I've got news for you. There's very little difference in the pay of a good electrician and a good electrical engineer.
The median salary for an electrician is $40,000. Not much, I guess, but the low end is fairly near the average, with most falling close to $40k, and less than 25% making as much as $80k/year. Right now, there's quite a shortage of electricians, and their pay is going up. Contractors, obviously, make much more than salaried electricians. There are also a lot more electricians than electrical engineers, I'd wager, and there's a lot more demand.
I'd rather take a job like an electrician, which requires little 'difficult' work (in terms of long work hours and high mental demands), work my 40, and have an almost-guaranteed source of income (being that the western world runs on electricity and wires, and all), for a smaller pay check, to be able to come home at night and have time and mental energy left to perform the tasks that I enjoy - for myself, not someone else.
Not that I'm an electrician or an EE; I'm just saying. I take it you're an electrical engineer and get all uppity at the comparision between EEs and electricians, along the lines of the fuss computer "engineers" get in over being called "techies"? Yeah, if so - get over yourself. Seriously. Let it go.
Well, the real clincher here would be the fact that Lithium ion battery cells have a much higher energy density than alkaline, nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride (sp?), or any of the other battery types (I can't think of any right now). So, you couldn't use "regular" AA or AAA batteries (1.5 and 1.2 volts, respectively, iirc) reasonably, without a significant mass of them (considering the ipod needs 11.1V).
Lithium Ion AAA cells are 3V - 3.6V (I think), or so. You could conceiveably take 4, throw a resistor in there (can't think of the ohm you'd need off hand), and take it down to the 11.1 volts needed. Not really knowing what an iPod looks like (I've not really examined one in person), but this is conceiveably possible with my limitted understanding. Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong.:)
I don't know if you'd be able to replace the internal battery when it dies, or if the damned thing is actually inside the ipod in an inconvenient fashion, but I -imagine- you could replace the internal battery (after it dies) with 4 lithium ion batteries and still charge them. I suspect that the ipod battery is simply a bunch of lion cells, anyway.
You can get 4 li-ion AAA energizer batteries for about $10. I don't know if all liion batteries are rechargeable, or if the energizier batteries are - I'd think they would be. (anyone know for sure?) If they were, taking the time to figure this out might be worth the mod (once the battery dies), as an external battery pack costs about $80.
Anyone have a link to anything else relating to the x2 megaview? A google search for "x2 megaview" only seems to turn up the article mentioned, and "x2 megaview mp3" doesn't do any better, with a paltry 126 results. You'd think I could at least find the product company's site, no? Must be quite a new company.
This device looks like it's got a lot of potential to be an nice portable linux tool. I like the ability to record audio, and the fact that it has a hard disk. This'd alieviate some of the irritation of having to use an SD card for storage, as on a Zaurus. Now, if only it had a host USB hub, or maybe even an infrared port, I'd be set. USB host/client hub would be ideal, though (and, of course, a keyboard that would work with it).
I wonder if I could run opie (or if it already has opie - doubt it, but that'd be cool) on it. I suspect it's quite capable of the task - and that too would be cool.
The problem stems from the fact that most people, liekly the people making the claims themselves, are fucking idiots. They can't make a critical assessment of anything and simply buy what they're told by those in "charge" - in this case, the people that are most visible and most publicly regarded as trustworthy (ie, MS).
MS is, in turn, seen as trustworthy, because "everyone uses it", it being Windows, a MS product. Everyone uses it, so it must be OK, right? This is the logic that is taught students in public schools, and has been for the last 50+ years, getting worse with each consecutive generation.
This really helps add credibility to the claim that blocking ads can help aid security, giving ad blocking credibility outside of the "I don't want to look at irritating banners" department.
How long until anti-virus software has built-in pop-up and ad blocking? It's past due.
Or not so surprisingly. Pentium M CPUs have a much larger bus (IIRC) than comparable CPUs, and thus can perform many more instructions per second per clock cycle than a similarly clocked Pentium 4 or Athlon XP (and I believe even the A64, with 32 bit code).
There's really nothing in the x86 implimentation right now which compares with the P-M, IMO. Price might be a little high, but performance per clock, power consumption, size, noise, and overall performance is pretty much tops.
I'd say the only thing preventing Intel from switching to P-M based chips at this point is a reluctance to ditch the research investment for their P4 and other chips (and likely the warehouses full of chips, I'd wager). As soon as the profit isn't worth the wait, we'll see a Pentium-M derived desktop model, I'd imagine - quickly followed by a laptop model that has even better power consumption, etc. than the current P-M.
Instead of having levels that take 300M of resident memory (or whatever), make more, smaller levels. They'll take less time to load, and can be called when needed.
Then quit for a week. You'll be back at it within two days, because "it's not a problem". Just do it to see if you can last a week.
The chemicals released by human orgasm shouldn't be under-estimated in their addictive powers. Sex has been the second most powerful driving force in shaping human society, bar only power.
Well, I applied for a sysadmin position at a large company a couple weeks ago, and had an initial phone interview about a week after that. I've been keeping up with the company, and apparently they've got almost thousands of applicants for the position.
Not saying they're all qualified, but that's tremendous response. ANother thing to consider is that gateway's original headquarters was out here (South Dakota), and they closed down all SD operations this past year - there are likely still a lot of people from GW that are looking for jobs. It's also not the best place to be looking for a job, either, being the midwest and all.
So how exactly is the rhetoric of what I said incorrect?
Either bad fossil evidence and jackalope-type fossil creation exists, and thus largely invalidates many evolutionary claims, or it doesn't.
You want more evidence? What about the so-called genetic progress that is claimed by evolutionists, when no genetic changes have been observed outside of mutations within a pre-defined range, and plain degregation/minimalization/consolidation of the genetic material?
There's a huge difference between basing your science of pre-conceived assumptions and basic your science on emperical evidence. Current evolutionary science practices tend to lean towards the former of the two by relying on the accepted theories of the day. This is the same kind of nonsense that was behind hundreds of years of the flat-world model of geography.
Your use of the term 'straw man argument' makes itevidently clear that you have no concept of what a strawman arguement is, let alone what a logical fallacy might be.
Finally, the web might be available in a form which we can actually do research on again. That'll be nice.
Google should make a "Hobbyist" portal which only has data on various hobbyist sites, such as RC cars/planes/etc., electronics, home automation, linux, anachronism, etc. That would tweak my noodle.
This would mean that humans likely lived on the earth at the same time as the dinosaur epochs. Wouldn't this shoot holes all through the "man evolved from apes" argument?
I'd be interested in seeing information on this. I've seen other evidence that supports man and dinosaur living together both in harmony and contrition from throughout the world (well, pictures of it, anyway) as early as the last several hundred years. I wonder how far back it goes?
Personally, I find it hard to believe that humans lived millions of years ago at all, regardless of what world view model is being used. It makes me wonder whether or not carbon dating is an accurate method.
We all belong to the Church of Divine Humanity, here. You know, God is Dead, and Man is God. Keeping an open mind is something a scientist would do, not someone that has an emotional investment in there not being an alternative which might in some way make us responsible for our decisions.
Of course. Just like a jackelope is a conceiveable ancestor of either deer or the rabbit, if half an antler were found near a rabbit's foot 10 feet down near some old pottery - in the same layer of soil which was dated by the bones found in it 100 yards away belonging to a sabertooth tiger, which as everyone knows died out 3 million - 10,000 years ago (and thus giving a nice small ballpark for us to reach a conclusion from).
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What makes this any different than someone performing open-heart surgery over the Internet?
Other than the fact that nobody is going to be intentionally in front of the gun, whereas people will be intentionally under the scalpel, that is. Don't tell me liability - people's records will be on file, so if someone gets shot, the culprit will be known.
Ok, what's the deal here? The article says 50,000 years ago, while the slashdot writeup says 25,000. Either this was an intentional snafu to catch people that don't read the articles - an inside joke - or it was severe stupidity.
Well, after this election, I'll believe anything...:P
Big freaking deal. They've found human footprints, tools, and ceramic artifacts in the SouthWest US, as well as in various parts of Central America, that date that old.
It's cheaper to try and find a copy of the original Half-Life online, and hoping to get a copy that hasn't been registered on steam yet (ebay or discount, what have you).
Sure, both cutting class and not coming to school is still an option. You can either give your ID card to a friend and walk in whenever you want (if at all). Then, provided they don't scan you as you enter classrooms, you're free.
IF they scan per class (doubtful, IMO), then you simply have your friend make another ID card handoff for you.
You realize that's a contradiction of terms, right?
A "one man team" is not a team any more than a single cat is a herd. Now, unless this one man is indeed someone like Tyler Derden, who doesn't seem to need to sleep, he won't be approaching a 'team'.
I don't suppose you know of a volume that contains all the known apocryphal books? That would be quite interesting indeed, as I've not seen such a compilation, nor read the majority of them.
I have two friends that played Metroid Prime for 12 or more hours a day for 3 weeks straight, and still didn't get anywhere near done with it (I think they said roughly half-way through).
If you think the mazes in the original Metroid films were convoluted and long, you've seen nothing yet. The Metroid Prime 2 game needs a better map system so it's not frustrating and maze-like.
There seems to be a lot of hyposesis that Atlantis was originally on the Antarctic continent, and that various things such as shifting poles resulted in drastic, permanent(10,000 years per permanent, at least) climate changes. Supposedly, prior to the pole shift, current North America was at the very north of the globe, and Antarctica was much closer to the Equator.
It seems that current scientists are completely overlooking Antarctica as a possible location, because the 'shifting poles' theory doesn't hold with many of them - or at least they don't believe an advanced civilization could have existed that long ago. Couple that with the incredibly expensive and difficult task of exploring beneat the ice sheets,and the unlikelyhood of ever finding anything due to tectonic ice destruction, and I doubt the establishment will ever look at Antarctica for such things.
Personally, it seems quite likely to me that there was a sea-faring civilization prior to the existence of our oldest historic monuments. There have been ancient plastics found with writing on them; there exists maps created over 7,000 years ago which show accuracy that wasn't able to be independently duplicated until we got satellites; there exists temples and other monuments throughout the world on geographically aligned points (which were likely built on pre-existing markers or monuments) by cultures that did not have the technology to make such alignments.
Everything, in my mind, points to the existence to a society of some type which predated anything we now know, and there seems to be enough colaborative evidence to support this. Check out, The Atlantis Blueprint for a fairly thorough, if not scatter brained, scientific analysis of the topic - it's quite good (if for entertainment value only).
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I've got news for you. There's very little difference in the pay of a good electrician and a good electrical engineer.
The median salary for an electrician is $40,000. Not much, I guess, but the low end is fairly near the average, with most falling close to $40k, and less than 25% making as much as $80k/year. Right now, there's quite a shortage of electricians, and their pay is going up. Contractors, obviously, make much more than salaried electricians. There are also a lot more electricians than electrical engineers, I'd wager, and there's a lot more demand.
I'd rather take a job like an electrician, which requires little 'difficult' work (in terms of long work hours and high mental demands), work my 40, and have an almost-guaranteed source of income (being that the western world runs on electricity and wires, and all), for a smaller pay check, to be able to come home at night and have time and mental energy left to perform the tasks that I enjoy - for myself, not someone else.
Not that I'm an electrician or an EE; I'm just saying. I take it you're an electrical engineer and get all uppity at the comparision between EEs and electricians, along the lines of the fuss computer "engineers" get in over being called "techies"? Yeah, if so - get over yourself. Seriously. Let it go.
Well, the real clincher here would be the fact that Lithium ion battery cells have a much higher energy density than alkaline, nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride (sp?), or any of the other battery types (I can't think of any right now). So, you couldn't use "regular" AA or AAA batteries (1.5 and 1.2 volts, respectively, iirc) reasonably, without a significant mass of them (considering the ipod needs 11.1V).
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Lithium Ion AAA cells are 3V - 3.6V (I think), or so. You could conceiveably take 4, throw a resistor in there (can't think of the ohm you'd need off hand), and take it down to the 11.1 volts needed. Not really knowing what an iPod looks like (I've not really examined one in person), but this is conceiveably possible with my limitted understanding. Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't know if you'd be able to replace the internal battery when it dies, or if the damned thing is actually inside the ipod in an inconvenient fashion, but I -imagine- you could replace the internal battery (after it dies) with 4 lithium ion batteries and still charge them. I suspect that the ipod battery is simply a bunch of lion cells, anyway.
You can get 4 li-ion AAA energizer batteries for about $10. I don't know if all liion batteries are rechargeable, or if the energizier batteries are - I'd think they would be. (anyone know for sure?) If they were, taking the time to figure this out might be worth the mod (once the battery dies), as an external battery pack costs about $80.
Anyone have a link to anything else relating to the x2 megaview? A google search for "x2 megaview" only seems to turn up the article mentioned, and "x2 megaview mp3" doesn't do any better, with a paltry 126 results. You'd think I could at least find the product company's site, no? Must be quite a new company.
This device looks like it's got a lot of potential to be an nice portable linux tool. I like the ability to record audio, and the fact that it has a hard disk. This'd alieviate some of the irritation of having to use an SD card for storage, as on a Zaurus. Now, if only it had a host USB hub, or maybe even an infrared port, I'd be set. USB host/client hub would be ideal, though (and, of course, a keyboard that would work with it).
I wonder if I could run opie (or if it already has opie - doubt it, but that'd be cool) on it. I suspect it's quite capable of the task - and that too would be cool.
The problem stems from the fact that most people, liekly the people making the claims themselves, are fucking idiots. They can't make a critical assessment of anything and simply buy what they're told by those in "charge" - in this case, the people that are most visible and most publicly regarded as trustworthy (ie, MS).
MS is, in turn, seen as trustworthy, because "everyone uses it", it being Windows, a MS product. Everyone uses it, so it must be OK, right? This is the logic that is taught students in public schools, and has been for the last 50+ years, getting worse with each consecutive generation.
This really helps add credibility to the claim that blocking ads can help aid security, giving ad blocking credibility outside of the "I don't want to look at irritating banners" department.
How long until anti-virus software has built-in pop-up and ad blocking? It's past due.
Or not so surprisingly. Pentium M CPUs have a much larger bus (IIRC) than comparable CPUs, and thus can perform many more instructions per second per clock cycle than a similarly clocked Pentium 4 or Athlon XP (and I believe even the A64, with 32 bit code).
There's really nothing in the x86 implimentation right now which compares with the P-M, IMO. Price might be a little high, but performance per clock, power consumption, size, noise, and overall performance is pretty much tops.
I'd say the only thing preventing Intel from switching to P-M based chips at this point is a reluctance to ditch the research investment for their P4 and other chips (and likely the warehouses full of chips, I'd wager). As soon as the profit isn't worth the wait, we'll see a Pentium-M derived desktop model, I'd imagine - quickly followed by a laptop model that has even better power consumption, etc. than the current P-M.
there are ways to do it.
Instead of having levels that take 300M of resident memory (or whatever), make more, smaller levels. They'll take less time to load, and can be called when needed.
Don't believe him?
Then quit for a week. You'll be back at it within two days, because "it's not a problem". Just do it to see if you can last a week.
The chemicals released by human orgasm shouldn't be under-estimated in their addictive powers. Sex has been the second most powerful driving force in shaping human society, bar only power.
Well, I applied for a sysadmin position at a large company a couple weeks ago, and had an initial phone interview about a week after that. I've been keeping up with the company, and apparently they've got almost thousands of applicants for the position.
Not saying they're all qualified, but that's tremendous response. ANother thing to consider is that gateway's original headquarters was out here (South Dakota), and they closed down all SD operations this past year - there are likely still a lot of people from GW that are looking for jobs. It's also not the best place to be looking for a job, either, being the midwest and all.
So how exactly is the rhetoric of what I said incorrect?
Either bad fossil evidence and jackalope-type fossil creation exists, and thus largely invalidates many evolutionary claims, or it doesn't.
You want more evidence? What about the so-called genetic progress that is claimed by evolutionists, when no genetic changes have been observed outside of mutations within a pre-defined range, and plain degregation/minimalization/consolidation of the genetic material?
There's a huge difference between basing your science of pre-conceived assumptions and basic your science on emperical evidence. Current evolutionary science practices tend to lean towards the former of the two by relying on the accepted theories of the day. This is the same kind of nonsense that was behind hundreds of years of the flat-world model of geography.
Your use of the term 'straw man argument' makes itevidently clear that you have no concept of what a strawman arguement is, let alone what a logical fallacy might be.
Finally, the web might be available in a form which we can actually do research on again. That'll be nice.
Google should make a "Hobbyist" portal which only has data on various hobbyist sites, such as RC cars/planes/etc., electronics, home automation, linux, anachronism, etc. That would tweak my noodle.
This would mean that humans likely lived on the earth at the same time as the dinosaur epochs. Wouldn't this shoot holes all through the "man evolved from apes" argument?
I'd be interested in seeing information on this. I've seen other evidence that supports man and dinosaur living together both in harmony and contrition from throughout the world (well, pictures of it, anyway) as early as the last several hundred years. I wonder how far back it goes?
Personally, I find it hard to believe that humans lived millions of years ago at all, regardless of what world view model is being used. It makes me wonder whether or not carbon dating is an accurate method.
No no, we can't do that.
We all belong to the Church of Divine Humanity, here. You know, God is Dead, and Man is God. Keeping an open mind is something a scientist would do, not someone that has an emotional investment in there not being an alternative which might in some way make us responsible for our decisions.
Of course. Just like a jackelope is a conceiveable ancestor of either deer or the rabbit, if half an antler were found near a rabbit's foot 10 feet down near some old pottery - in the same layer of soil which was dated by the bones found in it 100 yards away belonging to a sabertooth tiger, which as everyone knows died out 3 million - 10,000 years ago (and thus giving a nice small ballpark for us to reach a conclusion from).
What makes this any different than someone performing open-heart surgery over the Internet?
Other than the fact that nobody is going to be intentionally in front of the gun, whereas people will be intentionally under the scalpel, that is. Don't tell me liability - people's records will be on file, so if someone gets shot, the culprit will be known.
Ok, what's the deal here? The article says 50,000 years ago, while the slashdot writeup says 25,000. Either this was an intentional snafu to catch people that don't read the articles - an inside joke - or it was severe stupidity.
:P
Well, after this election, I'll believe anything...
Big freaking deal. They've found human footprints, tools, and ceramic artifacts in the SouthWest US, as well as in various parts of Central America, that date that old.
The same exact thing happened to me.
It's cheaper to try and find a copy of the original Half-Life online, and hoping to get a copy that hasn't been registered on steam yet (ebay or discount, what have you).
Your sig makes me twitch uncontrollably and provokes my post-traumatic stress syndrome - from this last goddamn election.
Seriously, do a public service and change your sig.
RFID tracking is data rape.
How about:
RFID tracking is freedom rape.
^ my new sig
Sure, both cutting class and not coming to school is still an option. You can either give your ID card to a friend and walk in whenever you want (if at all). Then, provided they don't scan you as you enter classrooms, you're free.
IF they scan per class (doubtful, IMO), then you simply have your friend make another ID card handoff for you.
"one man team"?
You realize that's a contradiction of terms, right?
A "one man team" is not a team any more than a single cat is a herd. Now, unless this one man is indeed someone like Tyler Derden, who doesn't seem to need to sleep, he won't be approaching a 'team'.
I don't suppose you know of a volume that contains all the known apocryphal books? That would be quite interesting indeed, as I've not seen such a compilation, nor read the majority of them.
I have two friends that played Metroid Prime for 12 or more hours a day for 3 weeks straight, and still didn't get anywhere near done with it (I think they said roughly half-way through).
If you think the mazes in the original Metroid films were convoluted and long, you've seen nothing yet. The Metroid Prime 2 game needs a better map system so it's not frustrating and maze-like.
There seems to be a lot of hyposesis that Atlantis was originally on the Antarctic continent, and that various things such as shifting poles resulted in drastic, permanent(10,000 years per permanent, at least) climate changes. Supposedly, prior to the pole shift, current North America was at the very north of the globe, and Antarctica was much closer to the Equator.
It seems that current scientists are completely overlooking Antarctica as a possible location, because the 'shifting poles' theory doesn't hold with many of them - or at least they don't believe an advanced civilization could have existed that long ago. Couple that with the incredibly expensive and difficult task of exploring beneat the ice sheets,and the unlikelyhood of ever finding anything due to tectonic ice destruction, and I doubt the establishment will ever look at Antarctica for such things.
Personally, it seems quite likely to me that there was a sea-faring civilization prior to the existence of our oldest historic monuments. There have been ancient plastics found with writing on them; there exists maps created over 7,000 years ago which show accuracy that wasn't able to be independently duplicated until we got satellites; there exists temples and other monuments throughout the world on geographically aligned points (which were likely built on pre-existing markers or monuments) by cultures that did not have the technology to make such alignments.
Everything, in my mind, points to the existence to a society of some type which predated anything we now know, and there seems to be enough colaborative evidence to support this. Check out, The Atlantis Blueprint for a fairly thorough, if not scatter brained, scientific analysis of the topic - it's quite good (if for entertainment value only).