I picked computer engineering. Pretty much, the main difference between computer engineering and computer science is this. Computer engineering is both computer science AND electrical engineering. The main reason I chose computer engineering over computer science is this, I'm in the College of Engineering which means I have access to all the fun engineering machines. I still learn a ton of programming, but I get a good amount of electronics and engineering on top of that. You get a more clear understanding of how the entire computer runs. In my mind, that makes the major a little more rounded out.
Of course, I'm happy with that. This is completely my opinion. Some people absolutely hate electronics though, so YMMV.
What the hell was wrong with him. 20 foot crystals? And some dude wants to steal them. So he figures out some way to get past security, break the locks, sneak in unnoticed, and chisel the crystal away from all the rocks around it... but forgot to figure out how the HELL to take the thing back up to the surface? Man, he deserved to get crushed!!!!
When I was a senior in high school last year, we had Bess on all our computers (Bess, apparantly, is the name of a watch dog.) In my computer science class, we always screwed around on the web instead of doing our latest C++ assignment. The assignments were too easy anyway, but my friend would spend his class time trying to figure out what porno sites he could get to, that bess didn't block. he found quite a few, but he was a bit stupid, because he'd be watching porn with the CompSci teacher only a few feet away helping another kid with his assignment. If the teacher had just turned around, my friend would have been caught. The problem is, he surfed porn all class every single day. I think naked girls had just as much to do with his obsession as the fact that he was defeating Bess.
There's another biosphere that's pretty much alien to us that we really haven't taken advantage of yet, the deep sea. Land covers only a third or so of the earth. I think that many of the same challenges we face in deep space, we would also face in the oceans. If we can survive the oceans, we will have much of the knowledge needed to survive on other planets.
While I'm just as anxious as any other person to get into space, there are alternatives.
No thanks. I for one do not want the government to run my email service. The governments buracracy would never be able to get the technology together to do it. When hard drive space runs out, I doubt they'd immediately run out and get some more cheap Gigabytes for the sake of letting our mail boxes be a bit bigger.
IMO, I'd rather register a domain name and use that as a permament email. If your email is really that important to you, you'll make sure your own email address is working.
I'm sorry, but the government running anything technelogical in my life is something I want to stay away from.
Have you ever had to live with a mother how was absolutely convinces video games were evil?
I think my mother was more evil than the supposidly evil nintendo. Instead of raising me to shun evil and violence, she tried to force here anti-gaming views on me and took a hammer to my nintendo. Yeah, then went the Super Nintendo, the Sega, the PlayStation. Thank god I'm not living there anymore.
And people wonder what the hells wrong with the children in today's world...
What I have a problem with is this idea.I have a problem with the government making a law that basically taxes consumers, and gives the money over to some capitalist company? Since when have laws been made to protect the rights of multi-billion dollar industries? Since those companies started paying the politicians I suppose. But we have to keep our eyes open. I don't want to fall down this slippery slope where we are pretty much forced to pay companies for their services, whether we use their services or not. Before we know it, there will be several big companies that just raking in cash the government gets from the general population. Okay, I might be exaggerating a bit, but I'm sure you'll see more of this in the US. Companies whining because they're losing money (and it's their "RIGHT" to ask the government to do something about it...) and trying to get laws passed with propaganda that the laws are "Moral" and "For the sake of the artists". Bull. Companies should be making money by offering useful items and services that people want. Not by getting the government to tax items because they've fallen behind the technology curve.
The only reason Pizza Hut's getting so much advertising from the rocket launch is because the media and us are making a big deal about it! Well, that's good for Pizza Hut, and it will get a ton of good publicity from this.
However, when stuff like this becomes commonplace, will advertising on rockets really be profitable? I mean, how many of us actually watch the things launch? If it becomes so common, no one would really care about the routine rocket launch.
On the other hand, I could see these things on stinger missles being launched from F-22's. Won't that pilot on the MIG love to know his death was brought to him by Dominoes Pizza.....
Oh yeah, once upon a time maybe they were for offroading, but look at the interior of just about any SUV today. Nice plush seats, a rocking sound system, leg room, even a portable TV or the like...
"I'd wage that %95 of SUV's on the road today havn't even driven on a dirt road let alone on a trail or something like that."
Right, and 95% of people buy SUV's because they're big and spacious and really comfortable.
It's fairly common practice to attach things like this to a bill. Example. There was a canyon near where I live. Some garbage company wanted to use it as a place to dump all the trash. A bunch of locals raised hell over it, and some of the senator's staff got a little amendment added to a bill somewhere in congress about "Elmore Canyon may not be used as a place to dump garbage" and that bill got passed.
Of course, the canyon has nothing to do wtih the bill, nothing to do with national affairs, but representatives and senators use stuff like this to get what their voters want. If it wasn't for that, the canyon would be a junkyard right now.
So not all is bad, but it does leave a lot of room for abuse.
Well, even if it wasn't automated, all it takes is for one guy to cut out the ad in popular songs with whatever sound editing tool he's using, and then release the "clean" version out to napster. Any song with file name "BSB-New Song (No ad).mp3" is going to spread way faster than just regular "BSB-New Song.mp3"
Oh yeah, and realize that in no way am I endorsing Backstreet Boys. I don't want punks out there to think I'm some yippe teenager...
Reading Maxim magazine one day, and they had a little sidebar on imported ice. Yes sir, at about $40 for 2 ice cubes, you too can have imported ice, direct from France, with your imported wine on that imported table. It's the ultimate sign of vanity! Well, until someone goes and discovers water on other planets and imports water from there....
Hey, well maybe YOUR the one with the old news. If you heard about it so long ago, why didn't you post it? The Slashdot team can only put up news stories as fast as they hear them. If no one submits the latest news, then the latest news doesn't get posted. Blame all the trolls on slashdot, not Hemos!
Earlier this year, Gamespot did a feature on some of the most prominent computer game developers (Don't have the link, but I'm sure someone could find it). One of the questions they asked every one was, "If there was one thing you could change about the industry, what would it be?" About half of them said they wanted to slim down the game boxes. They pointed to current PlayStation games at your local EB. They are small, and you can fit tons of them on the shelf. Computer games boxes are huge compared to the PlayStations, and you can fit maybe only a quarter of the amount of games on the same shelf space, compared to the PlayStations. This means each computer game can be on the shelf for less time, which means many good games get pushed off the shelf before they have a chance to catch on, and hype surrounding a computer game's release has more to do with the success than the quality of the game.
The game developers stated that the publishers keep up with the huge boxes because they are afraid some small box would get lost amoung the rest of the huge boxes on the shelf. The developers also hoped that if one game shrank the box size, and sold well, that the rest would follow suit. You can still fit a lot into a double-sized jew case. Look at Lunar: Silver Story Complete for PlayStation. It came with a good sized instruction book, 3 CD's, and a full-sided map!
I say the end of NEXT year. More like the summer of next year actually, I'll give them a little over a year to finish it.
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Says who? Kind of arrogant that you speak for the ENTIRE slashdot population and determine that every single one of us uses linux all the time for everything...
They already advertise. I've never seen a game/movie wait until the day they're released before they advertise. I mean, that's what the whole concept behind movie trailers is, right? To hype up the movie BEFORE it comes out so it does well in the box office.
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I picked computer engineering. Pretty much, the main difference between computer engineering and computer science is this. Computer engineering is both computer science AND electrical engineering. The main reason I chose computer engineering over computer science is this, I'm in the College of Engineering which means I have access to all the fun engineering machines. I still learn a ton of programming, but I get a good amount of electronics and engineering on top of that. You get a more clear understanding of how the entire computer runs. In my mind, that makes the major a little more rounded out.
Of course, I'm happy with that. This is completely my opinion. Some people absolutely hate electronics though, so YMMV.
-Kef
2001-03-16 19:42:39
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Gotta read the article for this to make sense
What the hell was wrong with him. 20 foot crystals? And some dude wants to steal them. So he figures out some way to get past security, break the locks, sneak in unnoticed, and chisel the crystal away from all the rocks around it... but forgot to figure out how the HELL to take the thing back up to the surface? Man, he deserved to get crushed!!!!
-Kef
When I was a senior in high school last year, we had Bess on all our computers (Bess, apparantly, is the name of a watch dog.) In my computer science class, we always screwed around on the web instead of doing our latest C++ assignment. The assignments were too easy anyway, but my friend would spend his class time trying to figure out what porno sites he could get to, that bess didn't block. he found quite a few, but he was a bit stupid, because he'd be watching porn with the CompSci teacher only a few feet away helping another kid with his assignment. If the teacher had just turned around, my friend would have been caught. The problem is, he surfed porn all class every single day. I think naked girls had just as much to do with his obsession as the fact that he was defeating Bess.
-Kef
There's another biosphere that's pretty much alien to us that we really haven't taken advantage of yet, the deep sea. Land covers only a third or so of the earth. I think that many of the same challenges we face in deep space, we would also face in the oceans. If we can survive the oceans, we will have much of the knowledge needed to survive on other planets.
While I'm just as anxious as any other person to get into space, there are alternatives.
-Kef
Ummm. Tried using AOL recently?
The signals were purposely inaccurate, but the government took off the scambling of the signal some time ago.
-Kef
I wonder if that includes the computers top officials must have to play solitare on a daily basis?
No thanks. I for one do not want the government to run my email service. The governments buracracy would never be able to get the technology together to do it. When hard drive space runs out, I doubt they'd immediately run out and get some more cheap Gigabytes for the sake of letting our mail boxes be a bit bigger.
IMO, I'd rather register a domain name and use that as a permament email. If your email is really that important to you, you'll make sure your own email address is working.
I'm sorry, but the government running anything technelogical in my life is something I want to stay away from.
-Kef
Have you ever had to live with a mother how was absolutely convinces video games were evil?
I think my mother was more evil than the supposidly evil nintendo. Instead of raising me to shun evil and violence, she tried to force here anti-gaming views on me and took a hammer to my nintendo. Yeah, then went the Super Nintendo, the Sega, the PlayStation. Thank god I'm not living there anymore.
And people wonder what the hells wrong with the children in today's world...
-Kefabi
Hmmm. Maybe someone needs just a TINY sense of humor? Hmmmmmm?
-Kef
Hey. You can get Ethernet out of the USB. Not a big deal.
Later!
-Kef
What I have a problem with is this idea.I have a problem with the government making a law that basically taxes consumers, and gives the money over to some capitalist company? Since when have laws been made to protect the rights of multi-billion dollar industries? Since those companies started paying the politicians I suppose. But we have to keep our eyes open. I don't want to fall down this slippery slope where we are pretty much forced to pay companies for their services, whether we use their services or not. Before we know it, there will be several big companies that just raking in cash the government gets from the general population. Okay, I might be exaggerating a bit, but I'm sure you'll see more of this in the US. Companies whining because they're losing money (and it's their "RIGHT" to ask the government to do something about it...) and trying to get laws passed with propaganda that the laws are "Moral" and "For the sake of the artists". Bull. Companies should be making money by offering useful items and services that people want. Not by getting the government to tax items because they've fallen behind the technology curve.
Peace out,
-Kefabi
So what, if WIPO doesn't get the virdict you like, can you try another? And another? Until you get the virdict you want?
-Kefabi out.
The only reason Pizza Hut's getting so much advertising from the rocket launch is because the media and us are making a big deal about it! Well, that's good for Pizza Hut, and it will get a ton of good publicity from this.
However, when stuff like this becomes commonplace, will advertising on rockets really be profitable? I mean, how many of us actually watch the things launch? If it becomes so common, no one would really care about the routine rocket launch.
On the other hand, I could see these things on stinger missles being launched from F-22's. Won't that pilot on the MIG love to know his death was brought to him by Dominoes Pizza.....
-Kefabi out.
SUV's aren't really meant for dirt roads.
Oh yeah, once upon a time maybe they were for offroading, but look at the interior of just about any SUV today. Nice plush seats, a rocking sound system, leg room, even a portable TV or the like...
"I'd wage that %95 of SUV's on the road today havn't even driven on a dirt road let alone on a trail or something like that."
Right, and 95% of people buy SUV's because they're big and spacious and really comfortable.
Okay, that's my speil...
-Kefbai out.
It's fairly common practice to attach things like this to a bill. Example. There was a canyon near where I live. Some garbage company wanted to use it as a place to dump all the trash. A bunch of locals raised hell over it, and some of the senator's staff got a little amendment added to a bill somewhere in congress about "Elmore Canyon may not be used as a place to dump garbage" and that bill got passed.
Of course, the canyon has nothing to do wtih the bill, nothing to do with national affairs, but representatives and senators use stuff like this to get what their voters want. If it wasn't for that, the canyon would be a junkyard right now.
So not all is bad, but it does leave a lot of room for abuse.
Well, even if it wasn't automated, all it takes is for one guy to cut out the ad in popular songs with whatever sound editing tool he's using, and then release the "clean" version out to napster. Any song with file name "BSB-New Song (No ad).mp3" is going to spread way faster than just regular "BSB-New Song.mp3"
Oh yeah, and realize that in no way am I endorsing Backstreet Boys. I don't want punks out there to think I'm some yippe teenager...
-Kefabi out.
Reading Maxim magazine one day, and they had a little sidebar on imported ice. Yes sir, at about $40 for 2 ice cubes, you too can have imported ice, direct from France, with your imported wine on that imported table. It's the ultimate sign of vanity! Well, until someone goes and discovers water on other planets and imports water from there....
Hey, well maybe YOUR the one with the old news. If you heard about it so long ago, why didn't you post it? The Slashdot team can only put up news stories as fast as they hear them. If no one submits the latest news, then the latest news doesn't get posted. Blame all the trolls on slashdot, not Hemos!
Earlier this year, Gamespot did a feature on some of the most prominent computer game developers (Don't have the link, but I'm sure someone could find it). One of the questions they asked every one was, "If there was one thing you could change about the industry, what would it be?" About half of them said they wanted to slim down the game boxes. They pointed to current PlayStation games at your local EB. They are small, and you can fit tons of them on the shelf. Computer games boxes are huge compared to the PlayStations, and you can fit maybe only a quarter of the amount of games on the same shelf space, compared to the PlayStations. This means each computer game can be on the shelf for less time, which means many good games get pushed off the shelf before they have a chance to catch on, and hype surrounding a computer game's release has more to do with the success than the quality of the game.
The game developers stated that the publishers keep up with the huge boxes because they are afraid some small box would get lost amoung the rest of the huge boxes on the shelf. The developers also hoped that if one game shrank the box size, and sold well, that the rest would follow suit.
You can still fit a lot into a double-sized jew case. Look at Lunar: Silver Story Complete for PlayStation. It came with a good sized instruction book, 3 CD's, and a full-sided map!
-Kefabi out.
I say the end of NEXT year. More like the summer of next year actually, I'll give them a little over a year to finish it.
Says who? Kind of arrogant that you speak for the ENTIRE slashdot population and determine that every single one of us uses linux all the time for everything...
If you turn off hostile, they can attack you (they are still hostile with you) you just can't attack them (since you are now neutral).
They already advertise. I've never seen a game/movie wait until the day they're released before they advertise. I mean, that's what the whole concept behind movie trailers is, right? To hype up the movie BEFORE it comes out so it does well in the box office.