Well, I've got 12 games for my Virtual Boy, and know there are a few notable games like Panic Bomber and Waterworld that I'm missing in my collection. Most of the 12 aren't very good games, but I enjoyed my time with the system while it was new and still pull it out from time to time. I guess my opinion of the device is shaped by having bought it on clearance after it got the production axe, though. I didn't pay anything close to what the units were selling for during release.
Seconded. I've cut the caffeine almost entirely out of my life as part of a plan to cut the fat, based mostly on the hacker's diet. Now I think clearly whenever I'm awake, have no more headaches on days when I don't consume Mountain Dew, and have no fears of becoming diebetic or developing cancer (from "sugar free" drinks made with aspartme or sucralose). Cutting the sodas and energy drink certainly worked, too -- I dropped 40 lbs in 5 months, back to a healthy weight range.
Late night study sessions actually are more productive now, too, since there is no caffeine interfering with my thinking process or making me jittery.
I use motion http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHom e, an application which detects motion within your camera's field of vision and then either takes still images or moving video captures of the scene. Great for paranoid security or annoying your roomate.
Waterview Park is not owned by UTD any longer. 2 years ago it was bought by a non-profit (i don't recall who), and it is managed/maintained by a private entity. Only the freshman apartments are still owned by UTD. The lease we signed with the apartment complex, a non UTD-owned entity, does not restrict our usage of WAPs.
The school's wireless network has been entirely unreliable for the past 3 years, when it was put in place. It has been overloaded and had very long sporadic outtages, which typically occur, as you guess, the night a big paper is due. We pay for private connections so that when our access goes down, we can call someone who cares (well, who cares more than the school does, at least), and is obligated to fix the problem since they (the private provider) have entered into a service agreement with us customers
The problem is with this argument is that I am not connected to the University network at all. In fact, the apartments in questioned are owned by an entity other than UTD and are managed by an altogether separate entity -- don't be me started on the mess we live with here. Anyway, my wireless AP is attached to my PRIVATE DSL line, not the school network, and does not interface with the school network directly.
Couple of things about HPs you might not know..
(I intern at a nameless company and have done internal support on multiple hundreds of HPs here this summer)
HPs generally come with special adapters of some sort for any drive bay... They make larger than average drive bays... You have to pay extra for those adapters... (Adding CD-Roms to old HP Vectra VE's was a pain without adapters... had to rig up my own half-assed adapter)
Most HPs come without screws... They are usually fairly easy to open.
HPs are proprietery when they can be... They make proprietery hard drives or devices that use specialized ide or scsi adapters, sometimes (I've only seen this in a few models)
Those are just my observervations on the mid-priced HPs.... I've found that if you pay top dollar for the boxes, you get more standardized parts, bays, cables, etc.
No, actually, at my school, at least, calc is usually a senior class... I was one of 7 students to take/pass the CALC AP test this past year as a junior... the other kids in the AP CS class wouldn't understand the calc/math concepts well enough, anyways, to produce any sort of game or physics environment.... at least at my school...
The math/calculator program sounds like a good idea, if the students can handle it....
I took pre-AP CS last year (pascal, some c++).. the class was composed of about 5 people who understood programming concepts on a high enough level to build that calculator program, and about 4 students with the math background appropriate to create that calculator program.
We had so few people that truly understood the math concepts, that they were stumped when we got to log and root functions in both pascal and C++...
Hopefully, this year in AP CS (pre-AP was a pre-requisite for AP), we'll have some half-way intelligent students, so that maybe we could do some interesting projects... (we had students writing pages of if statements, because they refused to use case of (pascal) )...
Yes, anyone can go to a phonebook and look up addresses that are listed, but those of us that respect our own privacy pay to be UNLISTED. No help from the phone book there for people who just want to spam and harrass...
As for net access, there are plenty of free net access providers, juno, freewwweb (didn't they go belly up?), netzero....
Ok, so you complain that your hick-ass cousin can't afford a computer... last I heard, you can access the net from the library, mall kiosks, friends houses.... Set up a free web-based mail account that you can check from a public terminal....
If you really want(ed) free e-mail, you'd have it already, even if you don't have a comp.
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Well, I've got 12 games for my Virtual Boy, and know there are a few notable games like Panic Bomber and Waterworld that I'm missing in my collection. Most of the 12 aren't very good games, but I enjoyed my time with the system while it was new and still pull it out from time to time. I guess my opinion of the device is shaped by having bought it on clearance after it got the production axe, though. I didn't pay anything close to what the units were selling for during release.
Seconded. I've cut the caffeine almost entirely out of my life as part of a plan to cut the fat, based mostly on the hacker's diet. Now I think clearly whenever I'm awake, have no more headaches on days when I don't consume Mountain Dew, and have no fears of becoming diebetic or developing cancer (from "sugar free" drinks made with aspartme or sucralose). Cutting the sodas and energy drink certainly worked, too -- I dropped 40 lbs in 5 months, back to a healthy weight range.
Late night study sessions actually are more productive now, too, since there is no caffeine interfering with my thinking process or making me jittery.
I use motion http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHom e, an application which detects motion within your camera's field of vision and then either takes still images or moving video captures of the scene. Great for paranoid security or annoying your roomate.
Waterview Park is not owned by UTD any longer. 2 years ago it was bought by a non-profit (i don't recall who), and it is managed/maintained by a private entity. Only the freshman apartments are still owned by UTD. The lease we signed with the apartment complex, a non UTD-owned entity, does not restrict our usage of WAPs.
The school's wireless network has been entirely unreliable for the past 3 years, when it was put in place. It has been overloaded and had very long sporadic outtages, which typically occur, as you guess, the night a big paper is due. We pay for private connections so that when our access goes down, we can call someone who cares (well, who cares more than the school does, at least), and is obligated to fix the problem since they (the private provider) have entered into a service agreement with us customers
The problem is with this argument is that I am not connected to the University network at all. In fact, the apartments in questioned are owned by an entity other than UTD and are managed by an altogether separate entity -- don't be me started on the mess we live with here. Anyway, my wireless AP is attached to my PRIVATE DSL line, not the school network, and does not interface with the school network directly.
who gets rid of old computer parts, anyway? I still got a box of 486 processors on the shelf...
(I intern at a nameless company and have done internal support on multiple hundreds of HPs here this summer)
HPs generally come with special adapters of some sort for any drive bay... They make larger than average drive bays... You have to pay extra for those adapters... (Adding CD-Roms to old HP Vectra VE's was a pain without adapters... had to rig up my own half-assed adapter)
Most HPs come without screws... They are usually fairly easy to open.
HPs are proprietery when they can be... They make proprietery hard drives or devices that use specialized ide or scsi adapters, sometimes (I've only seen this in a few models)
Those are just my observervations on the mid-priced HPs.... I've found that if you pay top dollar for the boxes, you get more standardized parts, bays, cables, etc.
No, actually, at my school, at least, calc is usually a senior class... I was one of 7 students to take/pass the CALC AP test this past year as a junior... the other kids in the AP CS class wouldn't understand the calc/math concepts well enough, anyways, to produce any sort of game or physics environment.... at least at my school...
I took pre-AP CS last year (pascal, some c++).. the class was composed of about 5 people who understood programming concepts on a high enough level to build that calculator program, and about 4 students with the math background appropriate to create that calculator program.
We had so few people that truly understood the math concepts, that they were stumped when we got to log and root functions in both pascal and C++...
Hopefully, this year in AP CS (pre-AP was a pre-requisite for AP), we'll have some half-way intelligent students, so that maybe we could do some interesting projects... (we had students writing pages of if statements, because they refused to use case of (pascal) )...
As for net access, there are plenty of free net access providers, juno, freewwweb (didn't they go belly up?), netzero....
Ok, so you complain that your hick-ass cousin can't afford a computer... last I heard, you can access the net from the library, mall kiosks, friends houses.... Set up a free web-based mail account that you can check from a public terminal....
If you really want(ed) free e-mail, you'd have it already, even if you don't have a comp.