Huntsville is a great town -- an island of technology in what would otherwise be a very... rural... state. Our tech sector has a lot of military but there are commercial opportunities as well. Cost of living is very reasonable, commutes are short, and there are a wide variety of housing options. The heat and humidity take a year to get used to, but once you do, you'll never want to leave!
Nope. 24 years spread over 7 different companies in several states.
I'm not saying that there aren't qualified black and latino engineers out there, but there can't be that many of them. I've never crossed paths with a single one.
I've been in the tech industry (software, circuit board design, chip design, and then back to software) for 24 years. I've worked with engineers with heritage from India, China, Korea, various eastern European countries, and probably a couple other countries in Asia. I've never had a black or latino co-worker. In all those years, I've only ever seen us interview a single black candidate, and he so inadequate that he got sent home after speaking with a single interviewer.
Hiring is not the problem. A lack of black and latino candidates worth hiring is.
So, we could hook up the CO2 exhaust from a coal-fired plant, use that to grow algae, and then turn algae into fuel? And as a "dreadful" side-effect, we get clean water from sea water?
Greenhouse gas reduction, renewable fuel, and fresh water...
Why aren't we focusing everything we have on such a process? It sounds too good to be true.
Sorry. National Geographic reduced the content way down to just the highlights. The original research is about the angles of their wrists and how we could see that in the mud imprints, but I thought it would be better to post the big name link rather than the high detail one.
I know I should really hate that he's doing this, but I don't. It's kind'a nice.
Sure beats what my EE lab prof did... he stapled McDonald's applications to a final and shouted "None of you will ever be electrical engineers! Yer' gonn'a need that last page..."
Doesn't anyone at local newspapers do fact checking? If today's solar cells run at 5 to 19% efficiency, then that make "500x as efficient" 2500% to 9500%. Sheesh. Anything to grab the reader's attention.
This isn't quite a PC story, but close enough. I'm a hardware designer and one of the earliest projects I've done was a wireless computer. The main board had two FPGA's (field programmable gate arrays) to handle all the memory management. In one test, I accidentally swapped the files and programmed the chips backwards, tying many outputs to outputs and inputs to inputs.
One of the FPGAs did actually burn through the plastic that contained it. It had a two mm diameter spot that glowed bright red, like the end of a cigarette.
I powered the unit down, swapped the programs back, and the unit began working. It amazes me to this day that such a catestrophic event left the chip in a working state.
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Huntsville is a great town -- an island of technology in what would otherwise be a very... rural... state. Our tech sector has a lot of military but there are commercial opportunities as well. Cost of living is very reasonable, commutes are short, and there are a wide variety of housing options. The heat and humidity take a year to get used to, but once you do, you'll never want to leave!
Not sure what the rate was back in 1969, but it would have added up.
Solar-powered, geosynched satellites will keep going for a while.
Nope. 24 years spread over 7 different companies in several states.
I'm not saying that there aren't qualified black and latino engineers out there, but there can't be that many of them. I've never crossed paths with a single one.
I've been in the tech industry (software, circuit board design, chip design, and then back to software) for 24 years. I've worked with engineers with heritage from India, China, Korea, various eastern European countries, and probably a couple other countries in Asia. I've never had a black or latino co-worker. In all those years, I've only ever seen us interview a single black candidate, and he so inadequate that he got sent home after speaking with a single interviewer.
Hiring is not the problem. A lack of black and latino candidates worth hiring is.
Holy crapola! Why aren't we hearing more about solutions like this? It sounds great!
So, we could hook up the CO2 exhaust from a coal-fired plant, use that to grow algae, and then turn algae into fuel? And as a "dreadful" side-effect, we get clean water from sea water?
Greenhouse gas reduction, renewable fuel, and fresh water...
Why aren't we focusing everything we have on such a process? It sounds too good to be true.
I posted it a little earlier in this thread. Here it is again: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0004591
Sorry. Try this one: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0004591
Sorry. National Geographic reduced the content way down to just the highlights. The original research is about the angles of their wrists and how we could see that in the mud imprints, but I thought it would be better to post the big name link rather than the high detail one.
I know I should really hate that he's doing this, but I don't. It's kind'a nice.
Sure beats what my EE lab prof did... he stapled McDonald's applications to a final and shouted "None of you will ever be electrical engineers! Yer' gonn'a need that last page..."
Man, what a bastard.
Doesn't anyone at local newspapers do fact checking? If today's solar cells run at 5 to 19% efficiency, then that make "500x as efficient" 2500% to 9500%. Sheesh. Anything to grab the reader's attention.
Look for an ancient card game called "Krypto". It's fun, nerdy, and math oriented.
This isn't quite a PC story, but close enough. I'm a hardware designer and one of the earliest projects I've done was a wireless computer. The main board had two FPGA's (field programmable gate arrays) to handle all the memory management. In one test, I accidentally swapped the files and programmed the chips backwards, tying many outputs to outputs and inputs to inputs. One of the FPGAs did actually burn through the plastic that contained it. It had a two mm diameter spot that glowed bright red, like the end of a cigarette. I powered the unit down, swapped the programs back, and the unit began working. It amazes me to this day that such a catestrophic event left the chip in a working state.