As a ME working in the racing/automotive industry I can tell you that experience is king in the engineering field. This becomes even more true when you are targeting a "small" industry (in this case Private space flight). Get into the best school you can, that as other people have said, gives you opportunities to work for professors doing research in the industry you want to work in. Unless you ABSOLUTELY can't leave home for whatever reason, follow the research.
Most importantly though, from your first day on campus start contacting the companies you want to work for and inquire if they have coop/intern programs. Getting a job out of school in a highly competitive industry such as the one you intend to work for is nearly impossible, but if you have previously worked for them you already have a foot in the door so to speak. Coop is usually preferable over interning because the company will have already invested lots of time in helping develop you as an engineer, and you will have made personal relationships with them.
So, this weekend if I go downtown to where all of the bars and nightlife are, and I start snapping pictures of people doing various things. Quietly, and unobtrusively mind you.
Now, say I create a facebook account with false profile information, solely so I can upload pictures of people I don't know doing various (and possibly stupid) things. You're no longer some random, mostly anonymous guy in a picture which could have been anywhere... you're Bob from Detroit. And that guy with the crack pipe is your friend Dave and he's got an outstanding warrant.
If this is the case, then yes I have a huge problem with it. But thats not the way facebook works (yet)...By my reading, it will work as with most other aspects of Facebook. If you have set it up so only friends can view your profile information, pictures, etc. then in only those peoples uploads will you be autotagged. If you allow friends of friends, or groups you belong to to see your information then those peoples uploads will contain your data, etc.
I get that once again Facebook has opted people into a new feature, but I'm not sure I get what all the anger is about. As far as I can tell, all this does is allow people who you have already accepted as friends to make it easier to tag their photos... Please somebody explain the downside to me. Its not like the same people couldn't have tagged you anyway, they just would have had to do it manually. I know I for one am excited by this since it makes the process of uploading pictures that much quicker.
If you're going to throw crap out there, you might want to trying providing links that back up your claims.
It was the same with airbags. Aside from unbelted passengers, airbags didn't improve safety. But Ralph Nader, knowing this, got up in front of Congress and lied in order to get airbags passed that would kill infants, while also working to prevent warning labels on them initially so that people wouldn't be scared of them. So we've had presidential candidates who worked very hard to pass regulations that killed babies by ejecting their heads out of the back of car windows while their bodies were still strapped into their car seats. Safety doesn't matter nearly as much as the appearance of safety..
Study after Study after Study have shown quite the opposite. In fact, there have even been papers that conclude that the media have skewed their reporting on the subject to basically fall in line with what you were spouting about above.
The point of an airbag is to cushion and slow the upper torso and head from striking hard objects that cause rapid deceleration of the body and head in collisions (super high G forces) which leads to injury and death. While the initial airbags had their faults, and have caused deaths when used both properly and improperly, they have saved far more lives than they have claimed.
In some states you can get a jr. license at 16. This generally limits when you can be behind the wheel (usually from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.) how many passengers you can have in your vehicle (sometimes only 1 or no other passengers under the age of 18) and mandates that if you get a moving violation you lose your license for a period of time automatically. Again, all of the above vary from state to state, and sometimes even city to city.
In other states you have to be 17 to get a license, and in some parts of the country (NYC for example) you must be 18 in order to obtain a license.
The bigger problem IMHO, is the requirements that are needed to get a license. I'm sure it has changed by now, but 10 years ago or so, to get a license in NJ, you never even had to take the car out into traffic. License tests were administered in coned parking lots. I'm sure there would be far fewer accidents with young people behind the wheel, if the testing to get a license was more stringent, and actually proved that you were a good driver.
"Keep the original CD" sounds like a silly requirement
Keeping the Original CD is the ONLY way to prove what was actually submitted to the company in the first place. If you simply upload the information to a server, how do you prove that document X wasn't actually on the original CD two years into the project, when the projects been shot to hell and the lawyers are called in?
That is why it is imperative to keep the original CD.
Self Preservation.
You have to look closer at the law that's in place. Some of the laws state that not using a handsfree device is a primary offense, while in some states it is a secondary offense. The difference being that you can't be stopped or ticketed outright for a secondary offense, and you can for a primary offense. So if talking on a cell phone is only a secondary offense, the police will have to have another reason to pull you over first before ticketing you for talking on your cell phone without a hands free device.
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I think you're missing the point of a dutch auction. They don't care what people might be willing to pay. They start the price ridiculously high, and slowly bring it down until all of the shares are purchased. The price that the last share is purchased at is the price that everyone who has purchased a share gets the stock for. So this guy has little to gain by knowing what you would likely pay for it. The idea behind a dutch auction is to get people to panic that they're gonna miss out on a great deal and buy at a price where the stock is highly overvalued, making the company a boatload of money
This is by far one of the niftier hacks i've seen lately, but its a shame that it is an electronic dartboard. I mean, if they had figured out how to do this with a standard dart board (which would probably be hard as crap) I would seriously go out and purchase one today (and yes i know they're not trying to sell it, i'm just saying). Having played on electronic dart boards before, i can tell you that half of my shots never stick in the board. This could be because i suck and have an unorthodox throwing style, but more over its just because its damn hard to get the darts into the tiny little holes. Can anyone think of a way to do this using a real dart board. just some food for thought.
Does anyone else find it odd, that this new imac which is being heralded for its 10.6" diameter base is the first imac (not to mention the first mac of any kind) that i have seen shipped with a full size keyboard (http://www.apple.com/imac) in a long time. I mean, i hate those stupid little keyboards as much as anyone, but doesn't it make sense to package those in with this unit?
If worst came to worst, and you really, really felt the need to use something such as dialpad, you could always just sign up for a local dial-up service (assuming you have a modem) and go about it that way... usually universities have free local calling so all you'd be paying for would be the service, which would be a whole lot cheaper than a long distance bill. I know that this really isn't the issue at hand, but it is a way around it.
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As a ME working in the racing/automotive industry I can tell you that experience is king in the engineering field. This becomes even more true when you are targeting a "small" industry (in this case Private space flight). Get into the best school you can, that as other people have said, gives you opportunities to work for professors doing research in the industry you want to work in. Unless you ABSOLUTELY can't leave home for whatever reason, follow the research.
Most importantly though, from your first day on campus start contacting the companies you want to work for and inquire if they have coop/intern programs. Getting a job out of school in a highly competitive industry such as the one you intend to work for is nearly impossible, but if you have previously worked for them you already have a foot in the door so to speak. Coop is usually preferable over interning because the company will have already invested lots of time in helping develop you as an engineer, and you will have made personal relationships with them.
Hope this helps and good luck.
So, this weekend if I go downtown to where all of the bars and nightlife are, and I start snapping pictures of people doing various things. Quietly, and unobtrusively mind you.
Now, say I create a facebook account with false profile information, solely so I can upload pictures of people I don't know doing various (and possibly stupid) things. You're no longer some random, mostly anonymous guy in a picture which could have been anywhere ... you're Bob from Detroit. And that guy with the crack pipe is your friend Dave and he's got an outstanding warrant.
If this is the case, then yes I have a huge problem with it. But thats not the way facebook works (yet)...By my reading, it will work as with most other aspects of Facebook. If you have set it up so only friends can view your profile information, pictures, etc. then in only those peoples uploads will you be autotagged. If you allow friends of friends, or groups you belong to to see your information then those peoples uploads will contain your data, etc.
I get that once again Facebook has opted people into a new feature, but I'm not sure I get what all the anger is about. As far as I can tell, all this does is allow people who you have already accepted as friends to make it easier to tag their photos... Please somebody explain the downside to me. Its not like the same people couldn't have tagged you anyway, they just would have had to do it manually. I know I for one am excited by this since it makes the process of uploading pictures that much quicker.
What a Bunch Of FUD....
If you're going to throw crap out there, you might want to trying providing links that back up your claims.
It was the same with airbags. Aside from unbelted passengers, airbags didn't improve safety. But Ralph Nader, knowing this, got up in front of Congress and lied in order to get airbags passed that would kill infants, while also working to prevent warning labels on them initially so that people wouldn't be scared of them. So we've had presidential candidates who worked very hard to pass regulations that killed babies by ejecting their heads out of the back of car windows while their bodies were still strapped into their car seats. Safety doesn't matter nearly as much as the appearance of safety.
Study after Study after Study have shown quite the opposite. In fact, there have even been papers that conclude that the media have skewed their reporting on the subject to basically fall in line with what you were spouting about above.
The point of an airbag is to cushion and slow the upper torso and head from striking hard objects that cause rapid deceleration of the body and head in collisions (super high G forces) which leads to injury and death. While the initial airbags had their faults, and have caused deaths when used both properly and improperly, they have saved far more lives than they have claimed.
He f*cked up the originals, and I just don't even care anymore if he ever releases a decent DVD of the originals.
They did release a DVD of the original theatrical release. Sure it comes coupled with the 2004 re-release with all of George's "Fixes", but you can get it
It varies from state to state.
In some states you can get a jr. license at 16. This generally limits when you can be behind the wheel (usually from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.) how many passengers you can have in your vehicle (sometimes only 1 or no other passengers under the age of 18) and mandates that if you get a moving violation you lose your license for a period of time automatically. Again, all of the above vary from state to state, and sometimes even city to city.
In other states you have to be 17 to get a license, and in some parts of the country (NYC for example) you must be 18 in order to obtain a license.
The bigger problem IMHO, is the requirements that are needed to get a license. I'm sure it has changed by now, but 10 years ago or so, to get a license in NJ, you never even had to take the car out into traffic. License tests were administered in coned parking lots. I'm sure there would be far fewer accidents with young people behind the wheel, if the testing to get a license was more stringent, and actually proved that you were a good driver.
That is why it is imperative to keep the original CD.
Self Preservation.
Actually, you couldn't have played a thing without 1971 ... well unless your parents are freaks of nature and your mother popped you out in 27 days
That would be a record (not to mention make the entirety of the female population jealous of your mother)
You have to look closer at the law that's in place. Some of the laws state that not using a handsfree device is a primary offense, while in some states it is a secondary offense. The difference being that you can't be stopped or ticketed outright for a secondary offense, and you can for a primary offense. So if talking on a cell phone is only a secondary offense, the police will have to have another reason to pull you over first before ticketing you for talking on your cell phone without a hands free device.
I think you're missing the point of a dutch auction. They don't care what people might be willing to pay. They start the price ridiculously high, and slowly bring it down until all of the shares are purchased. The price that the last share is purchased at is the price that everyone who has purchased a share gets the stock for. So this guy has little to gain by knowing what you would likely pay for it. The idea behind a dutch auction is to get people to panic that they're gonna miss out on a great deal and buy at a price where the stock is highly overvalued, making the company a boatload of money
This is by far one of the niftier hacks i've seen lately, but its a shame that it is an electronic dartboard. I mean, if they had figured out how to do this with a standard dart board (which would probably be hard as crap) I would seriously go out and purchase one today (and yes i know they're not trying to sell it, i'm just saying). Having played on electronic dart boards before, i can tell you that half of my shots never stick in the board. This could be because i suck and have an unorthodox throwing style, but more over its just because its damn hard to get the darts into the tiny little holes. Can anyone think of a way to do this using a real dart board. just some food for thought.
Does anyone else find it odd, that this new imac which is being heralded for its 10.6" diameter base is the first imac (not to mention the first mac of any kind) that i have seen shipped with a full size keyboard (http://www.apple.com/imac) in a long time. I mean, i hate those stupid little keyboards as much as anyone, but doesn't it make sense to package those in with this unit?
Just a random observation
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If worst came to worst, and you really, really felt the need to use something such as dialpad, you could always just sign up for a local dial-up service (assuming you have a modem) and go about it that way... usually universities have free local calling so all you'd be paying for would be the service, which would be a whole lot cheaper than a long distance bill. I know that this really isn't the issue at hand, but it is a way around it.