I'm a senior electrical engineering student at the University of Colorado. Despite being Dean's list every semester and having a 3.71 GPA, I have had very poor luck getting scholarships. It's not for lack of trying. I've written numerous essays and whatnot, but still have to work 20-30 hours/week on top of school. I'm certainly learning a lot by being a student and a worker at the same time, but there are much fewer scholarships available than you'd think. As far as I can tell, I've been denied scholarships on a financial need basis. I pay my own way, as my parents do not have much to contribute, so I'm confused as to what "financial need" is. If I ever have the money, I would love to offer a scholarship for students in my position.
You could probably build one for under a buck- Well maybe two- I'd just pick up a few LF356 opamps, build some comparitors, use each comparitor w/a resistor to drive a single color LED ('cause they're cheapo) then use your parallel port to control the which LED's light up and why. The circuits are all REALLY simple, and you can readily supply the power from a computer power supply. I have built things such as this before. Currently building a frequency-responsive LED array for the output of my soundcard....... I can provide schematics of things to those who want them.
(I'm an EE student, so I spend lotsa time doin' stupid stuffs like this)
I don't think you need to worry about losing your fluff-free bloatless linux. If you look at the trends- I would say that mainstream distributions of linux are already heading toward bloat. RedHat is almost disgusting to me because it seems to be pile after pile of fresh, lard-scented bloat. Frankly, the big distributions are starting to remind me of Windows. However, Linux flavors like Linux from Scratch or Gentoo have always provided me with 100%-crap-free ways of linuxing up my favorite hardwares. If you can push Linux into the mainstream that's good, because it means more things like games for Linux-ers and the like. Sure there'll be crap-apps, but there really are already. Not to worry however, there will always be '1337' ways of linuxing.
A lotta times, you can find out who actually does manufacturing-- and this means you can get the same product under a different name at less cost. I dig sony, but they mass produce a lot of electronics, and a lot of the time you're just buying the name... They outsource manufacturing for business reasons. I think this is especially true in say, computer monitors- a lot of manufacturing is done by manufacturers, and the same hardware gets released under a whole host of names. Sometimes the packaging is different tho- so if you're buying the sony for the sleek look, this might not work out. When I go to buy something like a DVD player or TV or monitor, I find out who manufactures the one I want if if there are any hardware clones out there... or I take my EE degree and build my own;-)
"The single most important quality of the tornado in a can is whatever goes into it comes out with its nutritional value," he said. "You can get four times the price of nonedible waste."--
Garbage in, garbage out right? They're not doing anything chemically, just bustin' stuff into smaller pieces of stuff- and I can't imaging there being incredible nutritional value in any of the crap they wanna throw in there. I understand their point about extracting "collagen-rich protien" but I wonder how many applications there are for a system like this, where there isn't a more efficient method. Any thoughts?
I was never really able to find any one book that was really helpful in all newbie areas- When I got started with linux, I just blew away my win partition, installed LFS (very slowly mind you) and learned about linux the hard way. While I recognize that this isn't a good way for many people to learn about linux- it did teach me a good lesson. Running a search on http://www.google.com/linux and including the word "FAQ" or "HOWTO" in the search pretty much gets you anything you need to know. The best resource I've found for linux is the various linux howtos.... 'course, they don't do much good if you can't get your new linmachine online.;-)
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I'm a senior electrical engineering student at the University of Colorado. Despite being Dean's list every semester and having a 3.71 GPA, I have had very poor luck getting scholarships. It's not for lack of trying. I've written numerous essays and whatnot, but still have to work 20-30 hours/week on top of school. I'm certainly learning a lot by being a student and a worker at the same time, but there are much fewer scholarships available than you'd think. As far as I can tell, I've been denied scholarships on a financial need basis. I pay my own way, as my parents do not have much to contribute, so I'm confused as to what "financial need" is. If I ever have the money, I would love to offer a scholarship for students in my position.
You could probably build one for under a buck- Well maybe two- I'd just pick up a few LF356 opamps, build some comparitors, use each comparitor w/a resistor to drive a single color LED ('cause they're cheapo) then use your parallel port to control the which LED's light up and why. The circuits are all REALLY simple, and you can readily supply the power from a computer power supply. I have built things such as this before. Currently building a frequency-responsive LED array for the output of my soundcard.......
I can provide schematics of things to those who want them.
(I'm an EE student, so I spend lotsa time doin' stupid stuffs like this)
I don't think you need to worry about losing your fluff-free bloatless linux. If you look at the trends- I would say that mainstream distributions of linux are already heading toward bloat. RedHat is almost disgusting to me because it seems to be pile after pile of fresh, lard-scented bloat. Frankly, the big distributions are starting to remind me of Windows.
However, Linux flavors like Linux from Scratch or Gentoo have always provided me with 100%-crap-free ways of linuxing up my favorite hardwares.
If you can push Linux into the mainstream that's good, because it means more things like games for Linux-ers and the like. Sure there'll be crap-apps, but there really are already. Not to worry however, there will always be '1337' ways of linuxing.
This is a subject I've hacked weezed and moaned about a lot- so I'm glad there's more people who think the RIAA is a villain.
Yeah for Judge Dredd- will they be requiring DNA tags be placed on each round before it is fired?
A lotta times, you can find out who actually does manufacturing-- and this means you can get the same product under a different name at less cost. I dig sony, but they mass produce a lot of electronics, and a lot of the time you're just buying the name... They outsource manufacturing for business reasons. I think this is especially true in say, computer monitors- a lot of manufacturing is done by manufacturers, and the same hardware gets released under a whole host of names. Sometimes the packaging is different tho- so if you're buying the sony for the sleek look, this might not work out. When I go to buy something like a DVD player or TV or monitor, I find out who manufactures the one I want if if there are any hardware clones out there... or I take my EE degree and build my own ;-)
"The single most important quality of the tornado in a can is whatever goes into it comes out with its nutritional value," he said. "You can get four times the price of nonedible waste."--
Garbage in, garbage out right? They're not doing anything chemically, just bustin' stuff into smaller pieces of stuff- and I can't imaging there being incredible nutritional value in any of the crap they wanna throw in there.
I understand their point about extracting "collagen-rich protien" but I wonder how many applications there are for a system like this, where there isn't a more efficient method. Any thoughts?
I was never really able to find any one book that was really helpful in all newbie areas- When I got started with linux, I just blew away my win partition, installed LFS (very slowly mind you) and learned about linux the hard way. While I recognize that this isn't a good way for many people to learn about linux- it did teach me a good lesson. Running a search on http://www.google.com/linux and including the word "FAQ" or "HOWTO" in the search pretty much gets you anything you need to know. The best resource I've found for linux is the various linux howtos.... 'course, they don't do much good if you can't get your new linmachine online. ;-)