I've often suggested this. Why do we obsess about stereo anyway? My ears didn't click to a stereo sound stage until I was 20 , before then when listening to headphones I just had noise in two ears.
Our engineering grads are pulling in 50-55k at the moment.
That's not great, but not bad. AFAIK there is no requirement to have an engineering degree, physics or maths would do in the short term, but you'd probably feel some pain technically if you haven't got a real engineering degree. Especially in my office.
Your analysis is silly. When I started work it was literally hand to mouth, which was OK, I knew that over time I would be paid far more. Oddly enough five years later I was in the highest paid engineer grade in the (national) company. Now I'm the highest paid engineer in a huge international company. Bummer heh?
123 dollars a week for food is hmmm, aspirational. I'll happily pay that for a meal, but my grocery bill is around 50 a week, which would/feed/ me 24/7. I don't see why a recent grad should expect to eat out very often. Or even buy lunch, if it costs too much. grads are poorly paid by the hour because frankly they are unproven.
As a real, sueable, engineer, yes I get a Unix box and a PC. My software will actually run on either, but the Unix box works much better with the supercomputer farm, and has access to much more storage. On the other hand a significant proportion of my analysis is in Excel, so it is good to run both at once. The PC is faster for single threaded numerically intensive tasks, despite being 4 years old, I'm guessing HP Unix boxes are about to vanish in a puff of smoke, as they seem to be getting slower at every upgrade. There again it has 2 cpus so if I am running two jobs simultaneously it is faster than the PC.
Great phrase. Sadly at least 1/2 of my spreadsheets are 'burdened' with macros because I find typing the same thing again and again rather a bore. VBA, and to a lesser extent, charting, is Excel's killer app, for engineers. I agree, we could use Matlab or Scilab, but for spreadsheet-like tasks they are painful.
" if we compress that amount of air to 300 bar, we will be able to reduce its volume to 0.3 m. And it can be compressed even further." You into string theory? Otherwise it is very hard to take your technical sounding argument seriously.
Our IT group set up a secure data exchange. I haven't got the foggiest idea how it works, and don't care. To us it just looks like an ftp site.
If there is a business case for it make it their problem, not yours. Just cc your supervisor/manager whenever you can't do your job due to IT's laziness.
So far as not using third party email at work, just tell everyone it is a sackable offence. You don't need any software to implement that solution. Works in our office.
First why would you cherry pick the efficiency of the most efficient plant, surely the least efficient would be the next one to get turned off? That is, you need to consider the marginal (or perhaps average) efficiency of the powerplant.
A diesel is around 40% efficient, of which maybe 75% gets to the ground.
The real reason that electric cars use less energy is that they are designed around a limited energy storage system. This biases the design towards high efficinecy. An oil powerd car is not so constrained, so if the choice is between fitting heavier electric chairs for example, and low weight, then there is less pressure to go for light weight. It is much easier to compensate for that by increasing the size of the tank, than it is to increase battery mass in an EV car.
It would be entirely possible to design diesel engined cars using the rigour that defines an electric car, but it is not worth it while oil is so cheap. Check out the Audi A2 for example.
The competition from Sudoku-playing denture-suckers should reduce the wages for this essentially clerical job down to a realistic level. Their maturity will ensure that they need less admin than the whippersnappers, so wages for IT managers should drop as well.
Sadly, since they will tend to drop dead during a project, the lost art of commenting code will need to be reintroduced. In order to make sure that this gets done each senior citizen/coder will be assigned an unemployed baby-face, who will make cups of tea, issue pills, and remind them not to dribble on the keyboard. Every hour the baby-face will insist that the old codger comments the previous hour's work, and archives it.
One day the fossil will collapse across the desk, at which point the baby-face will push the body to one side, and take over the programming job. She, in her turn will be assigned a baby-face.
standardised battery modules leased from a company with on board charge monitoring. You pay a monthly lease, penalty charges for abuse, are charged for the total charge and discharge current, and perhaps for other things.
When you swap the battery in it is checked for condition, and you get a guaranteed number of kWh in the next battery you pick up.
There is still a problem, that might need more than 5 seconds of thought.
Just use a spring (or weight) loaded pulley to measure the tension in the rope. add a pointer and a scale . Use the mechanism out of an old fashioned clockwork barometer to give you an ink trace on a paper roll if necessary (I doubt they'd bother). More likely some lucky A/B gets to stand with their hand on the rope and give a holler if it goes tight.
It took me two days to pick Autocad up to a standard where I could get going. So the barriers to entry are not huge. However, my main point is that Autocad is only the standard in a small subset of the world. Any vendor of ours who used AutoCAD for machined parts would find themselves deselected pretty quickly. Interoperability between CAD systems is not a luxury these days, and for whatever reason Inventor doesn't hack it (I don't actually know why).
Not really, I suspect. In our office the good guys rough it out in pencilcad, then jump straight into 3D. Manufacturability is such a large part of our work that 2D CAD is of no real interest to us. 3D CAD talks about solids, and dimensioning, in the same way our machine tools do, leading to a feasible design sooner.
I haven't seen AutoCAD used in the automotive industry for anything other than buildings and so on for 15 years.
No I haven't tried as I knew it wouldn't work. Apple chose to break backwards compatability. MS did not. I'm not even saying that Apple should have behaved differently, it just seems hypocritical for the GP to beat MS up for that.
OK, my 98 machine is irrelevant, it is a games machine only. The NT4 machine runs all the software I need, for a business that this year will make a profit of $110 000 . As you say, it is not on the internet, but that is fine, for my purposes. If I must transfer large files then I live-CD into Knoppix, and use a USB drive, or plug in the network and network to my internet pc.
Does my NT4 install have problems? Hard to say, it doesn't crash, it seems fine. I did screw it up when I removed a dual boot to Linux, but that's all I can remember going wrong in the last three years. That took an hour of research and two minutes to fix.
So, how much time/money do you think I've saved by having a totally stable system that does what I want? Does your latest and greatest PC generate 2000 dollars of profit for you per week? If not, why the fuck are you lecturing me on my requirements?
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I've often suggested this. Why do we obsess about stereo anyway? My ears didn't click to a stereo sound stage until I was 20 , before then when listening to headphones I just had noise in two ears.
Our engineering grads are pulling in 50-55k at the moment.
That's not great, but not bad. AFAIK there is no requirement to have an engineering degree, physics or maths would do in the short term, but you'd probably feel some pain technically if you haven't got a real engineering degree. Especially in my office.
Your analysis is silly. When I started work it was literally hand to mouth, which was OK, I knew that over time I would be paid far more. Oddly enough five years later I was in the highest paid engineer grade in the (national) company. Now I'm the highest paid engineer in a huge international company. Bummer heh?
/feed/ me 24/7. I don't see why a recent grad should expect to eat out very often. Or even buy lunch, if it costs too much. grads are poorly paid by the hour because frankly they are unproven.
123 dollars a week for food is hmmm, aspirational. I'll happily pay that for a meal, but my grocery bill is around 50 a week, which would
As a real, sueable, engineer, yes I get a Unix box and a PC. My software will actually run on either, but the Unix box works much better with the supercomputer farm, and has access to much more storage. On the other hand a significant proportion of my analysis is in Excel, so it is good to run both at once. The PC is faster for single threaded numerically intensive tasks, despite being 4 years old, I'm guessing HP Unix boxes are about to vanish in a puff of smoke, as they seem to be getting slower at every upgrade. There again it has 2 cpus so if I am running two jobs simultaneously it is faster than the PC.
Great phrase. Sadly at least 1/2 of my spreadsheets are 'burdened' with macros because I find typing the same thing again and again rather a bore. VBA, and to a lesser extent, charting, is Excel's killer app, for engineers. I agree, we could use Matlab or Scilab, but for spreadsheet-like tasks they are painful.
" if we compress that amount of air to 300 bar, we will be able to reduce its volume to 0.3 m. And it can be compressed even further."
You into string theory?
Otherwise it is very hard to take your technical sounding argument seriously.
I hope doze god ol boys at Acoustic development are beter at the ole Phisiks shite than you are
Our IT group set up a secure data exchange. I haven't got the foggiest idea how it works, and don't care. To us it just looks like an ftp site.
If there is a business case for it make it their problem, not yours. Just cc your supervisor/manager whenever you can't do your job due to IT's laziness.
So far as not using third party email at work, just tell everyone it is a sackable offence. You don't need any software to implement that solution. Works in our office.
Good. A step in the right direction.
First why would you cherry pick the efficiency of the most efficient plant, surely the least efficient would be the next one to get turned off? That is, you need to consider the marginal (or perhaps average) efficiency of the powerplant.
A diesel is around 40% efficient, of which maybe 75% gets to the ground.
The real reason that electric cars use less energy is that they are designed around a limited energy storage system. This biases the design towards high efficinecy. An oil powerd car is not so constrained, so if the choice is between fitting heavier electric chairs for example, and low weight, then there is less pressure to go for light weight. It is much easier to compensate for that by increasing the size of the tank, than it is to increase battery mass in an EV car.
It would be entirely possible to design diesel engined cars using the rigour that defines an electric car, but it is not worth it while oil is so cheap. Check out the Audi A2 for example.
The competition from Sudoku-playing denture-suckers should reduce the wages for this essentially clerical job down to a realistic level. Their maturity will ensure that they need less admin than the whippersnappers, so wages for IT managers should drop as well.
Sadly, since they will tend to drop dead during a project, the lost art of commenting code will need to be reintroduced. In order to make sure that this gets done each senior citizen/coder will be assigned an unemployed baby-face, who will make cups of tea, issue pills, and remind them not to dribble on the keyboard. Every hour the baby-face will insist that the old codger comments the previous hour's work, and archives it.
One day the fossil will collapse across the desk, at which point the baby-face will push the body to one side, and take over the programming job. She, in her turn will be assigned a baby-face.
are made up.
I think I'll add yours to the list.
I was leaving a loophole for Maxwell's Demon, and sundry future non-statistical processes.
Kind of wondering what the dew point is in dry places in Oz, when the wind is blowing (day time).
That damn second law will get you every time. /ANY/ sufficiently large scale process will tend to end up heating the universe.
standardised battery modules leased from a company with on board charge monitoring. You pay a monthly lease, penalty charges for abuse, are charged for the total charge and discharge current, and perhaps for other things.
When you swap the battery in it is checked for condition, and you get a guaranteed number of kWh in the next battery you pick up.
There is still a problem, that might need more than 5 seconds of thought.
Just use a spring (or weight) loaded pulley to measure the tension in the rope. add a pointer and a scale . Use the mechanism out of an old fashioned clockwork barometer to give you an ink trace on a paper roll if necessary (I doubt they'd bother). More likely some lucky A/B gets to stand with their hand on the rope and give a holler if it goes tight.
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is a little later than that, but similar devices were used to measure the pressure inside steam engines right through the nineteenth century.
if 17000 deaths are 39%, then how the fuck are 1000 deaths 0.3%?????
Oh, it's only a factor of 10 error, so compared with most moralising hypocrites that pretty reasonable.
Drunk in charge of kid.
I haven't got children. If it is not legal to be drunk in charge of a car then how the fuck can it be legal to be drunk in charge of a kid?
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It took me two days to pick Autocad up to a standard where I could get going. So the barriers to entry are not huge. However, my main point is that Autocad is only the standard in a small subset of the world. Any vendor of ours who used AutoCAD for machined parts would find themselves deselected pretty quickly. Interoperability between CAD systems is not a luxury these days, and for whatever reason Inventor doesn't hack it (I don't actually know why).
Not really, I suspect. In our office the good guys rough it out in pencilcad, then jump straight into 3D. Manufacturability is such a large part of our work that 2D CAD is of no real interest to us. 3D CAD talks about solids, and dimensioning, in the same way our machine tools do, leading to a feasible design sooner.
I haven't seen AutoCAD used in the automotive industry for anything other than buildings and so on for 15 years.
No I haven't tried as I knew it wouldn't work. Apple chose to break backwards compatability. MS did not. I'm not even saying that Apple should have behaved differently, it just seems hypocritical for the GP to beat MS up for that.
Wow.
OK, my 98 machine is irrelevant, it is a games machine only. The NT4 machine runs all the software I need, for a business that this year will make a profit of $110 000 . As you say, it is not on the internet, but that is fine, for my purposes. If I must transfer large files then I live-CD into Knoppix, and use a USB drive, or plug in the network and network to my internet pc.
Does my NT4 install have problems? Hard to say, it doesn't crash, it seems fine. I did screw it up when I removed a dual boot to Linux, but that's all I can remember going wrong in the last three years. That took an hour of research and two minutes to fix.
So, how much time/money do you think I've saved by having a totally stable system that does what I want? Does your latest and greatest PC generate 2000 dollars of profit for you per week? If not, why the fuck are you lecturing me on my requirements?
I have more money than you. is that reason enough to hate me? sad. or not, since i don't give a toss what you think.