Back when I was working for someone else, this is one of the moves I made to expand my career. QA is definitely something that will make you a better programmer, designer, or whatever it is you do. It doesn't matter.
There is probably a massive government Xenon reserve somewhere, like there is for almost everything else; oil, corn, wheat, your private information, and so on...
Interesting. After reading your post, I got curious since I'd not heard of mint before. So, I downloaded it and started installing it in a VM.
It appears to me to be nearly identical to Ubuntu, with the exception of some different installer graphics and color schemes, and they put the gnome menus on the bottom instead of the top. Outside of that, I don't see much of a difference. I realize they are both based on Debian, so maybe that's just the familiarity I am seeing, but it's not immediately clear to me how Mint is "better" than Ubuntu.
Is it just a user interface tweaking thing, or is there some more substantial piece to it?
The problem with such an open-ended question is that you can literally spend millions and millions of dollars answering it.
You really do need to scope your mission and limit expenditure to that which is needed to accomplish it.
So for GSM stuff (we do a lot of that here), a network analyzer and a spectrum analyzer will be helpful. An RF signal generator as well if the network analyzer can't do it (some VNAs come with ARBs built in for testing response to various modulation schemes). You'll also need some equipment to validate radiated emissions and susceptibility for FCC approval, if you choose to do that in-house.
For your FPGA development, that is 80% in software (Xilinx ISE or the Altera equivalent, etc), and 20% in hardware (signal quality audit, timing audit, and fault insertion testing, etc). You'll need a fast, multi-channel scope with a set of active probes to do a valid signal quality audit for high speed digital stuff. A mixed signal scope with logic inputs would be helpful for this, since you also need to validate digital signal timing.
Other basic equipment everyone needs includes a decent DC supply, DMM with LCR, function generator, and so on and so forth.
Your technicians will need the ability to rework any parts you choose to use, so keep in mind that a BGA rework machine is very expensive, and you'll have to spend about $300 for a nozzle for each unique BGA package you want to use. At minimum, your techs should have a microscope (up to 10X for 0201 parts), fiber optic spot lighting, hot air, tweezers, desoldering, various irons, defluxers, hand tools, adhesives, cleaning agents, and don't forget a board washer.
For other qualification, you'll need to consider what approval bodies you will need to obtain certification from. It sounds like FCC approval will be a must for you since you have an intentional radiator. If it is a personal device, you will also have to have equipment to conduct human exposure studies unless you want to go outside for that. If it's a device that plugs into a wall, you will need to be able to validate conformance with any number of standards from UL, CE, FM, CSA, TUV, ANSI, IEC, JIS, and others, depending on your target markets. But, generally this includes testing for susceptibility to electrical fast transients, surge, ESD, and other events. More equipment to buy and more safety rules to validate compliance with.
Finally, you'll have sunk costs in a good OSHA-approved chemical storage container, fire cabinet, ventilation systems, lighting systems (you'll need to hire an approved industrial hygienist to determine your lighting requirements to be compliant with OSHA rules), and you'll have to develop a lab safety process that includes regular maintenance and updating of your MSDS database and on-site literature, an HSE protocol, and provide adequate PPE.
You're probably talking about $500K minimum to properly set up one engineer station, one technician station, in-house spot conformance capability, and to validate conformance with all government regulations that apply to your workplace.
I had the same feeling from TFA. I wondered if someone just graduated management school and got plunked down in an engineering office because he was cheap, and is in over his head.
I think you need to pay attention to the OP's _message_ rather than simply parse the words individually.
Clearly the OP meant "directly on the phone" to be "on the phone or on an SD card in the phone, or otherwise NOT in the cloud."
It is obvious to me that the OP just wants to have their stuff accessible locally rather than remotely, and I can understand that. I have a 64GB card in my phone and it still isn't enough to store everything I want local access to.
But, there are other solutions. Seagate makes a portable 500GB HDD with a built-in wireless interface and CIFS server. It's not the most elegant solution, but I can stream movies and listen to music that way.
Non-root users can do it using an app like ES File Explorer, or rooted users can mount the CIFS share directly.
I have you beat by four years. In 2001, as part of my Master's research, I was plotting power supply efficiency against two variables, using different colors to represent different efficiency values. Sorry, patent is really OURSES!
"it's nowhere near as convenient as a desktop when you're trying to complete serious work in an office environment."
Haha... this is America. There is no more serious work being done in an office environment. Just a lot of millenials hanging around, playing video games and ping pong, drinking Red Bull, and expecting the big paychecks to roll in ad infinitum.
In fact, Bravo has a new "reality" series showcasing millenial entrepreneurship, where meetings happen over drinks at poolside, and maybe someone might write a line of code from time to time - and everyone gets rich!
PETA's kill-rate is higher than the busiest public kill shelters in the country. PETA shelters killed 95% of all animals they took into their care in 2011, because caring for them would cost money they could otherwise spend running ads trying to make you feel guilty about having pets and eating cows.
If, after releasing your shiny new product for beta, people spend the most effort making it operate like some other product (including your most previous one), then you did it wrong.
Yep, I had one, too. They're useful for commuting, and nothing else. But, they are fantastic for commuting, and shockingly had very good crash ratings for a 2000lb car.
Unfortunately, you could not replicate a CRX HF today, because the EPA no longer allows lean-burn motors, due to the increased emission of NOx compounds that is the result of such a high combustion temperature. Cars have to run richer to reduce NOx emissions, at the expense of fuel economy.
In the US, it is a lingering fear over acid rain. Acid rain was the crisis of the 80s, and the reason for the death of the diesel motor in American passenger cars. The sulphur in the fuel was blamed for acid rain, which didn't turn out to be a problem for anything as the environmental movements of the time claimed. But, diesel still died.
Diesel is in fact the way of the future for cutting oil demand. But, it is unlikely to be embraced in the US, and is in fact still under total and unrelenting assault from government, because anything else would mean government admitting it was wrong.
I loved my 1987 CRX HF. It wasn't useful for much other than commuting though, and only for 2 people. That kind of car is useless to 80% of households out there, who need a car to do more than just move one or two people from point A to point B.
I can't take my family anywhere in a sub 1-ton 2-seater.
Of course, the other end of that spectrum is the drove of people who drive solo to work every day in a Suburban, and then bitch about gas prices.
The answer is certainly not to force everyone to make do with a car that doesn't serve their needs.
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>> And look how well I turned out. My twelve-toed daughter is very proud of her old dad
Which one? Malia or Natasha?
Back when I was working for someone else, this is one of the moves I made to expand my career. QA is definitely something that will make you a better programmer, designer, or whatever it is you do. It doesn't matter.
Government doesn't pass or reject bills based on what its subjects want. Government passes or rejects bills based on what it wants.
FF 15.0.1 is taking up 1.4GB of memory on my machine right now.
You are not the only one.
Maybe they're finally starting to understand that??? Could it be??
There is probably a massive government Xenon reserve somewhere, like there is for almost everything else; oil, corn, wheat, your private information, and so on...
Interesting. After reading your post, I got curious since I'd not heard of mint before. So, I downloaded it and started installing it in a VM.
It appears to me to be nearly identical to Ubuntu, with the exception of some different installer graphics and color schemes, and they put the gnome menus on the bottom instead of the top. Outside of that, I don't see much of a difference. I realize they are both based on Debian, so maybe that's just the familiarity I am seeing, but it's not immediately clear to me how Mint is "better" than Ubuntu.
Is it just a user interface tweaking thing, or is there some more substantial piece to it?
The problem with such an open-ended question is that you can literally spend millions and millions of dollars answering it.
You really do need to scope your mission and limit expenditure to that which is needed to accomplish it.
So for GSM stuff (we do a lot of that here), a network analyzer and a spectrum analyzer will be helpful. An RF signal generator as well if the network analyzer can't do it (some VNAs come with ARBs built in for testing response to various modulation schemes). You'll also need some equipment to validate radiated emissions and susceptibility for FCC approval, if you choose to do that in-house.
For your FPGA development, that is 80% in software (Xilinx ISE or the Altera equivalent, etc), and 20% in hardware (signal quality audit, timing audit, and fault insertion testing, etc). You'll need a fast, multi-channel scope with a set of active probes to do a valid signal quality audit for high speed digital stuff. A mixed signal scope with logic inputs would be helpful for this, since you also need to validate digital signal timing.
Other basic equipment everyone needs includes a decent DC supply, DMM with LCR, function generator, and so on and so forth.
Your technicians will need the ability to rework any parts you choose to use, so keep in mind that a BGA rework machine is very expensive, and you'll have to spend about $300 for a nozzle for each unique BGA package you want to use. At minimum, your techs should have a microscope (up to 10X for 0201 parts), fiber optic spot lighting, hot air, tweezers, desoldering, various irons, defluxers, hand tools, adhesives, cleaning agents, and don't forget a board washer.
For other qualification, you'll need to consider what approval bodies you will need to obtain certification from. It sounds like FCC approval will be a must for you since you have an intentional radiator. If it is a personal device, you will also have to have equipment to conduct human exposure studies unless you want to go outside for that. If it's a device that plugs into a wall, you will need to be able to validate conformance with any number of standards from UL, CE, FM, CSA, TUV, ANSI, IEC, JIS, and others, depending on your target markets. But, generally this includes testing for susceptibility to electrical fast transients, surge, ESD, and other events. More equipment to buy and more safety rules to validate compliance with.
Finally, you'll have sunk costs in a good OSHA-approved chemical storage container, fire cabinet, ventilation systems, lighting systems (you'll need to hire an approved industrial hygienist to determine your lighting requirements to be compliant with OSHA rules), and you'll have to develop a lab safety process that includes regular maintenance and updating of your MSDS database and on-site literature, an HSE protocol, and provide adequate PPE.
You're probably talking about $500K minimum to properly set up one engineer station, one technician station, in-house spot conformance capability, and to validate conformance with all government regulations that apply to your workplace.
I thought we already determined that humans were as stupid as Monkeys when it came to economics and assessment of economic risk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/laurie_santos.html
The stupidz. Itz in ur geenz.
How would an electronic device, that is completely voluntary to own, infringe upon my freedom?
That's ONE HTC device. Not "HTC devices."
My wife's Vivid upgraded to ICS just fine.
I had the same feeling from TFA. I wondered if someone just graduated management school and got plunked down in an engineering office because he was cheap, and is in over his head.
I think you need to pay attention to the OP's _message_ rather than simply parse the words individually.
Clearly the OP meant "directly on the phone" to be "on the phone or on an SD card in the phone, or otherwise NOT in the cloud."
It is obvious to me that the OP just wants to have their stuff accessible locally rather than remotely, and I can understand that. I have a 64GB card in my phone and it still isn't enough to store everything I want local access to.
But, there are other solutions. Seagate makes a portable 500GB HDD with a built-in wireless interface and CIFS server. It's not the most elegant solution, but I can stream movies and listen to music that way.
Non-root users can do it using an app like ES File Explorer, or rooted users can mount the CIFS share directly.
There is no point in even attempting to answer this question without knowing what your real budget is, and what your specific needs are.
I have you beat by four years. In 2001, as part of my Master's research, I was plotting power supply efficiency against two variables, using different colors to represent different efficiency values. Sorry, patent is really OURSES!
Yeah, but a white knight will ride up just in time and deliver "Duke Nukem, The Next Universe," and the PC Gaming platform will be saved.
"it's nowhere near as convenient as a desktop when you're trying to complete serious work in an office environment."
Haha... this is America. There is no more serious work being done in an office environment. Just a lot of millenials hanging around, playing video games and ping pong, drinking Red Bull, and expecting the big paychecks to roll in ad infinitum.
In fact, Bravo has a new "reality" series showcasing millenial entrepreneurship, where meetings happen over drinks at poolside, and maybe someone might write a line of code from time to time - and everyone gets rich!
WOOHOO!!!
PETA's kill-rate is higher than the busiest public kill shelters in the country. PETA shelters killed 95% of all animals they took into their care in 2011, because caring for them would cost money they could otherwise spend running ads trying to make you feel guilty about having pets and eating cows.
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
Because that's not what the standard says. The standard says LTE is not 4G, and therefore it is not.
There are rules for a reason. Why can't you accept that?
If, after releasing your shiny new product for beta, people spend the most effort making it operate like some other product (including your most previous one), then you did it wrong.
Go back to the drawing board, and try it again.
Yep, I had one, too. They're useful for commuting, and nothing else. But, they are fantastic for commuting, and shockingly had very good crash ratings for a 2000lb car.
Unfortunately, you could not replicate a CRX HF today, because the EPA no longer allows lean-burn motors, due to the increased emission of NOx compounds that is the result of such a high combustion temperature. Cars have to run richer to reduce NOx emissions, at the expense of fuel economy.
In the US, it is a lingering fear over acid rain. Acid rain was the crisis of the 80s, and the reason for the death of the diesel motor in American passenger cars. The sulphur in the fuel was blamed for acid rain, which didn't turn out to be a problem for anything as the environmental movements of the time claimed. But, diesel still died.
Diesel is in fact the way of the future for cutting oil demand. But, it is unlikely to be embraced in the US, and is in fact still under total and unrelenting assault from government, because anything else would mean government admitting it was wrong.
Drive slower.
I loved my 1987 CRX HF. It wasn't useful for much other than commuting though, and only for 2 people. That kind of car is useless to 80% of households out there, who need a car to do more than just move one or two people from point A to point B.
I can't take my family anywhere in a sub 1-ton 2-seater.
Of course, the other end of that spectrum is the drove of people who drive solo to work every day in a Suburban, and then bitch about gas prices.
The answer is certainly not to force everyone to make do with a car that doesn't serve their needs.