If you work in tech or manufacturing, a lot of marketing and sales executives - and for that matter, managers - are former engineers.
There is some selection bias here for me, but when I lived in NYC I was shocked by how many people involved with trading were former engineers, physicists, etc. Finding signal in noise, trends in data, ability to logically think through problems, understanding human weaknesses in data analysis, etc are all great skills to have.
The demise of Saturn was a little more complicated than that... It grew from the panic that GM went into when it realized that it could not figure out how to achieve the quality that Toyota was able to muster on a regular basis. It might surprise people today, but in the 80s Toyota was a willing partner to GM. They tried to teach GM everything they knew about building cars. GM sent engineers and workers to Japan and Toyota was very open with their factories. GM and Toyota renovated one of GM's worst plants and started jointly producing cars (now that factory builds Teslas!). Toyota acolytes tried to implement Toyota procedures in other GM plants, only to fail for a variety of reasons. GM hit the panic button and decided to start fresh. New plants, non-union workforce in the south, fresh supply chain, etc. Why did it "fail"? I'm not sure it did. GM slowly improved their quality at all their factories, the workforce at Saturn unionized, small cars fell completely out of favor, unique (and risky) features like plastic bodies went away, and in general Saturn and the rest of GM just sort of moved towards similarity. In the end it probably did what it needed to - moved the company to improve labor relations, improve supplier quality, and even altered the corporate culture a bit.
That was long winded - my point is that automation was just one of many factors. They made all sorts of experimental and risky decisions (spaceframe, plastic bodies, all-new lost-foam aluminium engines, no-haggle sales, etc.), and ultimately moved to bog-standard GM platforms, significantly diminishing any distinction they had.
I agree there is "plenty of this" in STEM, but at least it's not all of it. Granted, I've been out of school for 20 years, but back then the main culprits were liberal arts classes. I don't remember padding out lab reports, code was mostly judged by whether or not it worked, and my endless math/physics/materials/fluids/etc classes were almost universally scored based on the correct answer, with consolation points for work shown.
On the other hand, I wrote total BS papers in English for books that I only skimmed (first chapter, last chapter, first and last paragraph of every chapter). Played with margins, font, spacing... you name it. Desktop publishing may have been only a few years old but I took full advantage:)
I don't think THOSE kind of academics are the ones worried about padding out their essay on the ways in which various American artists view race and class as performed or performable identities.
Not just Europe - this is common in the US. Every place I've lived has at least experimented with closing off streets to regular traffic to create pedestrian malls. Most people are probably familiar with Broadway by Times Square, for instance. In Philly in the 90s they tried shutting Chestnut St. to traffic but it was a disaster for the businesses. Savannah, Georgia has a pedestrian mall. All of these are or were larger than the little 0.12 sq mile area detailed in this article.
I'm definitely active while using the headphones. I'm betting you guys are just sitting at a desk. I've never broken anything doing that, either - but then you aren't going to break any kind of connection with that use case. I've switched to Bluetooth headphones when I do yardwork - the headphone cord would constantly snag branches and things like that. I also have Bluetooth headphones built in to my ear protection when doing something loud (mowing the lawn, running the table saw, etc). I still plug in the headphones at work, but I'm not always at my desk. I get the occasional yank-out or other abuse when on the factory floor, but I really like the noise reduction from the earphones so I use them anyway.
Wow, I'm clearly doing something wrong - or you guys represent some kind of long tail. I buy the connectors in packs to replace the flaky ends on my headphones.
What about the plug on the headphones? I don't know how you haven't had more failures. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent pressing my finger in a certain direction - or at least rotating a plug to a magic, delicate angle - to get the left or right earphone to work.
That defies belief, unless you don't actually use the jack very much. This connection type is notoriously flaky, and it has been since the days of the humble walkman. I've either tossed out or replaced the plug on scores of headphones, and had a fair number of loose or flaky jacks over the years. I've never had a device with a lightning connector, so I can't comment on the relative reliability - but your quote does not jibe with my experience at all. And judging by the people fiddling with their cords all the time, my experience isn't unique.
And the clocks are similar, too. 1.7-2.5GHz for the chips on the GTX1080. We don't know the A12 clock speeds but the A11 ran up to 2.4GHz... presumably we don't get a slowdown. I dunno - at the end of the day it's a fairly useless measure... the proof is in the pudding, as they say.
Different strokes for different folks... Gallium is great and something I'll load on decommissioned Chromebooks (if they survive) - but it's not for active kid duty, unless the kids get to the point where they are exploring the OS. If they want to bugger up their $150 computer in the name of learning I'm all for it. Not so much in the name of downloading a shady Minecraft skin.
Broadcast standards make sense because the airways are a limited resource subject to tragedy of the commons. Regulating the content of internet companies at this stage is just simple protectionism. Like tariffs, which is why I mention the T-man.
Please offer an example of someone using "light" to describe, say, an x-ray.
Yes, they are all photons, but that doesn't mean they are all "light". And the OP certainly made the context clear - only the AC that responded made it an issue of language.
I'm not the field-type mechanical engineer, but the desk type. I don't really use them anymore since I have Python/MATLAB/etc available at all times. And then there's my smart phone, with my favorite old HP calculator emulator. Yeah, it's not quite the same - but for those rare calculator moments it gets the job done. I imagine I'd have something different to say if I worked in the field a lot - but I bet even those guys constantly have a laptop or something around.
Ah, I'm a mechanical engineer, so my problem set was probably different. I never needed the calculator to know my units, as I generally just did any conversions after getting the final number - if the number was absurdly huge or small, I'd change to Pa or MPa from kPa for instance. I was keeping track of units on paper so it wasn't necessary to plug that into the calculator. Because of the way I kept track of units, RPN was almost always preferable for me compared to algebraic, but like I said I almost always had a Casio with me because "programmable" calculators weren't allowed in many exams. I never warmed to TI calculators, and they were always atrociously priced... I must have just missed the boat on those being required in high school.
I also liked Casio models (especially given their price), but mostly used HP for the RPN. I can't speak for TI, but HP always had an exponent key like you describe. You can try it out here online. Just press 7, EEX, 4, Enter and you'll see 70,000 as the result.
I just Googled, and even their latest "HP Prime" graphing calculator retains this button.
You don't have a Chromebook. I can tell because you think it only works when the internet is active. That's true if you want to collaborate (duh), and it's true if you want to play on YouTube - but the office applications work with local storage. It's not my cup of tea, but these things are wonderful if you have kids - under $200, super easy to disassemble and fix (there's nothing in them), very good battery life, and nearly impossible to bugger up the OS.
Correct - and I say this as one of those city folk - that's why there is such a disconnect... there is just such a huge difference in point of view between city and rural. And not just on farm regulations.... pick an issue! Find me a rural vegan. Gun control is fairly pointless in rural areas as they have little problem with gun homicides. Environmentalism is viewed very differently by people who live and work with nature vs. people who don't see why anyone should need or want to "defile" it. For that matter, while you'll have no problem finding people in the city who support recycling food waste, they have no interest in making it cost effective to do so even though they hold all the reins of power.
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Enough that it appears to be a viable path.
Just playing devil's advocate here...
I've heard it argued that because education was female-dominated for so long, educational conditions and methods are actually skewed to favor females.
If you work in tech or manufacturing, a lot of marketing and sales executives - and for that matter, managers - are former engineers.
There is some selection bias here for me, but when I lived in NYC I was shocked by how many people involved with trading were former engineers, physicists, etc. Finding signal in noise, trends in data, ability to logically think through problems, understanding human weaknesses in data analysis, etc are all great skills to have.
The demise of Saturn was a little more complicated than that... It grew from the panic that GM went into when it realized that it could not figure out how to achieve the quality that Toyota was able to muster on a regular basis. It might surprise people today, but in the 80s Toyota was a willing partner to GM. They tried to teach GM everything they knew about building cars. GM sent engineers and workers to Japan and Toyota was very open with their factories. GM and Toyota renovated one of GM's worst plants and started jointly producing cars (now that factory builds Teslas!). Toyota acolytes tried to implement Toyota procedures in other GM plants, only to fail for a variety of reasons. GM hit the panic button and decided to start fresh. New plants, non-union workforce in the south, fresh supply chain, etc. Why did it "fail"? I'm not sure it did. GM slowly improved their quality at all their factories, the workforce at Saturn unionized, small cars fell completely out of favor, unique (and risky) features like plastic bodies went away, and in general Saturn and the rest of GM just sort of moved towards similarity. In the end it probably did what it needed to - moved the company to improve labor relations, improve supplier quality, and even altered the corporate culture a bit.
That was long winded - my point is that automation was just one of many factors. They made all sorts of experimental and risky decisions (spaceframe, plastic bodies, all-new lost-foam aluminium engines, no-haggle sales, etc.), and ultimately moved to bog-standard GM platforms, significantly diminishing any distinction they had.
I agree there is "plenty of this" in STEM, but at least it's not all of it. Granted, I've been out of school for 20 years, but back then the main culprits were liberal arts classes. I don't remember padding out lab reports, code was mostly judged by whether or not it worked, and my endless math/physics/materials/fluids/etc classes were almost universally scored based on the correct answer, with consolation points for work shown.
On the other hand, I wrote total BS papers in English for books that I only skimmed (first chapter, last chapter, first and last paragraph of every chapter). Played with margins, font, spacing... you name it. Desktop publishing may have been only a few years old but I took full advantage :)
I don't think THOSE kind of academics are the ones worried about padding out their essay on the ways in which various American artists view race and class as performed or performable identities.
Not just Europe - this is common in the US. Every place I've lived has at least experimented with closing off streets to regular traffic to create pedestrian malls. Most people are probably familiar with Broadway by Times Square, for instance. In Philly in the 90s they tried shutting Chestnut St. to traffic but it was a disaster for the businesses. Savannah, Georgia has a pedestrian mall. All of these are or were larger than the little 0.12 sq mile area detailed in this article.
I'm definitely active while using the headphones. I'm betting you guys are just sitting at a desk. I've never broken anything doing that, either - but then you aren't going to break any kind of connection with that use case. I've switched to Bluetooth headphones when I do yardwork - the headphone cord would constantly snag branches and things like that. I also have Bluetooth headphones built in to my ear protection when doing something loud (mowing the lawn, running the table saw, etc). I still plug in the headphones at work, but I'm not always at my desk. I get the occasional yank-out or other abuse when on the factory floor, but I really like the noise reduction from the earphones so I use them anyway.
Wow, I'm clearly doing something wrong - or you guys represent some kind of long tail. I buy the connectors in packs to replace the flaky ends on my headphones.
See also "barrel jack" power adaptors.
What about the plug on the headphones? I don't know how you haven't had more failures. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent pressing my finger in a certain direction - or at least rotating a plug to a magic, delicate angle - to get the left or right earphone to work.
I have never broken a headphone jack on a device.
That defies belief, unless you don't actually use the jack very much. This connection type is notoriously flaky, and it has been since the days of the humble walkman. I've either tossed out or replaced the plug on scores of headphones, and had a fair number of loose or flaky jacks over the years. I've never had a device with a lightning connector, so I can't comment on the relative reliability - but your quote does not jibe with my experience at all. And judging by the people fiddling with their cords all the time, my experience isn't unique.
And the clocks are similar, too. 1.7-2.5GHz for the chips on the GTX1080. We don't know the A12 clock speeds but the A11 ran up to 2.4GHz... presumably we don't get a slowdown. I dunno - at the end of the day it's a fairly useless measure... the proof is in the pudding, as they say.
Why? That's a 2-year-old card built on a 16nm process.
In Philly they taxed soda and it indeed reduced consumption, as expected.
Cheap beer sales rose.
Pubic heath win!
Different strokes for different folks... Gallium is great and something I'll load on decommissioned Chromebooks (if they survive) - but it's not for active kid duty, unless the kids get to the point where they are exploring the OS. If they want to bugger up their $150 computer in the name of learning I'm all for it. Not so much in the name of downloading a shady Minecraft skin.
Broadcast standards make sense because the airways are a limited resource subject to tragedy of the commons. Regulating the content of internet companies at this stage is just simple protectionism. Like tariffs, which is why I mention the T-man.
These aren't anything like tariffs, so it's perfectly fine to get red in the face at Trump over those.
I'll help you out a little: NASA uses it when speaking baby-talk to the public.
Gem from that website:
Careful what company you keep.
Please offer an example of someone using "light" to describe, say, an x-ray.
Yes, they are all photons, but that doesn't mean they are all "light". And the OP certainly made the context clear - only the AC that responded made it an issue of language.
I'm not the field-type mechanical engineer, but the desk type. I don't really use them anymore since I have Python/MATLAB/etc available at all times. And then there's my smart phone, with my favorite old HP calculator emulator. Yeah, it's not quite the same - but for those rare calculator moments it gets the job done. I imagine I'd have something different to say if I worked in the field a lot - but I bet even those guys constantly have a laptop or something around.
Ah, I'm a mechanical engineer, so my problem set was probably different. I never needed the calculator to know my units, as I generally just did any conversions after getting the final number - if the number was absurdly huge or small, I'd change to Pa or MPa from kPa for instance. I was keeping track of units on paper so it wasn't necessary to plug that into the calculator. Because of the way I kept track of units, RPN was almost always preferable for me compared to algebraic, but like I said I almost always had a Casio with me because "programmable" calculators weren't allowed in many exams. I never warmed to TI calculators, and they were always atrociously priced... I must have just missed the boat on those being required in high school.
I also liked Casio models (especially given their price), but mostly used HP for the RPN. I can't speak for TI, but HP always had an exponent key like you describe. You can try it out here online. Just press 7, EEX, 4, Enter and you'll see 70,000 as the result.
I just Googled, and even their latest "HP Prime" graphing calculator retains this button.
You don't have a Chromebook. I can tell because you think it only works when the internet is active. That's true if you want to collaborate (duh), and it's true if you want to play on YouTube - but the office applications work with local storage. It's not my cup of tea, but these things are wonderful if you have kids - under $200, super easy to disassemble and fix (there's nothing in them), very good battery life, and nearly impossible to bugger up the OS.
It was certainly ready enough to force MS to practically give away their OS.
Correct - and I say this as one of those city folk - that's why there is such a disconnect... there is just such a huge difference in point of view between city and rural. And not just on farm regulations.... pick an issue! Find me a rural vegan. Gun control is fairly pointless in rural areas as they have little problem with gun homicides. Environmentalism is viewed very differently by people who live and work with nature vs. people who don't see why anyone should need or want to "defile" it. For that matter, while you'll have no problem finding people in the city who support recycling food waste, they have no interest in making it cost effective to do so even though they hold all the reins of power.