if your dream job doesn't work out, you may be able to find another one that you enjoy but never realized existed (science majors have many more options open to them than say, business majors).
Seconded. I always thought I would be a scientist, and I got a master's degree in physics from a rather prestigious university. Since then I have started about 5 PhD projects, each one coming to a halt within a year, mostly due to problems with the supervisor and the department. In most of these cases I was simply unlucky, for example with one supervisor moving to another job. In another example, other people soon followed me as I left an incompetent supervisor. So my one advice would be, find a supervisor/department you like -- no amount of interest in your topic can help, if your general working environment sucks.
Besides academic work, I have greatly enjoyed industrial R&D, mainly related to process engineering. In some ways, that work has been closer to my hobbies in electronics and programming than my academic qualifications, though knowing the real physics and chemistry also helps. However, most of my working career has been spent teaching math and science -- being fluent in English has landed me some rather unique positions in international schools. As a working environment, a school is in many ways nicer than academia, although there is often an overload of social activity for an introverted nerd.
For the desktop it's pretty simple. I turn the monitor on end.
Thus ruining subpixel antialising. Of course, the algorithm must know the orientation anyway, but it makes sense to have the subpixels vertically aligned, since text is mostly vertical lines. For movies it doesn't make a difference, so aligning them with the long axis of the screen would be great.
Another intriguing scenario is running Linux on both architectures (ARM and DSP) simultaneously, using shared memory to communicate between them.
So far, its kernel supports neither SMP nor an MMU, which means it is restricted to running Clibc instead of glibc, and it has a very limited set of applications that can be supported as long as it is missing the MMU.
It's one thing to have problems where a spreadsheet is the solution. There are not many of these, but they do exist, IMHO.
It's another thing to state that Excel is the synonym for spreadsheet. To elaborate on the parent, is there a problem which Excel solves and the many alternative/light/free spreadsheet applications don't?
IMHO, the whole "office" paradigm of spreadsheets, word processors etc. is something we could all do without. But for those small, quick jobs where they might come in handy, it's a shame that people will insist on paying for the "one and only" package.
I hate it whenever music is used to fill a void, as a background hum. In one sense it's a bit like covering walls with cheap copies of Mona Lisa, in that it inflates the value. Especially when classical music is played through crappy PA systems at stations.
Another reason, for me at least, is the way music grabs your attention. I'm something of a musician and I'm sensitive to picking out sonic patterns, but it gets tiring if you have to listen to music all the time, even when it's good. It's also hard to come up with your own musical ideas, while being bombarded by others.
Background music is worst when you're working on something else. It's worse if you happen to like the music, it's like having your cubicle walls covered with porn.
Better than cassette? Ya sure, but then that's not hard. "Just below DAT?" no, not so much. With Hi-Fi enhancements yes it could get about 70dB SNR (CD and DAT are 96dB) on a new, unused tape. As with all analogue, it degraded over time and suffered generation loss.
I'm not sure about actual quality, but at least there is an important technical difference between regular and Hifi audio on VHS. One uses a portion of the tape in the same way as audio cassettes, the other encodes audio into the video storage area, where there is more bandwidth.
Incidentally, some early digital audio systems used videotape as their storage medium, again because of the high bandwidth. An encoder/decoder was used along with a regular VCR. DAT uses a similar mechanism with rotating heads to achieve the necessary bandwidth.
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if your dream job doesn't work out, you may be able to find another one that you enjoy but never realized existed (science majors have many more options open to them than say, business majors).
Seconded. I always thought I would be a scientist, and I got a master's degree in physics from a rather prestigious university. Since then I have started about 5 PhD projects, each one coming to a halt within a year, mostly due to problems with the supervisor and the department. In most of these cases I was simply unlucky, for example with one supervisor moving to another job. In another example, other people soon followed me as I left an incompetent supervisor. So my one advice would be, find a supervisor/department you like -- no amount of interest in your topic can help, if your general working environment sucks.
Besides academic work, I have greatly enjoyed industrial R&D, mainly related to process engineering. In some ways, that work has been closer to my hobbies in electronics and programming than my academic qualifications, though knowing the real physics and chemistry also helps. However, most of my working career has been spent teaching math and science -- being fluent in English has landed me some rather unique positions in international schools. As a working environment, a school is in many ways nicer than academia, although there is often an overload of social activity for an introverted nerd.
For the desktop it's pretty simple. I turn the monitor on end.
Thus ruining subpixel antialising. Of course, the algorithm must know the orientation anyway, but it makes sense to have the subpixels vertically aligned, since text is mostly vertical lines. For movies it doesn't make a difference, so aligning them with the long axis of the screen would be great.
It was read to the class. Doesn't it mean it was pornophonic?
I believe the term would be pornosonic.
Another intriguing scenario is running Linux on both architectures (ARM and DSP) simultaneously, using shared memory to communicate between them.
So far, its kernel supports neither SMP nor an MMU, which means it is restricted to running Clibc instead of glibc, and it has a very limited set of applications that can be supported as long as it is missing the MMU.
My Gentoo installation. Only lamers need binary distros.
Fixed the subject for you.
[citation needed]
Hey! Some of us care about 'Green Computing' here, you earth-raping performance whore!
Which is why I only use Radeon HD 5xxx cards.
on sending pure text as a Word doc attachment?
I recently built my own house for that same reason. I also made most of the furniture in it as well.
Do you do this with an axe, by any chance?
having too much plumbing must seem like...well, a pipe dream.
I see what you did there.
GPL.
It's one thing to have problems where a spreadsheet is the solution. There are not many of these, but they do exist, IMHO.
It's another thing to state that Excel is the synonym for spreadsheet. To elaborate on the parent, is there a problem which Excel solves and the many alternative/light/free spreadsheet applications don't?
IMHO, the whole "office" paradigm of spreadsheets, word processors etc. is something we could all do without. But for those small, quick jobs where they might come in handy, it's a shame that people will insist on paying for the "one and only" package.
you mean "sexercising"? This word almost made it to neologism of the year here in The Netherlands :)
Whoever coined that term must have had a second-order neologasm.
I hate it whenever music is used to fill a void, as a background hum. In one sense it's a bit like covering walls with cheap copies of Mona Lisa, in that it inflates the value. Especially when classical music is played through crappy PA systems at stations.
Another reason, for me at least, is the way music grabs your attention. I'm something of a musician and I'm sensitive to picking out sonic patterns, but it gets tiring if you have to listen to music all the time, even when it's good. It's also hard to come up with your own musical ideas, while being bombarded by others.
Background music is worst when you're working on something else. It's worse if you happen to like the music, it's like having your cubicle walls covered with porn.
Johan nyt on Sebastian Bach!
Surely you mean the Calrissians?
Better than cassette? Ya sure, but then that's not hard. "Just below DAT?" no, not so much. With Hi-Fi enhancements yes it could get about 70dB SNR (CD and DAT are 96dB) on a new, unused tape. As with all analogue, it degraded over time and suffered generation loss.
I'm not sure about actual quality, but at least there is an important technical difference between regular and Hifi audio on VHS. One uses a portion of the tape in the same way as audio cassettes, the other encodes audio into the video storage area, where there is more bandwidth.
Incidentally, some early digital audio systems used videotape as their storage medium, again because of the high bandwidth. An encoder/decoder was used along with a regular VCR. DAT uses a similar mechanism with rotating heads to achieve the necessary bandwidth.
...but does it run Gentoo?
s/10in/10cm/
That's what she sed.
I have four words for you. Field, Programmable, Gate, and Array.
We are still going to run out of oil. Isn't anyone worried about that?
Of course that's got nothing on the red light district in Amsterdam, but I can see I'm getting off ...
Fixed that for you.
Apparently, it was named after Verner Suomi, so it's not a direct reference to our country, but there is a Finnish ancestry nevertheless.
Signed, old assembly language programmer guy
I see what you did there.