1. The opportunity cost is huge, as you'll earn, at best, 30k/year for 4-7 years.
2. The intellectual stimulation is unrivaled. You're essentially paid to think all day without actual work getting done usually without any time pressure, unlike anywhere in industry
3. You'll be more employable (great) for a smaller number of positions (not so great).
4. A proper PhD is a degree in philosophy. If it's done correctly, the real "skills" you should learn are field-independent... you should be able to sit down for a period of time, process the leading research in any field, determine what the big questions are and write a grant to get into the field (whether it be birds or circuit design.)
5. Using a PhD to get into a particular position is a horrible idea.
... by employing a detector with a size of 2463 x 2527 pixels (6M) at 12 Hz (12 times / sec). When run continuously for a set of data (roughly 900 degrees)...
we collect 900 frames in roughly 2 minutes including hardware limitations for starting/stopping.
In proper format for processing, this works out to about 6MB/image and roughly 3GB/min for 2 minutes.
With an experienced crew of 3-4 people... one handling the samples, one handling the liquid nitrogen, one running the software and one taking notes (overall monitoring also)... we can run through 600 samples in a 24 shift...
Which roughly works out to about 600 x 6GB = 3.6 TB on a "working" day.
To answer your question... we never make physical copies of stuff... the data stays online in multiple places on multiple continents... and when something is published the data becomes publicly available in a central database
ugh. 100/mo (with tax) seems crazy for telephone/TV/internet:( 40/mo seems marginally expensive for internet, but not as bad as what I've seen in some areas.
Alice/O2... I pay for the cheap 16Mb/1Mb package (19€/mo with telephone) and I routinely average 1.5-1.8MB/s with uTottent, which seems quite good to me.
6 million phones is much easier than what you are asking for (sanitation/housing/food supply infrastructure.) In fact, for a few USD/phone (including infrastructure), everyone is connected in manner that occurs by TV in the west (news/weather/warnings by SMS)
That's not "understanding," that's brute-force memorization and "learning".
If the OP "understands" a langauge, they should be able to just learn to new syntax and start programming in a new language immediately.
Personally, I think that the OP should go extremely slow and really understand the underlying processes, unless (s)he just wants to be a one language code monkey.
TBH, your goal should be to "understand" a language, not to "learn" it.
Not only is there a huge difference in the end result between the two, but there's a huge difference in the approach as well.
Once one of a class of languages is really understood, it's much easier to learn the syntax of another.
FWIW, I'm in biochemistry and hardly program at all... however, I can't imagine that understanding Python is that much different than understanding German (which I've done in the last two years), which in turn makes understanding Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch and Afrikaans much easier (understanding is very easy, however speaking them is more difficult).
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1. The opportunity cost is huge, as you'll earn, at best, 30k/year for 4-7 years.
2. The intellectual stimulation is unrivaled. You're essentially paid to think all day without actual work getting done usually without any time pressure, unlike anywhere in industry
3. You'll be more employable (great) for a smaller number of positions (not so great).
4. A proper PhD is a degree in philosophy. If it's done correctly, the real "skills" you should learn are field-independent ... you should be able to sit down for a period of time, process the leading research in any field, determine what the big questions are and write a grant to get into the field (whether it be birds or circuit design.)
5. Using a PhD to get into a particular position is a horrible idea.
1. not an issue
2. sorry man, that kinda sucks.
Two quick things:
1. Why do a complete restore of the 3.6TB? Just take the files that want to use again/have been lost.
2. Why work at home? It's home, not work.
... by employing a detector with a size of 2463 x 2527 pixels (6M) at 12 Hz (12 times / sec). When run continuously for a set of data (roughly 900 degrees) ...
we collect 900 frames in roughly 2 minutes including hardware limitations for starting/stopping.
In proper format for processing, this works out to about 6MB/image and roughly 3GB/min for 2 minutes.
With an experienced crew of 3-4 people ... one handling the samples, one handling the liquid nitrogen, one running the software and one taking notes (overall monitoring also) ... we can run through 600 samples in a 24 shift ...
Which roughly works out to about 600 x 6GB = 3.6 TB on a "working" day.
To answer your question ... we never make physical copies of stuff ... the data stays online in multiple places on multiple continents ... and when something is published the data becomes publicly available in a central database
Why do you need a physical copy anyway?
ugh. 100/mo (with tax) seems crazy for telephone/TV/internet :( 40/mo seems marginally expensive for internet, but not as bad as what I've seen in some areas.
what do you pay?
will it replace my apple tv (with Plex, which is my only use for TV these days)
and last time I checked the US packages were usually included in horrible and expensive bundles :(
Alice/O2 ... I pay for the cheap 16Mb/1Mb package (19€/mo with telephone) and I routinely average 1.5-1.8MB/s with uTottent, which seems quite good to me.
I recommend the whole "design triology" ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Trilogy
And for those with more time, to read the 3-volume set "Design Classics 001-999" ... http://uk.phaidon.com/store/design/phaidon-design-classics-9780714843995/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkoX0pEwSCw
who needs a scanner to tell you if they fit AND what's with Americans and those super loose jeans :(
so insightful /sarcasm
6 million phones is much easier than what you are asking for (sanitation/housing/food supply infrastructure.) In fact, for a few USD/phone (including infrastructure), everyone is connected in manner that occurs by TV in the west (news/weather/warnings by SMS)
"Programmes" is proper British English.
That's not "understanding," that's brute-force memorization and "learning".
If the OP "understands" a langauge, they should be able to just learn to new syntax and start programming in a new language immediately.
Personally, I think that the OP should go extremely slow and really understand the underlying processes, unless (s)he just wants to be a one language code monkey.
TBH, your goal should be to "understand" a language, not to "learn" it.
Not only is there a huge difference in the end result between the two, but there's a huge difference in the approach as well.
Once one of a class of languages is really understood, it's much easier to learn the syntax of another.
FWIW, I'm in biochemistry and hardly program at all ... however, I can't imagine that understanding Python is that much different than understanding German (which I've done in the last two years), which in turn makes understanding Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch and Afrikaans much easier (understanding is very easy, however speaking them is more difficult).
:D
n/m
people = participants (not actual people)
with at least 256 people and see how it goes.
mistake 1 ... living in a house with 9 people. quit whining and get a 4G surf stick like everyone else
it's actually BBQ season in Deutschland ... I just got in from one :D
what happened to the US?
check my IP if you don't believe "mich"