I've noticed network breakins on two occasions because of "odd" patterns on the router. (hrmm, nobody is here, why is there so much traffic to that box..)
Your brain is pretty clever at noticing those things. You wouldn't without LEDs. On routers, anyway.
I've yet to see a A4 display. This is a real breakthrough, if it's affordable and available for purchase.
I want one for viewing electronic spec sheets - all PDFs, all A4, and I have thousands of them. It would be nice to have a real "paper" like display instead of doing what we do now, which is print them. I've played with the e-ink stuff before, but the resolution was far too low and the screen size was paperback-sized.
I'm basing it on 15 years experience in the industry. The only telecommuters I've seen make large metric volumes of cash, or achieve any metric of advancement - defined as senior management - in a company are ones who run their own companies, or are independant contractors.
You best be immersing yourself in the culture of a company up to the eyeballs if you want to go that route, and telecommuting is not the way to do that. I'm not saying it's optimal; I'm not saying it's right, either - but I am saying that based on my observations about how the majority of companies work in North America, it's not compatible with advancement.
As a Canadian, who has driven in extreme weather for 17 years - ANY car, with proper snow tires, is adequate for almost any situtation you will encompass. The only weather it won't help you with is sheet ice, or huge drifts, and there, you're finished in anything short of a lumber skidder or perhaps a tank.
I easily outmaneuver SUVs on "all season especially winter" tires in my little FWD car with maybe 5" of clearance tops. Because I have enough sense to put proper snow tires on in the fall.
We don't know that much about what skynet did after it took over, how the humans fought, what happened elsewhere in the world.. this is what T3 should have been, but wasn't. There's probably enough there for at least one more movie, but I don't know about three.
You only have to release changes to people who you liscence the code, or product to. You do NOT have to release the changes to the open community. The person who receives the changes is free to do that, if they want, however.
But if according to the wikipedia we are well over SIX THOUSAND MILLION people alive at the moment, the world would find itself in a much worse position if we stopped dieing and clearing the way for younger generations
The cheap oil and energy will be largely done in 8-12 years. I wouldn't worry about it.
Everyone is just going to playback HD content from a fixed server.. just like mp3s rendered the physical storage medium obsolete. Only a matter of time.. sooner, now, with the AppleTV box.
[quote] The tax on my cigarettes, pays for your healthcare. I have not been to a doctor or the hospital once in over then years, though over that ten years I have probably paid $10400 in tobacco tax directly subsidising the wasteful and frivolous healthcare system. (about two $10 packs a week for 10 years) Not to mention the 10% sales tax I pay on everything else I buy - everything, which is supposed to pay for the healthcare system. (Compounded by an additional 8% federal sales tax - the "GST"). [/quote]
If you think $10k pays for a lot of cancer drugs, you're wrong.
You can do basic motor control with a $10 microcontroller. Add a stepper driver IC and you might be up to $25-30.
Basic on/off DC motor control is a $1.50 transistor away.. and hell, why not use the LinuxCNC project if you want to do really complicated control?
I'm not exactly sure what MS is trying to do here. Robots are cool, and a great interactive toy - but you waste a lot of resources building them if you want to explore AI and the like - it's easier to simulate concepts.
[quote] When times get leaner, or there are other priorities in life, having a secure job is a much better proposition. I think it's obvious you're young and probably don't have family commitments. I think you'll change your mind if you're ever ill for a substantial period, or have a sick child, or there's a large downturn. Summarily calling engineers who take full time paid jobs stupid is at best arrogant. [/quote]
Engineers who complain they don't make enough money working for someone else ARE stupid.
If you're happy working for somebody else, want a stable 9-5 this doesn't apply to you - I thought that was PAINFULLY obvious.
I'm not young by industry standards, I have more family commitments than most people would care to think about - so go to hell - and there's a reason I have my own long term disability insurance, my own medical insurance, my own accountant, and a financial plan. I'm not betting my life on someone else.
In fact, I love companies who have big expensive engineering staff - they're great to propose projects to that save money and allow them to reduce that expensive staff.
Stability comes from having a reputation and a good client list. It's not for everyone, but I AM ambitious and very skilled. My old man said you don't get rich working for someone else. I took that to heart. YMMV.
- Management typically sees engineers as a means to an end, and an interchangable means at that. You pay market rate for engineering and they get the job done. Engineers do NOT make companies money - products do. If you want to make money as an engineer, you do NOT do it as an employee. You do it the way lawyers do - the retainer and contract model. Engineers are STUPID for agreeing to be employees. You sold your soul (and market power) for an easy paycheque.
- Profit comes from managing capital, NOT engineering. Managers are paid more because they manage the capital. That's what makes companies work.
I don't agree with all this, but it's based on my observtions of how the world works. If you want to make money as an engineer, look at how lawyers do it. Otherwise, you better be an entrepreneur, or willing to work the corporate management ladder.
I am among the last in a long line of engineers who have been lucky enough to be exposed to the OLD HP. The HP run by engineers, that made great test equipment, and calculators. The HP that made great calculators with excellent tactile feedback. You know, one of the only reasons to USE a dedicated calculator.
My HP48GX was purchased in the summer of 1994 before I started my electrical engineering degree. It followed me through every exam and project I have done since and proudly sits on my desk today where it continues to be used daily. I own a 48G I boughts as a spare; and happily run the emulators you have so nicely provided the ROM for, including on my very speedy Palm T3.
I also owned a great HP35, and a HP100LX that I used daily for years. All of these devices had the great, tactile response keys and indestructible construction.
So please, for the love all that is holy and good in the universe, do not make another fisher price calculator. Please make another quality business calculator, and PLEASE consider making an updated version of the best engineering calculator that ever was - the HP48GX.
I've done many exams where the profs didn't care what you brought with you, "so long as it's not breathing". All the books and notes in the world won't help you if you don't understand the material.
Is undergraduate fine arts such a joke now that the profs can't be bothered to determine if the students are providing genuine insight into the material, or are just regurgitating crap? I did History of Warfare courses as my fine arts component - even there, the prof didn't want to mark papers. He'd tell you to research something, and then come in and write a paper in the allotted time based on what you learned.
Seems pretty basic to me. Then again, I didn't see many artsies in the library on Friday night.
The next sputnik will be gene manipulation technologies. The hassles with stem cell and other research in the USA will bite them in the ass; it's only a matter of time before the Chinese or Russians advance in this area.
What will be amusing to watch, is all of the bullshit reasons those in power come up with to import the miracle cures said technology can offer us, dispite being so "ethically troubled" by the baseline research that brought them about.
it's face/face communication that wins almost every time.
Sales pitches and closing a deal is easiest in person. Next on the phone. Almost never via email exclusively - but does happen.
When you're trying to sell something, be it an idea or a product, most of the time the person you're selling the idea or concept to could get something that will work from anyone. What you're selling is confidence that you will be able to deliver, implement, whatever. It's much easier to communicate genuine confidence in skills, product or ability with other cues besides words - be it voice inflection, posture, facial expression, etc.
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I've noticed network breakins on two occasions because of "odd" patterns on the router. (hrmm, nobody is here, why is there so much traffic to that box..)
Your brain is pretty clever at noticing those things. You wouldn't without LEDs. On routers, anyway.
I've yet to see a A4 display. This is a real breakthrough, if it's affordable and available for purchase.
I want one for viewing electronic spec sheets - all PDFs, all A4, and I have thousands of them. It would be nice to have a real "paper" like display instead of doing what we do now, which is print them. I've played with the e-ink stuff before, but the resolution was far too low and the screen size was paperback-sized.
I'm basing it on 15 years experience in the industry. The only telecommuters I've seen make large metric volumes of cash, or achieve any metric of advancement - defined as senior management - in a company are ones who run their own companies, or are independant contractors.
You best be immersing yourself in the culture of a company up to the eyeballs if you want to go that route, and telecommuting is not the way to do that. I'm not saying it's optimal; I'm not saying it's right, either - but I am saying that based on my observations about how the majority of companies work in North America, it's not compatible with advancement.
Unless you work for youself, as a contractor, whatever - telecommuting is career suicide. There are exceptions, but that's the rule, IMHO.
As a Canadian, who has driven in extreme weather for 17 years - ANY car, with proper snow tires, is adequate for almost any situtation you will encompass. The only weather it won't help you with is sheet ice, or huge drifts, and there, you're finished in anything short of a lumber skidder or perhaps a tank.
I easily outmaneuver SUVs on "all season especially winter" tires in my little FWD car with maybe 5" of clearance tops. Because I have enough sense to put proper snow tires on in the fall.
4WD does nothing to help you stop, either.
We don't know that much about what skynet did after it took over, how the humans fought, what happened elsewhere in the world.. this is what T3 should have been, but wasn't. There's probably enough there for at least one more movie, but I don't know about three.
Or, if you're in a bad mood, you can use this piece of wisdom to see how bad a traffic jam you can produce. Hah.
You only have to release changes to people who you liscence the code, or product to. You do NOT have to release the changes to the open community. The person who receives the changes is free to do that, if they want, however.
But if according to the wikipedia we are well over SIX THOUSAND MILLION people alive at the moment, the world would find itself in a much worse position if we stopped dieing and clearing the way for younger generations
The cheap oil and energy will be largely done in 8-12 years. I wouldn't worry about it.
Oil companies know what the score is with actual reserves. Extrapolate from there.
Everyone is just going to playback HD content from a fixed server .. just like mp3s rendered the physical storage medium obsolete. Only a matter of time.. sooner, now, with the AppleTV box.
[quote]
The tax on my cigarettes, pays for your healthcare. I have not been to a doctor or the hospital once in over then years, though over that ten years I have probably paid $10400 in tobacco tax directly subsidising the wasteful and frivolous healthcare system. (about two $10 packs a week for 10 years) Not to mention the 10% sales tax I pay on everything else I buy - everything, which is supposed to pay for the healthcare system. (Compounded by an additional 8% federal sales tax - the "GST").
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If you think $10k pays for a lot of cancer drugs, you're wrong.
http://www.epa.gov/oppt/coi/pubs/II_5.pdf
Figures I see there are an initial three month cost around $25k with a per year maintenance of $10k. With much more possible if you survive.
I think you'd need to pay more like 500% tax to make up the diff. Something to think about.
No, but it's about time some serious research was put into this. There are likely other implications for this as well.
You can do basic motor control with a $10 microcontroller. Add a stepper driver IC and you might be up to $25-30.
Basic on/off DC motor control is a $1.50 transistor away.. and hell, why not use the LinuxCNC project if you want to do really complicated control?
I'm not exactly sure what MS is trying to do here. Robots are cool, and a great interactive toy - but you waste a lot of resources building them if you want to explore AI and the like - it's easier to simulate concepts.
Polyurethane condoms are not affected by oil based lubricants.
enjoy!
Boobies!
Good thing there aren't any worse problems in the world to concern ourselves with.
You're SOL on a plane if you don't have an offline version of the software.
[quote]
When times get leaner, or there are other priorities in life, having a secure job is a much better proposition. I think it's obvious you're young and probably don't have family commitments. I think you'll change your mind if you're ever ill for a substantial period, or have a sick child, or there's a large downturn. Summarily calling engineers who take full time paid jobs stupid is at best arrogant.
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Engineers who complain they don't make enough money working for someone else ARE stupid.
If you're happy working for somebody else, want a stable 9-5 this doesn't apply to you - I thought that was PAINFULLY obvious.
I'm not young by industry standards, I have more family commitments than most people would care to think about - so go to hell - and there's a reason I have my own long term disability insurance, my own medical insurance, my own accountant, and a financial plan. I'm not betting my life on someone else.
In fact, I love companies who have big expensive engineering staff - they're great to propose projects to that save money and allow them to reduce that expensive staff.
Stability comes from having a reputation and a good client list. It's not for everyone, but I AM ambitious and very skilled. My old man said you don't get rich working for someone else. I took that to heart. YMMV.
A few secrets:
- Management typically sees engineers as a means to an end, and an interchangable means at that. You pay market rate for engineering and they get the job done. Engineers do NOT make companies money - products do. If you want to make money as an engineer, you do NOT do it as an employee. You do it the way lawyers do - the retainer and contract model. Engineers are STUPID for agreeing to be employees. You sold your soul (and market power) for an easy paycheque.
- Profit comes from managing capital, NOT engineering. Managers are paid more because they manage the capital. That's what makes companies work.
I don't agree with all this, but it's based on my observtions of how the world works. If you want to make money as an engineer, look at how lawyers do it. Otherwise, you better be an entrepreneur, or willing to work the corporate management ladder.
Believe me, I've tried emailing them too. :)
Hello HP;
I am among the last in a long line of engineers who have been lucky enough to be exposed to the OLD HP. The HP run by engineers, that made great test equipment, and calculators. The HP that made great calculators with excellent tactile feedback. You know, one of the only reasons to USE a dedicated calculator.
My HP48GX was purchased in the summer of 1994 before I started my electrical engineering degree. It followed me through every exam and project I have done since and proudly sits on my desk today where it continues to be used daily. I own a 48G I boughts as a spare; and happily run the emulators you have so nicely provided the ROM for, including on my very speedy Palm T3.
I also owned a great HP35, and a HP100LX that I used daily for years. All of these devices had the great, tactile response keys and indestructible construction.
So please, for the love all that is holy and good in the universe, do not make another fisher price calculator. Please make another quality business calculator, and PLEASE consider making an updated version of the best engineering calculator that ever was - the HP48GX.
I've done many exams where the profs didn't care what you brought with you, "so long as it's not breathing". All the books and notes in the world won't help you if you don't understand the material.
Is undergraduate fine arts such a joke now that the profs can't be bothered to determine if the students are providing genuine insight into the material, or are just regurgitating crap? I did History of Warfare courses as my fine arts component - even there, the prof didn't want to mark papers. He'd tell you to research something, and then come in and write a paper in the allotted time based on what you learned.
Seems pretty basic to me. Then again, I didn't see many artsies in the library on Friday night.
Tell that to the softwood lumber producers and your government ignoring WTO arbitration.
Tell that to any skilled professional trying to work cross border.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
The next sputnik will be gene manipulation technologies. The hassles with stem cell and other research in the USA will bite them in the ass; it's only a matter of time before the Chinese or Russians advance in this area.
What will be amusing to watch, is all of the bullshit reasons those in power come up with to import the miracle cures said technology can offer us, dispite being so "ethically troubled" by the baseline research that brought them about.
it's face/face communication that wins almost every time.
Sales pitches and closing a deal is easiest in person. Next on the phone. Almost never via email exclusively - but does happen.
When you're trying to sell something, be it an idea or a product, most of the time the person you're selling the idea or concept to could get something that will work from anyone. What you're selling is confidence that you will be able to deliver, implement, whatever. It's much easier to communicate genuine confidence in skills, product or ability with other cues besides words - be it voice inflection, posture, facial expression, etc.
No rocket science here.