The list seems to contain artist, actors, pedophiles and assorted other misplaced souls that were trying to run businesses. Classic cases of people doing something for which they had no talent. The difference was that any wild idea at the time could generate a considerable initial return but without any business savvy could not be sustained. Most of the.coms were never viable in the first place and were staffed with people who had no real talent or experience in technology areas. Additionally many if not most didn't have the academic credentials to foster a sound technological base for business.
I worked for the federal government as a research engineer for 12 years. You can't beat that environment with a stick. I teach now and that is great too although the pay is less and sometimes I feel I have to work a lot harder away from campus.
It all depends on the type of job you are looking for. Some public sector jobs will not be very exciting or very good career choices especially if you just become a cog in the big machine pushing paper. However research positions are the jewels !
J# gets my vote. So Java has some ill-conceived things about it. It's like my bad habits. I like some of my bad habits. They are familiar to me. Why should I dispose of them just to acquire just a different set of bad habits. And so goes C#...
Most researchers will attempt to publish whatever they can whether it be good or bad work. This is the nature of keeping your job in academia. That magical line of integrity can move around a lot when going for tenure. There is no lack of bad, trivial and non-substantive research sitting on the library shelves. The anonymous peer-review process is as lengthy as it is flawed. Next time you visit your university library take a look at the size of a volume of something like Phys Rev or J. Phys. and compare it to the size of 20 years ago. The increase in scientific production does not necessarily translate to mostly good or significant science.
Researchers have been experimenting with the evolutionary synthesis of electronic circuits for some time now and there has been quite a few scientific conferences on the subject with a lot of published material generated to boot (see this). Most of this work has been focussed on the use of genetic algorithms, genetic programming and a few varients of these. The experiments were most often quite directed where the merit functions were selected such that synthesis process would evolve something that was slightly more complicated than a circuit optimization problem.
This experiment resulted in a circuit that exibited a completely different function than the intended one and it was not directed in any way to do this !
Yes, the vehicle emissions requirement here in California would be be considerably stricter. However the requirement of having a valid driver's license appears to be somewhat optional...
adding to this, the Navy used F-5 Tiger IIs prior to the F-16Ns. The Tiger IIs were the aircraft that they were calling the Mig 28 (non-existent) in the movie TOP GUN...
Actually the web is a good educational resource as long as direction is given to where to go and get the info. There are some wonderful educational resources for K-12 and post-secondary education that are there just for the purpose of supplimenting the classroom material.
The problem comes in using the web as a well of authoratative resources. Most stuff published on the web has not been subjected to any kind of peer-review or any review process for that matter. There is know way to be assured of the validity of source in general unless it happens to be in some well-known online journal.
Programmers don't create physical "things." The home builder/circuit design analogy is flawed. If a programmer screws something down you don't have to tear down a house to fix it: you hit the delete key.
Speaking of flawed logic: Both equate to manpower and dollars wasted for ill-planned effort ! The only distinction that exists between the two is that a computer program doesn't involve material costs (which often times, especially now in the electronics industry, is the minimal expense). Every other aspect of the model fits.
It's the most ridiculous looking game you will ever see. However it it the only excercise my step kids bother to get. I it keeps them away from the soda pop and Reese's cups then it's fine by me. It has become somewhat of a cult thing. There are clubs in the schools that have DDR as a focus. I guess we are really a fadish society and that will never change.
Hmm, I am an engineer with a PhD and I worked for the federal government for 12 years (NASA). We did some tinkering with stuff but that rarely led to much of anything useful. The process I learned and practiced was get your idea on paper in the form of a conceptual design. Run the numbers, iterate on that and then finally go build something. That is about the only way to do it a far a large development projects like spacecraft and aircraft are concerned.
Canadian police agent: Sir, I found something very disturbing in this person's web history!
Canadian detective: Alright let me see it...
Canadian police agent: One second, here it is...
Canadian detective: My god what is that! is that man tearing open his own a.....
Canadian police agent: he followed this link from a site known as Slashdot.org sir!
It should read like this:
Canadian police agent: Sir, I found something very disturbing in this person's web history eh!
Canadian detective: Alright let me see it eh...
Canadian police agent: One second, here it is eh...
Canadian detective: My god what is that eh! is that man tearing open his own a.....
Canadian police agent: eh he followed this link from a site known as Slashdot.org sir!
Funny you should point this out since object modelling and integrated circuit design have such similarities. How many chip designers would go right to fabrication before pencil/paper -> simulator -> hardware ? Many (if not most) programmers don't seem to think this way though.
I don't anything about ancient languages or texts but it would seem pretty odd that something written in the 15th century would be of a complete unknown origin to all the scholars of the world. How many other examples of undecipherable ancient texts are there out there somewhere ??? Anyone have an idea ?
The internet is not making people more stupid, and isn't contributing to the demise of society... It is merely bringing the existing stupidity and lack of culture to the forefront of society, instead of letting it hide in dark corners... It is making depravity more visible, that's all.
I guess these are the people that used to watch television !
Hey the optic nerve doesn't exactly accept RS-232 or any of the IEEE standards so how did the researchers figure out how and what signals should be provided as input to the optic nerve and how the interface architecture was suppose to even look like? Is the interface between the optic nerve and a healthy retina( with the rods and cones as sensors) no different than just any other electrical circuit ?
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let's see;
/t | | i(t) dt = Q | /0
and
i(t) = dq/dt
where i(t) is the current in the conductor, q is charge and Q is the total accumulated charge or the amount of charge over the time from 0 to t
In large corporations it usually is true. The exception would be large corporations that have a separate R&D campus that house strictly researchers. Smaller corporations are sometimes more tolerent of eccentric type as long as they contribute and are productive, but it is still hard to mix them in with the mainstream.
If you are of that nature, best look for a government job, a National Lab or academia. That is what I did.
Dress codes also serve an important hidden purpose in the corporate world. It is an indicator of who will follow the rules and who will not. You get this indication right off the bat. Simple things tell a lot about people. Corporations for the most part want people to follow the rules and really don't want the free-thinking, free-wheeling creative types because they are too hard to manage.
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The list seems to contain artist, actors, pedophiles and assorted other misplaced souls that were trying to run businesses. Classic cases of people doing something for which they had no talent. The difference was that any wild idea at the time could generate a considerable initial return but without any business savvy could not be sustained. Most of the .coms were never viable in the first place and were staffed with people who had no real talent or experience in technology areas. Additionally many if not most didn't have the academic credentials to foster a sound technological base for business.
It all depends on the type of job you are looking for. Some public sector jobs will not be very exciting or very good career choices especially if you just become a cog in the big machine pushing paper. However research positions are the jewels !
... and you still have the equipment to watch it ?
This experiment resulted in a circuit that exibited a completely different function than the intended one and it was not directed in any way to do this !
The problem comes in using the web as a well of authoratative resources. Most stuff published on the web has not been subjected to any kind of peer-review or any review process for that matter. There is know way to be assured of the validity of source in general unless it happens to be in some well-known online journal.
Speaking of flawed logic: Both equate to manpower and dollars wasted for ill-planned effort ! The only distinction that exists between the two is that a computer program doesn't involve material costs (which often times, especially now in the electronics industry, is the minimal expense). Every other aspect of the model fits.
It should read like this:
Canadian police agent: Sir, I found something very disturbing in this person's web history eh!
Canadian detective: Alright let me see it eh ...
Canadian police agent: One second, here it is eh...
Canadian detective: My god what is that eh! is that man tearing open his own a.....
Canadian police agent: eh he followed this link from a site known as Slashdot.org sir!
I guess these are the people that used to watch television !
If you are of that nature, best look for a government job, a National Lab or academia. That is what I did.