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China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings

posted by mrpg on Thursday April 26 2018, @03:05PM   
from the magfly dept.

Anonymous Cow Herd writes:

[...] "When the train cruises at its optimal speed of 500 km/h, the energy it consumes is roughly one third of that of current high-speed trains in commercial service and one sixth of the maglev trains," according to Lai.

The new design of an annular spoiler is one of the highlights of the novel aerotrain. Different from the traditional, vertical spoilers which tend to produce unstable airflow, the annular spoiler can increase the lift-drag ratio by 30% to 40%.'

Source: China, Japan co-developing an 'aerotrain' with wings

Meanwhile, in California's Silicon Valley, recruiters - from across the country, with broken English skills - are trying to force everyone to work as a temporary employee, for hourly wages last seen - by everyone except H1-Bs - in the 1990s.

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• Re:Recruiters? (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday April 27 2018, @02:10PM

  by Thexalon (636) on Friday April 27 2018, @02:10PM (#672582)

  It's not some huge, time-consuming job to get an account on a few job sites and post a job or look at resumes, if you're just looking for one or two people.

  How many resumes have you sifted through, out of curiosity? Because I've been on the hiring side of this, and there is real work involved in going through all of them. There are even some management books that advise you to take your stack of resumes and immediately throw half of them in the trash unread, because the odds are that you'll find an equally good candidate in the half you read.

  If the hiring manager is this incompetent about the job of the person who they'd be managing, and they think some loser who has no engineering degree is better for selecting an experienced engineer than they are, that's not a company you want to work for.

  The best job I've ever had was a situation like this. They knew that the person they'd had in the job before me wasn't up to the task, and the contracting firms they'd previously hired also weren't able to make things better, and the hiring manager was probably the most technically skilled person they had and was in over their head too. They hired me as the only programmer in the shop, I spent the first couple of months fixing their many glaring problems, and for the remainder of my time working there I was trusted to the point where I could do pretty much whatever I wanted however I wanted. I even got a private office, could sometimes work from home, and there was no expectation of overtime or on-call responsibilities.

  Oh, and a recruiter was involved in that transaction.

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  The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.

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