"The cover of the book states: "Do big math on small machines." This, combined with the Real-Time Programming phrase in the title, might lead one to believe that the book's primary audience is intended to be the embedded microcontroller crowd"
No, it would lead one to believe this is for the real-time crowd. Embedded isn't synonymous with real-time.
"Although Steve worked to help pay for college, five years after graduation he has $40,000 of undergraduate debt to payoff; Jessica, an art therapist and professionalh arpist, has $50,000 in student loans."
I predict job growth for "art therapists" and harpists will remain flat the next few years. But I've been known to be wrong.
That's for employers not employees. I've been in the electronics industry since the mid-seventies. In that time there has been no such thing as "corporate loyalty". I remember years ago reading an article stating engineers were expected to change jobs every two years. I think it holds true as that seems the only way to get anywhere in this business. Be fair and do the best work you can where ever you are but don't fall for the fantasy of "corporate loyalty". Bur always look out for yourself.
With airlines now trying to get business travelers to fly I wouldn't worry about laptops being banned. It's the airlines that ban cellphone use in aircraft, not the FAA. The FAA looked into the cellphone interference issue a few years ago and they found no evidence of cellphones interfering with aircraft systems. The FCC bans cellphone use from aircraft not because of the danger but because the cellular providers claim it screws up the cell network. Of course the airlines make available airphones at $3.00/min.
Even if the battery problem was solved the charging problem wouldn't be. The power grid was not designed to allow the recharging of thousands of automobiles. I worked on a GM hybrid vehicle (battery/fuel cell) 10 years ago so they are hardly just jumping on the bandwagon.
Ford and Daimler-Chrysler are working on similar projects but they are working with Ballard Power Systems. GM has there own fuel cell project (for what it's worth).
Check this out: http://www.intrinsyc.com/products/cerfcube
Although developing applications for a embedded system does not an embedded developer make. An embedded developer should be able to bring up a brain-dead board/system from scratch. They need to know about init'ing the board; CPU (cache, interrupts, etc), memctlr/memory, peripherals, using FLASH (reading, updating, running code from or copying into RAM), updating NVRAM on the fly, handling interrupts, debugging without an ICE or debugger, etc. Do they need a FLASH file system? They need to know how to get information from a schematic and/or a datasheet. These are just off the top of my head. There's a lot of gotchas that embedded application developers never deal with. So training on a SBC/box/whatever that already has an O/S ported and running doesn't teach much embedded development. The dirty work is already done for you.
Someone mentioned pick the tools first. Well that never happens when you develop systems that are to be produced in volume where cost is the main consideration.
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"The result was that there were four or five competing VHS brands, against Sony's Beta"
This is not true. Along with Sony, Toshiba, NEC, Zenith and Sanyo all had Beta machines in the mid-80s. What Sony didn't have was a rugged industrial duplicator for making pre-recorded tapes in huge volume. They made duplicators but they were junk; they couldn't hold up to people jamming tapes into them 12-15 times a day. As I remember NEC and Toshiba both made duplicators that were a bit better but not enough to get the big duplication houses to support Beta. This is the main reason you couldn't find pre-recorded Beta tapes in the video stores. It was downhill from there. From then on consumers saw Beta as a dying format and went with VHS. The longer recording time as you say was something that no one used but it still helped folks justify the decision to go with the VHS format.
Good for you and your wife. Diamonds are a more recent (post-WWII) "tradition". Before this, if an engagement ring was given it at all, it was typically the womans birthstone.
About ten years ago there was a show on the Albuquerque community access channel about some people driving a diesel-powered Ford van cross-country on used restaurant cooking oil.
Announce your availability on dice.com. Make sure to add comments building yourself up at the bottom of the form. This has been very helpful to me in the past but I do realize these are really tough times. Good luck.
That's not true. The real work is in the fuel processor. Ballard has had stacks that were capable of this for years. It was and still is the fuel processor that makes this possible today.
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No, I'm just your everyday tree-killer.
storing video on punch cards. This would be great for editing as I could just pull out a stack of cards and insert it into another stack.
Has anyone else done this?
Yes, "nukeyelar" gained a syllable and "terist" lost one.
"You still get to listen to the same crappy programming."
But it will be free (as in beer) crappy programming. I won't buy Schaefer but if someone hands me one I'll drink it.
"The cover of the book states: "Do big math on small machines." This, combined with the Real-Time
Programming phrase in the title, might lead one to believe that the book's primary audience is intended to be the embedded microcontroller crowd"
No, it would lead one to believe this is for the real-time crowd. Embedded isn't synonymous with real-time.
"Although Steve worked to help pay for college, five years after graduation he has $40,000 of undergraduate debt to payoff; Jessica, an art therapist and professionalh arpist, has $50,000 in student loans."
I predict job growth for "art therapists" and harpists will remain flat the next few years. But I've been known to be wrong.
That's for employers not employees. I've been in the electronics industry since the mid-seventies. In that time there has been no such thing as "corporate loyalty". I remember years ago reading an article stating engineers were expected to change jobs every two years. I think it holds true as that seems the only way to get anywhere in this business. Be fair and do the best work you can where ever you are but don't fall for the fantasy of "corporate loyalty".
Bur always look out for yourself.
With airlines now trying to get business travelers to fly I wouldn't worry about laptops being banned. It's the airlines that ban cellphone use in aircraft, not the FAA. The FAA looked into the cellphone interference issue a few years ago and they found no evidence of cellphones interfering with aircraft systems. The FCC bans cellphone use from aircraft not because of the danger but because the cellular providers claim it screws up the cell network. Of course the airlines make available airphones at $3.00/min.
Even if the battery problem was solved the charging problem wouldn't be. The power grid was not designed to allow the recharging of thousands of automobiles. I worked on a GM hybrid vehicle (battery/fuel cell) 10 years ago so they are hardly just jumping on the bandwagon.
Ford and Daimler-Chrysler are working on similar projects but they are working with Ballard Power Systems. GM has there own fuel cell project (for what it's worth).
Check this out:
http://www.intrinsyc.com/products/cerfcube
Although developing applications for a embedded system does not an embedded developer make. An embedded developer should be able to bring up a brain-dead board/system from scratch. They need to know about init'ing the board; CPU (cache, interrupts, etc), memctlr/memory, peripherals, using FLASH (reading, updating, running code from or copying into RAM), updating NVRAM on the fly, handling interrupts, debugging without an ICE or debugger, etc. Do they need a FLASH file system? They need to know how to get information from a schematic and/or a datasheet. These are just off the top of my head. There's a lot of gotchas that embedded application developers never deal with. So training on a SBC/box/whatever that already has an O/S ported and running doesn't teach much embedded development. The dirty work is already done for you.
Someone mentioned pick the tools first. Well that never happens when you develop systems that are to be produced in volume where cost is the main consideration.
"The result was that there were four or five competing VHS brands, against Sony's Beta"
This is not true. Along with Sony, Toshiba, NEC, Zenith and Sanyo all had Beta machines in the mid-80s. What Sony didn't have was a rugged industrial duplicator for making pre-recorded tapes in huge volume. They made duplicators but they were junk; they couldn't hold up to people jamming tapes into them 12-15 times a day. As I remember NEC and Toshiba both made duplicators that were a bit better but not enough to get the big duplication houses to support Beta. This is the main reason you couldn't find pre-recorded Beta tapes in the video stores. It was downhill from there. From then on consumers saw Beta as a dying format and went with VHS. The longer recording time as you say was something that no one used but it still helped folks justify the decision to go with the VHS format.
Is that suppose to be Special?
Good for you and your wife. Diamonds are a more recent (post-WWII) "tradition". Before this, if an engagement ring was given it at all, it was typically the womans birthstone.
and have never needed it. I saved over $1000.00 by not getting one.
Biden is a plagiarist.
http://www.ngcsu.edu/bdf/bfried/plgrm.htm
If he can't copy the work of others, no one can.
HP never did sell that many printers through Dell anyway.
I know them. Those are the Lick's. ;-)
About ten years ago there was a show on the Albuquerque community access channel about some people driving a diesel-powered Ford van cross-country on used restaurant cooking oil.
Announce your availability on dice.com. Make sure to add comments building yourself up at the bottom of the form. This has been very helpful to me in the past but I do realize these are really tough times. Good luck.
Tobacco use costs the US $100billion/year yet it's economic "benefits" are considered too great.
OTH, I love listening to people bitch about the evils of Microsoft while they're smoking a cigarette.
i would refuse to work for shops that don't strive for and regularly achieve 100% error free software at the point before testing.
Then get use to hearing this: "Why yes, I think I would like fries with that!!"
How do you know it's error-free if it's not tested? First year sw-eng, eh?
Simulating isn't that cool. But atmospheric tests.... now that's really cool!!!!
The BMW doesn't use a fuel cell; it's an ICE using H2 as fuel.
That's not true. The real work is in the fuel processor. Ballard has had stacks that were capable of this for years. It was and still is the fuel processor that makes this possible today.