I work out of my home for a company a couple provinces away. They have provided me with a high-end nortel VoIP phone which works great when my laptop is wired into my network.
If I try and make the connection travel over the WAP, it introduces quite a lot of popping and dropped words due to lost/out-of-order packets.
In my experience I've seen and graduated with a lot of people in CS and CompEng that shouldn't have been there.
Ask them to troubleshoot a hardware or software problem and they will stare at you blankly and shrug. There were few among us who actually were interested in computers and "played" with them outside of class time. One of my best friends is one of these people and he is just barely getting out of Comp Eng when his degree probably should have been in marketing. With enough help and coaching anyone can get through a CS or CE degree.
Now that the "easy money" computer boom is over, only the people who actually have a genuine interest in computers are entering CS and/or CE so in my view, that is why we see enrollment decreasing.
This shouldn't make the computer industry nervous,as the article implies, because the cream of the crop will still be graduating, it will be easier to separate the wheat from the chaff.
One problem might be that in order to drive an inductor or other type of charging mechanism you would necessarily need some friction from the mouse ball, the more friction, the more power generated.
I'm not sure how much friction a user would put up with using the mouse, certainly gamers would have none of it.
I have a parapeligic friend who was injured about 5 years ago just after getting his geological engineering degree. He was injured in a car accident with a moose so our provinces insurance is paying his living expenses.
He went on to get an MBA from from our provincial university while serving as the Student Union's President for two terms.
He was elected President of our Provincial opposition party and now is a nominated candidate for our federal opposition party and will run for Member of Parliament in the next Canadian Federal Election this year.
Needless to say he uses his computer a lot, to send emails, compose letters, you name it. I play wargames with him and a bunch of friends about once a month, it really puts your problems in perspective when you see what he has overcome.
Oh yeah, that's because rich American's are the only ones who are paying taxes. You can't really give a tax cut to the people paying almost no tax. Who do you think creates jobs and opportunities, the person scraping by (who is paying no tax) or the businessmen who is growing America's businesses who needs a tax cut so he can give people like you a job.
Would you really prefer that we tax "rich" people out of business? Who is going to employ people then? Perhaps you prefer that the government take everything you and I earn and distribute it equally?
Sorry, about the sig comment, but I think you meant to say that "There were more filesharers than people who voted for the winner" As I think the numbers were (from reading other people's sigs:) 64M filesharers and about 50M voting for each side.
Yeah the TINI is really neat. My Engineering Thesis (all Java and VHDL code included) used it interfaced (via parallel) with an EPLD (20k gates plus memory cells) from Altera.
I used it to simulate and control a home automation system over the net. It is a really interesting piece of software but as a sibling piece has mentioned it has pretty severe loading issues.
In one case, making a ring with your thumb and middle finger around a wire tied to one of the address pins and moving your hand was enough to cause the TINI to reboot. (replicatable).
As well, they are exremely sesitive to static electricity. Our Prof fried 2 that he was using to do a lab with and I fried one during R&D for my thesis.
On the plus side, Dallas Semiconductor is really helpful and actually shipped me a replacement before I sent them my fried one (you don't see that too often)
At the end of the day I just find it really cool that you can run a web server on a SIMM form factor.
As the saying goes... When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.
Seriously, in Canada where the majority of handguns are illegal, we have set up a billion dollar boondoggle of a gun registry. The problem is that in 90%+ cases of a crime with a gun it wasn't eligible to be registered in the first place. Because it was Illegal. Great.
I use the moz email/browser exclusivly (except for radio shack's site, damn ASP!)
I run my own IMAP sendmail server on a dynamic IP (dyndns custom). The only problem I have with Mozilla Mail is that when my ip changes, mozilla doesn't do a dns lookup and keep on going. It just tries to connect to it's cached version of what it thinks my ip is and says it can't connect. This would be ok except for that it will continually pop error boxes at me till I close all mozilla windows and kill the process. Arrgh!
I know I could just enter my internal ip as the imap server but when I roam I don't want to be switching it.
So that's my only beef with moz mail, when it can't connect to the mail server it should try connecting to what is in the settings. Other than that it's great.
We have a president who was elected under questionable circumstances, an illegal war in Iraq, terrorists hiding all over our country, a dollar whose value is in freefall, an education system crippled by so-called "affirmative" action, and all YOU can do is whine about us talking about some guy with a flight simulator ?
I'm in Manitoba actually, and no you can't legally do it here either. I wasn't referring to officially calling myself an Engineer but unofficially in passing when some asks what you do.
Speaking as someone who has just graduated from a university in Canada with a B.Sc Eng(Comp). i.e. Computer Engineering, even I don't feel bold enough to call myself an Engineer.
Until I complete a 4-5 year 'appenticeship' under another Professional Engineer I will only say I have an Engineering Degree.
As an article of interest, in Canada if someone claims that they are an Engineer all you have to do to check the semi-veracity of their statement is look at the pinky finger of their working hand. All engineering graduates receive an iron ring to remind them of the seriousness of their work and the code of ethics which they pledge to uphold. You can read a little more about it at ironring.ca
Whether they go on to complete the requirements of the Association of Professional Enginers and Geo-Scientists of (Province Name) and become a Professional Engineer is up to them.
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I'm not sure that nuking Japan would be deemed illegal.
But the USAF will sure sue the pants off you for copyright violation.
I missed the part about him nuking all the other game companies that makes games on a traditional cd/dvd.
A market need that is profitable will be filled ( even some unprofitable ones)
As long as both people are getting what they want, with full information, no one is getting 'ripped off'.
Consenting adults and all that.
Who wants to bet the developers have been playing World of Warcraft and have discovered things that work?
"Hey Bob! Check out this looting system!"
Now get to work!
I believe you omitted some punctuation.
It was supposed to read "God(my wife), and me"
(Speaking from experience)
Normally I would agree with you.
I work out of my home for a company a couple provinces away. They have provided me with a high-end nortel VoIP phone which works great when my laptop is wired into my network.
If I try and make the connection travel over the WAP, it introduces quite a lot of popping and dropped words due to lost/out-of-order packets.
So in some cases wired does make the difference.
>> however not a single US solider has ever died for supporting Spain
Aren't you forgetting about that little skirmish called World War II in which the Americans liberated Spain?
That begs the question, during the second world war, would you rather have been Japanese in America, or American in Japan?
I want try it out at home on my linux box but I can't find it on Freshmeat.
Any ideas?
In my experience I've seen and graduated with a lot of people in CS and CompEng that shouldn't have been there.
,as the article implies, because the cream of the crop will still be graduating, it will be easier to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Ask them to troubleshoot a hardware or software problem and they will stare at you blankly and shrug. There were few among us who actually were interested in computers and "played" with them outside of class time. One of my best friends is one of these people and he is just barely getting out of Comp Eng when his degree probably should have been in marketing. With enough help and coaching anyone can get through a CS or CE degree.
Now that the "easy money" computer boom is over, only the people who actually have a genuine interest in computers are entering CS and/or CE so in my view, that is why we see enrollment decreasing.
This shouldn't make the computer industry nervous
Interesting idea,
One problem might be that in order to drive an inductor or other type of charging mechanism you would necessarily need some friction from the mouse ball, the more friction, the more power generated.
I'm not sure how much friction a user would put up with using the mouse, certainly gamers would have none of it.
Good insight,
Not to bust your chops but in this case "effect" vs. "affect" is the exact opposite of what you are trying to say.
Cheers
I have a parapeligic friend who was injured about 5 years ago just after getting his geological engineering degree. He was injured in a car accident with a moose so our provinces insurance is paying his living expenses.
He went on to get an MBA from from our provincial university while serving as the Student Union's President for two terms.
He was elected President of our Provincial opposition party and now is a nominated candidate for our federal opposition party and will run for Member of Parliament in the next Canadian Federal Election this year.
Needless to say he uses his computer a lot, to send emails, compose letters, you name it. I play wargames with him and a bunch of friends about once a month, it really puts your problems in perspective when you see what he has overcome.
Why do rich American's get all the tax breaks?
Oh yeah, that's because rich American's are the only ones who are paying taxes. You can't really give a tax cut to the people paying almost no tax. Who do you think creates jobs and opportunities, the person scraping by (who is paying no tax) or the businessmen who is growing America's businesses who needs a tax cut so he can give people like you a job.
Would you really prefer that we tax "rich" people out of business? Who is going to employ people then? Perhaps you prefer that the government take everything you and I earn and distribute it equally?
By the way, that doesn't work.
Sorry, about the sig comment, but I think you meant to say that "There were more filesharers than people who voted for the winner" As I think the numbers were (from reading other people's sigs :) 64M filesharers and about 50M voting for each side.
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Yeah the TINI is really neat. My Engineering Thesis (all Java and VHDL code included) used it interfaced (via parallel) with an EPLD (20k gates plus memory cells) from Altera.
I used it to simulate and control a home automation system over the net. It is a really interesting piece of software but as a sibling piece has mentioned it has pretty severe loading issues. In one case, making a ring with your thumb and middle finger around a wire tied to one of the address pins and moving your hand was enough to cause the TINI to reboot. (replicatable).
As well, they are exremely sesitive to static electricity. Our Prof fried 2 that he was using to do a lab with and I fried one during R&D for my thesis. On the plus side, Dallas Semiconductor is really helpful and actually shipped me a replacement before I sent them my fried one (you don't see that too often)
At the end of the day I just find it really cool that you can run a web server on a SIMM form factor.
G
As the saying goes... When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.
Seriously, in Canada where the majority of handguns are illegal, we have set up a billion dollar boondoggle of a gun registry. The problem is that in 90%+ cases of a crime with a gun it wasn't eligible to be registered in the first place. Because it was Illegal. Great.
I use the moz email/browser exclusivly (except for radio shack's site, damn ASP!)
I run my own IMAP sendmail server on a dynamic IP (dyndns custom). The only problem I have with Mozilla Mail is that when my ip changes, mozilla doesn't do a dns lookup and keep on going. It just tries to connect to it's cached version of what it thinks my ip is and says it can't connect. This would be ok except for that it will continually pop error boxes at me till I close all mozilla windows and kill the process. Arrgh!
I know I could just enter my internal ip as the imap server but when I roam I don't want to be switching it.
So that's my only beef with moz mail, when it can't connect to the mail server it should try connecting to what is in the settings. Other than that it's great.
We have a president who was elected under questionable circumstances, an illegal war in Iraq, terrorists hiding all over our country, a dollar whose value is in freefall, an education system crippled by so-called "affirmative" action, and all YOU can do is whine about us talking about some guy with a flight simulator ?
Try getting parts for a stealth though!
I'm in Manitoba actually, and no you can't legally do it here either. I wasn't referring to officially calling myself an Engineer but unofficially in passing when some asks what you do.
Until I complete a 4-5 year 'appenticeship' under another Professional Engineer I will only say I have an Engineering Degree.
As an article of interest, in Canada if someone claims that they are an Engineer all you have to do to check the semi-veracity of their statement is look at the pinky finger of their working hand. All engineering graduates receive an iron ring to remind them of the seriousness of their work and the code of ethics which they pledge to uphold. You can read a little more about it at ironring.ca
Whether they go on to complete the requirements of the Association of Professional Enginers and Geo-Scientists of (Province Name) and become a Professional Engineer is up to them.