Keep in mind that these may be called Electrical engineers, but while the discussion here is around electronics product design,many EEs work outside outside of designing electronics. The article statistics represent a broad line of sub-specialties. Many EEs are employed as PEs working with buildings/architectural firms, manufacturing engineering, industrial controls (such as water treatment plant controls) and transmission lines. Many older embedded software engineers have EE degrees, but many of the up and coming embedded software engineers I see are not out of pure EE programs. Even for electronic design there is a lot of work writing verilog code that feels more like SW coding than biasing transistors and measuring with an O-scope. For that matter, MEs end-up with a much broader range of different subspecialties and not just drawing HVAC vents.
Indeed, circuit breaker per radial. A few long lived high reliability breakers reviewed by building inspectors and house construction time seem like a much more reliable way to go than counting on product manufacturers. Expecting every cut rate consumer product manufacturer to live up to the spec for fuses in the power plug always seemed like an invitation to cost cutting induced risk. I remember an off-shore manufacturer offering to add UL labels for 1/10 of a cent (Labels not certs) so I'm a bit cynical. And thanks for using a "Y" and not a "W" when calling me a Yank.
Google paid $3.2B for a thermostat company founded by a former PM from the iPod team. At least they are selling a few units and in a decade or two they will grow enough to be a footnote for Google's annual report.
ITAR export restrictions have killed the likes of Boeing Surplus. I bought the main honeycomb aluminum panel in used in the AWACs strut at per pound scrap prices. And for other items, its been 10 a dozen years, but I remember haunting the Akiabara and finding boatloads of TV components going back to tubes. I also remember buying core memory arrays from Cascade Surplus in Portland. So much is lost....
There will be task appropriate languages/tools such as C for lower level embedded/drives/OSs and evolving, more abstract, languages such as Java/Python/etc and folks will be continuing to wrongly apply high level tools to low level tasks. So, no I see no driver for change in the future. It would be cool to see an on chip hardware data stack added to CPUs (CPU side of the pipe) and supported in C with a Forth like statements. It will never happen, but one can still dream of the performance improvements.
The reason for the 2nd amendment and indeed much of the constitutional convention was Shay's Rebellion. Shay's rebellion really freaked out the powers that be in the early US. Shay's rebellion was precipitated by many rural farmers were getting foreclosed on by banks so some folks rebelled and took-up arms. When the Governors called out the militia to put down the rebellion they found that the arms leftover from the revolution were in federal armories. The feds refused to open the armories to the states, even at gunpoint! The state's found this particularly galling as they claimed that they paid for these arms (historically wrong, but a good propaganda point at the time). That is why you see such an odd prefatory statement for the second amendment that you see nowhere else in the constitution: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,...."
Washington responded to a similar insurrection, The Whisky Rebellion, with force using the second amendment as grounds to press the militia into service to put it down. Interestingly, Washington led the force and was the only US president to go into battle while in office. Harrison Ford, exempted.
Perhaps this is a very telling lesson in group think. Note that even someone as headstrong as Balmer can become captured in the group think of a large company and as soon as they leave be willing to start challenging the core belief of the company. What does this say about large organizations? How do you turn such a big ship or even see danger ahead?
From the Summary: "get out of the solar and wind box." Solar and wind is scaling-up very nicely. It is becoming more and more cost effective and is already cheaper than many incumbent solutions. Storage is coming on line with both substation batteries and large scale solutions like pumped hydro. Pumped hydro in the US already has 25 GW built or in development. It is a very interesting way to store energy closer to where you need it such as SoCal storing Pacific Northwest hydro and wind energy that can be transported down at lower current rates off peak for later peak use. Peak power plants can be very expensive as they sit idle, not generating profit, most of the day just waiting for everyone to get home from work and turn on their AC for a few hours.
Not read the bill, so shooting from the hip: Likely the bill uses COngress's power of the purse and says not that already allocated funds can not be used to implement climate change regulations, etc . This could prevent any federal employee or contractor from even spending a minute to write a regulation, etc.
So all our President has to do is veto the bill and the status quo freedom to write regulations remains. If he signs the bill his powers are hobbled.
Not all engineering shops have the same culture and these tend to vary by engineering specialty. Many engineers have little to do with tech. Structural, civil, environmental, chemical, even most mechanicals engineers may use software tools and electronic instruments, but many don't write code or develop electronics. If you walk into a shop full of PEs who serve the construction industry you will find a very different culture from some web shop. You will see much more muscular environment with far fewer lego wookies and far more sports banners, scripture quotes and military stickers. High tech development is not spread evenly over the planet or even across the US. The number of ratio of jobs that require a PE in say San Jose or Seattle would be much lower than say Idaho or Mississippi. Same would go for countries with little tech development. It is of course dangerous to over generalize,....
Who bothers with emulators? I just transcompile the GameBoy code by parsing the machine code into C and then compiling the parsed output on the target hwrdware with a native C complier. Much more efficient (10x) over emulators.
The problem with throwing sand for spacefaring nations is that it denies space to you too. Now, a nation just on the edge of becoming a spacefarer, such as a North Korea or Iran, might see value in denying space access to other more powerful nations. Getting a sand payload to just hit leo and fly apart seems to be a much simpler proposition than putting a long term functioning surveillance satellite or weapon into a predictable orbit.
"AND MOREOVER, Our Will and Pleasure is, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO GIVE and grant unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors, free Liberty and Licence, in case they conceive it necessary, to send either Ships of War, Men or Ammunition, unto any their Plantations, Forts, Factories, or Places of Trade aforesaid, for the Security and Defence of the same, and to choose Commanders and Officers over them, and to give them Power and Authority, by Commission under their Common Seal or otherwise, to continue or make Peace or War with any Prince or People whatsoever, that are not Christians, in any Places where the said Company shall have any Plantations, Forts or Factories, or adjacent thereunto, as shall be most for the Advantage and Benefit of the said Governor and Company, and of their Trade; and also to right and recompense themselves upon the Goods, Estates or People of those Parts, by whom the said Governor and Company shall sustain any Injury, Loss, or Damage, or upon any other People whatsoever that shall any Way, contrary to the Intent of these Presents, interrupt, wrong or injure them in their said Trade, within the said Places, Territories, and Limits, granted by this Charter. And that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor and Company, and their Successors, from time to time, and at all Times from henceforth, to erect and build such Castles, Fortifications, Forts, Garrisons, Colonies or Plantations, Towns or Villages, in any Parts or Places within the Limits and Bounds granted before in these Presents, unto the said Governor and Company, as they in their Discretion shall think fit and requisite, and for the Supply of such as shall be needful and convenient, to keep and be in the same, to send out of this Kingdom, to the said Castles, Forts, Fortifications, Garrisons, Colonies, Plantations, Towns or Villages, all Kinds of Cloathing, Provision of Victuals, Ammunition, and Implements, necessary for such Purpose, paying the Duties and Customs for the same, as also to transport and carry over such Number of Men being willing thereunto, or not prohibited, as they shall think fit, and also to govern them in such legal and reasonable Manner as the said Governor and Company shall think best, and to inflict Punishment for Misdemeanors, or impose such Fines upon them for Breach of their Orders, as in these Presents are formerly expressed."
I'd think twice about posting a bad review of the HBC if I lived in Canada. There is also the apocryphal story about every HBC store having two elk and two beavers hidden in the basement ready to pay the pelt tax included in their charter....
As the above AC notes, the Lemar patent really seemed to be aimed at a slightly different type of application than current cell phones. Besides it being a frequency hopper and not direct sequence, the intent of the frequency hopping was intended to evade detection while modern cells phone use spread spectrum for better bandwidth utilization.
The statement, "get swooped up by the big names" suggest to me that you are not making competitive offers. Yes, working for a sexy brand my get folks to accept a slightly lower salary offer, but as part of a total compensation package includes intangible such as brand and interesting projects. This sounds like you are not paying prevailing wages to match the work.
Yes, the FCC is monitoring radio waves in the capitol and the rest of the country, but is less likely to monitor the content broadcast on the radio waves unless here is a complaint.
Some years ago I remember seeing an Ex Libris plate that ran something like, "If you are going to borrow this book and not return it, please just take it because I'd rather lose a book than a book and a friend. Perhaps you should consider that is more important?
As the legend has it, C was created to support operating system development. As time has gone by C++ has slipped into OS development on larger platforms. It seems that much of the current core use of mother C is centering on embedded processors (all the way down to 8 bit micros with 256 bytes of RAM) and drivers in larger systems. For current use what design choices in C do you see as wise and what would you change given the current usage of C.
PS: Thanks you for co-authoring the most wonderful, perfect, clear and concise technology document ever.
This is a common problem for products in English. You can overload a name with something common such as Go, C or Forth and have name collision or make up something new such as GoLang and have to educate people.
Please excuse someone from outside of IT as I work on embedded systems (who could possibly need more than 640 bytes of RAM), but at some point IT really needs to mature and stop making every application one off in-house prototypes. Some applications have stabilized and are expected to be delivered as COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) products, for example word processors and spreadsheets. Far too many business products have to be (or needlessly are) customized to death. ERP, HR, accounting, etc. Seriously, does a HR program have to be more flexible than a spreadsheet? Should an ERP program require more expertise to setup than a workprocessor? Someday someone in charge is going to catch on that all of this flexibility and customization if far more expensive than any promised gain and just work with a cloud product out of the box. Sure there will always be a super user in every dept/company who is the goto person, but that person really should not be in the the IT department. Everyplace I've worked the most knowledgeable Excel folks are the MBAs, not dev engineers or IT. When this happens you can expect to see a quick death to many IT departments. At one time every factory had an electrical engineer to run an engine to make electricity. With very few exceptions, those practicing EE jobs are now at utilities, architects or electronics companies. It is not that folks working in IT departments may not be doing good work, the problem is that the same problem is being solved in a thousand different companies. At one time IT excellence was a competitive advantage, for example Fed Ex, but now it is a common commodity base utility line like water or power. Why can't it be a something bought as a commodity?
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Keep in mind that these may be called Electrical engineers, but while the discussion here is around electronics product design,many EEs work outside outside of designing electronics. The article statistics represent a broad line of sub-specialties. Many EEs are employed as PEs working with buildings/architectural firms, manufacturing engineering, industrial controls (such as water treatment plant controls) and transmission lines. Many older embedded software engineers have EE degrees, but many of the up and coming embedded software engineers I see are not out of pure EE programs. Even for electronic design there is a lot of work writing verilog code that feels more like SW coding than biasing transistors and measuring with an O-scope. For that matter, MEs end-up with a much broader range of different subspecialties and not just drawing HVAC vents.
"32A breakers" So I assume that you must have more than one ring bus is a UK house?
Indeed, circuit breaker per radial. A few long lived high reliability breakers reviewed by building inspectors and house construction time seem like a much more reliable way to go than counting on product manufacturers. Expecting every cut rate consumer product manufacturer to live up to the spec for fuses in the power plug always seemed like an invitation to cost cutting induced risk. I remember an off-shore manufacturer offering to add UL labels for 1/10 of a cent (Labels not certs) so I'm a bit cynical.
And thanks for using a "Y" and not a "W" when calling me a Yank.
Perhaps it is time the UK start wiring their houses with real circuit breakers and not just a common ring bus?
Google paid $3.2B for a thermostat company founded by a former PM from the iPod team. At least they are selling a few units and in a decade or two they will grow enough to be a footnote for Google's annual report.
ITAR export restrictions have killed the likes of Boeing Surplus. I bought the main honeycomb aluminum panel in used in the AWACs strut at per pound scrap prices. And for other items, its been 10 a dozen years, but I remember haunting the Akiabara and finding boatloads of TV components going back to tubes. I also remember buying core memory arrays from Cascade Surplus in Portland. So much is lost....
There will be task appropriate languages/tools such as C for lower level embedded/drives/OSs and evolving, more abstract, languages such as Java/Python/etc and folks will be continuing to wrongly apply high level tools to low level tasks. So, no I see no driver for change in the future. It would be cool to see an on chip hardware data stack added to CPUs (CPU side of the pipe) and supported in C with a Forth like statements. It will never happen, but one can still dream of the performance improvements.
The reason for the 2nd amendment and indeed much of the constitutional convention was Shay's Rebellion. Shay's rebellion really freaked out the powers that be in the early US. Shay's rebellion was precipitated by many rural farmers were getting foreclosed on by banks so some folks rebelled and took-up arms. When the Governors called out the militia to put down the rebellion they found that the arms leftover from the revolution were in federal armories. The feds refused to open the armories to the states, even at gunpoint! The state's found this particularly galling as they claimed that they paid for these arms (historically wrong, but a good propaganda point at the time). That is why you see such an odd prefatory statement for the second amendment that you see nowhere else in the constitution: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,...."
Washington responded to a similar insurrection, The Whisky Rebellion, with force using the second amendment as grounds to press the militia into service to put it down. Interestingly, Washington led the force and was the only US president to go into battle while in office. Harrison Ford, exempted.
Perhaps this is a very telling lesson in group think. Note that even someone as headstrong as Balmer can become captured in the group think of a large company and as soon as they leave be willing to start challenging the core belief of the company. What does this say about large organizations? How do you turn such a big ship or even see danger ahead?
From the Summary: "get out of the solar and wind box." Solar and wind is scaling-up very nicely. It is becoming more and more cost effective and is already cheaper than many incumbent solutions. Storage is coming on line with both substation batteries and large scale solutions like pumped hydro. Pumped hydro in the US already has 25 GW built or in development. It is a very interesting way to store energy closer to where you need it such as SoCal storing Pacific Northwest hydro and wind energy that can be transported down at lower current rates off peak for later peak use. Peak power plants can be very expensive as they sit idle, not generating profit, most of the day just waiting for everyone to get home from work and turn on their AC for a few hours.
Not read the bill, so shooting from the hip: Likely the bill uses COngress's power of the purse and says not that already allocated funds can not be used to implement climate change regulations, etc . This could prevent any federal employee or contractor from even spending a minute to write a regulation, etc.
So all our President has to do is veto the bill and the status quo freedom to write regulations remains. If he signs the bill his powers are hobbled.
Not all engineering shops have the same culture and these tend to vary by engineering specialty. Many engineers have little to do with tech. Structural, civil, environmental, chemical, even most mechanicals engineers may use software tools and electronic instruments, but many don't write code or develop electronics. If you walk into a shop full of PEs who serve the construction industry you will find a very different culture from some web shop. You will see much more muscular environment with far fewer lego wookies and far more sports banners, scripture quotes and military stickers. High tech development is not spread evenly over the planet or even across the US. The number of ratio of jobs that require a PE in say San Jose or Seattle would be much lower than say Idaho or Mississippi. Same would go for countries with little tech development. It is of course dangerous to over generalize,....
Who bothers with emulators? I just transcompile the GameBoy code by parsing the machine code into C and then compiling the parsed output on the target hwrdware with a native C complier. Much more efficient (10x) over emulators.
The problem with throwing sand for spacefaring nations is that it denies space to you too. Now, a nation just on the edge of becoming a spacefarer, such as a North Korea or Iran, might see value in denying space access to other more powerful nations. Getting a sand payload to just hit leo and fly apart seems to be a much simpler proposition than putting a long term functioning surveillance satellite or weapon into a predictable orbit.
"AND MOREOVER, Our Will and Pleasure is, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO GIVE and grant unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors, free Liberty and Licence, in case they conceive it necessary, to send either Ships of War, Men or Ammunition, unto any their Plantations, Forts, Factories, or Places of Trade aforesaid, for the Security and Defence of the same, and to choose Commanders and Officers over them, and to give them Power and Authority, by Commission under their Common Seal or otherwise, to continue or make Peace or War with any Prince or People whatsoever, that are not Christians, in any Places where the said Company shall have any Plantations, Forts or Factories, or adjacent thereunto, as shall be most for the Advantage and Benefit of the said Governor and Company, and of their Trade; and also to right and recompense themselves upon the Goods, Estates or People of those Parts, by whom the said Governor and Company shall sustain any Injury, Loss, or Damage, or upon any other People whatsoever that shall any Way, contrary to the Intent of these Presents, interrupt, wrong or injure them in their said Trade, within the said Places, Territories, and Limits, granted by this Charter. And that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor and Company, and their Successors, from time to time, and at all Times from henceforth, to erect and build such Castles, Fortifications, Forts, Garrisons, Colonies or Plantations, Towns or Villages, in any Parts or Places within the Limits and Bounds granted before in these Presents, unto the said Governor and Company, as they in their Discretion shall think fit and requisite, and for the Supply of such as shall be needful and convenient, to keep and be in the same, to send out of this Kingdom, to the said Castles, Forts, Fortifications, Garrisons, Colonies, Plantations, Towns or Villages, all Kinds of Cloathing, Provision of Victuals, Ammunition, and Implements, necessary for such Purpose, paying the Duties and Customs for the same, as also to transport and carry over such Number of Men being willing thereunto, or not prohibited, as they shall think fit, and also to govern them in such legal and reasonable Manner as the said Governor and Company shall think best, and to inflict Punishment for Misdemeanors, or impose such Fines upon them for Breach of their Orders, as in these Presents are formerly expressed."
I'd think twice about posting a bad review of the HBC if I lived in Canada. There is also the apocryphal story about every HBC store having two elk and two beavers hidden in the basement ready to pay the pelt tax included in their charter....
As the above AC notes, the Lemar patent really seemed to be aimed at a slightly different type of application than current cell phones. Besides it being a frequency hopper and not direct sequence, the intent of the frequency hopping was intended to evade detection while modern cells phone use spread spectrum for better bandwidth utilization.
The statement, "get swooped up by the big names" suggest to me that you are not making competitive offers. Yes, working for a sexy brand my get folks to accept a slightly lower salary offer, but as part of a total compensation package includes intangible such as brand and interesting projects. This sounds like you are not paying prevailing wages to match the work.
Until hell freezes over!
Yes, the FCC is monitoring radio waves in the capitol and the rest of the country, but is less likely to monitor the content broadcast on the radio waves unless here is a complaint.
Where else, but the Apollo Giudance Computer or Data General's RDOS. Oh wait, it does not have .NET or Node.JS so maybe it is not so innovative.
Some years ago I remember seeing an Ex Libris plate that ran something like, "If you are going to borrow this book and not return it, please just take it because I'd rather lose a book than a book and a friend. Perhaps you should consider that is more important?
As the legend has it, C was created to support operating system development. As time has gone by C++ has slipped into OS development on larger platforms. It seems that much of the current core use of mother C is centering on embedded processors (all the way down to 8 bit micros with 256 bytes of RAM) and drivers in larger systems. For current use what design choices in C do you see as wise and what would you change given the current usage of C.
PS: Thanks you for co-authoring the most wonderful, perfect, clear and concise technology document ever.
This is a common problem for products in English. You can overload a name with something common such as Go, C or Forth and have name collision or make up something new such as GoLang and have to educate people.
For too many used are dealers live up to the sterotypes.
Please excuse someone from outside of IT as I work on embedded systems (who could possibly need more than 640 bytes of RAM), but at some point IT really needs to mature and stop making every application one off in-house prototypes. Some applications have stabilized and are expected to be delivered as COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) products, for example word processors and spreadsheets. Far too many business products have to be (or needlessly are) customized to death. ERP, HR, accounting, etc. Seriously, does a HR program have to be more flexible than a spreadsheet? Should an ERP program require more expertise to setup than a workprocessor? Someday someone in charge is going to catch on that all of this flexibility and customization if far more expensive than any promised gain and just work with a cloud product out of the box. Sure there will always be a super user in every dept/company who is the goto person, but that person really should not be in the the IT department. Everyplace I've worked the most knowledgeable Excel folks are the MBAs, not dev engineers or IT. When this happens you can expect to see a quick death to many IT departments. At one time every factory had an electrical engineer to run an engine to make electricity. With very few exceptions, those practicing EE jobs are now at utilities, architects or electronics companies. It is not that folks working in IT departments may not be doing good work, the problem is that the same problem is being solved in a thousand different companies. At one time IT excellence was a competitive advantage, for example Fed Ex, but now it is a common commodity base utility line like water or power. Why can't it be a something bought as a commodity?