Those studies are worthless. Those are not the reasons I work, and probably not the reasons most of your staff works for you either. Especially not in that order. (Plus who'd trust any research from Utah anyway? Ever been there?)
Try asking your staff sometime during one-on-one sessions, instead of reading management studies. That'd be a start.
Do you really know why your staff comes to work?
And yes, I have managed people in a company setting.
I continue to volunteer my time in management roles outside of the business realm, and run a non-profit with all work done by volunteers.
Try that sometime -- all volunteer labor -- and we'll see what kind of leader you are. Set deadlines without any reason other than "productivity" in an all-volunteer group and watch them laugh their asses off at you and walk away.
You sound like you're "All manager and no leader" in your posts. I hope not. The world certainly doesn't need more tyrant managers -- it needs leaders.
So what measurements do you use to tell if the short-time-frame product meets the same quality standards as the longer-term one?
Oh wait, I forgot, this is 2006 -- bloat-ware with massive bugs is expected. You'll be releasing version 27 tomorrow.
This is one of the reasons a lot of us support folks are looking to get out of this industry permanently... supporting this crud released simply because a particular calendar date passed is getting me nowhere.
Ahh, but KOA doesn't broadcast from the top of a mountain at all. In fact, their tower is located slightly south and east of Centennial Airport in the southern suburbs of Denver. In fact, it's one of the prominent landmarks for finding the APA practice areas for pilots doing training work.
The key to KOA's monster signal is two-fold: 1. They're a 50KW ND station... 50,000W all day, every day. Standard AM Broadcast physics going on here... at night, the sun goes down and the MUF (maximum usable frequency) goes up, and the F layers of the ionosphere do a great job of bouncing KOA to far-distant places. (They claim on-air 38 states, Canada & Mexico, but DX SWL's report them from far further away fairly reqularly.)
2. They specifically designed the 5/8 wave tower to sit in a (relatively) low-lying area that is slightly "wetter" (to put it simply - there's an underground layer of clay and an aquifer) than the surrounding dry high-plains around Denver. Their "built in" RF ground-plane is therefore much more effective underneath their tower (which is the antenna, like most AM stations) than many others around the area.
We start off with the king loser who works his ass off doing multiple jobs instead of convincing his bosses to properly plan for growth and changes, then we move to the dumb ass who couldn't convince the boss to keep off-site backups and does his best to kill himself in a fire, and it just keeps getting worse from there. The Air Force guy helped Katrina victims, a nice thing, but WTF does it have to do with being "Sysadmin of the Year"?
Well the guy stated that the Air Force is happy with the performance of pilots in the F-16 and tried to relate that to the performance of some fat-ass office-worker at a desk.
Even if a reclined position caused a loss of performance, the guys flying the jets are in shape, tested, and trained a hell of a lot more than any desk-potato to do what they're doing, so I'd guess the damn chair is completely irrelevant.
The boys in the fighter jets would perform as well inverted (which they do) as right side up.
Completely stupid to compare a machine operating in three dimensions at close to or over the speed of sound to some moron sitting there munching on cheetos in the same position for hours and hours with no more physical exertion than moving a mouse arm.
Far too many factors involved beyond the chair. But this is Slashdot where all the wanna-be Top Gun arm-chair coders fantasize about how their 135 degree reclined computer chair somehow makes them somehow equivalent to someone who actually goes outside, sets goals, meets them, and gets handed the keys (figuratively) to go fly an F-16 for a living.
Equating sitting in an office chair to flying an F-16 is supremely dumb and has no basis in engineering beyond a casual relationship, but then again... it's Slashdot. Finding a real Engineer here might be hard, too.
No, I'm not overlooking the obvious. The reclined position was created to handle the G loading of combat maneuvers, not to give the pilot any benefits at 1G. In fact, much of the panel is covered by your knees sticking up into your field of view in the F-16, and you learn to bob your head and look around your knees a lot.
If there is a benefit at 1G, it was not planned, and was a less-than-secondary consideration, considering you can't even see the entire instrument panel through your knees in an F-16. If there is any other benefit to reclining the pilot that far in 1G flight in the F-16, it has not been studied, but it's doubtful anyone cares when the above knee-bobbing is required for being able to see certain instruments.
Part of the purpose of reclining the F-16 so far back is also rumored to have been to save costs and reduce aerodynamic loads on the canopy, as the canopy itself would have to be taller if the F-16 pilot sat in a more upright position in the cockpit.
The F-16's seatback recline angle is higher than all the other fighter aircraft in the current U.S. aresenal.
It's all a problem in *which* people calling themselves "Christians" you run into. That group from Kansas that wanted to protest at the Amish children's funeral call themselves "Christians", you know. You guys should really clean house, once in a while.
Our own local area here hosts the "Pastor" who was both the head of the largest Evangelical association in the U.S. and who was also paying for gay sex on the side. Now to patch up the believer's indignation he's being "counseled" by James Dobson, arguably one of the most powerful and influential people in the "Christian" faith. (Hey Jim, Focus on your own damn Family, would you? How are they doing? I hear you've generally screwed them up pretty good -- time to step down and clean your own house, bud.)
Or perhaps they're not the type you like. Another church here recently got a nice expose' in the newspaper about accounting fraud and a discussion about how their pastor tells his flock that if they give money, far more money will be returned to them here on Earth... not heavenly riches mind you, but the "name it and claim it" crowd. They kindly had an ATM machine installed in their foyer for your giving convenience.
The above examples (other than the Kansas fuck-tards) are not small "sects" of "strange Christians" who aren't "normal". All three are HUGE churches, all claiming to be "Christian" who can't even keep up a semblence of basic ethics when it comes to their own leadership. Let alone true moral fiber.
Pray for us if you will, but set your own house in order before you come out swinging. I've fed homeless people and lived with them in the inner-city while rebuilding a hotel that was housing them and finding them jobs. That was true "Christianity". Then I moved back to the 'burbs and wanted to vomit after attending a so-called house of worship. People with Lexii (the multiple of Lexus) in designer clothes singing praise and worship songs, and probably feeling pretty comfortable about Peter saying, "The poor you will always have with you." So they could drive home feeling justified in their lifestyles and purchases. Their pastors always drove "one step down" cars below their sheep, just so they could maintain a fake semblance of piety.
The church would put on fund-raisers to build additions to the building, while these same people would drive by a homeless man on their way to church parking lot, and not even toss him a $1.
The fact of the matter is: Most suburban churches in the U.S. certainly do some "good works". But in order to do them, they had to sell out and become mega-entertainment centers, trying to hold the interest of the Sunday bargain-hunters long enough to have them sing a song or two to make them feel better about themselves before they head out to buy something else for an endorphin rush that afternoon. They're in the entertainment business. Which certainly doesn't merit a tax-exempt status for being a holy place of worship.
True Christians (translation: Christ-like) wouldn't build churches that didn't pay taxes. As Paul said, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's."
They would be asking to be treated like every other organization, not treated differently because of "separation of Church and State"... which by the way, is nowhere in the Constition of our Country. It was simply put in place by Christians who held political power.
Training the mind to fight everyone not wearing your color for years on end while your parents cheer like idiots from the sidelines, has to have a detrimental effect on society eventually.
The really mentally sick kids grow up and decide to "compete with themselves" and take up golf.
ISO 9000 is simply a way to DOCUMENT your FUCKUPS. It doesn't produce a quality product.
Want proof? ISO 9000 certified processes produced the Firestone tires that killed people. Got the newspaper clipping of a photo of the closed Firestone plant caused by the business realities of how stupid they were hanging at my desk. The sign out front proudly displays their ISO certification, like a badge of honesty for people who don't get what ISO 9000 really is.
ISO 9000 isn't a panacea of quality, it's just a truckload of paperwork to prove you did the exact same flawed thing the same way, time and time again.
Most people (even ones easily swayed by the lure of an "easy" way to a quality product back when ISO 9000 first came along and the Marketing hype for the consultants and ISO 9000 training companies was cranking away full-speed) have figured this out by now.
So how do shareholders today demand that the companies they invest in stop making these donations and give the shareholders the profits?
This is ultimately where the system is broken. Too many complacent shareholders (401K and other retirement fund based mutual funds!) and not enough people actively watching what the companies they invest in are actually doing with the profits.
People are too "busy" to be bothered with checking up on and fighting with the idiots running the companies they invest in, and they're losing a lot of money letting these guys play games with their investment dollars.
If you're not researching what's in your portfolio and communicating to the corporations in it that you're unhappy with what they do with their money, you're not an investor -- you're just along for the ride given and planned by the fat cats running the company who have a lot more shares than you do.
The only people companies have to keep happy are the large "institutional investors" once they reach a certain size. Ever stop to think what the "institution" stands for? You? Probably not.
Bureaucracy serves the purpose of continuity for many organizations in today's society. If your company didn't have all that bloat they wouldn't be as big (less staff), they wouldn't be as capitalized (because costs would be lower), and there's a point where they would cease to exist.
"Because we've always done it that way" is a comforting thought for many, and a depressing one for others. But since you're working with a mix of people, the best thing you can do is learn when something truly isn't your problem to address, make your job better/easier with judicious applications of technology, and go home happy and do something else at night.
Actually the Linux distros *ALREADY* do this. They all call themselves "Linux". Then your non-tech friends call up and say, "I can't get my Linux box to do X."
You'd better go read up on RF Engineering -- that simple "broadcast and reception hardware" is a lot more complex than you would like to believe.
You don't just "ask" a high-performance radio to receive on a specific frequency or modulation type. They have to be designed to be there doing that in the first place. And those radios work or the datalink that allows the upload of code changes simply wouldn't be there. They were designed, tested and done -- long before launch.
An example: Uploading code into your car's FM stereo system to "ask" it to receive XM Satellite digital signals, isn't going to do diddly. Wrong frequency band, wrong antenna type, wrong modulation/demodulation hardware... etc.
The frequencies and radios in use between ALL of the NASA/Mars spacecraft is a well-designed, well-orchestrated system, considering they also need to be heard from incredible distances directly by their controllers on Earth when required.
For more information on that, look up details of the Deep Space Network (DSN). When you have to cryogenically cool (freeze) your antennas to get the thermal noise down so you can hear some weak signal out there, even using a dish the size of my house to gather the EM waves -- you're working on something that took a lot more thought than just uploading a patch to a rover.
The fact that they CAN patch the rovers remotely all hinges on the RF engineers that make the various radio links work. Most of them cut their teeth transmitting to and receiving from Voyager I and II, which they did all the way to the end of the Sun's magnetic influence and our solar system.
If you go all the way back to Apollo, and the manned moon missions, the technology was relatively crude, but just as well-planned and laid out. You can find all sorts of frequency and system detail for Apollo at http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/ -- which in and of itself is a fascinating primer on how difficult it was back then to communicate just with the Moon.
Now controllers "talk" all day long to Mars... time-delayed by the speed of light. Truly an amazing feat.
But hell, we're all about instantaneous cell phone communications, and we bitch when a cell phone call drops these days -- completely ignoring the complexity that's gone into building a worldwide RF network in almost every significantly populated area where a pocket-phone with an antenna smaller than your pinky finger, is a reality.
I find the stuff fascinating, and think about what's next in RF Engineering. Software-Defined Radio seems to be the best "tinkerers playground" these days -- someone's going to have some major breakthrough there that's going to re-define how we all do RF Engineering. Only a matter of time.
Time will tell if so-called techno-geeks in the U.S. ever find it interesting again, too.
RF Engineering is still a huge opportunity for a good student. All the discussions of Slashdot about CS and Software Engineering courses not being worth the paper they're printed on... and people complaining about that are silly. Students would be wise to ALSO study the works of Mr. Ohm, Mr. Maxwell, Mr. Nyquist, Mr. Watt, Mr. Marconi, etc... etc... etc... those skills are instantly applicable to almost every major product or service for sale in the tech fields today. Add in computer programming knowledge and you're suddenly on a path to some really interesting projects.
And it's lucrative too. Ask anyone that's created a $30 lighting controller for your house how much they had to pay a consulting RF Engineer to make sure the device didn't emit any serious Electo-Magnetic Interference (EMI) for their various certifications!
Nah, we just have no comment. The movies for us came out in the order they came out. No point in arguing it now what freakin' order to watch them in, we saw them all... when they were released.
Let's also hope they release a phone that has decent audio and works as a phone first before all the other add-on crap, too.
Samsung phones are decent on the "phone" part, but their interface is mimicing Moto and others, to the detriment of their product. Louder, clearer, cheaper... got many of the right ideas, but not there yet Samsung.
Let's see what Apple can do. Should be interesting.
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Those studies are worthless. Those are not the reasons I work, and probably not the reasons most of your staff works for you either. Especially not in that order. (Plus who'd trust any research from Utah anyway? Ever been there?)
Try asking your staff sometime during one-on-one sessions, instead of reading management studies. That'd be a start.
Do you really know why your staff comes to work?
And yes, I have managed people in a company setting.
I continue to volunteer my time in management roles outside of the business realm, and run a non-profit with all work done by volunteers.
Try that sometime -- all volunteer labor -- and we'll see what kind of leader you are. Set deadlines without any reason other than "productivity" in an all-volunteer group and watch them laugh their asses off at you and walk away.
You sound like you're "All manager and no leader" in your posts. I hope not. The world certainly doesn't need more tyrant managers -- it needs leaders.
So what measurements do you use to tell if the short-time-frame product meets the same quality standards as the longer-term one?
Oh wait, I forgot, this is 2006 -- bloat-ware with massive bugs is expected. You'll be releasing version 27 tomorrow.
This is one of the reasons a lot of us support folks are looking to get out of this industry permanently... supporting this crud released simply because a particular calendar date passed is getting me nowhere.
(Good luck - hope you enjoy supporting the crap.)
As soon as you start down that slope, people will only work to the level dictated by the metrics.
Ahh, but KOA doesn't broadcast from the top of a mountain at all. In fact, their tower is located slightly south and east of Centennial Airport in the southern suburbs of Denver. In fact, it's one of the prominent landmarks for finding the APA practice areas for pilots doing training work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOA_(AM)
The key to KOA's monster signal is two-fold:
1. They're a 50KW ND station... 50,000W all day, every day. Standard AM Broadcast physics going on here... at night, the sun goes down and the MUF (maximum usable frequency) goes up, and the F layers of the ionosphere do a great job of bouncing KOA to far-distant places. (They claim on-air 38 states, Canada & Mexico, but DX SWL's report them from far further away fairly reqularly.)
2. They specifically designed the 5/8 wave tower to sit in a (relatively) low-lying area that is slightly "wetter" (to put it simply - there's an underground layer of clay and an aquifer) than the surrounding dry high-plains around Denver. Their "built in" RF ground-plane is therefore much more effective underneath their tower (which is the antenna, like most AM stations) than many others around the area.
The difference is, Mr. Jobs makes sure his products generally work before they hit the market.
Agreed. What a load of crap this "award" is.
We start off with the king loser who works his ass off doing multiple jobs instead of convincing his bosses to properly plan for growth and changes, then we move to the dumb ass who couldn't convince the boss to keep off-site backups and does his best to kill himself in a fire, and it just keeps getting worse from there. The Air Force guy helped Katrina victims, a nice thing, but WTF does it have to do with being "Sysadmin of the Year"?
Uber-lame.
I am a pilot. And I'm having fun stringing you along. You're quiet hyper about this.
A reclined chair (or not) makes no damn difference in the performance of a normal human.
In a high-performance aircraft, they're installed to help the pilot handle G-loads.
Keep talking, we're having fun aren't we?
Well the guy stated that the Air Force is happy with the performance of pilots in the F-16 and tried to relate that to the performance of some fat-ass office-worker at a desk.
Even if a reclined position caused a loss of performance, the guys flying the jets are in shape, tested, and trained a hell of a lot more than any desk-potato to do what they're doing, so I'd guess the damn chair is completely irrelevant.
The boys in the fighter jets would perform as well inverted (which they do) as right side up.
Completely stupid to compare a machine operating in three dimensions at close to or over the speed of sound to some moron sitting there munching on cheetos in the same position for hours and hours with no more physical exertion than moving a mouse arm.
Far too many factors involved beyond the chair. But this is Slashdot where all the wanna-be Top Gun arm-chair coders fantasize about how their 135 degree reclined computer chair somehow makes them somehow equivalent to someone who actually goes outside, sets goals, meets them, and gets handed the keys (figuratively) to go fly an F-16 for a living.
Equating sitting in an office chair to flying an F-16 is supremely dumb and has no basis in engineering beyond a casual relationship, but then again... it's Slashdot. Finding a real Engineer here might be hard, too.
No, I'm not overlooking the obvious. The reclined position was created to handle the G loading of combat maneuvers, not to give the pilot any benefits at 1G. In fact, much of the panel is covered by your knees sticking up into your field of view in the F-16, and you learn to bob your head and look around your knees a lot.
If there is a benefit at 1G, it was not planned, and was a less-than-secondary consideration, considering you can't even see the entire instrument panel through your knees in an F-16. If there is any other benefit to reclining the pilot that far in 1G flight in the F-16, it has not been studied, but it's doubtful anyone cares when the above knee-bobbing is required for being able to see certain instruments.
Part of the purpose of reclining the F-16 so far back is also rumored to have been to save costs and reduce aerodynamic loads on the canopy, as the canopy itself would have to be taller if the F-16 pilot sat in a more upright position in the cockpit.
The F-16's seatback recline angle is higher than all the other fighter aircraft in the current U.S. aresenal.
Add the word "ever" to my comment then.
Comparing an F-16 to a PC desk is still retarded, which was my point... obviously.
Old-school management types will be old men with bad backs soon. Don't worry about it.
Since you've used the word "lay" down inappropriately, instead of "lie" down, you have grammatically answered your own question.
Most of us aren't pulling 9G's at our desks and squeezing our butt cheeks together so hard they hurt to keep blood in our heads.
Yeah just what we need. Let's make the overworked, no sleep in days, truck driver's seats more comfortable.
It's all a problem in *which* people calling themselves "Christians" you run into. That group from Kansas that wanted to protest at the Amish children's funeral call themselves "Christians", you know. You guys should really clean house, once in a while.
Our own local area here hosts the "Pastor" who was both the head of the largest Evangelical association in the U.S. and who was also paying for gay sex on the side. Now to patch up the believer's indignation he's being "counseled" by James Dobson, arguably one of the most powerful and influential people in the "Christian" faith. (Hey Jim, Focus on your own damn Family, would you? How are they doing? I hear you've generally screwed them up pretty good -- time to step down and clean your own house, bud.)
Or perhaps they're not the type you like. Another church here recently got a nice expose' in the newspaper about accounting fraud and a discussion about how their pastor tells his flock that if they give money, far more money will be returned to them here on Earth... not heavenly riches mind you, but the "name it and claim it" crowd. They kindly had an ATM machine installed in their foyer for your giving convenience.
The above examples (other than the Kansas fuck-tards) are not small "sects" of "strange Christians" who aren't "normal". All three are HUGE churches, all claiming to be "Christian" who can't even keep up a semblence of basic ethics when it comes to their own leadership. Let alone true moral fiber.
Pray for us if you will, but set your own house in order before you come out swinging. I've fed homeless people and lived with them in the inner-city while rebuilding a hotel that was housing them and finding them jobs. That was true "Christianity". Then I moved back to the 'burbs and wanted to vomit after attending a so-called house of worship. People with Lexii (the multiple of Lexus) in designer clothes singing praise and worship songs, and probably feeling pretty comfortable about Peter saying, "The poor you will always have with you." So they could drive home feeling justified in their lifestyles and purchases. Their pastors always drove "one step down" cars below their sheep, just so they could maintain a fake semblance of piety.
The church would put on fund-raisers to build additions to the building, while these same people would drive by a homeless man on their way to church parking lot, and not even toss him a $1.
The fact of the matter is: Most suburban churches in the U.S. certainly do some "good works". But in order to do them, they had to sell out and become mega-entertainment centers, trying to hold the interest of the Sunday bargain-hunters long enough to have them sing a song or two to make them feel better about themselves before they head out to buy something else for an endorphin rush that afternoon. They're in the entertainment business. Which certainly doesn't merit a tax-exempt status for being a holy place of worship.
True Christians (translation: Christ-like) wouldn't build churches that didn't pay taxes. As Paul said, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's."
They would be asking to be treated like every other organization, not treated differently because of "separation of Church and State"... which by the way, is nowhere in the Constition of our Country. It was simply put in place by Christians who held political power.
See what high-school sports gets you?
Training the mind to fight everyone not wearing your color for years on end while your parents cheer like idiots from the sidelines, has to have a detrimental effect on society eventually.
The really mentally sick kids grow up and decide to "compete with themselves" and take up golf.
Your user number is too high for 1995, son.
Another ISO 9000 fan-boy.
ISO 9000 is simply a way to DOCUMENT your FUCKUPS. It doesn't produce a quality product.
Want proof? ISO 9000 certified processes produced the Firestone tires that killed people. Got the newspaper clipping of a photo of the closed Firestone plant caused by the business realities of how stupid they were hanging at my desk. The sign out front proudly displays their ISO certification, like a badge of honesty for people who don't get what ISO 9000 really is.
ISO 9000 isn't a panacea of quality, it's just a truckload of paperwork to prove you did the exact same flawed thing the same way, time and time again.
Most people (even ones easily swayed by the lure of an "easy" way to a quality product back when ISO 9000 first came along and the Marketing hype for the consultants and ISO 9000 training companies was cranking away full-speed) have figured this out by now.
Think about it.
So how do shareholders today demand that the companies they invest in stop making these donations and give the shareholders the profits?
This is ultimately where the system is broken. Too many complacent shareholders (401K and other retirement fund based mutual funds!) and not enough people actively watching what the companies they invest in are actually doing with the profits.
People are too "busy" to be bothered with checking up on and fighting with the idiots running the companies they invest in, and they're losing a lot of money letting these guys play games with their investment dollars.
If you're not researching what's in your portfolio and communicating to the corporations in it that you're unhappy with what they do with their money, you're not an investor -- you're just along for the ride given and planned by the fat cats running the company who have a lot more shares than you do.
The only people companies have to keep happy are the large "institutional investors" once they reach a certain size. Ever stop to think what the "institution" stands for? You? Probably not.
Bureaucracy serves the purpose of continuity for many organizations in today's society. If your company didn't have all that bloat they wouldn't be as big (less staff), they wouldn't be as capitalized (because costs would be lower), and there's a point where they would cease to exist.
"Because we've always done it that way" is a comforting thought for many, and a depressing one for others. But since you're working with a mix of people, the best thing you can do is learn when something truly isn't your problem to address, make your job better/easier with judicious applications of technology, and go home happy and do something else at night.
Actually the Linux distros *ALREADY* do this. They all call themselves "Linux". Then your non-tech friends call up and say, "I can't get my Linux box to do X."
It's already a nightmare.
You'd better go read up on RF Engineering -- that simple "broadcast and reception hardware" is a lot more complex than you would like to believe.
You don't just "ask" a high-performance radio to receive on a specific frequency or modulation type. They have to be designed to be there doing that in the first place. And those radios work or the datalink that allows the upload of code changes simply wouldn't be there. They were designed, tested and done -- long before launch.
An example: Uploading code into your car's FM stereo system to "ask" it to receive XM Satellite digital signals, isn't going to do diddly. Wrong frequency band, wrong antenna type, wrong modulation/demodulation hardware... etc.
The frequencies and radios in use between ALL of the NASA/Mars spacecraft is a well-designed, well-orchestrated system, considering they also need to be heard from incredible distances directly by their controllers on Earth when required.
For more information on that, look up details of the Deep Space Network (DSN). When you have to cryogenically cool (freeze) your antennas to get the thermal noise down so you can hear some weak signal out there, even using a dish the size of my house to gather the EM waves -- you're working on something that took a lot more thought than just uploading a patch to a rover.
The fact that they CAN patch the rovers remotely all hinges on the RF engineers that make the various radio links work. Most of them cut their teeth transmitting to and receiving from Voyager I and II, which they did all the way to the end of the Sun's magnetic influence and our solar system.
If you go all the way back to Apollo, and the manned moon missions, the technology was relatively crude, but just as well-planned and laid out. You can find all sorts of frequency and system detail for Apollo at http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/ -- which in and of itself is a fascinating primer on how difficult it was back then to communicate just with the Moon.
Now controllers "talk" all day long to Mars... time-delayed by the speed of light. Truly an amazing feat.
But hell, we're all about instantaneous cell phone communications, and we bitch when a cell phone call drops these days -- completely ignoring the complexity that's gone into building a worldwide RF network in almost every significantly populated area where a pocket-phone with an antenna smaller than your pinky finger, is a reality.
I find the stuff fascinating, and think about what's next in RF Engineering. Software-Defined Radio seems to be the best "tinkerers playground" these days -- someone's going to have some major breakthrough there that's going to re-define how we all do RF Engineering. Only a matter of time.
Time will tell if so-called techno-geeks in the U.S. ever find it interesting again, too.
RF Engineering is still a huge opportunity for a good student. All the discussions of Slashdot about CS and Software Engineering courses not being worth the paper they're printed on... and people complaining about that are silly. Students would be wise to ALSO study the works of Mr. Ohm, Mr. Maxwell, Mr. Nyquist, Mr. Watt, Mr. Marconi, etc... etc... etc... those skills are instantly applicable to almost every major product or service for sale in the tech fields today. Add in computer programming knowledge and you're suddenly on a path to some really interesting projects.
And it's lucrative too. Ask anyone that's created a $30 lighting controller for your house how much they had to pay a consulting RF Engineer to make sure the device didn't emit any serious Electo-Magnetic Interference (EMI) for their various certifications!
Holy shit. Missed that one in the manual. Thanks for the tip, my phonebook is HUGE I tell ya, HUGE!
Nah, we just have no comment. The movies for us came out in the order they came out. No point in arguing it now what freakin' order to watch them in, we saw them all... when they were released.
We're just laughing at the whole argument.
Amen brother.
Let's also hope they release a phone that has decent audio and works as a phone first before all the other add-on crap, too.
Samsung phones are decent on the "phone" part, but their interface is mimicing Moto and others, to the detriment of their product. Louder, clearer, cheaper... got many of the right ideas, but not there yet Samsung.
Let's see what Apple can do. Should be interesting.