People need to figure out in the current environment you need to spend more time constantly educating and re-educating yourself. Probably once every decade. So it is not surprising the unemployment and employment-population rates are like that. I am more concerned with those people in benefits which cannot hope to find a job because they were outsourced and cannot reeducate themselves.
The reality is doctors don't earn as much as some people think. Only if you are a surgeon chalking up a lot of hours doing surgery. But it takes a long time to get the degree and you will find little time to enjoy your money.
A computer engineer working similar overtime with as much experience in the field does not earn that much less really. What matters is if you feel good with yourself doing your current job or not.
Given that they were likely laid off I wonder if any non-compete clause would hold water. AMD has been hemorrhaging money and cutting down the work force so quickly these guys were probably just one of the casualties. What would you expect them to do but get work elsewhere? There are not a lot of companies working in this area. It was either NVIDIA or Intel.
During deuterium (D–D fuel) plasma experiments in 1998 plasma conditions were achieved which would, if the D–D fuel were replaced with a 1:1 mix of deuterium and tritium (D–T fuel), have exceeded break-even—the point where the power produced by the fusion reactions equals the power supplied to operate the machine. JT-60 does not have the facilities to handle tritium; currently only the JET tokamak in the United Kingdom has such facilities. In fusion terminology JT-60 achieved conditions which in D–T would have provided Q = 1.25, where Q is the ratio of fusion power to input power. A self-sustaining nuclear fusion reaction would need a value of Q that is greater than 5.
Then Airbus tried to use Al-Li in the A350 only to get shot down by their clients because it wasn't using the composite material bling of the Dreamliner in the main fuselage. Hah. They sealed their own doom.
There is some really old open source CAD software available like BRL-CAD which was used by the United States Army Research Laboratory to design the XM-1 tank (i.e. the prototype for the M-1 Abrams). CATIA has a Linux server but the clients only run on Windows. NX Unigraphics however runs on Linux.
The embedded people have switched to Linux and Eclipse development for some time now, while the film industry people are content using their 3D modelers on Linux. I don't know what needs to happen for the CAD companies to get on the program.
Larry Ellison wants his NetPC back. Remember that one? I agree that streamed games are still not a viable option for a lot of people.
These consoles are interesting in that they leverage cell phone chips to compete with current consoles. Yes current console specs are getting to be that long in the tooth.
How about just making Steam automatically check your hardware specs and give you a report of how viable your system is for running the game in the first place?
9th leading cause of death in the US. More annual deaths in 2011 than Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, HIV, Violence, Car Accidents, Drowning, Fire, etc.
South Korea has 50 million people. Know how many influenza deaths there last year alone? 6832.
In the US Influenza and Pneumonia Deaths (same virus) were the 9th top cause of total deaths. More people died of it than Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Violence, Road Accidents, etc.
So if a house starts burning and I spray the neighboring houses with water to prevent the fire from spreading it makes no difference either. Just use your brain. The less people with the disease the lower the spread rate.
You also fail to realize that if the medical staff is ill less people will have proper care.
Would you be interest in doing dental work if you knew your dentist had HIV or Hepatitis? Or taking a cab from a driver with a known history of drunken driving? What is wrong with requiring people working in the medical sector to be immunized properly?
You have no clue. I have personal experience that the flu shot makes a lot of difference. As an example last year I skipped the shot and then I got 1 month sick in bed and got concomitant infections as a bonus package. I know it was the flu because I felt the symptoms 2 days after going to a party with a lot of people in the winter. The symptoms were typical flu i.e. sneezing, headaches, clear mucus, high temperature, etc. I have no question where I got it. These things just happen in any crowded environment like that. This year I got the shot and have had no days downtime at all in the same period while both my parents got infected with the flu for weeks and I was in the same house with them and had no problem at all. Sure you may feel mildly sick after taking the shot like with any other vaccine as you get an immune response. But the improved quality of life you get is obviously worth it.
The flu virus is constantly mutating and skips between different species so of course the protection is not perfect. It still beats not having protection. The flu vaccine is basically essentially useless after a season or two because of this.
Even if we immunized the entire human population against the flu the disease could still skip from birds to humans as it has in the past. This is why we haven't even bothered trying to do it. You cannot compare it with other diseases which mutate more slowly.
The issue with a 1 MW solid state laser beam would be in power generation and heat dissipation. These lasers are still quite inefficient so you need a lot of juice to achieve the rated lasing power. They usually "solve" this by using pulsed beams and massive capacitor banks with some sort of thermal engine providing the mobile electrical generation capacity. So you probably will want a trailer truck or two to carry your laser around. This is one reason the US Navy is so interested in lasers. Basically you can just divert power from the large gas turbines used to drive the propellers towards electrical generators and you have massive amounts of electricity to power lasers or railguns. You also can use the ocean as coolant. Their problem is lasers dissipate somewhat in steam and fog. Railguns still have rail erosion issues.
I have considered for a long time that a revolver or Gatling like design would be useful for lasers because of the cooling issue. You can just have multiple laser banks and shoot with one bank while the other banks are cooling down. Another possible solution is just to dissipate the heat into some sort of fuel used in some weapon delivery mechanism or whatever.
The only viable 1 MW military laser sources are chemical lasers like COIL where you get the laser light by mixing some chemicals together. Unfortunately those are not very portable either, still generate a lot of heat, plus the chemicals are usually quite toxic.
100 kW is considered to be militarily useful, 1 MW is considered to be a battle grade laser.
There are 100 kW solid state lasers available to the US military so this is not exactly leading edge military laser power. The interesting bit about this article is the revolver design they used.
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The problem is not power generation. There is plenty of natural gas, coal, and nuclear power. The problem is fuel for transportation.
People need to figure out in the current environment you need to spend more time constantly educating and re-educating yourself. Probably once every decade. So it is not surprising the unemployment and employment-population rates are like that. I am more concerned with those people in benefits which cannot hope to find a job because they were outsourced and cannot reeducate themselves.
A computer engineer working similar overtime with as much experience in the field does not earn that much less really. What matters is if you feel good with yourself doing your current job or not.
If you want to change careers just do not include any non-relevant information in your resume.
Given that they were likely laid off I wonder if any non-compete clause would hold water. AMD has been hemorrhaging money and cutting down the work force so quickly these guys were probably just one of the casualties. What would you expect them to do but get work elsewhere? There are not a lot of companies working in this area. It was either NVIDIA or Intel.
Quoting the JT-60 wiki page:
During deuterium (D–D fuel) plasma experiments in 1998 plasma conditions were achieved which would, if the D–D fuel were replaced with a 1:1 mix of deuterium and tritium (D–T fuel), have exceeded break-even—the point where the power produced by the fusion reactions equals the power supplied to operate the machine. JT-60 does not have the facilities to handle tritium; currently only the JET tokamak in the United Kingdom has such facilities. In fusion terminology JT-60 achieved conditions which in D–T would have provided Q = 1.25, where Q is the ratio of fusion power to input power. A self-sustaining nuclear fusion reaction would need a value of Q that is greater than 5.
Just because one user does not have a license does not mean another doesn't either.
There are supposed to be two more airplanes but I don't know how much the roadmap changed.
Then Airbus tried to use Al-Li in the A350 only to get shot down by their clients because it wasn't using the composite material bling of the Dreamliner in the main fuselage. Hah. They sealed their own doom.
There is some really old open source CAD software available like BRL-CAD which was used by the United States Army Research Laboratory to design the XM-1 tank (i.e. the prototype for the M-1 Abrams). CATIA has a Linux server but the clients only run on Windows. NX Unigraphics however runs on Linux.
The embedded people have switched to Linux and Eclipse development for some time now, while the film industry people are content using their 3D modelers on Linux. I don't know what needs to happen for the CAD companies to get on the program.
FYI when I get targeted spam from a political party in an election I usually avoid to vote for them.
Most forms of diabetes are not contagious. Same reason why you can drink alcohol but not smoke in a restaurant.
These consoles are interesting in that they leverage cell phone chips to compete with current consoles. Yes current console specs are getting to be that long in the tooth.
I usually also upgrade every 4 years i.e. two iterations of Moore's law.
How about just making Steam automatically check your hardware specs and give you a report of how viable your system is for running the game in the first place?
The specs seem ok but $1k is pretty steep to pay for a glorified console. I suspect their sub $500 model would get more traction.
9th leading cause of death in the US. More annual deaths in 2011 than Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, HIV, Violence, Car Accidents, Drowning, Fire, etc.
I would mod you up if I could buddy. That is just hilarious. What a crooked association.
In the US Influenza and Pneumonia Deaths (same virus) were the 9th top cause of total deaths. More people died of it than Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Violence, Road Accidents, etc.
So if a house starts burning and I spray the neighboring houses with water to prevent the fire from spreading it makes no difference either. Just use your brain. The less people with the disease the lower the spread rate.
You also fail to realize that if the medical staff is ill less people will have proper care.
the flu can be handled easily with proper treatment, fluids, rest, etc
Tell that to the influenza victims of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918.
Would you be interest in doing dental work if you knew your dentist had HIV or Hepatitis? Or taking a cab from a driver with a known history of drunken driving? What is wrong with requiring people working in the medical sector to be immunized properly?
You have no clue. I have personal experience that the flu shot makes a lot of difference. As an example last year I skipped the shot and then I got 1 month sick in bed and got concomitant infections as a bonus package. I know it was the flu because I felt the symptoms 2 days after going to a party with a lot of people in the winter. The symptoms were typical flu i.e. sneezing, headaches, clear mucus, high temperature, etc. I have no question where I got it. These things just happen in any crowded environment like that. This year I got the shot and have had no days downtime at all in the same period while both my parents got infected with the flu for weeks and I was in the same house with them and had no problem at all. Sure you may feel mildly sick after taking the shot like with any other vaccine as you get an immune response. But the improved quality of life you get is obviously worth it.
The flu virus is constantly mutating and skips between different species so of course the protection is not perfect. It still beats not having protection. The flu vaccine is basically essentially useless after a season or two because of this.
Even if we immunized the entire human population against the flu the disease could still skip from birds to humans as it has in the past. This is why we haven't even bothered trying to do it. You cannot compare it with other diseases which mutate more slowly.
The Northrop Grumman laser I linked to already combined multiple lasers, using 15 kW blocks, to achieve 100 kW power.
The issue with a 1 MW solid state laser beam would be in power generation and heat dissipation. These lasers are still quite inefficient so you need a lot of juice to achieve the rated lasing power. They usually "solve" this by using pulsed beams and massive capacitor banks with some sort of thermal engine providing the mobile electrical generation capacity. So you probably will want a trailer truck or two to carry your laser around. This is one reason the US Navy is so interested in lasers. Basically you can just divert power from the large gas turbines used to drive the propellers towards electrical generators and you have massive amounts of electricity to power lasers or railguns. You also can use the ocean as coolant. Their problem is lasers dissipate somewhat in steam and fog. Railguns still have rail erosion issues.
I have considered for a long time that a revolver or Gatling like design would be useful for lasers because of the cooling issue. You can just have multiple laser banks and shoot with one bank while the other banks are cooling down. Another possible solution is just to dissipate the heat into some sort of fuel used in some weapon delivery mechanism or whatever.
The only viable 1 MW military laser sources are chemical lasers like COIL where you get the laser light by mixing some chemicals together. Unfortunately those are not very portable either, still generate a lot of heat, plus the chemicals are usually quite toxic.
100 kW is considered to be militarily useful, 1 MW is considered to be a battle grade laser.
There are 100 kW solid state lasers available to the US military so this is not exactly leading edge military laser power. The interesting bit about this article is the revolver design they used.