Gail wrote:

> You may not always get paid to write open source, but it's good practice 
> at writing real applications and working with (lots) of other people, 
> and it looks very good on a CV

You're not the first person to point this out.

Unfortunately, it requires real talent. (And, usually, C/C++ skills.)

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> Well, I had a diagram for a circuit where you connect a lamp to the 
> battery through a linear potentiometer. The brightness of the lamp 
> varies roughly linearly. But the brightness of an LED... does not.

LED brightness is proportional to current not voltage!

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> losers they were! I still remember the weekly paper fights. Oh, and the
> C'paddy races. (The objective being to say the word "c'paddy" the most
> times in 60 seconds.) Like, WTF?

Was there running and wrestling at the same time? If so, could be this:

http://www.kabaddi.org/History.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabaddi

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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> losers they were! I still remember the weekly paper fights. Oh, and the
>> C'paddy races. (The objective being to say the word "c'paddy" the most
>> times in 60 seconds.) Like, WTF?
> 
> Was there running and wrestling at the same time? If so, could be this:
> 
> http://www.kabaddi.org/History.htm
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabaddi

...OK, I think that's possibly even more insane than c'paddy races! o_O

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Invisible wrote:
> MOST companies need salesmen. Not all of them, but most of them.

Every company needs at least one salesman. Sometimes that person is also 
(say) the inventor, president, and CEO, tho. :-)

>> Most jobs requiring competence don't advertise. It's mostly 
>> word-of-mouth.
> 
> ....and since I don't know anybody, it's not going to be me.

That is definitely a stumbling block.  Another kind of thing you learn 
at school...

> SOME people want somebody who can definitely do the job RIGHT NOW. 

Yes. And not infrequently, those are exactly the companies you don't 
want to work for, because everything is a broken mess and they don't 
have any money to pay you even if they knew what they wanted.  At least 
in the software world.

> (E.g., I suspect if you applied to work for Google,

Not if their interview process is anything to go on.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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Invisible wrote:
> How many resistors can you see? Because I count NONE!

I look at an Intel chip stuck to my motherboard, and I don't see any 
transitors, either.  The gate-level logic is working with bits, not 
voltages. You're not going to see the analog stuff that makes the bits 
work there.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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Invisible wrote:
> Wait a sec - so you're saying there are devices which actually violate 
> Ohm's law?

There are devices whose resistance changes over time, depending on what 
the current is doing.

Inca descent light bulbs.  Florescent light bulbs, for a different 
reason. Capacitors. Inductors. Basically pretty much everything except a 
plain old resistor.

They're not violating Ohm's law. They're just changing resistance.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> How many resistors can you see? Because I count NONE!
> 
> I look at an Intel chip stuck to my motherboard, and I don't see any 
> transitors, either.  The gate-level logic is working with bits, not 
> voltages. You're not going to see the analog stuff that makes the bits 
> work there.

...which is why I'd rather work at the gate-level. ;-)

-- 
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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Invisible wrote:

> Now, see, I've never been able to comprehend stuff like this. To me, 
> this diagram just looks like when you close the switch, all the current 
> will flow straight from one rail to the other, shorting out the battery 
> and not providing any current at all to the input of the gate.

Nope, some will be dumped, but not much, besides its a 10K ohm 
resisitor. Most current will go to the NOT gate.

Play with this applet for a bit...

http://www.falstad.com/circuit/e-resistors.html

-- 
~Mike

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On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:19:36 +0000, Invisible wrote:

>>> Yeah - maybe I should get said to write open source software?
>>>
>>> Oh, wait...
>> 
>> http://www.novell.com/careers
>> 
>> Getting paid for developing open source does happen.
> 
> Yeah, it does - just not particularly often. ;-)

Tell that to all of those employees here or at RedHat who get paid.

But there is an added advantage to working on OSS projects - helps build 
a resume and people can see your work.

Jim

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