As a player of civilization, I can say that even if you I did not play the industry path, other players would easily ruin the world without my help. I can see that this works in real life as well.
Bombardier is French. And of all the things the French despise, the Germans are very high on the list.
Siemens is German and of all the things the Germans hate, the French are very high on the list.
And many customers, among which the Dutch railway company Prorail for which I have worked, prefers to buy material from as many different vendors as possible, to prevent vendor lock-in.
So the company that made the TGV and holds the world speed record for rail with it, and the company that made the ICE, the most comfortable high speed rail in the world, will not be working together soon.
Hopefully that will be in time. Here we have to teach 3rd year science students who struggle with for loops and who cannot come to grasp with allocatable arrays. It is despairing.
And because it is an electric car, we get 73% of the purchase price back here (Netherlands), because of tax related stuff. So this car effectively costs a quarter of the listed price. Not bad.
There are two possible levels: One is to look up at the night sky, and identify what you see, and be able to tell fascinating facts about it to your children and and wife. Another level is to sit down at a desk and to do the computations.
For the first, you need a telescope and the internet.
For the second, you will first need to keep you math up to scratch, and then look what area you want to look into. Stellar evolution (small things) or Cosmology (big things). For Stellar evolution, you will need quantum mechanics (although not too much), for cosmology, you will need general relativity (quite a lot of it). Knowledge about this can be obtained through text books.
When countries like China (and North Korea, Middle Eastern countries, etc) start blocking something, it is a clear indication the authors have been doing a very good job. Better than a hundred reviews. I will switch to duckduckgo today.
While the IS stuff is rather a hot news item, I do not agree that slashdot is really the place for it. One of the reasons I look at Slashdot is to get a nice newsfeed without 5 items per day about wild muslims.
According to sales, you do not want to flaunt knowledge that is not fashionable, almost as if it is something you have to be ashamed of. I have a rather heavy simulation program that worked fairly well, and we prepare to get it to run in parallel on a cluster. Marketing asked whether we could also makes a version that runs on apple deviced... Really... That was the moment when I decided I had to go.
The sales droid suffered from a severe case of buzzworditis. The company contracted me as a scientific programmer, which I am, but tried to get me to learn Java, and similar, and building GUIs. There was a misunderstanding between 'technical' and 'scientific' and sales people did not understand the difference. The term 'simulation' refered to simulation of machines, with SCADA interfaces etc, and not the simulation of physical processes, such as CFD. Not only did I not like that, I was also bad at it. My current employer suits me perfectly, though.:-)
I have been making a living by coding in Fortran for the past 5 years.
An interesting conversation between the detachment company I worked for and one of its potential clients:
client: Do you have anybody who writes Fortran?
employer: Sorry, that is too old, we do not do anything with that.
client: But one of your employees (me) has on his linked in profile that he is a Fortran programmer
employer: he must have forgotten to update it, but we will have a look
client: please do.
And a month later I was working at the client. had a really cool time for ten months. All you have to do is present clearly that you are skilled at it, because otherwise everybody will think you have made a mistake.
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I never said it was going to be easy, or fast... ;-)
To actually *go* there!
A big company... promising anything... Bwahahahahahaahahaha! Actually it is worth weeping over.
As a player of civilization, I can say that even if you I did not play the industry path, other players would easily ruin the world without my help. I can see that this works in real life as well.
Bombardier is French. And of all the things the French despise, the Germans are very high on the list. Siemens is German and of all the things the Germans hate, the French are very high on the list. And many customers, among which the Dutch railway company Prorail for which I have worked, prefers to buy material from as many different vendors as possible, to prevent vendor lock-in. So the company that made the TGV and holds the world speed record for rail with it, and the company that made the ICE, the most comfortable high speed rail in the world, will not be working together soon.
What if we could get Bombardier en Siemens to work together on building trains? Within ten years, nobody would want to travel by car again!
Hopefully that will be in time. Here we have to teach 3rd year science students who struggle with for loops and who cannot come to grasp with allocatable arrays. It is despairing.
Did anybody seriously even consider that they would not do that?
Is it on purpose that there are only American schools? I see nothing from Europe and Japan, for example. It seems terribly unbalanced.
But this approaching sport with science. It has become a number game. Is the temperature too high? Forget it. Is your VO2 incorrect, you're screwed.
At most 120 minutes
Tax Euros in this case, but in essence the same thing.
Heard it from a tax advisor who knows all the loop holes in the system. You have to pay them for advice, but it is usually worth it.
And because it is an electric car, we get 73% of the purchase price back here (Netherlands), because of tax related stuff. So this car effectively costs a quarter of the listed price. Not bad.
But that would reduce genetic diversity, requiring more people overall.
Torque is the answer. In millimeters.
It should be moved to the trash with a considerable amount of furlongs per fortnight.
It is better to have a good password written down somewhere, than using the name of your dog and knowing it by hard.
There are two possible levels: One is to look up at the night sky, and identify what you see, and be able to tell fascinating facts about it to your children and and wife. Another level is to sit down at a desk and to do the computations.
For the first, you need a telescope and the internet.
For the second, you will first need to keep you math up to scratch, and then look what area you want to look into. Stellar evolution (small things) or Cosmology (big things). For Stellar evolution, you will need quantum mechanics (although not too much), for cosmology, you will need general relativity (quite a lot of it). Knowledge about this can be obtained through text books.
Either way, good luck!
When countries like China (and North Korea, Middle Eastern countries, etc) start blocking something, it is a clear indication the authors have been doing a very good job. Better than a hundred reviews. I will switch to duckduckgo today.
You had a golden opportunity to use the classic quote: "They can take away our lives, but they can never take away our whisky!"
While the IS stuff is rather a hot news item, I do not agree that slashdot is really the place for it. One of the reasons I look at Slashdot is to get a nice newsfeed without 5 items per day about wild muslims.
According to sales, you do not want to flaunt knowledge that is not fashionable, almost as if it is something you have to be ashamed of. I have a rather heavy simulation program that worked fairly well, and we prepare to get it to run in parallel on a cluster. Marketing asked whether we could also makes a version that runs on apple deviced... Really... That was the moment when I decided I had to go.
The sales droid suffered from a severe case of buzzworditis. The company contracted me as a scientific programmer, which I am, but tried to get me to learn Java, and similar, and building GUIs. There was a misunderstanding between 'technical' and 'scientific' and sales people did not understand the difference. The term 'simulation' refered to simulation of machines, with SCADA interfaces etc, and not the simulation of physical processes, such as CFD. Not only did I not like that, I was also bad at it. My current employer suits me perfectly, though. :-)
I have been making a living by coding in Fortran for the past 5 years. An interesting conversation between the detachment company I worked for and one of its potential clients:
client: Do you have anybody who writes Fortran?
employer: Sorry, that is too old, we do not do anything with that.
client: But one of your employees (me) has on his linked in profile that he is a Fortran programmer
employer: he must have forgotten to update it, but we will have a look
client: please do.
And a month later I was working at the client. had a really cool time for ten months. All you have to do is present clearly that you are skilled at it, because otherwise everybody will think you have made a mistake.