Sitting in the front is also one of the best ways to conect with a teacher, subconsiously people who like the teacher and/or class usually sit in the first row, or two. People who hate the teacher and/or class almost always sit in the back, so teachers quickly learn to watch the back closely for potential troublemakers, and usually give the front row a break.
You do realize that the plasma screen will cost several thousand. If the projector costs $2-3k, you can purchase several bulbs before a projector costs more.
I lost the essay I had started so here's the four things I wish I'd listened to before college: Take advantage of opportunities that you won't get later in life or didn't do before. One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't take fencing my final semester.
Try to expose yourself to as many different types of classes as you can. I realize that it's very difficult to graduate in 4 years in a hard science without concentrating fully on your major, but at least spread out your electives.
Don't be afraid to change majors, even if other important people in your life expect you to do one thing. All through high school, everyone expected me to become an engineer, and I went to an excellent engineering school, Rose-Hulman, however, two years into the electrical engineering curriculum, I realized that I hated it, and wouldn't enjoy a job in the field nearly as much as I thought I would. So I transfered and finished my degreee in economics and finance. I loved that program, and my current job. My family was very supportive of the change, but if your's isn't don't let that stop you.
Finally the key to life is balance, if you learn that now your college experience will be much more fulfilling. If you study all the time or party all the time, you will miss out on quite a bit of the college experience.
Good luck at college.
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Actually the FAA is looking into running GA flights through security. It really makes the celebs mad, since they would have to enter the main terminal, cause a riot when hundreds of fans see them, go through security, head over to their now secure private jet, and take off. If their air taxi service works, good for them, but currently smaller airports have to give airlines fairly large subsidies to get any services.
Those toolless dell cases are quite impressive, and were long before everyone else's consumer versions were. However, I still prefer the sturdyness of the Kayak (HP's PC workstations)chassis, it feels solid, and once you get the drive rails, disk swaps are trivial.
Why is it that you think you have to avoid all the ads to keep them from having power over you. Use your mind. My email is here, and yes I get more spam, but not enough to be unmanagable. I do try to keep my ISP address more private, but its gotten out, due to ebay/paypal, so I get spam there too. I have taken up one telemarketer, when the poor girl nearly broke into tears after I responded to her greeting with "how are you?" I haven't joined any media clubs, but the DVD one does look pretty nice. But every time an offer comes in any form, I run it through my creaky noggin, and apply a few simple huristics to it before mindlessly taking the bargin.
Caffeine and Alchohol are both duretics, which means that in order to process them for removal water is required. While Alcohol in concentrated form is likely to dehydrate you, beer, coffee, and soda net water for you. I'm not sure about beer, I have seen reports, from dubious sources, that it takes 16 oz of water to process the alcohol in a 12 oz beer. Coffee might not be net water either depending on how caffinated it is.
That's why the computer makers can tacitly support burning music. However, if you're the provider of the service that allows people to do illegal things, then you will be shut down. A better example using guns is if at a rifle range some idiot goes about shooting customers one day, you can believe that getting shut down will be the best possible outcome for that owner. Especially if it is later found that the owner did little to prevent such activities.
I knew what it was from investor meetings, and was the only person in the room laughing after the navel commercial about humans being ment to live without wires. It was first shown during the superbowl. It was pretty funny if you knew that it was a wireless phone ad.
For the first web page, the data limits are pretty low unless you want to spend the big bucks for an unlimited plan. You would be better off with a large bank of modems and several accounts to one of the cheap ISPs. For Verizon's similar data services (I couldn't find data plans for sprint yet) unlimited would run you $100/mo with voice calls at $0.69 min! Other plans had very small allocations of data minutes with additional minutes at between $0.20-$0.40 per min. If you're that rich just run your own fibre to your house.
The surprise is more that they made it, AT&T & Verizon were predicting nationwide rollouts of GPRS & 1xRTT networks by about now, following limited release in the 2Q they hit the limited release but neither appears to be ready for nationwide rollout.
Tokyo has full blown 3G or as close as we will get for the next few years, I believe its CDMA 2000 based, but its likely to be a tweaked version of the final standard. They get download speeds in the 300-500kbps range on the street.
It used to be that GPRS and 1xRTT were both 2.5G standards ie first steps between 2G (TDMA, CDMA, GSM) and the future 3G, and the upgrades to full 3G were WCDMA and CDMA 2000, resepectivly, but following the rapid decline in the capital markets for cellular phone companies. Meaning that they have almost 0 likelihood of hitting true 3G in the time they earlier predicted, they started calling both GPRS and 1xRTT 3G. I guess that the 3G board certified 1xRTT as 3G officially, but since their both about the same speed, 70kbps, and true 3G, like in Tokyo is about 5-10 times that fast, neither should be thought of as 3G.
The main reason these upgrades happened is that voice calls are further compressed resulting in a cost savings to carriers.
That was quite interesting, and I learned a lot. What about the origial films produced today, that was more what I ment. Something like the master LotR or similar, or some Disney classic, aren't those well preserved?
Exactly, if you're all powerful you can create stars at various stages of development. Adam & Eve weren't created as babies. Other creationist explinations are that time is not constant either, if light slowed down so could time. Finally, there are some who interpret a large gap between Gen. 1:1 and Gen. 1:3, when the earth was void.
Actually not at all, I work as a financial analyst covering tech companies. So I have to like microsoft, for my day job. I do agree that you need both sides of the story to get to the middle, but I see it as everyone has a bias, so I'd rather know the bias, and adjust.
The theory goes that the decay of light is exponential, so if light were significantly faster near creation, it could reach earth in 6000-7000 years. But at current speeds it would appear to have taken much more time.
In adddition to the tangable costs, enforcement costs are lower for junk faxes. Its alot easier to spoof email headers than it is to spoof phone traces. And there are alot fewer companies that engage in faxing than spamming. Finally, there is the benefits free riding problem. Organizing the limited fax owners to petition congress to make the practice illegal is easier than organizing the large mass of people that the costs of spamming are distributed over. If someone only gets a few spams a day, the costs of deleting them are quite low, vs the time spent learning about bills to make spam illegal and sending evidence of my support of them to congress.
Some creationist scientists explain the disparity between the size of th universe and the fact that we see stars more than 6000-7000 light years away as light slowing down. I tend to agree with them.
I recall an old WSJ article about the new meal deals and McDonald's, back when they were new, and one of the points brought up was that the burgers were sold at about break even, but the fries and drinks carried gross margins of almost 80%. Meaning the cost of the drink, including cup, ice, and straw is about $0.20. What annoys me is the increase in size of straws. If you don't get the mega cup, your drink is gone very quickly.
The film world is starting to realize that masters carry alot of value. During the "golden age of film" 1920-1950 or so, they weren't as careful with them probably becuase the volume was so much larger, most of the films were done in a very short period of time. There are now several movies are missing parts or even large sections. Today I'm guessing that the originals are tightly guarded, and well preserved.
Priceless works of art, like old paintings, not the guy's styrofoam cup, should carry clauses that prohibit willful destruction as a part of the terms of sale. I'm surprised that they don't already.
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Sitting in the front is also one of the best ways to conect with a teacher, subconsiously people who like the teacher and/or class usually sit in the first row, or two. People who hate the teacher and/or class almost always sit in the back, so teachers quickly learn to watch the back closely for potential troublemakers, and usually give the front row a break.
You do realize that the plasma screen will cost several thousand. If the projector costs $2-3k, you can purchase several bulbs before a projector costs more.
Wear sunscreen!
I lost the essay I had started so here's the four things I wish I'd listened to before college:
Take advantage of opportunities that you won't get later in life or didn't do before. One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't take fencing my final semester.
Try to expose yourself to as many different types of classes as you can. I realize that it's very difficult to graduate in 4 years in a hard science without concentrating fully on your major, but at least spread out your electives.
Don't be afraid to change majors, even if other important people in your life expect you to do one thing. All through high school, everyone expected me to become an engineer, and I went to an excellent engineering school, Rose-Hulman, however, two years into the electrical engineering curriculum, I realized that I hated it, and wouldn't enjoy a job in the field nearly as much as I thought I would. So I transfered and finished my degreee in economics and finance. I loved that program, and my current job. My family was very supportive of the change, but if your's isn't don't let that stop you.
Finally the key to life is balance, if you learn that now your college experience will be much more fulfilling. If you study all the time or party all the time, you will miss out on quite a bit of the college experience. Good luck at college.
Actually the FAA is looking into running GA flights through security. It really makes the celebs mad, since they would have to enter the main terminal, cause a riot when hundreds of fans see them, go through security, head over to their now secure private jet, and take off. If their air taxi service works, good for them, but currently smaller airports have to give airlines fairly large subsidies to get any services.
Those toolless dell cases are quite impressive, and were long before everyone else's consumer versions were. However, I still prefer the sturdyness of the Kayak (HP's PC workstations)chassis, it feels solid, and once you get the drive rails, disk swaps are trivial.
Why is it that you think you have to avoid all the ads to keep them from having power over you. Use your mind. My email is here, and yes I get more spam, but not enough to be unmanagable. I do try to keep my ISP address more private, but its gotten out, due to ebay/paypal, so I get spam there too. I have taken up one telemarketer, when the poor girl nearly broke into tears after I responded to her greeting with "how are you?" I haven't joined any media clubs, but the DVD one does look pretty nice. But every time an offer comes in any form, I run it through my creaky noggin, and apply a few simple huristics to it before mindlessly taking the bargin.
Caffeine and Alchohol are both duretics, which means that in order to process them for removal water is required. While Alcohol in concentrated form is likely to dehydrate you, beer, coffee, and soda net water for you. I'm not sure about beer, I have seen reports, from dubious sources, that it takes 16 oz of water to process the alcohol in a 12 oz beer. Coffee might not be net water either depending on how caffinated it is.
That's why the computer makers can tacitly support burning music. However, if you're the provider of the service that allows people to do illegal things, then you will be shut down. A better example using guns is if at a rifle range some idiot goes about shooting customers one day, you can believe that getting shut down will be the best possible outcome for that owner. Especially if it is later found that the owner did little to prevent such activities.
Actually on a nice TV you start to see the compression artifacts in a DVD.
I knew what it was from investor meetings, and was the only person in the room laughing after the navel commercial about humans being ment to live without wires. It was first shown during the superbowl. It was pretty funny if you knew that it was a wireless phone ad.
For the first web page, the data limits are pretty low unless you want to spend the big bucks for an unlimited plan. You would be better off with a large bank of modems and several accounts to one of the cheap ISPs. For Verizon's similar data services (I couldn't find data plans for sprint yet) unlimited would run you $100/mo with voice calls at $0.69 min! Other plans had very small allocations of data minutes with additional minutes at between $0.20-$0.40 per min. If you're that rich just run your own fibre to your house.
The surprise is more that they made it, AT&T & Verizon were predicting nationwide rollouts of GPRS & 1xRTT networks by about now, following limited release in the 2Q they hit the limited release but neither appears to be ready for nationwide rollout.
Tokyo has full blown 3G or as close as we will get for the next few years, I believe its CDMA 2000 based, but its likely to be a tweaked version of the final standard. They get download speeds in the 300-500kbps range on the street.
It used to be that GPRS and 1xRTT were both 2.5G standards ie first steps between 2G (TDMA, CDMA, GSM) and the future 3G, and the upgrades to full 3G were WCDMA and CDMA 2000, resepectivly, but following the rapid decline in the capital markets for cellular phone companies. Meaning that they have almost 0 likelihood of hitting true 3G in the time they earlier predicted, they started calling both GPRS and 1xRTT 3G. I guess that the 3G board certified 1xRTT as 3G officially, but since their both about the same speed, 70kbps, and true 3G, like in Tokyo is about 5-10 times that fast, neither should be thought of as 3G.
The main reason these upgrades happened is that voice calls are further compressed resulting in a cost savings to carriers.
Actually the US and Asia are the boat when it comes to CDMA, Eurome use GSM/GPRS.
That was quite interesting, and I learned a lot. What about the origial films produced today, that was more what I ment. Something like the master LotR or similar, or some Disney classic, aren't those well preserved?
Exactly, if you're all powerful you can create stars at various stages of development. Adam & Eve weren't created as babies. Other creationist explinations are that time is not constant either, if light slowed down so could time. Finally, there are some who interpret a large gap between Gen. 1:1 and Gen. 1:3, when the earth was void.
Actually not at all, I work as a financial analyst covering tech companies. So I have to like microsoft, for my day job. I do agree that you need both sides of the story to get to the middle, but I see it as everyone has a bias, so I'd rather know the bias, and adjust.
The theory goes that the decay of light is exponential, so if light were significantly faster near creation, it could reach earth in 6000-7000 years. But at current speeds it would appear to have taken much more time.
In adddition to the tangable costs, enforcement costs are lower for junk faxes. Its alot easier to spoof email headers than it is to spoof phone traces. And there are alot fewer companies that engage in faxing than spamming. Finally, there is the benefits free riding problem. Organizing the limited fax owners to petition congress to make the practice illegal is easier than organizing the large mass of people that the costs of spamming are distributed over. If someone only gets a few spams a day, the costs of deleting them are quite low, vs the time spent learning about bills to make spam illegal and sending evidence of my support of them to congress.
Some creationist scientists explain the disparity between the size of th universe and the fact that we see stars more than 6000-7000 light years away as light slowing down. I tend to agree with them.
So's a pint of milk, water, soda, and anything else, but I thought they used an imperial pint (20 oz) over there.
I recall an old WSJ article about the new meal deals and McDonald's, back when they were new, and one of the points brought up was that the burgers were sold at about break even, but the fries and drinks carried gross margins of almost 80%. Meaning the cost of the drink, including cup, ice, and straw is about $0.20. What annoys me is the increase in size of straws. If you don't get the mega cup, your drink is gone very quickly.
The film world is starting to realize that masters carry alot of value. During the "golden age of film" 1920-1950 or so, they weren't as careful with them probably becuase the volume was so much larger, most of the films were done in a very short period of time. There are now several movies are missing parts or even large sections. Today I'm guessing that the originals are tightly guarded, and well preserved. Priceless works of art, like old paintings, not the guy's styrofoam cup, should carry clauses that prohibit willful destruction as a part of the terms of sale. I'm surprised that they don't already.