There are a few apps that really do a good job at data presentation and interaction (StockTouch was one of my favorites, but haven't used it in months.) For content creation (or what I call "work), there are some good mind mapping programs that let you type out thoughts (you might be able to use Siri) and organize the thoughts effectively. All the sketchbook apps I have tried are miserable though for my needs (I don't want a fixed canvas, and I want unlimited zoom to fill in detail).
Right tool for the job. Some things a desktop all-in-one computer works best for, something's a laptop does the job better. The issue comes down to portability, power, and ergonomics for those two just as equally as it does for an arduino, beaglebone, or raspberry pi. I would argue that smartphones (and especially phablets) are the devices that will go by the wayside, replaced by wearable computers and components on one end, tablets on another, and smaller devices with 2.5" screens having a little niche in between.
First off, static passwords will never be secure as a keylogger can intercept them. A perfect solution would allow for challenge-response on the meat-space side.
I was starting to get some obnoxious password requirements and actually needed secure passwords that would not be stored in "keychain" on the mac or on a post-it note. My solution was to make a simple script that concatenated a built-in token with one of my common passwords and the website name, made a MD5 hash and packed it into a 12-character quasi-uuencoded form (some characters were forbidden). It is a kludge, but it avoids password re-use, and I can change the website name to something I associate the website with if I am feeling especially paranoid.
If you need the SLA, You need to pay. Unless you bought the software in the past 24 months, bitching and moaning about paying for a single license of business-critical software is silly. I have much more patience for ripple-effect upgrades though, especially when they impact 20+ people.
What isn't common sense (but TFS couldn't communicate) is the fact that the cells are call-limited; they reduce range when they are over subscribed. Usually, the fringes are all that is impacted, so you switch to the other cell site which isn't overloaded. But, with enough activity you create substantial coverage gaps in a city.
Four different accounts impacted in California between my wife and myself. Calendars also impacted. Service restored around 8AM pacific.
At some point a backup system is a nice-to-have, but generally Google has given us the quality of service we would have needed to pay about $30k to keep the information in-house and achieve equal reliability. It has also saved us from a few issues in the office where we would have lost connectivity. Instead, we paid $0.
The $30k is not that bad, but the responsibility of doing a better job with the data than Google could have necessitated a full-time IT person which would have killed the economics. It does make me question the value of their paid service though...
Electronics engineering is less focused on the PE exam track than power systems engineering. Legally, only a licensed PE in the electrical discipline should be referred to as an Electrical Engineer. The GP's point was likely more that the jobless rate is in Electronics and not "Professional Electrical Engineers". The IEEE does a piss-poor job of representing our side of the industry, so there is a little animosity... at least from me.
I do agree that the academic label is more widely understood and accepted... and moreover most universities do a piss poor job of teaching power systems engineering.
It is in SoCal. An EE with a PE and OSHPD or CF experience should be able to get a job pretty quickly. Talk to a recruiter or check out Craigslist. For a new grad, you need to at least have some NEC and ACAD knowledge and passion, but there are jobs out there.
The dead spot in the industry is for designers that really were CAD operators. There just isn't enough room for them any more, unless they can perform above their title.
I would suggest trying to find out who an anonymous posting on Craigslist for a similar position comes from, and target them via linkedin, phone, and their website. Replying directly seems to go into the desperation hire bin; the goal should be to find your way into the strategic hire bin before the job is posted.
We hired a "superstar" candidate out of one of the top schools in our field with a few years of experience. He operates on a level of someone with less than two years of experience, but expects to be paid on a level of someone with five years of experience. His classmate whom we also hired is more of an "average" candidate, and it surprises me that he can tie his shoes without constant direct supervision sometimes.
So, we can do one of two things: we can search out that top talent and pay them what they are worth, or we can hire swarms of engineers that can't tie their shoes, but we can bill out at a very low profit margin and hope our clients don't complain because they are cheap. Neither approach is sustainable, but why the hell would you hire people only to lose more money on them long term?
Don't really believe IEEE stats though. Two recent job postings only garnered three electrical candidates while we got 10 mechanical engineers.
For any electrical engineers out of work though... Building power systems is a good industry to go into.
I'd say I am pretty tech savvy. One particular Motorola router stumped me into calling tech support though. Intuitive, obvious, and clear are not universal. I understand how to configure a Cisco ASA (reasonably well)... But this stumped me. (You had to go to the router's home page to accept its terms and conditions or some such nonsense.)
The maximum payload plus fuel on a Cessna is 1111kg - 767 = 334kg. If your spry pilot is 45kg, that leaves 289kg for cargo and fuel, or 26% of your gross weight. If my math is right, that would be about 25kg of fuel for Pago Pago to Faleolo, plus reserves, so say 40kg, leaving you with 249kg of cargo. The difference between 2 passengers at 124kg each and one at 249kg is linear, but if you have two seats filled with 100kg people you aren't using your full capacity.
It only makes sense if you can use every remaining kg for package cargo if you have lighter self-loading cargo.
The fares are constant $/kg per location. The problem with that is that typical statistics for a flight are: 50% airframe weight, 40% fuel weight, and 10% passenger/cargo weight. For a small plane on a shorter run, it might be 70% airframe, 14% fuel, and 16% passengers/cargo. So, the incremental cost per kg of cargo is much less than the incremental fuel use-- 10% reduction in cargo weight only corresponds to a 1-2% reduction in fuel burn.
Many reasonable people distrust banks. Many reasonable people want to keep cash close to them for emergencies. While it would have been a fairly safe assumption that the money was not from a lucrative paper route, the cash itself is not illegal. Does he have an obligation to report Esteban to the IRS for possible tax evasion?!
If I were to keep my cash in a pile with a rubber band around it does that make it less legal than if it is in a bank deposit bag?
I would tend to agree; investments for the "very rich" including pension funds are much more about long-term stability and comfortably beating out inflation than trying to get 10 points above the broader market return.
My issue with it though is that the management fees for mediocre return are way too high.
Moreover, if they can get someone on staff to do the work that is only worth $60/hour to them, you stand a better chance of getting the work that is worth $140/hour to them. Win-win. We have a consultant do projects because we don't have the manpower to do it internally, but he will always have work from us where it makes sense.
The telecommuting does often make it difficult to determine if their job is actually worth doing though. I imagine the purpose of Yahoo's change is to cull 10-20% of the workforce and become leaner in the process. Sure, it will be a rough couple years, but hopefully they can focus the energy on the things that provide the most value to the company.
Happy to not be going through that myself, and I am sure they will lose some good people. At the same time, the company is a disaster.
It is more than that-- it is understanding the pulse of the employees, the things that they don't say. When I was in a remote office, my boss's boss called me at least twice a week just to talk and catch up on things, find out where projects stood, and to light a fire under me for her critical work. She managed about 10 people that way, and it was a full time job just "supervising." Now, I enjoy being able to lean over the cube wall and do the same to my direct reports. It is also important to understand the interaction of people for the things that just don't get said out lout. It takes a lot more time and energy to achieve the same thing remotely.
Bulk CO2 capture is a cryogenic process. Flue gas temperature is likely around ~300-500C. If you wanted to remove 90% of the CO2 you would need to cool the flue gas to about 10K, that is a lot of energy. Only the non CO2 portion of the (now cryogenic) flue gas can be used to pre-cool the hot flue gas.
No, the lesson there is to move to a state that treats your vacation as earned/protected income. In California you would get 100% of accrued vacation time.
That said, using your vacation is important for yourself and the employer. It is just important to make sure it is properly scheduled, and where possible timed for mutual benefit.
Only if you assume the topology is the same. The 747 is likely to be much more of a "star" topology with traditional circuit breakers. The 787 is more of a "bus" topology with solid-state relays.
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There are a few apps that really do a good job at data presentation and interaction (StockTouch was one of my favorites, but haven't used it in months.) For content creation (or what I call "work), there are some good mind mapping programs that let you type out thoughts (you might be able to use Siri) and organize the thoughts effectively. All the sketchbook apps I have tried are miserable though for my needs (I don't want a fixed canvas, and I want unlimited zoom to fill in detail).
Right tool for the job. Some things a desktop all-in-one computer works best for, something's a laptop does the job better. The issue comes down to portability, power, and ergonomics for those two just as equally as it does for an arduino, beaglebone, or raspberry pi. I would argue that smartphones (and especially phablets) are the devices that will go by the wayside, replaced by wearable computers and components on one end, tablets on another, and smaller devices with 2.5" screens having a little niche in between.
First off, static passwords will never be secure as a keylogger can intercept them. A perfect solution would allow for challenge-response on the meat-space side.
I was starting to get some obnoxious password requirements and actually needed secure passwords that would not be stored in "keychain" on the mac or on a post-it note. My solution was to make a simple script that concatenated a built-in token with one of my common passwords and the website name, made a MD5 hash and packed it into a 12-character quasi-uuencoded form (some characters were forbidden). It is a kludge, but it avoids password re-use, and I can change the website name to something I associate the website with if I am feeling especially paranoid.
This is nothing. The fact that all kinds of fun gizmos now have cellular modems makes just about anything you try to do for security futile.
No, each state will spend what it deems necessary to cover the services it wants to provide, rather than subsidize those states that want more.
Of course, the problem is at all levels, so if you actually wanted to fix something you would need to figure out which side is easier to start from...
If you need the SLA, You need to pay. Unless you bought the software in the past 24 months, bitching and moaning about paying for a single license of business-critical software is silly. I have much more patience for ripple-effect upgrades though, especially when they impact 20+ people.
Same boat; never quite got the whole eject thing. Update seems to solve a couple issues I was having...
What isn't common sense (but TFS couldn't communicate) is the fact that the cells are call-limited; they reduce range when they are over subscribed. Usually, the fringes are all that is impacted, so you switch to the other cell site which isn't overloaded. But, with enough activity you create substantial coverage gaps in a city.
Four different accounts impacted in California between my wife and myself. Calendars also impacted. Service restored around 8AM pacific.
At some point a backup system is a nice-to-have, but generally Google has given us the quality of service we would have needed to pay about $30k to keep the information in-house and achieve equal reliability. It has also saved us from a few issues in the office where we would have lost connectivity. Instead, we paid $0.
The $30k is not that bad, but the responsibility of doing a better job with the data than Google could have necessitated a full-time IT person which would have killed the economics. It does make me question the value of their paid service though...
Electronics engineering is less focused on the PE exam track than power systems engineering. Legally, only a licensed PE in the electrical discipline should be referred to as an Electrical Engineer. The GP's point was likely more that the jobless rate is in Electronics and not "Professional Electrical Engineers". The IEEE does a piss-poor job of representing our side of the industry, so there is a little animosity... at least from me.
I do agree that the academic label is more widely understood and accepted... and moreover most universities do a piss poor job of teaching power systems engineering.
It is in SoCal. An EE with a PE and OSHPD or CF experience should be able to get a job pretty quickly. Talk to a recruiter or check out Craigslist. For a new grad, you need to at least have some NEC and ACAD knowledge and passion, but there are jobs out there.
The dead spot in the industry is for designers that really were CAD operators. There just isn't enough room for them any more, unless they can perform above their title.
I would suggest trying to find out who an anonymous posting on Craigslist for a similar position comes from, and target them via linkedin, phone, and their website. Replying directly seems to go into the desperation hire bin; the goal should be to find your way into the strategic hire bin before the job is posted.
We hired a "superstar" candidate out of one of the top schools in our field with a few years of experience. He operates on a level of someone with less than two years of experience, but expects to be paid on a level of someone with five years of experience. His classmate whom we also hired is more of an "average" candidate, and it surprises me that he can tie his shoes without constant direct supervision sometimes.
So, we can do one of two things: we can search out that top talent and pay them what they are worth, or we can hire swarms of engineers that can't tie their shoes, but we can bill out at a very low profit margin and hope our clients don't complain because they are cheap. Neither approach is sustainable, but why the hell would you hire people only to lose more money on them long term?
Don't really believe IEEE stats though. Two recent job postings only garnered three electrical candidates while we got 10 mechanical engineers.
For any electrical engineers out of work though... Building power systems is a good industry to go into.
I'd say I am pretty tech savvy. One particular Motorola router stumped me into calling tech support though. Intuitive, obvious, and clear are not universal. I understand how to configure a Cisco ASA (reasonably well)... But this stumped me. (You had to go to the router's home page to accept its terms and conditions or some such nonsense.)
I was ready to go out and buy another unit...
The maximum payload plus fuel on a Cessna is 1111kg - 767 = 334kg. If your spry pilot is 45kg, that leaves 289kg for cargo and fuel, or 26% of your gross weight. If my math is right, that would be about 25kg of fuel for Pago Pago to Faleolo, plus reserves, so say 40kg, leaving you with 249kg of cargo. The difference between 2 passengers at 124kg each and one at 249kg is linear, but if you have two seats filled with 100kg people you aren't using your full capacity.
It only makes sense if you can use every remaining kg for package cargo if you have lighter self-loading cargo.
The fares are constant $/kg per location. The problem with that is that typical statistics for a flight are: 50% airframe weight, 40% fuel weight, and 10% passenger/cargo weight. For a small plane on a shorter run, it might be 70% airframe, 14% fuel, and 16% passengers/cargo. So, the incremental cost per kg of cargo is much less than the incremental fuel use-- 10% reduction in cargo weight only corresponds to a 1-2% reduction in fuel burn.
Many reasonable people distrust banks. Many reasonable people want to keep cash close to them for emergencies. While it would have been a fairly safe assumption that the money was not from a lucrative paper route, the cash itself is not illegal. Does he have an obligation to report Esteban to the IRS for possible tax evasion?!
If I were to keep my cash in a pile with a rubber band around it does that make it less legal than if it is in a bank deposit bag?
I would tend to agree; investments for the "very rich" including pension funds are much more about long-term stability and comfortably beating out inflation than trying to get 10 points above the broader market return.
My issue with it though is that the management fees for mediocre return are way too high.
Moreover, if they can get someone on staff to do the work that is only worth $60/hour to them, you stand a better chance of getting the work that is worth $140/hour to them. Win-win. We have a consultant do projects because we don't have the manpower to do it internally, but he will always have work from us where it makes sense.
He is talking about the furnace cost, not the fuel. The fuel cost nets things out to around zero.
The telecommuting does often make it difficult to determine if their job is actually worth doing though. I imagine the purpose of Yahoo's change is to cull 10-20% of the workforce and become leaner in the process. Sure, it will be a rough couple years, but hopefully they can focus the energy on the things that provide the most value to the company.
Happy to not be going through that myself, and I am sure they will lose some good people. At the same time, the company is a disaster.
It is more than that-- it is understanding the pulse of the employees, the things that they don't say. When I was in a remote office, my boss's boss called me at least twice a week just to talk and catch up on things, find out where projects stood, and to light a fire under me for her critical work. She managed about 10 people that way, and it was a full time job just "supervising." Now, I enjoy being able to lean over the cube wall and do the same to my direct reports. It is also important to understand the interaction of people for the things that just don't get said out lout. It takes a lot more time and energy to achieve the same thing remotely.
Bulk CO2 capture is a cryogenic process. Flue gas temperature is likely around ~300-500C. If you wanted to remove 90% of the CO2 you would need to cool the flue gas to about 10K, that is a lot of energy. Only the non CO2 portion of the (now cryogenic) flue gas can be used to pre-cool the hot flue gas.
Combustion in a sealed chamber of an engine piston seems to work pretty well. Kind of like an air lock...
No, the lesson there is to move to a state that treats your vacation as earned/protected income. In California you would get 100% of accrued vacation time.
That said, using your vacation is important for yourself and the employer. It is just important to make sure it is properly scheduled, and where possible timed for mutual benefit.
Only if you assume the topology is the same. The 747 is likely to be much more of a "star" topology with traditional circuit breakers. The 787 is more of a "bus" topology with solid-state relays.
Yeah... I'm pretty curious what kind of valves they have on the power system to prevent damage per the TFA.