Regarding your scenario.... *which* side was it again with an over reliance on technology?
However in response to your post, many (not all) military vehicles are hardened to some degree to EMP.
Also, at Paxtuxent River MD the capacitors that are used to generate an EMP (used to test Navy aircraft in this regard) are the size of a semi trailer. This is just the capacitors (i have laid eyes on them) - and the generated EMP is tiny.
A feasable EMP generator is known as an atomic bomb - but use one of those against the US and see what happens.
I believe that his basic premis can be extended: "If it can be thought, it can be done." It almost seems that we (as humans) can only envision that which is possible - within some undefined metalogical framework. What I mean is, if it can be expressed in a way that is ultimately not contradictory in , then it is possible.
Forget that A/C fool down below. My advice: learn as much as you can as a side hobby. Have some code to take in to show them. Know the toolkits and environments.
Show them that not only are you willing to learn, but that you have already taking care of the "Hello World" stage and are moving past the trivial. Come equipped with real questions about your side project if you are stuck on something.
Then, creatively craft a resume around these skills (but again don;t lie). be honest. Tell them you are willing to work like a dog but are still learning, and be willing to take a 10-15% pay hit if need be but a shrewd negotiator should be able to not have to.
After 17 years of writing application code - I just got sick and tired of sockets, threads, and shitty toolkits like MFC, GTK, and Qt.
Not that these constructs will ever truely disappear from my life, but christ that got old.
So I took the plunge, dusted off my (very dated) assember and architecture texts, revisted a couple of device drivers I wrote in the course of getting my masters, then convinced an employer to hire me at my current salary level to write device drivers and learn FPGA programming (Verilog).
They said "OK - be a *very* quick learner and we will keep you for longer than four months."
Yet CS is the department in which programming is taught. Hence the tendency for one to equate the two (CS and application programming).
Not long ago "computer science" didn't even exist: it was all taught in math departments. Once it became quite clear that most developer types can't handle vector calculus that changed.
Yet I wonder - what is computer science without the ability to actually program the computer? Discrete math, algorithms, and some theory. Interesting, but (not quite) useless.
You are correct in one regard, wrong in another. The degrees are worthwhile, the education is laughable. At work I wrote software that sent telemetry from ABM interceptor to ground range systems. I would then go to class to learn things like "Fundementals of Object Oriented Programming" and write Hello World in Smalltalk. But I digress.
Yet schools make tons of money from their patents - tuition increases anyway 15% a year. Oh well - it is all a racket anyway so I guess it doesn't matter.
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Or any variation of so called structured BASIC? Seems like a completely different (set of) language(s) to me, in all but name.
And if the flea decodes the elephants genome, then clones another elephant?
....how cute!
The only body language you need to watch to know if a politician is lying is any movement of their lips.
...seems to be lost in the fanboy fluff.
maybe they could put an ash or two on the next deep space probe.
Rest in peace.
Just a simple request.
Regarding your scenario.... *which* side was it again with an over reliance on technology?
However in response to your post, many (not all) military vehicles are hardened to some degree to EMP.
Also, at Paxtuxent River MD the capacitors that are used to generate an EMP (used to test Navy aircraft in this regard) are the size of a semi trailer. This is just the capacitors (i have laid eyes on them) - and the generated EMP is tiny.
A feasable EMP generator is known as an atomic bomb - but use one of those against the US and see what happens.
What I meant was: ultimately not contradictory in (some metalogical framework that logic and language only approximates}, then it is possible.
My bad for putting that in an HTML tag like expression (and not previewing first).
"Cogito ergo sum"
I think therefore I am. (Loose translation).
I believe that his basic premis can be extended: "If it can be thought, it can be done." It almost seems that we (as humans) can only envision that which is possible - within some undefined metalogical framework. What I mean is, if it can be expressed in a way that is ultimately not contradictory in , then it is possible.
How will you address domestically launched attacks?
They are still there you know. Down in their silos. Waiting to show us all the real meaning of 'dystopian'.
But hey, lets worry about Google Streets.
...is nothing to get excited about.
Much less get ones panties in a wad over.
"set-top boxes and is ubiquitous on mobile phones"
Neither use you cite is a true embedded application.
I bet this would sell better than one might think.
Are you sure that wasn't actually the Brownstar program? The one that uses volatile compressed organic compounds to launch giant gas bombs?
Forget that A/C fool down below. My advice: learn as much as you can as a side hobby. Have some code to take in to show them. Know the toolkits and environments.
Show them that not only are you willing to learn, but that you have already taking care of the "Hello World" stage and are moving past the trivial. Come equipped with real questions about your side project if you are stuck on something.
Then, creatively craft a resume around these skills (but again don;t lie). be honest. Tell them you are willing to work like a dog but are still learning, and be willing to take a 10-15% pay hit if need be but a shrewd negotiator should be able to not have to.
After 17 years of writing application code - I just got sick and tired of sockets, threads, and shitty toolkits like MFC, GTK, and Qt.
Not that these constructs will ever truely disappear from my life, but christ that got old.
So I took the plunge, dusted off my (very dated) assember and architecture texts, revisted a couple of device drivers I wrote in the course of getting my masters, then convinced an employer to hire me at my current salary level to write device drivers and learn FPGA programming (Verilog).
They said "OK - be a *very* quick learner and we will keep you for longer than four months."
Sounds like a deal to me.
Yet CS is the department in which programming is taught. Hence the tendency for one to equate the two (CS and application programming).
Not long ago "computer science" didn't even exist: it was all taught in math departments. Once it became quite clear that most developer types can't handle vector calculus that changed.
Yet I wonder - what is computer science without the ability to actually program the computer? Discrete math, algorithms, and some theory. Interesting, but (not quite) useless.
nothing more. US, Europe, really any "Western" (i.e. rich) society is cancer to their impoverished eyes.
You are correct in one regard, wrong in another. The degrees are worthwhile, the education is laughable. At work I wrote software that sent telemetry from ABM interceptor to ground range systems. I would then go to class to learn things like "Fundementals of Object Oriented Programming" and write Hello World in Smalltalk. But I digress.
Yet schools make tons of money from their patents - tuition increases anyway 15% a year. Oh well - it is all a racket anyway so I guess it doesn't matter.
...seemes to be ignored in this 'study'.
...then I want my taxes (not to mention tuition) back.
Or atleast the part of my taxes that went to the university (in my case Maryland and Hopkins).
I always suspected modern computers were well beyond the ability of human invention.
...so why bother? If you must take an old P2 laptop that you can treat as disposable.
Buy a bunch of Compact Flash cards and mail your pics home. Assuming they dont get your camera too.