My major was CIS, but a lot of my 300 level courses were about server administration(Windows and Linux), server security(Windows and Linux), network design, and network security. Those 4 categories were spread over 5 3-5 credit classes.
Lots of theory, lots of case studies, and quite a few hands on.
If someone graduates and knows less that someone else who has only been playing around for 6 weeks, then they graduated from a diploma mill. The person who played around for 6 weeks may have more hands-on, but the person who graduated *should* know how to research their answers quite quickly.
The biggest skill I learned in college is not what was in the books, but about myself. I learned how identify what I know and more importantly, what I *don't* know. Then I learned how to research to augment what I don't know. I loved computers and understood quite a bit about computers before college, but all of those team+solo projects, team research, presentations, and group think sessions taught me more than any book or playing around could ever hope to.
I wish high-school was more like this. Book smarts and hands-on experience will *never* teach me what I learned in college. I learned how to learn.
Obviously, everyone's experience is different and college is not a requirement to be good or even great at something, but I found college to be a huge life changer.
"people are unable to tell the difference between a 256kbps mp3 and the original"
Ignoring the highs, I can tell the difference between 256kbs mp3 and the CD if I can listen back and forth. Very mild, but it's there. Kind of like when you look at a color, then look at another similar color and it looks the same. Put them side-by-side and they look quite different. If I worked with colors all day, I bet I could better tell the difference between colors even when they're not side-by-side
Back to the highs. MP3 mutilates the highs. Listen to any Jazz and it sounds muffled. Violins, pianos, saxophones, percussions, etc sound like they have no texture. I'm not sure what MP3 removes, but those types of instruments sound really flat once ran through MP3. Vorbis doesn't do that. 192kbit Vorbis I can't tell from the original CD.
I think the biggest issue people are talking about for people being use to compressed range is how I think of 3D graphics. I remember playing Counter-Strike on my CRT. Looked perfectly fine to me. I looked at my friend's LCD and it looked about the same. He claimed it looked a lot better. Eventually I got and LCD. Played on it for a few weeks. I was playing around with dual monitors and hooked back-up my CRT.. It looked horrible.
Once you get use to something better, you can tell when something is worse.
They found that people get work done faster with the new UI. They used stop-watches and system timers for their results. I bet you used your gut to get your answers.
They did proper research. Get someone to also do proper research and see if they get a different answer. Until then, MS is making a proper informed decision.
I would cut back on minutes if my wife didn't need to constantly be keeping in contact with bill collectors. About 400-600min/month. It's expensive to be poor.
"The fact that 192kbps is the range where all but a *very* few people stop being able to distinguish the MP3 from the CD"
I can hear the different for any bitrate of MP3 for jazz and percussion. Once OGG hits about 192Kbit, I can't notice the difference from the wav.
High intensity sounds like percussion actually hurt my ears if at low bitrates/sampling. MP3 compression murders percussion, so it almost always hurts my ears. I literally feel pressure against my ears like an ear infection. Even once the sound is stopped, I typically still have ringing and a general headache that may last for a 30-60min. So, I can literally feel the difference between high and low quality encoding, immediately... for higher frequencies anyway. Most pop music isn't an issue, but get some classical or jazz, my head wants to explode.
I do tend to hear when someone turns on a CRT. I'm so glad those have been mostly phased out. One time at a bar, there were a few TVs above the booth my friends were at. I asked them if they could hear the really loud sound those TVs were putting off, no one claimed they could. By the time I left, my ears were ringing and were quite painful. I had a hard time hearing my friends over the high pitch squeal those TVs were making. I distinctly remember feeling like I had swimmer's ear after that experience.
"Of course, the best choice is not to drive while you are impaired, even if you are below the legal limit."
My rule of thumb. I don't drive for 1 hour per shot/beer. Since it usually takes me 30-45min to drink a beer, by the time I'm done, I'm almost ready to go.
I hope you do cut your throat tomorrow morning... with your razor. It will bleed a little, scab over, be unsightly, and itch all day long!!! bwaa-hahahahaha!
P.S. I am not taking sides, just trying to defuse a "kill yourself" remark.
In Win8, you place those apps on your start screen. You can organize different groups/categories. The start screen lets you scan a 2 dimensional grid of names/icons/images instead of a 1 dimensional list of names. Much better than the old way.
IGPs can play Crysis now. GPUs aren't the bottleneck anymore, it's how many command you can issue to the GPU. This part is limited by IPC*mhz and # of threads.
Intel taped out 22nm back in late 2010. 22nm got pushed back because of integrating tri-gate into their fabs. TSMC didn't get 20nm taped until late 2011. Intel's track record for 32nm is just a bit better than TSMC/GF. They barely have 28nm working and they're already claiming 20nm is ready to go?
Only a few years back IBM said Intel is ahead of everyone else by 1-2 years and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
The real question is who hits mass production first. Intel is a powerhouse when it comes to fabs. Only time will tell. I would love to have more competition.
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My major was CIS, but a lot of my 300 level courses were about server administration(Windows and Linux), server security(Windows and Linux), network design, and network security. Those 4 categories were spread over 5 3-5 credit classes.
Lots of theory, lots of case studies, and quite a few hands on.
If someone graduates and knows less that someone else who has only been playing around for 6 weeks, then they graduated from a diploma mill. The person who played around for 6 weeks may have more hands-on, but the person who graduated *should* know how to research their answers quite quickly.
The biggest skill I learned in college is not what was in the books, but about myself. I learned how identify what I know and more importantly, what I *don't* know. Then I learned how to research to augment what I don't know. I loved computers and understood quite a bit about computers before college, but all of those team+solo projects, team research, presentations, and group think sessions taught me more than any book or playing around could ever hope to.
I wish high-school was more like this. Book smarts and hands-on experience will *never* teach me what I learned in college. I learned how to learn.
Obviously, everyone's experience is different and college is not a requirement to be good or even great at something, but I found college to be a huge life changer.
"people are unable to tell the difference between a 256kbps mp3 and the original"
Ignoring the highs, I can tell the difference between 256kbs mp3 and the CD if I can listen back and forth. Very mild, but it's there. Kind of like when you look at a color, then look at another similar color and it looks the same. Put them side-by-side and they look quite different. If I worked with colors all day, I bet I could better tell the difference between colors even when they're not side-by-side
Back to the highs. MP3 mutilates the highs. Listen to any Jazz and it sounds muffled. Violins, pianos, saxophones, percussions, etc sound like they have no texture. I'm not sure what MP3 removes, but those types of instruments sound really flat once ran through MP3. Vorbis doesn't do that. 192kbit Vorbis I can't tell from the original CD.
I think the biggest issue people are talking about for people being use to compressed range is how I think of 3D graphics. I remember playing Counter-Strike on my CRT. Looked perfectly fine to me. I looked at my friend's LCD and it looked about the same. He claimed it looked a lot better. Eventually I got and LCD. Played on it for a few weeks. I was playing around with dual monitors and hooked back-up my CRT.. It looked horrible.
Once you get use to something better, you can tell when something is worse.
"where all the data just lives"
If you delete data in the cloud, is it murder?
I think this is an ethical question that Google/FB have answered. They never delete data. It is wrong!
And if the end user is just being impatient or didn't read the instructions?
"AT&T isn't really advertising falsely, the data is unlimited. The speeds are limited."
If I had an "unlimited" data plan, but after 5GB, I reduced your speed to 0, it's still unlimited, just relative to the new current rate.
g0|d$U}{d'o'k3yB4|lz` = gold sux donkey balls
This is easy to break?
In the industry dying = "not growing"
"The problem Win7 has now is that there isn't that big a price difference between comparably equipted macs and PCs."
Mac quad-2.8(45nm) 3GB-ram(3x1) 5770 1TB-hd $2500 (Mac store right now)
PC-Custom quad-3.3ghz(32nm) 16GB-ram 2x8(Corsair) AMD7950 2TB-hd 256GB SSD(Samsung 830) Seasonic Gold(89% low 92% avg 95% max efficient) 650watt PSU Win7 prof $1850 (NewEgg right now) .......
"Zero to scream in six seconds"
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/03/japanese-speech-jamming-gun/
Taking the "scream" out of pain.
They found that people get work done faster with the new UI. They used stop-watches and system timers for their results. I bet you used your gut to get your answers.
They did proper research. Get someone to also do proper research and see if they get a different answer. Until then, MS is making a proper informed decision.
I would cut back on minutes if my wife didn't need to constantly be keeping in contact with bill collectors. About 400-600min/month. It's expensive to be poor.
S/PDIF removes the internal DAC/ADC from the picture. You still need a DAC/ADC some where, but it's going to be on the other end of the fiber.
"The fact that 192kbps is the range where all but a *very* few people stop being able to distinguish the MP3 from the CD"
I can hear the different for any bitrate of MP3 for jazz and percussion. Once OGG hits about 192Kbit, I can't notice the difference from the wav.
High intensity sounds like percussion actually hurt my ears if at low bitrates/sampling. MP3 compression murders percussion, so it almost always hurts my ears. I literally feel pressure against my ears like an ear infection. Even once the sound is stopped, I typically still have ringing and a general headache that may last for a 30-60min. So, I can literally feel the difference between high and low quality encoding, immediately... for higher frequencies anyway. Most pop music isn't an issue, but get some classical or jazz, my head wants to explode.
I do tend to hear when someone turns on a CRT. I'm so glad those have been mostly phased out. One time at a bar, there were a few TVs above the booth my friends were at. I asked them if they could hear the really loud sound those TVs were putting off, no one claimed they could. By the time I left, my ears were ringing and were quite painful. I had a hard time hearing my friends over the high pitch squeal those TVs were making. I distinctly remember feeling like I had swimmer's ear after that experience.
I'm salaried, but if I put in 50 hours, they would send me home with pay.
They don't nickle and dime over here. If you're getting your work done and others are happy with your work, then all is well.
"Of course, the best choice is not to drive while you are impaired, even if you are below the legal limit."
My rule of thumb. I don't drive for 1 hour per shot/beer. Since it usually takes me 30-45min to drink a beer, by the time I'm done, I'm almost ready to go.
I hope you do cut your throat tomorrow morning... with your razor. It will bleed a little, scab over, be unsightly, and itch all day long!!! bwaa-hahahahaha!
P.S. I am not taking sides, just trying to defuse a "kill yourself" remark.
In Win8, you place those apps on your start screen. You can organize different groups/categories. The start screen lets you scan a 2 dimensional grid of names/icons/images instead of a 1 dimensional list of names. Much better than the old way.
For everything you describes, coal is worse.
I wonder what power the plan on using. I know I'm hoping they use their awesome engineering to make new renewable sources.
They've shut down many reactors since your time there. They didn't shut down 52 power plants in a month. They probably phased out several per month.
Your point is still interesting.
Are we talking about happy feelings or cigarettes?
IGPs can play Crysis now. GPUs aren't the bottleneck anymore, it's how many command you can issue to the GPU. This part is limited by IPC*mhz and # of threads.
"but instead took advantage of small amounts of excess heat to emit more power than consumed"
A new form of cooler?
Best excuse/reason yet.
Sorry, I use LastPass with 2-factor. I left my fob at home and I won't use an un-trusted machine to log into my account.
Intel taped out 22nm back in late 2010. 22nm got pushed back because of integrating tri-gate into their fabs. TSMC didn't get 20nm taped until late 2011. Intel's track record for 32nm is just a bit better than TSMC/GF. They barely have 28nm working and they're already claiming 20nm is ready to go?
Only a few years back IBM said Intel is ahead of everyone else by 1-2 years and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
The real question is who hits mass production first. Intel is a powerhouse when it comes to fabs. Only time will tell. I would love to have more competition.
1) It's teamable
2) Wait for the 40/100gbit versions in just a few years.