If you distribute the tasks in a team it's an even bigger learning enviorment. The Tech kids talk to the business kids and see how it works.
Just my thoughts...
No electronics, no software. You'd better be a mechanical engineer, welder, or machinist if you want to participate. All the interesting parts are handed to you in a little plastic box. Budding EEs will have to be content with relays and limit switches. At least that was the story when I competed 5 or 6 years ago.
Well, I can't agree with you on this subject. I was part of the FIRST Team in two years ago. We traveled to a few competitions but mainly in Philadelphia and Flordia. Me and 2 other computer geek friends were there for documentation. We took pictures with the Maverica camera, we did the website, we secured a website to pass information to other team members (private and public, and yes advocates, we used Linux). While we didn't work directly on the robot itself, we did spend a lot of time on the computer side of it. Everything from tech supporting the Drafting people when they had problems (NT pooping out during 3dmax rendering etc) and even setting up majordomo for a news mailing list. We did the GIMP/Photoshop graphics of all the sponsors we had...
OF course I guess my situation must have been a lot different. I was in a vocational school during high school (Half at the normal high school, rest of the day at the vocatioinal school studying computer maintenance... I competed in VICA for those that know what that is). We did almost all of the work in the school itself. We had welding work on the welds and the robot was mainly built in our Electromechanlical/Robotics classroom lab. The Drafting class did the mpegs for that 'contest'. We even had carpentry build us the cart. It was a good experience I must say. I have tons of pictures from the event, I'll toss them on a website if anyone really cares to see them. Here is a picture of the "stage" which the robots would compete on at the national competition. As you can see, it was right across from Epcot in Disney... Pretty interesting and exciting. So if anyone actually wants to see some of these cheesey pictures, drop a line to hades@nospam.psu.edu and remove the obvious...
It would be a lot more helpful if you did reviews on movies that are just released, not ones that are two weeks old. It's really pointless, people have already seen this movie if they want to.
Don't be too sure about that! I haven't been able to see it yet but I really wanted to. Time is tight with a lot of us geeks!:) You're right, but there are still a lot of us who can't make it to the movies all the time... I still have to take my girlfriend to see Bounce, and that's probably going to happen a week from now or so.
Commercials at the Opera??! I thought sitting through one was boring enough... maybe if there are some Bud or Coors light ads in between all the high pitched screaming....
During the rescue scene at the end, there is 15 minutes with no dialogue at all, one of the longest such stretches in recent movie history.
I thought I was the only one that noticed this. Actually, I don't know if I would have picked it out by myslef if it wasn't for my girlfriend's cousin. She was an extra. The train scene at the end during that period. Jackson walked into the train. She can be seen in the background reading a newspaper...
She said the extras wern't allowed to converse with the actors in any manner, which I thought was strange. She talked to Jackson, jokingly, and he gave her a strange look, and then made another joke. Anywayssss...
To get back to my point (if i have one) during the non-dialogue scenes, I was looking around the theater to see what was happening. What I came to the conclusion, those scenes made a lot of peoples eyes bug out and a lot of "ohhhh", "oh god" and the such came out of the people. I thought it had a very positive addition to the movie...
Comics are bigger now that when I was a kid..you can see from the posts that age isn't the common denominator, but I do think loving comics might be connected to responses to the movie..
Well here in North Eastern Pennsylvania a lot of the comic book stores are going out of business. I've never got into the comic books, but I got into Magic the Gathering pretty deeply. I'm only 20, but I remember more people collecting comic books when I was younger then I did now. I might be, like Frued, a victim of my own enviorment. North Eastern PA maybe not be the most 'rising geek' culture... but what we have here along those lines is dying a slow death it seems. I'm sure there will always be comimc books around, but it's sapping to one of the lowest points I've seen in a while. If I didn't give up Magic The Gathering, I'd probably end up buying my cards at Software ETC or one of those places...
I guess the movie wasn't really that bad. I enjoyed it a little. However, I guess it's just hard for me to watch Bruce Willis and Jackson together and not disarming bombs and busting jokes. The Die Hard seris was great and Jackson was a great addition to the last one!:)
I saw Unbreakable on Thanksgiving night... I got my tickets online from Cinemark. By the time we got there, there was only seats avalible in the very first row, so my neck was a little sore by the end of the movie. For a while it seemed like I was watching the Sixth Sense again... it's quite scarey when the *spoiler* kid took the gun and was going to kill the father... I guess those with kids could really feel my pain. Anyways, the movie was actually pretty good, except for not having shooting and killing terrorists:)
Hahah, I sat here and read most of the BOFH stories tonight and they were a very entertaining read. Thanks for pointing me into my fun for the night!;)
Don't you read the trolls taco? Your posting a parrot story while slashdot is at an all time high of bird sitting on penis troll things...
Oh well... I think it's quite ludicrous that someone would let an animal browse the web, but I think it'd be neat to see my lab pick out his own food from dogfood.com...
I'm surprised that aTRaTiCa didn't mention this, but there are only 55 actual questions on the Technition class test.
That slipped my mind at the moment while I was submiting the story. I should've also told how it's split into sections and only 1 questions from each section would appear on the test...
This was from last year I believe, so maybe there were some integrations since, but I doubt it. (Search for COM in the article, it's not stricly about COM.)
As for who needs COM... Certianly nobody I know of.:-) But if neccersay we can
Congradulations Hemos, and what did Taco write in your card? He was soo excited about you seeing it on Geeks in Space... "Wait till ya see what I put in the card!"
'Cmon, inquiring, lifeless geeks *HAVE* to know:-)
(I posted similar to this on the big hemos hitched thread, but it got ate up too quickly)
These may help ya out a bit, the first is just formal documentation on automake and the second is a nice url that I've used a few times going through a few different GNU development tools.
Now what did the card from Malda say... He was so happy about the fact he was gunna give it to ya on Geeks in space... "WAIT TILL YA SEE WHAT MY CARD SAYS!"
You mean to tell me your family doesn't bombarde you with those PC cleaning kits for Christmas?
I'm the computer man of the family and I'm stuck with one from almost everyone that gives gifts every Christmas... NEVER ever use one of those cheesey little vacum things they give you for Christmas... They break to easy and rarely work:)
Nortel Networks' scalable 40 to 80Gbps platform was introduced at Telecom '99 in Geneva last October, where it was the first 80Gbps platform to be demonstrated in a non-laboratory environment. The Nortel Networks global platform, planned for commercial availability in 2001, is expected to have the ability to scale as high as 6.4 terabits per second.
6.4 terabits per second? 800,000,000 meg a second? That'd be rather impressive.
Anyways, I wonder how attenuation will be for these cables. Is 428 some miles the maximum? That's impressive compared the the meters measured for fiber optic. Can repeaters be installed to incresase the distance even if necessary? I could see this implemented around the world.
Who knows, maybe in a few years we'll be seeing oc-1024k's:-)
Maybe that would fill it up faster? I'd try it out for ya, but I only have about 3 gig left and I'm not about to go munching on it:-) Or maybe I'm just dumb and missed the point of the question?
I have a Sony camera. The InfoLithium battery is actually a series. You can get from the itty bitty 60-90 minute battery to a monster that lasts for hours.
Ahhh, They're probably extremly expensive, just like the battery for my laptop. I'm still stuck with a battery that only does 60 minutes. And it's far too expensive to purchase a longer lasting one...:\
I guess it's going to take a long time for me to get over the fact of these digital camera thingys. I may be a geek, but I just don't really see any need for them in common everyday life. My uncle bought one for 'family' pictures, yet most of my family is in the upper 50's and rather stupid when it comes to any kind of digital technology.
I used a Sony Maverica last year in Orlando during the FIRST Robotics Competition. That model took disks and about 60 seconds of video fit on a disk, and I beleive it was 25 images fit on a floppy too. I was pretty impressed with it. We were using an older camera for a while, using the serial connection to transfer the pictures to the pc... Which was a rather BIG pain in the ass to do each time. But up to 4,500 pictures? Holygod, That's a complete family photoalbum for a life time.
I'm thinking about purchasing this dcm-m1 camcoder, but this being the first 'digital' camcoder maybe it'd be best to wait for the products to start pouring in and get a much better price and product becasue of it.
InfoLithium® Battery with AccuPowerTM Meter System Rechargeable Lithium Ion battery means no memory effect like other battery types can experience. Sony's exclusive AccuPower meter continuously displays the battery time remaining in minutes, in the viewfinder or LCD screen.
Does anyone how long this battery lasts? I coulndn't find any information about it on the site...:-\
Rather strange to see a story posted and no "first posts" after a 3 hour+ span...
But ANYWAYS...
It all depends on what setup your seeking. IBM offers many products that may suit your needs. I've used a lot of ibm's storage hardware and believe it's top quality. Check out IBMs storage site and see for yourself. They have many good business solutions. Sun is also a good manufacturer for mass storage. Check out Sun's storage site for more information from them.
I suppose you just want storage space? Or do you want reliability and redundancy? If you do, the price is going to be jacked up, especially for a tall order weighing in at around 1tb. I don't forsee a big IDE+SCSI chasis full off 528 meg drives:-)
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If you distribute the tasks in a team it's an even bigger learning enviorment. The Tech kids talk to the business kids and see how it works. Just my thoughts...
Well, I can't agree with you on this subject. I was part of the FIRST Team in two years ago. We traveled to a few competitions but mainly in Philadelphia and Flordia. Me and 2 other computer geek friends were there for documentation. We took pictures with the Maverica camera, we did the website, we secured a website to pass information to other team members (private and public, and yes advocates, we used Linux). While we didn't work directly on the robot itself, we did spend a lot of time on the computer side of it. Everything from tech supporting the Drafting people when they had problems (NT pooping out during 3dmax rendering etc) and even setting up majordomo for a news mailing list. We did the GIMP/Photoshop graphics of all the sponsors we had...
OF course I guess my situation must have been a lot different. I was in a vocational school during high school (Half at the normal high school, rest of the day at the vocatioinal school studying computer maintenance... I competed in VICA for those that know what that is). We did almost all of the work in the school itself. We had welding work on the welds and the robot was mainly built in our Electromechanlical/Robotics classroom lab. The Drafting class did the mpegs for that 'contest'. We even had carpentry build us the cart. It was a good experience I must say. I have tons of pictures from the event, I'll toss them on a website if anyone really cares to see them. Here is a picture of the "stage" which the robots would compete on at the national competition. As you can see, it was right across from Epcot in Disney... Pretty interesting and exciting. So if anyone actually wants to see some of these cheesey pictures, drop a line to hades@nospam.psu.edu and remove the obvious...
Don't be too sure about that! I haven't been able to see it yet but I really wanted to. Time is tight with a lot of us geeks! :) You're right, but there are still a lot of us who can't make it to the movies all the time... I still have to take my girlfriend to see Bounce, and that's probably going to happen a week from now or so.
Commercials at the Opera??! I thought sitting through one was boring enough... maybe if there are some Bud or Coors light ads in between all the high pitched screaming....
I thought I was the only one that noticed this. Actually, I don't know if I would have picked it out by myslef if it wasn't for my girlfriend's cousin. She was an extra. The train scene at the end during that period. Jackson walked into the train. She can be seen in the background reading a newspaper...
She said the extras wern't allowed to converse with the actors in any manner, which I thought was strange. She talked to Jackson, jokingly, and he gave her a strange look, and then made another joke. Anywayssss...
To get back to my point (if i have one) during the non-dialogue scenes, I was looking around the theater to see what was happening. What I came to the conclusion, those scenes made a lot of peoples eyes bug out and a lot of "ohhhh", "oh god" and the such came out of the people. I thought it had a very positive addition to the movie...
Well here in North Eastern Pennsylvania a lot of the comic book stores are going out of business. I've never got into the comic books, but I got into Magic the Gathering pretty deeply. I'm only 20, but I remember more people collecting comic books when I was younger then I did now. I might be, like Frued, a victim of my own enviorment. North Eastern PA maybe not be the most 'rising geek' culture... but what we have here along those lines is dying a slow death it seems. I'm sure there will always be comimc books around, but it's sapping to one of the lowest points I've seen in a while. If I didn't give up Magic The Gathering, I'd probably end up buying my cards at Software ETC or one of those places...
I saw Unbreakable on Thanksgiving night... I got my tickets online from Cinemark. By the time we got there, there was only seats avalible in the very first row, so my neck was a little sore by the end of the movie. For a while it seemed like I was watching the Sixth Sense again... it's quite scarey when the *spoiler* kid took the gun and was going to kill the father... I guess those with kids could really feel my pain. Anyways, the movie was actually pretty good, except for not having shooting and killing terrorists :)
Hahah, 52 inch porn attached almost directly to your eyes! *cringes*
Hahah, I sat here and read most of the BOFH stories tonight and they were a very entertaining read. Thanks for pointing me into my fun for the night! ;)
Oh well... I think it's quite ludicrous that someone would let an animal browse the web, but I think it'd be neat to see my lab pick out his own food from dogfood.com...
Oh welps.. :-)
Hell, it's nice to see a place that's not overrun by trolls...!
Anywaysss, emacs is nice, but it's an enviorment that scares the hell out of every newbie in the world... Maybe that's why I like it soo much *grin*
'course I think emacs under X is just disgusting. It makes me feel like the usability is gone... oh welps.
That slipped my mind at the moment while I was submiting the story. I should've also told how it's split into sections and only 1 questions from each section would appear on the test...
Thanks :)
Another excuse to *NOT* go out and meet women. Dad: Son, get the hell outta the house and find a damn girl.. take her to a movie.
Geek: ba..ba..but dad, I don't hafta leave anymore!
geesh..
Timothy posted it at 2:58am and taco posted it around 8... that's a hellofabig nose if ya ask me :)
How come Mr. Taco didn't read the front page before posting?
http://www.kegel.com/linux/mslinuxinde x.html
This was from last year I believe, so maybe there were some integrations since, but I doubt it. (Search for COM in the article, it's not stricly about COM.)
As for who needs COM... Certianly nobody I know of. :-) But if neccersay we can
COM on Microsoft is just crap IMHO... Why bother with it...?
Congradulations Hemos, and what did Taco write in your card? He was soo excited about you seeing it on Geeks in Space... "Wait till ya see what I put in the card!"
'Cmon, inquiring, lifeless geeks *HAVE* to know :-)
(I posted similar to this on the big hemos hitched thread, but it got ate up too quickly)
http://tinf2.vub.a c.be/~dvermeir/manuals/autotools/tutorial.html
These may help ya out a bit, the first is just formal documentation on automake and the second is a nice url that I've used a few times going through a few different GNU development tools.
Now what did the card from Malda say... He was so happy about the fact he was gunna give it to ya on Geeks in space... "WAIT TILL YA SEE WHAT MY CARD SAYS!"
Wish ya the best of luck pal.
I'm the computer man of the family and I'm stuck with one from almost everyone that gives gifts every Christmas... NEVER ever use one of those cheesey little vacum things they give you for Christmas... They break to easy and rarely work :)
6.4 terabits per second? 800,000,000 meg a second? That'd be rather impressive.
Anyways, I wonder how attenuation will be for these cables. Is 428 some miles the maximum? That's impressive compared the the meters measured for fiber optic. Can repeaters be installed to incresase the distance even if necessary? I could see this implemented around the world.
Who knows, maybe in a few years we'll be seeing oc-1024k's :-)
Yay, go future
Like...
cat /dev/urandom >> /home/signal11/bigfile &
cat /dev/urandom >> /home/signal11/bigfile &
followd by a few more...
Maybe that would fill it up faster? I'd try it out for ya, but I only have about 3 gig left and I'm not about to go munching on it :-) Or maybe I'm just dumb and missed the point of the question?
Ahhh, They're probably extremly expensive, just like the battery for my laptop. I'm still stuck with a battery that only does 60 minutes. And it's far too expensive to purchase a longer lasting one... :\
I used a Sony Maverica last year in Orlando during the FIRST Robotics Competition. That model took disks and about 60 seconds of video fit on a disk, and I beleive it was 25 images fit on a floppy too. I was pretty impressed with it. We were using an older camera for a while, using the serial connection to transfer the pictures to the pc... Which was a rather BIG pain in the ass to do each time. But up to 4,500 pictures? Holygod, That's a complete family photoalbum for a life time.
I'm thinking about purchasing this dcm-m1 camcoder, but this being the first 'digital' camcoder maybe it'd be best to wait for the products to start pouring in and get a much better price and product becasue of it.
InfoLithium® Battery with AccuPowerTM Meter System Rechargeable Lithium Ion battery means no memory effect like other battery types can experience. Sony's exclusive AccuPower meter continuously displays the battery time remaining in minutes, in the viewfinder or LCD screen.
Does anyone how long this battery lasts? I coulndn't find any information about it on the site... :-\
But ANYWAYS...
It all depends on what setup your seeking. IBM offers many products that may suit your needs. I've used a lot of ibm's storage hardware and believe it's top quality. Check out IBMs storage site and see for yourself. They have many good business solutions. Sun is also a good manufacturer for mass storage. Check out Sun's storage site for more information from them.
I suppose you just want storage space? Or do you want reliability and redundancy? If you do, the price is going to be jacked up, especially for a tall order weighing in at around 1tb. I don't forsee a big IDE+SCSI chasis full off 528 meg drives :-)