the international Business Community will have any say as to what direction these particular strategies take?
Tom
Not to nit pick here, but the portrait of Presiden Kennedy has way too much glare.
You absolutely want to hook up to a wired connection and *disable* WiFi
Even though you can clock well on WiFi, the connection can fluctuate, especially if you're not in the same room as your access point. Even a little hiccup can cause video compression software to throttle down to a lower quality.
If you're getting 25 and 5 wireless, you'll be fine on a wired connection.
If you don't disable WiFi after you wire up, sometimes the computer will default to WiFi for no good reason. Especially Windows computers, but Macs are not immune either.
All good ideas. Also upped my service on Internet to 30 down and 6 six, requiring I buy a DOCSIS 3.0 router to replace my rented 2.0 version.
Steven, there were many things wrong with that set up. Kids all over the living room, so at last second I ran into son's bedroom for the filming because it was close enough for long wired cord to work. I just barely pulled down the signed Spock and Data portraits in the background and let JFK stand, realizing the glare would be horrendous, but I simply ran out of time.
Already practiced new set up in front of my giant filming screen with Wikistrat logos lined up in background.
Next time . . .
You might consider experimenting with some mini-spot lights to deal with facial shadows thrown by your overhead lighting.
My full set-up, unused here, includes construction lights on stands, with barn doors (of my making) and defused with baking paper. You two-point to achieve an even face, and then rely on the projection backlight for outline.
I am learning about lights via web videos on cheap filming.
I believe the substance has gotten lost in the welcome technical insight. China is a huge energy consumer and only going to be a larger consumer as the middle class grows. The growth of the middle class will create a vacancy that will be filled by the very poor. They will create the need for even more energy.
Won't we find in the near future that the USA has more inline with the China than it does as it's opponent?
Of course before that can happen we, the USA, have to begin to accept that China is a world power and needs to be treated as such. We must reach the same conclusion: China is better as an ally than an opposing power.
What needs to happen in DC to allow this shift in long term China alliance? Must it be done behind closed doors and gradually opened to the electorate or ?
As I said before: I cannot see a "New Cold War" with China by Obama´s rebalancing strategy for East Asia. Even the opposite: If it is clear that the USA will protect other Asian countries and their interests against China, China will be forced to accept this and this could be the basis for new negotations for sinoamerican cooperation world wide.When China has no incentive to expand in East Asia and runs the risk to confront the USA in East Asia, it will calculate that a cooperation might be the better way . I wouldn´t be so pessimistic.That Ma Yingjiu was reelected in Taiwan and that the sino-Japanese relations become better (currency swap agreement) are signs of an easening of tensions which the USA should use for better sinoamerican cooperation.