Its not that hard to get a business license. Go down to you conuntn cler/recorders office, fill out a one page form pay 10 or 15 dollars and voila you got a business license.
I had a business license when i was 13. Hey it was pre dot com boom time and i made some money making cheesy web sites
i also agree the cs != programming but for a computer scientist code is the language you speak to precisely express your ideas. Just like being a lawyer is not speaking legalese, and being a doctor is not just about knowing all the names of our body parts and names of medicines. However a doctor who says "hey hand me the knifey thinging and hold that red squishy thing there behind the other red squishy thing and stop that red stuff from spraying all over" during surgery is not going to be a doctor for much longer neither will a computer scientist who can't write c or java (languages are only example i am making no claims about superority of any language)or at least have enough expereince in languages to pick it up right away be a computer scientist for much longer.
The particular choice of language is not relevant as long as it allows you to express what you need too, In fact most of the time when designing an algorithm pusedo code (of course all our pusedo code is almost C ) is a the way to do it, and later choose whatever language you feel can best express the algorithm. By your senior year you should be able to pick up any language and be functional within a day or two. Right now i feel comfortable with c/c++, java, perl, sparc asm, oberon (i am writing an oberon compiler), sql. But i dont know a thing about (ok maybe a few things but..) C#, python, php, or visual basic. But i know that if tommorow my professor said i want you to write an application that does x and use C#, I could grab a book look up the basic syntax and language features, and avaialble libraries and be on my way. Dont get me wrong i am not saying i can be an overnight expert in C#, but can be functional overnight.
I think some people have problems coding because it looks like english but its symantics are very mathmatical and the state of the public education system at least here in the us is not very strong on mathmatics, and many kids leave high school heading to college who barely survied two years of algebra and maybe a geometry course ( worse for some not headed to college) and believing that they have seen the highest levels of math they ever will need. Well sorry thats not the case.
even if the link is unencrypted i doubt the protocool is open. Who knows what type of modulation, coding, protocool, and commands they are using. I know security through obscurity is not an answer but i think in this case it would take much longer than the usable life of the rover to figure out how all this worked, not to mention if you are broadcasting to the rover it would be very very easy for them to triangulate your signal and have secret service come knocking on your door.
I have one of sony's miniDV camcorders with the carl zeiss lense. Its a very good camera. Caputered lots of great moments with the kidos. I don't know why you wouldnt want to edit on the computer as someone else said no one wants to watch an hour of your raw footage half of which is just staring at the lense cover when you accidently bumped the camera and it turned on. I like to take a month or so worth of videos footage of my kids get a fun song for background music and make a three-five minute video, convert to mpeg2 and burn to a cd-r which will play in most dvd players (i dont have a dvd burner yet, but even so a 5 minute video will fit on a cd-r just fine)
JV
i dont get it why did i get modded off topic? a article about eclipse, which i appreciate very much and wanted to express how much thanks i have for the software.
At school most of my projects end up being java based. I really love using eclipse as an ide. variable name completion, catching all my syntax errors, give me type heirarchies its great. Dont get me wrong i am not an ide dependent, i can use vim over an ssh connection (and i do, a lot)just fine for all my work but boy is eclipse nice. thats all
I been reading these post and a lot of people have a lot of diffrent ideas on what a CE major involves. It seems that some people went to universities with poor programs and some people are speaking out of ignorance.
At UCSD where i will be graduating with a my CE this june the ce program requires the same core classes as both the ee and cs majors. the program is managed jointly between the ece and cse departments, i happen to be enrolled in the ece department. I had to take intro ee courses, analog design, signals and systems, probability for ee's, digital circuits, a ee design course, and dsp on the ee side.
On the CS side i had to take all the same intro programming classes, a couple data structure classes, a algorithm class, theory of computing, digital design (cs version), computer architecture (we had to design and simulate a 8 bit processor), compiler design, and OS design.
I get to choose my electives between the two discpline, i have been mainly taking cs courses (networks, database, ai algorithms) as electives since the prereqs seem to work out better (which is the only problem i have with the program) but i am taking a few ee electives. The cs people take the same cs classes as me plus a couple like programing paradigms etc but have a lot more open slots for electives. The ee's take the same courses as my ee classes but have a few i dont have to take such as elctro magnetism, semiconductor physics etc. and then they have a depth sequence which guides there electives, one of those depths is computer design which comes out to be the same a a ce degree. the ee's seem to have more lower division courses related to engineering than ce's
as far as preperation for the job market i think that employers will see that i have a broader understanding of computer systems but my degree is not that much diffrent from a ee or cs (how many ee's end up writing code anyways?), the main thing employers want is experince which i have thanks to an internship and some work in web design and a couple years in IT (not what i want my job to be) while going to college. On my resume at the top i have my college and degree listed with a gpa (3.4) and then a relevant course work section followed by skills and then work experince taking up the bottom half of the page backing everything up i listed in my skills. I think i should move relevant course work to the bottom and work exp up as employers seem to like the experince better. I hoping to get a job where i was an intern, they liked me a lot and told me to be sure to consider them while looking for full time job.
earlier some one posted that many of these fresh grads while they might have great degrees and high gpa's dont have an ounce of exp in the real world and face to face they are a complete disaster. I agree compeltely. I think many employers have a bunch of well qualified resumes to choose from and the if the interviewer (not the hr drone) is going to have to work with you day after day they are going to hire someone that they can get along with and enjoy their company. If you come off with too much BS or uber geekiness (we all saw the ce from berkely on american idol, given us a bad name) they may toss your resume aside and take the next person they interview who is just as qualified but has a bit more charm. so do those on camera interview practice stuff most uni's offer.
and one more thing on this rant of mine nobody will read anyways - stop complainig about india there are jobs here in the states too many are using it a scapegoat for not having a job when there are many other factors. Yes those of you without a degree or a degree from some cheesy school or a mcse cert or something may be out but you can always go back to school get your bs or masters and be the one doing the project management writing specs to send to india and getting a better pay because you dont need a bunch of code monkeys to wrtie yet another peice of commoditiy software.
ok so as not to be labled a troll after that down with sco long live linus, bill gates sucks donkey balls and... ok thats all i got
I dont know about your cs program but where i am at we take intro class to java then some data structures then some sparc assembly, somemore data structures and algorithm classes then some digital design then some computer architecture were we actually design and simulate from gates and flip flops up a 8 bit single cycle cpu with our very own instruction set from there we get to write a compiler for oberon which generates assembly for sparc. oh and dont forget os class where we learn how to do scheduling, context switching, memory management etc and since i am ce i get to ake all the ece courses like analog design, signals and systems, and lots of other fun stuff.
i will be graduating with my BSCE this spring from UCSD. BEcause of lots of work experience and a good internship i think i have a good chance at a job as soon as i graduate. I choose CE because i really love thinking like a computer, even though the oberon compiler i am working on is going to be a bitch. I also enjoy the physical side of thing so with the CE major i get lots of exposer to the hardware and I am not limiting myself to just hardware or software. I eventually will like to go for a masters degree but i need to start working soon and making money to support my wife and two kids which is what this is all really about.
JV
I am going to graduate with my CE degree this spring. The best advice i can give to students in college with a cs,ce,ee major is internships. I interned at Qualcomm this summer and now have an almost guranteed job in the test group i was in and I am not above taking that and have prospects in devlopment posistions in other divisions of the company. Also having a big name like qualcomm toping my experience section of my resume and some good refrences from there i am sure it will help a little with my job search.
Of course now to get internships they want experince. I had a year or so in web design/programming and couple years in IT that i did while going to community college. And now with an internship under my belt for my 5 years in college i have a bout 4 solid years of tech expereince, but a lot of my cs and ee, and even grad student friends who have never had a tech related job and can't seem to land any internships.
Moral of the story is start young even as a freshman in college try to do some job related to you career goal, samll business a great place to get some expereince. the web design gig was only the two owners and my self turning out half assed web sites and the IT exp was a small financial planning broker with about 10 employees nothing fancy but on my resume they don't know that and I get to put Information and Technology Manager, which i was so i get an interview where i can prove myself
In my physics class, we had this one lab where we had two magnetic hockey pucks collide on an air table, Whe had a polaroid camera that had sort of a fan device on front of it so that when you took a picture over an extended period of time you would get several pictures overalapped on each other, a picture every 10 ms. we then had to figure out the scale of the picture and then use the known time delay to figure out the speed of the pucks and then prove that momentum was conservered. The algebra based physics people had the pasco stuff next door. Another lab we had had to do with something about falling weights and a rotational inertia of a pendulum or something and we had this tape attached to the weights that went through a spark generator so there was a mark on the tape for every spark that happened at like every 10 ms and we had to show the accelration of the wieghts and then prove that it concides with the inertia of pendulum as calcuated by integrating over all the points of the pendelum. Our physics teacher told us it was good for us.
I know I saw something back in the early 90's on a show called 2000 or something like that a car that used radar to track cars and on a heads up display it would draw a box around the car and outline the lanes on the road for foggy or other hazardous driving conditions. Combine that with your speed, rpm, temperature (engine, outside, iinside) maybe a translucent rearview image, translucent map with driving directions(GPS) let you choose a few engine sensor to display with all controls on the sterring wheel (imagine saying hey I think I want to tweak my air fuel ratio beep-beep. Of course you hsould be able to turn all these off and on at will so you can choose exactly what you want displayed on your HUD at any time
i was really bored at work so i did a quick workup in ps what is could be like here
personally I have only watched the show a couple times seems like the same thing over and over again. I agree with everyone else who said they need to be allowed more flexibility with weapons and should use AI to fight instead of RC. I think battlebots would be more intresting to watch if A) it was at a live event
B) the bots were bigger
C) More people like carmen electra announcing (hehe sexy women and robots blowing each other up... sweet)
I was three years old an I saw return of the jedi on the big screen so thats good for me. My earliest memory actually. Screw all this new hollywood crap. ( i am excited about two towers coming up)
I always love opening up a new box, whatever it may contain, computer parts, stereo equipment, video game console, ahhh that new electronics smell, they should make an air freshner like that
www.howstuffworks.com
now you wont get a full understanding of physics here, but when a article comes up on slashdot and you find yourself srcatching your head just got there search for whatever is confusing you and return to slashdot with enough knowledge to bs your way around the topic. Seriously how many people on slashdot really understand general relativity and quantum mechanics beyond the basics, sure most of us have had an intro physics class and talked about relatvity and quantum but hey most of us do not have a physics phd. And we all spit out our bs and 99% of it is just wrong anyways. Oh shoot now I am giving away my secret
Seriously I would enjoy eternal school and spending time with the wife and kids. I am still working on my BSCE but i could see myslef in school for a lot more, then maybe become a seeminly absent minded prof and confuse students all day long and then go and play with my "LASER" (in a dr. evil voice).
yes i know that my subject line has been used but i couldnt pass it up
I used the 3rd edition for my assembly class a year or so ago. Didn't reference the book that much. The instructor provided decent notes online and I mainly used them. Used the book to find similar examples to homework problems. I have since tried reading the book but have gotten bored each time and forgotten about it. I wish the book didnt focus so much on the microsoft world but what can you expect. I wish it focused more on direct hardware access which is what i see assembly being more usefull for.
Slashdot Mirror
I had a business license when i was 13. Hey it was pre dot com boom time and i made some money making cheesy web sites
The particular choice of language is not relevant as long as it allows you to express what you need too, In fact most of the time when designing an algorithm pusedo code (of course all our pusedo code is almost C ) is a the way to do it, and later choose whatever language you feel can best express the algorithm. By your senior year you should be able to pick up any language and be functional within a day or two. Right now i feel comfortable with c/c++, java, perl, sparc asm, oberon (i am writing an oberon compiler), sql. But i dont know a thing about (ok maybe a few things but..) C#, python, php, or visual basic. But i know that if tommorow my professor said i want you to write an application that does x and use C#, I could grab a book look up the basic syntax and language features, and avaialble libraries and be on my way. Dont get me wrong i am not saying i can be an overnight expert in C#, but can be functional overnight.
I think some people have problems coding because it looks like english but its symantics are very mathmatical and the state of the public education system at least here in the us is not very strong on mathmatics, and many kids leave high school heading to college who barely survied two years of algebra and maybe a geometry course ( worse for some not headed to college) and believing that they have seen the highest levels of math they ever will need. Well sorry thats not the case.
even if the link is unencrypted i doubt the protocool is open. Who knows what type of modulation, coding, protocool, and commands they are using. I know security through obscurity is not an answer but i think in this case it would take much longer than the usable life of the rover to figure out how all this worked, not to mention if you are broadcasting to the rover it would be very very easy for them to triangulate your signal and have secret service come knocking on your door.
I have one of sony's miniDV camcorders with the carl zeiss lense. Its a very good camera. Caputered lots of great moments with the kidos. I don't know why you wouldnt want to edit on the computer as someone else said no one wants to watch an hour of your raw footage half of which is just staring at the lense cover when you accidently bumped the camera and it turned on. I like to take a month or so worth of videos footage of my kids get a fun song for background music and make a three-five minute video, convert to mpeg2 and burn to a cd-r which will play in most dvd players (i dont have a dvd burner yet, but even so a 5 minute video will fit on a cd-r just fine) JV
I dont know about you but the more people that see my resume the better.
JV
i dont get it why did i get modded off topic? a article about eclipse, which i appreciate very much and wanted to express how much thanks i have for the software.
At school most of my projects end up being java based. I really love using eclipse as an ide. variable name completion, catching all my syntax errors, give me type heirarchies its great. Dont get me wrong i am not an ide dependent, i can use vim over an ssh connection (and i do, a lot)just fine for all my work but boy is eclipse nice. thats all
but of course you mean University of California San Deigo
At UCSD where i will be graduating with a my CE this june the ce program requires the same core classes as both the ee and cs majors. the program is managed jointly between the ece and cse departments, i happen to be enrolled in the ece department. I had to take intro ee courses, analog design, signals and systems, probability for ee's, digital circuits, a ee design course, and dsp on the ee side.
On the CS side i had to take all the same intro programming classes, a couple data structure classes, a algorithm class, theory of computing, digital design (cs version), computer architecture (we had to design and simulate a 8 bit processor), compiler design, and OS design.
I get to choose my electives between the two discpline, i have been mainly taking cs courses (networks, database, ai algorithms) as electives since the prereqs seem to work out better (which is the only problem i have with the program) but i am taking a few ee electives. The cs people take the same cs classes as me plus a couple like programing paradigms etc but have a lot more open slots for electives. The ee's take the same courses as my ee classes but have a few i dont have to take such as elctro magnetism, semiconductor physics etc. and then they have a depth sequence which guides there electives, one of those depths is computer design which comes out to be the same a a ce degree. the ee's seem to have more lower division courses related to engineering than ce's
as far as preperation for the job market i think that employers will see that i have a broader understanding of computer systems but my degree is not that much diffrent from a ee or cs (how many ee's end up writing code anyways?), the main thing employers want is experince which i have thanks to an internship and some work in web design and a couple years in IT (not what i want my job to be) while going to college. On my resume at the top i have my college and degree listed with a gpa (3.4) and then a relevant course work section followed by skills and then work experince taking up the bottom half of the page backing everything up i listed in my skills. I think i should move relevant course work to the bottom and work exp up as employers seem to like the experince better. I hoping to get a job where i was an intern, they liked me a lot and told me to be sure to consider them while looking for full time job.
earlier some one posted that many of these fresh grads while they might have great degrees and high gpa's dont have an ounce of exp in the real world and face to face they are a complete disaster. I agree compeltely. I think many employers have a bunch of well qualified resumes to choose from and the if the interviewer (not the hr drone) is going to have to work with you day after day they are going to hire someone that they can get along with and enjoy their company. If you come off with too much BS or uber geekiness (we all saw the ce from berkely on american idol, given us a bad name) they may toss your resume aside and take the next person they interview who is just as qualified but has a bit more charm. so do those on camera interview practice stuff most uni's offer.
and one more thing on this rant of mine nobody will read anyways - stop complainig about india there are jobs here in the states too many are using it a scapegoat for not having a job when there are many other factors. Yes those of you without a degree or a degree from some cheesy school or a mcse cert or something may be out but you can always go back to school get your bs or masters and be the one doing the project management writing specs to send to india and getting a better pay because you dont need a bunch of code monkeys to wrtie yet another peice of commoditiy software.
ok so as not to be labled a troll after that down with sco long live linus, bill gates sucks donkey balls and... ok thats all i got
I dont know about your cs program but where i am at we take intro class to java then some data structures then some sparc assembly, somemore data structures and algorithm classes then some digital design then some computer architecture were we actually design and simulate from gates and flip flops up a 8 bit single cycle cpu with our very own instruction set from there we get to write a compiler for oberon which generates assembly for sparc. oh and dont forget os class where we learn how to do scheduling, context switching, memory management etc and since i am ce i get to ake all the ece courses like analog design, signals and systems, and lots of other fun stuff.
Bet you had sex "asynchronously" also
sorry couldnt pass that one up
i got 18/hour for my internship
i will be graduating with my BSCE this spring from UCSD. BEcause of lots of work experience and a good internship i think i have a good chance at a job as soon as i graduate. I choose CE because i really love thinking like a computer, even though the oberon compiler i am working on is going to be a bitch. I also enjoy the physical side of thing so with the CE major i get lots of exposer to the hardware and I am not limiting myself to just hardware or software. I eventually will like to go for a masters degree but i need to start working soon and making money to support my wife and two kids which is what this is all really about. JV
all you have to do is type the name of the program you want to run... wait
I am going to graduate with my CE degree this spring. The best advice i can give to students in college with a cs,ce,ee major is internships. I interned at Qualcomm this summer and now have an almost guranteed job in the test group i was in and I am not above taking that and have prospects in devlopment posistions in other divisions of the company. Also having a big name like qualcomm toping my experience section of my resume and some good refrences from there i am sure it will help a little with my job search. Of course now to get internships they want experince. I had a year or so in web design/programming and couple years in IT that i did while going to community college. And now with an internship under my belt for my 5 years in college i have a bout 4 solid years of tech expereince, but a lot of my cs and ee, and even grad student friends who have never had a tech related job and can't seem to land any internships. Moral of the story is start young even as a freshman in college try to do some job related to you career goal, samll business a great place to get some expereince. the web design gig was only the two owners and my self turning out half assed web sites and the IT exp was a small financial planning broker with about 10 employees nothing fancy but on my resume they don't know that and I get to put Information and Technology Manager, which i was so i get an interview where i can prove myself
In my physics class, we had this one lab where we had two magnetic hockey pucks collide on an air table, Whe had a polaroid camera that had sort of a fan device on front of it so that when you took a picture over an extended period of time you would get several pictures overalapped on each other, a picture every 10 ms. we then had to figure out the scale of the picture and then use the known time delay to figure out the speed of the pucks and then prove that momentum was conservered. The algebra based physics people had the pasco stuff next door. Another lab we had had to do with something about falling weights and a rotational inertia of a pendulum or something and we had this tape attached to the weights that went through a spark generator so there was a mark on the tape for every spark that happened at like every 10 ms and we had to show the accelration of the wieghts and then prove that it concides with the inertia of pendulum as calcuated by integrating over all the points of the pendelum. Our physics teacher told us it was good for us.
i was really bored at work so i did a quick workup in ps what is could be like here
personally I have only watched the show a couple times seems like the same thing over and over again. I agree with everyone else who said they need to be allowed more flexibility with weapons and should use AI to fight instead of RC. I think battlebots would be more intresting to watch if
A) it was at a live event
B) the bots were bigger
C) More people like carmen electra announcing (hehe sexy women and robots blowing each other up... sweet)
I was three years old an I saw return of the jedi on the big screen so thats good for me. My earliest memory actually. Screw all this new hollywood crap. ( i am excited about two towers coming up)
I always love opening up a new box, whatever it may contain, computer parts, stereo equipment, video game console, ahhh that new electronics smell, they should make an air freshner like that
www.howstuffworks.com now you wont get a full understanding of physics here, but when a article comes up on slashdot and you find yourself srcatching your head just got there search for whatever is confusing you and return to slashdot with enough knowledge to bs your way around the topic. Seriously how many people on slashdot really understand general relativity and quantum mechanics beyond the basics, sure most of us have had an intro physics class and talked about relatvity and quantum but hey most of us do not have a physics phd. And we all spit out our bs and 99% of it is just wrong anyways. Oh shoot now I am giving away my secret
Seriously I would enjoy eternal school and spending time with the wife and kids. I am still working on my BSCE but i could see myslef in school for a lot more, then maybe become a seeminly absent minded prof and confuse students all day long and then go and play with my "LASER" (in a dr. evil voice). yes i know that my subject line has been used but i couldnt pass it up
instead of a black man turning white you got white geeks turning black Hey sign me up for some of this stuff my red-headed ass could use it:)
and don't forget a pill to wipe your ass, I mean talk about inconvience. :)
I used the 3rd edition for my assembly class a year or so ago. Didn't reference the book that much. The instructor provided decent notes online and I mainly used them. Used the book to find similar examples to homework problems. I have since tried reading the book but have gotten bored each time and forgotten about it. I wish the book didnt focus so much on the microsoft world but what can you expect. I wish it focused more on direct hardware access which is what i see assembly being more usefull for.