I wouldn't say I got taken for a ride... I just got paid a local salary, in which there is a lot of variation. Internships in India, I'm told, are often unpaid, so the fact that I made more than some of my coworkers who were permanent employees tells me it was fair.
The company did tell me it would be quite impractical for me, but it was the only internhip offer I got so I took it. It was definitely a great cultural experience to live in Pune for 6 months.
I'm an American. I took an internship in India because I thought it would be interesting, which it was.
I was paid 6000 rupees per month, or about $140. Some of my coworkers made 5000/month, one of my roommates made 5000/month as a programmer, a guy selling shirts outside a grocery store also made 5000/month. My graphic designer roommate made 30000/month.
And no, I had a hard time living on that money even there. One time I got my 6000 rupees to last me 3 weeks, but that was a stretch.
the main sensor to see how much fuel to squirt in is either an intake manifold pressure sensor or an intake airflow sensor.
the oxygen sensor (in the exhaust) is used after the fact to compensate for altitude and other crap. If this was the only way the engine decided how much fuel to inject it would be really laggy. (horribly slow throttle response)
i'm just an EE student pondering using an AVR microcontroller to do this stuff, so I'm not quite sure about all of it either.
I think the aryan-german connection was just a Hitlerian fantasy because he percieved the Aryans as a conquering race and figured they must be the ancestors of the Germans after learning the linguistic connection.
or something like that.
common cultural traits don't imply common genetics
This article reminded me of some of the things I've been thinking about lately.
A couple of years ago I thought I should try and write and operating system, just to learn some of the concepts. Initially I figured I would just do some kind of basic vanilla windows 3.1-like system with no security, no memory protection, etc.
Then I realized just how nice memory protection was. So I figured I'd do that. I read something about the HURD and then I thought microkernels were the way to go, (even though what I read could be just as easily done with a monolithic system). Then I learned C++, and despite the fact that it's a hideous language, I realized that object orientation was kind of a natural way to abstract things. Then I read more about microkernel systems like QNX that use IPC so heavily, and realized this could lead to some interesting and powerful stuff.
After rolling around ideas in my head for a couple of years, I've finally started sketching up some ideas on paper, and even made a web page. I'd be very interested if people would check it out. (http://www.sperklabs.com/sperkos) Perhaps some of the ideas would inspire somebody smarter to start another operating system project. I'm starting to actually code stuff, and I still have a LOT of stuff to ponder and design, so intelligent feedback would be cool.
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I wouldn't say I got taken for a ride... I just got paid a local salary, in which there is a lot of variation. Internships in India, I'm told, are often unpaid, so the fact that I made more than some of my coworkers who were permanent employees tells me it was fair.
The company did tell me it would be quite impractical for me, but it was the only internhip offer I got so I took it. It was definitely a great cultural experience to live in Pune for 6 months.
I'm an American. I took an internship in India because I thought it would be interesting, which it was.
I was paid 6000 rupees per month, or about $140. Some of my coworkers made 5000/month, one of my roommates made 5000/month as a programmer, a guy selling shirts outside a grocery store also made 5000/month. My graphic designer roommate made 30000/month.
And no, I had a hard time living on that money even there. One time I got my 6000 rupees to last me 3 weeks, but that was a stretch.
the main sensor to see how much fuel to squirt in is either an intake manifold pressure sensor or an intake airflow sensor.
the oxygen sensor (in the exhaust) is used after the fact to compensate for altitude and other crap. If this was the only way the engine decided how much fuel to inject it would be really laggy. (horribly slow throttle response)
i'm just an EE student pondering using an AVR microcontroller to do this stuff, so I'm not quite sure about all of it either.
Shit. you go to Caltech and you don't know the difference between GROSS WEIGHT and how much the vehicle weighs EMPTY?
1985 Jeep Cherokee
2.5L 4-banger
no air conditioning
AM Radio
3090 pounds
this was weighed at a salvage yard using the jeep to haul in scrap aluminum. I'd think their scales are accurate.
Why is a context switch worse on x86 than PPC???
x86 has less registers to save.
I think the aryan-german connection was just a Hitlerian fantasy because he percieved the Aryans as a conquering race and figured they must be the ancestors of the Germans after learning the linguistic connection.
or something like that.
common cultural traits don't imply common genetics
actually, the greek letter 'rho' looks like a p
Coulombs is CHARGE.
Farads is CAPACITANCE.
CAPACITANCE is charge per unit voltage. Thus, charge and capacitance can not have any equivalence.
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x86 has done this since the introduction of the Pentium Pro.
Even before that. The Cyrix 6x86 chips and AMD K5 and K6 chips had out-of-order execution too.
And the Win2K box was a quad Xeon...
but the Linux box was a 386sx.
I don't know about the others but XINE has some kind of aalib output plugin so you can watch your movies on a text console.
You couldn't get hard drive interfaces manufactured for $14 a piece for something that will draw as little interest as this.
ProDOS supported 32mb partitions, so i'm assuming the $14 is for a 32mb flash card.
This article reminded me of some of the things I've been thinking about lately.
A couple of years ago I thought I should try and write and operating system, just to learn some of the concepts. Initially I figured I would just do some kind of basic vanilla windows 3.1-like system with no security, no memory protection, etc.
Then I realized just how nice memory protection was. So I figured I'd do that. I read something about the HURD and then I thought microkernels were the way to go, (even though what I read could be just as easily done with a monolithic system). Then I learned C++, and despite the fact that it's a hideous language, I realized that object orientation was kind of a natural way to abstract things. Then I read more about microkernel systems like QNX that use IPC so heavily, and realized this could lead to some interesting and powerful stuff.
After rolling around ideas in my head for a couple of years, I've finally started sketching up some ideas on paper, and even made a web page. I'd be very interested if people would check it out. (http://www.sperklabs.com/sperkos) Perhaps some of the ideas would inspire somebody smarter to start another operating system project. I'm starting to actually code stuff, and I still have a LOT of stuff to ponder and design, so intelligent feedback would be cool.