Indeed there are lots of variables needed to define what "how many bits were sent in this time period" means. And even more to define "offered bandwidth".
This is classic work for standards committees. I'd bet there is a standard for calculating "net weight" on cans of olives. I haven't heard of relevant standards for data. Maybe T1 could be convinced to address the need.
There are lots of ways to find people who are likely to be interested in the positions you have open: advertise in the right places, look at people who have made visible contributions, get your existing staff to recommend friends etc.. It takes time and effort and the work is commonly contracted out to headhunters by larger companies.
News coverage is the best form of advertising and lots of media are happy to cover hiring news involving large numbers from decent companies. Some readers are going to be very interested. Getting that coverage is its own art form.
High pay by itself isn't going find anyone, but it might make somebody interested in moving from someplace that doesn't pay as well. It also increases the chance of your offer being accepted.
I am in a neighborhood with choices in broadband, and have considered buying redundancy. Current promo options make it very feasible.
Comcast here has reliability issues due both to overhead wires that go out for days(annually), and an irritating tendency to show lag (or momentary outages) in the 10-90 second range(daily or worse). I assume the latter is due to doing service on the live system, but is impossible for me to diagnose as it is gone before I can characterize the problem to even complain.
I wouldn't mind adding a cheap DSL if I can bond the two in a way to improve my service, but I am not clear how to do that. True bonded service might work, but I don't know how to set that up on two IP addresses. My current router won't do it, and I haven't looked into equipment choices.
The article hints that this tech is published but not patented. Way to go!
If true we can expect many implementations in record time, lots of manufacturers trying out variations and producing affordable products.
On the other hand, if they set huge license fees on the patent it is highly likely that the only licensees will fail to produce a successfull product, and at best it becomes a niche feature for systems where it has exceptional value. For spacecraft that cannot be repaired the value is huge, for your cellphone it is a nice but marginally valuable feature.
TOR is the next step of escalation. The cyberwar arms race has been going on for a long time, and it's it's not just governments.
Horse (& cow) traders in the Midwest caused a surge of demand for cell phone encryption in the early 90's when news of how easily one could tap FM cell calls got out. The FCC's stand was that they were secure because listening in was illegal, even if the needed equipment was sold at Radio Shack.
With the swing to digital, the quality of analog electronics (like amplifiers, detectors, and rf modulators) seems to have declined. Analog devices used to contain adjustable coils, capacitors, and pots to match resonant frequencies in those assemblies, and the alignment procedures set them to precision far beyond the purchasable steps. Depending on the situation and the skill of the tech this might just require a plastic screwdriver, or also scopes, signal generators and/or frequency counters.
Because components drift with time, loss of output or sensitivity was common with age and curable with redoing the alignment. The symptoms he describes fit.
Actually, our territory runs from Norway to Russia, and despite discrimination that made my grandparents pass for Finns there are really quite a few of us.
You can't really reach a consensus on many issues when such differences exist. Democracy makes the Majority "right" so it is important not to let their views go unchallenged.
I have an intuitive feel that there is something wrong about price discrimination, but cannot justify it intellectually. I think it comes down to a sense that I should fight for a better price if it is achievable.
Given that the owner of a product should have the choice to sell or not in any particular circumstance there is nothing wrong with price descrimination. Wrongfull motives on the part of the seller (we don't serve your kind here) are an exception.
But I also see nothing wrong in taking advantage of that descrimination to get the lower price, even if it defeats the seller's intent. Deleting cookies, dressing down to buy a car, going to a store in a different neighborhood all are perfectly ok with me. I am not so sure about outright lies (my son is only 5) but YMMV.
Mechanical and civil engineering need a lot of processing power to optimize designs and analyze them for safety. That's all good work.
Siesmography data needs lots of analysis to see what is underground, that's useful work even if the mining and drilling corporations are mostly pretty bad. Fact is most private enterprises choose profits over ethics, unless they see a long term cost from the unethical behavior.
Management jobs get paid more to motivate them to do what the higher bosses want, which is often different than the right thing. If you do that for a while you will gain pay grade. When a situation comes up that seem worth it to you, do the right thing. If it is really the right thing, you're unlikely to get fired. You are likely to find your self back in a technical job with more pay.
I have spent years alternating between tech and mgmt roles ratcheting my salary up. Reorganizations and ownership changes make for great opportunities.
A couple decades ago, the US security agencies pushed hard for the industry to standardize on a encryption chip that allowed legal wiretaps. Unfortunately, it wasn't as secure as they thought and actually allowed rather easy decryption.
The studio was the setting for the Broadway play "Million dollar quartet" which offered a nice re-imagining of what it was like there, as well as some classic music.
Lots of companies make requests like this, or more benign looking stuff like asking that you donate to particular causes and telling someone so the company can effectively claim credit for your donation. The request is cheap and might give the company something it values.
But if it values you as an employee, the companies' request will be polite and ignoring it, or refusing politely, will have little or no impact on your pay or retention. Making a big stink about it, tho, will hurt your future unless it was already controversial in the executive suite.
It is all about fitting in with the culture, and few companies have a consistent one across engineering, marketing, and finance. If they did, Dilbert could never have succeeded.
I used to keep bees, but after the FDA approved this class of insecticides (~2004) none of my colonies made it over the winter. The law is that bee-lethal insecticides cannot be used where bees are present, but FDA made an exception for these "systemic insecticides" despite documented evidence of bee harm. I learned about this by 2006 and believe one of my neighbors was an early adopter of this bee poison. I am still waiting for FDA to reverse this approval.
CCD started getting press soon after, as beekeeping started to dwindle. The cause was controversial, because it wasn't a simple poisoning; the affected bees just disappeared from the hive. The history, and FDA test documents, we're really pretty clear. Bayer and other manufacturers have fought long and hard to keep selling their poison. This study is just one more in a long series. Sometimes they get coverage, usually not.
The/. comments are interesting, because HFCS has little to do with the story. Bees get the insecticide from nectar and pollen from dosed plants, including fruit trees, that circulate it throughout their system. The test added the insecticide to the HFCS that the bees were being fed, and the authors commented on the difficulty of measuring its concentration in the syrup and speculated on the amount in commercially available corn syrup. The GMO corn doesn't seem to actually have anything to do with the story. I am amused that an issue that is important to me is getting so much play for the worst of reasons.
You must know other students who code, trade reviews with friends.
One problem is that to do a decent job of reviewing code, you need to know what it is supposed to do. Practice writing requirements, program specifications, design documents or whatever fits the development style you are being taught, but you will probably have to explain a lot verbally to your friend unless you are amazing. Then he can give you a meaningful review and your users will have a more valuable product.
Doing the reviews of a friends code will teach you as much as getting yours reviewed does. You may be surprised at how much work it takes to make good suggestions for improvement. Also, there is a skill to offering criticism in a way that it will be accepted instead of generating anger.
There are development styles based on this practice, I hope you have good luck with it.
Umberto Eco has a publishing company driving the action in FP and describes much of the cryptic activity that drives the economics of the business. There are forces at work that drive pricing that you might not expect.
BTW I just finished the Kindle edition, and was really irritated by the obvious typos from scanning artifacts. Admittedly, that is a hard book for a spell checker, but seeing "c" instead of "e" in common words a dozen times is unacceptable when they charge more than for a paperback.
Reading your question I didn't see anything to say what your interests and talents are. Despite modesty, you show some writing talent. Your output will improve with practice. The responses mostly assumed a typical/. profile of procedural coding and systems, but that may not be you. Some of the basics apply no matter, online is harder because of competition unless you have an advantage.
Think through your education and interests. Decide whether the marketing, accounting, bureaucracy, and risk of your own business is worth some multiplier on your pay. Talk to people around you about what might work, and ask relevant businesses (newspapers, ad agencies, etc,) about possibilities.
The motive is (IMHO) most likely to express and increase their power over the people affected rather than the stated one. Eliminate something that gives those people power, and show them how weak they are against their new rulers.
Before slideshow software this was how we made slideshows. No joke - special camera and all that.
I expect it was really an issue of rare and pricy hardware, not software at all. Circa 1965 I used a CRT attached to an IBM 9094 that wrote on 35mm film with a software library for FORTRAN II to produce slides for presentations. Part of the job was making 8x10 prints of the slides in the frat house darkroom fo my boss to review. My boss had a good budget and could pay the rediculously high per-second prices for use of the equipment.
Once graphic displays became cheap, taking pictures of them was probably a cheap hack to avoid buying a plotter that could draw full sized overheads. CRT cameras had been built for decades by then.
It is not a system that can be suppressed by local authorities or infrastructure disruption. It works with only 2 people, a little equipment out of the attic, and a few watts of electricity. In many earthquakes, hurricanes and foreign revolutions it was the primary way news got out.
I have been surprised buy the lack of news attention ham reports get lately, but perhaps people on both ends had been spoiled by how well the Internet works.
Slashdot Mirror
Indeed there are lots of variables needed to define what "how many bits were sent in this time period" means. And even more to define "offered bandwidth".
This is classic work for standards committees. I'd bet there is a standard for calculating "net weight" on cans of olives. I haven't heard of relevant standards for data. Maybe T1 could be convinced to address the need.
There are lots of ways to find people who are likely to be interested in the positions you have open: advertise in the right places, look at people who have made visible contributions, get your existing staff to recommend friends etc.. It takes time and effort and the work is commonly contracted out to headhunters by larger companies.
News coverage is the best form of advertising and lots of media are happy to cover hiring news involving large numbers from decent companies. Some readers are going to be very interested. Getting that coverage is its own art form.
High pay by itself isn't going find anyone, but it might make somebody interested in moving from someplace that doesn't pay as well. It also increases the chance of your offer being accepted.
I am in a neighborhood with choices in broadband, and have considered buying redundancy. Current promo options make it very feasible.
Comcast here has reliability issues due both to overhead wires that go out for days(annually), and an irritating tendency to show lag (or momentary outages) in the 10-90 second range(daily or worse). I assume the latter is due to doing service on the live system, but is impossible for me to diagnose as it is gone before I can characterize the problem to even complain.
I wouldn't mind adding a cheap DSL if I can bond the two in a way to improve my service, but I am not clear how to do that. True bonded service might work, but I don't know how to set that up on two IP addresses. My current router won't do it, and I haven't looked into equipment choices.
Any suggestions?
Ham radio and many non-radio amateurs took on IP communications use due to the Ka9q platform. One of the early success stories for open source.
The article hints that this tech is published but not patented. Way to go!
If true we can expect many implementations in record time, lots of manufacturers trying out variations and producing affordable products.
On the other hand, if they set huge license fees on the patent it is highly likely that the only licensees will fail to produce a successfull product, and at best it becomes a niche feature for systems where it has exceptional value. For spacecraft that cannot be repaired the value is huge, for your cellphone it is a nice but marginally valuable feature.
TOR is the next step of escalation. The cyberwar arms race has been going on for a long time, and it's it's not just governments.
Horse (& cow) traders in the Midwest caused a surge of demand for cell phone encryption in the early 90's when news of how easily one could tap FM cell calls got out. The FCC's stand was that they were secure because listening in was illegal, even if the needed equipment was sold at Radio Shack.
With the swing to digital, the quality of analog electronics (like amplifiers, detectors, and rf modulators) seems to have declined. Analog devices used to contain adjustable coils, capacitors, and pots to match resonant frequencies in those assemblies, and the alignment procedures set them to precision far beyond the purchasable steps. Depending on the situation and the skill of the tech this might just require a plastic screwdriver, or also scopes, signal generators and/or frequency counters.
Because components drift with time, loss of output or sensitivity was common with age and curable with redoing the alignment. The symptoms he describes fit.
Actually, our territory runs from Norway to Russia, and despite discrimination that made my grandparents pass for Finns there are really quite a few of us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people
Beware our drums!
Is your cultural heritage Saami, and has that culture had any influence on your development efforts?
You can't really reach a consensus on many issues when such differences exist. Democracy makes the Majority "right" so it is important not to let their views go unchallenged.
I have an intuitive feel that there is something wrong about price discrimination, but cannot justify it intellectually. I think it comes down to a sense that I should fight for a better price if it is achievable.
Given that the owner of a product should have the choice to sell or not in any particular circumstance there is nothing wrong with price descrimination. Wrongfull motives on the part of the seller (we don't serve your kind here) are an exception.
But I also see nothing wrong in taking advantage of that descrimination to get the lower price, even if it defeats the seller's intent. Deleting cookies, dressing down to buy a car, going to a store in a different neighborhood all are perfectly ok with me. I am not so sure about outright lies (my son is only 5) but YMMV.
I thought it is currently considered best practice to move ssh to some other port on any Internet connection.
Mechanical and civil engineering need a lot of processing power to optimize designs and analyze them for safety. That's all good work.
Siesmography data needs lots of analysis to see what is underground, that's useful work even if the mining and drilling corporations are mostly pretty bad. Fact is most private enterprises choose profits over ethics, unless they see a long term cost from the unethical behavior.
Management jobs get paid more to motivate them to do what the higher bosses want, which is often different than the right thing. If you do that for a while you will gain pay grade. When a situation comes up that seem worth it to you, do the right thing. If it is really the right thing, you're unlikely to get fired. You are likely to find your self back in a technical job with more pay.
I have spent years alternating between tech and mgmt roles ratcheting my salary up. Reorganizations and ownership changes make for great opportunities.
A couple decades ago, the US security agencies pushed hard for the industry to standardize on a encryption chip that allowed legal wiretaps. Unfortunately, it wasn't as secure as they thought and actually allowed rather easy decryption.
Of course, that was due to stupidity, not malice.
The studio was the setting for the Broadway play "Million dollar quartet" which offered a nice re-imagining of what it was like there, as well as some classic music.
Lots of companies make requests like this, or more benign looking stuff like asking that you donate to particular causes and telling someone so the company can effectively claim credit for your donation. The request is cheap and might give the company something it values.
But if it values you as an employee, the companies' request will be polite and ignoring it, or refusing politely, will have little or no impact on your pay or retention. Making a big stink about it, tho, will hurt your future unless it was already controversial in the executive suite.
It is all about fitting in with the culture, and few companies have a consistent one across engineering, marketing, and finance. If they did, Dilbert could never have succeeded.
I used to keep bees, but after the FDA approved this class of insecticides (~2004) none of my colonies made it over the winter. The law is that bee-lethal insecticides cannot be used where bees are present, but FDA made an exception for these "systemic insecticides" despite documented evidence of bee harm. I learned about this by 2006 and believe one of my neighbors was an early adopter of this bee poison. I am still waiting for FDA to reverse this approval.
CCD started getting press soon after, as beekeeping started to dwindle. The cause was controversial, because it wasn't a simple poisoning; the affected bees just disappeared from the hive. The history, and FDA test documents, we're really pretty clear. Bayer and other manufacturers have fought long and hard to keep selling their poison. This study is just one more in a long series. Sometimes they get coverage, usually not.
The /. comments are interesting, because HFCS has little to do with the story. Bees get the insecticide from nectar and pollen from dosed plants, including fruit trees, that circulate it throughout their system. The test added the insecticide to the HFCS that the bees were being fed, and the authors commented on the difficulty of measuring its concentration in the syrup and speculated on the amount in commercially available corn syrup. The GMO corn doesn't seem to actually have anything to do with the story. I am amused that an issue that is important to me is getting so much play for the worst of reasons.
There is a series of very amusing ones on the subject.
You must know other students who code, trade reviews with friends.
One problem is that to do a decent job of reviewing code, you need to know what it is supposed to do. Practice writing requirements, program specifications, design documents or whatever fits the development style you are being taught, but you will probably have to explain a lot verbally to your friend unless you are amazing. Then he can give you a meaningful review and your users will have a more valuable product.
Doing the reviews of a friends code will teach you as much as getting yours reviewed does. You may be surprised at how much work it takes to make good suggestions for improvement. Also, there is a skill to offering criticism in a way that it will be accepted instead of generating anger.
There are development styles based on this practice, I hope you have good luck with it.
Umberto Eco has a publishing company driving the action in FP and describes much of the cryptic activity that drives the economics of the business. There are forces at work that drive pricing that you might not expect.
BTW I just finished the Kindle edition, and was really irritated by the obvious typos from scanning artifacts. Admittedly, that is a hard book for a spell checker, but seeing "c" instead of "e" in common words a dozen times is unacceptable when they charge more than for a paperback.
Reading your question I didn't see anything to say what your interests and talents are. Despite modesty, you show some writing talent. Your output will improve with practice. The responses mostly assumed a typical /. profile of procedural coding and systems, but that may not be you. Some of the basics apply no matter, online is harder because of competition unless you have an advantage.
Think through your education and interests. Decide whether the marketing, accounting, bureaucracy, and risk of your own business is worth some multiplier on your pay. Talk to people around you about what might work, and ask relevant businesses (newspapers, ad agencies, etc,) about possibilities.
Good luck!
The motive is (IMHO) most likely to express and increase their power over the people affected rather than the stated one. Eliminate something that gives those people power, and show them how weak they are against their new rulers.
Before slideshow software this was how we made slideshows. No joke - special camera and all that.
I expect it was really an issue of rare and pricy hardware, not software at all. Circa 1965 I used a CRT attached to an IBM 9094 that wrote on 35mm film with a software library for FORTRAN II to produce slides for presentations. Part of the job was making 8x10 prints of the slides in the frat house darkroom fo my boss to review. My boss had a good budget and could pay the rediculously high per-second prices for use of the equipment.
Once graphic displays became cheap, taking pictures of them was probably a cheap hack to avoid buying a plotter that could draw full sized overheads. CRT cameras had been built for decades by then.
It is not a system that can be suppressed by local authorities or infrastructure disruption. It works with only 2 people, a little equipment out of the attic, and a few watts of electricity. In many earthquakes, hurricanes and foreign revolutions it was the primary way news got out.
I have been surprised buy the lack of news attention ham reports get lately, but perhaps people on both ends had been spoiled by how well the Internet works.