I have to imagine the power usage of computers has only increased since 2001 with increased processing power and more gadegety peripherals hanging around.
Also we get free cupcakes as a result:
THANK YOU to everyone who came to decorate a cupcake for this year's first FEP Cupcake construction contest. CONGRATULATIONS to the winning design "Oasis" created by LD!! L is the winner of an IPOD shuffle!! Tomorrow is "Donut Demolition" so stop by starting at 8:30am in the FEP study lounge for donuts and juice for breakfast!!
I was(still am for another few weeks) part of the inaugural year of the 'Freshman Engineering Program' at the university of arkansas.
The program was initiated to combat the poor retention rate (it was like 63% I think?) of engineering students after the freshman year. So far we're at just below 70% retention, so they seem to have found a little success so far! (we just had our Declaration Day so most people who don't want to be engineers should have been culled out by now).
We've had seminars this semester and last about all kinds of things; how to get involved with engineering organizations, how to build resumes, what each engineering discipline involves, how to get money for studying abroad or just to pay your tuition, how to behave at interviews and when career fairs were being held, etc.
We also have a 1 hour class (sadly all those seminars and lectures made it take up about 5 hours a week), which is filled with easy points and assignments relevant to our future experiences of writing reports and inventing things.
We chose mentors at our orientation in summer to meet up with weekly; they clue us in to which professors to avoid or shoot for, what classes will be like in the upcoming semesters, they keep us accountable for our grades and assignments.
Then aside from that, there are several 'adults' in charge to go to for informal advising or office hours, aside from the usual army of TAs one would expect.
Of course most of the seminars were completely dull if you didn't want to be a CivE or a ChemE, and by learning a little bit about each discipline, we've delayed the more indepth treatment of our chosen discipline, but on the whole I think it was a very precocious treatment of the very things this little list details.
If anything else, it was a good way to meet other engineers, if only because we were forced to:]
But on stretches of interstate highway? This week I had the [pleasurable] opportunity to drive through several big cities at night (Nashville, Louisville, Indianapolis), and each of them had several miles lit up with low pressure sodium lamps, for very little reason I could tell. I sure hope no one is walking across those large roads (although in Effingham IL there was a gentleman riding his bike across I-70, albeit in daylight. Apparently the 100 ft to the overpass was too far)
One of the things I remember most vividly from first grade was my teacher telling how when she lived in nashville, you couldn't see the stars at night, so this is definitely not a new problem.
One of my pet peeves is football night at my old high school. Their football stadium lights point right up into my front windows (we live on a bit of a large hill over town). The billboards they put up are worse because they never go off at night.
We've already waited ten years:p Do you mean then that it takes twenty years for a corporation to slip or gain enough power they feel confident in revealing their ulterior motives, or what?
The neat thing about road signs is that you don't have to have the internet to navigate with them! My friends and I can drive to their grandparents' house in Sperry, OK just with road signs and no gps or internet:p (although one member of our party was desperately trying to get information from google by texting and failing hard at it xD).
Maybe road signs are getting obsolete, but GPS has led my drivers in merry chases, especially in big cities like Houston.
I guess my point is for easy long journeys, GPS is unnecessary because the road signs are sufficient as it is. For short intricate journeys, GPS is insufficient because of spur of the moment issues and physics difficulty of trying to merge left while looking at the GPS to your right xD
Plus I find the scenery is spoilt more with those cell phone towers they keep putting up.
I felt bad that firefox3 beta 3 only got a 58/100, but then safari got a 39, IE5mac didn't even get started (the poor thing asked me what I wanted to do with empty.png and flailed sadly.) and camino hasn't even loaded it(and I don't think it will).
safari's is kinda funny; the last image that showed up was a picture of a cat or something xD
Here's to another few years of improvement! *toasts*
I had a class last semester at 7:30 AM, and right before DSL ended, it was getting to the point that I couldn't see to get up in the morning(this was like 6:45, I was never one for getting up *too* early), so when the changeover happened, it was a relief. But it's kinda sad because I love the way time is in the summer(golden mornings aren't worth it any earlier than 7, imo), but it gets quickly unusable during the winter. Time is just a number I guess, though.
I still don't like reading e-books. I think the only one I have ever read in its entirety was Neil Gaiman's Coraline on an evening when I was pretty feverous.
The internet seems to have eroded my ability to focus on blocks of electronic text that are larger than yae lines long, and xxxx pixels wide. (going to a laptop with higher resolution has helped this a little bit, as well as going back to actually reading books and making myself read the whole paragraphs until I was satisfied that I had read it).
The problem with books is the limited number of hours in which you can access them and the lack of information of what they're about (especially if they lack a cover with summary), not to mention the limited number of hours available for reading them (more if I didn't spend so much time on the internet typing up how I don't have time to read books anymore 8))
They're much easier on the eyes than the screen. I can only imagine what it would've been like on all those harry potter release nights if I was trying to read a PDF scanned in like some of my friends did.
Then some people might comment on the massive amount of room that books take up. I don't mind. My parents raised me with numerous bookshelves in my house, so there's a nice feeling of comfort from being surrounded by a few hundred books.
I for one like it. Instead of having to try every single letter of the alphabet until I get to the one that started my url, I can type a phrase from anywhere in a url, OR the page title.
After using quicksilver, that's the kind of behavior I expect anyways, so it's just as well 8)
If you type 'slas' and 'news' to get to slashdot so often, after a couple of rounds with it, they should be on top by now anyways:p
Well, I didn't have myself 23 years ago, so I could only guess. Like most of my toys, it was probably inherited from my brother and sister, children of the 80s to be sure.
yeah; they'll look real nice right next to that ivory billed woodpecker nest and pristine waterfall out in the middle of practically national forest8) (at least I hope they won't be able to get in national forests)
they just put a new cell tower in my home town (we'll say less than two miles from the one that's been there for years already) and it's:( worthy.
Eventually we'll be at the point tesla was invisioning with his electricity poles (except they aren't as high, thankfully!)
Yeah but Toshiba satellites had plastic casing that still looks exactly like it did, so you don't need metal to have something that will look the same in six years!
(you just need metal to avoid the cracks and holes in the casing that such satellites seem to have developed in that period of time;D but the finish and the texture is still the same!!!) I would suffix this with a picture of my mother's satellite, but sadly my brother snatched it away when she got her new one
They finally made it metallic:o kinda weird at first.
In the view -> sidebar, bookmarks isn't labelled, so until you actually push CMD + B you don't know that it opens the bookmarks sidebar.
The biggest thing is probably that the home button doesn't show up in customize toolbars at all; you have to have the dialog open to drag it from your bookmarks toolbar to your everything-else toolbar. That doesn't make much sense, but I guess they thought they had a reason for it.
I'm pretty pleased that forecast fox works again though 8) Some people seemed to like using the 'turn off extension compatability checking' method, but that just gave me a million crashes so I forwent it xD
They have a section in the preferences now where you can control what applications open what kind of filetypes; I'm not sure if that was there before, but it looks like it might be useful in future.
(summary: holy crap it looks different by default, and wtf put the home button back where it's always been.)
My campus is incrediably hilly, and there are some hills where it is just more comfortable to run down. Would this thing have any effect on steep hills, I wonder?
I don't know much about how the knee functions, but it seems like I do a lot more of this 'braking' in the last 50 ft of my trek to class than anywhere else
Slashdot Mirror
I was pretty excited to update this morning, and have been seeding the NeoOffice torrent all day :D (gotta put my university-width to some use)
The most exciting thing about 2.2.3 for me personally is that the menu is no longer in french. That was so weird.
I have to imagine the power usage of computers has only increased since 2001 with increased processing power and more gadegety peripherals hanging around.
CONGRATULATIONS to the winning design "Oasis" created by LD!! L is the winner of an IPOD shuffle!!
Tomorrow is "Donut Demolition" so stop by starting at 8:30am in the FEP study lounge for donuts and juice for breakfast!!
I was(still am for another few weeks) part of the inaugural year of the 'Freshman Engineering Program' at the university of arkansas.
:]
The program was initiated to combat the poor retention rate (it was like 63% I think?) of engineering students after the freshman year. So far we're at just below 70% retention, so they seem to have found a little success so far! (we just had our Declaration Day so most people who don't want to be engineers should have been culled out by now).
We've had seminars this semester and last about all kinds of things; how to get involved with engineering organizations, how to build resumes, what each engineering discipline involves, how to get money for studying abroad or just to pay your tuition, how to behave at interviews and when career fairs were being held, etc.
We also have a 1 hour class (sadly all those seminars and lectures made it take up about 5 hours a week), which is filled with easy points and assignments relevant to our future experiences of writing reports and inventing things.
We chose mentors at our orientation in summer to meet up with weekly; they clue us in to which professors to avoid or shoot for, what classes will be like in the upcoming semesters, they keep us accountable for our grades and assignments.
Then aside from that, there are several 'adults' in charge to go to for informal advising or office hours, aside from the usual army of TAs one would expect.
Of course most of the seminars were completely dull if you didn't want to be a CivE or a ChemE, and by learning a little bit about each discipline, we've delayed the more indepth treatment of our chosen discipline, but on the whole I think it was a very precocious treatment of the very things this little list details.
If anything else, it was a good way to meet other engineers, if only because we were forced to
But on stretches of interstate highway? This week I had the [pleasurable] opportunity to drive through several big cities at night (Nashville, Louisville, Indianapolis), and each of them had several miles lit up with low pressure sodium lamps, for very little reason I could tell. I sure hope no one is walking across those large roads (although in Effingham IL there was a gentleman riding his bike across I-70, albeit in daylight. Apparently the 100 ft to the overpass was too far)
One of the things I remember most vividly from first grade was my teacher telling how when she lived in nashville, you couldn't see the stars at night, so this is definitely not a new problem.
One of my pet peeves is football night at my old high school. Their football stadium lights point right up into my front windows (we live on a bit of a large hill over town). The billboards they put up are worse because they never go off at night.
nah, rule number 1 is be funny, *then* you can be accurate :D Accuracy is only #1 if you're trying to prove your geek cred.
We've already waited ten years :p Do you mean then that it takes twenty years for a corporation to slip or gain enough power they feel confident in revealing their ulterior motives, or what?
The neat thing about road signs is that you don't have to have the internet to navigate with them! My friends and I can drive to their grandparents' house in Sperry, OK just with road signs and no gps or internet :p (although one member of our party was desperately trying to get information from google by texting and failing hard at it xD).
Maybe road signs are getting obsolete, but GPS has led my drivers in merry chases, especially in big cities like Houston.
I guess my point is for easy long journeys, GPS is unnecessary because the road signs are sufficient as it is. For short intricate journeys, GPS is insufficient because of spur of the moment issues and physics difficulty of trying to merge left while looking at the GPS to your right xD
Plus I find the scenery is spoilt more with those cell phone towers they keep putting up.
I wonder why they didn't test IE5mac :]
I felt bad that firefox3 beta 3 only got a 58/100, but then safari got a 39, IE5mac didn't even get started (the poor thing asked me what I wanted to do with empty.png and flailed sadly.) and camino hasn't even loaded it(and I don't think it will).
safari's is kinda funny; the last image that showed up was a picture of a cat or something xD
Here's to another few years of improvement! *toasts*
Why, godaddy of course!
I had a class last semester at 7:30 AM, and right before DSL ended, it was getting to the point that I couldn't see to get up in the morning(this was like 6:45, I was never one for getting up *too* early), so when the changeover happened, it was a relief. But it's kinda sad because I love the way time is in the summer(golden mornings aren't worth it any earlier than 7, imo), but it gets quickly unusable during the winter. Time is just a number I guess, though.
I still don't like reading e-books. I think the only one I have ever read in its entirety was Neil Gaiman's Coraline on an evening when I was pretty feverous.
The internet seems to have eroded my ability to focus on blocks of electronic text that are larger than yae lines long, and xxxx pixels wide. (going to a laptop with higher resolution has helped this a little bit, as well as going back to actually reading books and making myself read the whole paragraphs until I was satisfied that I had read it).
The problem with books is the limited number of hours in which you can access them and the lack of information of what they're about (especially if they lack a cover with summary), not to mention the limited number of hours available for reading them (more if I didn't spend so much time on the internet typing up how I don't have time to read books anymore 8))
They're much easier on the eyes than the screen. I can only imagine what it would've been like on all those harry potter release nights if I was trying to read a PDF scanned in like some of my friends did.
Then some people might comment on the massive amount of room that books take up. I don't mind. My parents raised me with numerous bookshelves in my house, so there's a nice feeling of comfort from being surrounded by a few hundred books.
I for one like it. Instead of having to try every single letter of the alphabet until I get to the one that started my url, I can type a phrase from anywhere in a url, OR the page title. After using quicksilver, that's the kind of behavior I expect anyways, so it's just as well 8) If you type 'slas' and 'news' to get to slashdot so often, after a couple of rounds with it, they should be on top by now anyways :p
I already downloaded Camino, thanks.
Fingerprints!
Well, I didn't have myself 23 years ago, so I could only guess. Like most of my toys, it was probably inherited from my brother and sister, children of the 80s to be sure.
FRONTPAGE, duh!
I'm pretty sure I had one of these over fifteen years ago!
yeah; they'll look real nice right next to that ivory billed woodpecker nest and pristine waterfall out in the middle of practically national forest8) (at least I hope they won't be able to get in national forests)
:( worthy.
they just put a new cell tower in my home town (we'll say less than two miles from the one that's been there for years already) and it's
Eventually we'll be at the point tesla was invisioning with his electricity poles (except they aren't as high, thankfully!)
Yeah but Toshiba satellites had plastic casing that still looks exactly like it did, so you don't need metal to have something that will look the same in six years!
;D but the finish and the texture is still the same!!!)
(you just need metal to avoid the cracks and holes in the casing that such satellites seem to have developed in that period of time
I would suffix this with a picture of my mother's satellite, but sadly my brother snatched it away when she got her new one
The joystick went out with the gear shift. (of course they still have gear shifts, but they also still have joysticks)
You could say the wii-mote is a modernized joystick, giving the same kind of sense of motion to correllate to what happens onscreen.
They finally made it metallic :o kinda weird at first.
In the view -> sidebar, bookmarks isn't labelled, so until you actually push CMD + B you don't know that it opens the bookmarks sidebar.
The biggest thing is probably that the home button doesn't show up in customize toolbars at all; you have to have the dialog open to drag it from your bookmarks toolbar to your everything-else toolbar. That doesn't make much sense, but I guess they thought they had a reason for it.
I'm pretty pleased that forecast fox works again though 8) Some people seemed to like using the 'turn off extension compatability checking' method, but that just gave me a million crashes so I forwent it xD
They have a section in the preferences now where you can control what applications open what kind of filetypes; I'm not sure if that was there before, but it looks like it might be useful in future.
(summary: holy crap it looks different by default, and wtf put the home button back where it's always been.)
My campus is incrediably hilly, and there are some hills where it is just more comfortable to run down. Would this thing have any effect on steep hills, I wonder?
I don't know much about how the knee functions, but it seems like I do a lot more of this 'braking' in the last 50 ft of my trek to class than anywhere else