all 30,000+ purdue students can login to a unix shell (via telnet/ssh/pc-xware), and that works without a problem. Only students in certain classes (CS courses, mainly) have access to the labs where all the Sun machines are.
"The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off" - Eric Idle
A bike that gets ridden to class will get left outside in the wind and rain and snow, will pick up some rust, and so on. It's going to get used for junk purposes, so I say don't invest too much money, and just get a junk bike. It's not a situation where you worry about components. Most of the people I know that ride to class, the only time they ride is when going to/from class.
And of the people I know that do ride for fun, he bike they ride for fun isn't the bike they ride to class. They've got a junk bike for class, and leave it ouside, and also a nice (expensive) bike they keep in their rooms. You never put a lock onto a trek2000 (or better bike) because it should never been a place where it needs a lock. It's under your butt or it's in your room.
If she's the type of person that will ride on the weekends, she'd already have her own bike to take. I guess I was just refering to someone that doesn't normally ride. And again, it's only useful on a large campus like Purdue, or if they're living in an apartment a ways away from campus.
So that's why I say, going to/from class is a junk purpose which needs a junk bike. You're free to disagree. Just my opinion.
My first semester freshman engineering class was all about Matlab, so buying a copy of that (or whatever software package they teach in her studies) would be useful. Of cousre, that's only a good idea if they aren't allowed to buy software at a discounted price.
If she's in an apartment, you can always use more dishes/cookware. Food is also good.
Or Tae-bo tapes, or running shoes, something along that line. Many students don't get any exercise, so get something to push her away from the frosh 15 (I lost 3 pounds freshman year:-P).
I've found that a bike to ride to class is very useful (I go to a large university, mind you). A $100 wal-mart bike would do for that (get a lock, too).
Ok, all I can think of.
Personally, I'm warry of joining up with people that I only know via the internet. But Fark has plenty of fark parties and no one seems to complain about those. Whatever.
Yes, all very excellent ideas, and ones we would have like to use. However:
We were not given a rotational sensor.
When we did the mazes, there were 4 different courses. Two had a black line (on white floor) to follow, another one had a black dashed line to follow. Those mazes were fairly easy to follow.
With the second project, getting them to assigned spots on the floor in assigned times, no lines at all. We put white marks on the black tires and held a light sensor over each wheel, and were theoretically able to measure distance in units of 1/6 wheel circumference, but it didn't work well (wheels slip, etc.), and got even worse on the turns.
At my school, we used lego mindstorms for class projects. This was for honors freshman engineering classes. In the first semester class (a general engineering education class), we had to make them go through a maze, using the lego programming language. In the second semester class, a C/FORTRAN programming class, we had to make them go to assigned spots in specified amounts of times, programming them in C. Certainly wasn't easy. Biggest problem was that the lego parts weren't dependable to perform the same every time.
They only have to release the source if they release the binaries. And I don't think our government is in the business of selling secrets. Well, atleast I hope not.
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check it out here (.mpg file)
They told us to put a potted plant infront of the keyboard and see if the program would still function properly.
If you know enough to run this, don't you also know enough not to use AOL (icon at top of screen)
I think you mean triple-click, not quadruple (quoth the IE6/Win2k user)
Let's try these models instead.
Let's get the models up there to fix it.
and would have also made me a lot happier:
Starbucks files for chapter 11.
all 30,000+ purdue students can login to a unix shell (via telnet/ssh/pc-xware), and that works without a problem. Only students in certain classes (CS courses, mainly) have access to the labs where all the Sun machines are.
"The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off" - Eric Idle
I've never used it myself, so I don't actually have an opinion, but here's what some other people think about paypal. Just incase you haven't heard other people's horror stories already.
You just make a movie about the situation, then collect all the profits.
A bike that gets ridden to class will get left outside in the wind and rain and snow, will pick up some rust, and so on. It's going to get used for junk purposes, so I say don't invest too much money, and just get a junk bike. It's not a situation where you worry about components. Most of the people I know that ride to class, the only time they ride is when going to/from class. And of the people I know that do ride for fun, he bike they ride for fun isn't the bike they ride to class. They've got a junk bike for class, and leave it ouside, and also a nice (expensive) bike they keep in their rooms. You never put a lock onto a trek2000 (or better bike) because it should never been a place where it needs a lock. It's under your butt or it's in your room. If she's the type of person that will ride on the weekends, she'd already have her own bike to take. I guess I was just refering to someone that doesn't normally ride. And again, it's only useful on a large campus like Purdue, or if they're living in an apartment a ways away from campus. So that's why I say, going to/from class is a junk purpose which needs a junk bike. You're free to disagree. Just my opinion.
At least give her the thought of going to morning classes (I've only missed one class cause of not waking up)
Bible, or bible-study-guide, or some type of book. Of course it depends on your and her religious lifestyle.
My first semester freshman engineering class was all about Matlab, so buying a copy of that (or whatever software package they teach in her studies) would be useful. Of cousre, that's only a good idea if they aren't allowed to buy software at a discounted price. If she's in an apartment, you can always use more dishes/cookware. Food is also good. Or Tae-bo tapes, or running shoes, something along that line. Many students don't get any exercise, so get something to push her away from the frosh 15 (I lost 3 pounds freshman year :-P).
I've found that a bike to ride to class is very useful (I go to a large university, mind you). A $100 wal-mart bike would do for that (get a lock, too).
Ok, all I can think of.
Personally, I'm warry of joining up with people that I only know via the internet. But Fark has plenty of fark parties and no one seems to complain about those. Whatever.
Yes, all very excellent ideas, and ones we would have like to use. However:
We were not given a rotational sensor.
When we did the mazes, there were 4 different courses. Two had a black line (on white floor) to follow, another one had a black dashed line to follow. Those mazes were fairly easy to follow.
With the second project, getting them to assigned spots on the floor in assigned times, no lines at all. We put white marks on the black tires and held a light sensor over each wheel, and were theoretically able to measure distance in units of 1/6 wheel circumference, but it didn't work well (wheels slip, etc.), and got even worse on the turns.
At my school, we used lego mindstorms for class projects. This was for honors freshman engineering classes. In the first semester class (a general engineering education class), we had to make them go through a maze, using the lego programming language. In the second semester class, a C/FORTRAN programming class, we had to make them go to assigned spots in specified amounts of times, programming them in C. Certainly wasn't easy. Biggest problem was that the lego parts weren't dependable to perform the same every time.
They only have to release the source if they release the binaries. And I don't think our government is in the business of selling secrets. Well, atleast I hope not.
I can't believe that being a Pointy Haired Boss didn't make the list. Whodathunkit?...
That episode was on tonight, ironically enough (on the syndicated version, in my area, atleast)
and isn't security by obscurity a horribly way of writing software?
Apparently, they don't wany any of the current college student, future astronauts to take this on. No way anyone in college could afford it.