From Philadelphia, New York, and Virginia things are pretty bleak if you want to work for anything more than $8/hour.
I've had companies tell me to my face that they aren't looking from someone with such "Senior" qualifications as mine. Read that they found a kid out of school who doesn't have a family to support and will work for circus peanuts and a pat on the head.
Keep in mind, I'm 29, and if that qualifies me for being an old-timer in industry I can't imagine what a 45 year old must be going through. I know of more than one former Engineer who is driving a bus right now to make ends meet. Of the 45 year old variety, mind you.
In Pennsultucky, er, Pennsylvania we have PENNDOT. Or simply DOT (Department of Transportation.) They also handle road maintenance and highway construction, so we get to blame them for more lines and delays than the one to get your license.
I was going to say something snide, until I thought of the bone-yard in my basement of discarded RAM chips, Mobos, and processors.
Fortunately they don't sit around. My computer's previous mobo, processor, and ram power my webserver in the basement, and the board, processor, and ram before that is running my Mom's home computer.
Trickle-down technology at it's finest. Or why I always buy white-box.
Of course you run a slippery slope by blaming things on extra dimensions. You end up with turtles standing on top of the backs of other turtles, with no idea what the bottom turtle is standing on. Assuming there IS a bottom turtle. At least that's my complaint with String theory.
This anti-DeSitter space theorum is intreguing. But, like most cosmology theories, the question is whether you can test it. I agree with you, GR is a bit overhyped, and it's study is often done at the neglect of alternate theories.
As far as Black hole pooh-poohing Holographic theory, we really don't have much more proof the black holes exist than we do of the Sasquatch. A series of highly-doctored fuzzy photographs. Indeed, at least from the Yeti we have a few eyewitnesses and some tracks.
Yes, we have seen evidence of super-dense areas of mass space. Yes, they produce massive bursts of x-ray energy in accordance from some theories, and they can be seen sucking matter from nearby stars. But (and I know I sound like a spook for saying this) that's the extent of our experience with a black hole.
Well when I drop my keyboard it still goes "crash" on the floor. Maybe it's some incan monkey god that pulls everything toward the center of large masses.
I prefer the holographic theory of the Universe, namely that what we observe as the universe is not really there. It is an interference pattern of several underlying signals.
Ever wonder why coastlines and clouds are easily modeled with fractals?
Every macintosh must have a ritual reformatting. That goes all the way back to my 7100. The first thing I did was re-format it. Why? I don't know. It felt good.
In fact, Mac's need a holy infusion from the restore CD regularly. It banishes the unclean cruft.
In A.D. 2101 War was beginning. Captain: What happen ? Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb. Operator: We get signal. Captain: What ! Operator: Main screen turn on. Captain: It's You !! Cats: How are you gentlemen !! Cats: All your base are belong to us. Cats: You are on the way to destruction. Captain: What you say !! Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time. Cats: HA HA HA HA.... Captain: Take off every 'zig' !! Captain: You know what you doing. Captain: Move 'zig'. Captain: For great justice.
In a hilarious twist, I learned the hard way that most external drives are formatted in Fat 32. My backup tarballs were all truncated at 4GB.
Fortunately the data I needed out of them was in the first 4 gig. Needless to say the puppy is now formatted with XFS. (Gee, why would I want to store really big files on a 250GB external drive?)
A much better example would be the classic Alfred Hitchcock: To Catch A Thief.
In the movie Cary Grant plays the role of a former cat burglar, who the police implicate in a series of new robberies. He ends up using his cat burglar skills to catch the real culprit.
Aside from being a classic, the movie is also notable for being Grace Kelly's last movie.
You think he's got it hard enough with every foaming-at-mouth linux zealot tracing his every step (and writing article about it *cough*), and giving knee-jerk reactions... now the government is paying extra close attention to him. You think he'd pay a stock-broker enough to handle informing the government of his purchases...
You know, the megarich tend to be tightwads about the sort of thing.
No. It's not geosyncronous. Its skimming the top of the atmosphere, and requires regular nudges to keep it there. (Usually done by the Shuttle or Progress supply craft.) It is there because of limitations in performance of the space shuttle. The Soyuz capsules can go much higher, and did, for Mir.
Geosyncronous orbit is 22,500 miles. The ISS and space shuttle orbit at around 200 miles. That is why the ISS can be seen from the ground.
The hubble is more or less parked in it's orbit because it doesn't have much in the way of thrusters. So, if lack of fuel and engine power constitutes a reason, there you have it.
They DID design the hubble to be repaired. By the space shuttle, no less.
Remember, back in the 1970's when it was designed there was this "Really Great" new technology called the "Space Shuttle" that was supposed to make the cost of getting things into orbit downright cheap. With 100 launches a year, completely reusable, and safe!
The dimensions of the cargo bay on the shuttle were more or less dictated by the hubble.
I was in the middle of building a new Gentoo box when this thread got started...
"New" as in a reformat and repurposing of a venerable rack-mount. My email server moved to a new box and this one is becoming a firewall. All of my production machines are running Gentoo.
Yes it's crazy. But I k#0\/\/ w#@t 1m d01#% +0 C##p fr0# 831n% 0wnd.
I've never quite understood IT spending. Here you have 4 counties that spent $40,000,000 collectively on a voting system. For that money you could hire several developers to custom design a system to your specifications, a small factory to produce your system to order, and a small goverment agency to keep the system running over time.
I see more people blow hundreds of thousands of dollars sourcing things out, or trying to shoehorn COTS (or supposedly COTS) hardware and software to solve and esoteric problem.
The Philadelphia area has a pretty neat take on electronic voting. They replicated the functions of the old mechanical voting machines, using LED's and pushbuttons to replace the levers.
While they are smaller and a good deal more attractive than the old gray bohemeths, when you step inside the controls are laid out in the same way voters for the last 50 years have been accustomed to.
The names and ballot questions are printed out on a poster-sized sheet of paper, which slips over the lights and buttons. When you are done voting you hit a giant green button "VOTE" that is in the same place as the old handle.
Simple. Elegant. Fool-Resistant. It's all solid state. No software to tangle with.
There is a catch. No matter how badly, a tax assistant can only cost you money. (Alright, if truely fraudulant, perhaps jail time.)
With health care, the military, utilities, and voting you are talking about more than money. If I'm die because someone was cutting corners, I'm still dead if they try to give me a refund. Rome found out the hard way what happens when you rely on contractors for the defense of your homeland. Utilities are a natural monopoly, and must be regulated as such. Attempts to de-regulate them have not worked. Voting is an intangible right.
Priceless does not mean "Really high price tag." It means something that money cannot replace.
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I've had companies tell me to my face that they aren't looking from someone with such "Senior" qualifications as mine. Read that they found a kid out of school who doesn't have a family to support and will work for circus peanuts and a pat on the head.
Keep in mind, I'm 29, and if that qualifies me for being an old-timer in industry I can't imagine what a 45 year old must be going through. I know of more than one former Engineer who is driving a bus right now to make ends meet. Of the 45 year old variety, mind you.
In Pennsultucky, er, Pennsylvania we have PENNDOT. Or simply DOT (Department of Transportation.) They also handle road maintenance and highway construction, so we get to blame them for more lines and delays than the one to get your license.
Fortunately they don't sit around. My computer's previous mobo, processor, and ram power my webserver in the basement, and the board, processor, and ram before that is running my Mom's home computer.
Trickle-down technology at it's finest. Or why I always buy white-box.
This anti-DeSitter space theorum is intreguing. But, like most cosmology theories, the question is whether you can test it. I agree with you, GR is a bit overhyped, and it's study is often done at the neglect of alternate theories.
As far as Black hole pooh-poohing Holographic theory, we really don't have much more proof the black holes exist than we do of the Sasquatch. A series of highly-doctored fuzzy photographs. Indeed, at least from the Yeti we have a few eyewitnesses and some tracks.
Yes, we have seen evidence of super-dense areas of mass space. Yes, they produce massive bursts of x-ray energy in accordance from some theories, and they can be seen sucking matter from nearby stars. But (and I know I sound like a spook for saying this) that's the extent of our experience with a black hole.
What do you exect from a field dominated by researchers.
Well when I drop my keyboard it still goes "crash" on the floor. Maybe it's some incan monkey god that pulls everything toward the center of large masses.
Ever wonder why coastlines and clouds are easily modeled with fractals?
Every macintosh must have a ritual reformatting. That goes all the way back to my 7100. The first thing I did was re-format it. Why? I don't know. It felt good.
In fact, Mac's need a holy infusion from the restore CD regularly. It banishes the unclean cruft.
That would be because they aren't equipped with ARMS you insensitive CLOD!
Fortunately the data I needed out of them was in the first 4 gig. Needless to say the puppy is now formatted with XFS. (Gee, why would I want to store really big files on a 250GB external drive?)
It's like Philadelphia on Fark. Either we just are a festering kettle of really weird news, or we just market it well.
Mmmmm. ssh terminal on my wrist. mmmmm..
In the movie Cary Grant plays the role of a former cat burglar, who the police implicate in a series of new robberies. He ends up using his cat burglar skills to catch the real culprit.
Aside from being a classic, the movie is also notable for being Grace Kelly's last movie.
You know, the megarich tend to be tightwads about the sort of thing.
Kind of makes it sound like he's a sex offender.
(Proceeding to NOT go there.)
Geosyncronous orbit is 22,500 miles. The ISS and space shuttle orbit at around 200 miles. That is why the ISS can be seen from the ground.
The hubble is more or less parked in it's orbit because it doesn't have much in the way of thrusters. So, if lack of fuel and engine power constitutes a reason, there you have it.
Remember, back in the 1970's when it was designed there was this "Really Great" new technology called the "Space Shuttle" that was supposed to make the cost of getting things into orbit downright cheap. With 100 launches a year, completely reusable, and safe!
The dimensions of the cargo bay on the shuttle were more or less dictated by the hubble.
"New" as in a reformat and repurposing of a venerable rack-mount. My email server moved to a new box and this one is becoming a firewall. All of my production machines are running Gentoo.
Yes it's crazy. But I k#0\/\/ w#@t 1m d01#% +0 C##p fr0# 831n% 0wnd.
Carthage^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCapitalists must die.
All you need to correct this situation are a few ton of pencils and a contract with a high-volume printing company.
The $40,000,000 spent on electronic voting is far more than it would have cost to hand-count every vote in that state for the next 10 years.
I see more people blow hundreds of thousands of dollars sourcing things out, or trying to shoehorn COTS (or supposedly COTS) hardware and software to solve and esoteric problem.
While they are smaller and a good deal more attractive than the old gray bohemeths, when you step inside the controls are laid out in the same way voters for the last 50 years have been accustomed to.
The names and ballot questions are printed out on a poster-sized sheet of paper, which slips over the lights and buttons. When you are done voting you hit a giant green button "VOTE" that is in the same place as the old handle.
Simple. Elegant. Fool-Resistant. It's all solid state. No software to tangle with.
Um no. A better contract would be if x% of the population can't vote, the management at Diebold spends the next x% of their life in prison.
With health care, the military, utilities, and voting you are talking about more than money. If I'm die because someone was cutting corners, I'm still dead if they try to give me a refund. Rome found out the hard way what happens when you rely on contractors for the defense of your homeland. Utilities are a natural monopoly, and must be regulated as such. Attempts to de-regulate them have not worked. Voting is an intangible right.
Priceless does not mean "Really high price tag." It means something that money cannot replace.