As a senior engineer in the Oil & Gas sector I would say that this largely depends on what field you are going to be entering. For most engineering sectors I reccomend a MS, reasonably worth while on the starting money front, ticks the box on the professional registration and makes you more marketable as a consultant. Thus offers you more options which is the key, and the reason why we are all doing more stuff. The ability to do these things makes you more marketable throughout your future career and gives you the tools to be flexible when it comes to jobs. Thus if you see a job that interests you you can always apply, whereas if you limit yourself to one single job then you had better like it as it makes things more difficult to change later. on the other hand if you are merely using your engineering education to get into financial institutions (they like us analytical types) then get the PhD but take as many of the economic options as possisble.
Offshoring is becoming an issue to some extends with regard to the daily grind of designing and drawing, but compaines are tending to use their registered engineers to supervise and assess these designs. As a Mechatronic Engineer by training looking at the bigger and integrated picture is one of the reasons that I have been hired together with project management and budgeting skills this made up the largest discussion at interview, and the biggest portion of my day job.
Look at where you want to go, do you want to look at the overall picture from on high and be responsible for instigateing engineering projects or be doing the real on the ground engineering?
You should look at this Seiko Kinetic set of watches, much more long lived, my dad has his original spring powered kinetic still after many years and my capacitive storage watch has lasted me 10 years and still keeps better time than my mobile.
Now I don't know if anybody is interested in this but I have installed IE7 beta on my machine and it defaults to Google....
No options for MS search or Yahoo just Google. Now admittedly Firefox is still my primary browser (of note is that the Beta version didn't offer to make itself default as is more common) and that I had already changed my settings on IE6 but I was surprised that the default was for Google.
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I agree, It is the most annoying thing that you ever see in the world of IT, 'no no don't let the user play with my toys'.
Jees people wake up and smell your coffee,
IT is a service.
Provided to HELP the users do their jobs more effectivly.
Whilst I agree that some level of control is required to maintain network security and data integrity the whole point is to make sure that the people in the company that actually make money have the tools and service that allows them to do their jobs effectivly so that the company can pay you!
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As far as the book goes I suggest that very little history needs to be included , just make sure that a couple of the interesting tit-bits get sprinkled around in the obvious places and make sure that you reference you sources at the back (and possibly at the end of the chapter) so that if pople want to find out more they can.
This might just be the major part of the book. Do your reaserch on the best current books and websites to make sure that these are included. Ensure a consistant theme that you can also put onto a website to make the reader / user feel at home when they finaly join the online community.
Just a few thoughts.
A.
consumers will win once the US dollar rises over Euro.
The rate things are going just exactly when is this going to happen? I would suggest the not this year certainly and if Mr Bush continues his reign then not during his term in office.
So a lose, lose situation all ways round for consumers. I can't believe they even tried it.
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Absolutely - That's not an iPhone it's a Nokia E71
try looking here...
http://www.mini-itx.com/
As a senior engineer in the Oil & Gas sector I would say that this largely depends on what field you are going to be entering. For most engineering sectors I reccomend a MS, reasonably worth while on the starting money front, ticks the box on the professional registration and makes you more marketable as a consultant. Thus offers you more options which is the key, and the reason why we are all doing more stuff. The ability to do these things makes you more marketable throughout your future career and gives you the tools to be flexible when it comes to jobs. Thus if you see a job that interests you you can always apply, whereas if you limit yourself to one single job then you had better like it as it makes things more difficult to change later. on the other hand if you are merely using your engineering education to get into financial institutions (they like us analytical types) then get the PhD but take as many of the economic options as possisble.
Offshoring is becoming an issue to some extends with regard to the daily grind of designing and drawing, but compaines are tending to use their registered engineers to supervise and assess these designs. As a Mechatronic Engineer by training looking at the bigger and integrated picture is one of the reasons that I have been hired together with project management and budgeting skills this made up the largest discussion at interview, and the biggest portion of my day job.
Look at where you want to go, do you want to look at the overall picture from on high and be responsible for instigateing engineering projects or be doing the real on the ground engineering?
You should look at this Seiko Kinetic set of watches, much more long lived, my dad has his original spring powered kinetic still after many years and my capacitive storage watch has lasted me 10 years and still keeps better time than my mobile.
No options for MS search or Yahoo just Google. Now admittedly Firefox is still my primary browser (of note is that the Beta version didn't offer to make itself default as is more common) and that I had already changed my settings on IE6 but I was surprised that the default was for Google.
Anybody else noticed this oddity?
[RANT] I agree, It is the most annoying thing that you ever see in the world of IT, 'no no don't let the user play with my toys'. Jees people wake up and smell your coffee, IT is a service. Provided to HELP the users do their jobs more effectivly. Whilst I agree that some level of control is required to maintain network security and data integrity the whole point is to make sure that the people in the company that actually make money have the tools and service that allows them to do their jobs effectivly so that the company can pay you! [/RANT] As far as the book goes I suggest that very little history needs to be included , just make sure that a couple of the interesting tit-bits get sprinkled around in the obvious places and make sure that you reference you sources at the back (and possibly at the end of the chapter) so that if pople want to find out more they can. This might just be the major part of the book. Do your reaserch on the best current books and websites to make sure that these are included. Ensure a consistant theme that you can also put onto a website to make the reader / user feel at home when they finaly join the online community. Just a few thoughts. A.
I agree certainly one of the best new sci-fi novels that I have read in a while. certainly get the geek vote from me.
Surely it has to be pyramids if only for the impressive geek camels.
27/12
28/12
On the other hand it is a good idea and will quickly be ripped off by other companies and replaced with a much better version.
Hopefully.
Gotta have /.
Anyway I'm now really interested in getting a Bluephone
The rate things are going just exactly when is this going to happen? I would suggest the not this year certainly and if Mr Bush continues his reign then not during his term in office.
So a lose, lose situation all ways round for consumers. I can't believe they even tried it.