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This is probably getting off topic, but I'd have to disagree with this I'm afraid.
Delphi provides a set of components on a palette that can be dragged and dropped onto a form, same as VB. It has events same as VB.
Where it differs is that the components can be inherited in Delphi, Delphi requires no runtime, Delphi is a native compiler, and so on. In fact it was so good Microsoft stole the lead developer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg) from Borland and made C#.
I thought the same, ball lightning is supposed to fly, this looks much like sparks from a TIG or MIG welder, albeit a little more sophisticated, it also doesn't have the properties described of ball lightning, i.e. attracted to electrical sources (sometimes).
When I was young my Mum saw ball lightning and described it, it flew across the backyard and zeroed in on our power board. The next morning I had a look and there were no scorch marks on the board, very odd.
I always thought the best possibility for ball lightning was a plasma ball (ionized air), no weight, whereas this has weight, the silicone in the ball and so can't fly. The silicone is ionized though so it probably qualifies as a plasma?
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VB has been improved and perfected it's called Delphi, the IDE of VB, the power of C++, Components, Databases, everything you could need and now it's run by developers - www.codegear.com
As an Examiner of Patents your starting salary in February 2007 will be in the range of $44,350 to $56,320. Currently the employer contribution to the default superannuation fund (PSSAP) is 15.4%.
I can only assume US salaries are comparable for examiners. Starting salaries for a programmer would be at least $50K, $80K for a senior developer, $100+ for a consultant, so in IT I have no idea why anyone would be a patent examiner, unless you're just starting out, and really who would want a new graduate to examine patents? Though it perhaps would be a nice semi-retirement job.
Maybe one way to do it would be to for senior developers to work on a part time basis, or even short term contracts, it would look nice on their cv and would benefit the community. Much like doctors and lawyers do pro-bono work. Personally it would be fun to examine a few patents in my spare time.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned here is Op Amps, you can build so many fun things with a 741 op amp and a handful of components and learn so much. A lecturer of mine at uni used to go on about them all the time and I bought a book 100 fun projects with the 741 op amp and really I learned so much, I did a quick google on op amp projects and there's a squillion of them. Off the top of my head, and from memory a long time ago, things you can build with op amps are
1. voltage regulator
2. Low and high pass filters
3. oscillators and signal generators
4. bandpass filters
5. comparators
more...
The maths for an op amp is very easy because of it's unique characteristics - to do with high input impedance and high gain. I'd offer you a reference but it was 15 years ago that I played with these and I can't remember the book, perhaps someone else can help.
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'Delphi's nothing to do with VB'
As i sit here typing on my iKeyboard clicking my iMouse I'm reminded of the dot com phenomena of everything being eSomething - eMail, eTrade, eNough. Fortunately the letter i can't be trademarked. Before anyone else trademarks it I'm now selling uPhones, uMail servers, uTrees and so on, hey I'll make uBillions.
This is probably getting off topic, but I'd have to disagree with this I'm afraid.
Delphi provides a set of components on a palette that can be dragged and dropped onto a form, same as VB. It has events same as VB.
Where it differs is that the components can be inherited in Delphi, Delphi requires no runtime, Delphi is a native compiler, and so on. In fact it was so good Microsoft stole the lead developer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg) from Borland and made C#.
I thought the same, ball lightning is supposed to fly, this looks much like sparks from a TIG or MIG welder, albeit a little more sophisticated, it also doesn't have the properties described of ball lightning, i.e. attracted to electrical sources (sometimes).
When I was young my Mum saw ball lightning and described it, it flew across the backyard and zeroed in on our power board. The next morning I had a look and there were no scorch marks on the board, very odd.
I always thought the best possibility for ball lightning was a plasma ball (ionized air), no weight, whereas this has weight, the silicone in the ball and so can't fly. The silicone is ionized though so it probably qualifies as a plasma?
VB has been improved and perfected it's called Delphi, the IDE of VB, the power of C++, Components, Databases, everything you could need and now it's run by developers - www.codegear.com
This is from IP Australia http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/about/jobspatsalary. shtml the salary for patent examiners is disappointing, from the site
As an Examiner of Patents your starting salary in February 2007 will be in the range of $44,350 to $56,320. Currently the employer contribution to the default superannuation fund (PSSAP) is 15.4%.
I can only assume US salaries are comparable for examiners. Starting salaries for a programmer would be at least $50K, $80K for a senior developer, $100+ for a consultant, so in IT I have no idea why anyone would be a patent examiner, unless you're just starting out, and really who would want a new graduate to examine patents? Though it perhaps would be a nice semi-retirement job.
Maybe one way to do it would be to for senior developers to work on a part time basis, or even short term contracts, it would look nice on their cv and would benefit the community. Much like doctors and lawyers do pro-bono work. Personally it would be fun to examine a few patents in my spare time.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned here is Op Amps, you can build so many fun things with a 741 op amp and a handful of components and learn so much. A lecturer of mine at uni used to go on about them all the time and I bought a book 100 fun projects with the 741 op amp and really I learned so much, I did a quick google on op amp projects and there's a squillion of them. Off the top of my head, and from memory a long time ago, things you can build with op amps are 1. voltage regulator 2. Low and high pass filters 3. oscillators and signal generators 4. bandpass filters 5. comparators more... The maths for an op amp is very easy because of it's unique characteristics - to do with high input impedance and high gain. I'd offer you a reference but it was 15 years ago that I played with these and I can't remember the book, perhaps someone else can help. Have fun