Comment Re:Do not trust Google (Score 1) 53
/s Now that can't be true. Wasn't their motto "Do no Evil"? /s
Comment Re:So who's going to pay for that? (Score 1) 34
Yeah, sounds like fairy tales and unicorns to me. Other than government jobs and the executive suite, I've never seen this magic "paying for training" thing in my career... and I'm closer to retirement than starting out.
Submission + - Lockheed Martin to build high-energy airborne laser for fighter planes (newatlas.com)
Big Hairy Ian writes: In a move that could revolutionize aerial combat, the US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) has awarded Lockheed Martin a US$26.3 million contract to design, develop, and produce a high-power laser weapon that the AFRL wants to install and test on a tactical fighter jet by 2021. The new test weapon is part of the AFRL Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) program tasked with developing airborne laser systems.
Airborne laser weapons are nothing new. Experimental lasers mounted on aircraft date back to the US Strategic Defense Initiative of the 1980s, but producing a practical weapon system has proven difficult. Previous attempts have resulted in dodgy chemical laser weapons so bulky that they had to be mounted in a 747, but the development of solid state fiber optic lasers is starting to change the game.
Airborne laser weapons are nothing new. Experimental lasers mounted on aircraft date back to the US Strategic Defense Initiative of the 1980s, but producing a practical weapon system has proven difficult. Previous attempts have resulted in dodgy chemical laser weapons so bulky that they had to be mounted in a 747, but the development of solid state fiber optic lasers is starting to change the game.
Submission + - Your visual skills are not correlated to your IQ (vanderbilt.edu)
Science_afficionado writes: Psychologists at Vanderbilt University have conducted the first study of individual variation in visual ability. They have discovered that there is a broad range of differences in people’s capability for recognizing and remembering novel objects and this ability is NOT associated with individuals’ general intelligence, or IQ.
Comment Missed the target... (Score 1) 353
The question never is and never has been "public vs private"; rather, it is always does THAT SPECIFIC JOB match your needs, goals and personal style? I've worked at both and probably will continue doing so (currently, its private).
Two other comments: (1) I've found that the size of the organization has more bearing on the style than whether its private or public. Large organizations are almost always fairly bureaucratic, smaller ones tend to be much more familiar and dynamic (and riskier to work for) (2) I find the stereotype of lazy/incompetent public sector employees very misleading: there are idiots, a**holes, and various types of difficult people everywhere. Identify them, and avoid (or quit, if they are your boss or otherwise unavoidable/unbearable)
Two other comments: (1) I've found that the size of the organization has more bearing on the style than whether its private or public. Large organizations are almost always fairly bureaucratic, smaller ones tend to be much more familiar and dynamic (and riskier to work for) (2) I find the stereotype of lazy/incompetent public sector employees very misleading: there are idiots, a**holes, and various types of difficult people everywhere. Identify them, and avoid (or quit, if they are your boss or otherwise unavoidable/unbearable)
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