I say it all depends on who you're playing with, sometimes a bit boring. Try switching from CTs to Ts, or playing some different maps. Eventually a new.1 release will be out, with slightly altered gameplay and more new maps to learn/master. CS will then be fun again.
That was a joke.
But seriously, university can be quite boring when studying computer science. At least that's what I found. Work was quite different and much more enjoyable. The highs are much higher, but also the lows can be much lower - you have to get a decent and interesting job.
So you've basically got to decide if you want to plough on, get graduated and try to get a good job you'll enjoy, or bug out now and change subjects.
Nothing's ever fun forever, there's always high and lows. Whatever you choose, it's doubtful you'll be doing it for the rest of your adult life - even if your tech flame is rekindled and you get a great job and do well, you'll end up a manager or director and not be doing it anymore.
I too have recently spent some time investigating how to make my machine quieter. Eventually I plan to build a *silent* mini server for home, but this is another project...
I was running a GlobalWin 802 case, with 2x Sunon 80mm case fans and a GlobalWin FOP32 heatsink and fan. This was quite noisy.
After some research, I found out that Papst (a German company) makes just about the quietest fans you can get. You can get them as low as 12dBA. Getting hold of them is another matter - they're often expensive, reorder times when out of stock is long (many months) and most suppliers only stock a very small part of the Papst range.
Eventually I found a local (UK) supplier and purchased 2x 80mm fans (rated about 19dBA). I put one of these as the exhaust fan for my case and the other I put on my FOP32 heat sink. I needed to get a 60mm->80mm fan adapter (most CPU heatsinks come with 60mm fans, you can get an adapter from most overclocking stores). I did away with the extra case fan.
Overall the transformation was remarkable. The machine is now very quiet - not silent, you can still hear the fans, but very very quiet. As far as cooling goes, it's just as good as it was before. Both my board and cpu are running at the same temperature (I'm running an overclocked AMD TBird).
One of the fans I got, the one I use for my case, has a temperature sensor built into it. This detects the airtemp and alters the spin speed of the fan accordingly. From 25oC is starts to spin faster upto a max temp of 35oC when it's running full speed. At it's lowest speed (say 25oC) it runs at 10dBA going upto 19dBA at full speed. This was more expensive than the standard Papst fan (US$30ish!!!) but seems to work.
I'd certainly recommend looking to get Papst fans for anyone.
An alternative (not quite as good) is Panasonic's Panaflo fans.
Also, remember Nepal really is poor, much poorer than the average American could possibly imagine. The average income for a Nepalese person is US$200 per year (that's right, no typo). You typical villager, like in this article, will have much less cash than that available.
So even if ISP costs are low, they will be significant. As ISP activity is very low in a country like that, costs will probably be high.
A day's walk, for Nepalese, is *much* further than 802.11b. These people are tough, when they say a day's walk it's more than just down the road.
Not exactly related, but to give you some idea, a commercial porter in Nepal will carry 80-100kg and walk just about as far as you would on a good day's hiking.
The maps's a bit wierd. What's all that down near the Falkland islands? It's almost all sea down there?
Also, look near south west Kashmir, it reckons the area is as light as much of Europe.
Nigeria looks pretty light near the coast too - spending all that oil money eh?
It's interesting to pick out places - Cairo and the Nile valley in Egypt. Around Bangkok and further south to Kuala Lump and Singapore. Also the sultan in Brunei is leaving his lights on a bit too much;)
Tibet must be the darkest place on earth I reckon. Then again, maybe Somalia.
I've subscribed to TPJ since issue #3 and it's been a wonderful resource over the years - not only have I learned a great deal from it, but it's given me lots of ideas for things to write and improve over the years.
I've only just got the last couple of issues since EarthWeb screwed up my subscription, and I've just resubscribed for a year. I don't care about loss of money, but loss of any future TPJs is very very sad.
Reading Edward de Bono's Parallel Thinking book gives a little insite into why people are like this.
He blames it all on our approach to looking for ultimate truths - there must be one language that is better than all others. We take this approach because it's how we've been taught to "think", derived form the teachings of old Greek philosophers. Very interesting books and if you're at all interested in this, go read it.
He also proposes a new approach to thinking about a problem - 6 Thinking Hats - which takes you through 6 stages about thinking about something. It's quite useful in a group for discussing technical subjects - but it's hard to get everyone to buy into this as an idea - of course they are right and you are wrong.
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Is it have everyone in the country pay the same amount of taxes, based on the amount of goods they buy, or is it better to take 30% of the middle class person's income, 1% of the rich person's income and -40% of the poor person's income? That's right, the poor people get "taxes" back from the government in the US. I can't comment on specific taxation figures in the US - I know have enough knowledge about that - however, my point was arguing against indirect taxation as a primary means of raising funds for treasury departments. I also can't comment on inefficiencies in US tax collection - just because they screw up on how to collect it doesn't mean the concept is bad. So you really do seem to think it is fairer for the less well off in society to pay proportionally more of their income as taxes? Yes, I don't much care for the idea that I'm actually supporting several families on income support - some of who don't even want to bother working. However, I'd much prefer an economy and taxation system that encouranges and allows such people to improve their financial status. $5-6 for a gallon of gas is exaggeration? - yesterday I filled my car and it was 89.9 pence per litre, approx 4.5 litres per gallon makes that 404.55 pence per gallon, given approx US$1.6 to the UK pound, that makes US$6.47 per gallon. OK we're talking imperial gallons here and not US gallons, but it's a hell of a difference to the US$2/gallon I paid when I was in the US last.
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Direct taxation is a very bad thing? Really? I guess you won't mind paying US$5-6 for a gallon of gas then... Indirect taxation almost always hurts the less well off in society and results in having to pay stupid prices for everyday goods. Check out the price of things in the UK.
Indirect taxes are just the things politicians love, they screw you with them and then expect you to say thank you afterwards.
I find this really disappointing that there's such fuss made over this. Clive Sinclair is just jumping on the bandwagon, I doubt he's any real interest in this community or the introduction of computing to the masses, he's just out to make $$$.
Why? A very recent (last couple of months) Personal Computer World (PCW) (in the UK) magazine article had a kind of interview with him. The interviewer wanted to get his opinion of Linux and the open source movement - because Linus had started his hacking days on a Sinclair QL, trying to get another keyboard to work as the Sinclair one broke. The interviewer thought it was kind of funny that CS was one of the people responsible for Linux (in the loosest of ways!).
However Uncle Clive hadn't even heard of Linux!!!
This was only a few months ago, so he's obviously looked into it and thought he could make some $$$ on the back of his name. Sad.
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I say it all depends on who you're playing with, sometimes a bit boring. Try switching from CTs to Ts, or playing some different maps. Eventually a new
That was a joke.
But seriously, university can be quite boring when studying computer science. At least that's what I found. Work was quite different and much more enjoyable. The highs are much higher, but also the lows can be much lower - you have to get a decent and interesting job.
So you've basically got to decide if you want to plough on, get graduated and try to get a good job you'll enjoy, or bug out now and change subjects.
Nothing's ever fun forever, there's always high and lows. Whatever you choose, it's doubtful you'll be doing it for the rest of your adult life - even if your tech flame is rekindled and you get a great job and do well, you'll end up a manager or director and not be doing it anymore.
I too have recently spent some time investigating how to make my machine quieter. Eventually I plan to build a *silent* mini server for home, but this is another project...
I was running a GlobalWin 802 case, with 2x Sunon 80mm case fans and a GlobalWin FOP32 heatsink and fan. This was quite noisy.
After some research, I found out that Papst (a German company) makes just about the quietest fans you can get. You can get them as low as 12dBA. Getting hold of them is another matter - they're often expensive, reorder times when out of stock is long (many months) and most suppliers only stock a very small part of the Papst range.
Eventually I found a local (UK) supplier and purchased 2x 80mm fans (rated about 19dBA). I put one of these as the exhaust fan for my case and the other I put on my FOP32 heat sink. I needed to get a 60mm->80mm fan adapter (most CPU heatsinks come with 60mm fans, you can get an adapter from most overclocking stores). I did away with the extra case fan.
Overall the transformation was remarkable. The machine is now very quiet - not silent, you can still hear the fans, but very very quiet. As far as cooling goes, it's just as good as it was before. Both my board and cpu are running at the same temperature (I'm running an overclocked AMD TBird).
One of the fans I got, the one I use for my case, has a temperature sensor built into it. This detects the airtemp and alters the spin speed of the fan accordingly. From 25oC is starts to spin faster upto a max temp of 35oC when it's running full speed. At it's lowest speed (say 25oC) it runs at 10dBA going upto 19dBA at full speed. This was more expensive than the standard Papst fan (US$30ish!!!) but seems to work.
I'd certainly recommend looking to get Papst fans for anyone.
An alternative (not quite as good) is Panasonic's Panaflo fans.
Also, remember Nepal really is poor, much poorer than the average American could possibly imagine. The average income for a Nepalese person is US$200 per year (that's right, no typo). You typical villager, like in this article, will have much less cash than that available.
So even if ISP costs are low, they will be significant. As ISP activity is very low in a country like that, costs will probably be high.
A day's walk, for Nepalese, is *much* further than 802.11b. These people are tough, when they say a day's walk it's more than just down the road.
Not exactly related, but to give you some idea, a commercial porter in Nepal will carry 80-100kg and walk just about as far as you would on a good day's hiking.
Isn't ClearCase based on the versioned file systems in VMS? It's based on something like that.
We have a transactional system built on top of ClearCase where I work. It's OK but I'm sure there are neater solutions to the problem.
The maps's a bit wierd. What's all that down near the Falkland islands? It's almost all sea down there?
;)
Also, look near south west Kashmir, it reckons the area is as light as much of Europe.
Nigeria looks pretty light near the coast too - spending all that oil money eh?
It's interesting to pick out places - Cairo and the Nile valley in Egypt. Around Bangkok and further south to Kuala Lump and Singapore. Also the sultan in Brunei is leaving his lights on a bit too much
Tibet must be the darkest place on earth I reckon. Then again, maybe Somalia.
Jamie
I've subscribed to TPJ since issue #3 and it's been a wonderful resource over the years - not only have I learned a great deal from it, but it's given me lots of ideas for things to write and improve over the years.
I've only just got the last couple of issues since EarthWeb screwed up my subscription, and I've just resubscribed for a year. I don't care about loss of money, but loss of any future TPJs is very very sad.
Jamie
Reading Edward de Bono's Parallel Thinking book gives a little insite into why people are like this.
He blames it all on our approach to looking for ultimate truths - there must be one language that is better than all others. We take this approach because it's how we've been taught to "think", derived form the teachings of old Greek philosophers. Very interesting books and if you're at all interested in this, go read it.
He also proposes a new approach to thinking about a problem - 6 Thinking Hats - which takes you through 6 stages about thinking about something. It's quite useful in a group for discussing technical subjects - but it's hard to get everyone to buy into this as an idea - of course they are right and you are wrong.
Is it have everyone in the country pay the same amount of taxes, based on the amount of goods they buy, or is it better to take 30% of the middle class person's income, 1% of the rich person's income and -40% of the poor person's income? That's right, the poor people get "taxes" back from the government in the US. I can't comment on specific taxation figures in the US - I know have enough knowledge about that - however, my point was arguing against indirect taxation as a primary means of raising funds for treasury departments. I also can't comment on inefficiencies in US tax collection - just because they screw up on how to collect it doesn't mean the concept is bad. So you really do seem to think it is fairer for the less well off in society to pay proportionally more of their income as taxes? Yes, I don't much care for the idea that I'm actually supporting several families on income support - some of who don't even want to bother working. However, I'd much prefer an economy and taxation system that encouranges and allows such people to improve their financial status. $5-6 for a gallon of gas is exaggeration? - yesterday I filled my car and it was 89.9 pence per litre, approx 4.5 litres per gallon makes that 404.55 pence per gallon, given approx US$1.6 to the UK pound, that makes US$6.47 per gallon. OK we're talking imperial gallons here and not US gallons, but it's a hell of a difference to the US$2/gallon I paid when I was in the US last.
Direct taxation is a very bad thing? Really? I guess you won't mind paying US$5-6 for a gallon of gas then... Indirect taxation almost always hurts the less well off in society and results in having to pay stupid prices for everyday goods. Check out the price of things in the UK.
Indirect taxes are just the things politicians love, they screw you with them and then expect you to say thank you afterwards.
I find this really disappointing that there's such fuss made over this. Clive Sinclair is just jumping on the bandwagon, I doubt he's any real interest in this community or the introduction of computing to the masses, he's just out to make $$$.
Why? A very recent (last couple of months) Personal Computer World (PCW) (in the UK) magazine article had a kind of interview with him. The interviewer wanted to get his opinion of Linux and the open source movement - because Linus had started his hacking days on a Sinclair QL, trying to get another keyboard to work as the Sinclair one broke. The interviewer thought it was kind of funny that CS was one of the people responsible for Linux (in the loosest of ways!).
However Uncle Clive hadn't even heard of Linux!!!
This was only a few months ago, so he's obviously looked into it and thought he could make some $$$ on the back of his name. Sad.