I took MechE, but all of the fluid problems used different terminology and were all about pipe flow. The structures problems were also very different... and the dynamics problems were pretty much non-exisitant. Saying Aero is a subdomain of MechE is like saying MechE and Aero are a sub-domain of CivilE. Technically true, but the fields diverged a long time ago.
Pass rate on the test is apparently about 50% for first timers, about 55-60% for second timers (iirc). Making sure your engineer has taken the FE exam with the domain specific test and passed it is a good way to make sure your guy knows *something.*
My god that is scary. That test is frickin' easy.
I didn't study a lick, and I took it in a domain different from my degree (there is no FE test in Aero engineering). I got bored with the test and left early before completing it... and I passed. Everyone at my school passed it the year I took it (and over 100 people took it with me).
I have many friends in engineering, and all of them had to become certified "Engineers in Training" before being employed. This process involves taking a couple standardized tests which were general science and math knowledge, and one that was taylored to their specific engineering field. I don't think many cheaters would be able to pass it.
At my alma mater (Purdue), no mechanical engineering student had failed the EIT exam in the 7 years before I took it... the record may be even longer now. When I took the test there was a break for lunch during which several students went to a local bar and returned to the test drunk.... other students left 2 hours early so they could go to a football game. And no one failed.
The EIT exam is a joke. None of the material is beyond sophomore level classes, and on top of that you only need to get around 70% of them right to pass.
And the professional engineer certification is pretty much only really required for civil engineers. Other disciplines get it only sometimes... and some discipline like Aero engineering get it.
AND I work with several people who cheated they're way through engineering school. They get by at work by having other people do their work for them and by schmoozing and kissing ass, and often very quickly end up in management. Basically they skills the honed by cheating in school serve them well in the real world, and those of us who actually did the work in school end up carrying everone's weight in the workplace as well.
Most of the Astronomers are having trouble making it to Prague because of the security anthill that's been kicked over by the hair-gel bomb plot. This will probably have a big effect on how the IAU vote turns out.
Despite what P.T. says, Windows mail now looks a lot like Mail.app with the 'vertical' arrangement rather than the traditional 'horizontal' arrangement of outlook and outlook express. What's interesting is that many people hate Mail.app's vertical paradigm and were hoping for a switch to a more outlook-like arrangement in Leopard... since that would fit better with Apple's emphasis on wide aspect-ratio displays.
It was changed to "Theory" in the 1900's as some "laws" had been disproven. So, in fact, the term "Law" is depricated, and has been replaced by theory.
The 'Law of Conservation of Strangeness' is in particle physics and from the later half of the 20-th century. I don't think the term is deprecated, it's just that it's harder to find them now-a-days.
Anyone making $120k/year can afford some of the nicer houses in any midwestern city.
In some places you could afford a whole midwestern town:)
Seriously, I recently checked house prices in my home town... $50K for a three bedroom house on an acre. Same thing in my current neighborhood would sell for $900K and only have an 8,000 sq.ft. lot.
Don't know how young people can still afford to move to CA.
If you don't want to be living one mortgage payment from being out on the street, DON'T! Learn to live within your means.... Buy a house where you can pay your mortgage payment and then some, or rent a place you can afford.
Out in california, if you have a family, you'll find there really isn't any affordable housing... and depending on the field you work in, there may not be job opportunities elsewhere.
It also gives people a chance to browse speculatively (bit like you do on Ebay)
seems like this will lead to loan-sharking on the lender's side and Nigerian 419 scams on the other end. I just need a small loan to get started on big $$$. Either way, they break your knee-caps.
Alot of people (including me) think that Creative's complaint is without merit, but we feel that Apple deserves.... a certain lack of sympathy for playing hardball in the intellectual property games themselves.
Dude, Apple's history is one of not protecting enough if anything... They paid for the Xerox PARC technology, improved upon it, but then failed to adequately market it before it was copied by MS. MS then did a superior job in marketing Windows and thrashed Apple. They then came up with other great idea like the Newton but failed to execute.
Finally with the iPod they are successfully executing... and if I were them, I'd be very protective of my IP and not let history repeat itself like it did with the Mac.
And Creative is coming along trying to take a piece of Apple's business with a patent of a very, very obvious idea. The iPod UI is essentially the same as iTunes, which is essentially the same as every other mp3 player app. The fact that some many people came up with the same interface independent of each other (and years before Creative's patent) shows that such a design is obvious.
it is very zen that creative has patented the 'zen user interface'. and are now suing apple (which seems to have a good understanding of zen) for violating their 'zen patent'. such a thing is so very un-zen, that it becomes zen again. We are now watching a koan-wreck unfold before our eyes.
That depends on endianness. Some people write 2_10 as 01_2 instead of 10_2
I'm sorry but you're a dumbass. binary was around long before computers and endians... you're argument is like saying 'two' could also be 'owt' because Herbrew and Arabic are right to left.
Well the PC guy (John Hodgman) is an expert. He's the daily show's resident expert and the author of "The Areas of my Expertise". Which was reviewd on slashdot and by the Onion.
It's a way for Apple to expand their ability to deliver content without having to drastically upgrade their own network infrastructure. You get a little iTunes store credit for being part of the delivery system.
They should just make.Mac free again... or some subset of.Mac free in exchange for this. The iDisk might be more useful if it was some sort of torrent... 100 MB in exchange for XX MB stored on your own computer, etc, etc.
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I took MechE, but all of the fluid problems used different terminology and were all about pipe flow. The structures problems were also very different... and the dynamics problems were pretty much non-exisitant. Saying Aero is a subdomain of MechE is like saying MechE and Aero are a sub-domain of CivilE. Technically true, but the fields diverged a long time ago.
There's someone sitting under that table with a microphone!
This other youtube video reveals that it's just a really fancy puppet.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3tlqvdAaQNE
C'mon did you really think that video was real... if it were, it could pass the Turing test.
Pass rate on the test is apparently about 50% for first timers, about 55-60% for second timers (iirc). Making sure your engineer has taken the FE exam with the domain specific test and passed it is a good way to make sure your guy knows *something.*
My god that is scary. That test is frickin' easy.
I didn't study a lick, and I took it in a domain different from my degree (there is no FE test in Aero engineering). I got bored with the test and left early before completing it... and I passed. Everyone at my school passed it the year I took it (and over 100 people took it with me).
I have many friends in engineering, and all of them had to become certified "Engineers in Training" before being employed. This process involves taking a couple standardized tests which were general science and math knowledge, and one that was taylored to their specific engineering field. I don't think many cheaters would be able to pass it.
At my alma mater (Purdue), no mechanical engineering student had failed the EIT exam in the 7 years before I took it... the record may be even longer now. When I took the test there was a break for lunch during which several students went to a local bar and returned to the test drunk.... other students left 2 hours early so they could go to a football game. And no one failed.
The EIT exam is a joke. None of the material is beyond sophomore level classes, and on top of that you only need to get around 70% of them right to pass.
And the professional engineer certification is pretty much only really required for civil engineers. Other disciplines get it only sometimes... and some discipline like Aero engineering get it.
AND I work with several people who cheated they're way through engineering school. They get by at work by having other people do their work for them and by schmoozing and kissing ass, and often very quickly end up in management. Basically they skills the honed by cheating in school serve them well in the real world, and those of us who actually did the work in school end up carrying everone's weight in the workplace as well.
What's keeping the US from joining with them?
ITAR
Insightful my arse. The guy obviously has no clue about how (non microkernel) operating systems and drivers work or tie together.
So the monolithic kernel OS's are immune to this? Can you name one non-toy OS that isn't vulnerable to security flaws in a badly written driver?
Yeah, I ain't as smart as I pretend to be...
Here's another one:
My Very Eager Mission Control Just Showed Us New Planet Called X
And if you only want 'classic' planets:
My Very Elderly Mother Could Just Speed Up Now
or with more road rage:
Move Very Elderly Man!! Car Just Speed Up Now
or
My Very Expressive Mother-in-law Could Just Shut Up Now
Kids can remember 12 planets no problem:
My Very Eager Children Just Showed Us New Planet Called X
or if you want to be technical:
My Very Eager Children Just Showed Us New Planet Called 2003UB313
I for one, am very happy that Ceres is now called a 'planet'. It's a neat little world that will now hold more public interest when Dawn visits it.
Most of the Astronomers are having trouble making it to Prague because of the security anthill that's been kicked over by the hair-gel bomb plot. This will probably have a big effect on how the IAU vote turns out.
Despite what P.T. says, Windows mail now looks a lot like Mail.app with the 'vertical' arrangement rather than the traditional 'horizontal' arrangement of outlook and outlook express. What's interesting is that many people hate Mail.app's vertical paradigm and were hoping for a switch to a more outlook-like arrangement in Leopard... since that would fit better with Apple's emphasis on wide aspect-ratio displays.
It was changed to "Theory" in the 1900's as some "laws" had been disproven. So, in fact, the term "Law" is depricated, and has been replaced by theory.
The 'Law of Conservation of Strangeness' is in particle physics and from the later half of the 20-th century. I don't think the term is deprecated, it's just that it's harder to find them now-a-days.
Anyone making $120k/year can afford some of the nicer houses in any midwestern city.
:)
In some places you could afford a whole midwestern town
Seriously, I recently checked house prices in my home town... $50K for a three bedroom house on an acre. Same thing in my current neighborhood would sell for $900K and only have an 8,000 sq.ft. lot.
Don't know how young people can still afford to move to CA.
If you don't want to be living one mortgage payment from being out on the street, DON'T! Learn to live within your means.... Buy a house where you can pay your mortgage payment and then some, or rent a place you can afford.
Out in california, if you have a family, you'll find there really isn't any affordable housing... and depending on the field you work in, there may not be job opportunities elsewhere.
What? No link to the "adult content?"
be careful what you wish for... the 'adult content' could be goatse
It also gives people a chance to browse speculatively (bit like you do on Ebay)
seems like this will lead to loan-sharking on the lender's side and Nigerian 419 scams on the other end. I just need a small loan to get started on big $$$. Either way, they break your knee-caps.
Alot of people (including me) think that Creative's complaint is without merit, but we feel that Apple deserves.... a certain lack of sympathy for playing hardball in the intellectual property games themselves.
Dude, Apple's history is one of not protecting enough if anything... They paid for the Xerox PARC technology, improved upon it, but then failed to adequately market it before it was copied by MS. MS then did a superior job in marketing Windows and thrashed Apple. They then came up with other great idea like the Newton but failed to execute.
Finally with the iPod they are successfully executing... and if I were them, I'd be very protective of my IP and not let history repeat itself like it did with the Mac.
And Creative is coming along trying to take a piece of Apple's business with a patent of a very, very obvious idea. The iPod UI is essentially the same as iTunes, which is essentially the same as every other mp3 player app. The fact that some many people came up with the same interface independent of each other (and years before Creative's patent) shows that such a design is obvious.
it is very zen that creative has patented the 'zen user interface'. and are now suing apple (which seems to have a good understanding of zen) for violating their 'zen patent'. such a thing is so very un-zen, that it becomes zen again. We are now watching a koan-wreck unfold before our eyes.
just recompile the source with a -lhell-froze-over option. ...also worth noting: -lmonkeys-flew-out-my-butt will compile it for AmigaOS.
Leaks viewing/listening history through firewall directly to MPAA/RIAA?
Security leaks?
Leaks memory?
it leaks wii.
That depends on endianness. Some people write 2_10 as 01_2 instead of 10_2
I'm sorry but you're a dumbass. binary was around long before computers and endians... you're argument is like saying 'two' could also be 'owt' because Herbrew and Arabic are right to left.
must be RMS
I'm not an expert on commercials
Well the PC guy (John Hodgman) is an expert. He's the daily show's resident expert and the author of "The Areas of my Expertise". Which was reviewd on slashdot and by the Onion.
It's a way for Apple to expand their ability to deliver content without having to drastically upgrade their own network infrastructure. You get a little iTunes store credit for being part of the delivery system.
.Mac free again... or some subset of .Mac free in exchange for this. The iDisk might be more useful if it was some sort of torrent... 100 MB in exchange for XX MB stored on your own computer, etc, etc.
They should just make
If anyone manages to go, I'd love to see some real reviews of it.
:)
bring in a cam-corder too while your at it
In the spring of 2008, scientists will get another chance to look at Enceladus when Cassini flies within 350 kilometers (approximately 220 miles)
Actually, the new altitude for that flyby will be 25 km. Boo Yah!