What? Ayn Rand could be wrong? The shock and horror of it!
Seriously though the question is difficult to answer on anything more than a philosophical level. It is a bit vague to quantify and would need to be rephrased to be practically measurable.. Maybe I should put my beer down and go read TFA....
This. Now that's something I'd watch. Though I tend to dislike all these crass americanisms you americans are so fond of, an "Emmett Brown" Doctor would full on rock!
OK, I'll feed the troll: The paid for TV service where I live broadcasts top gear pretty much as a day after the BBC in the UK. I happen to on occasion pirate it because I can get it about a day sooner and watch it on my laptop which travels with me instead of my paid for satellite TV service. Now, I've paid for the damn thing, and I'm watching the damn thing. Am I cheap or lazy? Or perhaps I just want a service (and am willing to pay for) that the idiot networks aren't willing to provide? Perhaps it isn't quite as arbitrarily clear cut as you seem to think?
Seconded. I have written low level drivers in C#, and they keep up with the hardware just fine on old (Core 2 laptop processors are now old?!) machines, with numerous devices. In fact, the SQL throughput in.NET is pretty impressive. Admittedly, I miss pointer arithmetic, and the ability to read a byte array as (for example) an int32, but I don't miss the inevitable chaos that ensues from that... All in all, I think a good move for the software apart from the fact that I doubt it will be portable to mono...:/
Formal analysis is always helpful, and worth doing to build your intuition. It is well worth spending some time on that. A deeper understanding of how and why components behave as they do, is very useful. Simple things people often seem to forget (for example, the Emitter -Base of a PNP transistor is essentially a diode) or don't realise make all the difference. Sure it seems obvious, but only if you understand what a transistor is, and how it is constructed. Like anything you learn, it is worth digging deeper into the underlying physics of why the components do what they do. The math with help you there a lot. Also semiconductor design is helpful to an extent.
As an engineer, my intuition is almost always visual, so I don't know how else it could be. I see a voltage level at most junctions in a circuit and current flowing in and out of it. Frequency more resembles (to me anyway) current then voltage, although it isn't quite the same. That's just my way of internalizing things though, and there may well be others. The nature of the problem doesn't lend itself to a purely numerical approach though - the magnatude of, say current is possibly a touch less important than where it is going and what it will cause to happen elsewhere. What is it biasing? Is that transistor now on? Off? Partially on? A voltage casuses a current, and a current causes a voltage accross a resistance. You need to be able to switch between the two and keep in mind what the other was doing.. Hard without "seeing" for me at least. When you get any information out of a circuit it is always visual anyway - a trace on a CRO or a voltage on a meter (OK, I did start with analogue meters...)
I use CircuitMaker a lot, but I later found a silly little program called Crocodile Clips very helpful when trying to teach people, as it instantly shows the currents and voltages (though it is all but useless for frequencies, or complex waveforms and has a very limited component selection). I have not used crocclips since I quit teaching this stuff... It may have improved, and is probably worth a look. Once you have simulated something, it is normally worth building too. There are other tricks simulators can't teach...
To understand circuits "intuitively", you need to train yourself to visualize both the voltage, currents and frequencies at any point in the circuit simultaneously. When you can look at a diagram of a filter and "see" the waveform or frequency comming out, then it is intuitive. It sort of comes with experience. And you start to recognise patterns which simplifies things. It is a lot like learning to read, or program a computer, just more complex in that something further "down" the circuit can have an effect on something further "up".
The trick with most oscilators is to realise that noise starts them. In a perfect world, they'd need a kick to get going. Most things are tried because, like with any engineering, when all the components are understood, all it takes is a bit of intelligence to combine them into useful modules.
No... The banks lasted quite a while, but that is one of the reasons they kept taking zeros (23 in total) off the end of the currency. My dad has ZW$600 Trillion in a bank account (=US$50), and his statement reads Z$600. Nobody cares about anything below a trillion, so why store the digits? This is different however. Theoretically 1 US$ still has value...
Incidentally, while my dad has 600 Trillion (+23 zeros if you want to get to the original range), he can not access the money. I suspect the gentleman in question has the same problem.
To be honest, I have no idea what is eating that memory. But it is not my responsibility to convince an AC of my truthfullness. For reference it is Visual Studio 2010 with about 20 000 lines of code.
I haven't used eclipse, but I have found Visual Studio to be a memory hog. Sure, the code completion works instantly(and well), but on occasion I have found myself stepping over the code and then between two simple lines waiting some seconds while the disk thrashes a bit. To be fair, I only have 4Gb of memory and normally at least one VM running, but still... 1Gb for windows 7, 1 for the VM, and 2 for Visual Studio? Apparently not enough....
What is it about CS that seems to totally disconnect people from reality? The only good CS person I ever ran into implemented low level serial protocols for a living. But he was old-school. I maintain his massive C++ code base, and the only reason I'm chucking it out is that it is 32 bit, relies heavily on a broken 3rd party library, and had so many features tacked on that weren't intended to be there. Not his fault really. There was no functional spec for what he did. Everyone else seems to love spaghetti code, global variables and variables named "done" or "M34_I" without any context.
Full disclosure: You might be surprised to learn I am a christian, and therefore by your definition insane.:P
I'm fine with that, and it is somewhat off-topic - I am not here to push my beliefs. I do believe (and I will push this one) that context is very important whichever side of the fence you fall upon, and that there are a lot of really weird up people out there pushing christianity, who quite frankly should be locked up in a padded room. Thanks for that link - depressing as it is. People everywhere are sadly quite willing to believe without thought or question. Possibly because it is easier. I will say this about atheists - with one or two exceptions - they appear to be quite sane and rational. Even generally more polite than their religious counterparts. In light of that, I suppose the results are hardly surprising.
I contest there is a choice, but it might require him to leave the relative safety of the country he is in. There is work in your field of choice if you broaden your horizons a touch...
The big money is often in the high current stuff... Large mining operations and the like. Electronics, not so much. Why design a controller when the off-the-shelf one just works? Someone somewhere is making lots of money designing those, but it all depends where you are, I suppose...
Take a hit for the experience and ditch the states for the 3rd world. If you're any good you'll do well. Just careful be sure to get a job before you leave, as it can help with VISA applications and work permits. South Africa is very attractive for engineering right now, especially on the mines, but we also have this "Broad Based Black Empowerment" thing that screws you over if you're not black.
I would ask for a citation on that survey, but in my experience, you are probably correct, so I'll just use it as a nebulous data point to confirm my own biases and prejudices...:P
And yes, sadly, a large proportion of the people providing these explanations are less than honest - or to be quite frank, less than sane.
Extra rules is the exact opposite of what comes from studying (the new testament at least) in context. When you start to realise the amazingly basic concept that for example, while we have Paul's letters to Timothy, we do not have Timothy's letters to Paul, therefore to take those as standalone instructions and 'rules' is just missing the point. And that is just literary context, not cultural. Cultural changes things even more. Christian history is filled with misunderstandings and people taking things way out of context, not just the catholics, but the modern tele-evangelist as well.
Guidance is a different concept from the rigid "that is the way things are and if you don't like it you're gonna burn!" Guidance is more like "Why don't you explore this avenue of inquiry?" The gospel is a fairly simple concept, but doctrine is not, and doctrine defines your view of God and therefore view of the world. Doctrine is both highly complex and controversial. I would certainly not encourage anyone to take anyone else's word on these matters without examining them as deeply as they are able, but if you are not a expert on the culture of 0BC Jerusalem, there is no harm in consulting one. As a result, one might say, GGGP is incorrect - the reason we need to explain the bible is that we lack the context to take it as it was written to be taken. Sadly your average person either lacks the motivation or the resources to do so for themselves. Thus they consult experts. Not all so called experts are scrupulous, and there is a lot of misinformation going around.
Uh.. It isn't quite like that. The reason the bible needs explanation is quite simple and obvious, though christians and non christians alike miss this completely. It was written in a different context to the modern world. In order to understand the intent of the author, a scholar is required to have at least a partial understanding of the social, political and historic context of the work, not to mention the cultural and belief systems of the time. Paul of Tarsus did exactly the same thing, explaining/adapting the Jewish worldview to non-jewish christians.
Literal interpretations tend to thoroughly ignore the context above, and therefore miss the intent of the authors. Whether you believe religion is a relic of the past or not, you need to understand it's context to understand it. And that requires plenty of explanation to your average person.
ZFS appears to have a performance advantage under BSD. Or am I out of date again? In any case, I use BSD as a cheap NAS for precisely this reason. It can saturate gigabit ethernet on a cheap slow system.
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What? Ayn Rand could be wrong? The shock and horror of it!
Seriously though the question is difficult to answer on anything more than a philosophical level. It is a bit vague to quantify and would need to be rephrased to be practically measurable.. Maybe I should put my beer down and go read TFA....
This. Now that's something I'd watch. Though I tend to dislike all these crass americanisms you americans are so fond of, an "Emmett Brown" Doctor would full on rock!
OK, I'll feed the troll: The paid for TV service where I live broadcasts top gear pretty much as a day after the BBC in the UK. I happen to on occasion pirate it because I can get it about a day sooner and watch it on my laptop which travels with me instead of my paid for satellite TV service. Now, I've paid for the damn thing, and I'm watching the damn thing. Am I cheap or lazy? Or perhaps I just want a service (and am willing to pay for) that the idiot networks aren't willing to provide? Perhaps it isn't quite as arbitrarily clear cut as you seem to think?
Seconded. I have written low level drivers in C#, and they keep up with the hardware just fine on old (Core 2 laptop processors are now old?!) machines, with numerous devices. In fact, the SQL throughput in .NET is pretty impressive. Admittedly, I miss pointer arithmetic, and the ability to read a byte array as (for example) an int32, but I don't miss the inevitable chaos that ensues from that... All in all, I think a good move for the software apart from the fact that I doubt it will be portable to mono... :/
Formal analysis is always helpful, and worth doing to build your intuition. It is well worth spending some time on that. A deeper understanding of how and why components behave as they do, is very useful. Simple things people often seem to forget (for example, the Emitter -Base of a PNP transistor is essentially a diode) or don't realise make all the difference. Sure it seems obvious, but only if you understand what a transistor is, and how it is constructed. Like anything you learn, it is worth digging deeper into the underlying physics of why the components do what they do. The math with help you there a lot. Also semiconductor design is helpful to an extent.
As an engineer, my intuition is almost always visual, so I don't know how else it could be. I see a voltage level at most junctions in a circuit and current flowing in and out of it. Frequency more resembles (to me anyway) current then voltage, although it isn't quite the same. That's just my way of internalizing things though, and there may well be others. The nature of the problem doesn't lend itself to a purely numerical approach though - the magnatude of, say current is possibly a touch less important than where it is going and what it will cause to happen elsewhere. What is it biasing? Is that transistor now on? Off? Partially on? A voltage casuses a current, and a current causes a voltage accross a resistance. You need to be able to switch between the two and keep in mind what the other was doing.. Hard without "seeing" for me at least. When you get any information out of a circuit it is always visual anyway - a trace on a CRO or a voltage on a meter (OK, I did start with analogue meters...)
I use CircuitMaker a lot, but I later found a silly little program called Crocodile Clips very helpful when trying to teach people, as it instantly shows the currents and voltages (though it is all but useless for frequencies, or complex waveforms and has a very limited component selection). I have not used crocclips since I quit teaching this stuff... It may have improved, and is probably worth a look. Once you have simulated something, it is normally worth building too. There are other tricks simulators can't teach...
Good luck!
To understand circuits "intuitively", you need to train yourself to visualize both the voltage, currents and frequencies at any point in the circuit simultaneously. When you can look at a diagram of a filter and "see" the waveform or frequency comming out, then it is intuitive. It sort of comes with experience. And you start to recognise patterns which simplifies things. It is a lot like learning to read, or program a computer, just more complex in that something further "down" the circuit can have an effect on something further "up".
The trick with most oscilators is to realise that noise starts them. In a perfect world, they'd need a kick to get going. Most things are tried because, like with any engineering, when all the components are understood, all it takes is a bit of intelligence to combine them into useful modules.
No... The banks lasted quite a while, but that is one of the reasons they kept taking zeros (23 in total) off the end of the currency. My dad has ZW$600 Trillion in a bank account (=US$50), and his statement reads Z$600. Nobody cares about anything below a trillion, so why store the digits? This is different however. Theoretically 1 US$ still has value...
Incidentally, while my dad has 600 Trillion (+23 zeros if you want to get to the original range), he can not access the money. I suspect the gentleman in question has the same problem.
To be honest, I have no idea what is eating that memory. But it is not my responsibility to convince an AC of my truthfullness. For reference it is Visual Studio 2010 with about 20 000 lines of code.
I haven't used eclipse, but I have found Visual Studio to be a memory hog. Sure, the code completion works instantly(and well), but on occasion I have found myself stepping over the code and then between two simple lines waiting some seconds while the disk thrashes a bit. To be fair, I only have 4Gb of memory and normally at least one VM running, but still... 1Gb for windows 7, 1 for the VM, and 2 for Visual Studio? Apparently not enough....
Not all "creationists" are young earthers. In fact doubt in that particular interpretation dates back to Augustine.
What is it about CS that seems to totally disconnect people from reality? The only good CS person I ever ran into implemented low level serial protocols for a living. But he was old-school. I maintain his massive C++ code base, and the only reason I'm chucking it out is that it is 32 bit, relies heavily on a broken 3rd party library, and had so many features tacked on that weren't intended to be there. Not his fault really. There was no functional spec for what he did. Everyone else seems to love spaghetti code, global variables and variables named "done" or "M34_I" without any context.
Full disclosure: You might be surprised to learn I am a christian, and therefore by your definition insane. :P
I'm fine with that, and it is somewhat off-topic - I am not here to push my beliefs. I do believe (and I will push this one) that context is very important whichever side of the fence you fall upon, and that there are a lot of really weird up people out there pushing christianity, who quite frankly should be locked up in a padded room. Thanks for that link - depressing as it is. People everywhere are sadly quite willing to believe without thought or question. Possibly because it is easier. I will say this about atheists - with one or two exceptions - they appear to be quite sane and rational. Even generally more polite than their religious counterparts. In light of that, I suppose the results are hardly surprising.
I contest there is a choice, but it might require him to leave the relative safety of the country he is in. There is work in your field of choice if you broaden your horizons a touch...
You'll often find EEs developing PLC code and control software. They tend to be better at it than any clown with a programming degree...
The big money is often in the high current stuff... Large mining operations and the like. Electronics, not so much. Why design a controller when the off-the-shelf one just works? Someone somewhere is making lots of money designing those, but it all depends where you are, I suppose...
One must also pay one's bills.
Take a hit for the experience and ditch the states for the 3rd world. If you're any good you'll do well. Just careful be sure to get a job before you leave, as it can help with VISA applications and work permits. South Africa is very attractive for engineering right now, especially on the mines, but we also have this "Broad Based Black Empowerment" thing that screws you over if you're not black.
I would ask for a citation on that survey, but in my experience, you are probably correct, so I'll just use it as a nebulous data point to confirm my own biases and prejudices... :P
And yes, sadly, a large proportion of the people providing these explanations are less than honest - or to be quite frank, less than sane.
Extra rules is the exact opposite of what comes from studying (the new testament at least) in context. When you start to realise the amazingly basic concept that for example, while we have Paul's letters to Timothy, we do not have Timothy's letters to Paul, therefore to take those as standalone instructions and 'rules' is just missing the point. And that is just literary context, not cultural. Cultural changes things even more. Christian history is filled with misunderstandings and people taking things way out of context, not just the catholics, but the modern tele-evangelist as well.
Guidance is a different concept from the rigid "that is the way things are and if you don't like it you're gonna burn!" Guidance is more like "Why don't you explore this avenue of inquiry?" The gospel is a fairly simple concept, but doctrine is not, and doctrine defines your view of God and therefore view of the world. Doctrine is both highly complex and controversial. I would certainly not encourage anyone to take anyone else's word on these matters without examining them as deeply as they are able, but if you are not a expert on the culture of 0BC Jerusalem, there is no harm in consulting one. As a result, one might say, GGGP is incorrect - the reason we need to explain the bible is that we lack the context to take it as it was written to be taken. Sadly your average person either lacks the motivation or the resources to do so for themselves. Thus they consult experts. Not all so called experts are scrupulous, and there is a lot of misinformation going around.
Uh.. It isn't quite like that. The reason the bible needs explanation is quite simple and obvious, though christians and non christians alike miss this completely. It was written in a different context to the modern world. In order to understand the intent of the author, a scholar is required to have at least a partial understanding of the social, political and historic context of the work, not to mention the cultural and belief systems of the time. Paul of Tarsus did exactly the same thing, explaining/adapting the Jewish worldview to non-jewish christians.
Literal interpretations tend to thoroughly ignore the context above, and therefore miss the intent of the authors. Whether you believe religion is a relic of the past or not, you need to understand it's context to understand it. And that requires plenty of explanation to your average person.
Because Emphasis.
Your fear is my job... It isn't so bad once you get used to the style of the author...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w9eoZtnJSA
Period.
ZFS appears to have a performance advantage under BSD. Or am I out of date again? In any case, I use BSD as a cheap NAS for precisely this reason. It can saturate gigabit ethernet on a cheap slow system.
Adjust the relative speeds of the contra-rotating blades...