I think EE is offers an unusually wide range of options - we do hundreds of different things. But most majors offer some diversity. As long as you don't go into elementary ed, you can customize your path as much as you want in the real world, it seems.
I once had an enourmous computer working out a very important question but it was destroyed by Volgons five minutes before it was finished. I feel your pain.
The dumb thing is, they already require all their business sites pay a sizable sum to even get into the search directory. So not only are your search results already generated by who paid for you to see them, but now you're supposed to pay for it too?
I thought Yahoo! was supposed to sell porn and make money that way. Did that not pan out?
I kinda like watching TNG on TNN, it's weird, I know, but it adds to the atmosphere. So much of Star Trek is like a big party, a community, I don't always feel right watching it myself in the comfort of my own home, I like the feeling that millions of losers are watching it with me. Anybody else catch techTV's little stints at the Star Trek Experience lately? Excellent, nothing like an interview with a real Klingon to remind you that the culture is out there, not on your DVD shelf.
agreed. Plus, if I need windows help, 9/10 times the girl next door can find me a solution. Linux isn't so easy, I'm lucky to know 3 people in this town that run it, and 1 of those knows less (!) than I do. It's not about calling support, it's about the sheer amount of brain cells with Linux info in them that exist in the world. Using Linux for it's wide user-base and easy help is like using a toaster to keep your house cool.
I think it's a damn good question. If you really don't think it's any different being a woman in this field, you're a moron. I could go on, but I think I'd rather see what Ms. Cooper has to say.
Learn stuff, kids, it won't kill you. It's like differential equations - there are some things that just about everyone should take a class in, it proves they're smart enough to have a university degree and gives them a good general understanding of how something else in the world works.
Many system administrators work with people who not only know assembly, but think in it. Freaky, I know, but I'm in EE and it's basically how we are, and it's who we want to work with. Deal.
I think piracy is a bigger issue than we think, rooted in the ideas that stealing from a big corporation isn't stealing, because they obviously screwed little people over to get where they are today, so it's alright for us to screw over "them". It's a nameless, faceless "them" kids think they're screwing with, not individual people. Where I went to college there were countless students who had no problem ripping off credit card companies ("it's the companies we're hurting, not people, and the companies have millions to spare so who cares?") to get stuff they wanted, I was appauled, but there was no way to convince them that somewhere down the line, they were hurting the guy next door.
Piracy is about the fact that nobody cares about anybody, and that's just the fact of it.
Doesn't anybody think it's cool to be noisy anymore? I mean, say what you will about being distracting and all that, but I'd love to impress my friends with a PC that sounds like a lawnmower. it's POWER! it's TOUGH! it's AMERICAN!
sometimes worrying about things like noise is too girly, even for me.
I'm can't believe they admitted it, talk about a smoking gun. Public opinion is just now turning towards questioning the "anti-terrorist" actions of our government. We could have figured out they were spying on us, I wonder what force inside made them be honest about it for once.
i'm graduating in May, too, with my EET degree. also not real happy with school anymore and really scared of the future. wanna start our own company?:)
I think the average out of the loop American wants to buy a computer so they can learn about computers - that's a big deal to most people. Just because they only need internet doesn't mean they're interested in an appliance the none of their neighbors use.
Now if we could only spread the word that Windows isn't the most educational OS out there, we'd be set.
AltaVista just started to look like all the others- commercialized, pushy, and annoying. Why is it that every search engine I visit wants to send me shopping? I mean, I know that's how they make money, but I'm there to search, for God's sake. Google doesn't do that. That's why I love it, not because of accuracy, lots of seach engines are accurate, but because it's fast and graphic free, basically, it doesn't try to get in my way. That's the magic, everybody, that's why nobody cares about any other search engine or directory or whathaveyou.
Yes, it was written "for geeks by geeks", but the number of geeks who care about the rest of the world is growing every day. I use Linux as on my desktop, I'm an electrical engineering student, not a computer geek. I'm also urging girls who live with me to do the same, and for one or two of them it's working quite well. Yes, we have our problems, but overall we're really happy with what's going on and feel a lot more invited into the "geek world" by just running linux than we ever did with Windows. The future includes the general population, hackers know that, and we're really appreciative.
We all saw this coming, but that's beside the point, you know what my main thought is today?
Who are these people?
They have that much time on their hands that they're willing to hack into individual people's computers to look for their files?
At dinner parties, do they go off about mp3's and how every college kid is going to kill the record industry?
Movements like this say "passion" to me, they're passionate about their copywrites, it's what they eat, sleep, and breath. Do they have nothing better to do? Are there this many idiots in the world?
Maybe I just haven't seen enough corporate America yet, but I can't believe people make their lives out of something this petty.
Oh settle down, it's all about using the technology. When I was a kid I had most of the outer space collection, weird peices are great because they're that much more challenging to use in different ways. No peice is made so it can't be anything but cockpit windows... if that's all you see, you're not thinking outside the, um, block.
We know that many of you have been impacted by the economic downturn...
Yes! Or there are those of us who never were (financially) well-sponsored enough to get into things like this, it's nice to see us fitting in with the crowd.
PDA's don't need to take water, just coffee. They should really be tested that way: just fire-hosed with gallons of boiling expresso or something. I'm sure this one could take it.
So any bets on how long it'll be before linux-certified engineers are earning higher average salaries than w--dows certified ones?
Interesting concept, I'd say working with free software and demanding more money is kind of a contradiction in terms. Out moneying everyone will involve proving that we're just plain smarter than the windows types - a process that doesn't phase most/.-ers but still requires time.
My bet is March of 2003. There is a pool going, right?
Software is like prostitution. You got the product. You sell the product. You still got the product. The consumer doesn't get money back just because he's done with the product, it's a totally different concept than just buying tangible things.
No way, that's crap! They can't patent the idea of running a program on a bunch of computers, especially if it's all your code, can they? I guess I shouldn't act surprized by what can be patented now, but if any of us got in trouble for that it would be insane, that's like patenting the idea of using jet engines to break land speed records, it's just the only way to solve the problems, no one group can take that can they?
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I'm a lady, I run Linux. But I also think Valentine's day is RETARDED, as any logic-lovin' geek does.
So Kung Pow is bad, who'd have guessed?
Was anyone actually considering seeing this movie? I didn't think it looked funny from the previews at all.
I think EE is offers an unusually wide range of options - we do hundreds of different things. But most majors offer some diversity. As long as you don't go into elementary ed, you can customize your path as much as you want in the real world, it seems.
I once had an enourmous computer working out a very important question but it was destroyed by Volgons five minutes before it was finished. I feel your pain.
The dumb thing is, they already require all their business sites pay a sizable sum to even get into the search directory. So not only are your search results already generated by who paid for you to see them, but now you're supposed to pay for it too?
I thought Yahoo! was supposed to sell porn and make money that way. Did that not pan out?
wow, people come up with the craziest synomyms for "total dork" these days.
I kinda like watching TNG on TNN, it's weird, I know, but it adds to the atmosphere. So much of Star Trek is like a big party, a community, I don't always feel right watching it myself in the comfort of my own home, I like the feeling that millions of losers are watching it with me. Anybody else catch techTV's little stints at the Star Trek Experience lately? Excellent, nothing like an interview with a real Klingon to remind you that the culture is out there, not on your DVD shelf.
agreed. Plus, if I need windows help, 9/10 times the girl next door can find me a solution. Linux isn't so easy, I'm lucky to know 3 people in this town that run it, and 1 of those knows less (!) than I do. It's not about calling support, it's about the sheer amount of brain cells with Linux info in them that exist in the world. Using Linux for it's wide user-base and easy help is like using a toaster to keep your house cool.
I think it's a damn good question. If you really don't think it's any different being a woman in this field, you're a moron. I could go on, but I think I'd rather see what Ms. Cooper has to say.
Learn stuff, kids, it won't kill you. It's like differential equations - there are some things that just about everyone should take a class in, it proves they're smart enough to have a university degree and gives them a good general understanding of how something else in the world works.
Many system administrators work with people who not only know assembly, but think in it. Freaky, I know, but I'm in EE and it's basically how we are, and it's who we want to work with. Deal.
I think piracy is a bigger issue than we think, rooted in the ideas that stealing from a big corporation isn't stealing, because they obviously screwed little people over to get where they are today, so it's alright for us to screw over "them". It's a nameless, faceless "them" kids think they're screwing with, not individual people. Where I went to college there were countless students who had no problem ripping off credit card companies ("it's the companies we're hurting, not people, and the companies have millions to spare so who cares?") to get stuff they wanted, I was appauled, but there was no way to convince them that somewhere down the line, they were hurting the guy next door.
Piracy is about the fact that nobody cares about anybody, and that's just the fact of it.
Doesn't anybody think it's cool to be noisy anymore? I mean, say what you will about being distracting and all that, but I'd love to impress my friends with a PC that sounds like a lawnmower. it's POWER! it's TOUGH! it's AMERICAN!
sometimes worrying about things like noise is too girly, even for me.
I'm can't believe they admitted it, talk about a smoking gun. Public opinion is just now turning towards questioning the "anti-terrorist" actions of our government. We could have figured out they were spying on us, I wonder what force inside made them be honest about it for once.
i'm graduating in May, too, with my EET degree. also not real happy with school anymore and really scared of the future. wanna start our own company? :)
I think the average out of the loop American wants to buy a computer so they can learn about computers - that's a big deal to most people. Just because they only need internet doesn't mean they're interested in an appliance the none of their neighbors use.
Now if we could only spread the word that Windows isn't the most educational OS out there, we'd be set.
AltaVista just started to look like all the others- commercialized, pushy, and annoying. Why is it that every search engine I visit wants to send me shopping? I mean, I know that's how they make money, but I'm there to search, for God's sake. Google doesn't do that. That's why I love it, not because of accuracy, lots of seach engines are accurate, but because it's fast and graphic free, basically, it doesn't try to get in my way. That's the magic, everybody, that's why nobody cares about any other search engine or directory or whathaveyou.
I disagree.
Yes, it was written "for geeks by geeks", but the number of geeks who care about the rest of the world is growing every day. I use Linux as on my desktop, I'm an electrical engineering student, not a computer geek. I'm also urging girls who live with me to do the same, and for one or two of them it's working quite well. Yes, we have our problems, but overall we're really happy with what's going on and feel a lot more invited into the "geek world" by just running linux than we ever did with Windows. The future includes the general population, hackers know that, and we're really appreciative.
We all saw this coming, but that's beside the point, you know what my main thought is today?
Who are these people?
They have that much time on their hands that they're willing to hack into individual people's computers to look for their files?
At dinner parties, do they go off about mp3's and how every college kid is going to kill the record industry?
Movements like this say "passion" to me, they're passionate about their copywrites, it's what they eat, sleep, and breath. Do they have nothing better to do? Are there this many idiots in the world?
Maybe I just haven't seen enough corporate America yet, but I can't believe people make their lives out of something this petty.
Oh settle down, it's all about using the technology. When I was a kid I had most of the outer space collection, weird peices are great because they're that much more challenging to use in different ways. No peice is made so it can't be anything but cockpit windows... if that's all you see, you're not thinking outside the, um, block.
We know that many of you have been impacted by the economic downturn...
Yes! Or there are those of us who never were (financially) well-sponsored enough to get into things like this, it's nice to see us fitting in with the crowd.
PDA's don't need to take water, just coffee. They should really be tested that way: just fire-hosed with gallons of boiling expresso or something. I'm sure this one could take it.
So any bets on how long it'll be before linux-certified engineers are earning higher average salaries than w--dows certified ones?
Interesting concept, I'd say working with free software and demanding more money is kind of a contradiction in terms. Out moneying everyone will involve proving that we're just plain smarter than the windows types - a process that doesn't phase most
My bet is March of 2003. There is a pool going, right?
Software is like prostitution. You got the product. You sell the product. You still got the product. The consumer doesn't get money back just because he's done with the product, it's a totally different concept than just buying tangible things.
How will they combine PC color schemes? Rose! Pink! Disaster!
No way, that's crap! They can't patent the idea of running a program on a bunch of computers, especially if it's all your code, can they? I guess I shouldn't act surprized by what can be patented now, but if any of us got in trouble for that it would be insane, that's like patenting the idea of using jet engines to break land speed records, it's just the only way to solve the problems, no one group can take that can they?