There are always exceptions. For my example, I suffer from mental illness and have since the age of 15. My high school grades were terrible- something like 2.3. Now that I'm an Electrical Engineering Major at a prominent US University, my GPA after being a sophomore is about 3.4. Yes, in many cases high school grades reflect accurately on who will study and do their work, but there are a lot of people like me who see this much differently. The only reason I got into a decent school was my ACT score- a 34. Not only that, but I was in the gifted and talented program at our school because of my standardized test scores. My grades in elementary school were great as well as in Junior High.
In my experience, Junior high (grades 7-8) were the best predictor of how someone would do in college. Things start to change when you get older and start to find out your genetics are not as perfect as you would like.
Why do you think Chinese goods are so much cheaper? The Chinese economy has posted record gains year after year, and they have staggering amounts of foreign investment. They continue to industrialize at a breakneck speed. Under any capitalist society, their currency's value should have skyrocketed by now; if anything, they should be dealing with inflation problems because their economy is growing so fast. But they're not, because they keep the value of the yuan artificially low, essentially dicking the rest of the world over in the process. That is why Chinese goods are so cheap. Japan and S. Korea experienced similar booms, but their products got more expensive as time passed, because their currencies were determined by the free market. China's essentially cheating, but due to their size and their strategic importance, there's not much we can do about it.
Thank you parent for a good post. I wanted to reiterate that China uses US Treasury Bonds to keep its currency regulated. Every time China buys more treasuries, the dollar goes down. Every time the dollar goes down, China has to buy more treasuries to subsidize its currency. This policy really got its start in the 1990's when the US dollar was extremely strong vs other currencies. Since then, the dollar has seen a steady decline in value year over year. There's a few months of lag in the process of devaluation. Strangely enough inflation on the US dollar is relatively low.
If China could get more exports from the EU, they would likely pick the Euro should they try to do this economic experiment again. Similarly, the Euro's value would gradually go down as a result of China's monetary policy. China can't change currencies now since they've invested their economy in the US dollar and adding another currency could destabilize their already dangerous position.
A dean at Iowa State said he 'thought society was no longer looking at higher education as a common good but rather as a way for individuals to increase their earning power.'
I go to ISU and am in their EE program. We have lost two professors in the past few years, one very good and the other was a little late to retire (that's putting it nicely). In any case, the school seems more intent on renovating their older buildings rather than get qualified people to teach more advanced classes.
As far as I know, ComS is getting new talent in at a good rate, which is good for computer engineers, but the rest of us are getting hosed. There's a huge student:faculty ratio here that bumped us from top 15 in newsweek to somewhere much lower and the University isn't helping. There's a lot of sentiment that Engineers get preferential treatment among the other students because the cost of the technology (MATLAB, Cadence, AutoCAD, etc.) is so high and it generates a lot of ill will toward engineering students. I saw this happen at work when a recent college grad tried to egg me on because I was in the Engineering cirruculum during an internship last year.
Our engineering school is slowly bleeding itself to death, and the students are not to blame. Administration needs to get off their collective burocratic assets and start hiring new people to replace the professors we are losing. I know ChemE lost/is going to lose two very good professors, Martha Russell and Robert Angelici due to retirement. They don't have anyone lined up to take their place. I related this to my French professor who told me (In French), "It is the duty of an older University to teach the students rather than to be greedy." Professors are really p!ssed off at the administration, and the administration doesn't care. I am not going to Iowa State for graduate school, I would much perfer some place like Michigan, if I do not already transfer there (will lose some credits). There, at least, they have some really good people in their program who I know of.
Not only is tuition a problem, but campus housing is terrible, our meal plans are so bad I ate out when I was on them, and I am very dissappointed with the entire system. Financially the University is throwing money at problems that the general public does not know about. I wonder if we will ever regain our position as one of the nation's best engineering schools, and I seriously doubt it now.
This guy seems to be spending more time posting on his blog and reacting to the fireworks rather than getting his bug reporting done. Even if this is a proven malware app, the poster acts more like a script-kiddie and less like a researcher.
it's:
There's no place like ~/ I'm sorry but it just doesn't make sense to say "there's no place like localhost," but then again I do *NIX not windows so maybe home is in documents and settings there?
I know this has less appeal, but this is more technically correct:
There's no place like "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME"
/* *you forgot to include: *class Concete throws alcohol, drugs, sex *The following is an example of how you would use these in the CSStudent Class: /*<snip>*/
CSStudent stud = new CSStudent("University");
/*<snip>*/
try { stud.grad("New CS Degree"); } catch (BeerException b) { stud.delayGrad(b.amount); System.err.println("Graduation slowed by " + b.amount + " years"); } catch (DrugException lsd) { stud.delayGrad(lsd.brainOverload); System.err.println("Overdose"); exit 1; } catch(PregnancyException p) { Girlfriend g = new GirlFriend("any"); Infant i = new Infant();
System.err.println(p.value + " was an accident! I swear it's not mine!"); g.i( ChildSupportClass court = new ChildSupport() { court.setPayments(); court.messyBreakupWithGirlfriend(g); } ); Canada c = new Canada(); this.goto(c); } ///list other exceptions here...... }
//And that's only if their main programming language is Java!!
Seriously, I wouldn't have expected/. to showcase a piece of hardware that only really appeals to Gamers who want to win this upgrade pissing contest every six months or so.
Obligatory: You must be new here.:-)
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With the iPhone release coming soon there is no shortage of stories being submitted. No shortage?! That's a gross understatement. I think I have just been convinced by this latest iPhone plug that things are going overboard.
We know the features, we know the controversy, we know EVERYTHING.
And we know slashdot. It's only a matter of time before someone says:
Your critisizms are valid but how do you know you don't get an iPhone's serial number, mac address, and all that other information when it's docked/syncing/calling you? It's not an SDK, probably something Apple already built as a diagnostic for iPhone. I can't see how Apple's internal development on iPhone could work if it didn't have at least the majority of the support features you are talking about. Apple had to mass produce millions of these devices and give them all software updates relatively quickly in order to meet their deadline, they must be a way (maybe a backdoor;-) into iPhone.
who bought these? i don't know anyone in the uk who has a zune.. for that matter i don't know anyone who has even SEEN a zune. did ms employees buy these at a knock-down rate?
It's like Balmer = Mickael Jackson. They both put out bad products but buy their own products to make their sales look good. I know! Balmer could get a custom built chair made completely of Zunes! That's how he'll use them....
I would like to correct you on this- the most famous line never uttered:
This somehow remembers me some cute Maire Antoinette saying on pre-revolution days: "if there's no bread, let them eat cake!"
Brush up on your French history. Marie Antoinette was killed by radical French people who cared nothing but for power and to stay alive. After learning about her and King Louis's executions a huge uproar of anger insued with the Kingdoms of Europe, and the madness was finally brought to an end when a coalition army threatened to burn Paris to the ground.
This is normail behavior. Mac OS X had to rebuild its kernel extension cache and also had to load in new kexts, redo the prebinding, permissions, etc. Just like MS wants you to restart after installing every little piece of software, Apple wants you to do it whenever you make modifications to the system.
For those not doing the math, at 24 episodes/season thats roughly $50 per season.
If you plan to watch the entire season, I suggest you buy the "Season Pass," which is significantly cheaper than buying all the episodes one by one. It's your money, if iTunes offers a cheaper way and you've been spending your money badly, that is certainly not Apple's fault.
Just one quick note on the French word for "spam"-
"spam" is a correct term in idiomatic langage. The parent cites a word very few French speaking people. It Switzerland, Quebec, and other French-speaking places, the email is known as "spam" or "undesirable mail" to common people.
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In my experience, Junior high (grades 7-8) were the best predictor of how someone would do in college. Things start to change when you get older and start to find out your genetics are not as perfect as you would like.
If China could get more exports from the EU, they would likely pick the Euro should they try to do this economic experiment again. Similarly, the Euro's value would gradually go down as a result of China's monetary policy. China can't change currencies now since they've invested their economy in the US dollar and adding another currency could destabilize their already dangerous position.
No, that's Janet Reno
As far as I know, ComS is getting new talent in at a good rate, which is good for computer engineers, but the rest of us are getting hosed. There's a huge student:faculty ratio here that bumped us from top 15 in newsweek to somewhere much lower and the University isn't helping. There's a lot of sentiment that Engineers get preferential treatment among the other students because the cost of the technology (MATLAB, Cadence, AutoCAD, etc.) is so high and it generates a lot of ill will toward engineering students. I saw this happen at work when a recent college grad tried to egg me on because I was in the Engineering cirruculum during an internship last year.
Our engineering school is slowly bleeding itself to death, and the students are not to blame. Administration needs to get off their collective burocratic assets and start hiring new people to replace the professors we are losing. I know ChemE lost/is going to lose two very good professors, Martha Russell and Robert Angelici due to retirement. They don't have anyone lined up to take their place. I related this to my French professor who told me (In French), "It is the duty of an older University to teach the students rather than to be greedy." Professors are really p!ssed off at the administration, and the administration doesn't care. I am not going to Iowa State for graduate school, I would much perfer some place like Michigan, if I do not already transfer there (will lose some credits). There, at least, they have some really good people in their program who I know of.
Not only is tuition a problem, but campus housing is terrible, our meal plans are so bad I ate out when I was on them, and I am very dissappointed with the entire system. Financially the University is throwing money at problems that the general public does not know about. I wonder if we will ever regain our position as one of the nation's best engineering schools, and I seriously doubt it now.
This guy seems to be spending more time posting on his blog and reacting to the fireworks rather than getting his bug reporting done. Even if this is a proven malware app, the poster acts more like a script-kiddie and less like a researcher.
There's no place like ~/
I'm sorry but it just doesn't make sense to say "there's no place like localhost," but then again I do *NIX not windows so maybe home is in documents and settings there?
I know this has less appeal, but this is more technically correct:
There's no place like "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME"
/*
*you forgot to include:
*class Concete throws alcohol, drugs, sex
*The following is an example of how you would use these in the CSStudent Class:
/*<snip>*/
CSStudent stud = new CSStudent("University");
/*<snip>*/
try {
stud.grad("New CS Degree");
}
catch (BeerException b) {
stud.delayGrad(b.amount);
System.err.println("Graduation slowed by " + b.amount + " years");
}
catch (DrugException lsd) {
stud.delayGrad(lsd.brainOverload);
System.err.println("Overdose");
exit 1;
}
catch(PregnancyException p) {
Girlfriend g = new GirlFriend("any");
Infant i = new Infant();
System.err.println(p.value + " was an accident! I swear it's not mine!");
g.i(
ChildSupportClass court = new ChildSupport() {
court.setPayments();
court.messyBreakupWithGirlfriend(g);
}
);
Canada c = new Canada();
this.goto(c);
}
///list other exceptions here......
}
//And that's only if their main programming language is Java!!
You must be new here.
OMG iPhones!!!
let the slashdot magic begin...
Your critisizms are valid but how do you know you don't get an iPhone's serial number, mac address, and all that other information when it's docked/syncing/calling you? It's not an SDK, probably something Apple already built as a diagnostic for iPhone. I can't see how Apple's internal development on iPhone could work if it didn't have at least the majority of the support features you are talking about. Apple had to mass produce millions of these devices and give them all software updates relatively quickly in order to meet their deadline, they must be a way (maybe a backdoor ;-) into iPhone.
Amen. Nicely put, too. Paris works with people who get get content out. So what if BitTorrent is full of OMG PARIS HILTON XXXX!!!
The Southpark quote above needs "Stupid Whore" to the end.
apple, security (tagging beta)
When will Taco flip the switch to turn that off? We've been in beta for what seems like over a year.
In Soviet Russia the sites script the overlords!
And by golly Apple earned it, even after some of the tech industry's most important commontators doomed it to failure. Never Forget.
For those of you without a sarcasm meter that was sarcasm. :-)
It's like Balmer = Mickael Jackson. They both put out bad products but buy their own products to make their sales look good. I know! Balmer could get a custom built chair made completely of Zunes! That's how he'll use them....
This somehow remembers me some cute Maire Antoinette saying on pre-revolution days: "if there's no bread, let them eat cake!"
Brush up on your French history. Marie Antoinette was killed by radical French people who cared nothing but for power and to stay alive. After learning about her and King Louis's executions a huge uproar of anger insued with the Kingdoms of Europe, and the madness was finally brought to an end when a coalition army threatened to burn Paris to the ground.
This is normail behavior. Mac OS X had to rebuild its kernel extension cache and also had to load in new kexts, redo the prebinding, permissions, etc. Just like MS wants you to restart after installing every little piece of software, Apple wants you to do it whenever you make modifications to the system.
I'm surprised there hasn't been a Zune add-on for their "squirt" feature....
If you plan to watch the entire season, I suggest you buy the "Season Pass," which is significantly cheaper than buying all the episodes one by one. It's your money, if iTunes offers a cheaper way and you've been spending your money badly, that is certainly not Apple's fault.
"spam" is a correct term in idiomatic langage. The parent cites a word very few French speaking people. It Switzerland, Quebec, and other French-speaking places, the email is known as "spam" or "undesirable mail" to common people.
Please see this thread (if you can read French) for more info
We want to make it legal for policemen to beat 'em!
...And if Ted Kennedy gets in my way, I'll say that he's gay.
-The Simpsons
I forgot Obi-wan. Sorry, he was also in all six films (but portrayed by different actors)
R2D2 is the only "character" that apears in all six starwars movies (C3PO doesn't count in episode one, he was under construction)