I've interned approximately 10 months for Apple computer (EE for the Mac Mini in 2004), and been on two recruiting events to my college during that time, taking resumés (but not doing any interviews). From the recruiting side you quickly find that everyone's resumé looks exactly the same as everyone else: you all have the same courses, projects, and skills in programming languages and the like.
What I want to see is you telling me why I should hire you -- why should I push this resumé to the hiring manager with a "we've got to hire this kid." What makes you different? We all know you want to work for us -- you wouldn't have been in line giving me your resumé otherwise. If you give me the impression that you're not full-out gung-ho for the position, I'm not even going to consider you.
I want to see things like what you do in your free time: do you have a life? But I don't want to see someone who only does extracurricular activities. Do you surf and play in a band, say, but also work on some really neat [EE/CS] projects at the same time? Can you balance school/fun/hobbies? Do you have personal drive and a spark of intelligence? If you're bright and driven, we can teach you anything you need to know. That's far more important than simply knowing many things. Tell me something cool you've done. Impress me. Make me want to see you come work for us.
Even more interesting is being in the college at which you're recruiting: you can see everyone taking the same classes you've taken, doing the same projects and trying to pass it off as if it's unique. Hey, kid: I did that last quarter. In fact, you were in my section and goofed off half the time; or perhaps you're the guy who took the easy route on that project while I busted my ass doing it the hard way. I don't think so.
Don't be disappointed if you don't get anything your first year: Many do not. Don't, however, waste your time. Do -something- related to your major and expected career. Make up some project for yourself and do it, and do it well. Work for free for a company as long as it's giving yourself some valuable experience. In other words, do -anything- to differentiate yourself in a positive light and make me remember you. I went through 60 resumés in 6 hours at one career fair, and I can't remember 2/3 of the people I talked to. The only ones I remember are those who made an impression.
Good luck! I'll be at Google and http://www.pasemi.com/ this summer/fall (have to see more of the world before I graduate and pick a permanent career). Once you have experience in one job, the next come much, much easier.
Truly, the art is largely done by a bunch of geeks -- from the 9x9x9 "display" of ping-pong balls with three LEDs in each that can display any color on the rainbow, running a whole slew of programs that showed off the three-dimensional aspect of the project (Cubatron) (think rotating planes in the XYZ axes in three colors all at once) to the otherworldly Alien Semaphore, whose light/arm movements were user-programmable through a control panel near the front. Or The Machine whose top would rotate and arms slowly raise when all three turnstyles were rotated in the proper direction simultaneously through a tremendously complex system of gears. It was all simply incredible.
Some of the turbines have white blades with horizontal black stripes (so as to make a circular pattern at high speeds). I don't however know how effective this is in warning off birds, just that it has been attempted.
my mother handed me 8 $50 checks that I can use to buy groceries at school.
Now I just need to convince myself not to use it for some brand new shiny camera lens, which would result in a higher than usual amount of starvation. So tempted...who needs to eat when you have shiny toys?
Ansel Adams would shoot an image with the dark room in mind. He would take a scene with a large format camera (exposure times of 10 minutes or more) and would wave pieces of cardboard in front of it to dodge the sky out. He would spend an entire day in the dark room dodging and burning and pefecting his image.
Were he to use a digital camera, he probably would have had fork over huge amounts of cash to get a medium format digital back -- Ansel was a huge fan of quality, and 14megapixels just doesn't cut it for the type of work he was doing. But when he shot a scene I could see him making many different shots with various exposures and then merged them back in in photoshop.
Output, though. He probably would have had to hit up one of Epson's 7700s -- those large format printers. I don't know if he would have liked the digital printing in comparison to his darkroom silver prints.
So I guess what it really comes down to is he would have loved the control of digital, but I don't believe the quality is quite yet. Or perhaps it is and I just can't afford it.
Regarding those who thought I meant having a username "AOLjunkie@aol.com" or whatever, that's not what I intended. I replaced my email username with a standard nick as soon as I created the account. I had no spam for years with my ebay account because I never used it -- but then about a year ago I started bidding here and there fairly often and all of a sudden the spam just started pouring in.
Make an ebay account with your email address in it and just start bidding. This is an excellent way to ruin an otherwise perfectly good email address. I was doing all right on the spam front until I did this. Big whoops. *hits head on desk* Yeah, stupid me.
You'll quickly become inundated with "How-tos" to Ebay, "official" emails from Ubid by people attempting to fraudulently gain access to your personal information, more tips-and-tricks, more offers from uBid, and of course a plethora of marvelous online drugstore advertisements.
I run Ghost Recon at 1600x1200 without a hitch, unless it's 90+F outside (we rarely use the AC here).
One of the additions I've made since making that page was adding a 120mm intake fan on the side aimed right at the GeForce3. I used a PSU voltage switch (the red one that lets you pick 110 or 220V) to adjust the voltage the fan receives - either 9V or a full 12V (it's a noisy, noisy bastard.)
And to anyone who thinks it's sick or strange to use military hardware...It's made with my tax dollars, whether I like it or not, and military surplus generally is extremely durable (ALICE packs, pants and coats, for example), and easily available cheaply at thrift stores; so for a generally poor college student, it's what is cost-effective.
I'm not trying to make a statement with it, just got bored during summer and thought I'd house my PC in something that I could kick when angry without damaging it. : )
I have a 30mm ammo box Linux machine sitting right next to me that I built in August of 2001 from sheer boredom. Apparently the editors didn't like my submission, oh well.
Take a look yourself here. It's running Gentoo now instead of Redhat, and there have been some other subtle modifications in that time, but it's largely the same machine. And 30mm explosive rounds are a TON more manly than wimpy 50 caliber. hehehehe
Hm, you have a good point there. I certainly hope that when their code comes to light and they all try to duck out of the country based on their groundless lawsuit the SEC and feds snag 'em at the border.
Go directly to jail! Do not pass Go, do not collect $200! (Even in Monopoly money.)
I have a friend going to Carnegie Mellon, but she's doin' art and not shiny CS stuff.
It's illegal to manipulate your stock like they have done. Making announcements with the sole purpose of jacking up your stock price is illegal, big time. That is all, have a nice day!:)
Not to be too much of a grammar nazi, but I do hope that the apostrophe error on Chris Hil's middle t-shirt is corrected before these shirts get printed -- I'd hate to have people think that no one on slashdot has good grammar *coughcough* (Oh, the irony.)
"Yes! With a single push of this button I can bring any website to it's [sic] knees, just like SLASHDOT!!
I'm a university student, too (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, computer engineering), and I definitely have to concur on the merits of coffee. Don't go overboard and have 329871 mochas before your test -- I have a good friend who goes to Berkeley who did just that and now can't stand to have any caffeine at all.
What really works for me is to get up and move once an hour. If you sit there for three hours on end you'll lose your ability to concentrate very quickly, and then you're just wasting time. Get up and go for a quick jog. Get your blood pumping, and then drink a cup of coffee: works wonders for me.
Studying in pairs works really well, for you can keep each other on task instead of allowing your mind to wander and waste hours on hours.... trust me.
The "worry pad" sounds excellent and I do believe I'll give it a try.
These guys are in San Luis Obispo, huh? Never knew. I'm attending college here -- time to get a group of other disgruntled geeks and do the same sort of things they like to do: send them a forged Cease and Decist from the anal city government here for some alleged violation..."It has come to our attention that your paking lot has CARS in it. Please remove them at once," or "Your car is showing a license plate!" etc. etc.
I've always hated those bloody things -- fortunately, the computer illiterate family all use Macs, so even when they clicked through they couldn't install the stuff if they tried.
The direct connect hub that a student ran here at Cal Poly in California raised its head too high and got cut off -- the student got a judicial review and ran off with his tail between his legs.
Even my Residential Advisor got nailed for a movie. People get their ports shut off and get called in by the dozens. My friend who works in the Residential Network offices, in addition to telling us what they're cracking down on, told me that they get a good deal of letters from the MPAA and the RIAA, demanding specific students knock it off: under the DMCA, our school acts as an ISP, and can be held accountable. It hasn't really deterred anyone, and there haven't been any criminal charges, but students get nailed all the time.
Except those who still know how to lie low and run Hotline servers.
Ahhh, you're right, mostly. The lasers are mostly instantaneous, so watts, being jouls over time, aren't entirely necessary -- it's not sustained. But joules are the output of power. All the banks of flashbulbs they use to amplify each individual beam are rated in joules. The output would be greater than the US's if it was sustained, of course -- the same goes for the petawatt lasers that Lawrence Livermore dismanted a few years back to start on NIF.
Also, each laser is 1.7-1.8MJ, putting the total system to over 330MJ...
Anyway, I heartily recommend reading the about page -- it's full of some very interesting things.
Heh, go to Sandia's webpage and check where they're located -- in addition to a New Mexico facility, it's Livermore. In fact, all the buses in the area say LLNL/Sandia. They both have tons of very interesting projects.
Here's some information about NIF, Lawrence Livermore's laser facility: http://www.llnl.gov/nif/ The lasers here use more than 1000 times the possible electric output of the United States in one burst (through capacitors.) (1.8MJ) Lawrence Livermore dismantled their Petawatt laser to build NIF, which is bigger and shinier, and therefore much, much better. : ) (It's also not finished yet-- 5 years, or so)
Here's a site that explains how it works: http://www.llnl.gov/nif/nifworks/index.html
The article does mention NIF, but only at the bottom, briefly. It is not to be overlooked. I've been through the facility -- it's absolutely massive. Full of wondrously expensive and very shiny toys.
My friends and I still say the infamous "Casualty" whenever we accidentally break/destroy something.
Many times it would have made everything better when you accidentally fry some CPU/expensive component if only the great deep voice from the sky stated loud and clear: "Casualty."
And when you spill your entire cup of coffee into your computer, you'd get a high-quality "Casualties!" to put a smile on your face. Genius, I say.
Don't you realize that until companies actually support one or two other major platforms those platforms will continue to have minority market shares?
The only thing my Mac truly lacks is games. Not that I really care, though -- as a college student, I -really- need to be doing other things (like replying to a/, troll instead of doing physics homework (I guess that shows how much I don't want to do it.)) Anyway, your logic, if I can call it that, is severely flawed.
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Get on /b/ and post a video of yourself punching a kitten.
Here's a real flame tornado: Nate Smith, a gent I know personally, doin' his thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qulN52bR9vk
But from the Corp network, we have:
http://theblight.net/misc/germany.jpg
The Maps team is going to be -pissed.- It'll be awesome.
I've interned approximately 10 months for Apple computer (EE for the Mac Mini in 2004), and been on two recruiting events to my college during that time, taking resumés (but not doing any interviews). From the recruiting side you quickly find that everyone's resumé looks exactly the same as everyone else: you all have the same courses, projects, and skills in programming languages and the like.
What I want to see is you telling me why I should hire you -- why should I push this resumé to the hiring manager with a "we've got to hire this kid." What makes you different? We all know you want to work for us -- you wouldn't have been in line giving me your resumé otherwise. If you give me the impression that you're not full-out gung-ho for the position, I'm not even going to consider you.
I want to see things like what you do in your free time: do you have a life? But I don't want to see someone who only does extracurricular activities. Do you surf and play in a band, say, but also work on some really neat [EE/CS] projects at the same time? Can you balance school/fun/hobbies? Do you have personal drive and a spark of intelligence? If you're bright and driven, we can teach you anything you need to know. That's far more important than simply knowing many things. Tell me something cool you've done. Impress me. Make me want to see you come work for us.
Even more interesting is being in the college at which you're recruiting: you can see everyone taking the same classes you've taken, doing the same projects and trying to pass it off as if it's unique. Hey, kid: I did that last quarter. In fact, you were in my section and goofed off half the time; or perhaps you're the guy who took the easy route on that project while I busted my ass doing it the hard way. I don't think so.
Don't be disappointed if you don't get anything your first year: Many do not. Don't, however, waste your time. Do -something- related to your major and expected career. Make up some project for yourself and do it, and do it well. Work for free for a company as long as it's giving yourself some valuable experience. In other words, do -anything- to differentiate yourself in a positive light and make me remember you. I went through 60 resumés in 6 hours at one career fair, and I can't remember 2/3 of the people I talked to. The only ones I remember are those who made an impression.
Good luck! I'll be at Google and http://www.pasemi.com/ this summer/fall (have to see more of the world before I graduate and pick a permanent career). Once you have experience in one job, the next come much, much easier.
The festival is about many things, but I tried to capture the art (for the most part).
My online gallery is here.
Truly, the art is largely done by a bunch of geeks -- from the 9x9x9 "display" of ping-pong balls with three LEDs in each that can display any color on the rainbow, running a whole slew of programs that showed off the three-dimensional aspect of the project (Cubatron) (think rotating planes in the XYZ axes in three colors all at once) to the otherworldly Alien Semaphore, whose light/arm movements were user-programmable through a control panel near the front. Or The Machine whose top would rotate and arms slowly raise when all three turnstyles were rotated in the proper direction simultaneously through a tremendously complex system of gears. It was all simply incredible.
Some of the turbines have white blades with horizontal black stripes (so as to make a circular pattern at high speeds). I don't however know how effective this is in warning off birds, just that it has been attempted.
my mother handed me 8 $50 checks that I can use to buy groceries at school.
Now I just need to convince myself not to use it for some brand new shiny camera lens, which would result in a higher than usual amount of starvation. So tempted...who needs to eat when you have shiny toys?
Ansel Adams would shoot an image with the dark room in mind. He would take a scene with a large format camera (exposure times of 10 minutes or more) and would wave pieces of cardboard in front of it to dodge the sky out. He would spend an entire day in the dark room dodging and burning and pefecting his image.
Were he to use a digital camera, he probably would have had fork over huge amounts of cash to get a medium format digital back -- Ansel was a huge fan of quality, and 14megapixels just doesn't cut it for the type of work he was doing. But when he shot a scene I could see him making many different shots with various exposures and then merged them back in in photoshop.
Output, though. He probably would have had to hit up one of Epson's 7700s -- those large format printers. I don't know if he would have liked the digital printing in comparison to his darkroom silver prints.
So I guess what it really comes down to is he would have loved the control of digital, but I don't believe the quality is quite yet. Or perhaps it is and I just can't afford it.
Regarding those who thought I meant having a username "AOLjunkie@aol.com" or whatever, that's not what I intended. I replaced my email username with a standard nick as soon as I created the account. I had no spam for years with my ebay account because I never used it -- but then about a year ago I started bidding here and there fairly often and all of a sudden the spam just started pouring in.
Make an ebay account with your email address in it and just start bidding. This is an excellent way to ruin an otherwise perfectly good email address. I was doing all right on the spam front until I did this. Big whoops. *hits head on desk* Yeah, stupid me.
You'll quickly become inundated with "How-tos" to Ebay, "official" emails from Ubid by people attempting to fraudulently gain access to your personal information, more tips-and-tricks, more offers from uBid, and of course a plethora of marvelous online drugstore advertisements.
Enjoy.
Hahaha, thanks :D
I run Ghost Recon at 1600x1200 without a hitch, unless it's 90+F outside (we rarely use the AC here).
One of the additions I've made since making that page was adding a 120mm intake fan on the side aimed right at the GeForce3. I used a PSU voltage switch (the red one that lets you pick 110 or 220V) to adjust the voltage the fan receives - either 9V or a full 12V (it's a noisy, noisy bastard.)
And to anyone who thinks it's sick or strange to use military hardware...It's made with my tax dollars, whether I like it or not, and military surplus generally is extremely durable (ALICE packs, pants and coats, for example), and easily available cheaply at thrift stores; so for a generally poor college student, it's what is cost-effective.
I'm not trying to make a statement with it, just got bored during summer and thought I'd house my PC in something that I could kick when angry without damaging it. : )
I have a 30mm ammo box Linux machine sitting right next to me that I built in August of 2001 from sheer boredom. Apparently the editors didn't like my submission, oh well.
:D
Take a look yourself here. It's running Gentoo now instead of Redhat, and there have been some other subtle modifications in that time, but it's largely the same machine. And 30mm explosive rounds are a TON more manly than wimpy 50 caliber. hehehehe
Hm, you have a good point there. I certainly hope that when their code comes to light and they all try to duck out of the country based on their groundless lawsuit the SEC and feds snag 'em at the border.
Go directly to jail! Do not pass Go, do not collect $200! (Even in Monopoly money.)
I have a friend going to Carnegie Mellon, but she's doin' art and not shiny CS stuff.
Hi Tom, my one and only freak! :D
:)
It's illegal to manipulate your stock like they have done. Making announcements with the sole purpose of jacking up your stock price is illegal, big time. That is all, have a nice day!
I'd hate to have people think that no one on slashdot actually reads what was written.
You're new here, aren't you?
Not to be too much of a grammar nazi, but I do hope that the apostrophe error on Chris Hil's middle t-shirt is corrected before these shirts get printed -- I'd hate to have people think that no one on slashdot has good grammar *coughcough* (Oh, the irony.)
"Yes! With a single push of this button I can bring any website to it's [sic] knees, just like SLASHDOT!!
I'm a university student, too (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, computer engineering), and I definitely have to concur on the merits of coffee. Don't go overboard and have 329871 mochas before your test -- I have a good friend who goes to Berkeley who did just that and now can't stand to have any caffeine at all.
... trust me.
What really works for me is to get up and move once an hour. If you sit there for three hours on end you'll lose your ability to concentrate very quickly, and then you're just wasting time. Get up and go for a quick jog. Get your blood pumping, and then drink a cup of coffee: works wonders for me.
Studying in pairs works really well, for you can keep each other on task instead of allowing your mind to wander and waste hours on hours.
The "worry pad" sounds excellent and I do believe I'll give it a try.
Your UID is not sufficiently low to win an argument.
Mine is.
Now, stop talking and stand in the corner.
These guys are in San Luis Obispo, huh? Never knew. I'm attending college here -- time to get a group of other disgruntled geeks and do the same sort of things they like to do: send them a forged Cease and Decist from the anal city government here for some alleged violation..."It has come to our attention that your paking lot has CARS in it. Please remove them at once," or "Your car is showing a license plate!" etc. etc.
I've always hated those bloody things -- fortunately, the computer illiterate family all use Macs, so even when they clicked through they couldn't install the stuff if they tried.
The direct connect hub that a student ran here at Cal Poly in California raised its head too high and got cut off -- the student got a judicial review and ran off with his tail between his legs.
Even my Residential Advisor got nailed for a movie. People get their ports shut off and get called in by the dozens. My friend who works in the Residential Network offices, in addition to telling us what they're cracking down on, told me that they get a good deal of letters from the MPAA and the RIAA, demanding specific students knock it off: under the DMCA, our school acts as an ISP, and can be held accountable. It hasn't really deterred anyone, and there haven't been any criminal charges, but students get nailed all the time.
Except those who still know how to lie low and run Hotline servers.
Ahhh, you're right, mostly. The lasers are mostly instantaneous, so watts, being jouls over time, aren't entirely necessary -- it's not sustained. But joules are the output of power. All the banks of flashbulbs they use to amplify each individual beam are rated in joules. The output would be greater than the US's if it was sustained, of course -- the same goes for the petawatt lasers that Lawrence Livermore dismanted a few years back to start on NIF.
Also, each laser is 1.7-1.8MJ, putting the total system to over 330MJ...
Anyway, I heartily recommend reading the about page -- it's full of some very interesting things.
Heh, go to Sandia's webpage and check where they're located -- in addition to a New Mexico facility, it's Livermore. In fact, all the buses in the area say LLNL/Sandia. They both have tons of very interesting projects.
Here's some information about NIF, Lawrence Livermore's laser facility: http://www.llnl.gov/nif/ The lasers here use more than 1000 times the possible electric output of the United States in one burst (through capacitors.) (1.8MJ) Lawrence Livermore dismantled their Petawatt laser to build NIF, which is bigger and shinier, and therefore much, much better. : ) (It's also not finished yet-- 5 years, or so)
Here's a site that explains how it works: http://www.llnl.gov/nif/nifworks/index.html
The article does mention NIF, but only at the bottom, briefly. It is not to be overlooked. I've been through the facility -- it's absolutely massive. Full of wondrously expensive and very shiny toys.
My friends and I still say the infamous "Casualty" whenever we accidentally break/destroy something.
Many times it would have made everything better when you accidentally fry some CPU/expensive component if only the great deep voice from the sky stated loud and clear: "Casualty."
And when you spill your entire cup of coffee into your computer, you'd get a high-quality "Casualties!" to put a smile on your face. Genius, I say.
Don't you realize that until companies actually support one or two other major platforms those platforms will continue to have minority market shares?
/, troll instead of doing physics homework (I guess that shows how much I don't want to do it.)) Anyway, your logic, if I can call it that, is severely flawed.
The only thing my Mac truly lacks is games. Not that I really care, though -- as a college student, I -really- need to be doing other things (like replying to a