For the academic profession, the seniority system seems to be as follows (from Wikipedia:
professor reader senior lecturer lecturer postdoctorate research fellow/researcher research assistant
From the industrial sector, there seem to be many different seniority systems. My first posting was from looking at biotechnology companies, but from looking at New Scientist job pages, the followsing are also available:
Director Section Leader Team Leader Senior Research Scientist Scientist Laboratory Manager Technician/Laboratory Analyst
research director scientist research assistant/researcher
The research director can approve projects for research. The scientist can propose projects for research - also supervise the project The research assistant/research carries out the work required to complete the project
No, a GPS satellite receiver/logger. The government wants a new way of taxing road users. Officially, the goal is to price motorists off the road and onto public transport. Raising petrol tax isn't too practical now, as the farmers and road haulage companies will go ballistic and blockade the refineries. At the same time it isn't practical to widen the motorways. So the government really needs a way of taxing wealthy commuters that live in the x-burbs and drive into the cities.
Because here in the UK at least, people are busy voting against having uniquely identifiable bits of technology inserted in their cars. At the time of this article submission, 1,422,143 signatures have been signed opposing the proposed tracking and taxing of car journeys.
I am familiar with the difference between heavyweight and lightweight processes, multithreading and context switching. I certainly wouldn't recommend doing this with seperate processes on separate CPU's. However, if a CPU existed that could support a large number of threads that shared the same memrory space, then it might be worthwhile. The method of recursive binary splitting the stream into a linked list of substrings and then classifying each string might then be possible.
Not all algorithms can be parallelized that easily. Imagine e.g. a parser: You cannot parse text by having a million processors looking at one character each.
You could have the first thread processor split the text by white space. Then each block of characters is assigned to any number of processors to find the matching token. I've seen some parsers where the entire document was read in, converted into an array of tokens before returning back to the calling routine.
When I heard the term refrigerated electricity in warehouses, I imagined they were using the energy to speed up a whole warehouse of cooled down flywheels being spun up to store energy. The low temperature would be for superconducting purposes.
Rabbits live in holes, Trolls live in hills, caves and mounds - probably this is the closest thing that slashdot has to offer next to having a +1 - Rabbit moderation option.
the classes are students/home use who want something which they can write a paper or resume on, office workers who want a little more control over their presentation, and professionals who want complete control over their presentation.
Any student or researcher who is writing a thesis or paper, will want control over the font style and size for text, control over the resolution of any images, and also full control over the style and formatting of mathematical equations. All of these are required to keep the publishers happy.
A thesis will also require a "definition of terms", a list of keywords that must be in italics throughout the document, a "list of variables", which is a list of mathematical variables, and a set of references. All of these will have to be cross-referenced with references throughtout the thesis.
Students are also required to produce Powerpoint presentations of their research for open days and for 10 minute talks at annual conferences. To gain employment, students are not required to demonstrate that they can produce documentation of professional quality (communication skills, soft skills etc...)
How much security do you think your local municipalities roads department needs?
If road departments are anything like they are in my city, the dates when a particular section of road is coned off for resurfacing seems to be on a level of "for eyes only".
We never see the constructing crews arriving. My neighbour is convinced the road crews materialise out of a higher dimension or burrow out of the hole they are repairing in an explosion of dirt, traffic cones, workers huts and heavy duty industrial machinery.
It's like the entire design philosophy behind Hotmail has made a 180 degree turn since the Microsoft acquisition.
Windows NT was originally sold on the basis that it would offer all applications developers and users the opportunity to develop and use applications that all have the same standard user interface everywhere, and thus UNIX was legacy.
Windows XP was sold on on the basis that all applications developers could customise the look of their applications with "skins".
Bill Gates told David Broder of the Washington Post that Microsoft starts such workers at about $100,000
The supply agency charges a company like Microsoft an hourly rate equivalent of $100,000/year. The agency then takes 60% of this as commission, and the H1-B applicant gets the remaining $40,000.
Try playing 'moria' instead:) I only played this game once - The game started as normal - haggled with some shopkeepers over the price of a two-handed sword, some armour and food, then began going down level by level, expecting a long exploration through the mazes. Everything changed when my character fell through a trapdoor, landed on the bottom level, walked into the balrog by accident, killed him, and won the game.
My undergraduate Computer Science course placed these areas are under the following titles:
1) Computer Theory - The formal methods that study the mathematics of computability and computation (Turing machines, State Machines, Prolog/Lisp, Propositional/Temporal Logic) 2) Hardware Engineering - The study of how computers themselves actually work -- the CPU, (everything from basic logic gates to instruction sequencing) 3) Software Engineering - the OS, compilers, etc. (semaphores, monitors, threads, processes, scoreboards, scheduling, etc...)
4) Project Planning - in the case of software, we're talking the analysis, design, and implementation (every type of graph, formal specifications, the contract process) 5) Specialist Topics - A foundation upon which to study specific subfields, like AI or robotics, or data visualization, 3D graphics, etc.
Mathematics and Statistics should also be included in this list.
Many companies have (or had) final pension schemes where the monthly payment was based on an average of the salary of the last few years wrorked. Usuallly, the pension scheme had a minimum number of years service (and in come cases a compulsory retirement age). Once a person retired, they are free to do what they like with the money. Many people would find second incomes through hobbies like antuque dealing - go through the second hand stores looking for items of value to be traded on Ebay.
Sadly, since they will tend to drop dead during a project, the lost art of commenting code will need to be reintroduced. In order to make sure that this gets done each senior citizen/coder will be assigned an unemployed baby-face, who will make cups of tea, issue pills, and remind them not to dribble on the keyboard. Every hour the baby-face will insist that the old codger comments the previous hour's work, and archives it.
The only problem was that just after Sun was introducing this hardware, the target markets started using the advanced JAVA multimedia API's to implement basic applications - medical students were using the image library to view MRI scans by loading in hundreds of 2D images. And other companies needed to play video files for staff training purposes (including DVD's).
It more or less remains the same now. By the time all the necessary hardware (video card, sound card, CPU) is put together with an OS, device drivers, windowing system, video/audio codecs, a hard disk drive for caching applications and data, it's all but a desktop computer. And using a hard disk drive to cache applications and data off the network is worse than just stamping on a standard installation downloaded from a server, as old versions can become munged up with new versions.
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What happens if the plane has to make an emergency landing? Do the authorities shoot it down?
One ptototype Schrödinger box for sale - cat may or may not be included.
For the academic profession, the seniority system seems to be as follows (from Wikipedia:
professor
reader
senior lecturer
lecturer
postdoctorate research fellow/researcher
research assistant
From the industrial sector, there seem to be many different seniority systems. My first posting was from looking at biotechnology companies, but from
looking at New Scientist job pages, the followsing are also available:
Director
Section Leader
Team Leader
Senior Research Scientist
Scientist
Laboratory Manager
Technician/Laboratory Analyst
The seniority system goes something like this:
research director
scientist
research assistant/researcher
The research director can approve projects for research.
The scientist can propose projects for research - also supervise the project
The research assistant/research carries out the work required to complete the project
Yeah... and buying things that don't exist from over seas is super great for the economy by the way.
It's amazing how people will use their credit cards accounts to buy downloadable videos
Exchanging one set of data bits for another...
No, a GPS satellite receiver/logger. The government wants a new way of taxing road users. Officially, the goal is to price motorists off the road and onto public transport. Raising petrol tax isn't too practical now, as the farmers and road haulage companies will go ballistic and blockade the refineries. At the same time it isn't practical to widen the motorways. So the government really needs a way of taxing wealthy commuters that live in the x-burbs and drive into the cities.
Because here in the UK at least, people are busy voting against having uniquely identifiable bits of technology inserted in their cars. At the time of this article submission, 1,422,143 signatures have been signed opposing the proposed tracking and taxing of car journeys.
I am familiar with the difference between heavyweight and lightweight processes, multithreading and context switching. I certainly wouldn't recommend doing this with seperate processes on separate CPU's. However, if a CPU existed that could support a large number of threads that shared the same memrory space,
then it might be worthwhile. The method of recursive binary splitting the stream into a linked list of substrings and then classifying each string might then be possible.
Could moisture/dust be getting into the circuitry? The article does mention that heating the system up seems to help.
... at the request of City-TV and Ed the Sock, the CNBC are to ban the import of European TV programming.
Though it is, perhaps, naieve to think that one fire will spark a product recall,
I'm sure this will fire up Dell's media communications division to launch a blitzkrieg campaign to warn all users
of the dangers of laptop batteries.
Not all algorithms can be parallelized that easily. Imagine e.g. a parser: You cannot parse text by having a million processors looking at one character each.
You could have the first thread processor split the text by white space. Then each block of characters is assigned to any number of processors to find the matching token. I've seen some parsers where the entire document was
read in, converted into an array of tokens before returning back to the calling routine.
When I heard the term refrigerated electricity in warehouses, I imagined they were using the energy to speed up a whole warehouse of cooled down flywheels being spun up to store energy. The low temperature would be for superconducting purposes.
Rabbits live in holes, Trolls live in hills, caves and mounds - probably this is the closest thing that slashdot has to offer next to having a +1 - Rabbit moderation option.
the classes are students/home use who want something which they can write a paper or resume on, office workers who want a little more control over their presentation, and professionals who want complete control over their presentation.
Any student or researcher who is writing a thesis or paper, will want control over the font style and size for text, control over the resolution of any images, and also full control over the style and formatting of mathematical equations. All of these are required to keep the publishers happy.
A thesis will also require a "definition of terms", a list of keywords that must be in italics throughout
the document, a "list of variables", which is a list of mathematical variables, and a set of references. All of these will have to be cross-referenced with references throughtout the thesis.
Students are also required to produce Powerpoint presentations of their research for open days and for 10 minute
talks at annual conferences. To gain employment, students are not required to demonstrate that they can produce
documentation of professional quality (communication skills, soft skills etc...)
They are called air scrubbers. Maybe we just need to scale them up on a mountain somewhere close to the jet stream.
How much security do you think your local municipalities roads department needs?
If road departments are anything like they are in my city, the dates when a particular section of road is coned off for resurfacing seems to be on a level of "for eyes only".
We never see the constructing crews arriving. My neighbour is convinced the road crews materialise out of a higher dimension or burrow out of the hole they are repairing in an explosion of dirt, traffic cones, workers huts and heavy duty industrial machinery.
It's like the entire design philosophy behind Hotmail has made a 180 degree turn since the Microsoft acquisition.
Windows NT was originally sold on the basis that it would offer all applications developers and users the opportunity to develop and use applications that all have the same standard user interface everywhere, and thus UNIX was legacy.
Windows XP was sold on on the basis that all applications developers could customise the look of their applications with "skins".
Bill Gates told David Broder of the Washington Post that Microsoft starts such workers at about $100,000
/year. The agency then takes 60% of this as commission, and the H1-B applicant gets the remaining $40,000.
The supply agency charges a company like Microsoft an hourly rate equivalent of $100,000
Try playing 'moria' instead :) I only played this game once - The game started as normal - haggled with some shopkeepers over the price of a two-handed sword, some armour and food, then began going down level by level, expecting a long exploration through the mazes. Everything changed when my character fell through a trapdoor, landed on the bottom level, walked into the balrog by accident, killed him, and won the game.
My undergraduate Computer Science course placed these areas are under the following titles:
1) Computer Theory - The formal methods that study the mathematics of computability and computation (Turing machines, State Machines, Prolog/Lisp, Propositional/Temporal Logic)
2) Hardware Engineering - The study of how computers themselves actually work -- the CPU, (everything from basic logic gates to instruction sequencing)
3) Software Engineering - the OS, compilers, etc. (semaphores, monitors, threads, processes, scoreboards, scheduling, etc...)
4) Project Planning - in the case of software, we're talking the analysis, design, and implementation (every type of graph, formal specifications, the contract process)
5) Specialist Topics - A foundation upon which to study specific subfields, like AI or robotics, or data visualization, 3D graphics, etc.
Mathematics and Statistics should also be included in this list.
Many companies have (or had) final pension schemes where the monthly payment was based on an average of the salary of the last few years wrorked.
Usuallly, the pension scheme had a minimum number of years service (and in come cases a compulsory retirement age). Once a person retired, they are
free to do what they like with the money. Many people would find second incomes through hobbies like antuque dealing - go through the second hand
stores looking for items of value to be traded on Ebay.
Sadly, since they will tend to drop dead during a project, the lost art of commenting code will need to be reintroduced. In order to make sure that this gets done each senior citizen/coder will be assigned an unemployed baby-face, who will make cups of tea, issue pills, and remind them not to dribble on the keyboard. Every hour the baby-face will insist that the old codger comments the previous hour's work, and archives it.
I thought that was called "Extreme Programming"?
I?f the pressure builds up high enough, we might have the first man-made object launched into space by natural means.
Sun proposed the JavaStation.
The only problem was that just after Sun was introducing this hardware, the target markets started using the advanced JAVA multimedia API's to implement basic applications - medical students were using the image
library to view MRI scans by loading in hundreds of 2D images. And other companies needed to play video files
for staff training purposes (including DVD's).
It more or less remains the same now. By the time all the necessary hardware (video card, sound card, CPU) is
put together with an OS, device drivers, windowing system, video/audio codecs, a hard disk drive for caching applications and data, it's all but a desktop computer. And using a hard disk drive to cache applications and data off the network is worse than just stamping on a standard installation downloaded from a server, as old versions can become munged up with new versions.