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The volume and use of computers in the world are so great, they have become difficult to ignore anymore. Computers appear to us in so many ways that many times, we fail to see them as they actually are. People associated with a computer when they purchased their morning coffee at the vending machine. As they drove themselves to work, the traffic lights that so often hampered us are controlled by computers in an attempt to speed the journey. Accept it or not, the computer has invaded our life.
One of the first computers was called ENIAC. It was a huge, monstrous size nearly that of a standard railroad car. It contained electronic tubes, heavy gauge wiring, angle-iron, and knife switches just to name a few of the components. It has become difficult to believe that computers have evolved into suitcase sized micro-computers of the 1990’s.
Computers eventually evolved into less archaic looking devices near the end of the 1960’s. Their size had been reduced to that of a small automobile and they were processing segments of information at faster rates than older models. Most computers at this time were termed “mainframes” due to the fact that many computers were linked together to perform a given function. The primary user of these types of computers were military agencies and large corporations such as Bell, AT&T, General Electric, and Boeing. Organizations such as these had the funds to afford such technologies. However, operation of these computers required extensive intelligence and manpower resources. The average person could not have fathomed trying to operate and use these million dollar processors.
The United States was attributed the title of pioneering the computer. It was not until the early 1970’s that nations such as Japan and the United Kingdom started utilizing technology of their own for the development of the computer. This resulted in newer components and smaller sized computers. The use and operation of computers had developed into a form that people of average intelligence could handle and manipulate without to much ado. When the economies of other nations started to compete with the United States, the computer industry expanded at a great rate. Prices dropped dramatically and computers became more affordable to the average household.
Like the invention of the wheel, the computer is here to stay.The operation and use of computers in our present era of the 1990’s has become so easy and simple that perhaps we may have taken too much for granted. Almost everything of use in society requires some form of training or education. Many people say that the predecessor to the computer was the typewriter. The typewriter definitely required training and experience in order to operate it at a usable and efficient level. Children are being taught basic computer skills in the classroom in order to prepare them for the future evolution of the computer age.
The history of computers started out about 2000 years ago, at the birth of the abacus, a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung on them. When these beads are moved around, according to programming rules memorized by the user, all regular arithmetic problems can be done. Another important invention around the same time was the Astrolabe, used for navigation.
Blaise Pascal is usually credited for building the first digital computer in 1642. It added numbers entered with dials and was made to help his father, a tax collector. In 1671, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz invented a computer that was built in 1694. It could add, and, after changing some things around, multiply. Leibnitz invented a special stopped gear mechanism for introducing the addend digits, and this is still being used.
The prototypes made by Pascal and Leibnitz were not used in many places, and considered weird until a little more than a century later, when Thomas of Colmar (A.K.A. Charles Xavier Thomas) created the first successful mechanical calculator that could add, subtract, multiply, and divide. A lot of improved desktop calculators by many inventors followed, so that by about 1890, the range of improvements included: Accumulation of partial results, storage and automatic reentry of past results (A memory function), and printing of the results. Each of these required manual installation. These improvements were mainly made for commercial users, and not for the needs of science.
While Thomas of Colmar was developing the desktop calculator, a series of very interesting developments in computers was started in Cambridge, England, by Charles Babbage (of which the computer store “Babbages” is named), a mathematics professor. In 1812, Babbage realized that many long calculations, especially those needed to make mathematical tables, were really a series of predictable actions that were constantly repeated. From this he suspected that it should be possible to do these automatically. He began to design an automatic mechanical calculating machine, which he called a difference engine. By 1822, he had a working model to demonstrate. Financial help from the British Government was attained and Babbage started fabrication of a difference engine in 1823. It was intended to be steam powered and fully automatic, including the printing of the resulting tables, and commanded by a fixed instruction program.
The difference engine, although having limited adaptability and applicability, was really a great advance. Babbage continued to work on it for the next 10 years, but in 1833 he lost interest because he thought he had a better idea; the construction of what would now be called a general purpose, fully program-controlled, automatic mechanical digital computer. Babbage called this idea an Analytical Engine. The ideas of this design showed a lot of foresight, although this couldn’t be appreciated until a full century later.
The plans for this engine required an identical decimal computer operating on numbers of 50 decimal digits (or words) and having a storage capacity (memory) of 1,000 such digits. The built-in operations were supposed to include everything that a modern general – purpose computer would need, even the all important Conditional Control Transfer Capability that would allow commands to be executed in any order, not just the order in which they were programmed.
As people can see, it took quite a large amount of intelligence and fortitude to come to the 1990’s style and use of computers. People have assumed that computers are a natural development in society and take them for granted. Just as people have learned to drive an automobile, it also takes skill and learning to utilize a computer.
Computers in society have become difficult to understand. Exactly what they consisted of and what actions they performed were highly dependent upon the type of computer. To say a person had a typical computer doesn’t necessarily narrow down just what the capabilities of that computer was. Computer styles and types covered so many different functions and actions, that it was difficult to name them all. The original computers of the 1940’s were easy to define their purpose when they were first invented. They primarily performed mathematical functions many times faster than any person could have calculated. However, the evolution of the computer had created many styles and types that were greatly dependent on a well defined purpose.
Once you have your categories mapped out and set up on your hard drive, then it’s wise to start actually moving what you have into the new categories. Do this when you’re uninterrupted and not distracted.
And remember, this is just the way I do it, which believe it or not, is not the only way. Or, gulp, even the best way
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Tips on how to achieve success in network marketing
Netowrk marketing is one of those industries that thrive during a recession.It makes sense because people are in nedd of additonal cash to augment their income.Because of the economy we are in now people are having more money problems. Network marketing offers people a way to make some extra money while still keeping their current job. But what people don’t realize is that it is hard to succeed.Maybe the reason for this is because people do not have the know-how to be successful.
Here is one of the problems for people starting a network marketing business. The first thing they do when they start looking for network marketing opportunities is they look for a good product. Yes of course a good product is important. But a good product is not enough to make you successful. There is plenty of evidence of good products that have failed in MLM. That isn’t the secret.
Another thing they look for is the top network marketing companies.And that is another thing that people think of as their way to sucess but it is not.You may join the best network marketing company out there but it does not mean that you are going to be successful.It does not imply that the people who will be joining a company will be immediately successful just because the company is successful.The secret to achieving success in this industry is more individualized than as a unit.Sucess depends solely on the individual’s performance. Isn’t that how most businesses are. MLM is no different.
So what really is the key to success in this industry? The key is something called MLM prospecting.IT means that you need to recruit and bring in more people to your network.Because jif you join MLM industry but you can’t recruit other people then you will still fail.MLM is based on the concept of a product being sold and bought just like other businesses.But the only difference of network marketing is that the buying and selling part is also done by the distributors.And there is nothing wrong with that.But if you can’t recruit more people to join you then you won’t have the ability to move your products. And if you can’t move the products then there will be no money coming to you.People don’t realize it but it is as simple as that and that is their key to success in joining MLM industry.
You, A Voice Talent?
Hello Everybody!
As promised, here are 10 startup tips on how to make money as a voice talent:
- If you have a fairly new, decent computer, buy a USB mic, like a Samson C01U
- Learn how to record your voice
- Learn how to use the Sonar LE software that comes with the mic
- Practice reading different types of copy, or print that might be in a commercial, or just a script that wouldn’t be for broadcast (you could just write down and read a commercial you hear on TV or Radio)
- Learn how to put music or sound effects underneath your voice that fits with the script you are reading, which can be done fairly easily in Sonar LE
- If you aren’t ready to do the recording yourself, get a studio or someone you know to do it for you and put together a 3 minute demo showcasing the different styles you can do with your voice. In the end, you will most likely end up specializing in one or two voices that everybody likes. People like to pigeon-hole talent…he’s the announcer voice, he’s the country guy, etc.
- Go to www.voice123 and look around…you can sign up here and record demos for clients looking for your type voice. (a friend of mine makes a living doing just that…once you get a hand full of clients, you should get repeat business if you did a good job and your voice fits for their project.
- It’s easier to get work for training, websites, on-hold messages, and other jobs not for broadcast. Many times broadcast jobs are union, and are much higher budget, although landing a job like that is much more competitive, and probably pays more. These jobs you can get locally by calling on audio and video recording studios, advertising agencies, etc. I know a guy that made a living for years just reading scripts for a really large telephone on-hold company.
- This probably won’t happen over night, so just be patient. Get some feedback on your voice from people that are in the business if possible…if you are good, it wil eventually happen if you are persistant. One this is for sure, if you give up, it won’t happen! If you have any questions, please leave a post.
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Danny Jones
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Make Money As A Voice Talent? Why not?
It is possible to make money as a voice talent! Many people have a great speaking voice just naturally. Some can do character voices..that is, they can annimate their voice to sound like different, but believable character. I owned a professional recording studio for 20+ years, and saw many people work very little to make lots of money just standing in front of a microphone.
Here is one case that even amazed me… We had a friend renting space in our building to book bands. He had been a drummer/singer for years, so he did have some experience being in front of a microphone.
We were working with J Walter Thompson ad agency on some Ford radio and TV commercials at the time, and they needed a voice to put on a musical demo we had just recorded. We asked “Jim” if he would record a demo voice over so they could present the music to the dealer group, to which he replied, “sure, why not?”
To try making a long story short, the dealer group liked his natural, believable voice so much, that he was hired to be the voice talent for the whole campaign, which ran several months! It also had to be a union job, so he got paid scale, which was as much as other professional voice talents were making.
Jim would go to the mailbox everyday just to see how much money would come in the mail! He must have made about $25,000 over the next few months, for very little work. Not bad!
You could be the next discovery in the voice over business…you just never know.
Stay tuned and I’ll give you a few tips on how to get started…