Plus, with instruments branding is a large factor in price. Given two structurally equivalent guitars, both hand made, same specs, but one is made by a well known luther and the other by an unknown there will be a drastic difference in market price.
I bought a beautiful hand-made neck through bass that was made by a south korean luther. This thing plays great, sounds great and has all kinds of exotic tonewoods in it, including a gorgeous brazillian rosewood fingerboard. I paid $900, including tax and a case. A STEAL.
Even if you consider that I might replace the stock pickups with some bartolini pickups and the time I've put in designing and installing my own active pre-amp (based on the G & L bass pre-amp design) I'm still way ahead of the curve.
The only downside? I won't be able to sell this for that much because nobody (well, at least here in the US) has heard of this luther. Luckily I don't want to sell, I'm a player, not an investor.
Musical instruments can be a good investment, buy a vintage fender or gibson, take good care of it, wait a few years to sell, you won't be loosing any money.
It mostly focuses on semi to non-trivial topics that would be found useful by those working in industry. At the same time the articles are usually well written and easier to digest than the academic papers on the same topics.
You've got part of it, but you're missing the big picture.
It's true that SOMETIMES a patch is released before the potential exploit was publicly known. But to imply that this ALWAYS happens, or to even imply that this is how it USUALLY happens is an outright and calculated attempt to deceive. That's also known as lying, as in one of those things that parents almost universally indoctrinate their children against from the time they can converse. You know why? Because lying is despicable, especially for someone in a position of responsibility.
If you're just trying to get a higher output and your effects processor has something that lets you adjust the volume (up in this case) then yes.
The processor probably does have such a volume control and feeding your amp the hotter signal will give the amp more volume (or more distortion, depending on whether you're clipping the amplifiers built in pre-amp, which is a different pre-amp than your effects processor).
This is some good advice. I want to stress the possibility that the cats might not get along unless they are integrated properly (and even then they might not get along).
One thing I've found that can solve a host of cat problems is excersize them HARD at least 15 minutes everyday. Find a toy on a string that your cat loves (shouldn't be too hard!) and keep it out of their reach and site except for excersize time. This will ensure your cat gets real excited about the toy.
I would come home from work and walk around the room, half-absentmindedly tossing the toy around while I watched TV. The cat would burn off all it's excess energy.
Once I started doing this with a problem cat that circumstances lead to my possession the cat became much more social, stopped over eating (poor thing was bored and seditary), got in shape and generally put the spark back into its personality.
As an added plus if you have a cat that keeps you awake while you're trying to sleep do the excersize thing with them just before you go to bed and feed the cat after the excersize. The cat will soon be ready for a nap itself.
OK, we've got a whole bunch of posts telling this guy he shouldn't go into computer science - I think that it's obvious that he figured that out on his own. I think that was fundamental to his whole damn point.
There are plenty of computer intense fields that don't require coding. In fact, the number of fields that meet that criteria is increasing all the time.
Things to look into would include IT if you're interested in networking or system administration. If your interested in science you could undoubtedly use your computer skills. Lots of business degrees are actually rather math/computer intensive and being especially good on the computer could give you a real advantage.
Well you can do what I did which is put in a pre-amp. It's more common for bass, but some guitars do this too. (EMG pickups are all active with their own built in pre-amps for example.)
The pre-amp will boost your signal a little bit before it gets to the amp, giving you more gain and an easier to overdrive signal. Plus, the pre-amp load isolates the pickups, so they don't have to push as hard against your long crappy guitar cable and stomp boxes. This keeps the pickups working at full output and also keeps the pickup resonance frequency from reducing both in frequency and dB. (That means they'll sound better, probably, depending on your ears.)
Honestly though, after getting a decent amp, getting decent pickups in your guitar is probably going to do more for your sound than just about anything else. There are rather affordable aftermarket pickups (look at seymour duncan for example) that are pretty decent.
If you're an absolute nut you could try rewinding the pickup coils by hand and make sure the wire is stacked tight for maximum denisity, maybe get more windings by using a longer wire, etc. I've never tried anything like this though, so good luck if you do.
Also, your pickups probably have an adjustable height, if they're too low the strings are too far from the sweet spot and will be quit and not sound as good. Adjusting the pickup height can make a difference and you should do it, but it won't make a *huge* difference. Doing this will affect the tone as much as output. A string vibrating too far from a pickup will more in and out of the place where the magnetic field is strong and your sound can "warble" and sound like crap.
I'm going to recommend that you look into pickups in the $30 range. They're affordable (you can easily spend a lot more) but WAY better than the pickups you find in factory made guitars of the Samick/Mex Strat/etc. level.
Of course if your amp is crap the pickups will only help so much. Crappy pickups into a decent amp usually sounds better than good pickups into a crappy amp. After that changing your pickups will do more for your sound than anything I talked about above.
Recently I've been studying up on electronics and modifying the electrical components to my basses. If you're a geek and into music this can be a lot of fun. It has the added bonus of helping you as a musician really understand every single part of your signal chain.
There are several reasons why this is cool. The components of a passive pickup system are real simple, allowing you to get started easily. As you build up your base of knowledge you can get involved in much more complex projects, like modifying amplifiers, building your own stomp boxes, etc.
Another reason this is a cool field is that you can approach it from different angles. If you're good with calculus you can design and calculate the frequency response of your filters before you build them and know exactly what you're doing. You can design a whole effect if you want and model it in circuit modelling software. In fact, with some programs I believe you can do that and use a wav file for input to get an idea of how the circuit will sound, although I haven't tried that myself.
If you're a physical experimenter kind of a person you can take existing circuits and see, for example, how a tone knob sounds different when the pot is connected to different values of capacitors. Plus, if your favorite part is building, not designing then there is a huge amount of free schematics for things on the web, kits you can order, etc.
It's loads of fun (pun intended?) and you can really individualize your sound (for better or for worse).
Eh? The point is that the receiving server will verify with the sending server that the email is really coming from where it says it is. SPAM usually lies about where it is coming from and the servers using this plug in will reject such mail.
If the SPAM isn't lieing about where it's coming from then it's easy to block all SPAM from a web server, notify the offending servers admin if possible, get the spammers accounts revoked, etc.
I don't know, am I missing something? The problem isn't that this won't help, the hurdle is getting the modification to the protocal accepted and used widely.
If you're talking about the specifics of a language to the point where the book you're reading is going to be obsolete after the next standards commitee meets--maybe you're reading the wrong book?
It sounds to me like that might be more of a case of using the wrong language.
However, if the book you're reading concentrates on the principlas, instead of the individual bits and pieces, age shouldn't matter.
When you buy a reference book you WANT it to get into the nitty-gritty details. I agree that learning principles is more important, but you've got to learn practical details too. And this isn't a book about principles, it's a 'learn how to specifically do things with a specific language' book. That's different.
If the practical details you learn are going to be changing more quickly than you want to relearn then you're probably using the wrong tool for your situation. I know, because I have the same issue. I just think that you're pointing your finger at the wrong thing here.
I went to RIT, during 2 time periods (dropped out, came back). I don't have exact numbers, but my subjective experience was that there was a HUGE shift in the girl/guy ratio between 1995 and 2003. You kids don't know how lucky you got it.
When I started as a computer engineering major there was I think 2 girls in the whole program, but even then there were lots of cute photo students.
You shouldn't RELY on clients to validate, of course. But they should still do it.
It's convenient for the user (quicker response), keeps the load off the server (which will probably only receive the final valid data, still checks it though) and even saves a little bandwidth. Everyone wins!
"Clearly, something monumental must be going on in the world of computing for these technology titans simultaneously to discover something that is so profound and yet so hard to name.'"
But if you have no idea what it is how can you claim it to be profound? Remember the Segway?
Perhaps the simpler explaination is that they are making lame-brained babble about how there are lots of computers now, there are going to be even more and they need to be easier to use? They then pick some high falutin sounding words that kind of describe some aspect of that as they see it.
Just maybe?!
Really, anything short on details and full of buzzwords probably isn't a big deal - or anything at all. Yes, there are current trends in the way computers are used that is changing. There usually are. There IS a push that people want SERVICES, not computers. They want INFORMATION, not machines. People don't want to worry about running servers and infrastuctures and they also don't want to have to deal with a lot of computery stuff to do things in their daily life like listen to music, communicate, etc.
A concept IS more important than the tool, I will not contest that. Also consider that a concept can usually be taught using a variety of tools. Any tool that gets in the way of the concept is obviously a poor choice, but usually there are multiple good choices.
So there is a choice of tools that will do the job. A professor has the right to require the use of a tool (to support a concept) that also will have practical uses for the student upon graduation. What's wrong with the criteria for a class requiring a student to learn both concepts and practical training? Nothing. Sounds like a good idea to me.
For example, Eiffel is an excellent language for learning about OO programming. So is Java. Which is better is debatable, and I'm not going to get into that here, but they are both qualified for the task. Now, which one is more practical to know when you graduate?
There's no reason one can't have cake and eat it too in this situation.
FURTHERMORE, there is another important lesson here. LEARN TO FOLLOW REQUIREMENTS. Man, I pray to god I never have to work with someone who ignores requirements (or is incapable of properly understanding them) at their own whimsy. It would get you fired in the real world, so it warrents a bad grade or a redo in the academic world.
I used to hold a view a lot like this. Especially in college. My CE buddies and I would make fun of people that dropped out of engineering to study CS and we'd make fun of the IT majors as CS droppouts.
The more experience in the real world I got the less it really makes sense.
For example, Akamai is straight IT. All the research done by the CS PhDs was IT work. All the intricate code the software engineers wrote is IT work. The point is that IT is a lot more than help desk support and changing tapes. Some IT work is also top of the line academic CS research.
Granted, there are a lot a idiots running around working in the field of IT doing idiot IT jobs. Sure, fine. Don't we need them though? Would YOU rather do it? I wouldn't.
It may behoove you to consider IT as an area of knowledge worthy of study as a programmer or engineer rather than as an inferior area of knowledge. The more you do the more you'll realize the large crossover between the fields of IT/CS/Engineering/Mathematics. Such a broad view really helps one design systems and to engineer. It would help one to be more than a code monkey programmer.
Such a study should help you solve problems more simply and elegantly. Try it, you might like it.
Hey mod this guy up, he actually knows what he's talking about.
Also, people might do well to understand the concept of velocity of money which deals with the same idea, namely how much and how quickly money gets passed around.
While I've never written a professional quality game I am a professional programmer (writing business apps like most of us that are still employed) and I agree with what you say. Obviously you've encounted a specific situations where multi-threading wouldn't help much. I think you hinted at a more profound and general rule; multi-threading makes for difficult to fix bugs.
When the same data is touched by multiple threads timing issues lead to indeterministic bugs which can be the hardest problems to solve. You know, the kind that show up once in a while but then disapear when debugging code in turned on, etc. (Sometimes referred to as Heisenbugs.)
Where I see hyperthreading being more useful is improving the performace of systems that have many tasks (separate programs) running that aren't coupled any closer than say, both connecting to the same DB.
Also, there are kinds of apps that really HAVE to be multithreaded such as DBs and hyperthreading will help give more bang for the buck per CPU. I wonder how the corps that do pricing based off CPU type and number are going to handle this? I forsee Oracle coming up with a new way to hold their customers up by their ankles while shaking.
You don't mention your gender, but if you're a white male without recognized financial hardships you'll find that you'll probably only be eligable for merit based scholorships and those will be rather competitive. Some other people have mentioned strategies for getting more scholorship money and they seem to know about that than I do, so I'll address some other aspects.
Student loans aren't that bad. The interest rates are insanely low. In fact you can usually make a better return by investing a sum of money than the student loan interest rate would cost you for the same sum. Therefor there isn't really a reason to pay off student loans any faster than you have to anyways.
Coops have been mentioned. I cooped through school and it helped cover my living expenses, although not completely.
After a couple year hiatus I went back to school and managed to scrape by working half time (at my former full time job) as a programmer (about 25 hours a week) and going to school full-time.
Some people can work and fulltime job and do school full-time (and then some!). Personally I think they're all psycho and I know I wouldn't handle it well, but it's possible, it's been done countless times.
One more thing to consider is going to a community college for 2 years. Honestly there isn't that much difference other than the size of tuition that you'll get out of liberal arts classes between two schools. Here in rochester the excellent as far as community colleges go MCC has programs with RIT to do exactly this and ease your worries about getting into the bachelors programs after your 2 years at CC are up. You could save $20k this way.
This reminds me of one of the core ideas that Robert Anton Wilson presented in _Schroedinger's Cat_. The idea as he put it was all great intellectual breakthroughs (I don't think he qualified the statement any more than that) came from breaking established taboos. Of course this was a crazy work of fiction so in the story the scientists are all screwing animals, but RAW's point was made nonetheless.
So Paul Graham makes some good points and considering the topic it's good to know that this wasn't the first and god willing not the last time it will be talked about.
Perhaps a better/much easier strategy is to stick with relative measurements; send something back in time 1/1000th of a second. Record relative movement from the starting point. Send something back 1/100th, 1/10th, etc. etc., recording movement.
The cool thing about this is that you can collect all your data before you've run the experiment!
I was going to make the same suggestion. Frontpage or Dreamweaver would be an excellent choice for focussing on content over form. The poster could set up the tool such that it edits on the live site, eliminating extra steps of publishing for the kid. As a service to the kid the danger of screwing things up could be minimalized if the poster would remotely back the site up once in a while in order to have a recent version to restore if necessary.
How the rest of the posters have such small brains that they can't understand This, as a first step for her, needs to be easy, and more focused on content than form" is beyond me. I know, I know, I should expect such around here.
And to address the concern of such small minded posters, please realize that both tools make it really easy to pull back the WYSIWYG layer and start tinkering at a lower lever, when the user is ready. Please unbunch your panties now.
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Plus, with instruments branding is a large factor in price. Given two structurally equivalent guitars, both hand made, same specs, but one is made by a well known luther and the other by an unknown there will be a drastic difference in market price.
I bought a beautiful hand-made neck through bass that was made by a south korean luther. This thing plays great, sounds great and has all kinds of exotic tonewoods in it, including a gorgeous brazillian rosewood fingerboard. I paid $900, including tax and a case. A STEAL.
Even if you consider that I might replace the stock pickups with some bartolini pickups and the time I've put in designing and installing my own active pre-amp (based on the G & L bass pre-amp design) I'm still way ahead of the curve.
The only downside? I won't be able to sell this for that much because nobody (well, at least here in the US) has heard of this luther. Luckily I don't want to sell, I'm a player, not an investor.
Musical instruments can be a good investment, buy a vintage fender or gibson, take good care of it, wait a few years to sell, you won't be loosing any money.
Who gets the funds to study these projects? I want a grant to study something like this.
I think this is what you study after your grant proposal has been refused and the only thing left in the department treasury is a quarter.
Dr. Dobbs.
It mostly focuses on semi to non-trivial topics that would be found useful by those working in industry. At the same time the articles are usually well written and easier to digest than the academic papers on the same topics.
It's not exactly web-centric though.
You've got part of it, but you're missing the big picture.
It's true that SOMETIMES a patch is released before the potential exploit was publicly known. But to imply that this ALWAYS happens, or to even imply that this is how it USUALLY happens is an outright and calculated attempt to deceive. That's also known as lying, as in one of those things that parents almost universally indoctrinate their children against from the time they can converse. You know why? Because lying is despicable, especially for someone in a position of responsibility.
If you're just trying to get a higher output and your effects processor has something that lets you adjust the volume (up in this case) then yes.
The processor probably does have such a volume control and feeding your amp the hotter signal will give the amp more volume (or more distortion, depending on whether you're clipping the amplifiers built in pre-amp, which is a different pre-amp than your effects processor).
This is some good advice. I want to stress the possibility that the cats might not get along unless they are integrated properly (and even then they might not get along).
One thing I've found that can solve a host of cat problems is excersize them HARD at least 15 minutes everyday. Find a toy on a string that your cat loves (shouldn't be too hard!) and keep it out of their reach and site except for excersize time. This will ensure your cat gets real excited about the toy.
I would come home from work and walk around the room, half-absentmindedly tossing the toy around while I watched TV. The cat would burn off all it's excess energy.
Once I started doing this with a problem cat that circumstances lead to my possession the cat became much more social, stopped over eating (poor thing was bored and seditary), got in shape and generally put the spark back into its personality.
As an added plus if you have a cat that keeps you awake while you're trying to sleep do the excersize thing with them just before you go to bed and feed the cat after the excersize. The cat will soon be ready for a nap itself.
Good luck.
OK, we've got a whole bunch of posts telling this guy he shouldn't go into computer science - I think that it's obvious that he figured that out on his own. I think that was fundamental to his whole damn point.
There are plenty of computer intense fields that don't require coding. In fact, the number of fields that meet that criteria is increasing all the time.
Things to look into would include IT if you're interested in networking or system administration. If your interested in science you could undoubtedly use your computer skills. Lots of business degrees are actually rather math/computer intensive and being especially good on the computer could give you a real advantage.
Well you can do what I did which is put in a pre-amp. It's more common for bass, but some guitars do this too. (EMG pickups are all active with their own built in pre-amps for example.)
The pre-amp will boost your signal a little bit before it gets to the amp, giving you more gain and an easier to overdrive signal. Plus, the pre-amp load isolates the pickups, so they don't have to push as hard against your long crappy guitar cable and stomp boxes. This keeps the pickups working at full output and also keeps the pickup resonance frequency from reducing both in frequency and dB. (That means they'll sound better, probably, depending on your ears.)
Honestly though, after getting a decent amp, getting decent pickups in your guitar is probably going to do more for your sound than just about anything else. There are rather affordable aftermarket pickups (look at seymour duncan for example) that are pretty decent.
If you're an absolute nut you could try rewinding the pickup coils by hand and make sure the wire is stacked tight for maximum denisity, maybe get more windings by using a longer wire, etc. I've never tried anything like this though, so good luck if you do.
Also, your pickups probably have an adjustable height, if they're too low the strings are too far from the sweet spot and will be quit and not sound as good. Adjusting the pickup height can make a difference and you should do it, but it won't make a *huge* difference. Doing this will affect the tone as much as output. A string vibrating too far from a pickup will more in and out of the place where the magnetic field is strong and your sound can "warble" and sound like crap.
I'm going to recommend that you look into pickups in the $30 range. They're affordable (you can easily spend a lot more) but WAY better than the pickups you find in factory made guitars of the Samick/Mex Strat/etc. level.
Of course if your amp is crap the pickups will only help so much. Crappy pickups into a decent amp usually sounds better than good pickups into a crappy amp. After that changing your pickups will do more for your sound than anything I talked about above.
Lets see, you stop using the web and your website stops getting hits...maybe you're the only one that looks at them? ;)
Recently I've been studying up on electronics and modifying the electrical components to my basses. If you're a geek and into music this can be a lot of fun. It has the added bonus of helping you as a musician really understand every single part of your signal chain.
There are several reasons why this is cool. The components of a passive pickup system are real simple, allowing you to get started easily. As you build up your base of knowledge you can get involved in much more complex projects, like modifying amplifiers, building your own stomp boxes, etc.
Another reason this is a cool field is that you can approach it from different angles. If you're good with calculus you can design and calculate the frequency response of your filters before you build them and know exactly what you're doing. You can design a whole effect if you want and model it in circuit modelling software. In fact, with some programs I believe you can do that and use a wav file for input to get an idea of how the circuit will sound, although I haven't tried that myself.
If you're a physical experimenter kind of a person you can take existing circuits and see, for example, how a tone knob sounds different when the pot is connected to different values of capacitors. Plus, if your favorite part is building, not designing then there is a huge amount of free schematics for things on the web, kits you can order, etc.
It's loads of fun (pun intended?) and you can really individualize your sound (for better or for worse).
Eh? The point is that the receiving server will verify with the sending server that the email is really coming from where it says it is. SPAM usually lies about where it is coming from and the servers using this plug in will reject such mail.
If the SPAM isn't lieing about where it's coming from then it's easy to block all SPAM from a web server, notify the offending servers admin if possible, get the spammers accounts revoked, etc.
I don't know, am I missing something? The problem isn't that this won't help, the hurdle is getting the modification to the protocal accepted and used widely.
If you're talking about the specifics of a language to the point where the book you're reading is going to be obsolete after the next standards commitee meets--maybe you're reading the wrong book?
It sounds to me like that might be more of a case of using the wrong language.
However, if the book you're reading concentrates on the principlas, instead of the individual bits and pieces, age shouldn't matter.
When you buy a reference book you WANT it to get into the nitty-gritty details. I agree that learning principles is more important, but you've got to learn practical details too. And this isn't a book about principles, it's a 'learn how to specifically do things with a specific language' book. That's different.
If the practical details you learn are going to be changing more quickly than you want to relearn then you're probably using the wrong tool for your situation. I know, because I have the same issue. I just think that you're pointing your finger at the wrong thing here.
I went to RIT, during 2 time periods (dropped out, came back). I don't have exact numbers, but my subjective experience was that there was a HUGE shift in the girl/guy ratio between 1995 and 2003. You kids don't know how lucky you got it.
When I started as a computer engineering major there was I think 2 girls in the whole program, but even then there were lots of cute photo students.
Heh, I can laugh at myself. I guess I don't differentiate between real idiocy and sarcastic idiocy too well before my morning coffee!
You shouldn't RELY on clients to validate, of course. But they should still do it.
It's convenient for the user (quicker response), keeps the load off the server (which will probably only receive the final valid data, still checks it though) and even saves a little bandwidth. Everyone wins!
"Clearly, something monumental must be going on in the world of computing for these technology titans simultaneously to discover something that is so profound and yet so hard to name.'"
But if you have no idea what it is how can you claim it to be profound? Remember the Segway?
Perhaps the simpler explaination is that they are making lame-brained babble about how there are lots of computers now, there are going to be even more and they need to be easier to use? They then pick some high falutin sounding words that kind of describe some aspect of that as they see it.
Just maybe?!
Really, anything short on details and full of buzzwords probably isn't a big deal - or anything at all. Yes, there are current trends in the way computers are used that is changing. There usually are. There IS a push that people want SERVICES, not computers. They want INFORMATION, not machines. People don't want to worry about running servers and infrastuctures and they also don't want to have to deal with a lot of computery stuff to do things in their daily life like listen to music, communicate, etc.
Nothing new here.
A concept IS more important than the tool, I will not contest that. Also consider that a concept can usually be taught using a variety of tools. Any tool that gets in the way of the concept is obviously a poor choice, but usually there are multiple good choices.
So there is a choice of tools that will do the job. A professor has the right to require the use of a tool (to support a concept) that also will have practical uses for the student upon graduation. What's wrong with the criteria for a class requiring a student to learn both concepts and practical training? Nothing. Sounds like a good idea to me.
For example, Eiffel is an excellent language for learning about OO programming. So is Java. Which is better is debatable, and I'm not going to get into that here, but they are both qualified for the task. Now, which one is more practical to know when you graduate?
There's no reason one can't have cake and eat it too in this situation.
FURTHERMORE, there is another important lesson here. LEARN TO FOLLOW REQUIREMENTS. Man, I pray to god I never have to work with someone who ignores requirements (or is incapable of properly understanding them) at their own whimsy. It would get you fired in the real world, so it warrents a bad grade or a redo in the academic world.
Welcome to Real Life, kids.
I used to hold a view a lot like this. Especially in college. My CE buddies and I would make fun of people that dropped out of engineering to study CS and we'd make fun of the IT majors as CS droppouts.
The more experience in the real world I got the less it really makes sense.
For example, Akamai is straight IT. All the research done by the CS PhDs was IT work. All the intricate code the software engineers wrote is IT work. The point is that IT is a lot more than help desk support and changing tapes. Some IT work is also top of the line academic CS research.
Granted, there are a lot a idiots running around working in the field of IT doing idiot IT jobs. Sure, fine. Don't we need them though? Would YOU rather do it? I wouldn't.
It may behoove you to consider IT as an area of knowledge worthy of study as a programmer or engineer rather than as an inferior area of knowledge. The more you do the more you'll realize the large crossover between the fields of IT/CS/Engineering/Mathematics. Such a broad view really helps one design systems and to engineer. It would help one to be more than a code monkey programmer.
Such a study should help you solve problems more simply and elegantly. Try it, you might like it.
Hey mod this guy up, he actually knows what he's talking about.
Also, people might do well to understand the concept of velocity of money which deals with the same idea, namely how much and how quickly money gets passed around.
While I've never written a professional quality game I am a professional programmer (writing business apps like most of us that are still employed) and I agree with what you say. Obviously you've encounted a specific situations where multi-threading wouldn't help much. I think you hinted at a more profound and general rule; multi-threading makes for difficult to fix bugs.
When the same data is touched by multiple threads timing issues lead to indeterministic bugs which can be the hardest problems to solve. You know, the kind that show up once in a while but then disapear when debugging code in turned on, etc. (Sometimes referred to as Heisenbugs.)
Where I see hyperthreading being more useful is improving the performace of systems that have many tasks (separate programs) running that aren't coupled any closer than say, both connecting to the same DB.
Also, there are kinds of apps that really HAVE to be multithreaded such as DBs and hyperthreading will help give more bang for the buck per CPU. I wonder how the corps that do pricing based off CPU type and number are going to handle this? I forsee Oracle coming up with a new way to hold their customers up by their ankles while shaking.
You don't mention your gender, but if you're a white male without recognized financial hardships you'll find that you'll probably only be eligable for merit based scholorships and those will be rather competitive. Some other people have mentioned strategies for getting more scholorship money and they seem to know about that than I do, so I'll address some other aspects.
Student loans aren't that bad. The interest rates are insanely low. In fact you can usually make a better return by investing a sum of money than the student loan interest rate would cost you for the same sum. Therefor there isn't really a reason to pay off student loans any faster than you have to anyways.
Coops have been mentioned. I cooped through school and it helped cover my living expenses, although not completely.
After a couple year hiatus I went back to school and managed to scrape by working half time (at my former full time job) as a programmer (about 25 hours a week) and going to school full-time.
Some people can work and fulltime job and do school full-time (and then some!). Personally I think they're all psycho and I know I wouldn't handle it well, but it's possible, it's been done countless times.
One more thing to consider is going to a community college for 2 years. Honestly there isn't that much difference other than the size of tuition that you'll get out of liberal arts classes between two schools. Here in rochester the excellent as far as community colleges go MCC has programs with RIT to do exactly this and ease your worries about getting into the bachelors programs after your 2 years at CC are up. You could save $20k this way.
This reminds me of one of the core ideas that Robert Anton Wilson presented in _Schroedinger's Cat_. The idea as he put it was all great intellectual breakthroughs (I don't think he qualified the statement any more than that) came from breaking established taboos. Of course this was a crazy work of fiction so in the story the scientists are all screwing animals, but RAW's point was made nonetheless.
So Paul Graham makes some good points and considering the topic it's good to know that this wasn't the first and god willing not the last time it will be talked about.
Perhaps Mitnick made a deal with the Feds to nab more hackers and this is how they're getting their leads?
I wouldn't contribute anything with too many real details.
Perhaps a better/much easier strategy is to stick with relative measurements; send something back in time 1/1000th of a second. Record relative movement from the starting point. Send something back 1/100th, 1/10th, etc. etc., recording movement.
The cool thing about this is that you can collect all your data before you've run the experiment!
I was going to make the same suggestion. Frontpage or Dreamweaver would be an excellent choice for focussing on content over form. The poster could set up the tool such that it edits on the live site, eliminating extra steps of publishing for the kid. As a service to the kid the danger of screwing things up could be minimalized if the poster would remotely back the site up once in a while in order to have a recent version to restore if necessary.
How the rest of the posters have such small brains that they can't understand This, as a first step for her, needs to be easy, and more focused on content than form" is beyond me. I know, I know, I should expect such around here.
And to address the concern of such small minded posters, please realize that both tools make it really easy to pull back the WYSIWYG layer and start tinkering at a lower lever, when the user is ready. Please unbunch your panties now.