Yeah. Some sort of celebration seems to be in order but my friends on the course still have exams for other modules and my housemates are all but one going to Majorca today = =
So Final Fantasy XIII is the current plan. It's taken me three years to get around to it.
I'm firmware... but I work in a division called "drive side"
Basically, we work on three different pieces of specialized hardware
The preamp, which is actually located on the spindle arm inside the disk... and actually controls the magnetic signal.
The channel, which is arguably the core function of the control chip... it marshalls and transforms the data from binary data to something that can be stored on magnetic media (and back again)
And then we have an internal custom processor that controls most of the core timing elements. I wrote our custom compiler for that. (the newest version anyways)
I'm not one of the integration guys... they actually work mostly with hardware, and not so much with the control software
I like the sound of more project-driven CS work... I need to start looking for a job soon but for my own sanity I need to find something as dissimilar as possible to University work
Ironically... that happened while I was living in Japan, was using Linux/KDE on my laptop, and was annoyed that they were dropping the Japanese/English dictionary from the educational package
Yeah... started working on it, saw some genuinely good API design in Qt (first good one I had seen), and started learning about library design and compiler limitations
Got a job at IBM in the Linux Tech Center, working on the math libraries
That was fun... but Drepper is every bit the #*@hole he has the reputation for being
Left there, picked up a job doing ground control software for some instruments that are up on the ISS
Then there was a major hardware bug, and I ended up rewriting the flight system as well
(all of this time, I'm theoretically a grad student)
Finally decided to finish that up, did a horrid job of a thesis, but it was good enough for what I now saw as a third rate college program, basically because a friend told me I should come work for Hitachi :)
I don't know, isn't that somewhat covered by the "We have developed along different lines, but there is no reason why one should not supplement the other" part?
i took it as a desire for mutual understanding, inclusivity and co-operation
'This is the verb "知る"'s "semantic feature", and I believe that it is appropriate to think that it has it's origins in the "mental picture=acknowledgement of the present state" in which we hold "知る".'
@Flaw You're translation of "これ" is not appropriate. A not necessarily natural but somewhat literal translation: "Regarding this fact, I think it is appropriate to think that it is due to the 'semantic features' of the verb '知る' and the image (= the way we perceive) that we have against '知る'.