My old S60 series Nokia - it has offline maps, with driving instructions (and voice guidance) and a working GPS. I got a car-window mount and a recharger for that (cost about â 10) and now it serves as a navigator in my car. I connect it via USB every few months to load in the latest map data, but other than that, it now lives in the glove compartment when not in use.
I got my MSc 10 years ago. Anyway, I'm not sure how these would apply to your situation (wanting both MSc and PhD), but basically I immediately enrolled for post-graduate studies afterwards. I didn't pick any topic for dissertation or anything like that - for the next 7 years I basically did all the required coursework. Typically it was like 1 or 2 seminar courses each semester, so it was typically one afternoon a week. I didn't really have a study plan as such - seminar courses were interesting for their own sake because the courses were structured around stuff that people were really doing.
For example, one course was about P2P networking, DHT algorithms and so on, and a group came in with a variant of Bittorrent that organised the chunks so that BT could be used for streaming. (This was like 2005-2006). At the time, it was a very good way to keep oneself informed on the latest developments without sacrificing too much time.
Anyway, in 2009, I had basically done all the courses, and partially by chance I got laid off with a rather nice severance package, at which point the professor who's going to oversee my defense on Friday called me and asked if I'd like to come and work in his team as a researcher and create the actual thesis. At the same time an ex-colleague (who had been at the same company) got in touch and basically told me that the academia is going to do squat with the CCIE - they have this little network shop going on and if I like, I could work for them as much as my time would permit. The arrangement worked out rather beautifully....for example, I could incorporate real-world problems from our customers to my research work as well.
So the only real advice I can give - unless you are really going for full-steam career in academia and a tenured professor option - stay in touch with industry somehow (part time, consultancies, even participate in trade shows if nothing else). In academia, it is really easy to seal yourself to that ivory tower that has no bearing on real-world issues and lives from one grant money to the next. Even in completely academic circles, it's possible to maintain that touch - besides everything else, for me it meant regular trips to IETF, which is not something you can exactly classify as a conference. (And at least I got my name as an author on a single RFC to show for it).
I'm going to defend my PhD dissertation on Friday, actually. Anyway, the problem is that in academia, there's sometimes a big disconnect between what's happening in "the real world".
Anyway, the way I've handled it is that I've basically kept my feet in both camps. Throughout the research work I also worked part-time for a consultancy (now full time since I'm done). I'm also a CCIE. PhD alone might mean "an absent-minded professor" to a recruiter, but combined with credentials from industry side I've at least so far gotten the feeling that it's a big selling point. Which might mean more $$$$.
Most clients will NOT be happy if a hot sweaty engineer turns up on a bike (even if he did then do an excellent job because he wasn't scared of climbing through a few ducts to find issues).
Depends, if the hot sweaty engineer knows what he is doing. A bit off topic, but kind of fits...
My colleague in sales told of an engineer he used to work with in his previous company - the engineer took a vacation - went basically off the grid for 5 days, surviving by hunting and fishing in the wilderness. Afterwards, he was driving home on the early hours of Monday morning, intending to shower, change and go to work. However, he got a call stating that he'd be immediately needed at customer site to give out technical details on implementation - no time to freshen up.
So a guy who has been better part of a week in a forest, basically with one set of changes in clothing shows up, unshaven, hair in tangles, and reeks of gutted fish...and completely unprepared gave such a presentation that the customer was sold on the solution. Afterwards the sales guy heard comments that the technical presentation was clearly the most convincing of the ones seen so far...and only presentation tool he used was a whiteboard.
So, sometimes, it's the substance that matters. Same sales guy has told me to preferably show up to meetings with technical or geeky T-shirts, or the customer wouldn't get the impression that we actually have the skills (his view is that if I'd show up in a suit, the customer would get the impression that we are just some sleazy people in suits who are all glitter and no competence). I have no objections...He actually told me the previous anecode as his reasoning why.
I mean, Lync (with federations and so on) pretty much covers every "locally admistered" instant messaging + file sharing + desktop sharing + voice + video needs you have...and it works across organization boundaries. So what is Yammer for?
Since you included fantasy. Works perfectly. My friend is currently reading it one chapter a night for her 7-year-old - and he just loves it.
On the sci-fi-side, others have mentioned lots of examples - but you could try giving him book versions of Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back - and then the Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy. Not so serious but the stories flow smoothly. And they have space battles with lots of turbolasers.
Get a Palo alto firewall. You can filter by application, and even make firewall rules like "allow reading of facebook, but disallow posting", or even "disable attachments".
Like I said in grandparent, I have been able to make using Latex tolerable by using Lyx. Only problem is that if there's some newfangled class that doesn't have a corresponding Lyx layout I have to somehow try to make one...and that's not really all that easy.
The fact that if I typo it to \cite{some_booky} it doesn't compile. And unless I rigorously recompile after every edit, I might not even catch that. Worse if the brace is missing.
What's unfriendly about the following entry?
It's in a separate file, for starters.
Also, you need to run Latex *twice* to get it working properly (the first time generates the.aux and then you can do it again). Oh right, creating a makefile is apparently easy for everyone.
And like I said, if you forget a comma at the end of the line, it doesn't work.
Oh, I guess I could just use readily-made citations that I can copypaste in from ieeexplore and the like? Well, guess what, the readily available bibtex exports are crap. For example, the bibtex containing all RFC:s (http://tm.uka.de/~bless/bibrfcindex.html) have all sorts of stuff in them that shouldn't be included (including standardization status and what RFC's it obsoletes). When I wrote my latest paper to Elsevier that included lots of RFC references, I basically had to run that.bib through a bunch of perl scripts with lots of regexps to get rid of all the cruft. Same has happened with most other readily made citations. At least the Word's XML has enough of the damn fields that you can pick'n'choose what to include in the reference. With bibtex, I have basically resorted to turning everything into @MISC.
So easy....not.
Only problem I have with Word's citation mechanism is that there isn't an easy way to get citations directly that format, but I have been using Bibutils (from http://sourceforge.net/p/bibutils/home/Bibutils/ ) to get back'n'forth between various formats.
I'll give Latex that it produces the most neatest documents there are, but to get that far you end up fighting all sorts of indicate details far too much. Don't even get started on how to create a new document class - if your text doesn't quite work with any of the provided classes and you'd like to create your own styles, good luck.
...and floats, and tables, and formatting of said tables, and different kinds of list styles, and,....
I've written several papers using Lyx, which fortunately manages to hide most of the annoying things of Latex. But it's *not* friendly. And don't even get started on Bibtex..Not that MS Word's XML-based system is any better, but at least I don't have to worry about mystical compliation errors due to an extra comma.
The only problem with MS Word is that unless explicitly configured to enforce usage of styles (and not just directly choosing fonts), you'll end up with bunch of documents that are pain to maintain.
Doom used a DOS extender. As such, you could pretty much have all your drivers in base memory without any of that UMB mangling.
Ultima VII and the Voodoo Memory Management (http://ultima.wikia.com/wiki/Voodoo_Memory_Manager) on the other hand....required a lots of base memory and you really couldn't run anything like EMM386 reliably. Was...interesting to get Ultima VII working with 2MBs of RAM.
On the other hand, CCIE's written portion goes can be done with "grab questions online and learn by rote", if you like. The lab exam is great, though (and they specifically include stuff like "cisco-proprietary" and "standards-based" approaches). Granted, I really haven't found that much use for all the stuff about BGP confererations in real life...and I also never do access lists with bitwise masks they seem to love (like 255.255.252.255 - it just makes config much less readable). But most of the material *is* applicable to real work.
I was under the impression that stars, any star really, is continually increasing its stock of heavier elements. From Helium to Iron, and that these elements settle in the core in a layered fashion ordered by their atomic weights. Then as it goes through its life cycles the star is progressively consuming heavier and heavier elements until there's little more than Iron left in the core and only then does it go kablooey.
"The onion of elements" happens at the end of star's life (or exiting of main sequence), but until then, there's plenty of hydrogen in core. Once star goes red giant, it has a helium core fusing to carbon (and hydrogen still fusing to helium in the mantle). If there's enough mass, the carbon core can start fusing neon, and so on all the way to iron. However, the full range with all the layers only happens in the most massive stars that finally explode as supernovas. And the main sequence is all about fusing hydrogen.
I wouldn't worry too much. The article mentions China. The Great Firewall is leaking like mad - unless you *completely* cut off the Internet, you cannot block it. The US is so tied to the rest of the world, so this North Korea-approach is not feasible there.
And once the cat is out of the bag and even the random mom just perusing Facebook is aware of Tor and Onion Routing, this becomes unenforceable. Fine, it might turn into a boondoggle like the fabulous war on drugs...but has no real effect on Internet users (of any skill set).
In my experience, if you show up on e-mail lists and teleconferences, you are considered active, but "inhuman" in the sense that people no longer have idea on what *exactly* are you doing, what's your supposed workload, and so on. So instead of human resource, you become just a resource, a gray eminence that lives only in electronic form.
I have been at a new job, primarily doing it remotely when possible for half a year now, and typically my only on-site jaunts will be to customer premises. As such, I'm not too often at the office.
Solution: HD-level videoconferencing. Since I can partake in meetings with 50" screens at the office end, my presence is not only felt, but it's rather imposing:). (My home has smaller, desktop videophone). The HD quality *is* necessary - if you appear as bunch of DCT blocks used by older systems, the effect is not much beyond normal (voice) teleconference.
Anyway, consider possibilities of video for remote participation.
Mind you, Pidgin's OCS plugin really works only for chat. Not for desktop sharing, video chat, etc. The web access version requires Silverlight (Moonlight doesn't work).
I'm glad that Outlook's Web Access is really usable these days (Since Exchange 2010, it's no longer tailored only for IE). Only thing I'd wish is that the "rich" web interface would allow me to reply in plaintext (light one allows that). HTML is not for e-mail.
The Interplanetary Internet has been adapted for more general purposes as DTN (Delay-Tolerant Networks). There are plenty of applications on besides space, such as acoustic networks - you can basically send out bits with sonar pulses. Used a lot in e.g. underwater sensor networks in oceans (monitoring currents and whatnot). They send data to buoys on the surface as sound and the buoys then send it onwards with radio. However, since the power is provided by solar panels, there's only enough power for the transmission during daytime. Long delays for messages en-route.
Not only for oceans either; In e.g. mine tunnels where cabling is troublesome and wireless signals don't really work, you can send a lot of data by simply banging on the rock hard enough - the bitrate just isn't too great and neither is latency.
You have had some stints into more "educational" shows, such as Rescue 911. Do you have any specific yet so far unrealized ambitions and topics for an educational TV series or a (documentary?) movie? Perhaps something in the vein of e.g. Mythbusters?
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You know, like implementing things like IPv6 and UTF-8 support.
My old S60 series Nokia - it has offline maps, with driving instructions (and voice guidance) and a working GPS. I got a car-window mount and a recharger for that (cost about â 10) and now it serves as a navigator in my car. I connect it via USB every few months to load in the latest map data, but other than that, it now lives in the glove compartment when not in use.
I got my MSc 10 years ago. Anyway, I'm not sure how these would apply to your situation (wanting both MSc and PhD), but basically I immediately enrolled for post-graduate studies afterwards. I didn't pick any topic for dissertation or anything like that - for the next 7 years I basically did all the required coursework. Typically it was like 1 or 2 seminar courses each semester, so it was typically one afternoon a week. I didn't really have a study plan as such - seminar courses were interesting for their own sake because the courses were structured around stuff that people were really doing.
For example, one course was about P2P networking, DHT algorithms and so on, and a group came in with a variant of Bittorrent that organised the chunks so that BT could be used for streaming. (This was like 2005-2006). At the time, it was a very good way to keep oneself informed on the latest developments without sacrificing too much time.
Anyway, in 2009, I had basically done all the courses, and partially by chance I got laid off with a rather nice severance package, at which point the professor who's going to oversee my defense on Friday called me and asked if I'd like to come and work in his team as a researcher and create the actual thesis. At the same time an ex-colleague (who had been at the same company) got in touch and basically told me that the academia is going to do squat with the CCIE - they have this little network shop going on and if I like, I could work for them as much as my time would permit. The arrangement worked out rather beautifully....for example, I could incorporate real-world problems from our customers to my research work as well.
So the only real advice I can give - unless you are really going for full-steam career in academia and a tenured professor option - stay in touch with industry somehow (part time, consultancies, even participate in trade shows if nothing else). In academia, it is really easy to seal yourself to that ivory tower that has no bearing on real-world issues and lives from one grant money to the next. Even in completely academic circles, it's possible to maintain that touch - besides everything else, for me it meant regular trips to IETF, which is not something you can exactly classify as a conference. (And at least I got my name as an author on a single RFC to show for it).
I'm going to defend my PhD dissertation on Friday, actually. Anyway, the problem is that in academia, there's sometimes a big disconnect between what's happening in "the real world".
Anyway, the way I've handled it is that I've basically kept my feet in both camps. Throughout the research work I also worked part-time for a consultancy (now full time since I'm done). I'm also a CCIE. PhD alone might mean "an absent-minded professor" to a recruiter, but combined with credentials from industry side I've at least so far gotten the feeling that it's a big selling point. Which might mean more $$$$.
Most clients will NOT be happy if a hot sweaty engineer turns up on a bike (even if he did then do an excellent job because he wasn't scared of climbing through a few ducts to find issues).
Depends, if the hot sweaty engineer knows what he is doing. A bit off topic, but kind of fits...
My colleague in sales told of an engineer he used to work with in his previous company - the engineer took a vacation - went basically off the grid for 5 days, surviving by hunting and fishing in the wilderness. Afterwards, he was driving home on the early hours of Monday morning, intending to shower, change and go to work. However, he got a call stating that he'd be immediately needed at customer site to give out technical details on implementation - no time to freshen up.
So a guy who has been better part of a week in a forest, basically with one set of changes in clothing shows up, unshaven, hair in tangles, and reeks of gutted fish...and completely unprepared gave such a presentation that the customer was sold on the solution. Afterwards the sales guy heard comments that the technical presentation was clearly the most convincing of the ones seen so far...and only presentation tool he used was a whiteboard.
So, sometimes, it's the substance that matters. Same sales guy has told me to preferably show up to meetings with technical or geeky T-shirts, or the customer wouldn't get the impression that we actually have the skills (his view is that if I'd show up in a suit, the customer would get the impression that we are just some sleazy people in suits who are all glitter and no competence). I have no objections...He actually told me the previous anecode as his reasoning why.
I mean, Lync (with federations and so on) pretty much covers every "locally admistered" instant messaging + file sharing + desktop sharing + voice + video needs you have...and it works across organization boundaries. So what is Yammer for?
Since you included fantasy. Works perfectly. My friend is currently reading it one chapter a night for her 7-year-old - and he just loves it.
On the sci-fi-side, others have mentioned lots of examples - but you could try giving him book versions of Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back - and then the Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy. Not so serious but the stories flow smoothly. And they have space battles with lots of turbolasers.
This is only true if your definition of "full-featured" does not include KMS or complete XRandR support.
They added XRandR 1.2/1.3 support in 302-series.
See e.g. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyMDk
Get a Palo alto firewall. You can filter by application, and even make firewall rules like "allow reading of facebook, but disallow posting", or even "disable attachments".
Of course, you didn't exactly specify budget...
It looks more like Don Martin to me...
Interestingly, the specifications (below the image of the processor box) say "Multi-core: Dual core", not just the item name...
Like I said in grandparent, I have been able to make using Latex tolerable by using Lyx. Only problem is that if there's some newfangled class that doesn't have a corresponding Lyx layout I have to somehow try to make one...and that's not really all that easy.
What's unfriendly about the following command?
\cite{some_book}
The fact that if I typo it to \cite{some_booky} it doesn't compile. And unless I rigorously recompile after every edit, I might not even catch that. Worse if the brace is missing.
What's unfriendly about the following entry?
It's in a separate file, for starters.
Also, you need to run Latex *twice* to get it working properly (the first time generates the .aux and then you can do it again). Oh right, creating a makefile is apparently easy for everyone.
And like I said, if you forget a comma at the end of the line, it doesn't work.
Oh, I guess I could just use readily-made citations that I can copypaste in from ieeexplore and the like? Well, guess what, the readily available bibtex exports are crap. For example, the bibtex containing all RFC:s (http://tm.uka.de/~bless/bibrfcindex.html) have all sorts of stuff in them that shouldn't be included (including standardization status and what RFC's it obsoletes). When I wrote my latest paper to Elsevier that included lots of RFC references, I basically had to run that .bib through a bunch of perl scripts with lots of regexps to get rid of all the cruft. Same has happened with most other readily made citations. At least the Word's XML has enough of the damn fields that you can pick'n'choose what to include in the reference. With bibtex, I have basically resorted to turning everything into @MISC.
So easy....not.
Only problem I have with Word's citation mechanism is that there isn't an easy way to get citations directly that format, but I have been using Bibutils (from http://sourceforge.net/p/bibutils/home/Bibutils/ ) to get back'n'forth between various formats.
I'll give Latex that it produces the most neatest documents there are, but to get that far you end up fighting all sorts of indicate details far too much. Don't even get started on how to create a new document class - if your text doesn't quite work with any of the provided classes and you'd like to create your own styles, good luck.
...and floats, and tables, and formatting of said tables, and different kinds of list styles, and,....
I've written several papers using Lyx, which fortunately manages to hide most of the annoying things of Latex. But it's *not* friendly. And don't even get started on Bibtex..Not that MS Word's XML-based system is any better, but at least I don't have to worry about mystical compliation errors due to an extra comma.
The only problem with MS Word is that unless explicitly configured to enforce usage of styles (and not just directly choosing fonts), you'll end up with bunch of documents that are pain to maintain.
Doom used a DOS extender. As such, you could pretty much have all your drivers in base memory without any of that UMB mangling.
Ultima VII and the Voodoo Memory Management (http://ultima.wikia.com/wiki/Voodoo_Memory_Manager) on the other hand....required a lots of base memory and you really couldn't run anything like EMM386 reliably. Was...interesting to get Ultima VII working with 2MBs of RAM.
On the other hand, CCIE's written portion goes can be done with "grab questions online and learn by rote", if you like. The lab exam is great, though (and they specifically include stuff like "cisco-proprietary" and "standards-based" approaches). Granted, I really haven't found that much use for all the stuff about BGP confererations in real life...and I also never do access lists with bitwise masks they seem to love (like 255.255.252.255 - it just makes config much less readable). But most of the material *is* applicable to real work.
- CCIE #20962
Here you go:
http://ec.europa.eu/codecision/stepbystep/diagram_en.htm
Technically, we are about to complete step 1.
Indeed, must be a real karma whore, this Anonymous Coward.
I was under the impression that stars, any star really, is continually increasing its stock of heavier elements. From Helium to Iron, and that these elements settle in the core in a layered fashion ordered by their atomic weights.
Then as it goes through its life cycles the star is progressively consuming heavier and heavier elements until there's little more than Iron left in the core and only then does it go kablooey.
"The onion of elements" happens at the end of star's life (or exiting of main sequence), but until then, there's plenty of hydrogen in core. Once star goes red giant, it has a helium core fusing to carbon (and hydrogen still fusing to helium in the mantle). If there's enough mass, the carbon core can start fusing neon, and so on all the way to iron. However, the full range with all the layers only happens in the most massive stars that finally explode as supernovas. And the main sequence is all about fusing hydrogen.
I wouldn't worry too much. The article mentions China. The Great Firewall is leaking like mad - unless you *completely* cut off the Internet, you cannot block it. The US is so tied to the rest of the world, so this North Korea-approach is not feasible there.
And once the cat is out of the bag and even the random mom just perusing Facebook is aware of Tor and Onion Routing, this becomes unenforceable. Fine, it might turn into a boondoggle like the fabulous war on drugs...but has no real effect on Internet users (of any skill set).
In my experience, if you show up on e-mail lists and teleconferences, you are considered active, but "inhuman" in the sense that people no longer have idea on what *exactly* are you doing, what's your supposed workload, and so on. So instead of human resource, you become just a resource, a gray eminence that lives only in electronic form.
I have been at a new job, primarily doing it remotely when possible for half a year now, and typically my only on-site jaunts will be to customer premises. As such, I'm not too often at the office.
Solution: HD-level videoconferencing. Since I can partake in meetings with 50" screens at the office end, my presence is not only felt, but it's rather imposing :). (My home has smaller, desktop videophone). The HD quality *is* necessary - if you appear as bunch of DCT blocks used by older systems, the effect is not much beyond normal (voice) teleconference.
Anyway, consider possibilities of video for remote participation.
Mind you, Pidgin's OCS plugin really works only for chat. Not for desktop sharing, video chat, etc. The web access version requires Silverlight (Moonlight doesn't work).
I'm glad that Outlook's Web Access is really usable these days (Since Exchange 2010, it's no longer tailored only for IE). Only thing I'd wish is that the "rich" web interface would allow me to reply in plaintext (light one allows that). HTML is not for e-mail.
The Interplanetary Internet has been adapted for more general purposes as DTN (Delay-Tolerant Networks). There are plenty of applications on besides space, such as acoustic networks - you can basically send out bits with sonar pulses. Used a lot in e.g. underwater sensor networks in oceans (monitoring currents and whatnot). They send data to buoys on the surface as sound and the buoys then send it onwards with radio. However, since the power is provided by solar panels, there's only enough power for the transmission during daytime. Long delays for messages en-route.
Not only for oceans either; In e.g. mine tunnels where cabling is troublesome and wireless signals don't really work, you can send a lot of data by simply banging on the rock hard enough - the bitrate just isn't too great and neither is latency.
You have had some stints into more "educational" shows, such as Rescue 911. Do you have any specific yet so far unrealized ambitions and topics for an educational TV series or a (documentary?) movie? Perhaps something in the vein of e.g. Mythbusters?
You are on object A, can you see object B?
Yes, although it will be heavily redshifted.