The high employment rate in Electrical Engineers is mainly following the low employment rate for all the construction industries. Grads with a degree in the Electronic Engineering fields... even with no work experience will have no problem finding work, at least here in CA.
By "CA" you must mean Canada because in California, specifically the San Francisco Bay Area (including Silicon Valley) this is not remotely true. Engineerig jobs that don't require experience are nearly myth. Listings are few and require quite specific experience.
All those startups writing mobile apps and creating cloud based services need software engineers.
They don't need electrical engineers.
Needing electrical engineers implies building hardware. Investers don't like hardware. It takes too long. It cost too much.
That leaves only established companies for the hardware engineerr and they are more interested in the profitablity of existing markets then in creating new ones. Hense, not a lot of hiring.
Back in the '80's David Parnas argued that software verification was fundamentally different from hardware verification precisely because software has very nearly infinite bandwidth, which is precisely the opposite of the argument being made in the article.
That is, for hardware, a small change in some parameter will in almost all practical cases result in behaviour that is not wildly different from the behaviour with the original value. This means that we can test it under a finite set of conditions and smoothly extrapolate to the rest.
With software, a single bit flipped can result in behaviour that is arbitrarily different from the original behaviour. As such, nothing short of exhaustive testing over all possible accessible states can prove software correct.
More accurately, this is a distinction between stateless and stateful systems. Stateless machines always perform the same operations. They makes them much easier to test than stateful systems whose behavior depends on memory of prior events.
Software is always stateful although it can approach stateless behavior. Analog electronics and mechanical systems are generally stateless. Digital systems can be built either way but registers and memories are pretty fundamental so almost all modern digital chips are stateful even if they don't embed cpu's and software.
One of the issues that always comes up when talking about H-1B is that employers say they can't satisfy their needs with the talent already available. So, how about adding the requirement that any H-1B applications require the company post a "Help Wanted" ad in a national database for three months before the application is approved. Let's see why companies don't like citizen talent. Let's see how citizens can fill those jobs.
A requirement similar to this already exists. It is quire trivial to work around. All it takes is to write a list of requirements that exactly much the foreign person you want to hire (or retain) and virtually no one else in the world. Then you place the ad wherever it is least likely to be seen. A mid-week newspaper classified will do. For extra insurance, the only contact method should be a PO BOX.
General Terms: At participating locations. Domestic only. Credit approval, $35/line activation fee, and two-year contract with up to $200/line early cancellation fee required; deposit may apply. If you switch plans you may be bound by existing or extended term (including early cancellation provisions) and/or charged an up to $200 fee. You may be unable to switch to some plans.
Maybe it's just a glitch but I wouldn't bank on it.
For what it's worth: I'm a T-mobile customer. This new deal would cost me $5/month more than I pay now. It would get more but it's more than I don't actually use.
The second problem is actually the main problem, IMHO. It is not like this kind of lifting agent is going to leak out if the hull is damaged by bad weather, or expand uncontrollably if ship ascends too abruptly.
The hull is damaged, air might leak in and make the structure heavier. The is short of design makes airship rather similar to ships and submarines that move through water. In the event of damage the worry isn't that the contained material (air in the case of ships and submarines) will leak out. The problems is that the outside material (water in the case of ships/submarines, air in the case of a aerogel filled airships) will leak in.
It really had to hurt Intel to have to back down on clock speeds for once. They didn't do that again until NetBurst burst.
And they did it for the same reason. The 60Mhz Pentium was the end of the line for 5V CPU's. It suffered from overheating problems due to its exceptionally high power consumption. The P90, 486DX2 and later Pentiums were 3.3V.
It is also questionable the the P66 dethroned the 486DX2. The 50Mhz 486DX was widely believed to be faster than the 66Mhz 486DX2.
I find the word petrol is the easiest way of creating a strong distinction between gasoline (a word some Americans simply associate with fuel) and diesel for conversation purposes.
I find the term "petrol" confusing. If I didn't specifically know better I would guess that it referred to diesel rather than gasoline. That's because petrol is short for petroleum and diesel is much closer to crude petroleum than gasoline is. Fuel oil (even less refined) is also sometimes referred to as "diesel".
About the only case where "gas" gets confusing is in conversations that also deal with natural gas or propane. That's not common since natural gas is rarely used for transportation and gasoline is never (AFAIK) used for heating.
So the impact on traffic conditions is likely to be negligible. The best you can do is annoy those who do you Google Maps or Waze by guiding them into the traffic jams they are trying to avoid. But considering the unreliability and time variability of traffic reporting the victims probably won't even notice that they've been fooled.
Perhaps in a future of self-driving cars that always follow Internet sourced navigation this will be more important. I think there is for navigation vendors to tighten their security before much of anyone cares.
You don't have to run marathons or train for them to be healthier.
No, but it helps. Having actual goals that are not nauseatingly dull and that have a hard time limit go a long way toward keeping one motivated to keep going when one just doesn't want to.
Why would "missing patches" be of concern for a Unix machine?
Missing services patches can leave one vulnerable to being hacked. Fortunately, you don't need a reboot to install those. Security related kernel patches do happen and they do require a reboot. However, these are generally of the privilege escalation variety and require specially written code to exploit. If you don't have untrustworthy people logging in to your machine it isn't a major problem if you don't have all the kernel patches.
The key difference though is that Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 were testing the equipment that would land Apollo 11 on the moon. The Mars flyby seems to have been conceived as a one-off.
That is what TFA is really saying, not that America can not manufacture. That jives with my own experience. The US investment community is addicted to quick turn Internet services that can turn around in a matter of months. Startups that actually need to produce physical products are starving because investors don't want to put their money into projects that take millions of dollars and several years to break even.
What is interesting is that they are foreign investors willing to fund manufacturing. Some are even willing to manufacture in the US. So it is a US investor psychology problem not a global one.
So, why doesn't this apply to all civil lawsuits? This is how it works in many countries thus their courts aren't tied up as bad as ours (i.e. American). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loser_pays
Justice is imperfect. If the little guy who is in the right sues a big corporation and loses, he could be bankrupted by the big corporation's legal fees.
What kinds of devices have we been interacting with for centuries? That's what I'd like to know.
Steering wheels on ships go back three centuries. Steam trains go back almost two centuries Telephones, telegraphs, and typewriters go back more than a century.
Barnes & Noble was originally a New York bookstore, which Mr Riggio bought out the branding rights to in the 1970s, before building out a successful US-wide chain.
Keeping a giant money losing company going would seem to be hopeless. I would expect that Riggio would reduce B&N's presence to only a few stores that he is sure can survive. Essentially save the company he started by sacrificing the behemoth that it has become.
Even if they know the list is "compromised", what are they supposed to do about it? It's already out there. Do you expect them to go after the spammers?
I expect them to plug the hole.
A compromised system is not a one-shot embarrassment. If you don't plug the hole, whoever compromised the system the first time will keep coming back for more data or will expand the breach to other systems.
1) If it an external breach, I expect back doors to be closed, vulnerabilities patched, account passwords changed, etc. This won't likely happen overnight but simply knowing that there is a breach and what kind of a data is stolen is big help providing the admins get their heads out the sand and acknowledge that there is a problem.
2) If it an unauthorized inside job, I expect the perpetrator to eventually be found and fired for cause with at least the possibility of criminal prosecution.
3) If it is an authorized inside job, I want the practice stopped permanently and I hope to see whoever approved the policy removed.
Unfortunately, all these require work and significant risk. The easiest "solution" is to deny there is a problem and, if necessary,blame the person reporting the issue. The vast majority of people, completely ignorant on how spammers harvest address and completely dependent on services like Google to filter out the bad and not lose to much of the good are not the wiser.
The only solution I've found to be the most effective is sending these companies threatening letters.
It could just as likely be YOUR site that was compromised, and they found the address in something they sent to you, or some key logger in a coffee shop where you logged on.
Make sure you are outside of your pristine glass house before you start throwing stones.
This is incredibly easy to check. If it was local compromise, all addresses would be compromised, not just the one assigned to a particular company. Spam and viruses should be be pouring in to many many addresses. If it was just a single address assigned to a single company then you be pretty sure that it was their system compromised and not yours.
If you truly paid for your phone then it is perfectly legal to jailbreak it. If you have a subsidized phone that you only partially paid.
Not true. In exchange for the subsidy, you entered a legally binding contract that requires you to pay for service for a limited time period. The phone is yours. The state even requires you to pay sales tax on the unsubsidized price at the time of purchase. It is this contract that ties you to the carrier, typically for two years. The lock is completely unnecessary for ensuring that the carrier gets paid and only serves to obstruct the owner from using their own device in any way that doesn't bring extra profit to the carrier above and beyond the required service agreement.
The other day I was thinking. If you want to deal with unemployment, just federally mandate 40-hour workweeks maximum for anybody who is not a partial owner of a company (minimum of 1%). Some employers would instantly have to hire almost double the workforce, because they couldn't force everyone to work 80-hour weeks anymore. Companies would have to hire and train people. Unemployment would go through the floor and the number of people that could afford things would go up, meaning that it should spike the GDP in a very positive way. It would also, take money back from the rich to the middle class...
Or they may decide that it now too expensive to do significant engineering in the US and move everything offshore where they can pay peanuts *and* get 80 hour weeks from their workers.
Seriously, I don't think there can be significant progress in improving the plight of workers until we can find a way to plug the off-shoring loophole. I think this just might happen, just in time for automation generated unemployment to make the whole issue irrelevant.
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The high employment rate in Electrical Engineers is mainly following the low employment rate for all the construction industries. Grads with a degree in the Electronic Engineering fields ... even with no work experience will have no problem finding work, at least here in CA.
By "CA" you must mean Canada because in California, specifically the San Francisco Bay Area (including Silicon Valley) this is not remotely true. Engineerig jobs that don't require experience are nearly myth. Listings are few and require quite specific experience.
All those startups writing mobile apps and creating cloud based services need software engineers.
They don't need electrical engineers.
Needing electrical engineers implies building hardware. Investers don't like hardware. It takes too long. It cost too much.
That leaves only established companies for the hardware engineerr and they are more interested in the profitablity of existing markets then in creating new ones. Hense, not a lot of hiring.
Back in the '80's David Parnas argued that software verification was fundamentally different from hardware verification precisely because software has very nearly infinite bandwidth, which is precisely the opposite of the argument being made in the article.
That is, for hardware, a small change in some parameter will in almost all practical cases result in behaviour that is not wildly different from the behaviour with the original value. This means that we can test it under a finite set of conditions and smoothly extrapolate to the rest.
With software, a single bit flipped can result in behaviour that is arbitrarily different from the original behaviour. As such, nothing short of exhaustive testing over all possible accessible states can prove software correct.
More accurately, this is a distinction between stateless and stateful systems. Stateless machines always perform the same operations. They makes them much easier to test than stateful systems whose behavior depends on memory of prior events.
Software is always stateful although it can approach stateless behavior. Analog electronics and mechanical systems are generally stateless. Digital systems can be built either way but registers and memories are pretty fundamental so almost all modern digital chips are stateful even if they don't embed cpu's and software.
One of the issues that always comes up when talking about H-1B is that employers say they can't satisfy their needs with the talent already available. So, how about adding the requirement that any H-1B applications require the company post a "Help Wanted" ad in a national database for three months before the application is approved. Let's see why companies don't like citizen talent. Let's see how citizens can fill those jobs.
A requirement similar to this already exists. It is quire trivial to work around. All it takes is to write a list of requirements that exactly much the foreign person you want to hire (or retain) and virtually no one else in the world. Then you place the ad wherever it is least likely to be seen. A mid-week newspaper classified will do. For extra insurance, the only contact method should be a PO BOX.
And, therefore, substantially cooled. I am surprised that it wasn't detected directly like all the other white dwarfs we know about. (Like Sirus B)
From the t-mobile web page, below the big banner saying "No annual contract":
General Terms: At participating locations. Domestic only. Credit approval, $35/line activation fee, and two-year contract with up to $200/line early cancellation fee required; deposit may apply. If you switch plans you may be bound by existing or extended term (including early cancellation provisions) and/or charged an up to $200 fee. You may be unable to switch to some plans.
Maybe it's just a glitch but I wouldn't bank on it.
For what it's worth: I'm a T-mobile customer. This new deal would cost me $5/month more than I pay now. It would get more but it's more than I don't actually use.
The second problem is actually the main problem, IMHO. It is not like this kind of lifting agent is going to leak out if the hull is damaged by bad weather, or expand uncontrollably if ship ascends too abruptly.
The hull is damaged, air might leak in and make the structure heavier. The is short of design makes airship rather similar to ships and submarines that move through water. In the event of damage the worry isn't that the contained material (air in the case of ships and submarines) will leak out. The problems is that the outside material (water in the case of ships/submarines, air in the case of a aerogel filled airships) will leak in.
The rest of us made do with 60MHz versions.
It really had to hurt Intel to have to back down on clock speeds for once. They didn't do that again until NetBurst burst.
And they did it for the same reason. The 60Mhz Pentium was the end of the line for 5V CPU's. It suffered from overheating problems due to its exceptionally high power consumption. The P90, 486DX2 and later Pentiums were 3.3V.
It is also questionable the the P66 dethroned the 486DX2. The 50Mhz 486DX was widely believed to be faster than the 66Mhz 486DX2.
Heh. I'm about as American as they come.
I find the word petrol is the easiest way of creating a strong distinction between gasoline (a word some Americans simply associate with fuel) and diesel for conversation purposes.
I find the term "petrol" confusing. If I didn't specifically know better I would guess that it referred to diesel rather than gasoline. That's because petrol is short for petroleum and diesel is much closer to crude petroleum than gasoline is. Fuel oil (even less refined) is also sometimes referred to as "diesel".
About the only case where "gas" gets confusing is in conversations that also deal with natural gas or propane. That's not common since natural gas is rarely used for transportation and gasoline is never (AFAIK) used for heating.
So the impact on traffic conditions is likely to be negligible. The best you can do is annoy those who do you Google Maps or Waze by guiding them into the traffic jams they are trying to avoid. But considering the unreliability and time variability of traffic reporting the victims probably won't even notice that they've been fooled.
Perhaps in a future of self-driving cars that always follow Internet sourced navigation this will be more important. I think there is for navigation vendors to tighten their security before much of anyone cares.
You don't have to run marathons or train for them to be healthier.
No, but it helps. Having actual goals that are not nauseatingly dull and that have a hard time limit go a long way toward keeping one motivated to keep going when one just doesn't want to.
Why would "missing patches" be of concern for a Unix machine?
Missing services patches can leave one vulnerable to being hacked. Fortunately, you don't need a reboot to install those. Security related kernel patches do happen and they do require a reboot. However, these are generally of the privilege escalation variety and require specially written code to exploit. If you don't have untrustworthy people logging in to your machine it isn't a major problem if you don't have all the kernel patches.
Of more serious concern is the general lack of patches for Solaris 9. Solaris 9 patches released from November 1, 2011, will have Vintage/Extended access entitlement by default, which means that only customers with an Extended Support contract for Solaris will be able to access them. Updates to the Recommended Solaris 9 OS Patchset will cease at that time.
Oh please. If you're good at what you do you'll generally get what you are worth
Not quite. You need to be widely recognized as being good as what you do. Actually being good at what you do is almost irrelevant.
I imagine it'd be like an Apollo 10 mission, a kind of dress rehersal for a future landing.
I think you mean Apollo 8
The key difference though is that Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 were testing the equipment that would land Apollo 11 on the moon. The Mars flyby seems to have been conceived as a one-off.
Two flybys of Venus and even one of Earth on the way to Saturn
Galileo flew by Venus once and Earth twice on the way to Jupiter
There are other interesting gravity assists but I'm not aware of any that flew by Venus en route to Mars.
That is what TFA is really saying, not that America can not manufacture. That jives with my own experience. The US investment community is addicted to quick turn Internet services that can turn around in a matter of months. Startups that actually need to produce physical products are starving because investors don't want to put their money into projects that take millions of dollars and several years to break even.
What is interesting is that they are foreign investors willing to fund manufacturing. Some are even willing to manufacture in the US. So it is a US investor psychology problem not a global one.
So, why doesn't this apply to all civil lawsuits? This is how it works in many countries thus their courts aren't tied up as bad as ours (i.e. American).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loser_pays
Justice is imperfect. If the little guy who is in the right sues a big corporation and loses, he could be bankrupted by the big corporation's legal fees.
No that sounds completely wrong.
1. The Open Invention Network actively licenses the patents it holds, so it would not be considered an NPE.
Licensing patents to others is what patent trolls do. It would not meet the criteria of "substantial investment in exploiting the patent".
I think the original inventor would need to be part of the network in order to avoid the NPE classification.
What kinds of devices have we been interacting with for centuries? That's what I'd like to know.
Steering wheels on ships go back three centuries.
Steam trains go back almost two centuries
Telephones, telegraphs, and typewriters go back more than a century.
Vulcan was the name of the hypothetical planet between Mercury and the Sun.
That made sense because Vulcan was the name of the Roman god of fire. It seems like an odd name for a moon frozen at 43K (-230C).
It doesn't make sense for the Trek reference either. Vulcan is supposed to be warmer than Earth.
One of the news bits omitted from TFAs but included in the BBC article is this:
The firm plans to shut a third of its stores by the end of the year.
and
Barnes & Noble was originally a New York bookstore, which Mr Riggio bought out the branding rights to in the 1970s, before building out a successful US-wide chain.
Keeping a giant money losing company going would seem to be hopeless. I would expect that Riggio would reduce B&N's presence to only a few stores that he is sure can survive. Essentially save the company he started by sacrificing the behemoth that it has become.
Even if they know the list is "compromised", what are they supposed to do about it? It's already out there. Do you expect them to go after the spammers?
I expect them to plug the hole.
A compromised system is not a one-shot embarrassment. If you don't plug the hole, whoever compromised the system the first time will keep coming back for more data or will expand the breach to other systems.
1) If it an external breach, I expect back doors to be closed, vulnerabilities patched, account passwords changed, etc. This won't likely happen overnight but simply knowing that there is a breach and what kind of a data is stolen is big help providing the admins get their heads out the sand and acknowledge that there is a problem.
2) If it an unauthorized inside job, I expect the perpetrator to eventually be found and fired for cause with at least the possibility of criminal prosecution.
3) If it is an authorized inside job, I want the practice stopped permanently and I hope to see whoever approved the policy removed.
Unfortunately, all these require work and significant risk. The easiest "solution" is to deny there is a problem and, if necessary,blame the person reporting the issue. The vast majority of people, completely ignorant on how spammers harvest address and completely dependent on services like Google to filter out the bad and not lose to much of the good are not the wiser.
The only solution I've found to be the most effective is sending these companies threatening letters.
It could just as likely be YOUR site that was compromised, and they found the address in something they sent to you, or some key logger in a coffee shop where you logged on.
Make sure you are outside of your pristine glass house before you start throwing stones.
This is incredibly easy to check. If it was local compromise, all addresses would be compromised, not just the one assigned to a particular company. Spam and viruses should be be pouring in to many many addresses. If it was just a single address assigned to a single company then you be pretty sure that it was their system compromised and not yours.
If you truly paid for your phone then it is perfectly legal to jailbreak it. If you have a subsidized phone that you only partially paid.
Not true. In exchange for the subsidy, you entered a legally binding contract that requires you to pay for service for a limited time period. The phone is yours. The state even requires you to pay sales tax on the unsubsidized price at the time of purchase. It is this contract that ties you to the carrier, typically for two years. The lock is completely unnecessary for ensuring that the carrier gets paid and only serves to obstruct the owner from using their own device in any way that doesn't bring extra profit to the carrier above and beyond the required service agreement.
The other day I was thinking. If you want to deal with unemployment, just federally mandate 40-hour workweeks maximum for anybody who is not a partial owner of a company (minimum of 1%). Some employers would instantly have to hire almost double the workforce, because they couldn't force everyone to work 80-hour weeks anymore. Companies would have to hire and train people. Unemployment would go through the floor and the number of people that could afford things would go up, meaning that it should spike the GDP in a very positive way. It would also, take money back from the rich to the middle class...
Or they may decide that it now too expensive to do significant engineering in the US and move everything offshore where they can pay peanuts *and* get 80 hour weeks from their workers.
Seriously, I don't think there can be significant progress in improving the plight of workers until we can find a way to plug the off-shoring loophole. I think this just might happen, just in time for automation generated unemployment to make the whole issue irrelevant.