The jobs site I linked to is an aggregator and should link off to the actual hiring sites for the various observatories. I didn't feel like linking to 8 or 10 different sites...;)
In some cases, the pay isn't stated up front. In others, they make it known what the minimum is.
The observatories are not in the habit of advertising positions that don't exist. It's not worth the trouble.
In this town, I'd say a living wage is $30K or a bit less, if you're single. With a family, a bit more. I don't know how much everybody makes, but it's not unreasonable to be making mid-$40K range after a year on the job (which may very well equal a year after graduating college), for stuff that doesn't even require grad school.
Highest-paid STEM job I know of in the state is the former director of the university's graduate Institute for Astronomy (now a researcher there) who's pulling in about $350K. But that's on another island, in a more expensive area.
Well, of course, even at an observatory, you've got managers and finance people (and secretaries, HR people, librarians, janitors, auto mechanics, sysadmins, programmers, etc etc etc).
My town is home to the base facilities for eight of the Mauna Kea Observatories, and we're looking at the Thirty Meter Telescope in the near future as well. Needless to say, there are pretty much alwaysjob openings for engineers, technicians, and PhDs. The catch? We're on an island, and some people get tired of that.
So Science Education/Public Outreach (SE/PO) is a part of life here. Pushing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) as good ways to make a better-than-average living is a part of life here. The scientists take over the local mall one day every spring. In late January, we take over the University for a "science day" in honor of Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka, for kids in grades 3-8, and NASA sends an astronaut each year. And around late February or early March, there's Journey Through The Universe.
I'm actually about to head to a nearby school to spend an hour talking about science careers to a classroom of 7th-graders, so I'm getting a real kick out of this article showing up right now. The other 9 classes I'm visiting over next Monday, Tuesday and Thursday are a bit younger - grades 1-3. The idea, though, is that from Kindergarten on, kids here are meeting real live people who work in science at observatories or other "famous science places" every year and are being encouraged to stay in school, take classes about STEM, look at college majors in STEM, and become qualified for those good jobs, so that we can hire people who are from here and would love to stay here.
Last year, I was told about one of the first success stories - a guy who was in 7th grade when they started visiting classes, and as a result of what he heard over the years, had picked a STEM major at the local university, and was now going to accompany a scientist to classes as a "community ambassador" sort of person.
I don't recall any Grammys going out to other people that created music authoring programs. That includes the programs that professionals use to author their recordings.
Actually, there's a type of Special Merit Award in the Producers/Engineers area, the "Technical Grammy," that's been given out since 1994 to "individuals and/or companies who have made contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field." I'm not sure how many of the people and companies listed are on the software side of things specifically - pretty sure 2012 winner Celemony is, and of course 2002 winner Apple, but a lot of the other names are unfamiliar.
Fair enough - I have Crossover Games (Wine-based) on my Mac for similar reasons. There are, of course, tradeoffs to this approach; you need space for the libraries, and you need to load them, and so on. Sure, it doesn't matter much on a laptop with 8GB of RAM, but on a phone... hmm. Might run the risk of slowing things down.
I think Keck's got near-IR interfometry working. I very strongly suspect VLT is doing near-IR as well, but the article doesn't say. And this use of an optical chip instead of mirrors... dunno.
I'm still waiting for the "Ohana" project that's supposed to link Keck 1+2, Subaru, Gemini, and maybe some of the 3-meter-class scopes near them through single-mode fiber. Maximum baseline if they build that? 800 meters, if I recall.
It's not the equivalent of a 130-meter diameter mirror; it's the equivalent of that mirror with all but four 8.2-meter diameter pieces of it blacked out. Yes, you can get a sharper image using interferometry, but your total light-gathering area is 211 square meters, not 13,273 square meters. That's going to affect exposure times. But still, it's cool.:)
Three questions: 1. Are we talking about mobile devices here? 2. Are we talking about the same Microsoft? 3. How many Windows Mobile 6.x devices were upgradeable to Windows Phone 7?
That appears to have been a response to "rumors" that WP8 would use a different kernel than WP7. So, since we're in a Slashdot story where a different kernel is being reported as fact, I'm going to guess that the.net and CLR bits described in other answers are the real reason for this to work.
Or forward. Or sideways. WP8 won't be binary compatible with WinCE-based WP7 (which itself wasn't compatible with WinCE-based WM6), nor with desktop Windows 8, nor with, apparently, any other OS that's ever existed. Sure hope they make it real easy for developers to build their existing code for WP8.
Oh, and it'll also be real interesting to see whether any WP7 devices can be upgraded to WP8.
I work for one of the 5 bodies under Japan's National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), which in turn is under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). It doesn't look like any of the bodies being consolidated are under NINS, but topically, it seems like they'd fall under MEXT, so I'm curious how they're currently organized.
On the flip side, Apple appears to be the only Foxconn customer who's doing audits and actually pressuring Foxconn to improve workers' lot in life - so maybe it makes more sense to get HP (Foxconn's second-biggest customer, from what I've read) and all the others up to that level of responsibility, instead of perversely punishing Apple for actually caring more than the rest of the industry.
But the song isn't really an Apple product, and certainly not one made by Chinese workers in poor conditions.
(That said, Kaiser Kuo, the Chinese-American tech blogger in Beijing, has an awesome metal band called Chun Qiu ("Spring and Autumn") whose eponymous album is available on the iTunes store. But he's not working for little pay in poor conditions.)
In terms of physical products that are probably assembled at Foxconn, the Apple Remote and various cables are about $19 each. But I suspect few workers are doing hands-on assembly of such simple products. Maybe the $49 iPod Shuffle? I'm definitely not going to buy one of those now.
The question is, how does this compare to other factories in China? Better or worse? Because if the working conditions at Apple's Chinese partners are on par with or better than the conditions at other Chinese factories, then we had better boycott *all* Chinese-produced products and not just those shiny Apple toys.
The conditions are comparable to other Chinese factories, but the Foxconn workers assembling Apple toys are, from everything I've read, given better pay and benefits. I've been to China a couple times and have friends there; it's quite common for companies in the manufacturing sector to provide on-site dormitories where workers sleep during the week, only going home on weekends - even office workers, who might only work 8 hours a day, 6 days a week. And although I haven't seen worker dormitories, some college girls took me back to their dorm, and what would be a 2-bed dorm room in America, in China has 6 bunk beds, sleeping 12 people total. (No desks, television, mini-fridge or video games, though.)
Here in the US, I work 12-15 hour night shifts in hazardous conditions, 3-7 nights in a row, and sleep in a dormitory room, but I don't have to share the room with 11 other people, and I don't have to do it every week. My Chinese friends have it rough.
You've told us what you can't do. To parrot career advice from the guy in the Dos Equis commercials, "Find what it is in life you're not good at... and then don't do that thing."
But what skills or experience do you already have? If you have any skills or experience out of the ordinary, you might be able to leverage them into interesting work-at-home gigs.
Example 1: I spent a few years as a web developer at a well-known travel dot-com, ending about a decade ago. Five years later, some folks for whom I occasionally consult (completely unrelated to the travel business) needed someone to coordinate flights all over the world for their consultants, and someone pointed out that I had "worked in the travel business." I'd never been an actual travel agent, but I'd had to maintain databases of things like airport and airline codes, and had a pretty good feel for what airlines flew where, so I was able to leverage that for a couple years of pretty interesting work, from home, at a decent hourly rate.
Example 2: As a two-time college dropout with a variety of tech skills, I had a part-time job at a university operating and troubleshooting some equipment used for research by grad students, professors, and a big multi-national research collaboration based at a national laboratory in the next state. The collaboration folks communicated using, of all things, an AIM chatroom - and since I was the only operator who was enough of a techie to chat with them, they wound up adopting me, teaching me to take data for them, and eventually getting me a part-time position as research staff "at" a (much better) university, working from home taking data for them.
So if you already have any skills that aren't in a state of immense oversupply, you might be more able to find work leveraging them, instead of learning a little bit of something a lot of other people already know a little bit of, and then trying to compete with everyone else.
Unlike the continental US, Hawai'i doesn't benefit from a geographically diverse grid.
This is true. There's talk about running high-voltage undersea cables from Maui County to Oahu, but right now, most of the islands are isolated, power-wise.
When it's cloudy, it's cloudy over all of Hawai'i. When it's not windy, it's not windy anywhere. An oversimplification to be sure, but fundamentally the continental US has much more diverse weather at any given time [plus many more total hours of sunlight], which means that it's not subject to the wild swings of non-dispatchable weather-impacted renewables that Hawai'i is.
This is... complete and utter nonsense. Have you ever been to Hawaii? Do you know anything about the geography of Hawaii? Do you have any idea how far apart the islands in Hawaii are? Do you understand how weather interacts with mountains almost 14,000 feet high? The answer to at least two or three of these is clearly a resounding "no."
In the Hawaii city I live in, we have a saying: if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes or walk a block.
The smartphone of his choice (iOS pretty definitely, Android probably) should apps available that will let him image some text, OCR it, and then either zoom in on it or speak it to him.
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Yes, you do! I actually flew over to Maui to help with SE/PO for the NASA "Deep Impact" mission back in 2005. :)
The jobs site I linked to is an aggregator and should link off to the actual hiring sites for the various observatories. I didn't feel like linking to 8 or 10 different sites... ;)
In some cases, the pay isn't stated up front. In others, they make it known what the minimum is.
The observatories are not in the habit of advertising positions that don't exist. It's not worth the trouble.
In this town, I'd say a living wage is $30K or a bit less, if you're single. With a family, a bit more. I don't know how much everybody makes, but it's not unreasonable to be making mid-$40K range after a year on the job (which may very well equal a year after graduating college), for stuff that doesn't even require grad school.
Highest-paid STEM job I know of in the state is the former director of the university's graduate Institute for Astronomy (now a researcher there) who's pulling in about $350K. But that's on another island, in a more expensive area.
Well, of course, even at an observatory, you've got managers and finance people (and secretaries, HR people, librarians, janitors, auto mechanics, sysadmins, programmers, etc etc etc).
My town is home to the base facilities for eight of the Mauna Kea Observatories, and we're looking at the Thirty Meter Telescope in the near future as well. Needless to say, there are pretty much always job openings for engineers, technicians, and PhDs. The catch? We're on an island, and some people get tired of that.
So Science Education/Public Outreach (SE/PO) is a part of life here. Pushing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) as good ways to make a better-than-average living is a part of life here. The scientists take over the local mall one day every spring. In late January, we take over the University for a "science day" in honor of Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka, for kids in grades 3-8, and NASA sends an astronaut each year. And around late February or early March, there's Journey Through The Universe.
I'm actually about to head to a nearby school to spend an hour talking about science careers to a classroom of 7th-graders, so I'm getting a real kick out of this article showing up right now. The other 9 classes I'm visiting over next Monday, Tuesday and Thursday are a bit younger - grades 1-3. The idea, though, is that from Kindergarten on, kids here are meeting real live people who work in science at observatories or other "famous science places" every year and are being encouraged to stay in school, take classes about STEM, look at college majors in STEM, and become qualified for those good jobs, so that we can hire people who are from here and would love to stay here.
Last year, I was told about one of the first success stories - a guy who was in 7th grade when they started visiting classes, and as a result of what he heard over the years, had picked a STEM major at the local university, and was now going to accompany a scientist to classes as a "community ambassador" sort of person.
As in, requires a Japanese IP? I can come up with one of those, probably!
Or, as in, requires a Japanese IP and a .jp address? That's harder.
Haven't all other BlackBerry devices for the last nine years had native email? Kind of a glaring omission in version 1.0 of the PlayBook.
But oh well, I'm sure the few Canadians who got a good deal on them will be happy.
http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/producers-and-engineers/awards indicates that Sony/Philips (1998), Georg Neumann GmbH (1999), AMS Neve plc (2000) and Digidesign (2001) won technical grammies as companies, before Apple. Also, as individuals, Thomas Stockham (1994 - really "the first technical Grammy"), Ray Dolby (1995), Rupert Neve (1997), George Massenburg (1998), Bill Putnam (2000), and Les Paul (2001).
(Wikipedia links provided just in case anyone hasn't heard of some of those winners, or doesn't know what they won for.)
I don't recall any Grammys going out to other people that created music authoring programs. That includes the programs that professionals use to author their recordings.
Actually, there's a type of Special Merit Award in the Producers/Engineers area, the "Technical Grammy," that's been given out since 1994 to "individuals and/or companies who have made contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field." I'm not sure how many of the people and companies listed are on the software side of things specifically - pretty sure 2012 winner Celemony is, and of course 2002 winner Apple, but a lot of the other names are unfamiliar.
See: http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/producers-and-engineers/awards
Fair enough - I have Crossover Games (Wine-based) on my Mac for similar reasons. There are, of course, tradeoffs to this approach; you need space for the libraries, and you need to load them, and so on. Sure, it doesn't matter much on a laptop with 8GB of RAM, but on a phone... hmm. Might run the risk of slowing things down.
I think Keck's got near-IR interfometry working. I very strongly suspect VLT is doing near-IR as well, but the article doesn't say. And this use of an optical chip instead of mirrors... dunno.
I'm still waiting for the "Ohana" project that's supposed to link Keck 1+2, Subaru, Gemini, and maybe some of the 3-meter-class scopes near them through single-mode fiber. Maximum baseline if they build that? 800 meters, if I recall.
It's not the equivalent of a 130-meter diameter mirror; it's the equivalent of that mirror with all but four 8.2-meter diameter pieces of it blacked out. Yes, you can get a sharper image using interferometry, but your total light-gathering area is 211 square meters, not 13,273 square meters. That's going to affect exposure times. But still, it's cool. :)
Three questions:
1. Are we talking about mobile devices here?
2. Are we talking about the same Microsoft?
3. How many Windows Mobile 6.x devices were upgradeable to Windows Phone 7?
That appears to have been a response to "rumors" that WP8 would use a different kernel than WP7. So, since we're in a Slashdot story where a different kernel is being reported as fact, I'm going to guess that the .net and CLR bits described in other answers are the real reason for this to work.
Or forward. Or sideways. WP8 won't be binary compatible with WinCE-based WP7 (which itself wasn't compatible with WinCE-based WM6), nor with desktop Windows 8, nor with, apparently, any other OS that's ever existed. Sure hope they make it real easy for developers to build their existing code for WP8.
Oh, and it'll also be real interesting to see whether any WP7 devices can be upgraded to WP8.
I work for one of the 5 bodies under Japan's National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), which in turn is under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). It doesn't look like any of the bodies being consolidated are under NINS, but topically, it seems like they'd fall under MEXT, so I'm curious how they're currently organized.
So, let's see it defend.
On the flip side, Apple appears to be the only Foxconn customer who's doing audits and actually pressuring Foxconn to improve workers' lot in life - so maybe it makes more sense to get HP (Foxconn's second-biggest customer, from what I've read) and all the others up to that level of responsibility, instead of perversely punishing Apple for actually caring more than the rest of the industry.
But the song isn't really an Apple product, and certainly not one made by Chinese workers in poor conditions.
(That said, Kaiser Kuo, the Chinese-American tech blogger in Beijing, has an awesome metal band called Chun Qiu ("Spring and Autumn") whose eponymous album is available on the iTunes store. But he's not working for little pay in poor conditions.)
In terms of physical products that are probably assembled at Foxconn, the Apple Remote and various cables are about $19 each. But I suspect few workers are doing hands-on assembly of such simple products. Maybe the $49 iPod Shuffle? I'm definitely not going to buy one of those now.
That's what the 11 other people in their bunk room are for, silly.
The question is, how does this compare to other factories in China? Better or worse? Because if the working conditions at Apple's Chinese partners are on par with or better than the conditions at other Chinese factories, then we had better boycott *all* Chinese-produced products and not just those shiny Apple toys.
The conditions are comparable to other Chinese factories, but the Foxconn workers assembling Apple toys are, from everything I've read, given better pay and benefits. I've been to China a couple times and have friends there; it's quite common for companies in the manufacturing sector to provide on-site dormitories where workers sleep during the week, only going home on weekends - even office workers, who might only work 8 hours a day, 6 days a week. And although I haven't seen worker dormitories, some college girls took me back to their dorm, and what would be a 2-bed dorm room in America, in China has 6 bunk beds, sleeping 12 people total. (No desks, television, mini-fridge or video games, though.)
Here in the US, I work 12-15 hour night shifts in hazardous conditions, 3-7 nights in a row, and sleep in a dormitory room, but I don't have to share the room with 11 other people, and I don't have to do it every week. My Chinese friends have it rough.
You've told us what you can't do. To parrot career advice from the guy in the Dos Equis commercials, "Find what it is in life you're not good at... and then don't do that thing."
But what skills or experience do you already have? If you have any skills or experience out of the ordinary, you might be able to leverage them into interesting work-at-home gigs.
Example 1: I spent a few years as a web developer at a well-known travel dot-com, ending about a decade ago. Five years later, some folks for whom I occasionally consult (completely unrelated to the travel business) needed someone to coordinate flights all over the world for their consultants, and someone pointed out that I had "worked in the travel business." I'd never been an actual travel agent, but I'd had to maintain databases of things like airport and airline codes, and had a pretty good feel for what airlines flew where, so I was able to leverage that for a couple years of pretty interesting work, from home, at a decent hourly rate.
Example 2: As a two-time college dropout with a variety of tech skills, I had a part-time job at a university operating and troubleshooting some equipment used for research by grad students, professors, and a big multi-national research collaboration based at a national laboratory in the next state. The collaboration folks communicated using, of all things, an AIM chatroom - and since I was the only operator who was enough of a techie to chat with them, they wound up adopting me, teaching me to take data for them, and eventually getting me a part-time position as research staff "at" a (much better) university, working from home taking data for them.
So if you already have any skills that aren't in a state of immense oversupply, you might be more able to find work leveraging them, instead of learning a little bit of something a lot of other people already know a little bit of, and then trying to compete with everyone else.
Paging the young inventor to the white courtesy phone, please.
Unlike the continental US, Hawai'i doesn't benefit from a geographically diverse grid.
This is true. There's talk about running high-voltage undersea cables from Maui County to Oahu, but right now, most of the islands are isolated, power-wise.
When it's cloudy, it's cloudy over all of Hawai'i. When it's not windy, it's not windy anywhere. An oversimplification to be sure, but fundamentally the continental US has much more diverse weather at any given time [plus many more total hours of sunlight], which means that it's not subject to the wild swings of non-dispatchable weather-impacted renewables that Hawai'i is.
This is... complete and utter nonsense. Have you ever been to Hawaii? Do you know anything about the geography of Hawaii? Do you have any idea how far apart the islands in Hawaii are? Do you understand how weather interacts with mountains almost 14,000 feet high? The answer to at least two or three of these is clearly a resounding "no."
In the Hawaii city I live in, we have a saying: if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes or walk a block.
Plenty of reputable schools have offered online programs for ages, and nobody's complained about that before.
So is the problem now that they're talking about making them free, and nobody who has paid for something wants someone else to get it for free?
This sounds a lot like the complaining about scholarships for minorities and the disadvantaged.
The smartphone of his choice (iOS pretty definitely, Android probably) should apps available that will let him image some text, OCR it, and then either zoom in on it or speak it to him.