Often the Java has to come with a Sun Certification (not hard to get, but costs ya) to get in the door. If you have a good bit of experience in protocols (such as in telcom equipment or networking equipment) you should get hired esp. if you are willing to relocate. Good Luck, I hate layoffs, been there way too many times in my 22 yrs in software/systems.
Sure it could be done, up to and including the design verification using chip simulations, but actually making the chips and debugging the silicon process could get very expensive. I'm sure you could find a foundry in Taiwan or China to produce it, but would there be a market for it so you could get back all those startup costs? Do you know of some folks who have a few hundred K to invest against AMD, Intel, Motorola and IBM for a tiny slice of the market? Hardware has a lot of startup costs than software to get it to market. It's not like compiling the new code for your kernal fix. Maybe if it was specialized and optimized for embedded applications it might have a shot. I guess you could call it the "Penguin" chip since I'm assuming it would be optimized for Linux.
Wow, tastes good AND cures hangovers? I guess I'll have to give up my "hair of the dog" cure!:)
I wonder if we could import this stuff into the USA in small quantities for personal use only. If they let Stacker-2 sell that nasty crap this stuff shouldnt be an issue.
Thats just Tylenol (acetaminophen = Paracetamol) and Alka-Seltzer (BiCarb of Sodium) in the same package with a few extras. The amount of Potassium BiCarb in may be an issue but nothing else is harmful. If you are on a low Sodium or low Potassium diet this stuff is not for you. I bet that Beechmans stuff tastes awful.
I hope not, but I see it time and again that you can have 20 years of coding but if you don't have that paper the resume is trashed.
Without the MS cert you are just another VB hacker, with the cert you are a CERTIFIED VB Hacker;)
Changes come real slow where I work, we still use 20 yr old technology at NASA.
If you live in Massachusetts and your name is Kennedy you don't get a DUI or anything even after the car turns into a submarine and you kill the passenger.Elected officials should be held to a HIGHER standard, but they never will be as long as they bring home the Pork.
Or you work for a company that places a large amount of confidence/responsibility in it's employees. I managed close to 20 people on a large IT consulting project and did have P&L responsibility. I have had it on smaller projects too when I was at IBM GS during the dot com days. There are levels of P&L responsibilty from projects all the way up to company wide, and how that responsibility is allocated to "management" varies from firm to firm.
My current boss has about 5 projects but far less people than I have manages and he has P&L responsibility for the whole contract. He is one of those "trackers" who really has no idea what we are doing. We have very senior people who are team leads who do the real management work and also still have technical work to do! We get things done he gets the credit and the big bonuses for making his target numbers. We get told our bonus it to keep our jobs. I'd love to get back to building and managing high performance teams, there are way too many teams that are badly managed (just read/. and see!) and costing firms money.
I have never seen a tech lead role where they had Profit and Loss responsibilities. As a PM I had that, as a Tech Lead and Architect I didn't. You can divide things up too small, and if it's not a large project then everyone gets in each other's way and chaos results. Or if the overall manager is incompetent and can't manage his team that's trouble too. A mananger SHOULD have some amount of experience doing with what he/she is managing to be the most effective.
Here in the USA you'll never get a job with a firm as a coder without some certificate from Microsoft. College degrees are becoming irrelevant for programmers, it takes too long to get that BA/BS and things change too fast in the industry. In addition, college grads know about things like algorithms and data structure and can write sorta good code. Writing well designed, debugged code which works takes longer than some guy just hacking it out in VB like they showed him at Microsoft school. As the folks in Redmond have taught us, "when the deadline comes ship it, and we'll fix it in the next release". Quality has lost out to time to market.
I have performed both jobs, seperate and at the same time. Architects and PMs have to have a big picture view of the system and the project. Both have to be able to make do with limited resources and time. Both work long hours. Both interface with the custome. The architect job is more technical but he/she does need to work with the customer a great deal, but also needs to be able to talk tech details to the development team and subcontractors. The PM has to manage the team size, watch the budget, do the reports, watch for scope creep, deal with unhappy customers/upper management and handle "people issues". Doing both at the same time was a BIG PITA but it was also a great challenge and your day never dragged. I'd love to do either on again, beats what I'm doing now, checking code for NASA.
Now which states would that be? Punjab, Delhi, Madras, Bhopal or ?;) Oh you meant the UNITED STATES where we speak standard "English". Being from the Deep South I find it amazing the folks in New England call thier language "English" too!
The "Clarke Orbit" was actually defined in the 1920's by a mathematician in Hungary. But AC gets something named after him, Asmimov gets nothing. What we have now for "Robots" (programmed industrial machines) are not nearly the type of Robots Asimov developed the three laws for. We have to develop the positronic brain before we can have those type of robots.:) Andriods is probably the more accurate term.
The USA did it for years with the Titan ICBM. I work with a guy who commanded a silo, and they used LOX and Nitrogen Tetroxide as fuel. He knew the folks who were killed in the explosion of a Titan in it's silo in Rock, KS due to a refueling problem. The CURRENT ICBMs are all solid fueled which is obviously much safer to handle.
Brazil isn't there yet, the latest attempt (about 3-4 months) ago blew up on the pad during a countdown rehearsal. That accident killed a number of scientists and trained workers and set them back a bit.
When India and China get the high reliability rockets sure as the ones the Russians, US and France have then we'll have true competition. I guess in a few years we'll see Rocket Scientist jobs outsourced to Inida;) I'm all for cheaper access to space provided by commercial enterprises if that means we can now turn our attention and research $$ to Mars and beyond.
I assume you have never heard of reverse engineering? You can bet they did some of that! I also suspect they have hired a few unemployed Russian rocket engineers. If you want to get there fast you pay for outside knowledge, and learn from the masters. To go from "rudimentary" to what they have now in 2ish years isn't possible without some expert advice.
Hmmm..are you from outside the USA? I work for NASA and we call it and have always called it geosynchronous for the last 20+ years. Mathematically they are the same thing, it's only terminology. To-MAY-toe, To-MA-Toe kinda thing.
I thought the following site was interesting: http://www.anu.edu.au/mail-archives/link/link9712/ 0241.html
It appears Clarke was talking space stations not satellittes and that he borrowed the idea. He personally does not take credit when asked. But he didn't object with the IAU called it the "Clarke Orbit".
"The Clarke Orbit"?? What self agrandising BS from his press agent. It's called geosynchronous orbit, because the orbital period of the satellite is 24 hours so it seems to just hang over the earth in the same spot all the time. Clarke came up with the concept, but the orbits are not named after. I'd prefer the Clarke Space Elevator anyway. How come we don't have Asimov robots since old Issiac invented the 3 Laws of Robotics? Sony left the V off the Aismo!
That's kewl. My embedded work has been in things that kill people not keep them alive:) Magnetic field transmission? Isn't a magnetic field just a special type of an electrical field? I thought magnetic fields were measured in Gauss ratings not in Hz.
Articles I read from google indicate there can be interfernce from TV stations and from the new digital TV signals as well...See this site http://www.spacelabs.com/news/telemetry.html which states "There may be a potential conflict with recently announced DTV allocations for certain telemetry equipment operating on VHF frequencies in markets with DTV broadcasts. Spacelabs Medical Biotel(R) telemetry and Digital VHF telemetry operate in the TV channels 7 through 10. At the time of installation, Spacelabs selected unused TV channels. If a TV station obtains a license to operate on that channel with either traditional analog or DTV transmissions AND the TV transmission antenna tower is within 70 miles of your location, you may encounter some level of interference with reception of the medical telemetry signals."
Looks like they have just swapped one set of problems with cell phones to another one with TV signals!
The wireless Internet they were going to put in where I live (rural TX about 30 miles from Dallas) was going to serve an 11 mile radius (Line of Sight) from the tower. I spoke to the local guys who were exploring it as I don't have High speed access either and wanted to subscribe even at $50/mo. They never built it, I guess the base was not there for them to make a profit. However, now there are Rural Telecomm Initiatives where the State/Govt might pay some of the startup expenses. I saw something recently that the USDA was sponsoring something like this for Farmers. If someone wants to look into it, there might be a real business to be made if you already are an ISP and already have a lot of the infrastructure.
Why couldn't there be a device that emits a signal strong enough to get thru the shield when you need to reprogram or read it? I think they use something like this right now to "tune" implanted pacemakers and insulin pumps and it requires very close proximity with the implanted device. There must already some shielding or interference rejection in the implanted devices as they are exposed to the full EM spectrum when outside the hospital. Part of this blocking is provided by the human body blocking EM signals. I think external devices are a bigger problem. Maybe there is a real medical devices person out there would can give us some facts, versus all of our opinions.
Wire? How about Wireless?? One tower can serve many many subscribers for a not too bad fixed cost per subscriber. I was told by my local phone guy that 1 DSL switch costs over $1M to install and it can't serve that much volume without adding more capability and more $$$. Fixed Point DSL quality wireless was on the way to rural America when the dot-com bust stopped it. Cable Internet might come to some places as it carries the TV Channels/Entertainment content to subsidize the Internet access. But if you live 14 miles from the nearest town then you are going to be waiting a while unless that town in pretty good sized. Here is a suggestion, develop a business case, go to the bank and get a loan for several Million to setup a high speed wireless operation in your part of the nation where you think they want high-speed Internet. Charge what you think the traffic will bear and get to selling. If you are right, you make a fortune. If not, well, firms go bankrupt all the time!
Many cell phones/pagers can be set to vibrate when a call comes in. Using this option they can be notified in the movie. They SHOULD LEAVE and return the call not talk in the movie. Of course this option requires common sense/courtesy/foresight by the phone user to place the phone in vibrate mode when they enter the movie theater.
Interesting articles, the Mayo Clinic research from 2001 offers examples of interference. However, couldn't the medical device companies just put a Faraday shield of very thin metal around the outside of the device? When I worked in high security areas we had shields around our computer equipment and no signals could get in or out w/o a direct hardwired connection. There has to be a way to shield this equipment from external signals. I'm not a medical equipment expert but don't these devices emit RF interference on thier own? And could several medical devices in close proximity interfere with each other? Cell phones are in well known frequencies (GHz Band) so I see no reason why the additon of a inexpensive shield wouldn't be a fix. Aren't pagers allowed around medical equipment? I would think they too would be a possible interference source.
If you take a look at SCOX intra-day price movement over the last months you can see someone is "painting" the stock or propping the price up with carefully timed buy and sells at the open and close. SCOX tends to go down slightly overnight, bounce back right after open,maybe edge up a bit, then flat to down, if the stock is down enough someone dumps in a buy order in the last 30 minutes and since there are less sell orders at the end of the day the price bounces back due to "demand" for the stock. If I recall my MBA Finance class this is clearly illegal if done by the brokerage firms who own/sell SCOX, an individual could do it but they would have to own massive amounts of shares and have excellent market timing. It took 60K share today in the last hour to bring the price back to just below where it started, and the broader market was 1.5% on the NASDAQ. This stock must be on the radar screen of the SEC and they are just waiting to grab someone when the whole thing collapses.
"defensive" patents are common. Lots of big companies invent processes/technology and go ahead and patent them just in case they think of something useful to do wiht the process/technology. This sounds like what AT&T did, they said "Gee what if someone did this with our stuff" and patented it.
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Often the Java has to come with a Sun Certification (not hard to get, but costs ya) to get in the door. If you have a good bit of experience in protocols (such as in telcom equipment or networking equipment) you should get hired esp. if you are willing to relocate. Good Luck, I hate layoffs, been there way too many times in my 22 yrs in software/systems.
Sure it could be done, up to and including the design verification using chip simulations, but actually making the chips and debugging the silicon process could get very expensive. I'm sure you could find a foundry in Taiwan or China to produce it, but would there be a market for it so you could get back all those startup costs? Do you know of some folks who have a few hundred K to invest against AMD, Intel, Motorola and IBM for a tiny slice of the market? Hardware has a lot of startup costs than software to get it to market. It's not like compiling the new code for your kernal fix. Maybe if it was specialized and optimized for embedded applications it might have a shot. I guess you could call it the "Penguin" chip since I'm assuming it would be optimized for Linux.
Wow, tastes good AND cures hangovers? I guess I'll have to give up my "hair of the dog" cure! :)
I wonder if we could import this stuff into the USA in small quantities for personal use only. If they let Stacker-2 sell that nasty crap this stuff shouldnt be an issue.
Thats just Tylenol (acetaminophen = Paracetamol) and Alka-Seltzer (BiCarb of Sodium) in the same package with a few extras. The amount of Potassium BiCarb in may be an issue but nothing else is harmful. If you are on a low Sodium or low Potassium diet this stuff is not for you. I bet that Beechmans stuff tastes awful.
I hope not, but I see it time and again that you can have 20 years of coding but if you don't have that paper the resume is trashed. Without the MS cert you are just another VB hacker, with the cert you are a CERTIFIED VB Hacker ;)
Changes come real slow where I work, we still use 20 yr old technology at NASA.
If you live in Massachusetts and your name is Kennedy you don't get a DUI or anything even after the car turns into a submarine and you kill the passenger.Elected officials should be held to a HIGHER standard, but they never will be as long as they bring home the Pork.
Or you work for a company that places a large amount of confidence/responsibility in it's employees. I managed close to 20 people on a large IT consulting project and did have P&L responsibility. I have had it on smaller projects too when I was at IBM GS during the dot com days. There are levels of P&L responsibilty from projects all the way up to company wide, and how that responsibility is allocated to "management" varies from firm to firm. My current boss has about 5 projects but far less people than I have manages and he has P&L responsibility for the whole contract. He is one of those "trackers" who really has no idea what we are doing. We have very senior people who are team leads who do the real management work and also still have technical work to do! We get things done he gets the credit and the big bonuses for making his target numbers. We get told our bonus it to keep our jobs. I'd love to get back to building and managing high performance teams, there are way too many teams that are badly managed (just read /. and see!) and costing firms money.
I have never seen a tech lead role where they had Profit and Loss responsibilities. As a PM I had that, as a Tech Lead and Architect I didn't. You can divide things up too small, and if it's not a large project then everyone gets in each other's way and chaos results. Or if the overall manager is incompetent and can't manage his team that's trouble too. A mananger SHOULD have some amount of experience doing with what he/she is managing to be the most effective.
Here in the USA you'll never get a job with a firm as a coder without some certificate from Microsoft. College degrees are becoming irrelevant for programmers, it takes too long to get that BA/BS and things change too fast in the industry. In addition, college grads know about things like algorithms and data structure and can write sorta good code. Writing well designed, debugged code which works takes longer than some guy just hacking it out in VB like they showed him at Microsoft school. As the folks in Redmond have taught us, "when the deadline comes ship it, and we'll fix it in the next release". Quality has lost out to time to market.
I have performed both jobs, seperate and at the same time. Architects and PMs have to have a big picture view of the system and the project. Both have to be able to make do with limited resources and time. Both work long hours. Both interface with the custome. The architect job is more technical but he/she does need to work with the customer a great deal, but also needs to be able to talk tech details to the development team and subcontractors. The PM has to manage the team size, watch the budget, do the reports, watch for scope creep, deal with unhappy customers/upper management and handle "people issues". Doing both at the same time was a BIG PITA but it was also a great challenge and your day never dragged. I'd love to do either on again, beats what I'm doing now, checking code for NASA.
Now which states would that be? Punjab, Delhi, Madras, Bhopal or ? ;) Oh you meant the UNITED STATES where we speak standard "English". Being from the Deep South I find it amazing the folks in New England call thier language "English" too!
The "Clarke Orbit" was actually defined in the 1920's by a mathematician in Hungary. But AC gets something named after him, Asmimov gets nothing. What we have now for "Robots" (programmed industrial machines) are not nearly the type of Robots Asimov developed the three laws for. We have to develop the positronic brain before we can have those type of robots. :) Andriods is probably the more accurate term.
The USA did it for years with the Titan ICBM. I work with a guy who commanded a silo, and they used LOX and Nitrogen Tetroxide as fuel. He knew the folks who were killed in the explosion of a Titan in it's silo in Rock, KS due to a refueling problem. The CURRENT ICBMs are all solid fueled which is obviously much safer to handle.
Brazil isn't there yet, the latest attempt (about 3-4 months) ago blew up on the pad during a countdown rehearsal. That accident killed a number of scientists and trained workers and set them back a bit. When India and China get the high reliability rockets sure as the ones the Russians, US and France have then we'll have true competition. I guess in a few years we'll see Rocket Scientist jobs outsourced to Inida ;) I'm all for cheaper access to space provided by commercial enterprises if that means we can now turn our attention and research $$ to Mars and beyond.
I assume you have never heard of reverse engineering? You can bet they did some of that! I also suspect they have hired a few unemployed Russian rocket engineers. If you want to get there fast you pay for outside knowledge, and learn from the masters. To go from "rudimentary" to what they have now in 2ish years isn't possible without some expert advice.
Hmmm..are you from outside the USA? I work for NASA and we call it and have always called it geosynchronous for the last 20+ years. Mathematically they are the same thing, it's only terminology. To-MAY-toe, To-MA-Toe kinda thing. I thought the following site was interesting: http://www.anu.edu.au/mail-archives/link/link9712/ 0241.html
It appears Clarke was talking space stations not satellittes and that he borrowed the idea. He personally does not take credit when asked. But he didn't object with the IAU called it the "Clarke Orbit".
"The Clarke Orbit"?? What self agrandising BS from his press agent. It's called geosynchronous orbit, because the orbital period of the satellite is 24 hours so it seems to just hang over the earth in the same spot all the time. Clarke came up with the concept, but the orbits are not named after. I'd prefer the Clarke Space Elevator anyway. How come we don't have Asimov robots since old Issiac invented the 3 Laws of Robotics? Sony left the V off the Aismo!
That's kewl. My embedded work has been in things that kill people not keep them alive :) Magnetic field transmission? Isn't a magnetic field just a special type of an electrical field? I thought magnetic fields were measured in Gauss ratings not in Hz.
Articles I read from google indicate there can be interfernce from TV stations and from the new digital TV signals as well...See this site http://www.spacelabs.com/news/telemetry.html which states "There may be a potential conflict with recently announced DTV allocations for certain telemetry equipment operating on VHF frequencies in markets with DTV broadcasts. Spacelabs Medical Biotel(R) telemetry and Digital VHF telemetry operate in the TV channels 7 through 10. At the time of installation, Spacelabs selected unused TV channels. If a TV station obtains a license to operate on that channel with either traditional analog or DTV transmissions AND the TV transmission antenna tower is within 70 miles of your location, you may encounter some level of interference with reception of the medical telemetry signals."
Looks like they have just swapped one set of problems with cell phones to another one with TV signals!
The wireless Internet they were going to put in where I live (rural TX about 30 miles from Dallas) was going to serve an 11 mile radius (Line of Sight) from the tower. I spoke to the local guys who were exploring it as I don't have High speed access either and wanted to subscribe even at $50/mo. They never built it, I guess the base was not there for them to make a profit. However, now there are Rural Telecomm Initiatives where the State/Govt might pay some of the startup expenses. I saw something recently that the USDA was sponsoring something like this for Farmers. If someone wants to look into it, there might be a real business to be made if you already are an ISP and already have a lot of the infrastructure.
Why couldn't there be a device that emits a signal strong enough to get thru the shield when you need to reprogram or read it? I think they use something like this right now to "tune" implanted pacemakers and insulin pumps and it requires very close proximity with the implanted device. There must already some shielding or interference rejection in the implanted devices as they are exposed to the full EM spectrum when outside the hospital. Part of this blocking is provided by the human body blocking EM signals. I think external devices are a bigger problem. Maybe there is a real medical devices person out there would can give us some facts, versus all of our opinions.
Wire? How about Wireless?? One tower can serve many many subscribers for a not too bad fixed cost per subscriber. I was told by my local phone guy that 1 DSL switch costs over $1M to install and it can't serve that much volume without adding more capability and more $$$. Fixed Point DSL quality wireless was on the way to rural America when the dot-com bust stopped it. Cable Internet might come to some places as it carries the TV Channels/Entertainment content to subsidize the Internet access. But if you live 14 miles from the nearest town then you are going to be waiting a while unless that town in pretty good sized. Here is a suggestion, develop a business case, go to the bank and get a loan for several Million to setup a high speed wireless operation in your part of the nation where you think they want high-speed Internet. Charge what you think the traffic will bear and get to selling. If you are right, you make a fortune. If not, well, firms go bankrupt all the time!
Many cell phones/pagers can be set to vibrate when a call comes in. Using this option they can be notified in the movie. They SHOULD LEAVE and return the call not talk in the movie. Of course this option requires common sense/courtesy/foresight by the phone user to place the phone in vibrate mode when they enter the movie theater.
Interesting articles, the Mayo Clinic research from 2001 offers examples of interference. However, couldn't the medical device companies just put a Faraday shield of very thin metal around the outside of the device? When I worked in high security areas we had shields around our computer equipment and no signals could get in or out w/o a direct hardwired connection. There has to be a way to shield this equipment from external signals. I'm not a medical equipment expert but don't these devices emit RF interference on thier own? And could several medical devices in close proximity interfere with each other? Cell phones are in well known frequencies (GHz Band) so I see no reason why the additon of a inexpensive shield wouldn't be a fix. Aren't pagers allowed around medical equipment? I would think they too would be a possible interference source.
If you take a look at SCOX intra-day price movement over the last months you can see someone is "painting" the stock or propping the price up with carefully timed buy and sells at the open and close. SCOX tends to go down slightly overnight, bounce back right after open,maybe edge up a bit, then flat to down, if the stock is down enough someone dumps in a buy order in the last 30 minutes and since there are less sell orders at the end of the day the price bounces back due to "demand" for the stock. If I recall my MBA Finance class this is clearly illegal if done by the brokerage firms who own/sell SCOX, an individual could do it but they would have to own massive amounts of shares and have excellent market timing. It took 60K share today in the last hour to bring the price back to just below where it started, and the broader market was 1.5% on the NASDAQ. This stock must be on the radar screen of the SEC and they are just waiting to grab someone when the whole thing collapses.
"defensive" patents are common. Lots of big companies invent processes/technology and go ahead and patent them just in case they think of something useful to do wiht the process/technology. This sounds like what AT&T did, they said "Gee what if someone did this with our stuff" and patented it.