While the students may become knowledgeable in a subject I doubt many employers would give Joey with his Masters degree from Udacity a job over someone with a Masters degree or even a Bachelors degree from an established mainstream university or college. If the applicant had experience as well, possibly, but not a new grad.
I have to agree with your comment about learning DE, I failed differential equations the first time I took the class (a D-grade) I was taking engineering course work at the time that required them - and what they actaully "meant" clicked in an electrical networks class - when I took the class again (my university had a 1 time grade forgiveness policy) I got an A - it seemed trivial and simple the second time around in a different context. I general I have mathematics makes mroe sense to me personally when I can relate it to a real world problem - Mathematics taught as rote learning is a horrible thing - some of us can't do it that way....
although if you are going to drive a car that gets such dismal gas mileage as a Lambo then living in an oil rich country is probably a good move - come to think of it when I was going to college the first Lamborghini Countach I ever saw was being driven by some rich kid from Saudi Arabia
I read the challenge areas, basically it's all the things that the guys working at NASA should be doing, if the Federal Government hadn't slashed their already inadequate budget to the point where it is now nothing more than a bunch of bureaucrats doing time.... So now some organization called the "Lunar and Planetary Institute" a division of "Universities Space Research Association" - to quote: "USRA engages the creativity and authoritative expertise of the research community to develop and deliver sophisticated, forward-looking solutions to Federal agencies and other customers - on schedule and within budget."... wants free ideas - must not be getting any good ones from their "authoritative experts in the research community....lol
I read the headline for this story and laughed - it doesn't matter how much faster my computers or networks get - Our IT department just installs more and more virus scanners, software maintenance tools, firewalls, monitoring tools,etc.... Each computer I get has more CPU cores and memory and faster graphics and they are able to do less and less and take longer and longer to boot. I figure before too long I'll have to go back to my old TI-30 calculator and some engineering graph paper and I'll be equal in efficiency to my computer once I factor in all the time I spend waiting for it to get around to sparing.5% of the 12 CPU cores to run the actual software I need to use....
exactly what I was thinking - basically a Tesla oil - high frequency, high voltage. Didn't know that when I was a kid messing with high voltage I was also killing bacteria on my skin....
it's also a little bit of BS - there is a tremendous amount of spectrum, not only is there spectrum that is inefficiently used there is also spectrum that is just beginning to become useable due to advances in technology. I hardly believe that white space TV spectrum is the last bastion of wireless communications.....
its pretty frightening - not sure I want my spinal column along the vertical acceleration vector, I have enough back problems as it is ! I'll pass on this - I like thrills but this seems slightly insane
I started to post on a similar vein - couldn't agree more. You couldn't pay me to put this guy up in my house, although I have cats, children and a host of other things that he find displeasure and disdain in - think I'll go out and pick up some diet coke and a couple of pounds of blue cheese.
I gave up this battle a LONG time ago my anonymous friend - I have always loved the technical interchange on Slashdot and have gotten a lot out of it in the many years I've been a reader , and I think it would be fair to say that engineers who design drones to kill terrorists are regular subscribers - but Slashdot has become more of a political platform in recent years and it is quite left leaning - I truly wish stuff like this would NOT get posted to Slashdot - it only serves to divide the group and breed hate. The level of technical content for this story so far has been non-existent so in my mind it has thus far no redeeming content including this post.
I think the point is that taking down the government web sites serve no purpose and might even be beneficial to the drug cartels, it just doesn't make any real sense to me.
that's a fact, but in reality it is human nature to not be humane - we've been killing each of for thousands of years for land, riches, over religious ideologies, or just for power.... The first Empires in the true definition were Middle Eastern and North African, its kind of ironic in my opinion - I don't think humans will ever have the utopian Star Trek world, but it would be nice....
by the Webster definition of sabotage - it fits. Although it was hard from being "passively" interfered with, GPS antennas on most military aircraft are designed to be resistant to jamming (usually through spatial diversity) however if a sufficiently strong signal is directed at you it all comes down to physics and can the GPS receiver recover the small satellite signals out of the noise. I wouldn't be surprised if the aircraft in question was being tracked with a ground based radar and the GPS jammer was directionally aimed at the aircraft.
I read the presentation and I found it interesting because of the challenges of developing the interface for a wide variety of platforms with vastly differing capabilities. I am in a constant battle with my own software guys to get them to develop for a lower performance hardware, instead of always giving me code that needs the next generation hardware to have an acceptable user experience. Sometime I miss the old days when software developers HAD to think about the hardware they were running on and optimize their software appropriately. I can remember when some software would actually run TOO fast when it was run on newer faster computers....Those days are long gone, many of the software guys I know have little understanding of what goes on under the hood and really don't care unfortunately - I am going to make sure some of them read this presentation
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While the students may become knowledgeable in a subject I doubt many employers would give Joey with his Masters degree from Udacity a job over someone with a Masters degree or even a Bachelors degree from an established mainstream university or college. If the applicant had experience as well, possibly, but not a new grad.
I have to agree with your comment about learning DE, I failed differential equations the first time I took the class (a D-grade) I was taking engineering course work at the time that required them - and what they actaully "meant" clicked in an electrical networks class - when I took the class again (my university had a 1 time grade forgiveness policy) I got an A - it seemed trivial and simple the second time around in a different context. I general I have mathematics makes mroe sense to me personally when I can relate it to a real world problem - Mathematics taught as rote learning is a horrible thing - some of us can't do it that way....
although if you are going to drive a car that gets such dismal gas mileage as a Lambo then living in an oil rich country is probably a good move - come to think of it when I was going to college the first Lamborghini Countach I ever saw was being driven by some rich kid from Saudi Arabia
I read the challenge areas, basically it's all the things that the guys working at NASA should be doing, if the Federal Government hadn't slashed their already inadequate budget to the point where it is now nothing more than a bunch of bureaucrats doing time.... So now some organization called the "Lunar and Planetary Institute" a division of "Universities Space Research Association" - to quote: "USRA engages the creativity and authoritative expertise of the research community to develop and deliver sophisticated, forward-looking solutions to Federal agencies and other customers - on schedule and within budget." ... wants free ideas - must not be getting any good ones from their "authoritative experts in the research community....lol
I read the headline for this story and laughed - it doesn't matter how much faster my computers or networks get - Our IT department just installs more and more virus scanners, software maintenance tools, firewalls, monitoring tools ,etc.... Each computer I get has more CPU cores and memory and faster graphics and they are able to do less and less and take longer and longer to boot. I figure before too long I'll have to go back to my old TI-30 calculator and some engineering graph paper and I'll be equal in efficiency to my computer once I factor in all the time I spend waiting for it to get around to sparing .5% of the 12 CPU cores to run the actual software I need to use....
lets see how their map server handles a good old fashioned Slashdotting !
exactly what I was thinking - basically a Tesla oil - high frequency, high voltage. Didn't know that when I was a kid messing with high voltage I was also killing bacteria on my skin....
why should I listen to a government organization that thinks my GPS should not have a moving map - it's laughable....
Hoverboard !
if they thought they could tax the air we breath they'd do it....
it's also a little bit of BS - there is a tremendous amount of spectrum, not only is there spectrum that is inefficiently used there is also spectrum that is just beginning to become useable due to advances in technology. I hardly believe that white space TV spectrum is the last bastion of wireless communications.....
on the road to higher priced software.... as soon as Insurance and lawyers get involved we're screwed
yup, a little stale - there several different ways that is done now
omnistar, egnos, and Starfire are all satellite based augmentation systems that allow increased GPS accuracy
couldn't have said it better - excellent post ! If I had mod points they'd be yours parent !
its pretty frightening - not sure I want my spinal column along the vertical acceleration vector, I have enough back problems as it is !
I'll pass on this - I like thrills but this seems slightly insane
I started to post on a similar vein - couldn't agree more. You couldn't pay me to put this guy up in my house, although I have cats, children and a host of other things that he find displeasure and disdain in - think I'll go out and pick up some diet coke and a couple of pounds of blue cheese.
As long as it wasn't made in a third world sweatshop, stuffed with cat hair, or Coca Cola branded you'd probably be OK....
I gave up this battle a LONG time ago my anonymous friend - I have always loved the technical interchange on Slashdot and have gotten a lot out of it in the many years I've been a reader , and I think it would be fair to say that engineers who design drones to kill terrorists are regular subscribers - but Slashdot has become more of a political platform in recent years and it is quite left leaning - I truly wish stuff like this would NOT get posted to Slashdot - it only serves to divide the group and breed hate. The level of technical content for this story so far has been non-existent so in my mind it has thus far no redeeming content including this post.
don't forget the Millennium Falcon can fly too - I've seen it on the big screen !
also its 5 millions dollars per checked bag - no carry on
more than likely its a one way ticket for the investors to bankruptcy....
I think the point is that taking down the government web sites serve no purpose and might even be beneficial to the drug cartels, it just doesn't make any real sense to me.
that's a fact, but in reality it is human nature to not be humane - we've been killing each of for thousands of years for land, riches, over religious ideologies, or just for power.... The first Empires in the true definition were Middle Eastern and North African, its kind of ironic in my opinion - I don't think humans will ever have the utopian Star Trek world, but it would be nice....
by the Webster definition of sabotage - it fits. Although it was hard from being "passively" interfered with, GPS antennas on most military aircraft are designed to be resistant to jamming (usually through spatial diversity) however if a sufficiently strong signal is directed at you it all comes down to physics and can the GPS receiver recover the small satellite signals out of the noise. I wouldn't be surprised if the aircraft in question was being tracked with a ground based radar and the GPS jammer was directionally aimed at the aircraft.
I read the presentation and I found it interesting because of the challenges of developing the interface for a wide variety of platforms with vastly differing capabilities. I am in a constant battle with my own software guys to get them to develop for a lower performance hardware, instead of always giving me code that needs the next generation hardware to have an acceptable user experience. Sometime I miss the old days when software developers HAD to think about the hardware they were running on and optimize their software appropriately. I can remember when some software would actually run TOO fast when it was run on newer faster computers....Those days are long gone, many of the software guys I know have little understanding of what goes on under the hood and really don't care unfortunately - I am going to make sure some of them read this presentation