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Originally Posted by Reverant
(Post 713051)
It's called "making you buy the optional 2nd paper tray". Even if the printer doesn't accept a second paper tray.
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Originally Posted by turotufas
(Post 712534)
Pulled on an RB swapped 240sx in 4th gear today.
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._6450762_n.jpg And did my first drifting event. :fawk: http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._1732709_n.jpg http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._3551545_n.jpg |
yeah brah sick tow hooks dawg.
On another note, I am writing my college extracurricular resume right now and I realized that I have three things to put on it, one of which is my job. Fuck. |
Killer toe hook bro I like hwo you put the car on the hook so the hook can move around on it's own. good build dued
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Originally Posted by Pen2_the_penguin
(Post 713348)
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Not impressed. So they start with a small spot and edit the video...for all we know, that took an hour to get going lol
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Having your girl request to get the "P-car" fixed before replacing the toilet is Pure Win! :makeout:
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Ever wonder what happens when you smoke crack?
Well here it is- http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...standard=false 2004 Mazdaspeed MX-5 Price $18,500 Mileage 108,000 |
Oh wow! Only 8K over blue book if in excellent condition. Yes, plz! :giggle:
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There was a SNC NA with like 60k miles for 11 grand up here at a stealership at one point.
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If a computer scientist/Mechanical Engineer/Electrical Engineer/Techie could answer these questions, I would be very grateful. Must have a college degree, it's for an assignment.
1. What is your job title? 2. How did you choose this career? 3. What are your daily responsibilities 4. What kind of skills do you need to perform your job? Did your major in college help you gain these skills? What was your major? 5. How much education or training is required or recommended for this occupation? What kind of degree would you recommend for someone going into this profession? 6. How many hours per week do you work? Are you expected to do overtime? 7. What kind of personality is best suited for this career? 8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of your job? 9. Do you feel that your salary compensates you appropriately for the amount of work you do? 10. What can you tell me about advancement opportunities? Do you need to update your skills/education to ensure advancement? 11. What do you see as the future outlook for this job? Are there going to be jobs available in this field in 5 years? 12. What kind of work experience or volunteer experience would help me find out if I am interest in this profession? I would appreciate anyone who answered. |
Originally Posted by rider384
(Post 713408)
1. What is your job title?
2. How did you choose this career? When I was 16 years old, I was the A/V geek at our high school. Among other things, this meant that I was the one who wound up loading the big PA system into my little VW Beetle (with all the seats removed) and setting it up anytime somebody needed it. One saturday afternoon, I had set up a gig in the parking lot of the local community auditorium, and found that my cassette player had stopped working. With only about 30 minutes before "go" time I couldn't drive back and get another one. Across the street, I saw a radio station van with the mast up, doing a remote at a local car dealership. I ran over there, went to the van, and pleaded my case to the guy with the headphones, who took pity on me and gave me a spare cassette machine. As it turns out, the guy doing the remote was also the owner of the radio station, and after his gig was over, he walked across the street and offered me a job setting up remotes and running the station during baseball games evenings and weekends. This job turned into sort of a mentor / apprentice relationship. Over the next couple of years, he schooled me in broadcast engineering, equipment maintenance, etc. By the time I graduated high school, I'd rebuilt a 20 kilowatt FM transmitter, installed and tuned a 5k FM rig, learned editing, built a new remote van, read every manual in the place, done all sorts of studio maintenance and upgrades, and logged quite a bit of airtime. So by the time I was ready to go to college, I pretty much already had a "career". 3. What are your daily responsibilities 4. What kind of skills do you need to perform your job? Did your major in college help you gain these skills? What was your major? I spend a lot of time doing black-box analysis. Essentially, once you have a system which is sufficiently complex, you can't really validate it or look for problems by just staring at the code. You have to actually build it, and then prod it in unique and interesting ways while looking at how it responds. To an extent, you have to anthropomorphize the machine, put yourself inside it, try to imagine scenarios in which it might respond inappropriately, and then test those theories. For whatever reason, this is a skill that a lot of people, even very smart people, don't seem to be able to master. Our lead programmer will sometimes argue with me that such-and-such is impossible, and I'll argue that no, if you do this and then this and then this, that I predict that some mechanism will react in this way, and then we go and actually construct a test for it. Sometimes it fails the way I predicted, sometimes it works like he said it would, and sometimes it goes off and does something totally unexpected that requires me to spend the next week analyzing the results, trying to figure out what the hell the machine was thinking, and devise new tests to zero in on whatever weird thing happened. They don't teach this stuff in school. Well, maybe in Philosophy. I only know one guy who studied Philosophy, and he's a bartender. There's also a hell of a lot of failure-mode analysis. Now, they do teach that to mech and civil engineering guys, but that's mostly about figuring out why a bridge collapsed or the wing fell off of an airplane. I've never heard of FMA being a hot topic for EE or CS guys. FMA in software, particularly for complex, networked systems, is still sort of a black art. It's actually kind of fun, but most guys simply suck at it for the same reasons they suck at black-box analysis. Looking over a months' worth of syslog data and core dumps to figure out why a machine did something a week ago that was poorly described by some stoned overnight jock earning minimum wage to sit in a chair and push a button every few minutes requires an almost zen-like comprehension. One of the guys here jokes that I look like Neo staring into the Matrix when I'm in that mode. 5. How much education or training is required or recommended for this occupation? What kind of degree would you recommend for someone going into this profession? 6. How many hours per week do you work? Are you expected to do overtime? I honestly like it better this way. It's less boring. 7. What kind of personality is best suited for this career? For my particular job, it's more a cross between a sadomasochist and an alchemist. 8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of your job? Disadvantages: This wouldn't work if I had a wife and kids. 9. Do you feel that your salary compensates you appropriately for the amount of work you do? 10. What can you tell me about advancement opportunities? Do you need to update your skills/education to ensure advancement? 11. What do you see as the future outlook for this job? Are there going to be jobs available in this field in 5 years? The rest of the guys here could probably jump ship and land a similar job doing boring circuit design for any one of a number of companies. 12. What kind of work experience or volunteer experience would help me find out if I am interest in this profession? |
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 713454)
I honestly have no idea. I've never had to apply for a job. The thought that I might someday have to do so scares the shit out of me.
I went back through my gmail one day after landing my current gig. I started applying in June of '09 and sent over 100 resumes out. Could have been more that I didnt send through my gmail. I accepted this job in Nov of '10, didnt get onboard until Feb of '11. Had at least 40 phone interviews, and maybe 20 in person, 5 had me come back for a second, 1 a third, 2 had more do "skills tests", 1 hired me. I had the chance to work with Newt Communications for Newt Gingrich's PR firm, however, they didn't want to pay me enough to live. |
Thanks Joe, I greatly appreciate it. What do you mean by "thinking abstractly" though? Abstract thought to solve problems by non-traditional standards? Finding different paths to the same solutions?
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Finding logic in that which appears to make no sense. Discerning patterns in that which appears to be random.
It seems like the majority of the people who I work with are just too deeply imbued of the philosophy that if A, then B. And 99% of the time, they're absolutely correct. But sometimes, once you've constructed a sufficiently large, complex device, or an array of small, simple devices interacting in a cooperative fashion, ghosts can arise in the machine. Individual circuits or individual pieces of software might behave in perfectly predictable, orderly ways when tested individually. But put them all together and they sometimes behave in ways that you didn't expect and which may seem nondeterministic until you figure out why they aren't. In other words, sometimes 2 + 2 = 5, for unusually large values of 2. Some people just can't see that. |
Originally Posted by Godless Commie
(Post 713354)
How come they did not choose to obliterate something that would cost the taxpayer far less dough, like an empty barrel, I fail to grasp.
What I want to know is if you can defeat the laser by painting or covering the engine cowl with something highly reflective. |
Originally Posted by ZX-Tex
(Post 713542)
What I want to know is if you can defeat the laser by painting or covering the engine cowl with something highly reflective.
Anybody see the Archimedes Death Ray episodes of Mythbusters? |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 713626)
I want to know if you can defeat the laser by moving forward a few feet.
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