Use a spiral notebook and a pen to jot down lecture notes as the traditional way. If simple illustrations are presented either on a blackboard or projection, go ahead and copy them down into the spiral notebook.
The above should work fine for most classes. With some exceptions, if you think you need a computer to 'type your notes faster than hand-writting them', you might be trying to take too many notes.
If you're taking a class like my Microprocessor Applications course where lots of code is presented that is useful in the labs, a good digital camera comes very handy. Instead of trying to handcopy the code, take a picture of the projection (obviously, with the flash off). I'm able to manage at least 1/100 shutter speed, 1/160+ IIRC so it's not too prone to camera shake. For each picture you take, indicate you've done so in your spiral notebook.
When you're done for the day, download any photo-notes to the laptop, and review your hand-written notes with them. If for some reason you wanted to archive your handwritten notes to the laptop, you could transcribe them or take pictures of them.
If you can swing it, get a second battery with your laptop for longer mobility. Other things to look for are 'legacy ports' (parallel, serial). Many new notebooks don't come with serial port, (although you could buy a PCMCIA/serial adapter) and I've seen some lacking the parallel port. You should consider these if your area of study involves using development boards.
only five huh? Let's use some trusty MUXes! Have the five main outputs connected to a 5:31 (i think that's right) MUX, with those 31 outputs hooked to 1:2 Mux.
Pretty soon Verison's TXT messaging will be replaced with the new-and-improved DOC messaging. Not only can you now send messages to your friends about how bad Gigli the movie was, you can include a comparison table and charts!
yea, but nevertheless MS has taken the AutoPlay feature too far IMO. If you insert a CD that autostarts the program or installer, that's okay.
Whenever I have to use an XP box at the university, any data CD, zip, or key-drive thats loaded into the computer which has a directory of picures brings up a "this media has pictures...how do you want to open it?" prompt. I always end up hitting cancel, but whatever happened to "let me put the media in and don't get in my way"
In Gnome 2.4 if you right-click and hit "rename..." by default only the part of the filename to the left of the extension is highlighted so that you can start typing immediately without having to shift the cursor away from the extension you don't want to change. IMO, that's one thing Gnome has over windows UI, which is great b/c Gnome doesn't require the use of extensions. Probably irrevelant on MacOSX since they don't use extensions...AFAIK.
Used to be if you wanted to find a file real fast under windows, you'd hit WINDOWS+F to pullup the find window, enter in your search query, and Go.
Now if you're in front of an XP machine and want to find say...all the pictures on the system you can't just enter in "*.JPG" anymore. You have to read what some animated dog is asking you, click on one of the options before you get to the search query window, then enter in the query. doesn't sound like much of a hassle, but it IS an extra step.
It's good to know assembly to understand the operations of a computer, but assembly isn't practical for production use. You could design your system with a specific microcontroller and write your microcode with assembly. But if for some reason you have to change chips, you may have to re-write your code. On the flip side, if you used C or some other portable language, you could compile it to other chips...perhaps with just a few chip-specific changes.
perhaps you might be too old or too young to have heard of it, but remember the Victory over Violence campaign? Has V/V stopped kids from kicking each other's butts? Or reduced "violence" in television programs?
not to serve as an inviation for any, but I don't get spam in my primary email address, and maybe just a few in my free web-based email that go to the "bulk folder"...which is far from what the media and everyone proclaims how bad spam is. If you're haphazardly posting your email address in public forums, websites, contests, etc etc then you probably get spammed a lot. Just be careful who/where you give out your email address, and if you do get any spam, don't load the images (or any HTML content for that matter), and certainly don't click on the "remove from list" link.
someone in the EE lab at my university brought in a really old audio recorder yesterday. It recorded onto wire, which he also brought in. I don't remember how hold he said it was, but to date it I noticed it had a tiny light bulb as the "power light"...so apperently predates transistors and LEDs.
I haven't kept up with the latest GPU models, but if it's a 9000 chip, it should be advertised as such. If it's a 9000 chip that's pumped up to give similar results to a 9200, it should be indicated as such. ATI could have called it a 9200+, 9200 Mobility, or some other indication. It's misleading to advertise it as a bona-fide 9200.
Can someone link a old Pioneer car audio tv commercial? It had some dude rockin' in his car on a shaking bridge Tacoma-Narrows style and after he realizes his stereo is causing the shaking he turns off his stereo and says "uh...sorry"
When I was shopping for a notebook at Circuit City, I asked the sales lady* if I could boot up a Knoppix Linux CD so see how well it ran. She obviously didn't know what I was talking about, and even after I told her that it would run completely off the CD and not affect the HD at all, she prefered that I didn't.
I ended up buying the notebook anyway a few days later after doing a bit of research on the built-in hardware. When I bought it, the sales lady apprently asked someone about Knoppix and said it would have been okay for me to run it. Although I didn't have the CD on me that day. All the hardware included on this notebook works fine with Linux.
*If the notebook wasn't locked up in an anti-theft device that blocked access to the CD drive, I would have ran Knoppix without asking, then explain what I was doing if someone noticed.
The movie industry, by comparison, estimates that it has at least 18 months before high-speed Internet access and high-capacity hard drives make grabbing a movie almost as quick and easy as grabbing a song.
Do they mean there will come a day when one can download a 700MB Linux iso in less than 5 minutes? If my math is correct that's a 2333.3 kbps download speed!
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.cockeyed.com/pranks/safeway/ultimate_sh opper.html
That's the guy you were probalby talking about. "Together we might amass a profile of the single greatest shopper in the history of mankind."
well, you can have a Linux box brew coffee for you:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Coffee.html
and I bet you can use a 486 with 8MB RAM for it.
what about a mouse that has an actual tail on it?
I'd hate having to smell hundreds of cans of SPAM each day doing through and deleting junk email. ...unless if I was hungry that day..
Use a spiral notebook and a pen to jot down lecture notes as the traditional way. If simple illustrations are presented either on a blackboard or projection, go ahead and copy them down into the spiral notebook.
The above should work fine for most classes. With some exceptions, if you think you need a computer to 'type your notes faster than hand-writting them', you might be trying to take too many notes.
If you're taking a class like my Microprocessor Applications course where lots of code is presented that is useful in the labs, a good digital camera comes very handy. Instead of trying to handcopy the code, take a picture of the projection (obviously, with the flash off). I'm able to manage at least 1/100 shutter speed, 1/160+ IIRC so it's not too prone to camera shake. For each picture you take, indicate you've done so in your spiral notebook.
When you're done for the day, download any photo-notes to the laptop, and review your hand-written notes with them. If for some reason you wanted to archive your handwritten notes to the laptop, you could transcribe them or take pictures of them.
If you can swing it, get a second battery with your laptop for longer mobility. Other things to look for are 'legacy ports' (parallel, serial). Many new notebooks don't come with serial port, (although you could buy a PCMCIA/serial adapter) and I've seen some lacking the parallel port. You should consider these if your area of study involves using development boards.
only five huh? Let's use some trusty MUXes! Have the five main outputs connected to a 5:31 (i think that's right) MUX, with those 31 outputs hooked to 1:2 Mux.
Auditions for Homer will be held in the cafeteria tomorrow.
[gasp, and hats fly to the ceiling]
Oh, and the air conditioner will be fixed.
Pretty soon Verison's TXT messaging will be replaced with the new-and-improved DOC messaging. Not only can you now send messages to your friends about how bad Gigli the movie was, you can include a comparison table and charts!
yea, but nevertheless MS has taken the AutoPlay feature too far IMO. If you insert a CD that autostarts the program or installer, that's okay.
Whenever I have to use an XP box at the university, any data CD, zip, or key-drive thats loaded into the computer which has a directory of picures brings up a "this media has pictures...how do you want to open it?" prompt. I always end up hitting cancel, but whatever happened to "let me put the media in and don't get in my way"
In Gnome 2.4 if you right-click and hit "rename..." by default only the part of the filename to the left of the extension is highlighted so that you can start typing immediately without having to shift the cursor away from the extension you don't want to change. IMO, that's one thing Gnome has over windows UI, which is great b/c Gnome doesn't require the use of extensions. Probably irrevelant on MacOSX since they don't use extensions...AFAIK.
Used to be if you wanted to find a file real fast under windows, you'd hit WINDOWS+F to pullup the find window, enter in your search query, and Go.
Now if you're in front of an XP machine and want to find say...all the pictures on the system you can't just enter in "*.JPG" anymore. You have to read what some animated dog is asking you, click on one of the options before you get to the search query window, then enter in the query. doesn't sound like much of a hassle, but it IS an extra step.
It's good to know assembly to understand the operations of a computer, but assembly isn't practical for production use. You could design your system with a specific microcontroller and write your microcode with assembly. But if for some reason you have to change chips, you may have to re-write your code. On the flip side, if you used C or some other portable language, you could compile it to other chips...perhaps with just a few chip-specific changes.
http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/productv iew.jhtml?sku=SI488CB2
Maybe someone could put the linux machine with the Personal Cooling System.
perhaps you might be too old or too young to have heard of it, but remember the Victory over Violence campaign? Has V/V stopped kids from kicking each other's butts? Or reduced "violence" in television programs?
not to serve as an inviation for any, but I don't get spam in my primary email address, and maybe just a few in my free web-based email that go to the "bulk folder" ...which is far from what the media and everyone proclaims how bad spam is. If you're haphazardly posting your email address in public forums, websites, contests, etc etc then you probably get spammed a lot. Just be careful who/where you give out your email address, and if you do get any spam, don't load the images (or any HTML content for that matter), and certainly don't click on the "remove from list" link.
Here's a picture of the recorder: http://www.videointerchange.com/wire_recorder1.htm
someone in the EE lab at my university brought in a really old audio recorder yesterday. It recorded onto wire, which he also brought in. I don't remember how hold he said it was, but to date it I noticed it had a tiny light bulb as the "power light"...so apperently predates transistors and LEDs.
perhaps Nintendo will venture out and use fuel cells.
:/
hmm...kids and alcohol.
int cent = 1;
double double_cent = new double(cent);
System.out.println(double_cent);
Uh....I think it comes out to:
1.00000000000000000 cent
I haven't kept up with the latest GPU models, but if it's a 9000 chip, it should be advertised as such. If it's a 9000 chip that's pumped up to give similar results to a 9200, it should be indicated as such. ATI could have called it a 9200+, 9200 Mobility, or some other indication. It's misleading to advertise it as a bona-fide 9200.
Can someone link a old Pioneer car audio tv commercial? It had some dude rockin' in his car on a shaking bridge Tacoma-Narrows style and after he realizes his stereo is causing the shaking he turns off his stereo and says "uh...sorry"
Any mention of full CSS compatability?
When I was shopping for a notebook at Circuit City, I asked the sales lady* if I could boot up a Knoppix Linux CD so see how well it ran. She obviously didn't know what I was talking about, and even after I told her that it would run completely off the CD and not affect the HD at all, she prefered that I didn't.
I ended up buying the notebook anyway a few days later after doing a bit of research on the built-in hardware. When I bought it, the sales lady apprently asked someone about Knoppix and said it would have been okay for me to run it. Although I didn't have the CD on me that day. All the hardware included on this notebook works fine with Linux.
*If the notebook wasn't locked up in an anti-theft device that blocked access to the CD drive, I would have ran Knoppix without asking, then explain what I was doing if someone noticed.
No...it should cost $699
The movie industry, by comparison, estimates that it has at least 18 months before high-speed Internet access and high-capacity hard drives make grabbing a movie almost as quick and easy as grabbing a song.
Do they mean there will come a day when one can download a 700MB Linux iso in less than 5 minutes? If my math is correct that's a 2333.3 kbps download speed!