A university (or trade school) is there because most people are not self-starters with the resources to individually arrange what they need to learn about a topic. Also: Vocational training is there for people to learn how to follow standard operating procedures. Academic study is there for people to gain the understanding so that they can write the standard operating procedures.
Example - a bit over twenty years ago despite being utter crap at welding I could design weld joints in a difficult material that the experienced welders could not. It wasn't that they were crap at their job it was just that it was a situation that diverged a lot from anything they had welded before and they hadn't studied the theory. However if they had that trade experience and had cracked open a few books to learn the theory they would have been much better at it than I - but that's getting beyond the initial training/education thing.
That doesn't mean at least some of the stuff coming out of his mouth isn't worth considering.
It's the classic "boy who called wolf" problem. Someday he's going to say something about a real wolf but we'll have no idea whether to trust him or not, but if you hadn't worked that out about Trump when he was doing the "Birther" shit you probably never will.
IMHO things are changing way too slowly. MS Win7 looked like an Enlightenment desktop from 1998 without the multiple desktops and MS Win10 may as well be a kids slide puzzle. The CUDA stuff we were promised a decade ago still doesn't have enough memory and bandwidth to be useful outside a small set of problems. I've got an uncle who studied electrical engineering in the late 1940s - lots of work on valves and then the transistor came out before he graduated. Now he writes emails bitching about crap designs whenever AMD or Intel bring out anything new (he bitched for a decade about the Pentium IV). Have we really seen anything like that sort of change in a four year span since?
It seems that as we stand right now, our education system is not working, right?
Even if it's creaky in a few places I think that is not the problem (sorry to spoil the political rant and attempted joke). Some employers would rather have staff that they can threaten with deportation than a local that cannot be threatened that way.
Why else do you think we get so many engineering and other graduates looking for work at times when employers are screaming "STEM shortage"?
Someone please mod the above up, he's nailed why people who are forever in danger of losing their visa at the whim of their employer are more attractive to a certain kind of boss than a local employee.
NASA couldn't find enough qualified people either. So they trained them.
Back in the day I worked at a place that had traineeships and scholarships. Not enough engineers in a few years time due to upcoming retirements? No problem - find some bright kids and pay them to go to university. Put them to work on their holidays. That sort of thing used to happen a lot and some very successful companies did very well that way. My current workplace is doing that on a very small scale, but one decent scientist that fits the work like a glove every couple of years is a lot better than a mad HR scramble.
Above poster, from your UID you are possibly old enough to have personally benefited from such an arrangement.
When it's got to the "why bother trying" situation it's a bit of a problem. Back when I was an undergraduate the introductory CS subject was the one engineering students enrolled in to meet girls (less than 1% female vs 51%). Now there is a much greater percentage of women studying first year engineering than CS. The tedious "bro" culture where people only employ those who may as well be clones of themselves and a pile of other things resulted in the women leaving the IT sector not being replaced. I see more women at mine sites these days than in office IT departments. Who would have thought we'd have people (not the above poster but plenty of others in this place) arguing that indoor work typing on a keyboard was more "man's work" than being a lumberjack?
because optimal operating temperatures are well above the melting point of even the comparatively exotic nickel alloys preferred for the job
To get some perspective so is your lawn mower engine, but conduction through the Al-Si alloy block means that the parts don't get anywhere near the flame temperature. Jet turbine blades get hot but still nothing like the flame temperature so nothing like the melting point of Inconel or the more modern alloys used - but they do get hot enough that the mechanical properties are reduced, as you've pointed out with things like single crystals to reduced grain boundary contributions to creep. This turbine is not the same thing and has stress problem instead of heat and stress combined.
I don't see this as negative. They have found some cracks and are dealing with the problem. Anyone who expects prototypes to be born perfect is either deluded or an economist.
Those things will run MS Win7 tolerably, the only problem here is that MS will not sell it to the OEMs. The "netbook" type machines basically had to jump directly from MS WinXP (up until only a couple of years ago!) to a resource hungry MS Win10 that they cannot cope with.
Before the fanboys jump in about how MS Win10 is not resource hungry I suggest you think of the context - machines not much more than 1GHz in speed on boards with not much memory installed. It's not a criticism of MS Win10 just pointing out that this is not a niche that MS Win10 was designed to fill and I do not blame MS for it. You have to go back to the early days of MS Win7 before things that slow were common enough to design for.
Think back to when MS used "Start me up" from the Rolling Stones in their ad campaigns. The line from that song they didn't use "it makes a grown man cry" sums up what happens with frustrating OS problems. With all the shit and malware you have to go through to keep MS stuff going I suppose you could play it as "Hero Experiences" despite it being utterly trivial in comparison to the world around us. All the frustration of heroic acts without any actual danger (or achievement).
Lenovo make an effort to ensure that there are linux drivers for their stuff. I think ASUS do as well but don't take my word for it, my information could be out of date.
IMHO that's the problem - a GUI that changes multiple times with context. What was there before is not there any more so inexperienced users have trouble finding what they were using just the day before. It's like using "vi" only with half a dozen contexts instead of two. Try talking someone through how to operate it over the phone and you'll get a bit of an idea of why I think it is a terrible design choice. Even people who have grown up on phones and tablets take a bit of time to get used to what is effectively half a dozen different menu bars.
The hilarious thing is that there are still drop down menus under the "ribbon" elements.
You apparently have little idea of what it means to actually live under an oppressive or homophobic regime
I sort of do but not at the receiving end. Where I lived in the 1980s gays were being jailed for being gay and their bashings were condoned by the obviously corrupt police (the commissioner later did jail time) if it stopped short of murder. I did some work at a radio station where there were some gay and lesbian programs broadcast and spent a lot of time with the presenters so heard a few things, but no, I did not experience it first hand (apart from police searching my bag in the street a few times). However I'm not the straw man you are building in my name.
In this case the date makes it utterly obvious that I am stating the facts. It's not that I need to be right, it's that some prick decided to jump on and play some game to try to get me to admit that an utterly obvious fact is wrong and thus demonstrate their dominance.
it appears I went quite deep under your skin
No I'm just not rolling over and your antics give me something to feel smug and superior about.
It's quite funny that you are still trying to convince me that Obama started a couple of months early. I thought you hated the guy instead of imbuing him with a work ethic he doesn't have.
Projecting yet more. How many people came on this thread and told you, you were wrong.
Zero, the insults from the opportunistic AC were not of that nature. Was that yet another stock phrase that didn't fit? At least TRY to show some sign of sentience Crash so that you cannot be replaced by a twenty year old Lisp script.
Those links say one thing - you wrote something completely and utterly different as you well know and just attempted to cowardly hide behind the reputation of others. Maybe you should get that problem fixed?
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A university (or trade school) is there because most people are not self-starters with the resources to individually arrange what they need to learn about a topic.
Also:
Vocational training is there for people to learn how to follow standard operating procedures.
Academic study is there for people to gain the understanding so that they can write the standard operating procedures.
Example - a bit over twenty years ago despite being utter crap at welding I could design weld joints in a difficult material that the experienced welders could not. It wasn't that they were crap at their job it was just that it was a situation that diverged a lot from anything they had welded before and they hadn't studied the theory.
However if they had that trade experience and had cracked open a few books to learn the theory they would have been much better at it than I - but that's getting beyond the initial training/education thing.
That's Trump's problem right there IMHO.
It's the classic "boy who called wolf" problem. Someday he's going to say something about a real wolf but we'll have no idea whether to trust him or not, but if you hadn't worked that out about Trump when he was doing the "Birther" shit you probably never will.
IMHO things are changing way too slowly. MS Win7 looked like an Enlightenment desktop from 1998 without the multiple desktops and MS Win10 may as well be a kids slide puzzle. The CUDA stuff we were promised a decade ago still doesn't have enough memory and bandwidth to be useful outside a small set of problems.
I've got an uncle who studied electrical engineering in the late 1940s - lots of work on valves and then the transistor came out before he graduated. Now he writes emails bitching about crap designs whenever AMD or Intel bring out anything new (he bitched for a decade about the Pentium IV). Have we really seen anything like that sort of change in a four year span since?
Even if it's creaky in a few places I think that is not the problem (sorry to spoil the political rant and attempted joke).
Some employers would rather have staff that they can threaten with deportation than a local that cannot be threatened that way.
Why else do you think we get so many engineering and other graduates looking for work at times when employers are screaming "STEM shortage"?
Someone please mod the above up, he's nailed why people who are forever in danger of losing their visa at the whim of their employer are more attractive to a certain kind of boss than a local employee.
NASA couldn't find enough qualified people either.
So they trained them.
Back in the day I worked at a place that had traineeships and scholarships. Not enough engineers in a few years time due to upcoming retirements? No problem - find some bright kids and pay them to go to university. Put them to work on their holidays. That sort of thing used to happen a lot and some very successful companies did very well that way. My current workplace is doing that on a very small scale, but one decent scientist that fits the work like a glove every couple of years is a lot better than a mad HR scramble.
Above poster, from your UID you are possibly old enough to have personally benefited from such an arrangement.
When it's got to the "why bother trying" situation it's a bit of a problem.
Back when I was an undergraduate the introductory CS subject was the one engineering students enrolled in to meet girls (less than 1% female vs 51%). Now there is a much greater percentage of women studying first year engineering than CS. The tedious "bro" culture where people only employ those who may as well be clones of themselves and a pile of other things resulted in the women leaving the IT sector not being replaced. I see more women at mine sites these days than in office IT departments.
Who would have thought we'd have people (not the above poster but plenty of others in this place) arguing that indoor work typing on a keyboard was more "man's work" than being a lumberjack?
The MS who gave us clippy, Vista and Windows8 not pushing unpopular ideas?
That is why you have prototypes such as the thing that failed.
The fire in Apollo 1 was in the capsule not any of the rocket stages.
The Antares uses these which were left over from the Soviet Union:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Take a look at the section on "design" here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm pretty sure the engines we buy from Russia post-date the Soviet Union.
Not by much:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180
It's a scaled down version of a Soviet Union rocket engine (RD-170).
To get some perspective so is your lawn mower engine, but conduction through the Al-Si alloy block means that the parts don't get anywhere near the flame temperature.
Jet turbine blades get hot but still nothing like the flame temperature so nothing like the melting point of Inconel or the more modern alloys used - but they do get hot enough that the mechanical properties are reduced, as you've pointed out with things like single crystals to reduced grain boundary contributions to creep.
This turbine is not the same thing and has stress problem instead of heat and stress combined.
I don't see this as negative.
They have found some cracks and are dealing with the problem.
Anyone who expects prototypes to be born perfect is either deluded or an economist.
Are you sure? You've accused me of a vast range of things I do not believe in or have not done. It's that strawman.
Do I have to spell out everything?
Web browsers can open files.
Those things will run MS Win7 tolerably, the only problem here is that MS will not sell it to the OEMs.
The "netbook" type machines basically had to jump directly from MS WinXP (up until only a couple of years ago!) to a resource hungry MS Win10 that they cannot cope with.
Before the fanboys jump in about how MS Win10 is not resource hungry I suggest you think of the context - machines not much more than 1GHz in speed on boards with not much memory installed. It's not a criticism of MS Win10 just pointing out that this is not a niche that MS Win10 was designed to fill and I do not blame MS for it. You have to go back to the early days of MS Win7 before things that slow were common enough to design for.
Think back to when MS used "Start me up" from the Rolling Stones in their ad campaigns. The line from that song they didn't use "it makes a grown man cry" sums up what happens with frustrating OS problems.
With all the shit and malware you have to go through to keep MS stuff going I suppose you could play it as "Hero Experiences" despite it being utterly trivial in comparison to the world around us. All the frustration of heroic acts without any actual danger (or achievement).
Lenovo make an effort to ensure that there are linux drivers for their stuff. I think ASUS do as well but don't take my word for it, my information could be out of date.
IMHO that's the problem - a GUI that changes multiple times with context.
What was there before is not there any more so inexperienced users have trouble finding what they were using just the day before. It's like using "vi" only with half a dozen contexts instead of two.
Try talking someone through how to operate it over the phone and you'll get a bit of an idea of why I think it is a terrible design choice.
Even people who have grown up on phones and tablets take a bit of time to get used to what is effectively half a dozen different menu bars.
The hilarious thing is that there are still drop down menus under the "ribbon" elements.
I sort of do but not at the receiving end. Where I lived in the 1980s gays were being jailed for being gay and their bashings were condoned by the obviously corrupt police (the commissioner later did jail time) if it stopped short of murder. I did some work at a radio station where there were some gay and lesbian programs broadcast and spent a lot of time with the presenters so heard a few things, but no, I did not experience it first hand (apart from police searching my bag in the street a few times).
However I'm not the straw man you are building in my name.
In this case the date makes it utterly obvious that I am stating the facts. It's not that I need to be right, it's that some prick decided to jump on and play some game to try to get me to admit that an utterly obvious fact is wrong and thus demonstrate their dominance.
No I'm just not rolling over and your antics give me something to feel smug and superior about.
Zero, the insults from the opportunistic AC were not of that nature. Was that yet another stock phrase that didn't fit? At least TRY to show some sign of sentience Crash so that you cannot be replaced by a twenty year old Lisp script.
Those links say one thing - you wrote something completely and utterly different as you well know and just attempted to cowardly hide behind the reputation of others.
Maybe you should get that problem fixed?
So it's OK for you to post a lot of comments but not OK for others?
Get that head looked at kid.