GodMonster

It could also be for Amish people fantasizing about not being Amish.

"Imagine reading this on a kindle, its sleek lack of pages allowing the words to flow seamlessly from one to the next. There's no need to weather the tactile aversion of too-dry paper pages anymore. Imagine stepping into the future, leaving tradition behind for the glitz and glamour of a modern home with all of the amenities, and I do mean all of them. You could turn the lights on by uttering a simple command. Imagine a world with music, a world where you can express yourself, then imagine having all of that music at your beck and call. Alexa, play anything."

It's Amish people who like to fantasize about being Amish.

I would agree slightly with your friend. When I was offered my current job I already had several job offers on the table paying slightly more than what my job at the time was paying, one of which was at my top choice company in the region. I had interviewed for the job I had now and was impressed with the company but it was not the top contender, so when they came to me with a job offer I floated my ideal salary (within reason) to them.

My other job offers were between $48K and $52K per year so I requested $62K from this job. To my surprise, they responded with an acceptance of my salary requirements and a job offer, which is significantly higher than comparable jobs in my region. Because of this I've felt that there's much more attention paid to my work, many more projects fall to me than similarly employed colleagues, and when the time came for my annual review I feel I was judged much more critically than I would have been had I accepted a lower salary, resulting in only a COL adjustment and no performance based salary increase.

I've also put myself in the position that to move laterally in the job market would likely be a step back, financially, but to move forward in the job market requires me to slightly oversell my abilities and expertise. I'm constantly striving to learn more and improve my understanding of the processes and skill-sets required of my current and potential professions, but am also acutely aware of where the weaknesses in my abilities lie.

That video that you posted is awesome. I've been researching applications of GPUs to break down segments of sound via a real-time waterfall plot like that showed in order to optimize bandwidth over sound quality down to a certain threshold, while committing a stream at a stable high bit-rate to a local source for upload and synchronization after the fact in order to implement long range musical and audio collaborations with minimal perceived latency. I'm hoping to find a way to piggy-back sound processing on DirectX to process "blocks" of sound in parallel. It could also be a really interesting way to use local GPUs to process VSTs in real time similar to the way Pro Tools HD uses dedicated RTAS processors.

Edit: Maybe you can answer a question that I've had but haven't been able to find any published answers. What would you estimate is the minimum latency detectable by the average human ear? Does this number go down significantly for a classically trained musician, how about for a jazz musician well versed in improvisation?

Have you or your colleagues ever done any research on inducing synaesthesia as a way to either augment one type of sensory input or substitute such a sensory input in a subject who is impaired in one or more sense? If so, what would you say are some of the most promising results you've seen in that field.