It seems to me that lots of engineering focus is on the software side, and hooray that is great that we have experts in everything net related and that side of the problem for product development in Linux, Windows etc and their toolsets for software development, and a great community (sourceforge, freshmeat, etc.) Yet the missing part is key engineers understanding embedded systems or all else removed from operating system support. Even with FPGAs and a Linux core it is a wide open window between hardware design and the code. (opinion ) go with devices at the lowest level if you want to be a standout software guy, learn how to make them function in collaboration with the changing hardware guys. There are also highly sought after engineering skills at the hardware level:
A classic is Compaq, and their IBM Compatable computers. The engineering team reversed the IBM BIOS, all calls, and wrote a document defining their function. These engineers were now 'dirty' and could not write the BIOS, and that task was given to a second group, using only the specification.
The final fix, was IBM software applications peaked into the BIOS for the text string, 'COPYRIGHT IBM' to function, for authentication.
Compaq circumvented this with 'NONE OF THIS CODE IS COPYRIGHT IBM' in their ROM.
We don't survive as we are, and no other advanced life in the universe has either. That's why the phone is not ringing, SETI is failure by first principles.
Advancing makes us disappear in one of two ways, either thru the post's implied self destruction by playing with fire that we are incapable of controlling, or Vernor Vinge's Singularity where we simply become something else.
We had lost of internet well before 1990 - as a software development resource, not the web. Usenet was mentioned, and if you could grab sources mailorder and compile (Austin Code Works!) for PCPIP from CMU, ftp and gnu tools you could find a gateway somewhere dialup for your home PC-AT. You could also send off for tapes of archives of usenet, cant recall but those guys in Falls Church VA... we had PC unix too, Interactive was sysV. You could send off for tapes too to all the universities, I got TeX that way and X11 from MIT.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon on the freeway, loaded with mag tape.
...A fair number of the people in anonymous at this point might actually be government operatives posing as allied hackers...
It is engineering strategy to move those less capable into marketing and sales. i.e. (media gadfly's, to NSA, CIA, and political office). In the trenches we profit, with the increased security and research contracts, and job security that comes our way by this method.
All electric paths exist, there is no 'path of least resistance' Currents flow everywhere, through your rubber gloves hanging on HT power lines, make them minimal or isolate the ladder. Your hair will stand up.
Its not a binary thing, a decision point.
We have populated the 'path of least resistance' theme over the years, to make you aware of the potential current that you might find yourself in a situation.
Put one hand in your pocket was the original recommendation for us as we work with high voltage, so as not to cross your chest.
I have been on the hiring side, and the job seeker side many times.
I conclude on the job seeker side, just go with the flow, after you have been at it a bit you see the standard questions and puzzles. This tells the employer nothing, as these questions get around and the solutions are well known and on the net. When presented with these, I solve them for the free lunch, dinner, drinks job offer and trip; and then go, decide not to join, and for good reason.
The management speak troubles me more; after you have passed the puzzles, had the lunch with the engineering team and are now on with management for the afternoon and evening, I cringe at the rerun of catch phrases, that show no thinking whatsoever or original thought by leading mangagement, as to who I am and why I am here:
"Give me your 30 second elevator speech" "What is your worst failure, and what did you do about it?" "Describe your skillset, and convince me there is a match"
On the hiring side, I have been most successful to get the candidate to open up, and talk about projects and accomplishments. This lets me get into the past work history in a non confrontational way; ask for a story, let me pry into the technical issues with you and see your thought process for their resolution. This also gives me indications about the personality and style of the candidate.
We are going to work together, this is a marriage, we will probably spend more time together per week that with your wife. I need to know that you and I are compatible, and I have a short time to do it.
The current style does not support this idea, yet is far more important and successful than the puzzle interview.
Intel is 30% contract labor and looking to Beijing to outsource that also. It is shell of a company that has lost its way, and it is currently managed by a finance guy (Paul Otelini) as opposed to a technology guy (Gordon More, Andy Grove).
If Intel had mojo, it would invest in its American workforce, instead of the current practice of using 'green badge' contractors and recycling that flesh on a yearly basis.
Designing a PCB beyond run of the mill, low speed electronics can be reduced to CAD type etch a sketch artwork generation, however, you get beyond a few dozen parts and/or high pin count FPGAs and microprocessors the task of designing such a PCB is very involved and a specialized field.
One of the limiting factors is the software used in the design process, the schematic capture, library parts creation, and the layout editor itself and auto route technology. The software for this task can get very expensive quickly as you move up the chain; these can be $100K plus PC based applications, and only two companies do this, Mentor Graphics and Cadence (yes; there are half dozen minor players).
With a small market for this stuff, none of it works as advertized and it can take years to learn the systems and where the land mines are. The learning process itself is daunting, there are no books or college courses really, for high end PCB design and the use of the tools. The software itself has its roots back to the '80s with both companies, and it is obvious that much of it has not been dusted off and seen significant development in decades.
There is an open source project or two out there, but the real pros are just too busy cranking out designs to participate.
If I were a young computer science student, electronics and graphics guru I think this area is one I would look into; the big guys need some heat and we would all love to see a new player and startup in the high end PCB EDA market.
As far as PCB design as a career choice, look elsewhere, these jobs are now going offshore, like everything else in electronics in the USA, we are losing our edge.
But those Ruskies on MIR developed technology wayyyy beyond space station.
They had a still
and vodka.
Let us guess what else happened, months in isolation, with a couple of lonely drunk cossacks in zero geee.
Another Russian First.
Vinyl beats the pants off a CD.
90+ db dynamic range off a album, with good quality virgin vinyl, or a Classic RCA Red Seal disc.
You script kiddies can move along, and listen to your I tunes all you want, MP3 is never a candidate for true music lovers.
You cant compress a cymbal crash, there is no entropy to remove...
I want to know end user experience with data recovery services. I ignored that click click sound on my WD Caviar, and now I'm crying. What is the succes rate of these data recovery services, and the price range? Are there happy endings to disaster?
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Where is Major Kong!
It seems to me that lots of engineering focus is on the software side, and hooray that is great that we have experts in everything net related and that side of the problem for product development in Linux, Windows etc and their toolsets for software development, and a great community (sourceforge, freshmeat, etc.)
Yet the missing part is key engineers understanding embedded systems or all else removed from operating system support. Even with FPGAs and a Linux core
it is a wide open window between hardware design and the code.
(opinion ) go with devices at the lowest level if you want to be a standout software guy, learn how to make them function in collaboration with the changing hardware guys.
There are also highly sought after engineering skills at the hardware level:
RF
signal integrity
board design
analog
A classic is Compaq, and their IBM Compatable computers. The engineering team reversed the IBM BIOS, all calls, and wrote a document defining their function.
These engineers were now 'dirty' and could not write the BIOS, and that task was given to a second group, using only the specification.
The final fix, was IBM software applications peaked into the BIOS for the text string, 'COPYRIGHT IBM' to function, for authentication.
Compaq circumvented this with 'NONE OF THIS CODE IS COPYRIGHT IBM' in their ROM.
I request confirmation of this legend.
We don't survive as we are, and no other advanced life in the universe has either. That's why the phone is not ringing, SETI is failure by first principles.
Advancing makes us disappear in one of two ways, either thru the post's implied self destruction by playing with fire that we are incapable of controlling, or Vernor Vinge's Singularity where we simply become something else.
Lets look forward to joining the club!
What could possibly go wrong?
"For NASA, space is still a high priority." ...Governor George W.Bush, Jr., 9/5/93
We had lost of internet well before 1990 - as a software development resource, not the web. Usenet was mentioned, and if you could grab sources mailorder and compile (Austin Code Works!) for PCPIP from CMU, ftp and gnu tools you could find a gateway somewhere dialup for your home PC-AT.
You could also send off for tapes of archives of usenet, cant recall but those guys in Falls Church VA...
we had PC unix too, Interactive was sysV.
You could send off for tapes too to all the universities, I got TeX that way and X11 from MIT.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon on the freeway, loaded with mag tape.
...A fair number of the people in anonymous at this point might actually be government operatives posing as allied hackers...
It is engineering strategy to move those less capable into marketing and sales. i.e. (media gadfly's, to NSA, CIA, and political office).
In the trenches we profit, with the increased security and research contracts, and job security that comes our way by this method.
All electric paths exist, there is no 'path of least resistance'
Currents flow everywhere, through your rubber gloves hanging on HT power lines, make them minimal or isolate the ladder. Your hair will stand up.
Its not a binary thing, a decision point.
We have populated the 'path of least resistance' theme over the years, to make you aware of the potential current that you might find yourself in a situation.
Put one hand in your pocket was the original recommendation for us as we work with high voltage, so as not to cross your chest.
I have been on the hiring side, and the job seeker side many times.
I conclude on the job seeker side, just go with the flow, after you have been at it a bit you see the standard questions and puzzles. This tells the employer nothing, as these questions get around and the solutions are well known and on the net. When presented with these, I solve them for the free lunch, dinner, drinks job offer and trip; and then go, decide not to join, and for good reason.
The management speak troubles me more; after you have passed the puzzles, had the lunch with the engineering team and are now on with management for the afternoon and evening, I cringe at the rerun of catch phrases, that show no thinking whatsoever or original thought by leading mangagement, as to who I am and why I am here:
"Give me your 30 second elevator speech"
"What is your worst failure, and what did you do about it?"
"Describe your skillset, and convince me there is a match"
On the hiring side, I have been most successful to get the candidate to open up, and talk about projects and accomplishments. This lets me get into the past work history in a non confrontational way; ask for a story, let me pry into the technical issues with you and see your thought process for their resolution. This also gives me indications about the personality and style of the candidate.
We are going to work together, this is a marriage, we will probably spend more time together per week that with your wife. I need to know that you and I are compatible, and I have a short time to do it.
The current style does not support this idea, yet is far more important and successful than the puzzle interview.
He also contributed more to bad driving than just about anybody else.
The Ice shelves are not halving, they are calving
I cant wait to ride. I will be headed back to the Orchestra car to listen to Christmas music.
latest OS posted, Asteroid.
Intel is 30% contract labor and looking to Beijing to outsource that also. It is shell of a company that has lost its way, and it is currently managed by a finance guy (Paul Otelini) as opposed to a technology guy (Gordon More, Andy Grove). If Intel had mojo, it would invest in its American workforce, instead of the current practice of using 'green badge' contractors and recycling that flesh on a yearly basis.
Designing a PCB beyond run of the mill, low speed electronics can be reduced to CAD type etch a sketch artwork generation, however, you get beyond a few dozen parts and/or high pin count FPGAs and microprocessors the task of designing such a PCB is very involved and a specialized field. One of the limiting factors is the software used in the design process, the schematic capture, library parts creation, and the layout editor itself and auto route technology. The software for this task can get very expensive quickly as you move up the chain; these can be $100K plus PC based applications, and only two companies do this, Mentor Graphics and Cadence (yes; there are half dozen minor players). With a small market for this stuff, none of it works as advertized and it can take years to learn the systems and where the land mines are. The learning process itself is daunting, there are no books or college courses really, for high end PCB design and the use of the tools. The software itself has its roots back to the '80s with both companies, and it is obvious that much of it has not been dusted off and seen significant development in decades. There is an open source project or two out there, but the real pros are just too busy cranking out designs to participate. If I were a young computer science student, electronics and graphics guru I think this area is one I would look into; the big guys need some heat and we would all love to see a new player and startup in the high end PCB EDA market. As far as PCB design as a career choice, look elsewhere, these jobs are now going offshore, like everything else in electronics in the USA, we are losing our edge.
But those Ruskies on MIR developed technology wayyyy beyond space station. They had a still and vodka. Let us guess what else happened, months in isolation, with a couple of lonely drunk cossacks in zero geee. Another Russian First.
I thought we had this resolved, or coming close to it: http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/making-an-exact-difference/2007/06/14/1181414466901.html
My Mercedes ML500 increases the volume every time I drive under HT power lines....
Vinyl beats the pants off a CD. 90+ db dynamic range off a album, with good quality virgin vinyl, or a Classic RCA Red Seal disc. You script kiddies can move along, and listen to your I tunes all you want, MP3 is never a candidate for true music lovers. You cant compress a cymbal crash, there is no entropy to remove...
Those who pray on children are already institutionalized for life. We call em Priests.
Lemme guess, his sign says: Please Help, Will Build Constellation for Food
Its already being done. The black pixel is DED technology, Dark Emitting Diodes.
I want to know end user experience with data recovery services. I ignored that click click sound on my WD Caviar, and now I'm crying. What is the succes rate of these data recovery services, and the price range? Are there happy endings to disaster?
Ahhh... never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon rolling down the highway, loaded with mag tape.