An educated guess is describing it as a router is ridiculous. It's more like intelligently combining the M incoming data streams (beam forming) so that the data can be shipped at a lower bandwidth to N universities (each of which may be using a different combination of incoming data and hence looking at a different beam).
One of the nice things about phased array (electronically steered) antennas is that you can simultaneously receive signals from N "virtual antennas" (usually called beams in the business), each of which may be pointed in a different direction and have a different beam width, frequency and bandwidth. You create those N virtual antennas by combining the input signals from the M physical antennas in N different ways. The combined signals are of much lower bandwidth than the incoming signals. Hence you could have people at university A looking at one place in the sky, the people at university B simultaneously looking at a different place in the sky, and have both of them receiving real-time signals.
I'm looking for others to join my Analog Supremacist Movement. We will flood the forums, take out ads etc.... mocking software and programmers. Essentially creating a public distrust for anything not analog, raising the EE to that of god-like status who saves the world from the dangerous and shady land of software and the miscreants who flourish in its evil chaos.
Please join me, Acting Commander Diode (actual command structure to be decided democratically)
-website to be announced
Considering how much most people curse at computers, it should be easy to convince them.
Gotta get the right image though. We should show pictures of grandma (great grandma, great great grandma?) baking her own bread, and put that alongside Currier and Ives images of people using analog phones, radios and TV's.
Meanwhile "libertarian" thought is nicely summed up by The Cato institute's web site: "Promoting an American public policy based on individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peaceful international relations"
They forgot motherhood and apple pie. Who doesn't claim to promote those things?
My employer has multiple open positions that we just can't fill. There aren't enough qualified engineers for the positions open. Friends of mine at other companies are reporting the same thing. This is true for both software and hardware engineers.
If you are smart enough to get a PhD in chemistry, you are smart enough to program. Pick up a book and you can teach yourself.
If there was a genuine shortage of programmers and no H-1B program, that would be excellent advice. Employers would be forced to look beyond their prejudices, and get more "creative" (i.e. open minded) in their hiring. Hmmm, Ph.D. in chem, so probably not a complete dunce:) Taught himself this tech, so shows some initiative. Let's hire him!
Currently though employers will just whine to nanny government to increase the H-1B quota (nearly tripling it is in the immigration bill that passed the senate). They'll continue to indulge their prejudice not to hire anyone over 30-40. The proof that genuine labor shortages cause employers to look beyond their idiocies is the world wars. In WWI black people were hired to work in factories where previously they wouldn't have been given the courtesy of a bum's rush, and in WWII it was women.
Well, unlike the last 50 years, most chemicals and combinations are well-known now.
And we've filled out the periodic table, so I guess chemistry is a done deal. Remember to cross it off the STEM list - we don't need no more stinkin' chemists.
Formulas are simpler to create because the raw materials are more complex and sold for a purpose.
In the past raw materials were sold without a purpose?
The USPS example makes a pretty good case actually. A British study found that the U.S. postal service is the most efficient in the world.
Facts don't deter people with ideological arguments. The GP thought "US Post Office. That's your best case scenario." was some sort of an argument, and that he was modded up supports the idea that he's far from alone. When "debate" reaches that level, only rants and bumper stickers matter.
We all know that government mail delivery was a plot hatched by the pinkos at the Constitutional Convention, and should do everything to fight it. There are more important principles at stake here than silly things like low cost, fast reliable delivery.
Software and programming is a fad for children and halfwits.
More like a practical joke. As an EE I apologize for my intellectual ancestors having taken this thing too far, but originally it was just an innocent joke. I have been wondering though when the rest of the world will realize that.
In my experience, circuit design is mostly stuff pulled from a recipe book and adapted/adjusted for the specific need. Very little circuit design is new and innovative.
As an EE, I agree. There are very few Bob Widlar's. I also think that's true of most things though.
The same thing that is killing USA's Auto companies (save tesla), Boeing, and hollywood, is that MBA's now run things.
Agreed.
Hollywood USED to be about making the best ART.
Now you're pushing it. Hollywood was always unabashedly commercial - they wanted money, and lots of it. But the people running things understood that judgment and even (*gasp*) a certain amount of risk taking were necessary. The MBA mentality is to boil everything down to simple minded formulas.
Now, with the MBA's, it is about making short-term profit.
They're not even doing that though. The chickens are coming home to roost, and I'm glad.
Likewise, Boeing used to make the best aircrafts (in both military AND commercial). The 787 is all about making short-term profit (in the same way that GE does).
But the 787 isn't making any short term profit either. Bad enough when they're only focused on short term profit, but even worse when they can't even do that. The difference between then and now is that Boeing management used to understand that the way to make lots of money is to make good planes, and that designing them is not cheap. If you want low NRE stay the hell out of the airplane biz.
These four families are represented as occupying a square (called a quad) divided into four parts, one family in each corner. The position of each item in a quad is important because the quad actually represents an equation purported by the Dramatica theory to represent the basic building block of thought.
This takes "formulaic" rather literally, but as Bill Shakespeare said, 4k structures ought to be enough for anybody.
Realize that the major demographic for movies are teenagers and early 20 somethings and you understand that this demographic has not yet developed the maturity or patience for investing any thinking power into changing their derivative lifestyles.
Wow, I thought I was an old fart. I don't think I'll be as bad as you until well after my corpse has fattened the worms.
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Good ol' Wikipedia has a decent description of the overall system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_Widefield_Array
An educated guess is describing it as a router is ridiculous. It's more like intelligently combining the M incoming data streams (beam forming) so that the data can be shipped at a lower bandwidth to N universities (each of which may be using a different combination of incoming data and hence looking at a different beam).
One of the nice things about phased array (electronically steered) antennas is that you can simultaneously receive signals from N "virtual antennas" (usually called beams in the business), each of which may be pointed in a different direction and have a different beam width, frequency and bandwidth. You create those N virtual antennas by combining the input signals from the M physical antennas in N different ways. The combined signals are of much lower bandwidth than the incoming signals. Hence you could have people at university A looking at one place in the sky, the people at university B simultaneously looking at a different place in the sky, and have both of them receiving real-time signals.
There used to be a stereotype that all southerners were lazy and terrible workers. Turns out they were really just riddled with parasites.
What kind of parasites, and why did they have more of them than damnyankees? Serious question.
Redundant. Gen. Ripper has already commented.
So Gen. Jack Ripper wasn't so crazy after all, huh?
Hi all,
I'm looking for others to join my Analog Supremacist Movement. We will flood the forums, take out ads etc.... mocking software and programmers. Essentially creating a public distrust for anything not analog, raising the EE to that of god-like status who saves the world from the dangerous and shady land of software and the miscreants who flourish in its evil chaos.
Please join me,
Acting Commander Diode (actual command structure to be decided democratically)
-website to be announced
Considering how much most people curse at computers, it should be easy to convince them.
Gotta get the right image though. We should show pictures of grandma (great grandma, great great grandma?) baking her own bread, and put that alongside Currier and Ives images of people using analog phones, radios and TV's.
Vermont
SIZE: 9,620 sq miles
POPULATION: 626k
DENSITY: 67.7 / sq mile
Fastest Internet of any state in the Union. If it were still the independent Green Mountain Republic, it would rank #2 in the world.
Meanwhile "libertarian" thought is nicely summed up by The Cato institute's web site: "Promoting an American public policy based on individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peaceful international relations"
They forgot motherhood and apple pie. Who doesn't claim to promote those things?
My employer has multiple open positions that we just can't fill. There aren't enough qualified engineers for the positions open. Friends of mine at other companies are reporting the same thing. This is true for both software and hardware engineers.
Where?
If you are smart enough to get a PhD in chemistry, you are smart enough to program. Pick up a book and you can teach yourself.
If there was a genuine shortage of programmers and no H-1B program, that would be excellent advice. Employers would be forced to look beyond their prejudices, and get more "creative" (i.e. open minded) in their hiring. Hmmm, Ph.D. in chem, so probably not a complete dunce :) Taught himself this tech, so shows some initiative. Let's hire him!
Currently though employers will just whine to nanny government to increase the H-1B quota (nearly tripling it is in the immigration bill that passed the senate). They'll continue to indulge their prejudice not to hire anyone over 30-40. The proof that genuine labor shortages cause employers to look beyond their idiocies is the world wars. In WWI black people were hired to work in factories where previously they wouldn't have been given the courtesy of a bum's rush, and in WWII it was women.
Well, unlike the last 50 years, most chemicals and combinations are well-known now.
And we've filled out the periodic table, so I guess chemistry is a done deal. Remember to cross it off the STEM list - we don't need no more stinkin' chemists.
Formulas are simpler to create because the raw materials are more complex and sold for a purpose.
In the past raw materials were sold without a purpose?
The USPS example makes a pretty good case actually. A British study found that the U.S. postal service is the most efficient in the world.
Facts don't deter people with ideological arguments. The GP thought "US Post Office. That's your best case scenario." was some sort of an argument, and that he was modded up supports the idea that he's far from alone. When "debate" reaches that level, only rants and bumper stickers matter.
We all know that government mail delivery was a plot hatched by the pinkos at the Constitutional Convention, and should do everything to fight it. There are more important principles at stake here than silly things like low cost, fast reliable delivery.
What more hand-holding is needed?
Whatever it takes to grind virtuous self-reliant people like yourself into the ground. What fun is Evil Statism if you can't do that?
Thank you, John Galt. Now please return to adolescent fantasies, where you belong.
Software and programming is a fad for children and halfwits.
More like a practical joke. As an EE I apologize for my intellectual ancestors having taken this thing too far, but originally it was just an innocent joke. I have been wondering though when the rest of the world will realize that.
In my experience, circuit design is mostly stuff pulled from a recipe book and adapted/adjusted for the specific need. Very little circuit design is new and innovative.
As an EE, I agree. There are very few Bob Widlar's. I also think that's true of most things though.
The future is quantum. It's where typical EE is useless.
Quantum has been an important part of EE since 1947.
Tom Cruise ... very unlikeable person and prominent figure in a deranged, dangerous money scam thinly disguised as a cult.
Yes, we're all aware he's an actor.
The internet. Other people are fundamentally more interesting to us than flat characters
There are other people on the Internet? I thought y'all were just a bunch of computer generated imitations (and none too good ones at that).
My guess is the Reality TV boom is caused by the same thing; a way for television to compete with the constant online drama.
The only thing reality TV competes with is suicide, and I'm not sure which I'd prefer.
Not even piracy is to blame - Redbox is.
Video rentals long predate Redbox. They were around 30 years ago.
From http://www.boxofficemojo.com/about/boxoffice.htm
Production Budget refers to the cost to make the movie and it does not include marketing or other expenditures.
Gross refers to gross earnings in U.S. dollars. On average, the movie's distributor receives a little more than half of the final gross
So I don't know how far gross == production cost is to break even. Seems like at least 2x away.
unless they additionally have a relevant degree for the respective field
Degrees don't necessarily mean much. Having an engineering degree, for example, does not make someone an engineer.
The same thing that is killing USA's Auto companies (save tesla), Boeing, and hollywood, is that MBA's now run things.
Agreed.
Hollywood USED to be about making the best ART.
Now you're pushing it. Hollywood was always unabashedly commercial - they wanted money, and lots of it. But the people running things understood that judgment and even (*gasp*) a certain amount of risk taking were necessary. The MBA mentality is to boil everything down to simple minded formulas.
Now, with the MBA's, it is about making short-term profit.
They're not even doing that though. The chickens are coming home to roost, and I'm glad.
Likewise, Boeing used to make the best aircrafts (in both military AND commercial). The 787 is all about making short-term profit (in the same way that GE does).
But the 787 isn't making any short term profit either. Bad enough when they're only focused on short term profit, but even worse when they can't even do that. The difference between then and now is that Boeing management used to understand that the way to make lots of money is to make good planes, and that designing them is not cheap. If you want low NRE stay the hell out of the airplane biz.
From you know where:
These four families are represented as occupying a square (called a quad) divided into four parts, one family in each corner. The position of each item in a quad is important because the quad actually represents an equation purported by the Dramatica theory to represent the basic building block of thought.
This takes "formulaic" rather literally, but as Bill Shakespeare said, 4k structures ought to be enough for anybody.
Realize that the major demographic for movies are teenagers and early 20 somethings and you understand that this demographic has not yet developed the maturity or patience for investing any thinking power into changing their derivative lifestyles.
Wow, I thought I was an old fart. I don't think I'll be as bad as you until well after my corpse has fattened the worms.
I am *very* curious if there are actually cases that don't fit it.
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