Could you describe in more detail the imagery that was shown of Neo coming out of the Matrix? I've seen it twice but only saw your comment AFTERWARDS!:)
Is it a shot from neo's perspective, for example with morpheus looming over him hazily mouthing the words "Welcome to the real world"? Or is it more like a 3rd-person perspective of neo on the table with needles, or being picked up by the ship's hook or something?
If it's an image from neo's perspective, a friend of mine pointed out that the architect could've read it from neo's mind.
You don't even need a cross-over cable... just plug the cable modem into the "uplink" port on the hub (you DID get a hub with an uplink port, right?).
This port is normally designed for daisy-chaining hubs together... but essentially that just means that it's crossed over.
To everyone yapping about home routers with NAT (which I personally use and love)... the poster never mentioned the need to share the internet! He literally just didn't seem to realize the crossover/straight cable issue.
GIMPS, the Great Internet Marsenne Prime Search, is a distributed computing approach to finding absurdly large primes.
In 2001, a 4 million decimal-digit number was proven to be prime. This is a single-bit result, but reaching it had taken 2 years of spare computing cycles on 205,000 computers (or something like that). That's a very expensive bit.
Another take on your decision: bear in mind that your choice of major operates in some respects like a job title... there are people in the world who will read volumes out of the words in your degree, without regard for what's actually behind the degree itself.
What I'm referring to specifically, is the fact that a CE graduate has the word "engineering" in their degree.
If one day the entire computer industry collapsed (or alternately, you got completely sick of it), the fact that you have an engineering degree would be a saving grace... many employers (semi-rightfully) regard an engineering degree as a very flexible and useful background.
As far as software is concerned, there isn't THAT much difference between a CS and a CE major... it's almost as slim as the difference between an Applied Mathematics and an Abstract Mathematics degree. But don't underestimate the added value of that single word: engineering. Both on paper and in practice, it means that you're getting a little extra something with your education in the way of problem solving and practical knowledge. And smart employers realize this.
As many have pointed out, CS and CE people are quite capable of performing many of the same tasks and jobs (at least as far as software is concerned). Also as many have pointed out, depending on the jobs you take and the experience you get, CE vs CS will have little-to-no meaning a few years after you graduate.
So unless you're planning to pursue a highly theoretical and academic computer science career, I would personally suggest going for computer engineering instead. If there's anything from the CS curriculum that you'd feel like you were missing, then by all means just take those classes too, for credit or not! Or get a masters.
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Could you describe in more detail the imagery that was shown of Neo coming out of the Matrix? I've seen it twice but only saw your comment AFTERWARDS! :)
Is it a shot from neo's perspective, for example with morpheus looming over him hazily mouthing the words "Welcome to the real world"? Or is it more like a 3rd-person perspective of neo on the table with needles, or being picked up by the ship's hook or something?
If it's an image from neo's perspective, a friend of mine pointed out that the architect could've read it from neo's mind.
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You don't even need a cross-over cable... just plug the cable modem into the "uplink" port on the hub (you DID get a hub with an uplink port, right?).
This port is normally designed for daisy-chaining hubs together... but essentially that just means that it's crossed over.
To everyone yapping about home routers with NAT (which I personally use and love)... the poster never mentioned the need to share the internet! He literally just didn't seem to realize the crossover/straight cable issue.
In 2001, a 4 million decimal-digit number was proven to be prime. This is a single-bit result, but reaching it had taken 2 years of spare computing cycles on 205,000 computers (or something like that). That's a very expensive bit.
http://www.mersenne.org/13466917.htm
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http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/notes/13466917
Another take on your decision: bear in mind that your choice of major operates in some respects like a job title... there are people in the world who will read volumes out of the words in your degree, without regard for what's actually behind the degree itself.
What I'm referring to specifically, is the fact that a CE graduate has the word "engineering" in their degree.
If one day the entire computer industry collapsed (or alternately, you got completely sick of it), the fact that you have an engineering degree would be a saving grace... many employers (semi-rightfully) regard an engineering degree as a very flexible and useful background.
As far as software is concerned, there isn't THAT much difference between a CS and a CE major... it's almost as slim as the difference between an Applied Mathematics and an Abstract Mathematics degree. But don't underestimate the added value of that single word: engineering. Both on paper and in practice, it means that you're getting a little extra something with your education in the way of problem solving and practical knowledge. And smart employers realize this.
As many have pointed out, CS and CE people are quite capable of performing many of the same tasks and jobs (at least as far as software is concerned). Also as many have pointed out, depending on the jobs you take and the experience you get, CE vs CS will have little-to-no meaning a few years after you graduate.
So unless you're planning to pursue a highly theoretical and academic computer science career, I would personally suggest going for computer engineering instead. If there's anything from the CS curriculum that you'd feel like you were missing, then by all means just take those classes too, for credit or not! Or get a masters.