No clue. I dual booted SuSe 9.1 for a while and really enjoyed how it "felt" ; however the apparent lack of dual head support for my radeon 9800 makes me unwilling to spend much time on it.
Your comparison with road-based vehicles isn't exactly accurate to my eyes.
Put a typical car and a 18 wheeler on something like a salt flat (basically unlimited X-Y axis, much like up in the air) and the larger truck will be hard pressed to stay close to the car, much less ram it.
Freshman engineering courses at my institution are heavily team and presentation based, with a scattering of team projects and stand-up things designed to teach communication skills all through the rest of the technical classes.
Why arent things like this implemented in IT or comp sci related curriciula?
in Electrical and Computer engineering, dealing with AC electricity in terms of a sine wave involves some imaginary tinkering when you're determining how bits of a circuit effect the wave Also as another poster mentioned, in signal analysis when you get into Fourier and Laplace transforms.
THere may be other things I've forgotten, but those are the major applications I believe.
The size of their first accomplishment really depends on who they buy the tech from. If they were starting from scratch I'd totally agree with you. However, if you add a dash of Soviet, Chinese, Pakistani or some other such technology and engineering, the result might suddenly be a lot closer to an ICBM with MIRV capability
That's true, but I believe the OP's point is that when the computer is on sleep, Ram is basically the only thing being powered, and when the computer is active, that tiny amount of power is far overshadowed by things like the monitor and CPU
Those same screen games have their own annoyances. Personally the unpredictable zoom in and out of Smash Bros always annoyed me. The Gauntlet/Bomberman issue of having to have all the players moving together is less annoying, but still an issue, esp if one player gets hung up behind some obsticale.
Don't get me wrong, that situation is still miles better than split screen, IMHO.
Is attack really the literal translation or are there some subtleties of language lost in the translation? "attack" seems like a loaded word to use in a poll, IMHO.
the OP is referring to the Ore Harvester units purchasable in-game. They were a necessity when all the close deposits of ore were used up, because without a constant "train" of harvesters heading out and coming in, you'd run out of money. You get one free with the ore refinery, and the subsequent ones were fairly expnesive. (Can't remember if $1400 was the cost in Command & Conquer, or the Red Alert sequel)
Interesting point, but I think it depends on the demographic. I saw myself in HS several people (who at this point have grown out of their drug abuse issues and are successful) who fit your description.
However i also saw plenty of kids who weren't academically inclined at all (through both apathy and ability, or maybe the former resulted from the latter) that did nothing but drink and smoke for four years or more. I pin that on plain vanilla shallowness, or hedonism or whatever you care to call it.
It seems also like there was a division between the stoners and binge drinkers. I do know a few very intelligent people who, if not qualifying as stoners, smoked pretty regularly back then. Try as I may I can't think of ANY kids that spent the weekends blind drunk that have gone on to be productive. I realize it's just an anecote, but it's an interesting thought.
I'd be willing to wager that something like Bittorrent, which seems to have a habit of choking/flooding a connection, would be prioritized flat at the bottom of the list unless otherwise paid for.
You wouldn't have much luck with me. My name turns up about a half dozen hits, two of which are my photo portfolio and 2 are deviantart listings that reference said portfolio.
Then again, if you knew my most preferred pseduonyms...;)
It's routine to have drinking laws enforced on a school trip even though it's technically legal in the destination country. I believe there may be a legal loophole there though since the trip is courtesy of the government, but I'm unsure about the details on the matter.
Oh I doubt teachers will be doing it. Probably the "network administrators" with an AA degree from the local community college and a couple certificates, who's already surfing myspace looking at jailbait photos all day.
The problem with going up the chain to the school board for an appeal, is that they are (at least in my experience) too intertwined; that is to say, the politics of the matter work out such that the board feels its in its best interest to keep the status quo so that the schools don't "look bad"
How is a student is supposed to get a fair shot at an appeal when those in charge of that invariably walk into the situation with the attitude that the school system is always right?
I've used two L&L books, and the jGrasp software, and rather liked it. Most of the defeciencies in the classes (two sems of Java and one of Data Structures) were due to professor incompetency rather than the course material. I *very* much liked the abundance of examples in the text.
jGrasp wasnt covered much in class, as the engineering/IT network had the command line java compiler installed, but NOT jgrasp (licensing issue maybe?) so students were on their own as far as getting it to work, but I found it much easier than notepad (hell i did most of my work at home in UltraEdit, at least it does syntax highlighting)
I had to understand how the multiplexor worked and write it out directly in NAND gates rather than just picking it from a box of commonly used components!
Funny you mention that.
I took a hardware system design class this past semester in which the professor taught exactly that. Nevermind that our design suite came with a HUGE library of parts (two actually. one of "perfect" gates and one modeled on real transistors), we had to make and test every component, even down to logic gates (yes, that's right folks, we had to make symbols for each logic gate, that consisted of ONLY the corresponding gate from the library)
It was a horrible pain in the ass, as we had already covered many of the simpler components in earlier classes, and roughly tripled the project time due to simulating and printing out mundane crap like multiplexers, flip flops and adders. If you've never seen a multiplexer before, sure, do it in AND gates. But by the time you're an engineering junior, you've had 3-4 logic classes, and you've done mux's in ALL of them.
His excuse was that doing it this way let us switch between "perfect" and "modeled" gates quickly and easily (which we never did once in the class) --I see the use of that, but it seems like any suite of tools worth its money should let you do that at-will anyway via a global setting.
Can someone show me a a Java VM that existed and would have been the programming language of choice in the "dial-up days"? At least to me the heyday of dialup was the late 80s to mid 90s, then cable and DSL started taking over
Plenty of non-population-center type areas didn't have DSL or cable till at least 2000.
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No clue. I dual booted SuSe 9.1 for a while and really enjoyed how it "felt" ; however the apparent lack of dual head support for my radeon 9800 makes me unwilling to spend much time on it.
Your comparison with road-based vehicles isn't exactly accurate to my eyes.
Put a typical car and a 18 wheeler on something like a salt flat (basically unlimited X-Y axis, much like up in the air) and the larger truck will be hard pressed to stay close to the car, much less ram it.
I believe he meant "Spending tax dollars" as in using bandwidth.
I had it almost a year ago (Spring 05) and I can't remember jack squat from it.
I have classmates in CE or EE that are pushing 40, have kids and a wife. You aren't too old.
Freshman engineering courses at my institution are heavily team and presentation based, with a scattering of team projects and stand-up things designed to teach communication skills all through the rest of the technical classes.
Why arent things like this implemented in IT or comp sci related curriciula?
in Electrical and Computer engineering, dealing with AC electricity in terms of a sine wave involves some imaginary tinkering when you're determining how bits of a circuit effect the wave Also as another poster mentioned, in signal analysis when you get into Fourier and Laplace transforms.
THere may be other things I've forgotten, but those are the major applications I believe.
Good luck dude, I had that class (Signals and System I, in my case) last year, it was a beast.
Funny, people thikn the same thing when I tell them I'm in engineering(student) ;)
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At this point though they're almost right
The size of their first accomplishment really depends on who they buy the tech from. If they were starting from scratch I'd totally agree with you. However, if you add a dash of Soviet, Chinese, Pakistani or some other such technology and engineering, the result might suddenly be a lot closer to an ICBM with MIRV capability
That's true, but I believe the OP's point is that when the computer is on sleep, Ram is basically the only thing being powered, and when the computer is active, that tiny amount of power is far overshadowed by things like the monitor and CPU
Those same screen games have their own annoyances. Personally the unpredictable zoom in and out of Smash Bros always annoyed me. The Gauntlet/Bomberman issue of having to have all the players moving together is less annoying, but still an issue, esp if one player gets hung up behind some obsticale.
Don't get me wrong, that situation is still miles better than split screen, IMHO.
Is attack really the literal translation or are there some subtleties of language lost in the translation? "attack" seems like a loaded word to use in a poll, IMHO.
the OP is referring to the Ore Harvester units purchasable in-game. They were a necessity when all the close deposits of ore were used up, because without a constant "train" of harvesters heading out and coming in, you'd run out of money. You get one free with the ore refinery, and the subsequent ones were fairly expnesive. (Can't remember if $1400 was the cost in Command & Conquer, or the Red Alert sequel)
Interesting point, but I think it depends on the demographic. I saw myself in HS several people (who at this point have grown out of their drug abuse issues and are successful) who fit your description.
However i also saw plenty of kids who weren't academically inclined at all (through both apathy and ability, or maybe the former resulted from the latter) that did nothing but drink and smoke for four years or more. I pin that on plain vanilla shallowness, or hedonism or whatever you care to call it.
It seems also like there was a division between the stoners and binge drinkers. I do know a few very intelligent people who, if not qualifying as stoners, smoked pretty regularly back then. Try as I may I can't think of ANY kids that spent the weekends blind drunk that have gone on to be productive. I realize it's just an anecote, but it's an interesting thought.
I'd be willing to wager that something like Bittorrent, which seems to have a habit of choking/flooding a connection, would be prioritized flat at the bottom of the list unless otherwise paid for.
To a certain agegroup, probably yes it does, but otherwise it's Venture Capital.
;) How's gamegossip these days?
Cheers CB
You wouldn't have much luck with me. My name turns up about a half dozen hits, two of which are my photo portfolio and 2 are deviantart listings that reference said portfolio.
;)
Then again, if you knew my most preferred pseduonyms...
It's routine to have drinking laws enforced on a school trip even though it's technically legal in the destination country. I believe there may be a legal loophole there though since the trip is courtesy of the government, but I'm unsure about the details on the matter.
Oh I doubt teachers will be doing it. Probably the "network administrators" with an AA degree from the local community college and a couple certificates, who's already surfing myspace looking at jailbait photos all day.
The problem with going up the chain to the school board for an appeal, is that they are (at least in my experience) too intertwined; that is to say, the politics of the matter work out such that the board feels its in its best interest to keep the status quo so that the schools don't "look bad"
How is a student is supposed to get a fair shot at an appeal when those in charge of that invariably walk into the situation with the attitude that the school system is always right?
I've used two L&L books, and the jGrasp software, and rather liked it. Most of the defeciencies in the classes (two sems of Java and one of Data Structures) were due to professor incompetency rather than the course material. I *very* much liked the abundance of examples in the text.
jGrasp wasnt covered much in class, as the engineering/IT network had the command line java compiler installed, but NOT jgrasp (licensing issue maybe?) so students were on their own as far as getting it to work, but I found it much easier than notepad (hell i did most of my work at home in UltraEdit, at least it does syntax highlighting)
I had to understand how the multiplexor worked and write it out directly in NAND gates rather than just picking it from a box of commonly used components!
Funny you mention that.
I took a hardware system design class this past semester in which the professor taught exactly that. Nevermind that our design suite came with a HUGE library of parts (two actually. one of "perfect" gates and one modeled on real transistors), we had to make and test every component, even down to logic gates (yes, that's right folks, we had to make symbols for each logic gate, that consisted of ONLY the corresponding gate from the library)
It was a horrible pain in the ass, as we had already covered many of the simpler components in earlier classes, and roughly tripled the project time due to simulating and printing out mundane crap like multiplexers, flip flops and adders. If you've never seen a multiplexer before, sure, do it in AND gates. But by the time you're an engineering junior, you've had 3-4 logic classes, and you've done mux's in ALL of them.
His excuse was that doing it this way let us switch between "perfect" and "modeled" gates quickly and easily (which we never did once in the class) --I see the use of that, but it seems like any suite of tools worth its money should let you do that at-will anyway via a global setting.
I love that aspect of Crusader (and hell I still play that game whenever I have a junker Compaq Presario lying around to load it on)
"Hm...Can't find the card..Fuckit *Detpac* BOOM!"
Then the fun of going full-tilt rock-and-roll through the next roomfulls of guards.
Those two games were awesome...
Can someone show me a a Java VM that existed and would have been the programming language of choice in the "dial-up days"? At least to me the heyday of dialup was the late 80s to mid 90s, then cable and DSL started taking over
Plenty of non-population-center type areas didn't have DSL or cable till at least 2000.