Right on. The only thing is that analog is increasingly becoming integrated into SOCs which erodes the domain of a pure analog engineer (at least at the board level). There is still huge demand for system hardware engineers with a strong background in analog but also adept at scripting and dealing with digital systems and in fact, at my company in the bay we have tons of vacancies for analog system engineers. Our problem is in finding candidates with enough breadth and experience. Incidentally, if anyone is looking and fits the bill....

More likely a gimmick by Dolby Laboratories, Inc (NYSE:DLB) to sell more audio processors and make more money.

For the record, you don't wave solder a BGA, you reflow solder it. Hopefully your company takes a fraction of your big bucks and pays a manufacturing engineer that actually knows what they are doing.

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Maybe worth a try?

Another good comparison: Schneier calculated, conservatively, in his recent summary of the situation, that the scanners are probably safe enough to only cause deadly cancer in 16 out of every billion passengers. An acceptable risk, perhaps--but *still* greater than the chances of being killed by a terrorist.

I think you mean Motorola is further splitting themselves up after having spun off its semiconductor components division as On Semi in 1999 and its semiconductor products division as Freescale (arguably the 'real' Motorola - inventor of the 68000 uP) in 2004. Motorola at this point is just an uninspired electronics company with little to no relevance in consumer handheld devices that also makes crummy radios and network products.

I agree that it doesn't make sense for the address bar to suggest slashdot because you type an 'o' but in my experience, the awesome bar does a pretty good job of getting out of the way once you type the first few characters of the url you actually want. For instance, as soon as I type 'ou' then it brings up Outlook so I can get to my work email. I hadn't even realized that they added this seldom useful 'feature' until this poll brought attention to it.

This bothers me way less than microsoft reinventing their entire UI to something less functional for no other reason than to be more lowest-common-denominator macintosh-like such as by getting rid of the 'up' folder navigation button and to get rid of menu bars entirely in favor of esoteric icons that are impossible to figure out by glance.

Thank god you can still get new machines with XP preloaded through Dell Small Business. I guess I will have to learn how to use Linux after that stops being the case.

I was just in the Incheon airport and not only do they have free wifi throughout the terminal, but many internet PCs freely available for anyone to use. I guess the real news here is that someone passed up on an opportunity to charge $2/hr or whatever for wifi in this country.

Thankfully my town has a really great local source for impartial reviews of every restaurant in town so we don't have to deal with yelp or citysearch or whatever:

http://www.santabarbara.com/Dining/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermilab#Failure_of_magnets

I didn't realize that Fermilab had supplied the component that failed and brought down the LHC until coming across this tidbit in wikipedia.
 
How convenient for Fermilab that they have found (bought?) themselves more time to beat LHC to the higgs punch.

There is a free open source alternative to Eagle called Kicad for schematic drawing and pcb layout. I have never tried it because I use DXdesigner at the office and my personal projects have not yet exceeded the capability of expresspcb.

I would probably go with eagle if I were setting up a new design shop because there is something to be said for having paid support people available to help when needed.