With that sort of background you're probably going to have a big bag of experience to draw from, and selectively emphasize on a resume. You're probably going to want to think about where you want to take your career, what industry, what general type of job, and highlight those aspects of your experience. For example, trying to move into civil aviation to continue as a pilot would mean stressing the actual aviation aspects of the job - aircraft qualifications, flight planning, flight time, instrument qualifications, etc. If you wanted to move back towards engineering, you've probably conducted various types of technical and safety inspections, perhaps some logistics work, maybe even preformed troubleshooting that could be emphasized. If you've ever made any recommendations for equipment modification that were accepted, that would be gravy. You've probably had various forms of ongoing technical education yourself, or acting as in instructor. Another track might be management. I'm sure you can see where this is going. Rendering things in terms that civilians understand will also be helpful. I recall seeing this book out there before. Not sure if it would be helpful or not to you. I would expect that your service's transition program has similar resources available.
If you haven't had your hand involved in the actual technical aspects of electrical engineering for 12 years or so... that's a long time. If you think you might want to go that way you might want to see about getting ahold of some free vendor tools and play around to see if that still interests you. Some of the FPGA manufacturers have made them available over time.
Some industries may value the combination of your experience more than others. Aerospace, for example.
Once you have a direction, and maybe a backup direction / plan, you will probably want to start making contacts well before your exit date. You might also want to do what you can to get some money saved up as a cushion. Keep in mind the big internet recruiting sites appropriate for the industry you want to pursue, such as Monster and Dice.
As I noted, just my thoughts. Nothing authoritative here. Good luck to you, and thanks for answering the call.
In surveys conducted in 2002 and 2011, pollsters at Gallup found that members of the American public massively overestimated how many people are gay or lesbian. In 2002, a quarter of those surveyed guessed upwards of a quarter of Americans were gay or lesbian (or "homosexual," the third option given). By 2011, that misperception had only grown, with more than a third of those surveyed now guessing that more than 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian. Women and young adults were most likely to provide high estimates, approximating that 30 percent of the population is gay. Overall, "U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian," Gallup found. Only 4 percent of all those surveyed in 2011 and about 8 percent of those surveyed in 2002 correctly guessed that fewer than 5 percent of Americans identify as gay or lesbian.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
You know you've gone too far with "simplicity" when it no longer solves the problem, or when a modest increase in complexity or sophistication in expression would result in meaningful gains in some aspect of performance, simpler code in other code sections, or ability to maintain the code. Ideally it is subtle and simple, but sometimes subtle versus simple.
India’s outsourcing giants — faced with rising wages at home — have looked for growth opportunities in the United States. But with Washington crimping visas for visiting Indian workers, some companies such as Aegis are slowly hiring workers in North America, where their largest corporate customers are based. In this evolution, outsourcing has come home.
In addition, Foxconn's CEO said the company is prepared to expand its manufacturing in the U.S., but the move will depend on "economic factors." The company already has factories in Indianapolis and Houston, and employs thousands of workers in the country, according to Gou. -- more
You have to not only recover it, but to read it as well. And the fine article from the post indicates they were able to actually conduct genetic analysis on it. That pulls the maximum viability date in quite a bit. The jump in age over previous finds in which they've been able to extract viable information is pretty significant, going from 130,000 years to between 560,000 and 780,000. And note that the figures I show from the story I quoted were under ideal preservation. Maybe it is all correct, but it seems a bit of a longshot to pull that information from such an old bone. I suppose they could just have been lucky.
I've read some articles on attempts to extract and sequence old DNA in this sort of range, and I'm surprised they've been able to do this given the half-life of DNA.
I wonder how many other researchers are making claims of extracting DNA this old? It seems improbable, but maybe the state of the art has greatly improved.
The team predicts that even in a bone at an ideal preservation temperature of 5 C, effectively every bond would be destroyed after a maximum of 6.8 million years. The DNA would cease to be readable much earlier — perhaps after roughly 1.5 million years, when the remaining strands would be too short to give meaningful information.
Does this really signal a growing shift? Or are we just saying that whatever happens in a news story must signal a "growing shift" toward that thing to induce widespread panic?
Criminal gangs and individual crackers have been growing more sophisticated in their computer crime activity for some time. If you're going to move up the food chain of commercially valuable exploits, this is exactly the sort of thing that you would expect. It makes it much easier to get malware accepted on a system, which means it makes it easier to extract some sort of value from the system. (Stolen data, botnet, spam host, etc.)
If the actual concern is to increase science and technology spending, then you should specifically advocate that when contacting your congressional representative. That would be much more helpful than simply advocating against spending money on war as that gives no guidance on your preference as to what to do with the unencumbered funds (refund? pay off debt? repurpose?).
The primary expenditure for the US government is that same as Europe - social welfare spending. In the US, social welfare spending in the Federal budget is about double what is spent on defense. The incremental addition for actual warfighting is a fraction of the defense budget.
In terms of evaluating priorities, it may be useful to keep in mind that the level of spending on science and technology by the governments of France and Poland probably nosedived after they were occupied in 1939-1940. Germany's ability to conduct it also suffered badly as it's infrastructure was badly damaged by the end of the war.
We will never travel faster than the speed of light. That, however, does not mean we can not reach distant star systems. It will simply be a very, very, long trip.
That depends. There are theories that show that "warp travel" of varying definitions may be possible. I recall one in which maintaining a stable "warp bubble" for what is effectively faster than light travel was feasible. The problem is getting into the bubble itself, which required enormous energy - far more than maintaining it or traveling in it. There are other theories and studies under way. And given that there is still a lot of physics we don't understand (dark energy, dark matter, unification of quantum mechanics and relativity), it may be the answer is out there. The article below discusses one such idea that may be unrelated to the one I mentioned.
Sounds like that would make for a fairly powerful CP/M system even if not up the SB-180 levels. I think that would probably fun to play with, and useful to boot.
On the IMSAI web site they have a "garage sale" listing at the bottom of the page. They list both 8" and 5 1/4" drives. You might even be able to get 3.5" drives working with it. I seem to recall reading about some CP/M system mods for other systems that would allow that.
But it's not the WOPR! Now THAT would be the bit of movie gear to have!:-)
It would be, but if I recall correctly it was only a prop wired for lights. Still, it would fun to have that in a data center, especially if its one that people tour.
You do realize that you are hurling invective about gays in a story centered around a young man trying to impress a pretty young lady, and which contained some innocent but sexually charged moments between them? That isn't really a gay theme. When you went to post you could have made a useful comment. Instead you blew past useful, past useless, to stupid and ironic. That isn't a good practice in life.
This is Slashdot, not the Supreme Court. Slashdot has no power over the law. At most, some of the views expressed here might influence some voters that visit here for technology news and discussion, and that is it. If you want to complain about the decision, here is the place to go:
If you don't like the status of the law, take it up with your legislators. If you want to comment on that policy, there is another active discussion on that subject. You should post there. Complaining here in this story on that subject is useless and annoying, and complaining on Slashdot won't change anything.
Mathematicians have spent many centuries refining how best to expresses mathematical operations with clarity -- And they sure as hell didn't pick spelled out English verbs in all caps.
Papers and articles on mathematics tend to have lots of words and some symbols. If all that is needed for understanding is symbols, why include the words?
I seem to recall they had plenty of offers after retirement for Y2K as well. With many schools and people losing interest in Cobol, that may not change.
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I wasn't aware open source was inherently against Mexican immigrants or black presidents.
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Won't someone please think of the poor out-of-work blackface minstrels?
So you think that hiring a woman is equivalent to hiring "blackface minstrels?"
I don't think you got that quite right.
With that sort of background you're probably going to have a big bag of experience to draw from, and selectively emphasize on a resume. You're probably going to want to think about where you want to take your career, what industry, what general type of job, and highlight those aspects of your experience. For example, trying to move into civil aviation to continue as a pilot would mean stressing the actual aviation aspects of the job - aircraft qualifications, flight planning, flight time, instrument qualifications, etc. If you wanted to move back towards engineering, you've probably conducted various types of technical and safety inspections, perhaps some logistics work, maybe even preformed troubleshooting that could be emphasized. If you've ever made any recommendations for equipment modification that were accepted, that would be gravy. You've probably had various forms of ongoing technical education yourself, or acting as in instructor. Another track might be management. I'm sure you can see where this is going. Rendering things in terms that civilians understand will also be helpful. I recall seeing this book out there before. Not sure if it would be helpful or not to you. I would expect that your service's transition program has similar resources available.
If you haven't had your hand involved in the actual technical aspects of electrical engineering for 12 years or so... that's a long time. If you think you might want to go that way you might want to see about getting ahold of some free vendor tools and play around to see if that still interests you. Some of the FPGA manufacturers have made them available over time.
Some industries may value the combination of your experience more than others. Aerospace, for example.
Once you have a direction, and maybe a backup direction / plan, you will probably want to start making contacts well before your exit date. You might also want to do what you can to get some money saved up as a cushion. Keep in mind the big internet recruiting sites appropriate for the industry you want to pursue, such as Monster and Dice.
As I noted, just my thoughts. Nothing authoritative here. Good luck to you, and thanks for answering the call.
As the Gay Population is probably between 3%-10% I doubt that make it a major factor.
Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are
In surveys conducted in 2002 and 2011, pollsters at Gallup found that members of the American public massively overestimated how many people are gay or lesbian. In 2002, a quarter of those surveyed guessed upwards of a quarter of Americans were gay or lesbian (or "homosexual," the third option given). By 2011, that misperception had only grown, with more than a third of those surveyed now guessing that more than 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian. Women and young adults were most likely to provide high estimates, approximating that 30 percent of the population is gay. Overall, "U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian," Gallup found. Only 4 percent of all those surveyed in 2011 and about 8 percent of those surveyed in 2002 correctly guessed that fewer than 5 percent of Americans identify as gay or lesbian.
Gallup survey claims 3.4 percent in U.S. are LGBT
Study sees gays as 1.7 percent of population (US)
1.5% of Britons say they are gay or bisexual, ONS survey finds
Another example of why both law enforcement and regulators will have increasing interest in Bitcoin as it becomes more heavily used.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
You know you've gone too far with "simplicity" when it no longer solves the problem, or when a modest increase in complexity or sophistication in expression would result in meaningful gains in some aspect of performance, simpler code in other code sections, or ability to maintain the code. Ideally it is subtle and simple, but sometimes subtle versus simple.
The world is becoming a strange place.
As Indian companies grow in the U.S., outsourcing comes home
India’s outsourcing giants — faced with rising wages at home — have looked for growth opportunities in the United States. But with Washington crimping visas for visiting Indian workers, some companies such as Aegis are slowly hiring workers in North America, where their largest corporate customers are based. In this evolution, outsourcing has come home.
Foxconn to speed up 'robot army' deployment; 20,000 robots already in its factories
In addition, Foxconn's CEO said the company is prepared to expand its manufacturing in the U.S., but the move will depend on "economic factors." The company already has factories in Indianapolis and Houston, and employs thousands of workers in the country, according to Gou. -- more
You have to not only recover it, but to read it as well. And the fine article from the post indicates they were able to actually conduct genetic analysis on it. That pulls the maximum viability date in quite a bit. The jump in age over previous finds in which they've been able to extract viable information is pretty significant, going from 130,000 years to between 560,000 and 780,000. And note that the figures I show from the story I quoted were under ideal preservation. Maybe it is all correct, but it seems a bit of a longshot to pull that information from such an old bone. I suppose they could just have been lucky.
Quite.
Bears, tigers, lions and wolves escape from Ohio zoo
I've read some articles on attempts to extract and sequence old DNA in this sort of range, and I'm surprised they've been able to do this given the half-life of DNA.
I wonder how many other researchers are making claims of extracting DNA this old? It seems improbable, but maybe the state of the art has greatly improved.
DNA has a 521-year half-life
The team predicts that even in a bone at an ideal preservation temperature of 5 C, effectively every bond would be destroyed after a maximum of 6.8 million years. The DNA would cease to be readable much earlier — perhaps after roughly 1.5 million years, when the remaining strands would be too short to give meaningful information.
Does this really signal a growing shift? Or are we just saying that whatever happens in a news story must signal a "growing shift" toward that thing to induce widespread panic?
Criminal gangs and individual crackers have been growing more sophisticated in their computer crime activity for some time. If you're going to move up the food chain of commercially valuable exploits, this is exactly the sort of thing that you would expect. It makes it much easier to get malware accepted on a system, which means it makes it easier to extract some sort of value from the system. (Stolen data, botnet, spam host, etc.)
I suppose you could say that when it comes to CP/M, he isn't really a CompuPro, thank Godbout.
If the actual concern is to increase science and technology spending, then you should specifically advocate that when contacting your congressional representative. That would be much more helpful than simply advocating against spending money on war as that gives no guidance on your preference as to what to do with the unencumbered funds (refund? pay off debt? repurpose?).
The primary expenditure for the US government is that same as Europe - social welfare spending. In the US, social welfare spending in the Federal budget is about double what is spent on defense. The incremental addition for actual warfighting is a fraction of the defense budget.
In terms of evaluating priorities, it may be useful to keep in mind that the level of spending on science and technology by the governments of France and Poland probably nosedived after they were occupied in 1939-1940. Germany's ability to conduct it also suffered badly as it's infrastructure was badly damaged by the end of the war.
We will never travel faster than the speed of light. That, however, does not mean we can not reach distant star systems. It will simply be a very, very, long trip.
That depends. There are theories that show that "warp travel" of varying definitions may be possible. I recall one in which maintaining a stable "warp bubble" for what is effectively faster than light travel was feasible. The problem is getting into the bubble itself, which required enormous energy - far more than maintaining it or traveling in it. There are other theories and studies under way. And given that there is still a lot of physics we don't understand (dark energy, dark matter, unification of quantum mechanics and relativity), it may be the answer is out there. The article below discusses one such idea that may be unrelated to the one I mentioned.
Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say
I will send you my bill for this comment.
My recollection was correct. There is quite a bit about the prop WOPR design and construction down a bit on this web page.
Sounds like that would make for a fairly powerful CP/M system even if not up the SB-180 levels. I think that would probably fun to play with, and useful to boot.
On the IMSAI web site they have a "garage sale" listing at the bottom of the page. They list both 8" and 5 1/4" drives. You might even be able to get 3.5" drives working with it. I seem to recall reading about some CP/M system mods for other systems that would allow that.
But it's not the WOPR! Now THAT would be the bit of movie gear to have! :-)
It would be, but if I recall correctly it was only a prop wired for lights. Still, it would fun to have that in a data center, especially if its one that people tour.
You do realize that you are hurling invective about gays in a story centered around a young man trying to impress a pretty young lady, and which contained some innocent but sexually charged moments between them? That isn't really a gay theme. When you went to post you could have made a useful comment. Instead you blew past useful, past useless, to stupid and ironic. That isn't a good practice in life.
This is Slashdot, not the Supreme Court. Slashdot has no power over the law. At most, some of the views expressed here might influence some voters that visit here for technology news and discussion, and that is it. If you want to complain about the decision, here is the place to go:
Supreme Court of the United States
If you don't like the status of the law, take it up with your legislators. If you want to comment on that policy, there is another active discussion on that subject. You should post there. Complaining here in this story on that subject is useless and annoying, and complaining on Slashdot won't change anything.
Could be worse. I know a couple of people that started college (at the typical age) with a full head of hair and by graduation they were bald.
Mathematicians have spent many centuries refining how best to expresses mathematical operations with clarity -- And they sure as hell didn't pick spelled out English verbs in all caps.
Papers and articles on mathematics tend to have lots of words and some symbols. If all that is needed for understanding is symbols, why include the words?
Keeping them employed until retirement age.
I seem to recall they had plenty of offers after retirement for Y2K as well. With many schools and people losing interest in Cobol, that may not change.
I wasn't aware open source was inherently against Mexican immigrants or black presidents.
Neither is the Tea Party: Watch Herman Cain Deliver the Tea Party Response to the State of the Union
That would be former presidential candidate Herman Cain who was strongly supported by the Tea Party.
Unless you add in all the military resources brought to bear worldwide on finding tigers.
That doesn't really get you anywhere. The military existed before al Qaida attacked, it will exist after al Qaida is gone.
Freely monitored speech. That isn't actually free.
It is pretty unlikely that the contents of your communications will be monitored unless you are in direct contact with an actual terrorist group.
like the right to unreasonable search & seizure without a warrant AND probable cause?
If you're an American you still have those rights.
If they take one, how hard is it to take others?
The next one they take will likely be the first.