I don't know, I've had some lengthy coding sessions inspired by alcohol. Usually wake up in the morning, stare at the code, realize it works, wonder how that is even possible, rename some stuff for clarity and redo the comments (drunk comments can be amusing, but not the kind of stuff you want to turn in).
I had a friend in high school who would panic when ordering and then suddenly blurt out, "SIMPLY CHICKEN!!!" because just about every restaurant has some variation on that and it is pretty hard to mess up basic chicken.
Many of my friends at other universities agree with you. However, I've found that that isn't the case. My school's network a few years ago was barely creeping along. They upgraded, made a few changes and actually INCREASED the usage limits. Now we get ~2.5-3 gigs a day combined up/down (well, from one connection, in the dorms. If you use the wireless network add another 2.5-3 gigs and I believe it's limitless in some if not all of the computer labs, and if it is limited, switch to another network and transfer to your home computer. All intranet transfers don't count towards the limit).
So usage has increased. The number of users has increased. But the actual speed of the network has increased greatly. I frequently reach download speeds of 800kB/s (yes bytes) if the servers I'm connecting to can handle it. This is at a major US university whose peers are capping and blocking everything in sight. It is very possible to offer students an amazing connection, even in today's environment. Most schools, however, are not willing to make the commitment.
We take the same 200 level (sophomore) classes as EEs except for an additional programming class. Aside from a few signals and probability classes, the rest is pretty different. You don't have to focus on hardware, although that is an option. You'll learn assembly in a microcontroller class (best class I've ever taken). You are required to take ASIC design and Computer Architecture in terms of hardware, but that's all done in software. Seniors take a class in either compilers or operating systems.
You can pick your electives as you want. I've taken a few additional programming classes because I think it's good to know and much more valuable than a class I'm just going to forget in a semester.
I second the parent. Otherland is quite an undertaking, but well worth it. The series does an excellent job of combining politics, economics, technology, and my favorite, mythology.
Yeah! And Lexmark put together a business that relies on revenues of printer cartridge sales. Congratulations to those hackers/crackers who have likely now put those individuals out of work.
Wait...why is it my job to ensure that someone's business model succeeds? I bought the thing--let me tinker with it.
Ones and zeros? Does your computer care if you call it a one or zero? Nope--I'm shouting ZERO at my computer quite loudly at the moment but it doesn't seem to understand. Bah, another abstration. It's just transistors in one state or another. Voltages, little itty bitty electrons (is there any other kind?) zipping around from here to there.
They have it in my town (not in FL). Selective enforcement from what I've seen. A couple liquor stores demand two picture ids (and spend a good five minutes staring at the damned things...they don't like my out of state license). A lot of the bars have signs saying you must have two picture ids, but I've never seen it enforced.
It's a college campus though, so everyone basically has two ids--license and school id. I don't know how else they could really expect people to have two picture ids.
It's a good class. I learned more in 362 with Meyer than in just about any other class I've taken.
Working with assembly and examining exactly how computers work is invaluable. Learn what's going on under the hood and suddenly your coding ability in most languages improves dramatically.
Right, but it's GEOCITIES. I mean come on folks, I appreciate a good slashdotting now and again too, but a geocities site? Stands about as much of a chance of staying up as a moronic weather reporter in a hurricane.
This is the problem. Look around. Just about everything we use in day to day life could be considered a chemical weapon.
It give the prosecutors way too much power to selectively apply terrorist laws to situations that don't demand them in order to increase the penalties.
Think the sentances for meth are too low? Raise them, don't try to apply terrorist laws.
especially in gaming. Oh sure, it might look nice, but I look for quality gameplay. And replayability. There are games that I still play, even though they came out years ago.
A great site for old games that you can't find anymore is The Underdogs. I found their site about two years ago, I think, and am amazed at how many good games there are that no one talks about anymore. Check it out.
What's really sad though is that many games are vanishing because companies refuse to give up the rights to their products, even though any chance of making money on them has long since passed. Hopefully they will not be lost to time.
Yes, we all know Best Buy has aggressive and misleading sales practices. We know they try to add on all sorts of unnecessary costs.
Customers don't want them.
You get yelled at.
It's not my fault.
It's not my fault that Best Buy pressures you into selling unnecessary add-ons. Really, it's not. So stop complaining that someone was intelligent to buy a $10 warranty on a $20 product or pay you to install a stick of RAM.
At least a nuclear blast has a chance (depending on proximity) to kill you instantly. Death by lawyers? Slow and extremely painful. I know what I'd pick.
My Deskjet 540 is still going strong. It sometimes has problems loading paper, after whacking it with something it's good to go. I'm not paying for a new printer.
Exactly. Anything Microsoft puts out to compete is going to be so full of bloat that it will be a complete hastle to use. Why is Google so popular? Two words: simplicity and power.
Google takes no time at all to load over a 56k modem, unlike most search engines, and makes searching incredibly simple.
Microsoft has no chance.
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My mother unfortunately thinks I am the ultimate in tech support. She has no problem telling her friends about me. It had never been too much of a problem until last year when I went home for a visit. She hands me a pda with a shattered screen: "This is Mr. Jones's. He heard how good you are with these things and so I think you should fix it."
Me: "Umm...I don't have a replacement screen. That model is incredibly old. He'd be better off buying a new one. It'd be almost cheaper"
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I don't know, I've had some lengthy coding sessions inspired by alcohol. Usually wake up in the morning, stare at the code, realize it works, wonder how that is even possible, rename some stuff for clarity and redo the comments (drunk comments can be amusing, but not the kind of stuff you want to turn in).
I've got 6 too. mgrotewo AT gmail DOT com
It was C++ three or four years ago too. So no, not one year.
I had a friend in high school who would panic when ordering and then suddenly blurt out, "SIMPLY CHICKEN!!!" because just about every restaurant has some variation on that and it is pretty hard to mess up basic chicken.
Many of my friends at other universities agree with you. However, I've found that that isn't the case. My school's network a few years ago was barely creeping along. They upgraded, made a few changes and actually INCREASED the usage limits. Now we get ~2.5-3 gigs a day combined up/down (well, from one connection, in the dorms. If you use the wireless network add another 2.5-3 gigs and I believe it's limitless in some if not all of the computer labs, and if it is limited, switch to another network and transfer to your home computer. All intranet transfers don't count towards the limit).
So usage has increased. The number of users has increased. But the actual speed of the network has increased greatly. I frequently reach download speeds of 800kB/s (yes bytes) if the servers I'm connecting to can handle it. This is at a major US university whose peers are capping and blocking everything in sight. It is very possible to offer students an amazing connection, even in today's environment. Most schools, however, are not willing to make the commitment.
5 movies for $50,000?! I thought I was going overboard with $25, a bottle of vodka, and a cheap old camcorder.
I'm a CompE at Purdue.
We take the same 200 level (sophomore) classes as EEs except for an additional programming class. Aside from a few signals and probability classes, the rest is pretty different. You don't have to focus on hardware, although that is an option. You'll learn assembly in a microcontroller class (best class I've ever taken). You are required to take ASIC design and Computer Architecture in terms of hardware, but that's all done in software. Seniors take a class in either compilers or operating systems.
You can pick your electives as you want. I've taken a few additional programming classes because I think it's good to know and much more valuable than a class I'm just going to forget in a semester.
I second the parent. Otherland is quite an undertaking, but well worth it. The series does an excellent job of combining politics, economics, technology, and my favorite, mythology.
You won't find better written sci-fi.
I think it's because ctrl-alt-del creates an interrupt request. It goes straight to the OS and can't be intercepted by random software.
Safer login--you know you are logging into the real deal and not some fake password box.
Yeah! And Lexmark put together a business that relies on revenues of printer cartridge sales. Congratulations to those hackers/crackers who have likely now put those individuals out of work.
Wait...why is it my job to ensure that someone's business model succeeds? I bought the thing--let me tinker with it.
Apparently, somebody is stupid.
Just quoting the links here people. That's what I get for RTFA
It's already getting bad with insane amounts of flash advertising. I now browse with flash disabled. It's not worth the hastle.
Ones and zeros? Does your computer care if you call it a one or zero? Nope--I'm shouting ZERO at my computer quite loudly at the moment but it doesn't seem to understand. Bah, another abstration. It's just transistors in one state or another. Voltages, little itty bitty electrons (is there any other kind?) zipping around from here to there.
It's amazing that the damn things work at all.
They have it in my town (not in FL). Selective enforcement from what I've seen. A couple liquor stores demand two picture ids (and spend a good five minutes staring at the damned things...they don't like my out of state license). A lot of the bars have signs saying you must have two picture ids, but I've never seen it enforced.
It's a college campus though, so everyone basically has two ids--license and school id. I don't know how else they could really expect people to have two picture ids.
It's a good class. I learned more in 362 with Meyer than in just about any other class I've taken.
Working with assembly and examining exactly how computers work is invaluable. Learn what's going on under the hood and suddenly your coding ability in most languages improves dramatically.
Right, I'm not stupid. Geocities isn't going to go down, but we sure won't be able to view that page.
It doesn't take long to exceed a user's allotment.
Right, but it's GEOCITIES. I mean come on folks, I appreciate a good slashdotting now and again too, but a geocities site? Stands about as much of a chance of staying up as a moronic weather reporter in a hurricane.
This is the problem. Look around. Just about everything we use in day to day life could be considered a chemical weapon.
It give the prosecutors way too much power to selectively apply terrorist laws to situations that don't demand them in order to increase the penalties.
Think the sentances for meth are too low? Raise them, don't try to apply terrorist laws.
A great site for old games that you can't find anymore is The Underdogs. I found their site about two years ago, I think, and am amazed at how many good games there are that no one talks about anymore. Check it out.
What's really sad though is that many games are vanishing because companies refuse to give up the rights to their products, even though any chance of making money on them has long since passed. Hopefully they will not be lost to time.
Yes, we all know Best Buy has aggressive and misleading sales practices. We know they try to add on all sorts of unnecessary costs.
Customers don't want them.
You get yelled at.
It's not my fault.
It's not my fault that Best Buy pressures you into selling unnecessary add-ons. Really, it's not. So stop complaining that someone was intelligent to buy a $10 warranty on a $20 product or pay you to install a stick of RAM.
At least a nuclear blast has a chance (depending on proximity) to kill you instantly. Death by lawyers? Slow and extremely painful. I know what I'd pick.
The apartment across the street from me has a huge sign that reads, "FREE T-1 in each room!!!"
I doubt the manager even realizes why his sign is horribly wrong and misleading.
My Deskjet 540 is still going strong. It sometimes has problems loading paper, after whacking it with something it's good to go. I'm not paying for a new printer.
Exactly. Anything Microsoft puts out to compete is going to be so full of bloat that it will be a complete hastle to use. Why is Google so popular? Two words: simplicity and power.
Google takes no time at all to load over a 56k modem, unlike most search engines, and makes searching incredibly simple.
Microsoft has no chance.
My mother unfortunately thinks I am the ultimate in tech support. She has no problem telling her friends about me. It had never been too much of a problem until last year when I went home for a visit. She hands me a pda with a shattered screen: "This is Mr. Jones's. He heard how good you are with these things and so I think you should fix it."
Me: "Umm...I don't have a replacement screen. That model is incredibly old. He'd be better off buying a new one. It'd be almost cheaper"
Mom: "Well, just try."
Me: "THE SCREEN IS SHATTERED!"