MSN service seems too flaky, it always seems to go be going down for "5 minutes" or "maintanance"... I've been signed on to AIM for weeks at a time without dropping.
Ever hear the story of the grasshoppper and the ant?
The majority of the reason that these people are in trouble is because they stretched themselves beyond their means.
People who had used some forsight could make a killing during the tech boom we recently had, or during the real estate boom following the crash in the late 80s.
There are too many people in their late 20s and early 30s who want to run into buying houses, while at the same time leasing two mid-priced cars and paying for their cell phones and cable modems.
I know way too many people who were quick to move out of their folks' homes as soon as they got a job... then after a couple of years they realize that they've barely breaking even on living costs and have no savings. Anything not in the budget goes on the credit card and takes them years to pay off.
Sorry guys, maybe it's worth a year or two living at home and not being able to have your girlfriend stay over or throw parties on the weekend... but at least you won't be fucked if you lose your job.
I dunno... just regular line level outputs? no spdif?
I know we're looking for simple... and I'll admit that the display looks sleek... but this seems TOO simple... I'd be looking for additional functionality from it...
Unfortunately if the extreme-left of this country had it's way everything would be setup to be usable/accessible/workable by the lowest common denomenator of society.
I'm not saying we shouldn't have something like the ADA, because it's VERY important. There is no reason that (most) locations designed to be accessible to the public should not have accessibility to people with handicaps. The obivous exception being pre-existing structures where modification is either impossible or would ruin it's historic value.
I have nothing against the disabled... but the cases settled out of court are just money gathering efforts... if these people actually wanted to effect change they would follow through with suites to cause real change.
OTOH, the "victim" could potentially donate a large portion of their settlement to charible organizations having to do with helping people with disabilities... and I *suppose* that the threat of being sued and forced to change and get bad PR might scare companies into conforming...
I have to agree with the majority... you've taken classes in several different fields of study and trying to combine them all into a single degree title will just water down their real meanings. Try to split this into two degrees...
Tell me there wasn't a collective outburst of laughter across america when he kicked that guy into the engine and turned to the other guy "This is all the money..."
true story... we tore down a wall between our kitchen and dining room and found a little action figure guy hanging from a string with a note attached that said "help I'm trapped in the wall"... and a bunch of really old Pepsi cans...
I used to work for an electrician and we used to spend a ton of time taking videos and pictures of the framed (but drywall-less rooms) that we had just wired because the sheetrock people would inevitably cover up a switch, outlet or ceiling box...
The best thing to have in this world is a supportive family... I'm attempt to work on something similar to what you have. I'm working on my bachelors in computer engineering, and I plan to continue on to my masters. I work 20hrs per week, but the pay isn't nearly enough to cover the cost of school and living. I know that there is no way I'd be able to pull of the 18-21 credit work loads that I'm doing now (5-6 classes) if I didn't have my family, and to a close degree, my parents providing the moral and financial support. As long as I'm really working and learning they're willing to go as far as I am.
I'm a senior in computer engineering... I have many friends in computer science...
Computer engineering is, like the book says, more hardware then software. As a computer engineer, you design hardware that will specifically be designed for use in or with a computer (as opposed to an electrical engineer who might design things that are less computer related, like a power supply, motor controllers, etc). You'll do things like work with audio codecs, video cards, new types of CPUs, peripherals like webcams, mice, etc...
computer science is programming/software... you learn how-to make all that hardware work. the theory behind operating systems (it's not as easy as it looks), what makes a program run more efficiently.
If you like working with electronics and computer hardware AND you don't mind programming and software development then choose computer engineering... you will be qualified to do almost anything in the computer/electronics field. People go on to become programmers (nearly 90% of the development team at the software company I used to work at started out with Electrical Engineering degrees). you can also go on to work with networks, etc, etc...
get into computer science if you want to focus on writing programs, operating systems and other applications. you won't deal with the physical hardware, tho you may have to deal with interfacing with it (such as writing programs to directly work with the hardware rather then going thru an OS first... or maybe you'll be writing the OS that those programs are going thru!).
I would NOT suggest skipping a degree and getting "real world" experience. This seems attractive because there are many small/start-up companies that are willing to pay bright high school grads $20+/hr to work on software projects... this is generally a dead end unless you are truly exceptional (and no matter how much you think you are, you better believe there's always someone out there who's better then you). Once this job ends (or you get sick of it), you'll be on the street with nothing but your experience and a high school diploma. That piece of paper that says Bachelors of Science commands a much higher salary for the vast majority of people out there. It also opens many doors. Some larger companies might not even consider you if you don't have a formal college education, or 15 years of industry experience. 2-3 years at a start-up coding the installer for their application will likely not cut it at the next job.
you also want to think long and hard about a company that offers to put you thru school part-time while you work full-time. Are you going to be able to handle 40+hrs of work AND school? How many years will it take? do you really want to spend 8-9 years just getting a bachelors degree?
I've done 2 co-ops thru my college at the same company... my first co-op was software QA, I sat and clicked until it broke then I wrote a bug report for it and filled it with screen shots and other data... it sucked doing it eight hours a day, but I did it...
my second co-op I was an apps engineer, I went out to the field and actually worked with the customers, software and hardware... these were trips around the country for days on end... sometimes I'd work 13 hours in a day, sometimes I'd work 2... but it was always interesting and fun.
the point of the story is that it sucks at first, but it generally gets better. My advice to all of you who say that "work sucks forever" is to find another damn job! Work shouldn't be total ass all the time... if you hate your job then get another one, maybe in a different field... if I didn't enjoy working with electronics, I'd try software, if that didn't work I'd become an auto mechanic, but I'd find SOMETHING that I can do all day and then go home happy (most of the time anyway).
Slashdot Mirror
What happens to AIM if/when AOL dies?
MSN service seems too flaky, it always seems to go be going down for "5 minutes" or "maintanance"... I've been signed on to AIM for weeks at a time without dropping.
Ever hear the story of the grasshoppper and the ant?
The majority of the reason that these people are in trouble is because they stretched themselves beyond their means.
People who had used some forsight could make a killing during the tech boom we recently had, or during the real estate boom following the crash in the late 80s.
There are too many people in their late 20s and early 30s who want to run into buying houses, while at the same time leasing two mid-priced cars and paying for their cell phones and cable modems.
I know way too many people who were quick to move out of their folks' homes as soon as they got a job... then after a couple of years they realize that they've barely breaking even on living costs and have no savings. Anything not in the budget goes on the credit card and takes them years to pay off.
Sorry guys, maybe it's worth a year or two living at home and not being able to have your girlfriend stay over or throw parties on the weekend... but at least you won't be fucked if you lose your job.
fixed link...
Planet X Info
10th Planet "X" Info:
n .h tml
http://dosxx.colorado.edu/Pluto/PlanetX.Anderso
I remember that story... I think "Planet X" turned out to be Pluto's only moon, Charon.
So this would be a newer discovery, not the same one...
I dunno... just regular line level outputs? no spdif?
I know we're looking for simple... and I'll admit that the display looks sleek... but this seems TOO simple... I'd be looking for additional functionality from it...
"...especially if you have 100 fucking wires behind your stereo anyway"
so what's one more?
add something to the universe... write one yourself... or just make a huge button'd skin for ximm...
I agree... a I have a family member who is partially wheel chair bound who is also a professor at a major university...
Without things like the ADA it would be up the conscience of business', schools, etc to enable physically disabled people access to buildings.
But that is in regard to physical access, which is perhaps the hardest and most costly thing that needs to be done for people...
We're talking about a website... it shouldn't be that hard to become compliant.
Unfortunately if the extreme-left of this country had it's way everything would be setup to be usable/accessible/workable by the lowest common denomenator of society.
I'm not saying we shouldn't have something like the ADA, because it's VERY important. There is no reason that (most) locations designed to be accessible to the public should not have accessibility to people with handicaps. The obivous exception being pre-existing structures where modification is either impossible or would ruin it's historic value.
I have nothing against the disabled... but the cases settled out of court are just money gathering efforts... if these people actually wanted to effect change they would follow through with suites to cause real change.
OTOH, the "victim" could potentially donate a large portion of their settlement to charible organizations having to do with helping people with disabilities... and I *suppose* that the threat of being sued and forced to change and get bad PR might scare companies into conforming...
before someone bitches... when I said "mod this" I meant the parent... not my post!
someone better mod this to funny...
I have to agree with the majority... you've taken classes in several different fields of study and trying to combine them all into a single degree title will just water down their real meanings. Try to split this into two degrees...
Adelphia sucks like that too... they're still wiring stuff with RG-59
This is just about complete crap...
I can't even get my company to replace my 4 year old Dell laptop, and now they're supposed to be footing the bill for all this?
Tell me there wasn't a collective outburst of laughter across america when he kicked that guy into the engine and turned to the other guy "This is all the money..."
That was funny shit... I'm sold.
true story... we tore down a wall between our kitchen and dining room and found a little action figure guy hanging from a string with a note attached that said "help I'm trapped in the wall"... and a bunch of really old Pepsi cans... I used to work for an electrician and we used to spend a ton of time taking videos and pictures of the framed (but drywall-less rooms) that we had just wired because the sheetrock people would inevitably cover up a switch, outlet or ceiling box...
The best thing to have in this world is a supportive family... I'm attempt to work on something similar to what you have. I'm working on my bachelors in computer engineering, and I plan to continue on to my masters. I work 20hrs per week, but the pay isn't nearly enough to cover the cost of school and living. I know that there is no way I'd be able to pull of the 18-21 credit work loads that I'm doing now (5-6 classes) if I didn't have my family, and to a close degree, my parents providing the moral and financial support. As long as I'm really working and learning they're willing to go as far as I am.
I'm a senior in computer engineering... I have many friends in computer science...
Computer engineering is, like the book says, more hardware then software. As a computer engineer, you design hardware that will specifically be designed for use in or with a computer (as opposed to an electrical engineer who might design things that are less computer related, like a power supply, motor controllers, etc). You'll do things like work with audio codecs, video cards, new types of CPUs, peripherals like webcams, mice, etc...
computer science is programming/software... you learn how-to make all that hardware work. the theory behind operating systems (it's not as easy as it looks), what makes a program run more efficiently.
If you like working with electronics and computer hardware AND you don't mind programming and software development then choose computer engineering... you will be qualified to do almost anything in the computer/electronics field. People go on to become programmers (nearly 90% of the development team at the software company I used to work at started out with Electrical Engineering degrees). you can also go on to work with networks, etc, etc...
get into computer science if you want to focus on writing programs, operating systems and other applications. you won't deal with the physical hardware, tho you may have to deal with interfacing with it (such as writing programs to directly work with the hardware rather then going thru an OS first... or maybe you'll be writing the OS that those programs are going thru!).
I would NOT suggest skipping a degree and getting "real world" experience. This seems attractive because there are many small/start-up companies that are willing to pay bright high school grads $20+/hr to work on software projects... this is generally a dead end unless you are truly exceptional (and no matter how much you think you are, you better believe there's always someone out there who's better then you). Once this job ends (or you get sick of it), you'll be on the street with nothing but your experience and a high school diploma. That piece of paper that says Bachelors of Science commands a much higher salary for the vast majority of people out there. It also opens many doors. Some larger companies might not even consider you if you don't have a formal college education, or 15 years of industry experience. 2-3 years at a start-up coding the installer for their application will likely not cut it at the next job. you also want to think long and hard about a company that offers to put you thru school part-time while you work full-time. Are you going to be able to handle 40+hrs of work AND school? How many years will it take? do you really want to spend 8-9 years just getting a bachelors degree?
I've done 2 co-ops thru my college at the same company... my first co-op was software QA, I sat and clicked until it broke then I wrote a bug report for it and filled it with screen shots and other data... it sucked doing it eight hours a day, but I did it... my second co-op I was an apps engineer, I went out to the field and actually worked with the customers, software and hardware... these were trips around the country for days on end... sometimes I'd work 13 hours in a day, sometimes I'd work 2... but it was always interesting and fun. the point of the story is that it sucks at first, but it generally gets better. My advice to all of you who say that "work sucks forever" is to find another damn job! Work shouldn't be total ass all the time... if you hate your job then get another one, maybe in a different field... if I didn't enjoy working with electronics, I'd try software, if that didn't work I'd become an auto mechanic, but I'd find SOMETHING that I can do all day and then go home happy (most of the time anyway).