If you do accept a permanent position, there is the hazard of "jobslide" or "job drift", where if you accept a position that involves several different skill sets, you may find yourself pigeonholed into the hard-to-fill tasks, while they use the interesting tasks to lure new employees. So the only way to avoid this is to work as a contractor and keep them tied down.
Every job I seem seems to have moved over to ARM/Android/iOS. I'm working at a company that had their own display systems running on a Linux OS variant. They were more or less dragged kicking and screaming to make use of Android due to the cost of the licensing generic GPU drivers.
The "embedded" jobs that I see are invariably Qt/QML GUI developers. Mainly because it is impossible to debug and step through QML code. Everything else from DSP's to GPU's and multi-threaded CPU programming now has some type of multithreaded debugging support.
Or you could have a high-speed slug of metal that travels at hypersonic speed and uses kinetic energy exclusively to cause damage, much like a snipers rifle.
Student dorms is the American term. HMO's (Homes in Multiple Occupancy) is a UK term. Shared apartments is the term for medical staff.
"Prospective tenants have the choice of a shared apartment, with each of the two bedrooms featuring an en-suite bathroom, or a family apartment with a shared bathroom, making it perfect for couples, families, friends or colleagues."
That's the same problem in Canada. They can't get doctors to move out to the small towns in the provinces. Instead, they prefer to stay in Toronto or Vancouver. Having to pay for a private education means that they need to pay off those debts and the only way to do that is to work in a large city. And the government won't pay for tuition fees because the taxpayer doesn't want to see doctors waltz off to the USA.
I've heard that sentiment in many forums. The "bleeding heart liberals" who want their cheap interior designers, decorators and gardeners, but think that the government should pick up the tab for food stamps for these workers. "Just one more dollar in taxes would help this group, another dollar would help that group, we'd like to contribute more, but we've got a mortgage, car loans, private healthcare and school for the kids to pay for".
Those were the days of USENET pre-1994, which was intended to be for the academic and industrial research community. But small business owners back then could only get their subscription off the nearest university through JANET and a 64K ISDN link. This was due to the altruistic idea that anyone helping to distribute USENET could be paid to do so by those only wishing to have access. University IT departments weren't really good at maintaining their USENET service - it would frequently clog up due to the ISDN/X.25 network being overloaded or falling down. We'd only receive notifications of talks days later after the event occurred.
Once third party ISP's came around with SLIP/PPP (dial-up 9600/19200/38400/56K modems), then everything took off; personal web pages, web rings, newspapers/magazines, mail-order shops, desktop web browsers and the signal/noise ratio shot up with junk mail ads everwyhere.
This was discussed several decades ago. At the time, the government wanted to be able to have access to databases covering things like the financial status of workers, their communications, telephone records and bank transfer records. There would be public outrage if any government department tried to do this, so it was easier to get the private companies to do this collection and for the government to pay a premium to get the information they wanted. Meanwhile the companies would have a free hand in leveraging the worth of this collected information. Plus the government can say "we don't collect any of this information".
We've got black and yellow highway road construction signs that reference Twitter hashtags to get updates on road conditions ahead. How complex do things need to be?
Nobody has told them that it is possible to find the location of a smartphone or tablet simply by looking up the MAC address of their device using Google's geolocation services. NSA backdoors in the phone system - that's just to keep an eye on those terrorists. Police using smartphones as bugging devices - oh that's just used to catch out organized crime. The microphone in the home - that's something the KGB or Nazi Gestapo would do, thinking of all those world war II spy movies with microphones hidden in table lamps and chandeliers.
The great lakes are polluted with mercury and other heavy elements used from wood harvesting and heavy industry. Effectively the equivalent of that green stuff from a Doom level.
Those problems are encountered in Europe as well (ticks, fleas, flies, mites, mosquitos, roaches, leeches, spiders, humidity, mold, fungus, earthquakes, tornadoes and thundersnow).
I would guess that enclosed or semi-underground cities are the future. They do the underground thing in Canada, with cities like Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal having underground shopping malls as well as a metro system in order to avoid the extreme heat and cold of Winter and Summer. Norway have turned many of their outdoor markets into air-conditioned atriums by placing glass planels above these areas, The Japanese have perfected the art of building office block basement sewage treatment works. Dubai is working on an domed city.
Because the talent here doesn't want to live in those bits of Silicon Valley that an entry level salary could afford. The first requirement is that they can live and work somewhere where they can walk to shops at lunchtime and the evenings. Just being three miles from a downtown street is either a one hours walk or a 30 minute car drive. The only places that really match that profile are San Francisco, Menlo Park and Palo Alto.
That's the way children from wealthy families were brought up in those days. They are sent off to boarding school for every school term only coming home for the Easter and Winter holidays. Simply because the parents were too busy working to have time for them. Or they might have been home schooled by tutors.
The rule of the road "the largest vehicle takes priority. So there's a pecking order of trucks >buses > Hackney Black Cab taxis > Mercedes > Mini Morris Minor > Reliant Robin > Motorcyclist > Cyclist > Pedstrian.
The self-driving AI works on matching the current configuration of external objects, matched with a database of "what should I do here" actions. It's really a case of not being trained correctly.
Probably a human would have been more aggressive, beeped the horn a few times, rolled down the window, shouted various expletives relating to the future afterlife, the cognitive abilities of the driver, as well as the functional capabilities of his visual system.
That's been going on since the earliest days of typography. But all those hours are split up into deciding how each individual character should appear.
Should the Q have a straight line going across, diagonally to the right or straight down. Should a 1 have a straight line or a bit concave. Should the G be like a devils tail or just a simple right angle. Should a 0 have a dot in the middle, a diagonal line or none at all. They'll have all sorts of user surveys, and requirements that characters are the same height in places.
They have been doing this for decades. RealPlayer (A Windows media player) got caught sending usernames, and the names of video files back to their servers). Windows 10 uses telemetry (to provide users with tips on how to use faster keyboard shortcuts). I caught a webcam streaming data back to Amazon Web Services back in Austin, when I hadn't given out any user account details and had set up a security password. Smartphones seem to be able to stream screen video from a PC as well as to/from a smart TV.
I would put everything on separate subnets, especially smartphones that you let connect to Wi-Fi. Given that Google lets you track a device by simply querying the MAC address and that SSDP seems to be built into everything now, this seems essential.
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If you do accept a permanent position, there is the hazard of "jobslide" or "job drift", where if you accept a position that involves several different skill sets, you may find yourself pigeonholed into the hard-to-fill tasks, while they use the interesting tasks to lure new employees. So the only way to avoid this is to work as a contractor and keep them tied down.
Every job I seem seems to have moved over to ARM/Android/iOS. I'm working at a company that had their own display systems running on a Linux OS variant. They were more or less dragged kicking and screaming to make use of Android due to the cost of the licensing generic GPU drivers.
The "embedded" jobs that I see are invariably Qt/QML GUI developers. Mainly because it is impossible to debug and step through QML code. Everything else from DSP's to GPU's and multi-threaded CPU programming now has some type of multithreaded debugging support.
Or you could have a high-speed slug of metal that travels at hypersonic speed and uses kinetic energy exclusively to cause damage, much like a snipers rifle.
Mosquito sized drones that give doses of LSD, sarin or anything else toxic.
Student dorms is the American term. HMO's (Homes in Multiple Occupancy) is a UK term. Shared apartments is the term for medical staff.
"Prospective tenants have the choice of a shared apartment, with each of the two bedrooms featuring an en-suite bathroom, or a family apartment with a shared bathroom, making it perfect for couples, families, friends or colleagues."
http://www.derwentsidehomes.co...
Sorry, that's been done - it's called car sharing clubs:
https://www.ft.com/content/478...
That's the same problem in Canada. They can't get doctors to move out to the small towns in the provinces. Instead, they prefer to stay in Toronto or Vancouver. Having to pay for a private education means that they need to pay off those debts and the only way to do that is to work in a large city. And the government won't pay for tuition fees because the taxpayer doesn't want to see doctors waltz off to the USA.
I've heard that sentiment in many forums. The "bleeding heart liberals" who want their cheap interior designers, decorators and gardeners, but think that the government should pick up the tab for food stamps for these workers. "Just one more dollar in taxes would help this group, another dollar would help that group, we'd like to contribute more, but we've got a mortgage, car loans, private healthcare and school for the kids to pay for".
Those were the days of USENET pre-1994, which was intended to be for the academic and industrial research community. But small business owners back then could only get their subscription off the nearest university through JANET and a 64K ISDN link. This was due to the altruistic idea that anyone helping to distribute USENET could be paid to do so by those only wishing to have access. University IT departments weren't really good at maintaining their USENET service - it would frequently clog up due to the ISDN/X.25 network being overloaded or falling down. We'd only receive notifications of talks days later after the event occurred.
Once third party ISP's came around with SLIP/PPP (dial-up 9600/19200/38400/56K modems), then everything took off; personal web pages, web rings, newspapers/magazines, mail-order shops, desktop web browsers and the signal/noise ratio shot up with junk mail ads everwyhere.
This was discussed several decades ago. At the time, the government wanted to be able to have access to databases covering things like the financial status of workers, their communications, telephone records and bank transfer records. There would be public outrage if any government department tried to do this, so it was easier to get the private companies to do this collection and for the government to pay a premium to get the information they wanted. Meanwhile the companies would have a free hand in leveraging the worth of this collected information. Plus the government can say "we don't collect any of this information".
It's a revenue stream to subsidize the purchase and maintenance of research equipment and departments in the USA.
We've got black and yellow highway road construction signs that reference Twitter hashtags to get updates on road conditions ahead. How complex do things need to be?
Nobody has told them that it is possible to find the location of a smartphone or tablet simply by looking up the MAC address of their device using Google's geolocation services. NSA backdoors in the phone system - that's just to keep an eye on those terrorists. Police using smartphones as bugging devices - oh that's just used to catch out organized crime. The microphone in the home - that's something the KGB or Nazi Gestapo would do, thinking of all those world war II spy movies with microphones hidden in table lamps and chandeliers.
The great lakes are polluted with mercury and other heavy elements used from wood harvesting and heavy industry. Effectively the equivalent of that green stuff from a Doom level.
They could reduce the loss of water from evaporation by covering the reservoir with shade balls.
https://static01.nyt.com/image...
Those problems are encountered in Europe as well (ticks, fleas, flies, mites, mosquitos, roaches, leeches, spiders, humidity, mold, fungus, earthquakes, tornadoes and thundersnow).
I would guess that enclosed or semi-underground cities are the future. They do the underground thing in Canada, with cities like Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal having underground shopping malls as well as a metro system in order to avoid the extreme heat and cold of Winter and Summer. Norway have turned many of their outdoor markets into air-conditioned atriums by placing glass planels above these areas, The Japanese have perfected the art of building office block basement sewage treatment works. Dubai is working on an domed city.
Because the talent here doesn't want to live in those bits of Silicon Valley that an entry level salary could afford. The first requirement is that they can live and work somewhere where they can walk to shops at lunchtime and the evenings. Just being three miles from a downtown street is either a one hours walk or a 30 minute car drive. The only places that really match that profile are San Francisco, Menlo Park and Palo Alto.
That's the way children from wealthy families were brought up in those days. They are sent off to boarding school for every school term only coming home for the Easter and Winter holidays. Simply because the parents were too busy working to have time for them. Or they might have been home schooled by tutors.
The rule of the road "the largest vehicle takes priority. So there's a pecking order of trucks >buses > Hackney Black Cab taxis > Mercedes > Mini Morris Minor > Reliant Robin > Motorcyclist > Cyclist > Pedstrian.
The self-driving AI works on matching the current configuration of external objects, matched with a database of "what should I do here" actions. It's really a case of not being trained correctly.
Probably a human would have been more aggressive, beeped the horn a few times, rolled down the window, shouted various expletives relating to the future afterlife, the cognitive abilities of the driver, as well as the functional capabilities of his visual system.
That's been going on since the earliest days of typography. But all those hours are split up into deciding how each individual character should appear.
Should the Q have a straight line going across, diagonally to the right or straight down. Should a 1 have a straight line or a bit concave. Should the G be like a devils tail or just a simple right angle. Should a 0 have a dot in the middle, a diagonal line or none at all. They'll have all sorts of user surveys, and requirements that characters are the same height in places.
There is a website called shodan.io . They try and look for IOT devices that are accessible
They have been doing this for decades. RealPlayer (A Windows media player) got caught sending usernames, and the names of video files back to their servers). Windows 10 uses telemetry (to provide users with tips on how to use faster keyboard shortcuts). I caught a webcam streaming data back to Amazon Web Services back in Austin, when I hadn't given out any user account details and had set up a security password. Smartphones seem to be able to stream screen video from a PC as well as to/from a smart TV.
I would put everything on separate subnets, especially smartphones that you let connect to Wi-Fi. Given that Google lets you track a device by simply querying the MAC address and that SSDP seems to be built into everything now, this seems essential.