In my numerical methods class, we were taught two different methods to solve a particular problem. While studying for the midterm, my friends and I only studied one of them because it was faster to solve in an exam. Sure enough, we opened the midterm and found "Solve this problem by the method 'foo'.", where "foo" is obviously the method we hadn't studied.
All of us tried to remember as best we could, but we all bombed it. All except my friend Chris. He remarked that the front of the paper said "Write down any assumptions you make." so he took out a black Sharpie, coloured in the part "by the method 'foo'." and wrote "assume these words do not exist" and proceeded to solve the problem by the other method. When the exams came back, he was awarded about 20% on that question, with the annotation "These are amusement marks. Normally you would have gotten 0."
All subsequent exams had "Write down and justify any assumptions you make."
So THAT'S what that's for! I got a Victorinox knife as a gift at the World Skills Competition in Switzerland and that hook was the only thing what's purpose I didn't understand. But I reasoned that since it was so bloody difficult to deploy, it wasn't that important anyway. There's no fingernail indentation to pull it out, so you kinda have to wiggle your nail under it and lift till you can get a finger under there, hoping all the while it won't just rip off your nail. Screw it, I'll just carry my parcels in my hands.
That's where engine noise comes in. We now have the technology to make aircraft cabins almost totally soundproof, but some engine noise is still allowed to enter. This is the reason the rabble of hundreds of passengers on a Boeing 747-400 doesn't drive you insane. You can hear people sitting around you, but the engine noise covers up most of the other voices.
When I was last in Montreal, my uncle brought me to King George Electronique in Longueuil. We spent hours looking at random crap. They had everything from 286 motherboards to ancient cell phones. 10,000sqft of pure bliss!
Anyone know of a place like this in or around Ottawa?
I've met a guy on IRC who did this about a year and a half ago with SCSI RAID. An interesting side note: he recorded the noise it makes it on startup and just those disks spinning up makes it sound like a jet engine.
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Auto steering spring? I pulled that thing off my GT in the first few days I had it. First off, if I had to catch my toque from slowly slipping off my head, it would veer sharply, sending me rolling ass over teakettle down the rest of the hill.
Second, when lugging it back up the hill with the tow rope (My GT was a later model and had a retratable pull rope. I don't know if this is a standard feature on the classic GT), it kept turning into the path of the slope.
Third, it's a bitch when dad is towing you on this thing with a skidoo and the wheel slips. This is just like my first point, but at much higher speed.
However, it IS all about the GT. And now that it's snowed here in Ottawa, I feel like going down to one of the engineering labs and building myself a GT adapted to my 6 foot frame. If you'll excuse me...
Here at Carleton, they recently killed all IRC connections in residence. I complained to Campus Computing Services and the Residence Association, but to no avail. From their point of view, IRC was taking up too much bandwidth from download hogs, so they killed everything. Now the only way I can connect with people back home is to use my shell provided by the good folks at The Engsoc Project. Monitor your situation, and don't let them end up like us.
Carleton University does this. Some courses have some generic info on the professor's personal webpage, while others have detailed schedules and assignments (including assignments and solutions from years past). The level of this varies from prof to prof as some are not the most computer litterate.
An example of everything online is my "Problem solving and Computers for Engineers" class. The course site is here. A somewhat less helpful site is my mechanics prof's site, here.
However, some of my classes use WebCT (should be familiar to at least some students out there) to post course materials, as well as some grades and for some testing. However, the TAs and both professors have made comments that they really don't like the system because it is too hard to upload files and make changes.
Has I have known that all this info was availible online when I was applying to university programs, it probably would have helped me out a bit in choosing programs.
This is all I need... I just spent the better part of a day removing some SubSeven-like hax0r-expl0it thing that some guy installed on a friend's computer. And the person who thought she could remove it ended up ruining the uninstall. Of course given that I live in a university rez, this is going to make for some revenge and, because I'm "the computer guy", I will probably be quite busy. If these people start playing with VNC and other things beyond their (apparently limited) scope of understanding, I may never graduate!
Will the firmware be flashable to update to the latest codecs? I'm sure many have spent time wondering why their movies didn't work before learning that a new DivX codec was released and the newer videos are being encoded with it.
Uh.. a LOT of non-techie people use P2P. It's the only thing they know. To them, it's:
1. Download and install Kazaa/Morpheus/et al. 2. Search for and double-click the song. 3. Profit!!!
The spyware thing can't possibly be a deterant. Most average people don't know what it is to begin with. And I don't think a lot of your average users know how to browse FTP. Some can barely browse the Web. Of course there are the select few who have run across FTP while uploading their websites to Geocities or whatnot. If anything, your theory would be the other way around. The techies know of the alternatives and are sick of the spyware and the hassle. The non-techies are sick of going halfway through a download and having it die. To them, if this happens, their P2P client is just 'broken'.
Somehow I can't be tempted to follow instructions on modifying electrical components with the potency to electrocute me using instructions that refer to me as "u".
Actually, I'm taking engineering at Carleton University and we're using IntelliCAD. It's just about the same as AutoCAD from what I see, except it's free. It also opens.dwg files and whatnot.
12 years ago, in first grade I wanted to be a rocket scientist. Now I'm writing this post from my dorm room at Carleton University where I'm taking Aerospace Engineering. Dreams do come true! *wipe away tear*
The latest CD from The Tragically Hip (one of Canada's greatest bands and national music icons, though relatively unknown in the US) has the same concept. In every copy of the latest CD, In Violet Light, there's a membership card to The Hip Club (THC...). From what I've read, it gives you access to the 'Members Only' section of their website. On it, there's apparently live and unreleased demo tracks. I don't have the CD however. I haven't been able to drag myself to a music store. Maybe someone who has it can provide more details?
On Carleton U (Go Ravens) 's Resnet (from which I'm reading/. at this moment), all p2p applications are essentially blocked by the firewall, as are most incoming connections. I tried setting up Apache with some outlandish port number and nobody on the outside could see it. However, people on the inside could. Anyhow, on teh subject of file-swapping, some claim to have had limited success with the new Morpheus client. However, I prefer a nice little application called "MP3 Voyeur". (I don't have the URL, but Google for it.) It bascially scans all the open shares on the network for files having a certain extention that you specify (.mp3,.avi,.mpg,.doc etc) and lists them. You have the option of playing them from the source or opening the folder, making drag and drop simple. There are a fair bit of things on the network, so I'll be happy for the time being.
The advantage of this is that it frees up bandwidth for other things. I snared a Debian ISO in an hour or two, as well as downloading America's Army at a peak of 397kbps (>380 sustained). Of course, Sunday afternoon offers slower transfer speeds.
Been there, done that. The stewardesses didnt really pay attention to what I was doing, but I got a few odd looks from the people behind and next to me.:]
A friend of mine operates a robotic combat team, Indecision Robotics. His bot, Sudden Impact, has apparently won Robot Wars in the UK. Anyway, he has already come up with an "Antweight Highschool Curriculum", availible here.
I think that this idea is pretty cool. I would have loved to have a course in high school where I could rip things apart and build a bot like this. Guess I'll have to wait for my design project in my 4th year of Aerospace Engineering.
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In my numerical methods class, we were taught two different methods to solve a particular problem. While studying for the midterm, my friends and I only studied one of them because it was faster to solve in an exam. Sure enough, we opened the midterm and found "Solve this problem by the method 'foo'.", where "foo" is obviously the method we hadn't studied.
All of us tried to remember as best we could, but we all bombed it. All except my friend Chris. He remarked that the front of the paper said "Write down any assumptions you make." so he took out a black Sharpie, coloured in the part "by the method 'foo'." and wrote "assume these words do not exist" and proceeded to solve the problem by the other method. When the exams came back, he was awarded about 20% on that question, with the annotation "These are amusement marks. Normally you would have gotten 0."
All subsequent exams had "Write down and justify any assumptions you make."
Maybe now someone will be able to change the scrolling text on the gate screens at Munich when a flight is boarding.
"Your flight is ready. Thank you, and Goodbye."
"Goodbye" is not a good word to use in conjunction with boarding an aircraft.
So THAT'S what that's for! I got a Victorinox knife as a gift at the World Skills Competition in Switzerland and that hook was the only thing what's purpose I didn't understand. But I reasoned that since it was so bloody difficult to deploy, it wasn't that important anyway. There's no fingernail indentation to pull it out, so you kinda have to wiggle your nail under it and lift till you can get a finger under there, hoping all the while it won't just rip off your nail. Screw it, I'll just carry my parcels in my hands.
That's where engine noise comes in. We now have the technology to make aircraft cabins almost totally soundproof, but some engine noise is still allowed to enter. This is the reason the rabble of hundreds of passengers on a Boeing 747-400 doesn't drive you insane. You can hear people sitting around you, but the engine noise covers up most of the other voices.
Congrats.
When I was last in Montreal, my uncle brought me to King George Electronique in Longueuil. We spent hours looking at random crap. They had everything from 286 motherboards to ancient cell phones. 10,000sqft of pure bliss!
Anyone know of a place like this in or around Ottawa?
PI IS EXACTLY THREE!
I've met a guy on IRC who did this about a year and a half ago with SCSI RAID. An interesting side note: he recorded the noise it makes it on startup and just those disks spinning up makes it sound like a jet engine.
Remember what happened the last time an address was posted on /.?
Auto steering spring? I pulled that thing off my GT in the first few days I had it. First off, if I had to catch my toque from slowly slipping off my head, it would veer sharply, sending me rolling ass over teakettle down the rest of the hill. Second, when lugging it back up the hill with the tow rope (My GT was a later model and had a retratable pull rope. I don't know if this is a standard feature on the classic GT), it kept turning into the path of the slope. Third, it's a bitch when dad is towing you on this thing with a skidoo and the wheel slips. This is just like my first point, but at much higher speed. However, it IS all about the GT. And now that it's snowed here in Ottawa, I feel like going down to one of the engineering labs and building myself a GT adapted to my 6 foot frame. If you'll excuse me...
Here at Carleton, they recently killed all IRC connections in residence. I complained to Campus Computing Services and the Residence Association, but to no avail. From their point of view, IRC was taking up too much bandwidth from download hogs, so they killed everything. Now the only way I can connect with people back home is to use my shell provided by the good folks at The Engsoc Project. Monitor your situation, and don't let them end up like us.
Carleton University does this. Some courses have some generic info on the professor's personal webpage, while others have detailed schedules and assignments (including assignments and solutions from years past). The level of this varies from prof to prof as some are not the most computer litterate.
An example of everything online is my "Problem solving and Computers for Engineers" class. The course site is here. A somewhat less helpful site is my mechanics prof's site, here.
However, some of my classes use WebCT (should be familiar to at least some students out there) to post course materials, as well as some grades and for some testing. However, the TAs and both professors have made comments that they really don't like the system because it is too hard to upload files and make changes. Has I have known that all this info was availible online when I was applying to university programs, it probably would have helped me out a bit in choosing programs.
And I thought my residence bandwidth sucked now...
This is all I need... I just spent the better part of a day removing some SubSeven-like hax0r-expl0it thing that some guy installed on a friend's computer. And the person who thought she could remove it ended up ruining the uninstall. Of course given that I live in a university rez, this is going to make for some revenge and, because I'm "the computer guy", I will probably be quite busy. If these people start playing with VNC and other things beyond their (apparently limited) scope of understanding, I may never graduate!
Will the firmware be flashable to update to the latest codecs? I'm sure many have spent time wondering why their movies didn't work before learning that a new DivX codec was released and the newer videos are being encoded with it.
Uh.. a LOT of non-techie people use P2P. It's the only thing they know. To them, it's:
1. Download and install Kazaa/Morpheus/et al.
2. Search for and double-click the song.
3. Profit!!!
The spyware thing can't possibly be a deterant. Most average people don't know what it is to begin with. And I don't think a lot of your average users know how to browse FTP. Some can barely browse the Web. Of course there are the select few who have run across FTP while uploading their websites to Geocities or whatnot. If anything, your theory would be the other way around. The techies know of the alternatives and are sick of the spyware and the hassle. The non-techies are sick of going halfway through a download and having it die. To them, if this happens, their P2P client is just 'broken'.
Everyone knows engineering chicks have significant figures. Plus, no couple enjoy a better moment.
Somehow I can't be tempted to follow instructions on modifying electrical components with the potency to electrocute me using instructions that refer to me as "u".
Actually, I'm taking engineering at Carleton University and we're using IntelliCAD. It's just about the same as AutoCAD from what I see, except it's free. It also opens .dwg files and whatnot.
12 years ago, in first grade I wanted to be a rocket scientist. Now I'm writing this post from my dorm room at Carleton University where I'm taking Aerospace Engineering. Dreams do come true! *wipe away tear*
The latest CD from The Tragically Hip (one of Canada's greatest bands and national music icons, though relatively unknown in the US) has the same concept. In every copy of the latest CD, In Violet Light, there's a membership card to The Hip Club (THC...). From what I've read, it gives you access to the 'Members Only' section of their website. On it, there's apparently live and unreleased demo tracks. I don't have the CD however. I haven't been able to drag myself to a music store. Maybe someone who has it can provide more details?
On Carleton U (Go Ravens) 's Resnet (from which I'm reading /. at this moment), all p2p applications are essentially blocked by the firewall, as are most incoming connections. I tried setting up Apache with some outlandish port number and nobody on the outside could see it. However, people on the inside could. Anyhow, on teh subject of file-swapping, some claim to have had limited success with the new Morpheus client. However, I prefer a nice little application called "MP3 Voyeur". (I don't have the URL, but Google for it.) It bascially scans all the open shares on the network for files having a certain extention that you specify (.mp3, .avi, .mpg, .doc etc) and lists them. You have the option of playing them from the source or opening the folder, making drag and drop simple. There are a fair bit of things on the network, so I'll be happy for the time being.
The advantage of this is that it frees up bandwidth for other things. I snared a Debian ISO in an hour or two, as well as downloading America's Army at a peak of 397kbps (>380 sustained). Of course, Sunday afternoon offers slower transfer speeds.
Been there, done that. The stewardesses didnt really pay attention to what I was doing, but I got a few odd looks from the people behind and next to me. :]
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A friend of mine operates a robotic combat team, Indecision Robotics. His bot, Sudden Impact, has apparently won Robot Wars in the UK. Anyway, he has already come up with an "Antweight Highschool Curriculum", availible here.
I think that this idea is pretty cool. I would have loved to have a course in high school where I could rip things apart and build a bot like this. Guess I'll have to wait for my design project in my 4th year of Aerospace Engineering.