Monster Homes. Place like California stopped building homes with large backyards, so the local homebuyers would buy an old property, demolish it with a house wrecking party, and then build a supersized home on that plot of land. If the old house was a two-up/two-down with lie-ins, they would build a three-floor home with roof-top sundeck, turret tower bedrooms with balconies, as well as an outdoor kitchen with a few outdoor patio heaters.
Many banking programs now require a separate one time keycode generator or use the BankID feature of a smartphone - it overlays a code number on top of the screen that can't be read by regular apps.
MSc is really an intermediate step to getting a PhD. But it also lets you learn a completely fresh set of skills that would allow you to change fields; embedded vs. desktop vs. supercomputing/cloud computing/big data. Doing the right PhD will let you move into research positions in industry or academic work. Doing a MSc, let me learn C++/STL/parallel processing/supercomputing techniques, which have lasted 20+ years. Everyone else in my class has given up on software development.
The important thing is to keeping up to date. Easiest way is to download research paper PDF's, read them and implement your own version. Take advantage of free trial periods of software.
I remember porting one of my old MS-DOS demos from C to SDL. I had used a simple structure to abstract the VGA framebuffer into a rendering API. Figured it would take me an entire evening to port across. Recompiled and run in 15 minutes. Which left me another 15 minutes before I went out to catch the bus to do my weekly shopping.
I'll second this. I did a MSc because it was the only way to stay in the city I was currently working in. It gave me some experience learning C++, parallel processing, ASIC design, sci-viz, but local employers were not interested in anyone who had been out of industry for a year. So I had to emigrate anyway.
Then you have to deal with the hazards of management who "want the brightest graduate" or "want whoever has the most qualifications" to work on whatever is their personal itch at the time, while everyone else more or less gets to do what they want to do. Sometimes you will have admins with the view that "Oh, you've done a Masters, you want to go into management?"
With a PhD it's even worse, as many directors have the goal of promoting everyone up into a hierarchy based on qualifications.
Originally it was the UNIX workstations with custom graphics hardware that were king. Then in the late 1990's, they were competing against Windows NT with commodity hardware. Price competition for the low-end home PC used for Email and Web browsing/purchases drove prices down to below $600 and made the Windows licence the largest overhead:
Dual socket quad-SLI motherboards became the new high-end workstation (and many laptops), while netbooks, then smartphones became the new commodity PC's (something bought to do read email, web surfing and book tickets).
I was room 101'ed. Basically because a salesguy won the company a hundred million contract. Our competitor poached our two architects, leaving the company headless. Board of directors went into a panic. The local executive government branch told the company "not to promote anyone any further and to have a "fresh talent initiative instead by recruiting foreign workers". Engineers started leaving any way they could.
Being room 101'ed meant I was essentially sitting in an empty corner of the building. For at least 8 cubicles in every direction there wasn't anyone left. Fortunately, I had applied to do a MSc and that gave me a zip line to escape. While doing my MSc, I could watch from a safe distance, as he company was sold off to scavengers/speculators who sold them off to Intel who in turn sued for being sold junk.
Facebook HQ is in East Menlo Park. Both Menlo Park and Palo Alto are the some of the most expensive parts of the Bay Area to live in due to their presence next to Stanford University. For most other people the only other option is to commute via the Dumbarton bridge over the bay and into Fremont or Union City.
British Telecom in the UK. Originally part of the civil service as the post office, but they were privatized. Back in the 1980's, they still kept their "employee magazine".
Sometimes you are forced to job hop. Not because you want to but because your project has been completed, management has decided "whoever knows the most will become the maintenance engineer". With that rule, everyone starts jumping ship after finding themselves "Room 101'ed". They're not fired, but they don't get any work to do either. Maybe a customer wants "the most qualified graduate" to work on a specific part of their project, but you were interviewed for another role.
I don't think it was a good idea. I'm just quoting from many articles and books I've read (The Peter Principle). If you look at some of the movies from the 1960's, (Flubber), you'll see the sentiment being experienced back then "my ideas are being put on the back burner". Today, that person would contact some venture capitalists, and set up their own startup company.
I also remember the days of "Please wait 28 days for postage and packing" when you ordered something by telephone or by mail order.
From personal experience I've been forced to make career path changes because the local government instructed our company to "have a fresh talent initiative from abroad and not to promote anyone any further". That company imploded.
They get bundled into a van with blacked out windows, driven to a reservation casino and have to play until they win the grand prize of a mounted moose head.
The worst thing I heard about Dallas and other cities was the danger of "home invasions". This is from coffee table tech discussions. Then there is the hire-and-fire policies. California does have some employee protections.
I'd get a truckload of old boxes and make a giant cardboard box maze along with some spiral and regular ramps. Maybe even a Jubilex, Asmodeus map or a Wizard of Yendor tower.
400 people would be enough for a particular web forum. I've noticed that some animation 3D freeware (autoriggers) had viruses/worms/trojans built in. Ironically, the zip and tar files are archived at archive.org
IBM PC's had the problem with boot-sector viruses resident on floppy disks. Especially since MS-DOS PC's in university labs didn't have any concept of file ownership.
The term for people who work at home to loo after their family" is called "homemaker". Someone who isn't employed and looks after a relative full-time is called a "caregiver".
I remember a radio debate back in the 1990's. The lowest you could ever get unemployment was 2.5% of the population, because that was the number of people genuinely in ill health or out of work.
There are different "Computer Science" degree programs. Some are focussed at a high level; on computational mathematics with physics; only working with supercomputing, mathematics, parallel programming languages like OpenMP, OpenCL, CUDA etc...
Then there are the Business IT with Management courses, which will be all about servers, networks, Microsoft and Cisco certification, businese practices, network security
That's quite believable. My university had policies that students weren't to tamper with the power cables or switches of desktop PC's or workstations or even turn them on/off from the GUI. Usually, the network cables were wired into a security system. If the server room lost the "heartbeat" an alarm would go off. Sometimes they being used as servers for lab experiments.
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Not usually. The employer might ask about your salary expectations.
In the UK, they were charging interns £1000/month to get "work experience" for six months.
Monster Homes. Place like California stopped building homes with large backyards, so the local homebuyers would buy an old property, demolish it with a house wrecking party, and then build a supersized home on that plot of land. If the old house was a two-up/two-down with lie-ins, they would build a three-floor home with roof-top sundeck, turret tower bedrooms with balconies, as well as an outdoor kitchen with a few outdoor patio heaters.
You could use those cable to haul new cables like fibre-optic through the walls.
Many banking programs now require a separate one time keycode generator or use the BankID feature of a smartphone - it overlays a code number on top of the screen that can't be read by regular apps.
This guy made his own iPhone from spare parts he could buy from trading shops in Shenzen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
MSc is really an intermediate step to getting a PhD. But it also lets you learn a completely fresh set of skills that would allow you to change fields; embedded vs. desktop vs. supercomputing/cloud computing/big data. Doing the right PhD will let you move into research positions in industry or academic work. Doing a MSc, let me learn C++/STL/parallel processing/supercomputing techniques, which have lasted 20+ years. Everyone else in my class has given up on software development.
The important thing is to keeping up to date. Easiest way is to download research paper PDF's, read them and implement your own version.
Take advantage of free trial periods of software.
I remember porting one of my old MS-DOS demos from C to SDL. I had used a simple structure to abstract the VGA framebuffer into a rendering API. Figured it would take me an entire evening to port across. Recompiled and run in 15 minutes. Which left me another 15 minutes before I went out to catch the bus to do my weekly shopping.
DEC worked with ARM to make StrongARM, then a cross-licensing deal was made between Intel and DEC after a lawsuit.
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/d...
I'll second this. I did a MSc because it was the only way to stay in the city I was currently working in. It gave me some experience learning C++, parallel processing, ASIC design, sci-viz, but local employers were not interested in anyone who had been out of industry for a year. So I had to emigrate anyway.
Then you have to deal with the hazards of management who "want the brightest graduate" or "want whoever has the most qualifications" to work on whatever is their personal itch at the time, while everyone else more or less gets to do what they want to do.
Sometimes you will have admins with the view that "Oh, you've done a Masters, you want to go into management?"
With a PhD it's even worse, as many directors have the goal of promoting everyone up into a hierarchy based on qualifications.
Originally it was the UNIX workstations with custom graphics hardware that were king. Then in the late 1990's, they were competing against Windows NT with commodity hardware. Price competition for the low-end home PC used for Email and Web browsing/purchases drove prices down to below $600 and made the Windows licence the largest overhead:
https://linux.slashdot.org/sto...
Dual socket quad-SLI motherboards became the new high-end workstation (and many laptops), while netbooks, then smartphones became the new commodity PC's (something bought to do read email, web surfing and book tickets).
I was room 101'ed. Basically because a salesguy won the company a hundred million contract. Our competitor poached our two architects, leaving the company headless. Board of directors went into a panic. The local executive government branch told the company "not to promote anyone any further and to have a "fresh talent initiative instead by recruiting foreign workers". Engineers started leaving any way they could.
Being room 101'ed meant I was essentially sitting in an empty corner of the building. For at least 8 cubicles in every direction there wasn't anyone left. Fortunately, I had applied to do a MSc and that gave me a zip line to escape. While doing my MSc, I could watch from a safe distance, as he company was sold off to scavengers/speculators who sold them off to Intel who in turn sued for being sold junk.
Facebook HQ is in East Menlo Park. Both Menlo Park and Palo Alto are the some of the most expensive parts of the Bay Area to live in due to their presence next to Stanford University. For most other people the only other option is to commute via the Dumbarton bridge over the bay and into Fremont or Union City.
That's really the only choice.
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British Telecom in the UK. Originally part of the civil service as the post office, but they were privatized. Back in the 1980's, they still kept their "employee magazine".
http://www.alivewithideas.com/...
Sometimes you are forced to job hop. Not because you want to but because your project has been completed, management has decided "whoever knows the most will become the maintenance engineer". With that rule, everyone starts jumping ship after finding themselves "Room 101'ed". They're not fired, but they don't get any work to do either. Maybe a customer wants "the most qualified graduate" to work on a specific part of their project, but you were interviewed for another role.
I don't think it was a good idea. I'm just quoting from many articles and books I've read (The Peter Principle). If you look at some of the movies from the 1960's, (Flubber), you'll see the sentiment being experienced back then "my ideas are being put on the back burner". Today, that person would contact some venture capitalists, and set up their own startup company.
I also remember the days of "Please wait 28 days for postage and packing" when you ordered something by telephone or by mail order.
From personal experience I've been forced to make career path changes because the local government instructed our company to "have a fresh talent initiative from abroad and not to promote anyone any further". That company imploded.
They get bundled into a van with blacked out windows, driven to a reservation casino and have to play until they win the grand prize of a mounted moose head.
The worst thing I heard about Dallas and other cities was the danger of "home invasions". This is from coffee table tech discussions. Then there is the hire-and-fire policies. California does have some employee protections.
I'd get a truckload of old boxes and make a giant cardboard box maze along with some spiral and regular ramps. Maybe even a Jubilex, Asmodeus map or a Wizard of Yendor tower.
400 people would be enough for a particular web forum. I've noticed that some animation 3D freeware (autoriggers) had viruses/worms/trojans built in. Ironically, the zip and tar files are archived at archive.org
IBM PC's had the problem with boot-sector viruses resident on floppy disks. Especially since MS-DOS PC's in university labs didn't have any concept of file ownership.
The term for people who work at home to loo after their family" is called "homemaker". Someone who isn't employed and looks after a relative full-time is called a "caregiver".
I remember a radio debate back in the 1990's. The lowest you could ever get unemployment was 2.5% of the population, because that was the number of people genuinely in ill health or out of work.
There are different "Computer Science" degree programs. Some are focussed at a high level; on computational mathematics with physics; only working with supercomputing, mathematics, parallel programming languages like OpenMP, OpenCL, CUDA etc...
Then there are the Business IT with Management courses, which will be all about servers, networks, Microsoft and Cisco certification, businese practices, network security
That's quite believable. My university had policies that students weren't to tamper with the power cables or switches of desktop PC's or workstations or even turn them on/off from the GUI. Usually, the network cables were wired into a security system. If the server room lost the "heartbeat" an alarm would go off. Sometimes they being used as servers for lab experiments.