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Computer Engineering is more structured than computer science. They approach the subject more methodically. You tend to get a more technical outlook on things. (i.e. in networking the engineers look more at numbers such as bandwidth and delay times, where the computer scientists may look more at how the overall TCP/IP structure works). Many of the upper level classes here in Computer Engineering & Computer Science overlap.

Computer Science in general is more "free and artsy" as a friend of mine said the other day. I think computer science people also get more low level experience, although they have plenty of application developing experience also.

Ideas of focus for computer engineers:Software design & designing hardware
Ideas for Computer scientists: programming/software design, graphics, designing & improving algorithms
of course those are just a few...

Have fun whatever you choose!!!!

and American, though Samuel Clemens' pro-American Anti-European themes (cf. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the Prince and the Dauphin episode) may cause European critic to give him short shrift.

It's not surprise that Mark Twain has not been mentioned yet, as he's basically become a non-person thanks to the overwhelming political correctness movement on high school and college campuses (sorry, there were slaves, they were called the n-word, if you would read Huck Finn you would see that n-word Jim is perhaps the most moving, fully fleshed and capable character in the book, but capable black people are shunned by the PC movement, look at the tarring of C. Thomas 10 years ago), though in defense of /.'s own resident attorney, his education probably has huge holes in it due to the extensive studying in law that his curriculym demanded, to the disclusion of humanities, an all to similar fate affects most /.er's, sadly.

For a good appreciation of the debt SF owes Mark Twain, try a search engine, or here.

All you l33t hax0rs are so very, very dada .

You hack little childrens' toys.. why? to show your friends?

NO! To sneak them back onto the shelves in order to indoctrinate little kids with counter-cultural messages....

right?

PLEASE tell me you are spending all this time with the hopes of doing something USEFUL...

...please??

don_carnage wrote:

Um...here's a good question: why the hell are we using punch cards still for something as important as an election?

Because they are (usually) easy to use, reliable, and can be quickly tallied with inexpensive equipment, saving on both volunteer time and equipment purchases. Granted, in Palm Beach they were used badly, but that isn't grounds to condemn the system as a whole.

Shouldn't we be using technology that isn't 50 years old?

Punched cards are much more than fifty years old. They were used in Jaquard looms since around 1810, I don't know if there are earlier uses recorded or not, but that makes them almost 200 year old technology right there. They were also heavily used in the 1890 census (and most censuses since).

Also, what's wrong with using old technology for something important? Old technology permits you to pick techniques that are proven and reliable. That is far more important than being "high-tech" for a presidential race. Don't you occasionally find yourself using a pen or pencil? Writing in that fashion is an even older technology than punched cards, and I don't see people throwing out their pens anytime soon.

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My state is going for Bush regardless, but I want to give whichever candidate wins as little reason as possible to interpret his victory as some kind of mandate.

I would also encourage everyone to vote in a manner calculated to not give the same party control of the White House and Congress. Neither major party's stated goals are worthy of wholesale adoption...

[Scene: Ravine floor. Ahead looms the dark of the Fire Swamp]

Westley: Ha! Your pig fiancé is too late. A few more steps and we'll be safe in the fire swamp.

Buttercup: We'll never survive.

Westley: Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.

(Quoted from here.)

Stefan.
It takes a lot of brains to enjoy satire, humor and wit-

It's run by the University of Iowa as an experiment, and they say it's legal.

Why not turn a stock offering into a poll to see if a stock will take off

Hal Duston
hald@sound.net

Another great example of a virtual community is UNCENSORED! BBS which has been dialup since 1988 and both dialup and Internet based for years, up to this day.

A simple Google search will turn up many, many other BBS systems, and the successful ones can claim to have a virtual community right there.
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Another great example of a virtual community is UNCENSORED! BBS which has been dialup since 1988 and both dialup and Internet based for years, up to this day.

A simple Google search will turn up many, many other BBS systems, and the successful ones can claim to have a virtual community right there.
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Long, long before Bill Gates, Altair, or the Homebrew Computer Club, there was Digital
Equipment Corporation's PDP-8 series of machines. To program these beasties, one
had a choice of the "switch register" (which gave many people, myself included, a permanent
callus on their index finger), or the noisy KSR-33 Teletypewriter, with handy paper-tape
reader attached.

DEC sold all sorts of software for the PDP-8 series, but I never saw a single paper tape with a
professional-looking label in years of work/play/messing about. Draw your own conclusions...

Programs were considered a way to show one's mental superiority, so everyone was happy to
make copies of their code for others. We felt complimented when asked for copies.

How did programmers earn a living? Well, not off EACH OTHER, that's for sure!

The concept of "free software" was nothing more than a basis for earning prestige among one's peers.
When "paying work" came knocking, one could be sure that multiple people would mention YOUR name
as being a good (perhaps the best!) person for that job. In short, we made money off COMPANIES ,
and gave freely to each other, not only of our time, but also of our code.

Bill Gates saw programmers themselves as "a market", and contributed NOTHING to the community of programmers, but instead, made himself known with his whining little letter, assuring himself of, FROM DAY ONE , the distain of both his betters and peers, if not actual dinner reservations in Hell.

His letter was widely circulated, greeted with snorts of disbelief, and ignored. The general consensus was that he had nothing to whine about, given that his so-called BASIC was worthless - it would not run "Star-Trek", "WUMPUS", or "Adventure" (the 3 most popular games of the day) due to massive bugs in the code. (Funny how so little has changed in the decades that have gone by...)

Sheesh... do you twenty-somethings think that you invented "open source"?
No way, you kids just wrapped all sorts of (silly) rules and (endless) talk around a situation that worked very well long before most of your parents were high school graduates.

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ notes7a.html

Straight from the link given in this google article posted just recently.

"Last November, as reported in Google likes directory sites, I discovered that Google had the uncanny ability to sniff out high-quality, but little-known directory sites. As I discussed in that article, Google was able to do this because it ranks sites according to how many people make links to them, and smart people everywhere learn that directories are important, so they make many links to them."

Then one can wonder about that actual article (Google Propping Up Yahoo In Search Results?), which is not quite as good news. But it still rocks. Plain and simple.

Google is the only search engine I use. Well except when Im lazy and I get me a WebBITCH (webhelp) . . . hehe.

/nutt

Doesn't seem that way to me. These guys are from Hardin MD. The directory in the graph and mentioned most often in the text is MedWebPlus. The only time the mention themselves it is to say:

While the Hardin MD pages kept about the same average (10th)...

I had a quick look myself using "hematology" as they did in the original survey. It looks a lot less concerning than they make out - there still seem to be plenty of directory sites. Perhaps they're suggesting that the MedWebPlus site has been singled out for negative treatment? Seems a bit paranoid.

One interesting result from my test is that the dmoz Open Directory page is ranked higher than Google's own copy. At least they don't seem to be favouring their own pages.

Finally, here's a tip for anyone concerned about this alleged favouring of Yahoo pages: exclude Yahoo from the search by using the advanced search options, or by including "-site:yahoo.com" in the query terms.

If you look, you will notice that the linked page is written by the people who aren't listed as high anymore.

Doesn't seem that way to me. These guys are from Hardin MD. The directory in the graph and mentioned most often in the text is MedWebPlus. The only time the mention themselves it is to say:

While the Hardin MD pages kept about the same average (10th)...

I don't think you can accuse them of crying over their "google ranking." It seems that they are just presenting what they have seen.

If you look, you will notice that the linked page is written by the people who aren't listed as high anymore.

Doesn't seem that way to me. These guys are from Hardin MD. The directory in the graph and mentioned most often in the text is MedWebPlus. The only time the mention themselves it is to say:

While the Hardin MD pages kept about the same average (10th)...

I don't think you can accuse them of crying over their "google ranking." It seems that they are just presenting what they have seen.

You'll get frostbite like you (and I've) never seen if you spill it on yourself or on objects in contact with you. Air has 20% oxygen; asphyxiation starts below 19.5%. You won't be parking in enclosed spaces.

Performing the calculations,
(22,238 miles X 1609.344 meters per mile)/(299,792,458 meters per second) X 4 trips = .47751 seconds.

See this Byte article for further discussion of TCP and latency. Also see this student article for a discussion of alternatives.

I missed this the last time it may have been mentioned on Slashdot, not being enlightened enough to visit the site back then, but I've long since mended my ways - and was pleasantly surprised to see this story. It actually granted me closure. *grin*

In 1991 or thereabouts, I participated in the Summer Institute for Creative Engineering and Inventiveness (SICEI, appropriately enough) held at the University of Iowa - a program in which high school students were given the chance to "delve into" certain types of research. I was part of the environment-oriented team, which focused on the use of poplar trees to remove pollutants - led by Lou Licht. We spent plenty of time both in the classroom and out in the Iowa country, learning about Lou's ideas and approaches. These and other activities would be my first exposure to engineering problem solving, drawing upon the book Consider a Spherical Cow. My experiences led me to pursue engineering as a major and a profession. (Now I'm a DBA, but that's beside the point.)

Today, seeing this article, I think about how Lou Licht - a vibrant individual whose enthusiasm rubbed off on at least one impressionable high schooler! - and his poplars are partially responsible for my reading Slashdot in the first place. Funny how things come around like that, I suppose, rolling around like bovine globes. Well, in the future, I'll be ready for when Lou, Slashdot, and I cross paths again. (And maybe I'll have a profound ecological thought, too!)

Kudos, Lou!

The Former Priestess of the Spherical Cow
Use what talent you possess:
the woods would be very silent if no birds sang
except those that sang best.

I believe you can find a shrinkit archive of Oregon Trail here

Check the file list, and search for oregontr.shk and you should be able to find it.

Browse a few relevant papers and find some keywords to search for more of the part of the field in which you are interested:

• Indexing with Neural Networks
• CMU Web->KB Project
• Ontology-Based Web Agents (PostScript)
• Berkeley Info Org course

Stevie Wonder has a condition called Retinitis_pigmentosa. More info on the condition can be found here.

Its a condition that affects the retina, the back of the eye where the optical nerves lie.

Here's some more info and a picture of an affected retina.

There's also one being run at the University of Iowa College of Business), which has links for current political markets including the 2000 Congressional, 2000 DNC, 2000 RNC, and New York Senate races. Let the games begin!

A little poking around reveals there are also a few markets open in Austrian politics.

And finally, I think that the site referenced in the USA Today article is here: http://www.posdaq.co.kr, but since it's in Korean, I'm not totally sure about that :-)

There's also one being run at the University of Iowa College of Business), which has links for current political markets including the 2000 Congressional, 2000 DNC, 2000 RNC, and New York Senate races. Let the games begin!

A little poking around reveals there are also a few markets open in Austrian politics.

And finally, I think that the site referenced in the USA Today article is here: http://www.posdaq.co.kr, but since it's in Korean, I'm not totally sure about that :-)

Liquefy.isca.uiowa.edu is also a mirror of the Episode I trailer. Just follow the link.
... or click here or here (for FTP) to just snag the file.

Liquefy.isca.uiowa.edu is also a mirror of the Episode I trailer. Just follow the link.
... or click here or here (for FTP) to just snag the file.

Liquefy.isca.uiowa.edu is also a mirror of the Episode I trailer. Just follow the link.
... or click here or here (for FTP) to just snag the file.