The energy cost of maintaining a near-vacuum in very large containers, such as hundreds or thousand of kilometers of tube, and keeping magnets cold enough to be superconducting over such a distance is not to be underestimated.
If I would spend 1200 $ on a mobile telephone, it should last at least a month on a full battery, and last at least a decade in total and almost-everything-proof.
Zero boxes checked. Next.
Three weeks ago I got my first smartphone, because my girlfriend insists we use whatsapp. A four year old marvel of technology. I would rather go back to my old Sonim XP3.20 phone. Buttons are great.
Well, cars in the US are dirt cheap. Even petrol cars. A Mustang 5.0 V8 Fastback is about 38.5k $ in the US, new. It is about 115k $ equivalent in euro in Holland. That, and 8.5 $ equivalent per gallon of gas. Americans have just really been spoiled when it comes to tax on cars, so it is hard to make a comparison. 'Twice as expensive as in the US' can still be a pretty sweet deal.
Just like Volkswagen. US Customers get millions, and the European customers still pay a thousand per year in tax for having a Diesel car, without seeing any of it back. The sue-culture is apparently good for something...
Thanks a lot!
In exchange, I can advise you to get a 'Numerical Recipes in [language of your choice]'.
And if you need any complex snippet of code, make sure that John Burkhardt has not already written it for you:
https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jbu...
Have a great weekend!
As a fellow scientific programmer, I am curious to some of those "I've read a few outstanding books on the subject since then."
Could you be so kind as to give me a few pointers? Thanks a lot!
Python is hip, but there is still a lot of work in the (in my eyes more stable) languages of olden days. I have worked for the first half of 2012 year on a Fortran project, for example, that is still expanding.
For job security, strangely enough, COBOL is the language of choice. If you do not mind all its quirks, you can work at a bank for the rest of your life. Banks have huge database mainframes that run on COBOL and for them it is cheaper to keep them up and running than to replace them by more contemporary server hardware, because they are smart enough to see that replacing such hardware has more consequences than just having the server room in a mess for two days. These COBOL mainframes are likely to stick around for several more decades. Moreover, because COBOL programmers are a rarity, the pay is not too bad either.
I always had the faint residual of an idea there is such a thing as 'parents' who come in to the picture when children are about to do something that is not good for them. That these carbon based lifeforms have a function of guiding children through early life, which includes warning them of marketing bastards and teaching them to think for themselves before they believe anything to see and hear and read.
But that idea might be caused by social phenomena of the previous century...
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Well, warranties on electronics have a legal minimum of two years in most of Europe. I wonder how Apple will solve this.
The energy cost of maintaining a near-vacuum in very large containers, such as hundreds or thousand of kilometers of tube, and keeping magnets cold enough to be superconducting over such a distance is not to be underestimated.
If I would spend 1200 $ on a mobile telephone, it should last at least a month on a full battery, and last at least a decade in total and almost-everything-proof. Zero boxes checked. Next.
Three weeks ago I got my first smartphone, because my girlfriend insists we use whatsapp. A four year old marvel of technology. I would rather go back to my old Sonim XP3.20 phone. Buttons are great.
Well, cars in the US are dirt cheap. Even petrol cars. A Mustang 5.0 V8 Fastback is about 38.5k $ in the US, new. It is about 115k $ equivalent in euro in Holland. That, and 8.5 $ equivalent per gallon of gas. Americans have just really been spoiled when it comes to tax on cars, so it is hard to make a comparison. 'Twice as expensive as in the US' can still be a pretty sweet deal.
Just like Volkswagen. US Customers get millions, and the European customers still pay a thousand per year in tax for having a Diesel car, without seeing any of it back. The sue-culture is apparently good for something...
So that is how you become the big banana in the business.
Thanks a lot! In exchange, I can advise you to get a 'Numerical Recipes in [language of your choice]'. And if you need any complex snippet of code, make sure that John Burkhardt has not already written it for you: https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jbu... Have a great weekend!
As a fellow scientific programmer, I am curious to some of those "I've read a few outstanding books on the subject since then." Could you be so kind as to give me a few pointers? Thanks a lot!
...especially prior to elections! The promise mountains of gold... until the elections are over.
So Drake was right after all. There is life everywhere.
They treat girls equal to boys. Allowing girls to read is of course an abomination unto the eyes of muslims.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/13/
Python is hip, but there is still a lot of work in the (in my eyes more stable) languages of olden days. I have worked for the first half of 2012 year on a Fortran project, for example, that is still expanding. For job security, strangely enough, COBOL is the language of choice. If you do not mind all its quirks, you can work at a bank for the rest of your life. Banks have huge database mainframes that run on COBOL and for them it is cheaper to keep them up and running than to replace them by more contemporary server hardware, because they are smart enough to see that replacing such hardware has more consequences than just having the server room in a mess for two days. These COBOL mainframes are likely to stick around for several more decades. Moreover, because COBOL programmers are a rarity, the pay is not too bad either.
I always had the faint residual of an idea there is such a thing as 'parents' who come in to the picture when children are about to do something that is not good for them. That these carbon based lifeforms have a function of guiding children through early life, which includes warning them of marketing bastards and teaching them to think for themselves before they believe anything to see and hear and read. But that idea might be caused by social phenomena of the previous century...