We have a stupid system here in the USA. Our taxes pay for their education and research and then we make it so hard to get a job that many have have to go back home, taking their tax paid education and expertise with them. Keep in mind that these students are the top 10 percent of all from China and India. I have been working with PhD students for 10 years, mostly Chinese and Indian, and so far, I have not found even one student that wants to return home without working for a few years in the USA. If we pay for their education, they should be REQUIRED to work in the US for a few years, yet we make it so hard to get H1-B visas that many end up going home. Sure, they raise the standard of living back home, and have good will for the US, but we are the losers. Uneducated yard workers can get visas almost as easily as the smartest students we educate. Sure, there are thousands of students, but just a drop in the bucket of the total of Visas. Make it easy for them to get visas and they will not have to work for lower wages than US citizens and we all will benefit. It is a stupid system.
I think you should check the facts instead of believing the Intel marketing that says "Intel is the best".
I have not yet read any article that gives Intel a lead except in higher prices.
Have you ever wondered why Intel cannot sell their processors at the same low price as AMD? The size, transistor count etc., are comparable. Does anyone really believe that the Intel Fab houses are more expensive (for 20 years) than AMD or others?
Some people think that the competition is "fair", and that Intel can sell below cost if they want to. Intel has a much broader product line than AMD, so they can use the profits from other products to keep selling below cost until the smaller company dies. Then they will resume their high(er) prices.
I use AMD whenever I can because at all levels, AMD seems to be faster. I can't claim they are really better, but if the price is the only difference, I will go for price and keep the competition on for Intel.
"Let's see now; We have not had time to finish the design,so lets put out the simple, almost working, untested version and then tell the customers to install a patch that will 'upgrade' the system for things that did not work at first." Maybe we can call it something like Windows.
Geese guys. THis concept is not new. The industry has been using this concept for years to introduce new products.
Give a person a CD and they will probably give it a try. Tell them that there is a nifty program on a website somewhere that they can download, burn to a CD and they will walk away and do it when they have time, which is never.
Have you ever wondered why AOL sent so many CDs instead of telling people that the program is on the internet?
Talk to the HR manager, and tell them the problem. If the recruiter is not part of the company, then he/she can say anything and the company has no control. However, an honest HR manager will stop using the recruiter, and may even intervene on your behalf if company policy permits.
Sometimes your new manager will intervene, but the main thing is to make sure the person you are working for is given a chance to help.
An external recruiter may possible have mis-interpreted the information, or may be using old information.
Finally, were you so interested in a new job that you did not hear or read? It could be your own fault if you were listening and not reading the information from the company.
The land is covered by water after a rain of 40 days. The carcas of one rat floats around and finally ends up on the island of New Zealand after the flooding subsides where it freezes and becomes preserved for some 15 million years. Later the isolated island is inhabited by birds that have found it to be a safe place to live.
It is highly unlikely that mammals lived on the island. However, finding the bones of that one floating rat after 15 million years----I think I'll go out and buy a lottery ticket!
I think it rained longer than 40 days, but at the time, man only had ten fingers on each hand and 10 toes on each foot. He had to stop at 40. You could argue that he had four arms with 5 fingers on each hand, but that would have been too wierd! No one would believe you.
I did some initial design for an RFID system last year. The credit card size unit has a microchip with memory and a coil of wire around the edge of the card (about 7cm x 5cm). THe coil is the secondary side of an air-core transformer and the reader (receiver) has the primary side. Note that it is not RF as in radio or telephone. It is a magnetic field. The reader has to send enough AC power through the air to the RFID coil so that a capacitor can be charged to give an operating voltage. When the voltage is high enough (milliseconds) the microchip will turn on and send its data to the receiver. My operating distance was small (less than 3 inches) because of limited reader power. However, if the reader had been transmitting more power from a longer distance (a few feet) I think it would have been able to read the data. The theory is easy, but the signal strength would have been smaller. We have equipment to read extremely small signals from space. Reading from a few feet away is most likely easy.
Take time to read more carfully, my good man (or woman). I did not say the earth's gravity is stronger; only its affect on you. If the Sun or anything else had more affect, you would be there and not here, so look before you leap in with a rebuttal.
Now let's get nit-picky for you. So far as we presently know, the universe, consisting of planets, stars and all other known matter is not infinite. It is still expanding, but the "edge" discovered or theorized so far indicates that we have not yet reached "infinite"
Nit-Picky again. The gravity on any object is not an infinite amount nor even an extremely large amount compared to that of the earth. Every object has an attraction to every other object, even those at the far extremes of your (almost) infinite universe and including the computer on your desk. However the affects, like those of the sun and moon are so negligible that you don't even lean toward the sun in the morning or afternoon, at least not perceptibly. Some fields of attraction we don't call gravity; like you and the computer.)
I said "Gravity is the force that pulls us toward the gravitational center of the earth, wherever that is." However, I had already said to ignore the "insignificant" affects of the sun, moon etc., so that the earth's field is the only one left. Pay attention and quit trying to be nit-picky. (Leave that to me:) I must admit that I do not know where the gravitational center of the earth is.
You obviously have a good understanding of the physics, but you should avoid things like "infinite amount" of gravity since there is no such force. If you had read a little more carefully, you would not have missed my point.
As far as "frame of reference" is concerned, I did not use it because a very large number of the slashdot readers are not engineers or physics majors. I try to use the KISS principle here.
If my lunchtime had been five hours earlier, I probably would have been able to read yours earlier. However, I responded to a series of responses that seemed to have a generally poor way of explaining things. Perhaps yours was better.
I guess I will forego my mods and jump into this.
There is not such thing as "zero gravity", but that is what we call it when we do not feel the force of gravity. The affect of the earth's gravity is so strong, we can forget about the effects of the moon, sun, planets and stars.
Gravity is the force that pulls us toward the gravitational center of the earth, wherever that is.
We feel the effects of gravity as the force that keeps us on the ground. THe ground pushes against our feet with the same force that we push against the ground. In water, we push harder than water pushes back, so we sink.
If you jump from a plane, there is no force to push back except the air rushing around you.
If you are inside the plane and the plane is flying toward the ground at the same rate that gravity is trying to pull it toward the ground, you and the air around you are both moving toward the ground, and you do not feel the effects of gravity. There is nothing pushing back and you are in "free fall". Although you are falling rapidly, you feel like there is no gravity so you say there is "zero gravity".
The space station and satelites all are tethered to the earth by a gravitational string much like a ball on a string being swung around. The swing-out force exactly equals the pull of gravity force, so the occupants feel "zero earth gravity".
When satelites are launched into space, they are put in motion with a force to exactly counteract the force of gravity and also go around the earth. We call this "falling around the earth". They are not really falling, but it has the effect of falling and also going sideways so fast that they miss the earth and do not fall toward the center.
I work with Chinese students in their 20s and 30s and have asked them about religion in their homeland. Basically, everyone is able to freely practice religion as long as they do not use their religion to attack the government or government officials. Sure, this will lead to some persecution as people object to government treatment of people, but it does allow a degree of freedom much greater that I had ever thought.
I have not noticed any significant heat from the battery, but I have noticed a very hot power supply/charger for my HP.
Also, I have repaired the power connector inside three laptops of different brands during the past year, and this is from a group of 15 student's machines, a failure of about 1 in 3, and one of them charred the PC board it was soldered to. Luckily, there was no fire. This cylindrical power jack sells for 35 cents to 75 cents. I wonder if the power designers on Laptops just do not pay attention to the quality of the components they specify. I find it hard to believe that there are not thousands of laptops requiring replacement because of broken connectors.
Let's say you are working with deadly chemicals and the laptop you are using for data storage suddenly explodes, kills your best friend and gives you severe burns, blindness and scars for the rest of your life and the chemical plant is destroyed by the resulting fire. Will you then be willing to say that that Sony had no reason to be alarmed just because no one was hurt badly by the first few incidents?
Safety is not a matter of "It is not important because it happened to someone far away." The potential loss from lawsuits is far greater than the cost of a battery recall, especially since there is a picture or video of a laptop burning.
Remember last year how we all laughed and teased the guy whose private parts were burned because he did not have any padding between his lap and his laptop? Did we by chance laugh when we should have been listening and asking questions? Sometimes frivolous complaints are not so frivolous.
A board design was nearly ready for production when the taping was completed, i.e., taped-out. The same process was used for early IC designs in the 60's and 70's. (Probably also in the late '50's, but I am too young for that.)
Back in the mid-60's people were using black crepe-paper tape (like masking tape but black and stretchy) for laying out PC boards. Being 'stretchy' allowed it to bend around corners. Large sheets of clear film were used and aligned front to back by punching a hole in the sheet corners with a 1/4 inch diameter pins to keep them lined up. Then the board pattern was taped onto the sheets of film; topside on one layer and bottomside on another. A few designs used more layers. Mostly these were 4X actual size. These taped sheets were then reduced in a photo darkroom and used to make a glass photo-mask of actual size.
However alignment remained a problem, so some company came up with the process of using red and blue plastic tape for the front and back sides of the board and these were both put on the same large piece of 4X plastic sheet. That way the front and back were always in alignment. A red or blue filter was used in the photo lab to expose only one of the colors for each layer.
The same processes were used for large IC's well into the '70s and pictures appeared on covers of various publications when the 6800, 6500, and 8085 processors hit the market.
I was not in the semi-conductor industry, but I have never read any article that said a board was "taped-out" when it was put on magnetic tape for manufacturing. It was nearly always used to tell management that the physical board layout was nearly complete and ready. Sometimes the taping took weeks.
When large high-resolution computer moniters became available, the red-blue became obsolete and the board design went straight to magnet tape for the Gerber-Plotter. However, I never heard any person refer to this as being "taped-out".
Most terrorists are not biometric. The few that are normally are used to select the liquids that that are carried on board by the non-biometric terrorists. We should spend most of our time and energy looking for them instead of having detectors for the biometric ones.
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We have a stupid system here in the USA. Our taxes pay for their education and research and then we make it so hard to get a job that many have have to go back home, taking their tax paid education and expertise with them. Keep in mind that these students are the top 10 percent of all from China and India. I have been working with PhD students for 10 years, mostly Chinese and Indian, and so far, I have not found even one student that wants to return home without working for a few years in the USA. If we pay for their education, they should be REQUIRED to work in the US for a few years, yet we make it so hard to get H1-B visas that many end up going home. Sure, they raise the standard of living back home, and have good will for the US, but we are the losers. Uneducated yard workers can get visas almost as easily as the smartest students we educate. Sure, there are thousands of students, but just a drop in the bucket of the total of Visas. Make it easy for them to get visas and they will not have to work for lower wages than US citizens and we all will benefit. It is a stupid system.
Have you ever wondered why Intel cannot sell their processors at the same low price as AMD? The size, transistor count etc., are comparable. Does anyone really believe that the Intel Fab houses are more expensive (for 20 years) than AMD or others?
Some people think that the competition is "fair", and that Intel can sell below cost if they want to. Intel has a much broader product line than AMD, so they can use the profits from other products to keep selling below cost until the smaller company dies. Then they will resume their high(er) prices.
I use AMD whenever I can because at all levels, AMD seems to be faster. I can't claim they are really better, but if the price is the only difference, I will go for price and keep the competition on for Intel.
Geese guys. THis concept is not new. The industry has been using this concept for years to introduce new products.
Also, I think you left out Barbara and PP&M, also, brothers-4, but you did leave it open ended....
Now, reconsidering, I'm not so sure about your music tastes.
Forget the marriage. Maybe we could just hang out together. Do you like sex?
Well, it worked until some *&^%$# told 80,000 /. users!
You are lucky! My fingers do that even with brain supervision.
You need a course in marketing instead of name-calling.
That girl had very big feet for a girl.
FYI: A size 12 mens shoe (USA) is about one foot long.
Have you ever wondered why AOL sent so many CDs instead of telling people that the program is on the internet?
I hate to have to tell you this, but based on your grammar and spelling, getting used to legal terminology should not be your first priority.
Sometimes your new manager will intervene, but the main thing is to make sure the person you are working for is given a chance to help.
An external recruiter may possible have mis-interpreted the information, or may be using old information.
Finally, were you so interested in a new job that you did not hear or read? It could be your own fault if you were listening and not reading the information from the company.
It is highly unlikely that mammals lived on the island. However, finding the bones of that one floating rat after 15 million years----I think I'll go out and buy a lottery ticket!
I think it rained longer than 40 days, but at the time, man only had ten fingers on each hand and 10 toes on each foot. He had to stop at 40. You could argue that he had four arms with 5 fingers on each hand, but that would have been too wierd! No one would believe you.
I did some initial design for an RFID system last year. The credit card size unit has a microchip with memory and a coil of wire around the edge of the card (about 7cm x 5cm). THe coil is the secondary side of an air-core transformer and the reader (receiver) has the primary side. Note that it is not RF as in radio or telephone. It is a magnetic field. The reader has to send enough AC power through the air to the RFID coil so that a capacitor can be charged to give an operating voltage. When the voltage is high enough (milliseconds) the microchip will turn on and send its data to the receiver. My operating distance was small (less than 3 inches) because of limited reader power. However, if the reader had been transmitting more power from a longer distance (a few feet) I think it would have been able to read the data. The theory is easy, but the signal strength would have been smaller. We have equipment to read extremely small signals from space. Reading from a few feet away is most likely easy.
Who needs to be running windows that can't afford something else?
How do you do italics here?
Now let's get nit-picky for you. So far as we presently know, the universe, consisting of planets, stars and all other known matter is not infinite. It is still expanding, but the "edge" discovered or theorized so far indicates that we have not yet reached "infinite"
Nit-Picky again. The gravity on any object is not an infinite amount nor even an extremely large amount compared to that of the earth. Every object has an attraction to every other object, even those at the far extremes of your (almost) infinite universe and including the computer on your desk. However the affects, like those of the sun and moon are so negligible that you don't even lean toward the sun in the morning or afternoon, at least not perceptibly. Some fields of attraction we don't call gravity; like you and the computer.)
I said "Gravity is the force that pulls us toward the gravitational center of the earth, wherever that is." However, I had already said to ignore the "insignificant" affects of the sun, moon etc., so that the earth's field is the only one left. Pay attention and quit trying to be nit-picky. (Leave that to me :) I must admit that I do not know where the gravitational center of the earth is.
You obviously have a good understanding of the physics, but you should avoid things like "infinite amount" of gravity since there is no such force. If you had read a little more carefully, you would not have missed my point.
As far as "frame of reference" is concerned, I did not use it because a very large number of the slashdot readers are not engineers or physics majors. I try to use the KISS principle here.
If my lunchtime had been five hours earlier, I probably would have been able to read yours earlier. However, I responded to a series of responses that seemed to have a generally poor way of explaining things. Perhaps yours was better.
Gravity is the force that pulls us toward the gravitational center of the earth, wherever that is. We feel the effects of gravity as the force that keeps us on the ground. THe ground pushes against our feet with the same force that we push against the ground. In water, we push harder than water pushes back, so we sink. If you jump from a plane, there is no force to push back except the air rushing around you.
If you are inside the plane and the plane is flying toward the ground at the same rate that gravity is trying to pull it toward the ground, you and the air around you are both moving toward the ground, and you do not feel the effects of gravity. There is nothing pushing back and you are in "free fall". Although you are falling rapidly, you feel like there is no gravity so you say there is "zero gravity".
The space station and satelites all are tethered to the earth by a gravitational string much like a ball on a string being swung around. The swing-out force exactly equals the pull of gravity force, so the occupants feel "zero earth gravity".
When satelites are launched into space, they are put in motion with a force to exactly counteract the force of gravity and also go around the earth. We call this "falling around the earth". They are not really falling, but it has the effect of falling and also going sideways so fast that they miss the earth and do not fall toward the center.
Did you even notice that he ended his sentence with 4 periods? Pay attention!
Funny, I don't get it!
I work with Chinese students in their 20s and 30s and have asked them about religion in their homeland. Basically, everyone is able to freely practice religion as long as they do not use their religion to attack the government or government officials. Sure, this will lead to some persecution as people object to government treatment of people, but it does allow a degree of freedom much greater that I had ever thought.
Also, I have repaired the power connector inside three laptops of different brands during the past year, and this is from a group of 15 student's machines, a failure of about 1 in 3, and one of them charred the PC board it was soldered to. Luckily, there was no fire. This cylindrical power jack sells for 35 cents to 75 cents. I wonder if the power designers on Laptops just do not pay attention to the quality of the components they specify. I find it hard to believe that there are not thousands of laptops requiring replacement because of broken connectors.
Safety is not a matter of "It is not important because it happened to someone far away." The potential loss from lawsuits is far greater than the cost of a battery recall, especially since there is a picture or video of a laptop burning.
Remember last year how we all laughed and teased the guy whose private parts were burned because he did not have any padding between his lap and his laptop? Did we by chance laugh when we should have been listening and asking questions? Sometimes frivolous complaints are not so frivolous.
Back in the mid-60's people were using black crepe-paper tape (like masking tape but black and stretchy) for laying out PC boards. Being 'stretchy' allowed it to bend around corners. Large sheets of clear film were used and aligned front to back by punching a hole in the sheet corners with a 1/4 inch diameter pins to keep them lined up. Then the board pattern was taped onto the sheets of film; topside on one layer and bottomside on another. A few designs used more layers. Mostly these were 4X actual size. These taped sheets were then reduced in a photo darkroom and used to make a glass photo-mask of actual size.
However alignment remained a problem, so some company came up with the process of using red and blue plastic tape for the front and back sides of the board and these were both put on the same large piece of 4X plastic sheet. That way the front and back were always in alignment. A red or blue filter was used in the photo lab to expose only one of the colors for each layer.
The same processes were used for large IC's well into the '70s and pictures appeared on covers of various publications when the 6800, 6500, and 8085 processors hit the market. I was not in the semi-conductor industry, but I have never read any article that said a board was "taped-out" when it was put on magnetic tape for manufacturing. It was nearly always used to tell management that the physical board layout was nearly complete and ready. Sometimes the taping took weeks.
When large high-resolution computer moniters became available, the red-blue became obsolete and the board design went straight to magnet tape for the Gerber-Plotter. However, I never heard any person refer to this as being "taped-out".
Congratulations! Yours was so subtle that I missed it myself the first time through. I'll bet the moderaters don't even notice yours or mine.
OHH!!!...You mean???!!
Never Mind!