I bring a laptop to class to give me something to do. Unfortunately, I'm stuck with mandatory attendance to classes that I don't need to be in the lecture for. I can read the suggested chapters from the textbook and ace the exam.
Don't whine about how I'm missing my education, etc - I'm just here for a piece of paper that says 'Master of Science' on it.
Is it me, or does the Fox article contradict itself?
First it crashed....
MOSCOW -- The world's first solar sail spacecraft (search) crashed back to Earth when its booster rocket failed less than two minutes after Tuesday's takeoff, Russian space officials said Wednesday.
...but now it's in orbit and sending signals?
U.S. scientists had said earlier that they possibly had detected signals from Cosmos 1 but cautioned that it could take hours or days to figure out exactly where the $4 million spacecraft was.
The signals were picked up late Tuesday after an all-day search for the spacecraft, which had suddenly stopped communicating after its launch, they said.
"It's good news because we are in orbit -- very likely in orbit," Bruce Murray, a co-founder of The Planetary Society (search), which organized the mission, said before the Russian space agency's announcement.
The joke is funnier becuase it's so over-done. It's like a second level of humor has been added - obviously noone thinks the original joke is funny any more...
"...an onboard computer that sits at the base of the soldier's back"
People into concealed-carry handguns have been warning each other about carrying anything hard against the small of your back for quite a while. The thought is that a backwards fall could damage your spine quite nicely.
Buy a laptop. Moving every few months sucks, so pack light.
Consider using a small (paper) calendar to keep yourself organized. If you do choose to go with a PDA, check out Due Yesterday from Nosleep Software (great homework organizer).
As for class notes, I use a 5-subject college-ruled notebook to keep all my notes in one place.
I'm currently a CS major at URI.
From what you said, it seems like you never
got past CSC110, the FIRST CS course. Can
you judge an entire program based on one basic
course probably taught by a grad student?
I think not...
Who needs a Mac in a drive bay when you can
stuff a SPARC in there! I remember seeing
a "SPARCPlug" by Ross Technologies a few years
ago. Wonder what happened to them....
I work as a PERL programmer for a small company, where the emphasis is on writing READABLE code so it can be debugged by someone with less than perfect knowlege. On the other hand, we'd been having problems with our scripts taking down the ISP's server before we optimized them:) So I'd have to say that optimization is situation specific. Sometimes you will need it, sometimes you won't.
First off, this would be extremely hard to do, and even if it is somehow implemented, people will find an infinate number of ways around it (ie: non-USA accounts, creating a new and private protocol, etc)
Does the government need to back off just a bit? YES!
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I bring a laptop to class to give me something to do. Unfortunately, I'm stuck with mandatory attendance to classes that I don't need to be in the lecture for. I can read the suggested chapters from the textbook and ace the exam.
Don't whine about how I'm missing my education, etc - I'm just here for a piece of paper that says 'Master of Science' on it.
Well, the servers are still up - still don't understand why the parent was modded 'funny'....
Hilarious - mod parent up!
First it crashed.......but now it's in orbit and sending signals???
What happened to N64?
I think we've seen that just about anything can be spun as illegal under the DMCA.
Both the Inquirer article and the company website are mighty short on details.
the Nintendo Power Glove?
For the less educated, Zapruder is the one who captured JFK's assassiniation on film.
We have 2 'IT' people - myself and one other.
The owner of the company defers to us on all things technology related - what we say goes. No questions asked.
Whenever I see something like this coming from MIT, I always think "man, I really should have applied to MIT" - know what I mean?
I thought it was supposed to be called the Xbox360 or somesuch?
Yeah, we're screwed now.
Start working on your lava-boats everyone....
Walking down the street twitching like an epileptic trying to get your PDA to tell your phone to dial your mom.
Can't wait until someone gets Linux running on the PSP (seriously)
Good gaming, WiFi, good storage (USB drive, anyone) and the ability to use a keyboard - who needs a laptop?
The joke is funnier becuase it's so over-done. It's like a second level of humor has been added - obviously noone thinks the original joke is funny any more...
Robosapien voice controls YOU!
Nothing's wrong with xpdf, but it's nice to see companies providing native versions of popular apps.
"...an onboard computer that sits at the base of the soldier's back"
People into concealed-carry handguns have been warning each other about carrying anything hard against the small of your back for quite a while. The thought is that a backwards fall could damage your spine quite nicely.
Consider using a small (paper) calendar to keep yourself organized. If you do choose to go with a PDA, check out Due Yesterday from Nosleep Software (great homework organizer).
As for class notes, I use a 5-subject college-ruled notebook to keep all my notes in one place.
YMMV but this works for me.
I'm currently a CS major at URI. From what you said, it seems like you never got past CSC110, the FIRST CS course. Can you judge an entire program based on one basic course probably taught by a grad student? I think not...
Who needs a Mac in a drive bay when you can stuff a SPARC in there! I remember seeing a "SPARCPlug" by Ross Technologies a few years ago. Wonder what happened to them....
I can see the headlines now: Network hacked, three innocents dead. What have we come to?
I work as a PERL programmer for a small company, :) So I'd
where the emphasis is on writing READABLE code
so it can be debugged by someone with less than
perfect knowlege. On the other hand, we'd been
having problems with our scripts taking down the
ISP's server before we optimized them
have to say that optimization is situation
specific. Sometimes you will need it, sometimes
you won't.
First off, this would be extremely hard to do, and even if it is somehow implemented, people will find an infinate number of ways around it (ie: non-USA accounts, creating a new and private protocol, etc)
Does the government need to back off just a bit? YES!