But Energy Star is neither common nor a measuring stick.
You can get any sort of device an Energy Star rating, you don't even have to submit any testing to the EPA, it's much like the FCC certifications, you can get a Chinese company to certify your product by a "certified" lab in China.
NCEES is a scam, they are NOT an engineering certification body. They just collect money to do prep exams and 'maintain' an electronic record of THEIR exams which may or may not be accepted by your state.
They will even collect money to do a generic PE exam and create a record but won't tell you that your State require you to do a state-specific exam if you want to be an engineer in said state (which requires money to be paid to the State, not to NCEES).
Most funds, if you contribute ~5-10% of your wages, by the time you get to retirement you'll make about 60-70% of your CURRENT wages but 20-30 years of inflation from now. My employer puts in a significant sum in my funds, the fund often sends me an invitation to add more money per month. Between me and my employer I should be funding $18000/year for the next 30 years and I'll earn 50-75k in 2050.
Electronics engineering is a valid degree in some non-US countries. I have a degree in it and was by virtue of it allowed to do certain things like program PLCs in a factory or make or repair robot arms.
In the US certification hasn't caught up to the electronics or computer fields or you get a very generic "professional engineer" license even though every help desk jockey gets engineer appended to their job position - not sure how Oregon takes that.
Does the state even have statutes for electronics and/or computer and/or software engineer? I am or have been assigned the title per an employer for all of the above, with a degree for the first but the locality here only has registrations up to electrical engineering (they got stuck somewhere in the late 40s I guess).
Even if it's 50M/y, you're still not getting to the $17-24k. Additionally, you have to account for ~10-15M/year AT LEAST in government overhead across various agencies. They'll run out of money after the first year and the mandate will require next year's budget to account for their overruns.
The open and free software movement is winning though. Especially in specialized and scientific fields people are going out of their way to avoid closed software or write alternatives. They've been bitten many times over and over by large companies.
The next field I am seeing the trend growth is manufacturing and factories. Again, many things still run on Windows XP or even NT to the point of it being a liability for large companies, utilities and other many are starting to demand open source software at least partially.
Even Microsoft has conceded the server market to Linux.
The w3c is set up for business interest takeover though. To be a member you have to pay a sum, to become part of a working group to create a "standard", you quickly have to sink in thousands if not hundreds of thousands per year. Few individual, small busones or even hobbyist groups will be able to make that expense, the only names you see on there is Adobe, Microsoft, Google etc.
So it is basically Android x86 which is indeed an unstable pile of shit - unless ran on the hardware that the "owner" of the x86 project provides from a parallel commercial company he runs and in violation of the GPL doesn't release the customizations to the Linux Kernel that makes it stable.
That would be true of most companies. Lets liquidate all businesses that aren't more profitable than Apple and see how well your stock market, unemployment etc does.
Also, it highly depends on what funds you invest in; there have been crashes for pretty much every stock market where people's net worth evaporated in minutes.
Having a good business typically is a more stable and much more fulfilling way of making a living.
From my understanding of politics, the left wants government to control everything and everyone, government to them is beneficial to a society, if you're fully to the left, you end up with communist and socialist ideals - the government takes a proportional amount of resources and provides free food, free housing, free healthcare and a number of other resources for everyone, ultimately having rules and regulations that covers every single entity and interaction is most important to make society a better place for everyone.
The right wants government to be as small as possible or non-existent, fully to the right you'll find anarchists and libertarians. They don't want anyone to interfere with their personal wealth or personhood, belief systems, guns etc and won't interfere with others' matters, even if a particular policy isn't beneficial to society as a whole, ultimately freedom is most important to make society a better place for everyone.
When you form a meta-society like Wikipedia, you end up with both people at the table, people that don't want any interference and people that want to regulate the 'society' to make it a better place. The left, per definition, steps up to do this job to make said rules and regulations unless there is sufficient interference from people that per definition do not want to interfere.
"Any hardware" - it's an x86 processor. From Windows 7's point of view it has the same feature set as any prior processor. They don't have to do ANYTHING to make it work. They actually have to do work to make Windows 7 NOT work with recent hardware.
You want probably the speed, bearing, current location, altitude, fuel levels, perhaps even radio status and signal strengths, autopilot status, flap and rudder positions and a number of core temperatures and pressures as far as telemetry data. 100 Kb is a package of ~10KB with a bit of error correction. It's not incredibly much. During emergencies you might want to beam back the last 5-10 minutes of audio/images from cockpits and passenger areas.
Put yourself in the mind of an airline executive: What exactly are you hoping to find when a plane crashes or disappears? Survivors? Blame? If the plane has crashed in the ocean and it takes you 5-10 days to even get to the general area with any sizable equipment, there won't be much of a chance to find anything or anyone. So why spend millions on a system that maybe one day will let you know where an unrecoverable wreck without any survivors may be located?
There is no such thing. There are some (poor) books on project management but managing, inventing and innovating isn't something you learn, it's something you spend lots of time on without reward for 9/10 of "inventors".
Goal-oriented R&D is called engineering and manufacturing. You probably need to be more specific about the branch you need engineers in.
Wireless charging using a "pad" isn't hard although there are indeed significant losses. The problem is in size.
To make wireless charging possible at sufficient power (10-20W for most modern devices) you need lots of surface area and potentially pump 10x as much into the charger. You're also going to be creating a significant magnetic field (a transmitter) around a device reliant on its antennae.
That is indeed the problem. In itself not a huge problem except for the continuous cost.
You need a reasonable uplink to a satellite or barring that a huge radio transmitter and global network of receivers. 100Kbps may not seem like a lot but having hundreds of planes across the world sending it to space, aggregating the streams across several continents and saving the telemetry is not simple. In emergency situations you maybe want the system to send significantly more data.
And even then, the benefit will be minimal. We may end up knowing where the plane went down but that doesn't bring it back or makes it easy to find and recover from the bottom of the Mariana Trench. It takes days for boats to get out to some locations of the world.
There are many things in an airplane that are done for cost mitigation. There is no room for oxygen tanks in planes, any high-altitude issue allows only a few minutes of oxygen nor will you have sufficient food and water for a mid-ocean crash.
They're in the business of making OS, it's kind of expected for them to make it work on any hardware. Linux and BSD maintainers have to do the same work as do some other proprietary OS and manage to support various architectures that are several decades old.
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But Energy Star is neither common nor a measuring stick.
You can get any sort of device an Energy Star rating, you don't even have to submit any testing to the EPA, it's much like the FCC certifications, you can get a Chinese company to certify your product by a "certified" lab in China.
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NCEES is a scam, they are NOT an engineering certification body. They just collect money to do prep exams and 'maintain' an electronic record of THEIR exams which may or may not be accepted by your state.
They will even collect money to do a generic PE exam and create a record but won't tell you that your State require you to do a state-specific exam if you want to be an engineer in said state (which requires money to be paid to the State, not to NCEES).
Saving up for a retirement is a fools errand.
Most funds, if you contribute ~5-10% of your wages, by the time you get to retirement you'll make about 60-70% of your CURRENT wages but 20-30 years of inflation from now. My employer puts in a significant sum in my funds, the fund often sends me an invitation to add more money per month. Between me and my employer I should be funding $18000/year for the next 30 years and I'll earn 50-75k in 2050.
Electronics engineering is a valid degree in some non-US countries. I have a degree in it and was by virtue of it allowed to do certain things like program PLCs in a factory or make or repair robot arms.
In the US certification hasn't caught up to the electronics or computer fields or you get a very generic "professional engineer" license even though every help desk jockey gets engineer appended to their job position - not sure how Oregon takes that.
Does the state even have statutes for electronics and/or computer and/or software engineer? I am or have been assigned the title per an employer for all of the above, with a degree for the first but the locality here only has registrations up to electrical engineering (they got stuck somewhere in the late 40s I guess).
Even if it's 50M/y, you're still not getting to the $17-24k. Additionally, you have to account for ~10-15M/year AT LEAST in government overhead across various agencies. They'll run out of money after the first year and the mandate will require next year's budget to account for their overruns.
The open and free software movement is winning though. Especially in specialized and scientific fields people are going out of their way to avoid closed software or write alternatives. They've been bitten many times over and over by large companies.
The next field I am seeing the trend growth is manufacturing and factories. Again, many things still run on Windows XP or even NT to the point of it being a liability for large companies, utilities and other many are starting to demand open source software at least partially.
Even Microsoft has conceded the server market to Linux.
The w3c is set up for business interest takeover though. To be a member you have to pay a sum, to become part of a working group to create a "standard", you quickly have to sink in thousands if not hundreds of thousands per year. Few individual, small busones or even hobbyist groups will be able to make that expense, the only names you see on there is Adobe, Microsoft, Google etc.
So it is basically Android x86 which is indeed an unstable pile of shit - unless ran on the hardware that the "owner" of the x86 project provides from a parallel commercial company he runs and in violation of the GPL doesn't release the customizations to the Linux Kernel that makes it stable.
How is that different from the Clinton/Bush family?
And continued the failed Obama policies and economy. In a few years we'd pay even more taxes without any healthcare.
That would be true of most companies. Lets liquidate all businesses that aren't more profitable than Apple and see how well your stock market, unemployment etc does.
Also, it highly depends on what funds you invest in; there have been crashes for pretty much every stock market where people's net worth evaporated in minutes.
Having a good business typically is a more stable and much more fulfilling way of making a living.
I had it happen on a 15yo S10. And again on a 5yo Nissan.
From my understanding of politics, the left wants government to control everything and everyone, government to them is beneficial to a society, if you're fully to the left, you end up with communist and socialist ideals - the government takes a proportional amount of resources and provides free food, free housing, free healthcare and a number of other resources for everyone, ultimately having rules and regulations that covers every single entity and interaction is most important to make society a better place for everyone.
The right wants government to be as small as possible or non-existent, fully to the right you'll find anarchists and libertarians. They don't want anyone to interfere with their personal wealth or personhood, belief systems, guns etc and won't interfere with others' matters, even if a particular policy isn't beneficial to society as a whole, ultimately freedom is most important to make society a better place for everyone.
When you form a meta-society like Wikipedia, you end up with both people at the table, people that don't want any interference and people that want to regulate the 'society' to make it a better place. The left, per definition, steps up to do this job to make said rules and regulations unless there is sufficient interference from people that per definition do not want to interfere.
"Any hardware" - it's an x86 processor. From Windows 7's point of view it has the same feature set as any prior processor. They don't have to do ANYTHING to make it work. They actually have to do work to make Windows 7 NOT work with recent hardware.
At least that has been free. Microsoft wants you to pay $150 to upgrade to their latest point-release of NT5.
You want probably the speed, bearing, current location, altitude, fuel levels, perhaps even radio status and signal strengths, autopilot status, flap and rudder positions and a number of core temperatures and pressures as far as telemetry data. 100 Kb is a package of ~10KB with a bit of error correction. It's not incredibly much. During emergencies you might want to beam back the last 5-10 minutes of audio/images from cockpits and passenger areas.
Put yourself in the mind of an airline executive: What exactly are you hoping to find when a plane crashes or disappears? Survivors? Blame? If the plane has crashed in the ocean and it takes you 5-10 days to even get to the general area with any sizable equipment, there won't be much of a chance to find anything or anyone. So why spend millions on a system that maybe one day will let you know where an unrecoverable wreck without any survivors may be located?
There is no such thing. There are some (poor) books on project management but managing, inventing and innovating isn't something you learn, it's something you spend lots of time on without reward for 9/10 of "inventors".
Goal-oriented R&D is called engineering and manufacturing. You probably need to be more specific about the branch you need engineers in.
I have the original SC for Mac and it's an OS9 PPC program and doesn't run on OS X (anymore, they did away with Classic mode after 10.4).
I'd love to see them make an emulator or compilation for Intel OS X.
Depending on your jurisdiction but tabular data or even quotes and snippets aren't typically falling under copyrighted materials.
Wireless charging using a "pad" isn't hard although there are indeed significant losses. The problem is in size.
To make wireless charging possible at sufficient power (10-20W for most modern devices) you need lots of surface area and potentially pump 10x as much into the charger. You're also going to be creating a significant magnetic field (a transmitter) around a device reliant on its antennae.
That is indeed the problem. In itself not a huge problem except for the continuous cost.
You need a reasonable uplink to a satellite or barring that a huge radio transmitter and global network of receivers. 100Kbps may not seem like a lot but having hundreds of planes across the world sending it to space, aggregating the streams across several continents and saving the telemetry is not simple. In emergency situations you maybe want the system to send significantly more data.
And even then, the benefit will be minimal. We may end up knowing where the plane went down but that doesn't bring it back or makes it easy to find and recover from the bottom of the Mariana Trench. It takes days for boats to get out to some locations of the world.
There are many things in an airplane that are done for cost mitigation. There is no room for oxygen tanks in planes, any high-altitude issue allows only a few minutes of oxygen nor will you have sufficient food and water for a mid-ocean crash.
They're in the business of making OS, it's kind of expected for them to make it work on any hardware. Linux and BSD maintainers have to do the same work as do some other proprietary OS and manage to support various architectures that are several decades old.