Processor performance is complicated. It is dumb, today, in his applications, with his memory, storage and network bandwidth.
No single app needs to use 8 cores, the OS should be worrying about that for reasonable cell phone apps. It's just a matter of back for hte buck, if you have a single 32bit wide memory bus running at 1GHz, with a low bandwidth modem, are you really going to be able to keep 8 cores busy with reasonable cache sizes? No, so it's dumb.
In 10 years is it dumb? Probably not. Is it dumb on an enterprise server with 3 channels of DDR running at 1800MTS, and >40Gbps of I/O? Not slightly.
And don't get me started on that shitty 8-bits-per-channel, aka 24-bit color...
Ok I'll bite, excepting luminosity, what value is there to >24-bit color?
The rest I agree with, I do look forward to high resolution full screen displays, as I have not yet hopped on the wagon that "the desktop is dead". Big monitors are mighty nice for many practical activities.
Well reading TFA criticism was given that human monogamy is primarily socially imposed, and that we are not monogamous on the whole. On the other hand, we can think of some reasons why that might be, the strongest one comes to mind that practicing infanticide amongst humans tends to result in you being removed from the gene donor pool. Perhaps we need monogamy least because we have another mechanism to protect our young? Speculation, of course, they didn't study this.
Killing enemy sires offspring is not at all opposed to the core of evolution, particularly if there is competition for mates. It's why some species have evolved males who are almost useless for practical activities outside of killing each other, ex. the Lion.
There was clearly some confusion regarding your country of origin, canadiannomad. What I found most confusing was the following sentence, which implied to me that you were in America:
In Canada
I suggest changing your name to dangforeignernomad, and spelling out "I am foreigner, nice meet you," before any further attempts at communication take place.
As if doctors and/or dentists can't already tell about your habits without a monitoring device. Are you obese? You are clearly eating unhealthy food! Are your teeth rotting out with cavities? Well a) you're probably not brushing correctly/enough and b) clearly you're having a lot of sugar.
What the world DOES need is a monitor of your caloric intake, and a monitor of your burn rate. Summarize over the course of the day, show the net balance, and suddenly the world gets thinner.
Why is what they did wrong? Snowden should be held accountable for his actions and he should be tried on all charges they want to throw at him. They are doing their job to ensure that he is. He'll probably be found guilty of some.
THEN we call our senators, congressmen, presidents, popes, PTA members, florists, undertakers and anyone else that will list, and demand he be given a full pardon. Assuming of course his crimes were simply spilling the beans on evil activities of our government.
His life is a wreck no matter where he hides he knew that when he made his decision. He may as well do it here and let US citizens stand by him, or crucify him, as it is nominally our interests he was trying to protect. By running and hiding with our enemies, he looks very guilty.
Well in my newish (~10yr) house we also have cluster mailboxes that are a block away, and it's not exactly a hardship for me it's just a nuisance to be a slave to junk mail I take from the mailbox, run through a shredder (because some of these people have personal information they shouldn't even have), and then deposit in recycling, unopened and unread. But, tempted though I might be to cancel mail service, you normally have to give mailing addresses for a few critical life elements: job applications, credit cards, bank accounts, taxes, and children school forms.
Whether any of those places actually USE mail afterwards is another point, but you have to get through that barrier. Mail has always been the "default" communication, guaranteed to make it to the recipient.
Because of heat and dry conditions, I believe Texas' DSL is throttled by the government to ensure internet speeds stay cool and slow. I'm not sure what else justifies the ATT/TimeWarner blockage that we endure, maybe fear of the porns...
I agree, but I think if you're been doing science and math for those 13 years prior to the university, you already understand this to a certain degree. Also I was in engineering, and my math prof's were either engineers or applied mathematicians, there were very few pure theorists as may be more common in a liberal arts university.
Very few of us are "qualified" to do what we do, we oversell ourselves (within the limits of reason), work ourselves to death training ourselves on the job while doing something badly that we should probably have received a few weeks of training to do properly but the company won't pay for.
I don't mind being an asshole like this, but some people (like my wife, who has a EE degree) don't feel comfortable playing the game like this. If someone asks her a signal integrity question, she says she doesn't know. But she actually knows quite a bit more than most people know, she just doesn't like to venture out of her comfort zone.
You can't be like that, you have to go out on a limb a bit. Senior engineers who know their stuff will know you're out there, but they'll like the initiative. Some managers and senior idiots may not know but think you're smart.
To invent a chip, depending on what it does and how big it is, requires $1M-$50M in investment, sometimes more. Tee second you ask for that kind of money, there is no "your own" company, at best you're a major shareholder.
Also innovation is weighed too heavily these days, nothing gets done without execution and an educated, trained workforce who can execute cleanly and flawlessly. Those people don't come cheap. Further, in the process of executing, you actually innovate quite a lot, as you discover new, hard problems you wouldn't have seen before. Innovation of this nature is not rewarded at all, except maybe your name on a patent, which with $.50 won't get you a cup of coffee.
You're talking about "getting rich", the rest of us are talking about "good paying jobs". You'll never get rich working a good paying job, neither as an engineer nor a doctor nor lawyer or any other profession, except maybe senior executive (for reasons I can't really understand). The "getting rich" is always for entrepreneurs and investors, of which the market can bear only a small amount.
I make 100% more than when I started, and started before the dot boom. But i do job hop every 3-5 years, I am a squeaky wheel, I work 80-100 hrs a week and I drive a hard bargain. I am not afraid to leave an employer after a year if I believe they haven't held their end of the bargain or try to bait and switch me into a non-technical job (systems engineering, fae, project management, etc.). I believe the ceiling is perhaps 30% above where I am at, which at 36 is still somewhat disheartening considering that what I do directly impacts the bottom line, and 6 months of my work can provably produce tens of millions in revenue, of which I see a microscopic amount.
However I am also seeing opportunities dry up and go overseas, I'm seeing "quantity over quality" hiring practices particularly at abusive employers like Intel and AMD, and every job tries to push either more management or more offshore labor training on me as a requirement, which I refuse to do. It is unclear I will be able to realize that 30% in the time it takes for me to get it, versus the rate of market collapse. Intel's CEO (former or soon to be former) was fond of trying to lure people to EE saying something like "and you can make 25% over average". That's hardly worth the degree and the stress of diffeq and the labs, but that probably represents what Wall Street wants to see in labor costs, and what the industry is going to be doing over the next decade in terms of further wage stagnation/depression via labor choices and overseas development.
I really don't recommend EE as a career choice for anyone who is in college now. The day is going to come where it's either organize/unionize or let it go overseas, but engineers being engineers, I doubt we'll ever work together though and set a bar or board certification system and get it codified into law. Everyone thinks he's better, or everyone is a mini-entrepreneur who likes to pretend he's an investor or going to make it big, thus we all get poorer. Doctors and lawyers figured this out a long time go, but engineers, EE, ME and even CS, are fairly stupid and continue to empathize too much with management. You don't go to the bargaining table feeling sorry for your opponent, you go there and take every dollar you can, knowing full well there's no deal until the other party is getting enough to make their ends meet.
And if you think working the back end and having the government intercede on overseas and H1-B use is "unfair", then you're part of the problem. Take every dime you can get, by force. They will too, and won't respect you if you don't. All this talk about economic philosophies and principles is just pure bullshit. Capitalism is all about The Deal, and you are obligated to make the best deal for yourself as possible, however you can. We've learned from Wall Street this includes playing dirty pool and having absolutely no morals.
Or because running long distances requires a constant amount of effort. You can't show up to a marathon 13 miles in, think it's over in less than 4, and expect to win anything or even get a sense of accomplishment.
Math and science build, it starts very early, and it keeps building up. By high school most people are already severely disadvantaged. By college, the game is over but for the most dedicated. I will give these people a little credit, I think they truly want in and see the value, but get lost in college material and pacing, and don't even understand how they went wrong, They end up with retarded cop-outs like "i'm dumb at math" or "science makes no sense", which sometimes become self-fulfilling prophecies. They have to be approached like a physical fitness program: you start out easy or you will hurt yourself, and you work up to the serious stuff. There's no cramming for it, you can't jump in and be awesome, it takes a long time.
Most of the other subjects covered in that article can be easily picked up to "beyond the average bear" levels by just reading some books for a few weeks. It's not a surprise then if you're looking for a piece of paper in 4 years and you do not already have some skill in STEM, you go for something easier.
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Processor performance is complicated. It is dumb, today, in his applications, with his memory, storage and network bandwidth.
No single app needs to use 8 cores, the OS should be worrying about that for reasonable cell phone apps. It's just a matter of back for hte buck, if you have a single 32bit wide memory bus running at 1GHz, with a low bandwidth modem, are you really going to be able to keep 8 cores busy with reasonable cache sizes? No, so it's dumb.
In 10 years is it dumb? Probably not. Is it dumb on an enterprise server with 3 channels of DDR running at 1800MTS, and >40Gbps of I/O? Not slightly.
And don't get me started on that shitty 8-bits-per-channel, aka 24-bit color ...
Ok I'll bite, excepting luminosity, what value is there to >24-bit color?
The rest I agree with, I do look forward to high resolution full screen displays, as I have not yet hopped on the wagon that "the desktop is dead". Big monitors are mighty nice for many practical activities.
bzzzzt....BOOM!...."Oh, the humanity!"
In other words "Your brick and mortar was shit, fuck you".
he hasn't innovated a bit
Sometimes just doing a job particularly well is worth paying for. Innovation is not the end-all, be-all of the economy, just that of elitist snobs.
-Obama, overlord of Earth.
Depressingly, "be content to be slaves" is a bipartisan effort.
Well reading TFA criticism was given that human monogamy is primarily socially imposed, and that we are not monogamous on the whole. On the other hand, we can think of some reasons why that might be, the strongest one comes to mind that practicing infanticide amongst humans tends to result in you being removed from the gene donor pool. Perhaps we need monogamy least because we have another mechanism to protect our young? Speculation, of course, they didn't study this.
Killing enemy sires offspring is not at all opposed to the core of evolution, particularly if there is competition for mates. It's why some species have evolved males who are almost useless for practical activities outside of killing each other, ex. the Lion.
Well she fooled the intellectual elite for 17 years. Chances are that doctorate was just ornamentation anyway.
There was clearly some confusion regarding your country of origin, canadiannomad. What I found most confusing was the following sentence, which implied to me that you were in America:
In Canada
I suggest changing your name to dangforeignernomad, and spelling out "I am foreigner, nice meet you," before any further attempts at communication take place.
As if doctors and/or dentists can't already tell about your habits without a monitoring device. Are you obese? You are clearly eating unhealthy food! Are your teeth rotting out with cavities? Well a) you're probably not brushing correctly/enough and b) clearly you're having a lot of sugar.
What the world DOES need is a monitor of your caloric intake, and a monitor of your burn rate. Summarize over the course of the day, show the net balance, and suddenly the world gets thinner.
Nor does giving people with potential health issues further reason not to see a doctor or dentist.
Why is what they did wrong? Snowden should be held accountable for his actions and he should be tried on all charges they want to throw at him. They are doing their job to ensure that he is. He'll probably be found guilty of some.
THEN we call our senators, congressmen, presidents, popes, PTA members, florists, undertakers and anyone else that will list, and demand he be given a full pardon. Assuming of course his crimes were simply spilling the beans on evil activities of our government.
His life is a wreck no matter where he hides he knew that when he made his decision. He may as well do it here and let US citizens stand by him, or crucify him, as it is nominally our interests he was trying to protect. By running and hiding with our enemies, he looks very guilty.
I'm not sure I want to prop up our economy based on pure waste and inefficiency.
Well in my newish (~10yr) house we also have cluster mailboxes that are a block away, and it's not exactly a hardship for me it's just a nuisance to be a slave to junk mail I take from the mailbox, run through a shredder (because some of these people have personal information they shouldn't even have), and then deposit in recycling, unopened and unread. But, tempted though I might be to cancel mail service, you normally have to give mailing addresses for a few critical life elements: job applications, credit cards, bank accounts, taxes, and children school forms.
Whether any of those places actually USE mail afterwards is another point, but you have to get through that barrier. Mail has always been the "default" communication, guaranteed to make it to the recipient.
Cutting salt out of a diet that includes non-synthetic substances is probably impossible. If it lived on earth, it probably has salt in it.
Because of heat and dry conditions, I believe Texas' DSL is throttled by the government to ensure internet speeds stay cool and slow. I'm not sure what else justifies the ATT/TimeWarner blockage that we endure, maybe fear of the porns...
If I were given $92 Quadrillion, I will happily pay 99.999% tax. Try it and watch!
It's ironic that they are underpaying a reward to get people into a field in which people are underpaid or where salaries are stangant/declining.
Wall St. is going to have to share the bucks or it's going to lose the bucks completely. Fun times.
If I am on a jury, and I hear "Addicted to porn", I'm going to have a really hard time remaining objective about the person speaking.
As such I'd probably get thrown off the jury and people who actually BELIEVE THIS SHIT will take my place.
I agree, but I think if you're been doing science and math for those 13 years prior to the university, you already understand this to a certain degree. Also I was in engineering, and my math prof's were either engineers or applied mathematicians, there were very few pure theorists as may be more common in a liberal arts university.
Very few of us are "qualified" to do what we do, we oversell ourselves (within the limits of reason), work ourselves to death training ourselves on the job while doing something badly that we should probably have received a few weeks of training to do properly but the company won't pay for.
I don't mind being an asshole like this, but some people (like my wife, who has a EE degree) don't feel comfortable playing the game like this. If someone asks her a signal integrity question, she says she doesn't know. But she actually knows quite a bit more than most people know, she just doesn't like to venture out of her comfort zone.
You can't be like that, you have to go out on a limb a bit. Senior engineers who know their stuff will know you're out there, but they'll like the initiative. Some managers and senior idiots may not know but think you're smart.
To invent a chip, depending on what it does and how big it is, requires $1M-$50M in investment, sometimes more. Tee second you ask for that kind of money, there is no "your own" company, at best you're a major shareholder.
Also innovation is weighed too heavily these days, nothing gets done without execution and an educated, trained workforce who can execute cleanly and flawlessly. Those people don't come cheap. Further, in the process of executing, you actually innovate quite a lot, as you discover new, hard problems you wouldn't have seen before. Innovation of this nature is not rewarded at all, except maybe your name on a patent, which with $.50 won't get you a cup of coffee.
You're talking about "getting rich", the rest of us are talking about "good paying jobs". You'll never get rich working a good paying job, neither as an engineer nor a doctor nor lawyer or any other profession, except maybe senior executive (for reasons I can't really understand). The "getting rich" is always for entrepreneurs and investors, of which the market can bear only a small amount.
I make 100% more than when I started, and started before the dot boom. But i do job hop every 3-5 years, I am a squeaky wheel, I work 80-100 hrs a week and I drive a hard bargain. I am not afraid to leave an employer after a year if I believe they haven't held their end of the bargain or try to bait and switch me into a non-technical job (systems engineering, fae, project management, etc.). I believe the ceiling is perhaps 30% above where I am at, which at 36 is still somewhat disheartening considering that what I do directly impacts the bottom line, and 6 months of my work can provably produce tens of millions in revenue, of which I see a microscopic amount.
However I am also seeing opportunities dry up and go overseas, I'm seeing "quantity over quality" hiring practices particularly at abusive employers like Intel and AMD, and every job tries to push either more management or more offshore labor training on me as a requirement, which I refuse to do. It is unclear I will be able to realize that 30% in the time it takes for me to get it, versus the rate of market collapse. Intel's CEO (former or soon to be former) was fond of trying to lure people to EE saying something like "and you can make 25% over average". That's hardly worth the degree and the stress of diffeq and the labs, but that probably represents what Wall Street wants to see in labor costs, and what the industry is going to be doing over the next decade in terms of further wage stagnation/depression via labor choices and overseas development.
I really don't recommend EE as a career choice for anyone who is in college now. The day is going to come where it's either organize/unionize or let it go overseas, but engineers being engineers, I doubt we'll ever work together though and set a bar or board certification system and get it codified into law. Everyone thinks he's better, or everyone is a mini-entrepreneur who likes to pretend he's an investor or going to make it big, thus we all get poorer. Doctors and lawyers figured this out a long time go, but engineers, EE, ME and even CS, are fairly stupid and continue to empathize too much with management. You don't go to the bargaining table feeling sorry for your opponent, you go there and take every dollar you can, knowing full well there's no deal until the other party is getting enough to make their ends meet.
And if you think working the back end and having the government intercede on overseas and H1-B use is "unfair", then you're part of the problem. Take every dime you can get, by force. They will too, and won't respect you if you don't. All this talk about economic philosophies and principles is just pure bullshit. Capitalism is all about The Deal, and you are obligated to make the best deal for yourself as possible, however you can. We've learned from Wall Street this includes playing dirty pool and having absolutely no morals.
Math is the most difficult subject known by humankind.
Care to offer some evidence for that assertion?
It is a definition. Any problem at all can be put into mathematical form.
Thus it encompases every problem large and small, and must therefore be the most difficult subject known by humankind.
Or because running long distances requires a constant amount of effort. You can't show up to a marathon 13 miles in, think it's over in less than 4, and expect to win anything or even get a sense of accomplishment.
Math and science build, it starts very early, and it keeps building up. By high school most people are already severely disadvantaged. By college, the game is over but for the most dedicated. I will give these people a little credit, I think they truly want in and see the value, but get lost in college material and pacing, and don't even understand how they went wrong, They end up with retarded cop-outs like "i'm dumb at math" or "science makes no sense", which sometimes become self-fulfilling prophecies. They have to be approached like a physical fitness program: you start out easy or you will hurt yourself, and you work up to the serious stuff. There's no cramming for it, you can't jump in and be awesome, it takes a long time.
Most of the other subjects covered in that article can be easily picked up to "beyond the average bear" levels by just reading some books for a few weeks. It's not a surprise then if you're looking for a piece of paper in 4 years and you do not already have some skill in STEM, you go for something easier.