Yes but this story is not so much race as class. Throw all the blue collar citizens out so foreigners can get their jobs for cheaper? Cool sounds great, after all, they can ALL retrain into tech jobs, right? Do the same to the white collar people and the white collar journalists start whining, mostly. Then you get the stockholm syndrome types where if the blue collar job market has been destroyed then the american thing to do is destroy the white collar job market too.
Disagree. Back when I used my first 300 baud modem around 1981ish I had no problem thinking about "looking at still pictures" or "hearing sound" or, although it seemed kinda far out, sound and live video. Easily imagined, this stuff was all over sci-fi books and movies however unrealistic/magical it appeared at the time. Now its here.
But what can be imagined that anyone wants that takes bandwidth beyond high res 3-d surround sound video? Touchy-feely stuff is actually pretty low bandwidth. Smell and taste, aside from "do not want" is ultra low BW. We're running outta senses here...
I guess if executables were grotesquely larger, like if "web pages" were actually executables.. we tried that, called it "flash" it sucked and is dying off and never used as much bandwidth as pictures or worst case cruddy quality video.
You seem to have a very optimistic view of tower cost / rental.
For a good laugh talk to the ham radio guys about what a decent 150 foot tower would cost in total, not just the tower but the installation, base, guying, etc.
Now don't get fooled by people who don't know what they're doin... all that "a section of Rohn45G is $300 delivered, so 15 of em is only $4500... well you're forgetting that 45G is "ham grade" and can only self support to 40 feet or so... You want something 150 foot rated (and here we need icing high wind rated not that "60 mph no ice" BS that some towers are advertised at). On the good side I assure you a decent installed tower will always be cheaper than a similar height mini-skyscraper, so figure a small 15 story building would be a couple million bucks installed, I assure you a 150 foot tower will be substantially less.
Its interesting in ham radio how the "1500 watt limit" has gotten much closer to affordable over the generations but the "less than 200 feet AGL and the FAA doesn't (usually) care" limit is just as unaffordable today as it was when I was a kid.
As for rental vs buying, realize you've now got two middlemen who want to make a fat profit, the tower operator AND the bank who made the loan. On the other hand the financial advantages of sharing the cost are huge, so pretty much either you're renting to someone or you're renting from someone else.
Also unless you're in supersprawl forget a municipality demanding free wifi for a tower permit. All our city public service is on the county trunk system and via the luck of the draw there are no county system trunk towers in my city (about 4 surrounding it, sure...) so you can't force public access for a city as a permit issue or you'll just end up in another city or having to force county wide public access etc. Of course out east some counties (and some states) are smaller than our cities making it even more complicated.
then telling people "That means we now get free TV", it's not true.
Thats the funny part, is the average drone thinks TV comes out of a $100/month satellite dish or coaxial cable, but there's a large fraction of the population that thinks they're smarter than the average bear because they know they can connect an antenna and actually get free over the air HDTV from the major (and many minor) networks. Then you add the crowd that thinks they're 'leet because they read a gawker article online about somebody making a pringles can wifi antenna... Combine the two and you get proles thinking if they stick a bigger antenna on their wifi and the govt gets out of its own way, they'll surely get "free internet".
Its fun to mashup this interpretation vs public parks and public libraries. This brings up the next issue that where I live the parks and library are really nice places to visit, but areas run by some other subcultures turn into dumps you'd never dare to visit. I could imagine areas where the wifi actually works vs areas mostly populated with MITM attack systems.
One interesting contrast is a commons has no theoretical demand limit... If I make $200 annual profit off each cow, there's no reason to limit myself to 100, 1000 or even 1e6 of my cows on the commons. However with current technology its not possible for a person to use more than a couple dozen megs for a uncompressed 3D hdtv stream. On average, most will use dramatically less. So its pretty trivial to set a very hard upper budget limit for wifi on what it'll cost per person served. The public park analogy is I'd have a hard time using more than a couple sq feet on a picnic blanket, most people don't use the parks they just want to live in a place that has nice parks, and by paying in bulk its not terribly difficult to provide 1e6 sq feet for 1e5 citizens, that's only 22 acres which is about 5% the total acreage of our local city parks.
It was a meta joke where OP was lying about the public not liking being lied to, to make the humorous point that the public likes it. I LOLed at both the post and your response that missed the point, but it would have been much funnier if OP merely cut and pasted some historian or philosopher writing about the same subject, seeing as that was the whole point of the story. Something like "It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles." other than Machiavelli probably could never have predicted he'd be quoted WRT a chick (formerly) with a PHD.
Churchills "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." would be a hilarious companion to the verbiage about "stripping" this woman.
Now back to work, all of us, as Stevenson said "On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. "
Probably means it comes with the vnc (and/or tightvnc and/or rdesktop) client installed, whereas on my phone and tablet(s) I had to install it.
I find the idea of a "tech phone" with useful preinstalled stuff instead of crapware to be an intriguing idea. No angrybirds or facebook in rom, but gimmie a VNC / rdesktop / ssh client (preferably one that isn't harvesting logins and phoning home with them to the telco mothership). You could carry this to comic extremes like stereotypical techie background and theme instead of the blah they push to the masses.
Google search for "That's a sweeping and unfair generalization." shows 14 results... Looks like you've got some explaining to do, Mr "I don't use footnotes", or you're about to be stripped of your second post achievement.
Now I'm doing it right, put my post in quotes and google for it and "did not match any documents" is the result.
Sorry in the olden days banking used to be a competitive free market but in merger mania era there are only a couple monopolies left, aside from the extremely small fry (like my current local credit union)
Standard/. car analogy would be before (1920?) there were like 200 small car mfgrs, but after that industries merger mania there's pretty much the big 3 and not much else. So in 1899 one car company failing out of 200 is shoulder shrug, but in 2010 one going bankrupt is big news because there aren't many left.
I guess a mutually acceptable metric for both of us would be something like % of population affected by a closure. Even that's not so simple, I have 2 dead bank companies under my belt along with 3 dead branches so far, which makes it even more confusing, should I count twice or three times?
You've gotta give it a PR angle... tell em its to protect them from west nile virus mosquitoes (DC is pretty much a swamp in the summer, so they'll love this idea)
powerful long-range surveillance radar with a 360-degree look-around capability that can reach out to 340 miles.
There's a simple aviation rule of thumb (aka its probably less than 10% inaccurate) that 10Kft = 100nm to the horizon.
So they're admitting its a OTH radar. That seems odd, why make a shitty lightweight OTH when you could make a really good one on the ground. In the air would be a good spot for a stereotypical skin painting surveillance radar, however.
I'm suspecting there's some specsmanship going on here were an infinite number of imperial to metric re-conversions and PR rounding up 20 times has somehow lead to the "real" range of "around a hundred miles" getting boosted to the somewhat ridiculous 340 miles.
Or they're confusing individual range with total system coverage. You only need about 3 blimps IN A SYSTEM each with 100 mile range to cover about 350 miles along the widest part of the entire system. I have to think about circle packing, maybe 3 perfectly aligned circles 100 nm apart could cover an absolute minimum diameter of 340 miles as a system. Hmm you'd be looking at the intersection point of two circles vs the farthest point of the 3rd circle or some BS, I think?
And or the journalists failed geometry and are confusing range aka radius with diameter or more like circumference. So they F'd up thinking radius is the same as circumference. Yes, literally, a 100 nm diameter radar (aka 50 mile range) can cover a ground footprint aka "radar fence" that would be a circle on the ground that would be 314 point something miles to walk around (not across).
Please no flames that an airborne radar can see an airplane at twice the horizon at the same altitude as the radar because they're both in the air... the specified security theater is to prevent another 9/11, and if the 9/11 planes were at 30Kft cruising along over NYC then 9/11 wouldn't have been much of a disaster (unless we start building 30001 foot tall skyscrapers in the future or something). The next attack will of course be highly successful because it will be different than the last attack. Generals always prepare to fight the last war. I bet the united states is perfectly prepared to defend against massed cavalry charges and musket fire.
Some random comments after very quick skim of article 1) Politics is currently nothing but lies. Open/Free software contains no lies, compilation and testing can be done by anyone and always reveals the whole truth 2) Run a.gov like wikipedia. Uh huh. Whats the real world equivalent of the wikipedia deletionist a-holes? Yup, those guys with the snazzy uniforms again who star in all our video games. Lite up the crematoriums again baby! 3) Government is all about taking away and preventing. Stuff (such as free/open software) happens despite.gov best effort in opposition. Open/Free software is all about doing something (maybe on a meta level, doing something like a thermostat turning on a furnace "prevents" cold air, but we'll ignore this sophistry for now). 4) Politics = rigid hierarchy, what matters is power gained by position. Free/open software more do-ocracy power gained by fame.
Its hard to see a mix happening between such oil and water topics. You'd have better luck mixing hackers and ballroom dancers, or my little pony and slashdot.
Because you can go to androidx86 and flash an old netbook for basically free. My old eee has a VGA output, my tv has a VGA input, etc. Or any more modern desktop-ish machine with a HDMI output video card, like the one in my mythtv frontend. I've never connected my androidx86 EEE 1000 netbook to my TV but I could...
yes, I know he won't be manufacturing antiques, but there is a market for dodads and stuff to store and display antiques
I got my start in the machine tool hobby by making parts for my father's antique radios. That console radio's shot because its pot metal pulley in the dial mechanism cracked? No problemo I'll make a new one outta brass. I did some weird stuff with phono players too. I still hate making gears. I also replaced a lot of bushings and bearings and bent shafting. Old radio gear was surprisingly mechanical. I would advise that this is definitely hobby level income here I probably never even broke even on consumables much less an overall profit. But it was fun and I learned a lot.
Whoops I forgot my best idea. Data centers. Holy cow do they use a lot of industrial electrical wiring. You want a job where a data center needs a guy who knows wiring, but spends most of his time... doing WTF data center guys do. So you're the only "remote hands" tech who can wire a NAS for the correct 3-phase. So you're the only "remote hands" on staff who can speak "electrician" when somebodys got questions. Study up on your UPS and HVAC and fire suppression stuff... In the long run you may transition outta being their secret electrical weapon into... who knows. Maybe sysadmin, or monitoring, or security, or design work... Skys the limit once they hire you via the power lines.
Hey man, why wait 3 hours and pay travel charges and a 3 hr minimum just to hook up some electrical wiring, when I'm licensed to do it instantly. All I'm asking for is a little on the job fiber termination training (I learned SC connector termination OTJ so its not all that outta line). Even better convince them to team you up with their local HVAC expert so you can share knowledge.
TLDR of my whole story is be the electrical secret weapon, don't just be an entry level noob in a sea of unemployed noobs.
I'm currently 58 years old, working as an industrial electrician in a maintenance department setting
You are getting some pretty poor advice about working on help desk telling kids how to plug in a mouse and useless stuff like that. And start writing android apps, wtf?
LEVERAGE your massive and unusual electrician skills. So you don't want to pull cable while hanging from a ladder 50 feet in the air, or wrestle 0000 gauge spools around... I didn't either (well, I was wielding cat-5 and singlemode fiber, but I sympathize) and that was when I was 22.
You'll hear clowns complaining about there being no manufacturing in the USA but they're wrong.
First of all you've probably been wiring power to CNC gear and PLCs for decades, now figure out how they work past the power wiring. google for linuxcnc. Buy a manual Sherline mill like I did and CNC it as a basement project, then make 30 little "somethings" on it and take them to your next interview at a CNC plant. Lift a simple PLC off ebay and some software from "where-ever" and make the worlds most elaborate christmas light system on the front lawn.
You wanna go in describing yourself as the electrician troubleshooter for their company. No longer will they have to waste money installing things that'll never be approved by inspectors, you've been doin it right for decades and know all the tricks. And you know how to do it fast and safe, which they don't. No longer will they be mystified about NEC grounding regs, or delta vs wye, or three phase wiring. You're going to save them fat stacks of cash because you know how to wire stuff. Just because you don't want to pull the cable anymore, doesn't mean you can't tell some kid how to pull the cable correctly... Why pay an outside electrician $45/hr plus trip charge when I'll handle it all for you... meanwhile learn all you can or want about various cnc control software, cad software... the thin edge of the wedge is the power lines you'll be the local expert about, but in the long run you may end up sitting at a desk doing CAD if you want, or programming PLCs out on the floor or who knows.. once you sneak in...
Another way to go is project management. If you don't want to be a supervisor that's fine, project management is not necessarily that hands on. But big electrical projects need a guy who can tell when the kids are trying to BS them, and who better than an old timer from that very field... they can get away with telling a 22 year old girl who's never held a screwdriver that its gonna take an extra week to ship in some frequency grease and a left handed crescent wrench, but they are not going to get away with that kind of BS with you. You're gonna save them tons of money by expediting wiring projects because you know this industrial electrical stuff backward and forward. You know what kind of prints electricians need, you know if you're getting BSed, you can look at see if they are doing a good job rather than relying on a paid inspector as the only QA/QC. You're gonna save them fat stacks of cash. So you gotta learn some computerized project software, maybe some other tools, thats OK. Maybe someday you'll sit in a cube updating GNATT charts all day and sending update emails, but today you'll be their secret weapon against full time electricians.
If you wanna move, there's a lot of CNC and robotic manufacturers in the USA all over the place. They have, and need, guys on staff who know about wiring stuff. The problem is I donno if, or how, your license if any would transfer to, say, the Tormach manufacturing plant in Wisconsin. But they surely need someone who can talk to other industrial electricians and knows the NEC etc etc.
I think you might be pigeonholed into contracting, if there's about ten local CNC companies all needing about four hours per week, that's not so bad on average. Depending on how you feel and your health and attitude you can hire and fire yourself as you please. Wanna work 60 hrs, that can be arranged. Wanna
Whats your favorite personal discovery? Usually/. interviews are more IT/CS/programmer types so I ask them for their favorite piece of code they personally wrote. I guess for a paleontologist the comparison would be your favorite discovery. Not one line, not a book, just a paragraph. No weasel words, no membership either as leader or distant drone, by direct personal discovery as in YOU found it. I know there's more lab work in your field than most people think so a story not involving test tubes or whatever instead of swinging hammer is perfectly OK. Also no "big project" allowed like a book. I'm looking for one individual personal precise discovery. Insights or scientific papers are OK, doesn't have to be a physical thing. As an example of what I'm looking for, if you have a PHD and it is your favorite thing in the world, go for it and gimmie a paragraph about it. If its not your favorite thing, well something you did similar that you actually happen to enjoy... Don't be afraid to geek out, this is freaking/. if you fell in eternal love with the first trilobite fossil you ever saw, we're not gonna judge (well, not too much... mostly)
This is why I've never been very impressed with the mersennewiki.org. Why store giant files containing the decimal expression of each Mp, when a zipped up binary format would be really freaking small?
I can get tons of very large non-prime numbers by generating Pascal's triangle.
Given that the rate of primes drop as the number length goes up, you can just pick any ole random really large number and the odds eventually become ridiculously high that its composite. You can have a lot of fun Fing with people (aka Socratic method), at least if they don't know much number theory, by trying to convince them there exists a certain largest prime number above which they're all composite, I mean, just look at the graph of rate of prime numbers vs number of digits or however you wanna phrase it, obviously it must intersect zero at some huge number (what would hitting negative even mean?). This would be the kind of "stupid interview trick question" I'd enjoy, certainly more creative than yet another stupid fizzbuzz implementation.
Meta discussing it even further from the original post, the Socratic method is pretty much good training to become a really effective internet troll.
The goatse number = number of seared eyeballs requiring mind bleach. 2 ** 57885161 - 1 is probably about right. Either that or its the decimal representation of the future ipv8 standard which expands the puny ipv6 addressing space from 2 ** 128 to 2 ** 1e100 aka when we replace the internet with the google-net. All hail the almighty GOOG! huzzah!
Slashdot Mirror
Yes but this story is not so much race as class. Throw all the blue collar citizens out so foreigners can get their jobs for cheaper? Cool sounds great, after all, they can ALL retrain into tech jobs, right? Do the same to the white collar people and the white collar journalists start whining, mostly. Then you get the stockholm syndrome types where if the blue collar job market has been destroyed then the american thing to do is destroy the white collar job market too.
This "story" is a class story not a race story.
Disagree. Back when I used my first 300 baud modem around 1981ish I had no problem thinking about "looking at still pictures" or "hearing sound" or, although it seemed kinda far out, sound and live video. Easily imagined, this stuff was all over sci-fi books and movies however unrealistic/magical it appeared at the time. Now its here.
But what can be imagined that anyone wants that takes bandwidth beyond high res 3-d surround sound video? Touchy-feely stuff is actually pretty low bandwidth. Smell and taste, aside from "do not want" is ultra low BW. We're running outta senses here...
I guess if executables were grotesquely larger, like if "web pages" were actually executables.. we tried that, called it "flash" it sucked and is dying off and never used as much bandwidth as pictures or worst case cruddy quality video.
You seem to have a very optimistic view of tower cost / rental.
For a good laugh talk to the ham radio guys about what a decent 150 foot tower would cost in total, not just the tower but the installation, base, guying, etc.
Now don't get fooled by people who don't know what they're doin... all that "a section of Rohn45G is $300 delivered, so 15 of em is only $4500 ... well you're forgetting that 45G is "ham grade" and can only self support to 40 feet or so... You want something 150 foot rated (and here we need icing high wind rated not that "60 mph no ice" BS that some towers are advertised at). On the good side I assure you a decent installed tower will always be cheaper than a similar height mini-skyscraper, so figure a small 15 story building would be a couple million bucks installed, I assure you a 150 foot tower will be substantially less.
Its interesting in ham radio how the "1500 watt limit" has gotten much closer to affordable over the generations but the "less than 200 feet AGL and the FAA doesn't (usually) care" limit is just as unaffordable today as it was when I was a kid.
As for rental vs buying, realize you've now got two middlemen who want to make a fat profit, the tower operator AND the bank who made the loan. On the other hand the financial advantages of sharing the cost are huge, so pretty much either you're renting to someone or you're renting from someone else.
Also unless you're in supersprawl forget a municipality demanding free wifi for a tower permit. All our city public service is on the county trunk system and via the luck of the draw there are no county system trunk towers in my city (about 4 surrounding it, sure...) so you can't force public access for a city as a permit issue or you'll just end up in another city or having to force county wide public access etc. Of course out east some counties (and some states) are smaller than our cities making it even more complicated.
then telling people "That means we now get free TV", it's not true.
Thats the funny part, is the average drone thinks TV comes out of a $100/month satellite dish or coaxial cable, but there's a large fraction of the population that thinks they're smarter than the average bear because they know they can connect an antenna and actually get free over the air HDTV from the major (and many minor) networks. Then you add the crowd that thinks they're 'leet because they read a gawker article online about somebody making a pringles can wifi antenna... Combine the two and you get proles thinking if they stick a bigger antenna on their wifi and the govt gets out of its own way, they'll surely get "free internet".
Its fun to mashup this interpretation vs public parks and public libraries. This brings up the next issue that where I live the parks and library are really nice places to visit, but areas run by some other subcultures turn into dumps you'd never dare to visit. I could imagine areas where the wifi actually works vs areas mostly populated with MITM attack systems.
One interesting contrast is a commons has no theoretical demand limit... If I make $200 annual profit off each cow, there's no reason to limit myself to 100, 1000 or even 1e6 of my cows on the commons. However with current technology its not possible for a person to use more than a couple dozen megs for a uncompressed 3D hdtv stream. On average, most will use dramatically less. So its pretty trivial to set a very hard upper budget limit for wifi on what it'll cost per person served. The public park analogy is I'd have a hard time using more than a couple sq feet on a picnic blanket, most people don't use the parks they just want to live in a place that has nice parks, and by paying in bulk its not terribly difficult to provide 1e6 sq feet for 1e5 citizens, that's only 22 acres which is about 5% the total acreage of our local city parks.
It was a meta joke where OP was lying about the public not liking being lied to, to make the humorous point that the public likes it.
I LOLed at both the post and your response that missed the point, but it would have been much funnier if OP merely cut and pasted some historian or philosopher writing about the same subject, seeing as that was the whole point of the story.
Something like "It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles." other than Machiavelli probably could never have predicted he'd be quoted WRT a chick (formerly) with a PHD.
Churchills "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." would be a hilarious companion to the verbiage about "stripping" this woman.
Now back to work, all of us, as Stevenson said "On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. "
Probably means it comes with the vnc (and/or tightvnc and/or rdesktop) client installed, whereas on my phone and tablet(s) I had to install it.
I find the idea of a "tech phone" with useful preinstalled stuff instead of crapware to be an intriguing idea. No angrybirds or facebook in rom, but gimmie a VNC / rdesktop / ssh client (preferably one that isn't harvesting logins and phoning home with them to the telco mothership). You could carry this to comic extremes like stereotypical techie background and theme instead of the blah they push to the masses.
Google search for "That's a sweeping and unfair generalization." shows 14 results... Looks like you've got some explaining to do, Mr "I don't use footnotes", or you're about to be stripped of your second post achievement.
Now I'm doing it right, put my post in quotes and google for it and "did not match any documents" is the result.
the drivers are certified to work
LOL this is a firmware bug, you can lock up the hardware even with no OS booted. Hilarious.
and you get real support
Yeah I love being told to reinstall windows on my linux boxes. Those guys sure are helpful !
As seen on zerohedge, cut another 7 days service per week and they're outta the red!
Thats exactly why you send the telephone sanitizers, mba's, etc first, and we will follow later. Um, yeah.
True, although I was thinking more of bubble as in massive overcapacity/overbuilding rather than purely stock price.
Sorry in the olden days banking used to be a competitive free market but in merger mania era there are only a couple monopolies left, aside from the extremely small fry (like my current local credit union)
Standard /. car analogy would be before (1920?) there were like 200 small car mfgrs, but after that industries merger mania there's pretty much the big 3 and not much else. So in 1899 one car company failing out of 200 is shoulder shrug, but in 2010 one going bankrupt is big news because there aren't many left.
I guess a mutually acceptable metric for both of us would be something like % of population affected by a closure. Even that's not so simple, I have 2 dead bank companies under my belt along with 3 dead branches so far, which makes it even more confusing, should I count twice or three times?
You've gotta give it a PR angle... tell em its to protect them from west nile virus mosquitoes (DC is pretty much a swamp in the summer, so they'll love this idea)
fly as high as 10,000 feet
powerful long-range surveillance radar with a 360-degree look-around capability that can reach out to 340 miles.
There's a simple aviation rule of thumb (aka its probably less than 10% inaccurate) that 10Kft = 100nm to the horizon.
So they're admitting its a OTH radar. That seems odd, why make a shitty lightweight OTH when you could make a really good one on the ground. In the air would be a good spot for a stereotypical skin painting surveillance radar, however.
I'm suspecting there's some specsmanship going on here were an infinite number of imperial to metric re-conversions and PR rounding up 20 times has somehow lead to the "real" range of "around a hundred miles" getting boosted to the somewhat ridiculous 340 miles.
Or they're confusing individual range with total system coverage. You only need about 3 blimps IN A SYSTEM each with 100 mile range to cover about 350 miles along the widest part of the entire system. I have to think about circle packing, maybe 3 perfectly aligned circles 100 nm apart could cover an absolute minimum diameter of 340 miles as a system. Hmm you'd be looking at the intersection point of two circles vs the farthest point of the 3rd circle or some BS, I think?
And or the journalists failed geometry and are confusing range aka radius with diameter or more like circumference. So they F'd up thinking radius is the same as circumference. Yes, literally, a 100 nm diameter radar (aka 50 mile range) can cover a ground footprint aka "radar fence" that would be a circle on the ground that would be 314 point something miles to walk around (not across).
Please no flames that an airborne radar can see an airplane at twice the horizon at the same altitude as the radar because they're both in the air... the specified security theater is to prevent another 9/11, and if the 9/11 planes were at 30Kft cruising along over NYC then 9/11 wouldn't have been much of a disaster (unless we start building 30001 foot tall skyscrapers in the future or something). The next attack will of course be highly successful because it will be different than the last attack. Generals always prepare to fight the last war. I bet the united states is perfectly prepared to defend against massed cavalry charges and musket fire.
Some random comments after very quick skim of article .gov like wikipedia. Uh huh. Whats the real world equivalent of the wikipedia deletionist a-holes? Yup, those guys with the snazzy uniforms again who star in all our video games. Lite up the crematoriums again baby! .gov best effort in opposition. Open/Free software is all about doing something (maybe on a meta level, doing something like a thermostat turning on a furnace "prevents" cold air, but we'll ignore this sophistry for now).
1) Politics is currently nothing but lies. Open/Free software contains no lies, compilation and testing can be done by anyone and always reveals the whole truth
2) Run a
3) Government is all about taking away and preventing. Stuff (such as free/open software) happens despite
4) Politics = rigid hierarchy, what matters is power gained by position. Free/open software more do-ocracy power gained by fame.
Its hard to see a mix happening between such oil and water topics. You'd have better luck mixing hackers and ballroom dancers, or my little pony and slashdot.
Because you can go to androidx86 and flash an old netbook for basically free. My old eee has a VGA output, my tv has a VGA input, etc.
Or any more modern desktop-ish machine with a HDMI output video card, like the one in my mythtv frontend.
I've never connected my androidx86 EEE 1000 netbook to my TV but I could...
yes, I know he won't be manufacturing antiques, but there is a market for dodads and stuff to store and display antiques
I got my start in the machine tool hobby by making parts for my father's antique radios. That console radio's shot because its pot metal pulley in the dial mechanism cracked? No problemo I'll make a new one outta brass. I did some weird stuff with phono players too. I still hate making gears. I also replaced a lot of bushings and bearings and bent shafting. Old radio gear was surprisingly mechanical. I would advise that this is definitely hobby level income here I probably never even broke even on consumables much less an overall profit. But it was fun and I learned a lot.
Whoops I forgot my best idea. Data centers. Holy cow do they use a lot of industrial electrical wiring. You want a job where a data center needs a guy who knows wiring, but spends most of his time... doing WTF data center guys do. So you're the only "remote hands" tech who can wire a NAS for the correct 3-phase. So you're the only "remote hands" on staff who can speak "electrician" when somebodys got questions. Study up on your UPS and HVAC and fire suppression stuff... In the long run you may transition outta being their secret electrical weapon into ... who knows. Maybe sysadmin, or monitoring, or security, or design work... Skys the limit once they hire you via the power lines.
Hey man, why wait 3 hours and pay travel charges and a 3 hr minimum just to hook up some electrical wiring, when I'm licensed to do it instantly. All I'm asking for is a little on the job fiber termination training (I learned SC connector termination OTJ so its not all that outta line). Even better convince them to team you up with their local HVAC expert so you can share knowledge.
TLDR of my whole story is be the electrical secret weapon, don't just be an entry level noob in a sea of unemployed noobs.
I'm currently 58 years old, working as an industrial electrician in a maintenance department setting
You are getting some pretty poor advice about working on help desk telling kids how to plug in a mouse and useless stuff like that. And start writing android apps, wtf?
LEVERAGE your massive and unusual electrician skills. So you don't want to pull cable while hanging from a ladder 50 feet in the air, or wrestle 0000 gauge spools around... I didn't either (well, I was wielding cat-5 and singlemode fiber, but I sympathize) and that was when I was 22.
You'll hear clowns complaining about there being no manufacturing in the USA but they're wrong.
First of all you've probably been wiring power to CNC gear and PLCs for decades, now figure out how they work past the power wiring. google for linuxcnc. Buy a manual Sherline mill like I did and CNC it as a basement project, then make 30 little "somethings" on it and take them to your next interview at a CNC plant. Lift a simple PLC off ebay and some software from "where-ever" and make the worlds most elaborate christmas light system on the front lawn.
You wanna go in describing yourself as the electrician troubleshooter for their company. No longer will they have to waste money installing things that'll never be approved by inspectors, you've been doin it right for decades and know all the tricks. And you know how to do it fast and safe, which they don't. No longer will they be mystified about NEC grounding regs, or delta vs wye, or three phase wiring. You're going to save them fat stacks of cash because you know how to wire stuff. Just because you don't want to pull the cable anymore, doesn't mean you can't tell some kid how to pull the cable correctly... Why pay an outside electrician $45/hr plus trip charge when I'll handle it all for you... meanwhile learn all you can or want about various cnc control software, cad software... the thin edge of the wedge is the power lines you'll be the local expert about, but in the long run you may end up sitting at a desk doing CAD if you want, or programming PLCs out on the floor or who knows.. once you sneak in...
Another way to go is project management. If you don't want to be a supervisor that's fine, project management is not necessarily that hands on. But big electrical projects need a guy who can tell when the kids are trying to BS them, and who better than an old timer from that very field... they can get away with telling a 22 year old girl who's never held a screwdriver that its gonna take an extra week to ship in some frequency grease and a left handed crescent wrench, but they are not going to get away with that kind of BS with you. You're gonna save them tons of money by expediting wiring projects because you know this industrial electrical stuff backward and forward. You know what kind of prints electricians need, you know if you're getting BSed, you can look at see if they are doing a good job rather than relying on a paid inspector as the only QA/QC. You're gonna save them fat stacks of cash. So you gotta learn some computerized project software, maybe some other tools, thats OK. Maybe someday you'll sit in a cube updating GNATT charts all day and sending update emails, but today you'll be their secret weapon against full time electricians.
If you wanna move, there's a lot of CNC and robotic manufacturers in the USA all over the place. They have, and need, guys on staff who know about wiring stuff. The problem is I donno if, or how, your license if any would transfer to, say, the Tormach manufacturing plant in Wisconsin. But they surely need someone who can talk to other industrial electricians and knows the NEC etc etc.
I think you might be pigeonholed into contracting, if there's about ten local CNC companies all needing about four hours per week, that's not so bad on average. Depending on how you feel and your health and attitude you can hire and fire yourself as you please. Wanna work 60 hrs, that can be arranged. Wanna
Whats your favorite personal discovery? /. interviews are more IT/CS/programmer types so I ask them for their favorite piece of code they personally wrote. /. if you fell in eternal love with the first trilobite fossil you ever saw, we're not gonna judge (well, not too much... mostly)
Usually
I guess for a paleontologist the comparison would be your favorite discovery.
Not one line, not a book, just a paragraph. No weasel words, no membership either as leader or distant drone, by direct personal discovery as in YOU found it.
I know there's more lab work in your field than most people think so a story not involving test tubes or whatever instead of swinging hammer is perfectly OK.
Also no "big project" allowed like a book. I'm looking for one individual personal precise discovery.
Insights or scientific papers are OK, doesn't have to be a physical thing.
As an example of what I'm looking for, if you have a PHD and it is your favorite thing in the world, go for it and gimmie a paragraph about it. If its not your favorite thing, well something you did similar that you actually happen to enjoy...
Don't be afraid to geek out, this is freaking
This is why I've never been very impressed with the mersennewiki.org. Why store giant files containing the decimal expression of each Mp, when a zipped up binary format would be really freaking small?
Can you print it out and send me a hardcover copy? that'd be soooo cool ...well, at least until the next prime number is found.
Better idea: Tattoo
I can get tons of very large non-prime numbers by generating Pascal's triangle.
Given that the rate of primes drop as the number length goes up, you can just pick any ole random really large number and the odds eventually become ridiculously high that its composite. You can have a lot of fun Fing with people (aka Socratic method), at least if they don't know much number theory, by trying to convince them there exists a certain largest prime number above which they're all composite, I mean, just look at the graph of rate of prime numbers vs number of digits or however you wanna phrase it, obviously it must intersect zero at some huge number (what would hitting negative even mean?). This would be the kind of "stupid interview trick question" I'd enjoy, certainly more creative than yet another stupid fizzbuzz implementation.
Meta discussing it even further from the original post, the Socratic method is pretty much good training to become a really effective internet troll.
The goatse number = number of seared eyeballs requiring mind bleach. 2 ** 57885161 - 1 is probably about right. Either that or its the decimal representation of the future ipv8 standard which expands the puny ipv6 addressing space from 2 ** 128 to 2 ** 1e100 aka when we replace the internet with the google-net. All hail the almighty GOOG! huzzah!