A typical cell phone costs, what, $70-$100 and can do just about anything and has more processing power than most computers 10 years ago. If you strip out all the useless stuff out of a cell phone (you know, to make it, gasp, act just like a phone) I don't see how it can be that much of a challenge to bring it down to the $20 range.
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The QT online docs are concise and much more organized than MSDN. Unfortunately, they're only for QT libraries.
Yes, good old Professor Zoller. For those who don't know, his cranial cavity (that would be his head) is a one-quarter or so water-like fluid from an accident a long time ago. It's known that a student some years ago pushed him to the floor in the halls (by accident) and the fluid sloshing around in his head made him pass out for a little while.
Companies that build durable goods seem to be doing just fine...
But that's assuming all its competitors take the same high-road approach. If just one of those competitors decide to steal marketshare by selling an inferior product at a lower price, then all is lost. Look at Volvo for a good example of this. Who 10 years ago would have thought that Volvo would make cars that are only of average quality? Or that Mercedes-Benz, once the symbol of luxury and quality, would scrape the bottom in terms of quality even when compared to cheap Korean cars.
Moe: I'll be spending the evening ogling the ladies in the Victoria's Secret catalog. (Lie detector beeps) Moe: Uh, I mean the JC Penney catalog. (Lie detector beeps) Moe: OK, Sears. (Lie detector dings)
And you're going to probably see more of this because of No Child Left Behind. It's in the budgetary interest of the school to have the highest grades possible. If it means having most students ace the exam on fraction addition in 8th grade, then that's what it takes.
Once upon a time, I got a speeding ticket in some hicksville between Seattle and Vancouver, Canada. The sleazy town lawyer charges his standard rate of $300 to get your ticket overturned. I went to court to observe him in action. He had a stack of 20 tickets, and proceeded to have the judge basically rubber-stamp them all under one single legal precedent. That's about $6000 for 15 minutes spent at court.
Well, to be fair, a couple of years ago, community college kids were automatically ushered into the quota spots in the CS department if they have a 3.5 cumulative or so, while UW freshmen/sophomores with 3.7/3.8 were routinely rejected. Not sure how their system of quotas work.
From what I heard, admissions to CS/CE/EE are much more relaxed now due to the sharp drop in applicants. A friend of mine with a 1.x in freshmen calc got into EE, and another friend with a 2.x in intro physics got into CS just fine.
But seriously - students with GPAs below 3.4/3.5 will most likely NOT do very well in those departments.
If you want elitism at its finest - check out the guys in the UW honors college. I liked the classes, but I hated the people in it. Nothing like having some 15-year-old punk there telling you that your relativistic velocity calculation method is SO inefficient and stupid...
CS, CE, and EE at UW are incredibly easy to get into - now that the number of applicants have dropped off significantly.
A friend of mine with a similar intro physics GPA as you did got into CS with no problem. Someone else I know with a 1-point-something in one of the intro calc classes got into EE.
Although grad school is still pretty competitive. Good thing it's not exactly my cup of tea. (Although did you know the UW EE grad program is half women?)
I too wish that this will spark the next wave of space exploration and discovery.
However, even if the NASA gets the space exploration budgets in place, by that time there will be a shortage of brain power to compete with all the PhD's that have since stayed home for education in China and India. By then, can we even compete? I hope the brain drain in our higher ed gets reversed before some drastic situation like this happens.
Talk to anyone who's done software on expensive medical devices, avionics, or military equipment, and you'll find plenty of examples of C being used in the most critical of situations. It just means the code and design has to be scrutinized much more than it would be at an average code house.
Right now, I'm writing some code which controls primary airplane functions - in C++ compiled with GCC 2.95. Don't worry - it's perfectly approved by the FAA bloodhounds. We just can't use things like STL or compiler-provided exception-handling, for instance.
Part of the fun of riding in taxis is being able to ride in a Police Interceptor. Nothing like going 0-60 in 5s while slipping into some godawful tight opening on the left lane on Fifth Avenue.
But this should be good. Hybrid vehicles really shine in urban congested traffic anyways (lots of stops and crawls)
I agree with the dynamics of the free market, AS LONG AS my tax dollars (or what will be left of it in the future) will not be spent (on whatever - military, buying up friendships of foreign countries, etc.) to ensure that these corporations operate in a safe and advantageous business haven with favorable tax shelters. Otherwise, we are providing de facto subsidies for corporations to offshore jobs and will therefore provide an even more lopsided playing field between workers in the First World and the Third World.
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"Upscale housing community starting in the low 300's"
I live (rent) in Redmond, 2 blocks away from a sign that says "new homes starting in the low 800's". And it's right next to a loud, busy street.
I thought a DC deskjob internship would be boring, until I read this!
A typical cell phone costs, what, $70-$100 and can do just about anything and has more processing power than most computers 10 years ago. If you strip out all the useless stuff out of a cell phone (you know, to make it, gasp, act just like a phone) I don't see how it can be that much of a challenge to bring it down to the $20 range.
The QT online docs are concise and much more organized than MSDN. Unfortunately, they're only for QT libraries.
Yes, good old Professor Zoller. For those who don't know, his cranial cavity (that would be his head) is a one-quarter or so water-like fluid from an accident a long time ago. It's known that a student some years ago pushed him to the floor in the halls (by accident) and the fluid sloshing around in his head made him pass out for a little while.
Companies that build durable goods seem to be doing just fine...
But that's assuming all its competitors take the same high-road approach. If just one of those competitors decide to steal marketshare by selling an inferior product at a lower price, then all is lost. Look at Volvo for a good example of this. Who 10 years ago would have thought that Volvo would make cars that are only of average quality? Or that Mercedes-Benz, once the symbol of luxury and quality, would scrape the bottom in terms of quality even when compared to cheap Korean cars.
Ob Simpsons Quote
Moe: I'll be spending the evening ogling the ladies in the Victoria's Secret catalog.
(Lie detector beeps)
Moe: Uh, I mean the JC Penney catalog.
(Lie detector beeps)
Moe: OK, Sears.
(Lie detector dings)
Oh how cute...unarmed Western nations bickering and threatening each other...(pats each on their fluffy heads)
I'm quite certain there were not too many randy octopi in ancient Chinese legends.
Perhaps that is the 15% you're referring to?
And you're going to probably see more of this because of No Child Left Behind. It's in the budgetary interest of the school to have the highest grades possible. If it means having most students ace the exam on fraction addition in 8th grade, then that's what it takes.
Once upon a time, I got a speeding ticket in some hicksville between Seattle and Vancouver, Canada. The sleazy town lawyer charges his standard rate of $300 to get your ticket overturned. I went to court to observe him in action. He had a stack of 20 tickets, and proceeded to have the judge basically rubber-stamp them all under one single legal precedent. That's about $6000 for 15 minutes spent at court.
Click and Clack is currently advocating Double Dog Daily Savings Time.
Are you and your friends non-US citizens, per chance?
No. Pure-bred Seattle natives, the bunch of us.
Well, to be fair, a couple of years ago, community college kids were automatically ushered into the quota spots in the CS department if they have a 3.5 cumulative or so, while UW freshmen/sophomores with 3.7/3.8 were routinely rejected. Not sure how their system of quotas work.
From what I heard, admissions to CS/CE/EE are much more relaxed now due to the sharp drop in applicants. A friend of mine with a 1.x in freshmen calc got into EE, and another friend with a 2.x in intro physics got into CS just fine.
But seriously - students with GPAs below 3.4/3.5 will most likely NOT do very well in those departments.
If you want elitism at its finest - check out the guys in the UW honors college. I liked the classes, but I hated the people in it. Nothing like having some 15-year-old punk there telling you that your relativistic velocity calculation method is SO inefficient and stupid...
CS, CE, and EE at UW are incredibly easy to get into - now that the number of applicants have dropped off significantly.
A friend of mine with a similar intro physics GPA as you did got into CS with no problem. Someone else I know with a 1-point-something in one of the intro calc classes got into EE.
Although grad school is still pretty competitive. Good thing it's not exactly my cup of tea. (Although did you know the UW EE grad program is half women?)
I too wish that this will spark the next wave of space exploration and discovery.
However, even if the NASA gets the space exploration budgets in place, by that time there will be a shortage of brain power to compete with all the PhD's that have since stayed home for education in China and India. By then, can we even compete? I hope the brain drain in our higher ed gets reversed before some drastic situation like this happens.
Sounds a little fishy to me.
Same shit, different day.
Liberals win elections by pretending to be conservatives, and conservatives win elections by pretending to be liberals. Works like a charm every time.
Talk to anyone who's done software on expensive medical devices, avionics, or military equipment, and you'll find plenty of examples of C being used in the most critical of situations. It just means the code and design has to be scrutinized much more than it would be at an average code house.
Right now, I'm writing some code which controls primary airplane functions - in C++ compiled with GCC 2.95. Don't worry - it's perfectly approved by the FAA bloodhounds. We just can't use things like STL or compiler-provided exception-handling, for instance.
Part of the fun of riding in taxis is being able to ride in a Police Interceptor. Nothing like going 0-60 in 5s while slipping into some godawful tight opening on the left lane on Fifth Avenue.
But this should be good. Hybrid vehicles really shine in urban congested traffic anyways (lots of stops and crawls)
You forgot the comic book tracer.
Toyota declares Americans too stupid to work in their factories
This sounds like the qualification for an intern/co-op type of position. $15/hr is about right.
For convenience, will they automatically convert the salaries to rupees?
I agree with the dynamics of the free market, AS LONG AS my tax dollars (or what will be left of it in the future) will not be spent (on whatever - military, buying up friendships of foreign countries, etc.) to ensure that these corporations operate in a safe and advantageous business haven with favorable tax shelters. Otherwise, we are providing de facto subsidies for corporations to offshore jobs and will therefore provide an even more lopsided playing field between workers in the First World and the Third World.