The trick is always the finishing... perfect paint matching is better than it used to be, but if you have a faux finish or some type of custom texturing, it certainly becomes a bigger job pretty quickly.
> "Normal", black-on-white color schemes make me have to close my eyes for a couple of minutes every little bit, and after a five hour shift I need to lay down in a dark room with my eyes closed and sleep off a headache.
Actually, I thought Crystal Pepsi was the only Pepsi worth drinking (I don't really care for colas, and it sure didn't taste like a cola). It was fine for what it was, but it sure didn't taste like Pepsi.
Of course, some people don't like Dew, so there really isn't any accounting for taste;-)
>Computer engineering is really about bridging these historically separate fields of electrical engineering, and computer science.
I think that is an excellent description.
I am a Computer&Systems Eng. grad from RPI '99. In my current job, I've written VHDL for hardware simulation, C and C++ for a couple of different OSs, primarily code that interfaces with hardware, so I've become rather familiar with PCI/PCI-X, PowerPC architecture, and a number of standards and custom ASICs.
Whether the job involves checking out logic analyzer traces or writing OO code, C.E. really bridges a range of fields. That's not to say I don't know a lot of CS majors who are adept with bits and wires as well as EEs who are code-proficient, but most Comp.Es fit the bill of both to a level where they can fill a much needed role, as you mentioned.
Well, I for one owe quite a bit to a couple of my elementary school teachers. Not all, but if a few of them do something that makes you reach out, it can be very worth it. In or elementary school, there were teachers that reached out to the kids that were well advanced, and led them in activities and thinking beyond the basic curriculum. Challenge the ones who need it, and they can develop faster (and not lose interest in learning at an early age).
The quality of an elementary education doesn't directly determine the outcome of someones life, but it can certainly aid or hinder that progress.
Computer engineering is often an electrical engineering base with focus on computer architecture and design, with more programming than a EE degree would give you. Computer science is primarily math and programming based, though it certainly varies between schools and individuals - you can usually tailor it to a more theoretical or practical curriculum as you prefer, though you should be getting a heavy dose of both.
From what I recall - the college new hire salary for IBM computer engineers (B.S. degree) was ~$45-49k in 1999, $50-53k in 2001. Not sure what the current value is, though I'd expect it is in the $55k range.
MBA, MS degrees command different jobs and different salaries than what was on the survey.
The real shame is that the elementary ed teachers starting salary dropped significantly. These are people our society depends on, and it it very difficult to keep the best people for the job in there if they can get (and need) better paying work doing other jobs that don't require as much skill or talent.
IBM sells mice (like the one I use at work) that have three real buttons, and the scroll thing (not a wheel, bigger than the trackpoint nub) that is quite usable. See an example at IBM's web site. The third button is smaller than the other two, and in front of the scroll point, but it fits well, and I find it great under multiple OSs (I switch between WinXP, AIX, and Linux at work, both via KVM and VNC sessions).
It very well may be made by Logitech (as many of the IBM kb/mice have been over the past few years), so I'm sure someone else makes one that is the same, but I find it to be a nice compromise without having to ever press the wheel. I think *that* is the best of both worlds.
I'll second the Ross-Tech VAG-Com. Don't have my own (yet), but I know a couple people with them, and it is really a great system (I own three VWs one OBD-I, one OBD-II, one 1983 mechanical injection), and can be a big help, and when the dealer charges $90 to hook up their machine, it pays itself off quickly.
>My very favorite part of the IBM thing was they had lawyers review and blackout every document that hit my desk; apparently they thought my NDA wasn't strong enough.
No one has more fun dealing with IBM lawyers than IBM employees (particularly engineering folks). For the current project I am working on, related to [censored] technology, we needed to talk to a number of vendors, to see who had useful products in the pipeline that we could leverage. Getting all of the NDAs in place for those conversations takes quite some time when things go through IBM's lawyers. Why, our group has several existing NDAs with [censored] already, but the lawyers needed to reword everything to their liking (job security, I suppose). Quite a pain.
I can sympathize, since I'm sure they are even more obnoxious dealing with non-IBM people than IBM employees.
>Deoderant also contains aluminum salts that essentially plug up the pores to keep you from sweating.
Actually, most deodorants don't, but many anti-perspirants do (yes, deodorant and deodorant/anti-perspirant are two separate products, check the aisle at the drugstore). The aluminum compounds in the a-ps cause problems for a fair amount of people (redness, itching, rashes).
And though it took a little while, it certainly solved the problem... I was getting the fax calls primarily in bursts - every week or two, but when they came, the machine would apparently retry each 15 minutes for the first hour, then every hour or two for a while... even if this was during the wee hours of the morning. This particular fax machine would also leave voice mails "beep....... beep....". Not real good.
I ended up running *57 traces on them, and calling the phone company's Annoyance/Harrasing Call Center (or whatever it was called. They refunded the *57 trace costs, then apparently contacted (whether directly or via law crew) the offending party, and the calls stopped for over 6 months.
The started again, I followed the same procedeure (2 or three traces), and the phone company confirmed it was the same group calling, and after that go-round, I heard no more from the fax machine.
My Matrox Millenium and G200 had better clarity than the 3dfx cards, but (obviously) not quite the 3D performance. Of course, if one were to use a DVI connection to a nice LCD panel isn't half bad...
The internet proxy is now transparent, rather than specifically configured, and one very brief visit to certain sites will not get you canned, though I'm sure that heading back to the sites again and again will be a quick exit. Our area works on a lot of storage products, and just about everyone has not thinkingly typed t10.com instead of t10.org (which is "is the place to find more information about I/O Interfaces, especially SCSI, SCSI-2, and SCSI-3 including SPI-2 (Fast-40 or Ultra2 SCSI), Low Voltage Differential (LVD), SPI-3 (Ultra3 SCSI or Ultra160), SPI-4 (Ultra320), SPI-5 (Ultra640), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), and much more. There are also pointers here to other web sites on Fibre Channel, ATA (IDE), and ATAPI.")
Things are very definitely logged - just a year or two ago anyone could pull up the list of top ten IPs in terms of bytes transferred at our site (by day or week). Being on that list a few times might trigger a quick look at the sites... pdfs of business related material (specs, IETF drafts) good, whitehouse.com bad.
The other very signifact tradeoff is, of course, that putting that much cache on a chip causes yields to drop quite dramatically, can create large timing and power quality issues... all of which lead to a design that ships late and costs more than anyone wants to pay.
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The trick is always the finishing... perfect paint matching is better than it used to be, but if you have a faux finish or some type of custom texturing, it certainly becomes a bigger job pretty quickly.
> "Normal", black-on-white color schemes make me have to close my
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eyes for a couple of minutes every little bit, and after a five hour shift
I need to lay down in a dark room with my eyes closed and sleep off a
headache.
You mean, like
Actually, I thought Crystal Pepsi was the only Pepsi worth drinking (I don't really care for colas, and it sure didn't taste like a cola). It was fine for what it was, but it sure didn't taste like Pepsi.
;-)
Of course, some people don't like Dew, so there really isn't any accounting for taste
>Computer engineering is really about bridging these historically separate fields of electrical engineering, and computer science.
I think that is an excellent description.
I am a Computer&Systems Eng. grad from RPI '99. In my current job, I've written VHDL for hardware simulation, C and C++ for a couple of different OSs, primarily code that interfaces with hardware, so I've become rather familiar with PCI/PCI-X, PowerPC architecture, and a number of standards and custom ASICs.
Whether the job involves checking out logic analyzer traces or writing OO code, C.E. really bridges a range of fields. That's not to say I don't know a lot of CS majors who are adept with bits and wires as well as EEs who are code-proficient, but most Comp.Es fit the bill of both to a level where they can fill a much needed role, as you mentioned.
Well, I for one owe quite a bit to a couple of my elementary school teachers. Not all, but if a few of them do something that makes you reach out, it can be very worth it. In or elementary school, there were teachers that reached out to the kids that were well advanced, and led them in activities and thinking beyond the basic curriculum. Challenge the ones who need it, and they can develop faster (and not lose interest in learning at an early age).
The quality of an elementary education doesn't directly determine the outcome of someones life, but it can certainly aid or hinder that progress.
Computer engineering is often an electrical engineering base with focus on computer architecture and design, with more programming than a EE degree would give you. Computer science is primarily math and programming based, though it certainly varies between schools and individuals - you can usually tailor it to a more theoretical or practical curriculum as you prefer, though you should be getting a heavy dose of both.
From what I recall - the college new hire salary for IBM computer engineers (B.S. degree) was ~$45-49k in 1999, $50-53k in 2001. Not sure what the current value is, though I'd expect it is in the $55k range.
MBA, MS degrees command different jobs and different salaries than what was on the survey.
The real shame is that the elementary ed teachers starting salary dropped significantly. These are people our society depends on, and it it very difficult to keep the best people for the job in there if they can get (and need) better paying work doing other jobs that don't require as much skill or talent.
No, but he does have some ill tempered sea bass...
Exactly - I thought maybe there was a new size to fill the gap after "Fun Size" and "King Size" for the Milky Way and Snickers bars...
Whaddya mean it doesn't involve chocolate???
IBM sells mice (like the one I use at work) that have three real buttons, and the scroll thing (not a wheel, bigger than the trackpoint nub) that is quite usable. See an example at IBM's web site. The third button is smaller than the other two, and in front of the scroll point, but it fits well, and I find it great under multiple OSs (I switch between WinXP, AIX, and Linux at work, both via KVM and VNC sessions).
It very well may be made by Logitech (as many of the IBM kb/mice have been over the past few years), so I'm sure someone else makes one that is the same, but I find it to be a nice compromise without having to ever press the wheel. I think *that* is the best of both worlds.
Hmmm.... sounds to me like...
Mister House
I'll second the Ross-Tech VAG-Com. Don't have my own (yet), but I know a couple people with them, and it is really a great system (I own three VWs one OBD-I, one OBD-II, one 1983 mechanical injection), and can be a big help, and when the dealer charges $90 to hook up their machine, it pays itself off quickly.
>Galactose is less sweet than glucose
I for one welcome our new sugar epimer overlords.
>My very favorite part of the IBM thing was they had lawyers review and blackout every document that hit my desk; apparently they thought my NDA wasn't strong enough.
No one has more fun dealing with IBM lawyers than IBM employees (particularly engineering folks). For the current project I am working on, related to [censored] technology, we needed to talk to a number of vendors, to see who had useful products in the pipeline that we could leverage. Getting all of the NDAs in place for those conversations takes quite some time when things go through IBM's lawyers. Why, our group has several existing NDAs with [censored] already, but the lawyers needed to reword everything to their liking (job security, I suppose). Quite a pain.
I can sympathize, since I'm sure they are even more obnoxious dealing with non-IBM people than IBM employees.
The sad part is, NDIS changes on a regular basis, and NDIS 5.0 is on the way out - at least, whenever MS gets around to Chimneys support.
The latency can be a bitch, though - especially on those NJ -> MN transfers.
>Deoderant also contains aluminum salts that essentially plug up the pores to keep you from sweating.
Actually, most deodorants don't, but many anti-perspirants do (yes, deodorant and deodorant/anti-perspirant are two separate products, check the aisle at the drugstore). The aluminum compounds in the a-ps cause problems for a fair amount of people (redness, itching, rashes).
The tongue fungus item is disturbing...
And though it took a little while, it certainly solved the problem...
I was getting the fax calls primarily in bursts - every week or two, but when they came, the machine would apparently retry each 15 minutes for the first hour, then every hour or two for a while... even if this was during the wee hours of the morning. This particular fax machine would also leave voice mails "beep....... beep....". Not real good.
I ended up running *57 traces on them, and calling the phone company's Annoyance/Harrasing Call Center (or whatever it was called. They refunded the *57 trace costs, then apparently contacted (whether directly or via law crew) the offending party, and the calls stopped for over 6 months.
The started again, I followed the same procedeure (2 or three traces), and the phone company confirmed it was the same group calling, and after that go-round, I heard no more from the fax machine.
A pain, but it solved the problem.
My Matrox Millenium and G200 had better clarity than the 3dfx cards, but (obviously) not quite the 3D performance. Of course, if one were to use a DVI connection to a nice LCD panel isn't half bad...
The internet proxy is now transparent, rather than specifically configured, and one very brief visit to certain sites will not get you canned, though I'm sure that heading back to the sites again and again will be a quick exit. Our area works on a lot of storage products, and just about everyone has not thinkingly typed t10.com instead of t10.org (which is "is the place to find more information about I/O Interfaces, especially SCSI, SCSI-2, and SCSI-3 including SPI-2 (Fast-40 or Ultra2 SCSI), Low Voltage Differential (LVD), SPI-3 (Ultra3 SCSI or Ultra160), SPI-4 (Ultra320), SPI-5 (Ultra640), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), and much more. There are also pointers here to other web sites on Fibre Channel, ATA (IDE), and ATAPI.")
Things are very definitely logged - just a year or two ago anyone could pull up the list of top ten IPs in terms of bytes transferred at our site (by day or week). Being on that list a few times might trigger a quick look at the sites... pdfs of business related material (specs, IETF drafts) good, whitehouse.com bad.
HR is more Fidelity than IBM these days...
The other very signifact tradeoff is, of course, that putting that much cache on a chip causes yields to drop quite dramatically, can create large timing and power quality issues... all of which lead to a design that ships late and costs more than anyone wants to pay.
>Some supertankers weight at least 500 thousand tons empty. Less than a million (although there might be ones that weight more), but still impressive
The Jahre Viking is fairly large - when full of oil (4.1 million barrels is a fair amount), it displaces: 647,955 metric tons = 714,248.1 tons.
Not too shabby.
I thought it might be ACATTAG, which only seems appropriate...
What about beeswax candles? They don't smell as bad as tallow candles, and were available prior to the advent of the lightbulb.
Actually, we had a black marker for ours... just connect the two halves of the arrow. Fun and exciting.