As a fellow Penn State graduate (I suppose that I can make that claim as I received my graduate degree from there), I agree that the alumni network makes a big difference.
I've been on interviews where the person interviewing me talked more about PSU than interviewing me.
As an undergraduate I attended a smaller and what many would consider a superior school. The engineering program at PSU was much better and I have much more respect for Penn State graduates than I did before I attended. With Harvard everyone "knows" that the school produces quality graduates. With other schools it usually takes a graduate to know if that degree has any value.
I think the sheer size of the kernel is a good reason to reconsider adding every feature into it. There may very well be a lot of value in adding a GA scheduler but I think careful consideration needs to taken to be sure that features aren't added solely beacuase they are new and fancy.
I will be honest though and admit that I think there is already too much stuff in the Linux kernel.
So how much additional complexity is added for a 1-3% perfomance improvement? I'm all for more speed, but keeping thinks simple can often be more improtant when it comes to maintainablity and adding additional features.
Its hard to explain in a lot of detail and in the space avaliable here. Unfortunately I am not aware of a good online reference. If your interested in looking into the math this http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Polarizati on.html provides some detail on polarization.
The sinewaves that you are thinking of represent the amplitude of the field and how it changes as a function of position and time. They are not ment to indicate any sort of side-to-side motion.
Polarization is a result of the electic field having direction as well as magnitude. Polarizing filters select for a particular electric field orientation while blocking other orientations.
There is no real theoretical limit to the rnage a single bit can be transmitted with a given amount of energy. The Shannon Theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_capacity limits the data rate as a function of signal to noise ratio.
A photon retains the same energy for its entire lifetime. This is excluding effects such as Doppler shift and gravitational reddening.
As to the last question, photons have no mass and do not spiral around their axis of motion. This confusion is likely the result of illustrations attempting to depict polarization. Polarization is a function of the relative phases and amplitudes of the electric field in the directions perpendicular to the direction of propagation.
I just tell people to buy me something from my Amazon wish list if they don't know what to get me. Fortunately I don't have anyone in my family who either can't figure that out or don't have access to someone who could show them how.
I'm sure I know people that know him. I didn't stay in the remote sensing field after graduate school so I don't interact with that community much anymore.
It's actually worse than that. Many of the water vapor sensing systems are passive and only measure the thermal emission so there is no opportunity for coding or any sort of similar gain.
I thought I was the only person who had worked with measuring water vapor with microwave radiometry. The systems I worked with were all satellite based (~28, ~22 and ~37 GHz) and I have to imagine that radiating in these bands at the surface could easily overwhelm the thermal emissions from the surface and atmosphere.
See the following for more info:
http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/technology/instrumen t.html
and
http://gfo.bmpcoe.org/Gfo/Mission/missiond.htm
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As opposed to a $500 or more computer?
As a fellow Penn State graduate (I suppose that I can make that claim as I received my graduate degree from there), I agree that the alumni network makes a big difference.
I've been on interviews where the person interviewing me talked more about PSU than interviewing me.
As an undergraduate I attended a smaller and what many would consider a superior school. The engineering program at PSU was much better and I have much more respect for Penn State graduates than I did before I attended. With Harvard everyone "knows" that the school produces quality graduates. With other schools it usually takes a graduate to know if that degree has any value.
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I think the sheer size of the kernel is a good reason to reconsider adding every feature into it. There may very well be a lot of value in adding a GA scheduler but I think careful consideration needs to taken to be sure that features aren't added solely beacuase they are new and fancy.
I will be honest though and admit that I think there is already too much stuff in the Linux kernel.
I still may have made the comment at 10%. It is really a matter of how much complexity you are willing to accept for a given performance improvement.
So how much additional complexity is added for a 1-3% perfomance improvement? I'm all for more speed, but keeping thinks simple can often be more improtant when it comes to maintainablity and adding additional features.
Its hard to explain in a lot of detail and in the space avaliable here. Unfortunately I am not aware of a good online reference. If your interested in looking into the math this http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Polarizati on.html provides some detail on polarization.
The sinewaves that you are thinking of represent the amplitude of the field and how it changes as a function of position and time. They are not ment to indicate any sort of side-to-side motion.
Polarization is a result of the electic field having direction as well as magnitude. Polarizing filters select for a particular electric field orientation while blocking other orientations.
There is no real theoretical limit to the rnage a single bit can be transmitted with a given amount of energy. The Shannon Theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_capacity limits the data rate as a function of signal to noise ratio.
A photon retains the same energy for its entire lifetime. This is excluding effects such as Doppler shift and gravitational reddening.
As to the last question, photons have no mass and do not spiral around their axis of motion. This confusion is likely the result of illustrations attempting to depict polarization. Polarization is a function of the relative phases and amplitudes of the electric field in the directions perpendicular to the direction of propagation.
Or, for those folks on the west coast, there are the Columbia River Flood Basalts: http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/no rth_america/crb.html
Volcano World is an interesting site full of volcanic goodness.
I just tell people to buy me something from my Amazon wish list if they don't know what to get me. Fortunately I don't have anyone in my family who either can't figure that out or don't have access to someone who could show them how.
I'm sure I know people that know him. I didn't stay in the remote sensing field after graduate school so I don't interact with that community much anymore.
Not that I am aware of. It possible that he was somewhere involved as they tend to be quite a lot of people involved.
It's actually worse than that. Many of the water vapor sensing systems are passive and only measure the thermal emission so there is no opportunity for coding or any sort of similar gain.
I thought I was the only person who had worked with measuring water vapor with microwave radiometry. The systems I worked with were all satellite based (~28, ~22 and ~37 GHz) and I have to imagine that radiating in these bands at the surface could easily overwhelm the thermal emissions from the surface and atmosphere. See the following for more info: http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/technology/instrumen t.html
and
http://gfo.bmpcoe.org/Gfo/Mission/missiond.htm