Nice plot theory, however, I'd like to believe that signal travels better in free-space, thus, even though some antennas are facing down in some places, they still need to cover tall buildings.
If the antennas are placed on top of the tallest building, then they will need to radiate vertically down, I doubt so, that shows that directivity is not perfect. Therefore, I assume signals can go up, and attenuation comes only from the plane fuselage.
Although, It might not be related, have you tried your FM radio when you're in a flight? It sounds loud an clear, and the coverage of each station last really long. I know FM is broadcasting in all directions, but I'm talking about coverage here.
Certainly, among what you call miracles, "music talent" is not included. However, the "hypnotic" feature to trap girls, might be useful for more than one here.
I bet you don't want to listen to high school or college girls screaming: "OMG!! You did whaaaat???" and relating stories with several "like" and "you know". Good enough reason to ban cellphones. (At least to me).
Personally, I think powerpoint is as you said to "inform" instead that for "teaching". No doubt is a wonderful help, however, In school I found that I learned a lot when taking notes. I had the time to think about, and write my own conclusions while the teacher was writing on the board.
Powerpoint classes, go "read the slide" and have a handout. Although this might be efficient, in terms of covering much more contents of a class in less time, students will have to cover what they didn't understand because the speed reduced their capabilities of making their own conclusions and thinking about the subject. (Perhaps I'm just a slow brain student).
I think quality should not be jeopardized for quantity, even more these days that lots of information is available, the fundamentals of certain areas should be strong enough for the students to understand the rest, instead of giving them lots of paper handouts and hope for the best.
Information and data can be obtained anywhere, comprehension and understanding not. But I guess that's part of the "self-study oriented" scheme practiced this days, in which case... what is the point of a lecture?
No, there is nothing terribly wrong with our education system. It is the incentive system that has something seriously wrong with it. The guys going into college know that the job market for computer engineers sucks, so they've been studying other disciplines, enrollment in computer science courses is at record lows all across the country but general college enrollment is climbing.
Although I agree that there is nothing terribly wrong with the education system, I also want to point out that the terribly wrong thing is the capitalist culture: "Why would I get a $18000 stipend studying and researching, spending late nights in a lab. when I can go there with a B.S. and get $50 or $60k?", simply because "I want the money now, and I know I can get it as an American".
Foreign students know that incomes will be much better here, but getting a job in the US with only a B.S. is out of the question (Even though some B.S. programs outside US might be much better than US programs), then the market needs to be filled with tons of graduate students that wait to get probably the same $60k, luckily, M.S. and PhDs get bigger incomes, that several Americans won't try to get because they are worried to get instant gratification for their 4 year undergrad.
I recently commented about more incentives from American universities, to get students into graduate programs. Otherwise, universities in other countries can easily "buy" skilled students by only paying stipends, decreasing the current research capacity of research universities. US has lots of money in research, and that's what keep students coming to the US, but the money doesn't seem to be enough for Americans, and that's probably why they run away.
As for Computer Engineering jobs suck... you are generalizing that all the H1B visas are going to be for Computer Engineering Jobs. But in that case, I believe that a M.S. or a PhD gives tools to step up faster in any hierarchy no matter the company, and that should be motivation enough. If not, probably start-ups due to research should be enough, but since Bill Gates made his fortune dropping school, who cares about graduate studies anyway? If Americans could understand that 4 more years of study can get them into better jobs, and that those 4 years don't need to be paid from you pocket, that would be reason enough to increase the motivation.
In the mean time, with no qualified hand of labor, I think US should be open to receive as many skilled workers as they can, since money to keep them here is still not an issue. Companies like Verizon, as far as I know, pay the employees studies aiming to increase the qualifications of the own workers that already know about the business due to the years of experience there.
Yes will!, 13.5G/Mo., doesn't leave time for many classes, therefore, It will take longer to finish any career!
1. More Students
2. More bandwidth
3. More IM's/Facebook/MySpace
4....
5. Profit! (Tuition is not cheap this days you know?)
Better yet, under windows Google Desktop consumed lots of my computer resources leaving its performance on the floor. I ran away from that application. Is it going to be better for MAC?
Are you asking them to sell 24-bit raw data? Any other type of compression (including the 16-bit CD format) "degrades" the sound quality. Although, that will make several MP3 players to disappear, since you'll need tons of megabytes for a single file. What are you asking for?
On related news, Apple is bringing a new data input technology for their devices, they call it the "iMorse Code". They claim that their mice always had one button for that one reason.
"they are really pushed to find any real-world reason for having 4 cores."
Let's see, for an average PC user (Vista?):
1. AOL/AIM (That's worse than a virus, but used by many americans, that takes one core)
2. Music of course: Windows Media Player, another core gone (no further comments)
3. Browser: Try opening pages with heavy flash advertisement, like several newspapers these days.
4. Put here the real reason you are supposedly using the PC for, added to extensions of your desktop.
Amazingly with all these recent news about video sites, is that I found they were there. I thought there was only Google Video and Youtube.
What a lucky coincidence that just when you know about a page, they cut the access to it. However, I tried, and apparently if you have a hotmail account (which I bet many have) you are fine. I've never been there, and it just let me login with no problem. So... when is this going to happen? Or is marketing strategy from this site?
In fact... how much I hated mice when they come to the market... I was fine running programs from my prompt. Now that I finally got used to clicking here and there, they say there is no click anymore... What is coming next? No mouse?
Revolutionary software removes the need of clicks... it translates "enter" into left click and "esc" into right click! (Sounds like an Apple marketing strategy).
You're also missing internet radio stations, people can hear them in their offices without bringing portable devices.
And they are increasingly growing as the access to internet can be obtained almost anywhere.
For all those Linux and PC gurus here, perhaps a "blank HDD" would be nice, no OS, no software, no annoying support applications.
However, you have to be aware that there are still, tons of regular users that rather have something already installed an ready to work, and even the possibility of a recovery CD in case the mess something up.
I rather have a friendly Ubuntu installed, and if that's the case replace it with something else. Hopefully, They won't charge "extra" for the effort of delivering a "working linux PC" since that defeats the whole purpose of your called Microsoft Tax.
And you tell me that just after I installed several extensions:S
I liked the minimize to tray. Although, I'm not sure if there is a firefox memory leak or simply if keeps too much data. But the memory consumed by firefox increases with time and amount of visited pages. The processing though, seems to be extremely related to "ajax" based pages.
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Nice plot theory, however, I'd like to believe that signal travels better in free-space, thus, even though some antennas are facing down in some places, they still need to cover tall buildings.
If the antennas are placed on top of the tallest building, then they will need to radiate vertically down, I doubt so, that shows that directivity is not perfect. Therefore, I assume signals can go up, and attenuation comes only from the plane fuselage.
Although, It might not be related, have you tried your FM radio when you're in a flight? It sounds loud an clear, and the coverage of each station last really long. I know FM is broadcasting in all directions, but I'm talking about coverage here.
So they re-discover a basic fundamental principle of web design.
Maybe nobody has used this page? Or better yet this one?
Certainly, among what you call miracles, "music talent" is not included. However, the "hypnotic" feature to trap girls, might be useful for more than one here.
Now the question is: Does KITT runs linux?
I bet you don't want to listen to high school or college girls screaming: "OMG!! You did whaaaat???" and relating stories with several "like" and "you know". Good enough reason to ban cellphones. (At least to me).
Personally, I think powerpoint is as you said to "inform" instead that for "teaching". No doubt is a wonderful help, however, In school I found that I learned a lot when taking notes. I had the time to think about, and write my own conclusions while the teacher was writing on the board.
Powerpoint classes, go "read the slide" and have a handout. Although this might be efficient, in terms of covering much more contents of a class in less time, students will have to cover what they didn't understand because the speed reduced their capabilities of making their own conclusions and thinking about the subject. (Perhaps I'm just a slow brain student).
I think quality should not be jeopardized for quantity, even more these days that lots of information is available, the fundamentals of certain areas should be strong enough for the students to understand the rest, instead of giving them lots of paper handouts and hope for the best.
Information and data can be obtained anywhere, comprehension and understanding not. But I guess that's part of the "self-study oriented" scheme practiced this days, in which case... what is the point of a lecture?
Although I agree that there is nothing terribly wrong with the education system, I also want to point out that the terribly wrong thing is the capitalist culture: "Why would I get a $18000 stipend studying and researching, spending late nights in a lab. when I can go there with a B.S. and get $50 or $60k?", simply because "I want the money now, and I know I can get it as an American".
Foreign students know that incomes will be much better here, but getting a job in the US with only a B.S. is out of the question (Even though some B.S. programs outside US might be much better than US programs), then the market needs to be filled with tons of graduate students that wait to get probably the same $60k, luckily, M.S. and PhDs get bigger incomes, that several Americans won't try to get because they are worried to get instant gratification for their 4 year undergrad.
I recently commented about more incentives from American universities, to get students into graduate programs. Otherwise, universities in other countries can easily "buy" skilled students by only paying stipends, decreasing the current research capacity of research universities. US has lots of money in research, and that's what keep students coming to the US, but the money doesn't seem to be enough for Americans, and that's probably why they run away.
As for Computer Engineering jobs suck... you are generalizing that all the H1B visas are going to be for Computer Engineering Jobs. But in that case, I believe that a M.S. or a PhD gives tools to step up faster in any hierarchy no matter the company, and that should be motivation enough. If not, probably start-ups due to research should be enough, but since Bill Gates made his fortune dropping school, who cares about graduate studies anyway? If Americans could understand that 4 more years of study can get them into better jobs, and that those 4 years don't need to be paid from you pocket, that would be reason enough to increase the motivation.
In the mean time, with no qualified hand of labor, I think US should be open to receive as many skilled workers as they can, since money to keep them here is still not an issue. Companies like Verizon, as far as I know, pay the employees studies aiming to increase the qualifications of the own workers that already know about the business due to the years of experience there.
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
But perhaps, many of you already know that. So, if many already took time to write pages like wikipedia, is it right to copy from them?
Yes will!, 13.5G/Mo., doesn't leave time for many classes, therefore, It will take longer to finish any career! 1. More Students 2. More bandwidth 3. More IM's/Facebook/MySpace 4. ...
5. Profit! (Tuition is not cheap this days you know?)
Better yet, under windows Google Desktop consumed lots of my computer resources leaving its performance on the floor. I ran away from that application. Is it going to be better for MAC?
Are you asking them to sell 24-bit raw data? Any other type of compression (including the 16-bit CD format) "degrades" the sound quality. Although, that will make several MP3 players to disappear, since you'll need tons of megabytes for a single file. What are you asking for?
Somebody has to be happy in New Zealand
On related news, Apple is bringing a new data input technology for their devices, they call it the "iMorse Code". They claim that their mice always had one button for that one reason.
"they are really pushed to find any real-world reason for having 4 cores."
Let's see, for an average PC user (Vista?):
1. AOL/AIM (That's worse than a virus, but used by many americans, that takes one core)
2. Music of course: Windows Media Player, another core gone (no further comments)
3. Browser: Try opening pages with heavy flash advertisement, like several newspapers these days.
4. Put here the real reason you are supposedly using the PC for, added to extensions of your desktop.
Amazingly with all these recent news about video sites, is that I found they were there. I thought there was only Google Video and Youtube.
What a lucky coincidence that just when you know about a page, they cut the access to it. However, I tried, and apparently if you have a hotmail account (which I bet many have) you are fine. I've never been there, and it just let me login with no problem. So... when is this going to happen? Or is marketing strategy from this site?
In fact... how much I hated mice when they come to the market...
I was fine running programs from my prompt. Now that I finally got used to clicking here and there, they say there is no click anymore...
What is coming next? No mouse?
Revolutionary software removes the need of clicks... it translates "enter" into left click and "esc" into right click! (Sounds like an Apple marketing strategy).
Uhm... The last part of the explosion in take2 looks a little bit like Mr. Magoo
That's their business model: They make you believe you have a reservation, then you have to go around all the rental places trying to find one.
I had the same problem with them.
You got the point...
although... silly me... I think I read "struck"
This might sound like the windows based car....
"Sometimes the outcome of the race is that both cars find themselves stuck against some wall."
You're also missing internet radio stations, people can hear them in their offices without bringing portable devices. And they are increasingly growing as the access to internet can be obtained almost anywhere.
With this and water cooled systems, I think synchronized swimmers will take over ALL IT jobs! It has to be a nice show to watch though!.
Which ones? Those with no pictures?
For all those Linux and PC gurus here, perhaps a "blank HDD" would be nice, no OS, no software, no annoying support applications.
However, you have to be aware that there are still, tons of regular users that rather have something already installed an ready to work, and even the possibility of a recovery CD in case the mess something up.
I rather have a friendly Ubuntu installed, and if that's the case replace it with something else. Hopefully, They won't charge "extra" for the effort of delivering a "working linux PC" since that defeats the whole purpose of your called Microsoft Tax.
And you tell me that just after I installed several extensions :S
I liked the minimize to tray. Although, I'm not sure if there is a firefox memory leak or simply if keeps too much data. But the memory consumed by firefox increases with time and amount of visited pages. The processing though, seems to be extremely related to "ajax" based pages.
Personally, I do what Spybot does, I add a line:
127.0.0.1 ad.site.com
in my hosts file.