It requires students in Science and Engineering to purchase IPAQs and extra junk in order to register for classes. The University had tried to require laptops for students, but all EE, CS and ECE students already had several and didn't want to be told what to buy. The laptop deal went to a sutdent vote and failed miserably. This IPAQ initative was never sent to a vote - the chancellor saw the almighty $$ and students had no vote.
I was lucky to graduate before this requirement was imposed. I think it is the school's plan to eventually require all students to purchase this at an inflated price. I am sure some UMD are reading this right now - Do you feel that these PDA's are helping you with your educational experience?
In the professional setting these are great for keeping track of apointments and emails but are not much good for anything else. I am curious how they are getting worked into the cirriculum.
I still own an Atari LYNX. This handheld system was far more powerful and innovative than nintendo and gameboy systems at the time. The games for i are great. I still like to play blue thunder, road blasters and of course Klax.
"The calcium carbonate is then heated to yield pure carbon dioxide and quicklime, which is recycled back into the extractor."
My question is, where does the heat come from? Nuclear does not seem to be a viable option for waste reasons. Sunlight would not be potent enough. There is not much geothermal energy around - most of it is in state parks. Gasoline and coal may be a good solution for the system! Lets see, take a lake of lime and heat it in a big furnace to take a small amount of carbon from the furnace exhaust. I am no chemist, but this sounds like it would create much more pollution than a factory.
Lets see 1x10^10 * (7 bytes per telephone number ) equals about 700 gigabytes of storage of all the numbers. They must have a great server to look up the numbers I tried so fast. Its amazing that they even have 20 digit numbers stored. I you could fit 160 phone numbers on a page of paper you would only need 62 million sheets (6 years to print on a fast printer) of paper or 125000 reems. I would have liked to see the hard copy of that application.
Obviously they just have an program that responds yes to every number you give it and plays an annoying little ditty. Then maybe it logs that number somewhere - but they did not generate all these numbers. They can copyright their program but not the numbers(songs) - since the viewers are actually generating them. Someone in that copyright office should get spanked.
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This is from my Alma Matter:
http://www.d.umn.edu/cse/techreq.html
It requires students in Science and Engineering to purchase IPAQs and extra junk in order to register for classes. The University had tried to require laptops for students, but all EE, CS and ECE students already had several and didn't want to be told what to buy. The laptop deal went to a sutdent vote and failed miserably. This IPAQ initative was never sent to a vote - the chancellor saw the almighty $$ and students had no vote.
I was lucky to graduate before this requirement was imposed. I think it is the school's plan to eventually require all students to purchase this at an inflated price. I am sure some UMD are reading this right now - Do you feel that these PDA's are helping you with your educational experience?
In the professional setting these are great for keeping track of apointments and emails but are not much good for anything else. I am curious how they are getting worked into the cirriculum.
"Sorry teacher my dog ate my IPAQ!"
I still own an Atari LYNX. This handheld system was far more powerful and innovative than nintendo and gameboy systems at the time. The games for i are great. I still like to play blue thunder, road blasters and of course Klax.
I could submit my taxes using messenger.
"The calcium carbonate is then heated to yield pure carbon dioxide and quicklime, which is recycled back into the extractor." My question is, where does the heat come from? Nuclear does not seem to be a viable option for waste reasons. Sunlight would not be potent enough. There is not much geothermal energy around - most of it is in state parks. Gasoline and coal may be a good solution for the system! Lets see, take a lake of lime and heat it in a big furnace to take a small amount of carbon from the furnace exhaust. I am no chemist, but this sounds like it would create much more pollution than a factory.
This almost got me; a few lines into the article it lost me. Check out the stock pages for the two companies - no dice.
Lets see 1x10^10 * (7 bytes per telephone number ) equals about 700 gigabytes of storage of all the numbers. They must have a great server to look up the numbers I tried so fast. Its amazing that they even have 20 digit numbers stored. I you could fit 160 phone numbers on a page of paper you would only need 62 million sheets (6 years to print on a fast printer) of paper or 125000 reems. I would have liked to see the hard copy of that application. Obviously they just have an program that responds yes to every number you give it and plays an annoying little ditty. Then maybe it logs that number somewhere - but they did not generate all these numbers. They can copyright their program but not the numbers(songs) - since the viewers are actually generating them. Someone in that copyright office should get spanked.