They do admit to logging keystrokes so they determine best usage of menu options and to provide hints on how you can be more productive through keyboard shortcuts.
Others fear they might be collecting code fragments to provide as "Snippets" for others to use.
Try reading a book and skip the odd page or two. I used to make that mistake while reading a short story for English class at high school.
"Dr Evil ran from compound with the secret weapon he had stolen from the research lab and ran towards his waiting escape..." [NEXT PAGE]... "donkey. He put his belongings in the satchels on either side, climbed into the saddle and gave the creature a gentle kick. The donkey brayed and he begin his slow ascent up the mountain. Behind him he could hear men shouting, but soon the voices died away. He was all alone in the wilderness in the dark where no one could find him..."
It was the same decades ago. And it's the same with a lot of embedded/electronics companies. They stick to hardware they know that will work, even if it is decades old, because that's what the whole company and the principal engineers used back then. And if they do have the newest/latest hardware, all the software must be backwards compatible with the old hardware, so you won't get to use the new features of the new hardware. Anything career building will be outsourced to a contractor, to make sure you don't learn anything transferrable. You'll have a three month or six month notice period which makes it impossible to change jobs.
They might have found it so hard to find staff that they offshore some work. So then they need headhunters to literally hunt down people with embedded experience. And I literally mean "hunt down". Stalking people via LinkedIn by looking for keywords. Even getting GCHQ to monitor Emails and social media for anyone posting a CV, then using those Email addreses and accounts to make connections. Sometimes even sending anonymous Emails or Linkedin messages providing "careers advice".
I think string theory is the obvious answer. Photons and atomic particles are both energy. Atomic particles can be converted into photons when they disintegrate. Two gamma rays can form an electron and positron. When a photon descends a gravity well, the different in energy levels is equivalent to a graviton - the electric and magnetic fields seem to fall apart or contract. If a photon could be made to wrap around a sphere or itself, then it would be possible that the parts with positive or negative electric/magnetic field would be the ones on the outside of the surface. Then these could have positive/negative charge and be matter/antimatter.
No different from bacterial evolution to be able to process a new sugar molecule. An existing colony of mono-culture bacteria will grow and grow while they can use the normal food supply. Then when they run out of that food supply, their metabolism slows down and mutations start to accumulate as individuals live and die. Every individual cycles through random combinations and mutations of genes, and there are billions of individuals. Eventually one lucky individual hits on the right combination and there is a sudden explosion as that new food supply can be utilized. Then the process repeats.
The same happened with the automobiles and steam engines. Thousands of inventors would try adding all sorts of different gadgets and gizmos to improve power and output. Things like carburettors, water cooling, gearboxes, safety valves, piston arrangements like rotary, multi-rotary, V, X and delta. But many inventors killed or seriously injured themselves when their inventions exploded. Then it became better to have trained engineers working in properly funded and inspected labs.
The problem with so many scientists and research labs, is that everyone has to be careful "not to step on anyone else's toes" . So the more people in the field, the narrower the focus for every PhD and post-doc researcher. Plus there is so much commercial software that has been patented in CAD/CAM/FEA/Matlab/Mathematica and animation (3DMax/Unity/Unreal/Maya) that research now is really just analyzing the results from applications or running existing code and not really designing algorithms. Those fundamental science tasks are reserved for"world class" universities.
Someone like James Clerk Maxwell has the full freedom to explore the world of physics and mathematics since there wasn't any other work in the field.But he did write and present research papers:
96% of the mass of atoms comes from the interaction between the individual quarks that make up protons and neutrons and the gluon field that surrounds them. The only way of interacting with atomic nucleii is with magnetic fields and high-energy photons in the gamma ray range of the spectrum.
From the change in mass during fusion and fission, we get some energy released and captured as heat.
High house prices generate high salaries. High salaries let you afford all those expensive computer kit that lets you keep on the leading edge. Some engineering jobs in the UK only pay 15K up in the Highlands. On the South Coast, the same job pays 45K, just due to the cost of housing.
If they can achieve critical mass of workers (around 10,000), then it can work. A walkable downtown core with cafes and restaurant bars helps as well. Usually small cities are really like scale models of large cities. They might be 3x smaller (3 mile radius, rather than 10 mile radius), but the main roads are 3x narrower, so you still get a traffic jam.
You could see that in the harbours close to the Arctic. The air would be below zero, but the water was still liquid. Little clouds of water vapour would form and float around the surface, looking like ghosts.
You could do that with early PC flight simulators. Get a fast enough clockwise roll on your fighter plane, and after a while, it would start rolling anti-clockwise. Always wondered if that would happen in real life.
They keep running into problems. I've read a few papers, and they would hit problems such as the metals used weren't strong enough to withstand the magnetic fields they were generating. That was fixed. Then the plasma rings would start to twist, buckle, warp and pinch into singularities. Stellerators fixed that problem by putting some torsion into the plasma rings. Tokamaks fixed that problem by adding extra magnetic field randomness or something to break up the standing waves. That fixed that problem. Then the neutron bombardment started poking holes in the metal structure, which weakens it over time. Maybe that has been fixed, but it keeps going round and round.
If it hit slushy water, it would be hard to tell when the actual collision occurred as there isn't any Carbon to do Carbon-dating. They could take ice cores, but that would only tell when the crater was filled in, but not when it was formed.
I once used my smartphone to make a video of a dry thunderstorm while it was directly above my house (the lighting was cloud-to-cloud). With the regular camera video, it would only capture the brightest flashes inside the clouds, but take the mp4 video file onto a PC, run some ImageMagick to boost the contrast and reconstruct the video, and all the other lightning flashes would appear.
Building a clothes folding robot requires identification of the object to be folded, it's orientation, identification of any existing creases (office suit trousers), identification of wrinkles that have to be removed, reorientation to remove wrinkles, then the correct way of folding for every type of clothing (trousers, jerseys, t-shirts, shirts, dresses, skirts), identification of materials that can't be folded or can be folded.
First thing our technical director in an art studio said was "copy the images into an 'originals' directory on the server, set all the file permissions to read only and no touchy touchy". We always presumed he was talking about image editing.
Some Linux applications store data in/tmp by default (Blender). Others don't even bother saving backups or delete auto-backups on exit (OpenOffice). Even VMWare saves incremental changes to your base VM image in separate images. Lose one of those incremental images due to some problem, and that's everything gone up in smoke.
I've had enough problems using Wireshark to find applications streaming data back to Microsoft and AWS. Last thing I need is have every network protocol multiplexed into an encrypted VPN so it's impossible to tell what is doing what. But that's Google.
You get GPS spoofers for mobile phones. They intercept the system call to retrieve the GPS location and provide a user supplied coordinate. I relocated to the Mongolian desert out of boredom and started getting Chinese SMS messages from manufacturing companies looking for new business.
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They do admit to logging keystrokes so they determine best usage of menu options and to provide hints on how you can be more productive through keyboard shortcuts.
Others fear they might be collecting code fragments to provide as "Snippets" for others to use.
If they come from a country that permits polygamy, you end up with a whole developer team coming across and living in the same house.
This is California They would mandate the temperatures that water boils and freezes at.
Try reading a book and skip the odd page or two. I used to make that mistake while reading a short story for English class at high school.
"Dr Evil ran from compound with the secret weapon he had stolen from the research lab and ran towards his waiting escape ..." [NEXT PAGE] ... "donkey. He put his belongings in the satchels on either side, climbed into the saddle and gave the creature a gentle kick. The donkey brayed and he begin his slow ascent up the mountain. Behind him he could hear men shouting, but soon the voices died away. He was all alone in the wilderness in the dark where no one could find him..."
It was the same decades ago. And it's the same with a lot of embedded/electronics companies. They stick to hardware they know that will work, even if it is decades old, because that's what the whole company and the principal engineers used back then. And if they do have the newest/latest hardware, all the software must be backwards compatible with the old hardware, so you won't get to use the new features of the new hardware. Anything career building will be outsourced to a contractor, to make sure you don't learn anything transferrable. You'll have a three month or six month notice period which makes it impossible to change jobs.
They might have found it so hard to find staff that they offshore some work. So then they need headhunters to literally hunt down people with embedded experience. And I literally mean "hunt down". Stalking people via LinkedIn by looking for keywords. Even getting GCHQ to monitor Emails and social media for anyone posting a CV, then using those Email addreses and accounts to make connections. Sometimes even sending anonymous Emails or Linkedin messages providing "careers advice".
I think string theory is the obvious answer. Photons and atomic particles are both energy. Atomic particles can be converted into photons when they disintegrate. Two gamma rays can form an electron and positron. When a photon descends a gravity well, the different in energy levels is equivalent to a graviton - the electric and magnetic fields seem to fall apart or contract. If a photon could be made to wrap around a sphere or itself, then it would be possible that the parts with positive or negative electric/magnetic field would be the ones on the outside of the surface. Then these could have positive/negative charge and be matter/antimatter.
No different from bacterial evolution to be able to process a new sugar molecule. An existing colony of mono-culture bacteria will grow and grow while they can use the normal food supply. Then when they run out of that food supply, their metabolism slows down and mutations start to accumulate as individuals live and die. Every individual cycles through random combinations and mutations of genes, and there are billions of individuals. Eventually one lucky individual hits on the right combination and there is a sudden explosion as that new food supply can be utilized. Then the process repeats.
The same happened with the automobiles and steam engines. Thousands of inventors would try adding all sorts of different gadgets and gizmos to improve power and output. Things like carburettors, water cooling, gearboxes, safety valves, piston arrangements like rotary, multi-rotary, V, X and delta. But many inventors killed or seriously injured themselves when their inventions exploded. Then it became better to have trained engineers working in properly funded and inspected labs.
The problem with so many scientists and research labs, is that everyone has to be careful "not to step on anyone else's toes" . So the more people in the field, the narrower the focus for every PhD and post-doc researcher. Plus there is so much commercial software that has been patented in CAD/CAM/FEA/Matlab/Mathematica and animation (3DMax/Unity/Unreal/Maya) that research now is really just analyzing the results from applications or running existing code and not really designing algorithms. Those fundamental science tasks are reserved for"world class" universities.
Someone like James Clerk Maxwell has the full freedom to explore the world of physics and mathematics since there wasn't any other work in the field.But he did write and present research papers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
96% of the mass of atoms comes from the interaction between the individual quarks that make up protons and neutrons and the gluon field that surrounds them. The only way of interacting with atomic nucleii is with magnetic fields and high-energy photons in the gamma ray range of the spectrum.
From the change in mass during fusion and fission, we get some energy released and captured as heat.
Spinning Chimney Cowls
High house prices generate high salaries. High salaries let you afford all those expensive computer kit that lets you keep on the leading edge. Some engineering jobs in the UK only pay 15K up in the Highlands. On the South Coast, the same job pays 45K, just due to the cost of housing.
If they can achieve critical mass of workers (around 10,000), then it can work. A walkable downtown core with cafes and restaurant bars helps as well. Usually small cities are really like scale models of large cities. They might be 3x smaller (3 mile radius, rather than 10 mile radius), but the main roads are 3x narrower, so you still get a traffic jam.
You could see that in the harbours close to the Arctic. The air would be below zero, but the water was still liquid. Little clouds of water vapour would form and float around the surface, looking like ghosts.
You could do that with early PC flight simulators. Get a fast enough clockwise roll on your fighter plane, and after a while, it would start rolling anti-clockwise. Always wondered if that would happen in real life.
They keep running into problems. I've read a few papers, and they would hit problems such as the metals used weren't strong enough to withstand the magnetic fields they were generating. That was fixed. Then the plasma rings would start to twist, buckle, warp and pinch into singularities. Stellerators fixed that problem by putting some torsion into the plasma rings. Tokamaks fixed that problem by adding extra magnetic field randomness or something to break up the standing waves. That fixed that problem. Then the neutron bombardment started poking holes in the metal structure, which weakens it over time. Maybe that has been fixed, but it keeps going round and round.
It might have been a supernova. There was evidence of neutron bombardment of chert in the North American continent.
If it hit slushy water, it would be hard to tell when the actual collision occurred as there isn't any Carbon to do Carbon-dating. They could take ice cores, but that would only tell when the crater was filled in, but not when it was formed.
I once used my smartphone to make a video of a dry thunderstorm while it was directly above my house (the lighting was cloud-to-cloud). With the regular camera video, it would only capture the brightest flashes inside the clouds, but take the mp4 video file onto a PC, run some ImageMagick to boost the contrast and reconstruct the video, and all the other lightning flashes would appear.
There is the Da Vinci robotic surgery system:
https://www.davincisurgery.com...
That's almost getting close to the Waldos by the story "Waldo" by Robert A. Heinlein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Building a clothes folding robot requires identification of the object to be folded, it's orientation, identification of any existing creases (office suit trousers), identification of wrinkles that have to be removed, reorientation to remove wrinkles, then the correct way of folding for every type of clothing (trousers, jerseys, t-shirts, shirts, dresses, skirts), identification of materials that can't be folded or can be folded.
First thing our technical director in an art studio said was "copy the images into an 'originals' directory on the server, set all the file permissions to read only and no touchy touchy". We always presumed he was talking about image editing.
Some Linux applications store data in /tmp by default (Blender). Others don't even bother saving backups or delete auto-backups on exit (OpenOffice). Even VMWare saves incremental changes to your base VM image in separate images. Lose one of those incremental images due to some problem, and that's everything gone up in smoke.
https://forum.openoffice.org/e...
My local post office was selling Blaze Atari 2600 consoles built into what looks like an Atari joystick controller. Something like 10 games built in.
I've had enough problems using Wireshark to find applications streaming data back to Microsoft and AWS. Last thing I need is have every network protocol multiplexed into an encrypted VPN so it's impossible to tell what is doing what. But that's Google.
You get GPS spoofers for mobile phones. They intercept the system call to retrieve the GPS location and provide a user supplied coordinate. I relocated to the Mongolian desert out of boredom and started getting Chinese SMS messages from manufacturing companies looking for new business.