I don't need a warning....I am already working in the field. I know the struggles, and the benefits. Masters? forget it, unless its in another field. Actually, I'm doing a lot of computer graphics work for architects, interior designers, and now a movie as well.....Its a career path I'm definately keeping open.
BTW, "CDs" stands for Construction Documents....
Oh, and the firm I work at uses the studio structure, so the same group of 6 people works on a document from the very beginning design stages all the way through construction management. Everyone works on every part of the process.
My school (University of Southern California) also considers CAD "just a tool" although the acrediting board complained about that last year and now CAD and 3D Modeling are being at least introduced to the students in studio (but still not encouraged)
Luckilly I made it a personal goal to excell at 3D Modeling and rendering
As a recent graduate from one of the most prominent architecture schools in the US, I can say that your assumptions about architecture programs are as flawed as mine were before entering the program. Calculus is not required; in fact all that is required in my program is the basic university math requirement (pre-calc) and thats for graduation, not admission. That and the structural engineer courses are extremely basic, everything simplified into basic vector problems that can be solved graphically.
That may scare you into running away from any built structure, but, keep in mind typical wood frame houseing is a well-established industry and the "rules of thumb" eliminate most need for structural calculations. Anything more complex than that (concrete or steel frame buildings) and the architect normally hires a structural engineer (Civil Engineering grad) as a consultant.
why do we have to keep coming up with new operating systems for these things? I hate to admit it, but Microsoft is on the right track with these things.
I love my Samsung I-300....phone+color PALM....
Whats the point of being able to store all these wonderfull names and addresses, if you cant transfer them to someone else without a hassle?
And then every time you want to change a jpeg you have to reburn the website onto 20 some-odd cds.....
any website big enoughand visited enough to warrant the kind of demand an xbox cluster could serve up, wants and needs it all to be dynamic/changeable content......which means, not the xboxes.
The biggest reduction is in CO2 which is not eliminated from the exhaust emissions but the oil plant absorbs as much CO2 in its growing cylce as the oil puts out when it is burned. This creates a balance
Ummmm, excuse me, but where did all the CO2 from burned gasoline originate? In the dinosaurs and the plants that died and became oil. hmmmm....sounds like a balance to me
And just like learning languages, kids have a far easier time of it than grannies. Plop a young kid into the Kalahari, and he'd be a fluent native speaker within a year. But a granny -- well, she might learn a very few phrases.
Or, in computer terms, she might learn how to power-on her computer and that the mouse moves the cursor; but it's gonna be a long stretch before she really understands how to use EMail, and she'll never install a firewall.
WRONG. My grandmother is a lot more proficient with a computer than my mother and father. My grammie regularily sends me email, does geneology research on the web, and types up snailmail and research results in MS Word. My mom on the otherhand is confused when I tell her she can copy or move files by "dragging" them from one place to another.
And before you say my parents are technophobes or something, let me say this: My grandmother got her computer about a year ago, and never used a computer before that. My parents got their first Windows computer in 1990. Oh, AND my mom did her college minor in computer science (way back when they did everything on punchcards). And as an accountant, she is forced to use computers a lot.
So why is my grandmother so much more adept? And why am I the computer guru for almost everyone I personally know?
Time.
My grandmother has plenty of free time on her hands to poke arround with the computer and figure things out.
I (as most kids do) had plenty of free time to play with the computer and learn how it worked.
My father is learning quite a bit more than my mother did, even though he runs a business that has absolutely no pressing need for a computer at anytime. But he found that Quickbooks is nice, and that with time, he can learn how to do things on the computer. He now knows how to download and install programs, how to watch out for viruses/trojans, and how to email and surf the web....a huge accomplishment from only knowing how to get to minesweeper, tetris, and solitaire.
My mom on the other hand still can't even change the desktop background. Why? She's a workaholic at the prime of her career. She gives herself absolutely no time for luxuries, especially 'unnescessary' ones like learning how to use a computer. So even if she is forced to use email and various software for her day-to-day work, she doesn't know anything more than than how to open and use those programs.
For the DNS attack, SOA queries for the following domains are made
com net edu org de Germany usc.edu University of Southern California es Spain gr Greece ie Ireland Why the contrast between country codes for countries in Europe, and an US university? A theory on this is that the programmer resides in Europe, hence the familiarity with the European country codes, and has friends studying at usc.edu.
Having just graduated from USC.... I am more inclined to think that coder is(was) a student here, or at a big rival school (such as UCLA). I would be more likely then that the country codes were the first ones that came to his head, or that they were the countries that his friends (or enemies) originate from. (USC and UCLA both have unordinately large populations of foreign students compared to other US universities)
Read the linked article.....the story that it is IDG is a COVERUP that was given out AFTER the guy was told that Apple was organizing the blacklist. He was also given an email address of the person who provided the list of sites/people to be blocked. That email address was from APPLE.COM
Apparently this is not unique - most people have difficulty remembering more than one or two keyboard layouts
strange....I was able to touch-type with no problem when I ran a Comodore-64 emulator on my machine (lots of 'wierd' things like shift+2 for " instead of @). And I had gotten rid of my C64 about 6 years before. And I had never been able to touch type when I had it.
Granted, the keyboard layout wasn't all that different.....but there were many discrepancies esp. in the punctuations
I assume its part of the ATI drivers, but Win2k displays an error message that the fan has stopped spinning whenever it happens on the FireGL card in one of my machines at work (I need to poke in there and clear the dust I think)....I assume it would be possible to write a script that shuts down the machine if such an event occurs. There are plenty of utilities that will monitor core temps and fan speeds from within your OS (as opposed to BIOS level)....and since most good power supplies run the fan as a variable speed powered off the motherboard....shouldn't be to hard.
I run Windows (as well as linux) because of software I must use that is only available for windows. I use Outlook because it is the ONLY program available that does everything it does and syncs so nicely with my Palm. I know there are horrendous security holes. And guess what, I have never been sent an email virus. Every time my computer catches viruses it is off of other people's removable media, or, from a malicious web page trying to infect me. No, I'm not going to turn off scripting, or activeX, or anything else because then my web browsing experience is limited.
Anti-virus makers are in the business of letting people use their computers with the freedom and expectations they were designed for. Not just to protect the uninformed. I've noticed the uniformed are the ones who never update their virus profiles, and never let the full scan go through....and then are even more suprised and frustrated when a virus infects their machines.
My university provides every single one of the 30000 students as well as faculty with a single logon that works on WinNT/2k, Mac, and Sun Sparc Stations.
In fact, there are several Sparc stations in each lab and I use them for browsing and email while waiting for a windows machine for 3D Studio.
They're pretty easy to use, and everything that a non-comp sci major would not need is not prominent. Email, Web Browsing, Text editing are all simple prominent buttons. Even changing your personal preferences, backgrounds, etc. is simple.
The idea that the entertainment industry will drop 35mm film in favor of digital in the next few years is preposterous. There is a HUGE union and lobby whose sole purpose is to ensure that the companies that produce all the film reels sent to the theaters, stay in business. These companies are extremely influential, there are only a couple, and they ammount to probably the single largest cost in producing a blockbuster movie.
The Intellimouse Explorer is a nice comfortable size. It is by far and away the most ergonomic mouse I have ever used. I hate that most mice are too small. And the 2nd gen Explorer is not as nice as the first one. Granted, I have big hands. I tried the XBox controller - the size wasn't a problem, but the button positions started causing me pain after only 5 minutes. The N64 controller is just as big, but much more ergonomic
I'm not trying to troll here, but seriously, why are people throwing parties (and why does that make it to/.)? Its a piece of software that helps people do their jobs in a way that they like more. I mean, its not like mechanics go and throw parites because Craftsman releases a new wrench. And architects don't go crazy when a CAD program goes gold.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't need a warning....I am already working in the field. I know the struggles, and the benefits. Masters? forget it, unless its in another field. Actually, I'm doing a lot of computer graphics work for architects, interior designers, and now a movie as well.....Its a career path I'm definately keeping open.
BTW, "CDs" stands for Construction Documents....
Oh, and the firm I work at uses the studio structure, so the same group of 6 people works on a document from the very beginning design stages all the way through construction management. Everyone works on every part of the process.
My school (University of Southern California) also considers CAD "just a tool" although the acrediting board complained about that last year and now CAD and 3D Modeling are being at least introduced to the students in studio (but still not encouraged)
Luckilly I made it a personal goal to excell at 3D Modeling and rendering
As a recent graduate from one of the most prominent architecture schools in the US, I can say that your assumptions about architecture programs are as flawed as mine were before entering the program. Calculus is not required; in fact all that is required in my program is the basic university math requirement (pre-calc) and thats for graduation, not admission. That and the structural engineer courses are extremely basic, everything simplified into basic vector problems that can be solved graphically.
That may scare you into running away from any built structure, but, keep in mind typical wood frame houseing is a well-established industry and the "rules of thumb" eliminate most need for structural calculations. Anything more complex than that (concrete or steel frame buildings) and the architect normally hires a structural engineer (Civil Engineering grad) as a consultant.
a java OS
why do we have to keep coming up with new operating systems for these things? I hate to admit it, but Microsoft is on the right track with these things.
I love my Samsung I-300....phone+color PALM....
Whats the point of being able to store all these wonderfull names and addresses, if you cant transfer them to someone else without a hassle?
And then every time you want to change a jpeg you have to reburn the website onto 20 some-odd cds.....
any website big enoughand visited enough to warrant the kind of demand an xbox cluster could serve up, wants and needs it all to be dynamic/changeable content......which means, not the xboxes.
From the webpage:
The biggest reduction is in CO2 which is not eliminated from the exhaust emissions but the oil plant absorbs as much CO2 in its growing cylce as the oil puts out when it is burned. This creates a balance
Ummmm, excuse me, but where did all the CO2 from burned gasoline originate? In the dinosaurs and the plants that died and became oil. hmmmm....sounds like a balance to me
Adobe made photoshop 3.1 for UNIX.....my university still has it if you are running an x-server and telnet in.
so....maybee they will do it again....granted they are one of the biggest supporters of the BSA and might be afraid of the 'hacker' community
AIA stands for American Institute of Architects, who wrote those basic contracts.
ummm....the pvc banning isn't just a union thing
My house was built with (illegal in our county) internal pvc supply lines about 15 years ago.
Last August a pipe broke and flooded two rooms, destroyed wallpaper, drywall, etc...
Copper pipes would not have had a problem.
And Davis leading the polls....look who his opponent is (Bill Simon). Needless to say if Reirden had won the primaries, Davis would be falling fast.
ummm.....i think your math is off.....
if you can read a gigabyte in 80 seconds, then a 50 gigabyte file should only take you 50 x 80s / 60 s/m = 67 minutes
ummm.....thats how you have to drive in LA traffic, regardless of what you were doing before
And just like learning languages, kids have a far easier time of it than grannies. Plop a young kid into the Kalahari, and he'd be a fluent native speaker within a year. But a granny -- well, she might learn a very few phrases.
Or, in computer terms, she might learn how to power-on her computer and that the mouse moves the cursor; but it's gonna be a long stretch before she really understands how to use EMail, and she'll never install a firewall.
WRONG. My grandmother is a lot more proficient with a computer than my mother and father. My grammie regularily sends me email, does geneology research on the web, and types up snailmail and research results in MS Word. My mom on the otherhand is confused when I tell her she can copy or move files by "dragging" them from one place to another.
And before you say my parents are technophobes or something, let me say this: My grandmother got her computer about a year ago, and never used a computer before that. My parents got their first Windows computer in 1990. Oh, AND my mom did her college minor in computer science (way back when they did everything on punchcards). And as an accountant, she is forced to use computers a lot.
So why is my grandmother so much more adept? And why am I the computer guru for almost everyone I personally know?
Time.
My grandmother has plenty of free time on her hands to poke arround with the computer and figure things out.
I (as most kids do) had plenty of free time to play with the computer and learn how it worked.
My father is learning quite a bit more than my mother did, even though he runs a business that has absolutely no pressing need for a computer at anytime. But he found that Quickbooks is nice, and that with time, he can learn how to do things on the computer. He now knows how to download and install programs, how to watch out for viruses/trojans, and how to email and surf the web....a huge accomplishment from only knowing how to get to minesweeper, tetris, and solitaire.
My mom on the other hand still can't even change the desktop background. Why? She's a workaholic at the prime of her career. She gives herself absolutely no time for luxuries, especially 'unnescessary' ones like learning how to use a computer. So even if she is forced to use email and various software for her day-to-day work, she doesn't know anything more than than how to open and use those programs.
Got to love anonymous cowards who are so pathetic they have to make up a new user name for each insult they troll.
And on an ironic side note, USC's mascot is "Tommy Trojan"
Another possible reason why it is the only non-top level domain included.
For the DNS attack, SOA queries for the following domains are made
com
net
edu
org
de Germany
usc.edu University of Southern California
es Spain
gr Greece
ie Ireland
Why the contrast between country codes for countries in Europe, and an US university? A theory on this is that the programmer resides in Europe, hence the familiarity with the European country codes, and has friends studying at usc.edu.
Having just graduated from USC.... I am more inclined to think that coder is(was) a student here, or at a big rival school (such as UCLA). I would be more likely then that the country codes were the first ones that came to his head, or that they were the countries that his friends (or enemies) originate from. (USC and UCLA both have unordinately large populations of foreign students compared to other US universities)
Read the linked article.....the story that it is IDG is a COVERUP that was given out AFTER the guy was told that Apple was organizing the blacklist. He was also given an email address of the person who provided the list of sites/people to be blocked. That email address was from APPLE.COM
Yeah, its all IDG's idea and not Apple....my ass.
Apparently this is not unique - most people have difficulty remembering more than one or two keyboard layouts
strange....I was able to touch-type with no problem when I ran a Comodore-64 emulator on my machine (lots of 'wierd' things like shift+2 for " instead of @). And I had gotten rid of my C64 about 6 years before. And I had never been able to touch type when I had it.
Granted, the keyboard layout wasn't all that different.....but there were many discrepancies esp. in the punctuations
I assume its part of the ATI drivers, but Win2k displays an error message that the fan has stopped spinning whenever it happens on the FireGL card in one of my machines at work (I need to poke in there and clear the dust I think)....I assume it would be possible to write a script that shuts down the machine if such an event occurs. There are plenty of utilities that will monitor core temps and fan speeds from within your OS (as opposed to BIOS level)....and since most good power supplies run the fan as a variable speed powered off the motherboard....shouldn't be to hard.
I run Windows (as well as linux) because of software I must use that is only available for windows. I use Outlook because it is the ONLY program available that does everything it does and syncs so nicely with my Palm. I know there are horrendous security holes. And guess what, I have never been sent an email virus. Every time my computer catches viruses it is off of other people's removable media, or, from a malicious web page trying to infect me. No, I'm not going to turn off scripting, or activeX, or anything else because then my web browsing experience is limited.
Anti-virus makers are in the business of letting people use their computers with the freedom and expectations they were designed for. Not just to protect the uninformed. I've noticed the uniformed are the ones who never update their virus profiles, and never let the full scan go through....and then are even more suprised and frustrated when a virus infects their machines.
"Who will fil the void for Windows and Linux?"
Lets see...windows...how about Combustion?
and Linux.....the stuff put out by Alias|Wavefront (cant remember the name right now)
My university provides every single one of the 30000 students as well as faculty with a single logon that works on WinNT/2k, Mac, and Sun Sparc Stations.
In fact, there are several Sparc stations in each lab and I use them for browsing and email while waiting for a windows machine for 3D Studio.
They're pretty easy to use, and everything that a non-comp sci major would not need is not prominent. Email, Web Browsing, Text editing are all simple prominent buttons. Even changing your personal preferences, backgrounds, etc. is simple.
The idea that the entertainment industry will drop 35mm film in favor of digital in the next few years is preposterous. There is a HUGE union and lobby whose sole purpose is to ensure that the companies that produce all the film reels sent to the theaters, stay in business. These companies are extremely influential, there are only a couple, and they ammount to probably the single largest cost in producing a blockbuster movie.
Or, you use IMAP and just access it from another machine. Simple.
Well yeah, I play with the new 3D and CAD tools too...but I don't throw a party for it.
The Intellimouse Explorer is a nice comfortable size. It is by far and away the most ergonomic mouse I have ever used. I hate that most mice are too small. And the 2nd gen Explorer is not as nice as the first one. Granted, I have big hands. I tried the XBox controller - the size wasn't a problem, but the button positions started causing me pain after only 5 minutes. The N64 controller is just as big, but much more ergonomic
I'm not trying to troll here, but seriously, why are people throwing parties (and why does that make it to /.)? Its a piece of software that helps people do their jobs in a way that they like more. I mean, its not like mechanics go and throw parites because Craftsman releases a new wrench. And architects don't go crazy when a CAD program goes gold.
What's the big deal?