...is that a few months ago in anticipation for the new version of Windows, Blackboard named a new piece of software in its honor: "WebCT Vista." Fast forward a few months, and I get the funniest e-mail from the dept. that handles Blackboard:
"WebCT Vista is not supported on the Windows Vista platform."
*A gargantuan, professional display
*SWAG, specifically tailored to your target hiring audience. One tech company who interviewed me was giving away company-logo-branded iPod socks and USB hubs.
*Knowledgeable staff. HR people are fine if you want to hire communication/business majors for HR work. If you're hiring for IT you need IT people who can discuss the finer points of network administration with the CS/EE majors you're trying to court.
So the elderly will have Aware Car, and the rest of us will need Aware-Aware Car to locate and avoid the masses of crazy old drivers in Aware Cars careening all over the highways.
Trebuchet hands down. I'll always remember when my buddies and I were demonstrating the treb in front of a good portion of our high school class and the rope (this is before we started using a sling) attached to the payload cut right through the payload's handle, lobbing a gallon jug into the crowd behind us.
Oh those were the days. (But we built a bigger one at university.)
Materials aside, these scratching problems seem symptomatic of a big step backwards in design. The iPod mini that the nano replaced was built from tough, brushed aluminum that stayed beautiful even after months in a pocket with change and car keys.
I live in a college town in central Illinois. My roommates and I pay $84/month for 1.5M/384k.
Yeah yeah "back in my day we had..." I started off with a 2400 baud connection (and was damn happy to have it) but in 2005 $84/month for 1.5M/384k is still highway robbery.
The fairness of an open market goes out the window when a company is forced to fund its competitor. What if RedHat had to pay for every Windows machine shipped?
Kung Fu Chaos - hands down the best original game this year. It has not only pick-up-and-play party value but advanced moves for more skilled players, hilarious commentary and visually stunning (some times just plain beautiful) levels, even with the cartoon-like style the characters are based on. The replay value is great (I spent a good part of summer getting five stars on all the levels and mini games) and the multiplayer is fantastic with a surprisingly well programmed AI for the 3rd person camera, a track-like change of setting throughout the levels (this is no wimpy Super Smash Bros. Melee) and most everything can be picked up and thrown as a weapon. Just Add Monsters worked in countless little details as well, all to fit the "bad 70's kung-fu movie" theme: simulated scratched, faded and dusty film; comical stereotypes; droves and droves of ninja henchmen; you can even see the wires when characters jump over large gaps! Top drawer.
XBox controllers are much easier to connect to computer hardware; they are USB controllers in disguise (read: "with proprietary connectors"). My friend simply bought a USB cable for two dollars and wired it inline on one of his XBox controller cables. Now he can use that controller on his PC (he uses it often to play NES emulators at work) and if he so wishes, plug USB devices into his hacked XBox. When he wants to fire up Halo, all he does is reconnect the controller.
Side note: The XBox proprietary connector is actually 5-pin (+, -, data, ground and "strobe") though with the fifth (strobe) wire disconnected the controller works just fine. Maybe it is for some as yet unreleased peripheral, but the controllers sure as hell don't use it.
My Japanese textbook, Nakama 1, has a companion site provided by the publisher and authors, with some small additions made by Japanese lecturers at American universities. One of the resources that I initially thought would be useless was the spreadsheet-based dictionaries (first year, second year). These have proven quite valuable, especially since you can use Excel with the Office Japanese IME (offered for free from MS) to search the text in English or Japanese.
Ethanol stores more chemical energy, is easier to make, easier to come by in a pinch (cheap vodka anyone?), and is much less toxic than methanol. Why the hell aren't they using ethanol?
Yes, the average buyer of a Gamecube was over 23 years old. Just think of the hundreds of thousands of 45 year old parents buying Gamecubes for their 9 year old sons and daughters. Gamecube is, in my opinion as a techie and a gamer, a crappier console (games considered). Nintendo's only salvation in current generation consoles is the younger user market (and I GAH-RON-TEE that the average user is much younger than 23) which is drawn to more simplistic, cartoonish games.
My mouse has eight buttons. I wish it had more. If you think Macs are efficient with one button, think again. Combo keys are a pain in the ass when used on keyboards alone (like the cut/copy/paste functions), but when you have to use two hands to execute them (click + button) things really start to suck.
I'm sure it's been said before but...: Shouldn't we realize that the bugs, holes, viruses, incompatibilities and needless complexities in the computer world are providing us with well-paid work? It almost makes sense that a software giant would purposefully include errors - they have to be fixed by someone, and that someone sure as hell won't do it for free. Most of us addicted to Slashdot either run Linux or can keep MS/Apple problems at bay on our own machines. The problem hits everyone else. We are the ones that get money as a result of these "problems." My deluxe single dorm room (with a view I might add) is free because I run around on afternoons -at my own schedule- (mmm freedom is good) and fix other students' computer troubles.
Personally, as soon as I saw this report on Reuters I said to myself "HOT DAMN! More money for me!" I am gonna sit back and enjoy the ride.
Despite my non-computer related major, I am known for having more electronics than a Silicon Valley pawn shop crammed into my room. The greatest energy suckers are:
desktop P4 computer with four drives
dual 17" flat CRT monitors
laser printer (the lights dim when I print stuff)
20" CRT TV
VCR
500W digital surround system
40W stereo (my alarm clock)
standalone subwoofer
Xbox (I suppose it sucks about as much power as a laptop)
crappy little microwave (now that I think about it, this thing probably uses the same energy as a calculator)
dorm fridge (medium sized)
LOTS of Christmas/rope lights
two blacklights
two halogen desk lamps
two little fans (another pair, even though I am without a roommate)
phone, hub, lava lamp, chargers, external drives, other little stuff yadda yadda yadda
I've managed to ghetto-rig another two outlets out of the room's built in 60's style light fixtures through the use of light-bulb socket adapters (ungrounded of course, so they just get used for fans and of course rope lights).
Still, with my extra outlets I still only have a total of 10 - not nearly enough as to get away with plugging stuff directly into the walls. All I can do is try and distribute the load using good power strips and limiting the total of end connections on each outlet. This results in some cables reaching in strange directions, but it keeps the dorm from burning down.
Related story: another non-CS friend is known for his 6 feet long steel industrial power strip. Ridiculous but necessary.
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Oh, if only it were fiction...
s /peoria_cut_cable_causes_affects_phones_throughout _the_state/
http://www.pjstar.com/php/index.php?/news/comment
...is that a few months ago in anticipation for the new version of Windows, Blackboard named a new piece of software in its honor: "WebCT Vista." Fast forward a few months, and I get the funniest e-mail from the dept. that handles Blackboard:
"WebCT Vista is not supported on the Windows Vista platform."
*facepalm*
IIRC, Miyamoto has said the same thing about Nintendogs. Where's the /. article lambasting him?
Slashdot + any mention of Bill Gates = "RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE"
*A gargantuan, professional display
*SWAG, specifically tailored to your target hiring audience. One tech company who interviewed me was giving away company-logo-branded iPod socks and USB hubs.
*Knowledgeable staff. HR people are fine if you want to hire communication/business majors for HR work. If you're hiring for IT you need IT people who can discuss the finer points of network administration with the CS/EE majors you're trying to court.
I start my internship in May.
So the elderly will have Aware Car, and the rest of us will need Aware-Aware Car to locate and avoid the masses of crazy old drivers in Aware Cars careening all over the highways.
Dark times lay ahead pedestrians everywhere.
Trebuchet hands down. I'll always remember when my buddies and I were demonstrating the treb in front of a good portion of our high school class and the rope (this is before we started using a sling) attached to the payload cut right through the payload's handle, lobbing a gallon jug into the crowd behind us.
Oh those were the days. (But we built a bigger one at university.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Internet_Com municator
Still, though: An old/cheap laptop + Ubuntu boot CD seems like the best option.
Are they just as mad about "rock" and/or "roll" (both words used commonly in GEOL 101)?
Materials aside, these scratching problems seem symptomatic of a big step backwards in design. The iPod mini that the nano replaced was built from tough, brushed aluminum that stayed beautiful even after months in a pocket with change and car keys.
(I [heart] my iPod mini.)
I live in a college town in central Illinois. My roommates and I pay $84/month for 1.5M/384k.
Yeah yeah "back in my day we had..." I started off with a 2400 baud connection (and was damn happy to have it) but in 2005 $84/month for 1.5M/384k is still highway robbery.
That's actually pretty fair and is the economy in my family. I fix my parents' computers and my dad fixes my truck.
Amen brother. If I only had mod points...
A high school favorite:
integral of e^x = function(U^n)
or if calc was a long time ago for you: integral of e^x = function(U^n)
The fairness of an open market goes out the window when a company is forced to fund its competitor. What if RedHat had to pay for every Windows machine shipped?
"Little...yellow...different."
Kung Fu Chaos - hands down the best original game this year. It has not only pick-up-and-play party value but advanced moves for more skilled players, hilarious commentary and visually stunning (some times just plain beautiful) levels, even with the cartoon-like style the characters are based on. The replay value is great (I spent a good part of summer getting five stars on all the levels and mini games) and the multiplayer is fantastic with a surprisingly well programmed AI for the 3rd person camera, a track-like change of setting throughout the levels (this is no wimpy Super Smash Bros. Melee) and most everything can be picked up and thrown as a weapon. Just Add Monsters worked in countless little details as well, all to fit the "bad 70's kung-fu movie" theme: simulated scratched, faded and dusty film; comical stereotypes; droves and droves of ninja henchmen; you can even see the wires when characters jump over large gaps! Top drawer.
XBox controllers are much easier to connect to computer hardware; they are USB controllers in disguise (read: "with proprietary connectors"). My friend simply bought a USB cable for two dollars and wired it inline on one of his XBox controller cables. Now he can use that controller on his PC (he uses it often to play NES emulators at work) and if he so wishes, plug USB devices into his hacked XBox. When he wants to fire up Halo, all he does is reconnect the controller.
Side note: The XBox proprietary connector is actually 5-pin (+, -, data, ground and "strobe") though with the fifth (strobe) wire disconnected the controller works just fine. Maybe it is for some as yet unreleased peripheral, but the controllers sure as hell don't use it.
oops - here is the correct link for second year.
My Japanese textbook, Nakama 1, has a companion site provided by the publisher and authors, with some small additions made by Japanese lecturers at American universities. One of the resources that I initially thought would be useless was the spreadsheet-based dictionaries (first year, second year). These have proven quite valuable, especially since you can use Excel with the Office Japanese IME (offered for free from MS) to search the text in English or Japanese.
Hasn't this been on TechTV for at least a week?
Ethanol stores more chemical energy, is easier to make, easier to come by in a pinch (cheap vodka anyone?), and is much less toxic than methanol. Why the hell aren't they using ethanol?
Yes, the average buyer of a Gamecube was over 23 years old. Just think of the hundreds of thousands of 45 year old parents buying Gamecubes for their 9 year old sons and daughters. Gamecube is, in my opinion as a techie and a gamer, a crappier console (games considered). Nintendo's only salvation in current generation consoles is the younger user market (and I GAH-RON-TEE that the average user is much younger than 23) which is drawn to more simplistic, cartoonish games.
My mouse has eight buttons. I wish it had more. If you think Macs are efficient with one button, think again. Combo keys are a pain in the ass when used on keyboards alone (like the cut/copy/paste functions), but when you have to use two hands to execute them (click + button) things really start to suck.
I'm sure it's been said before but...: Shouldn't we realize that the bugs, holes, viruses, incompatibilities and needless complexities in the computer world are providing us with well-paid work? It almost makes sense that a software giant would purposefully include errors - they have to be fixed by someone, and that someone sure as hell won't do it for free. Most of us addicted to Slashdot either run Linux or can keep MS/Apple problems at bay on our own machines. The problem hits everyone else. We are the ones that get money as a result of these "problems." My deluxe single dorm room (with a view I might add) is free because I run around on afternoons -at my own schedule- (mmm freedom is good) and fix other students' computer troubles.
Personally, as soon as I saw this report on Reuters I said to myself "HOT DAMN! More money for me!" I am gonna sit back and enjoy the ride.
desktop P4 computer with four drives
dual 17" flat CRT monitors
laser printer (the lights dim when I print stuff)
20" CRT TV
VCR
500W digital surround system
40W stereo (my alarm clock) standalone subwoofer
Xbox (I suppose it sucks about as much power as a laptop)
crappy little microwave (now that I think about it, this thing probably uses the same energy as a calculator)
dorm fridge (medium sized)
LOTS of Christmas/rope lights
two blacklights
two halogen desk lamps
two little fans (another pair, even though I am without a roommate)
phone, hub, lava lamp, chargers, external drives, other little stuff yadda yadda yadda
I've managed to ghetto-rig another two outlets out of the room's built in 60's style light fixtures through the use of light-bulb socket adapters (ungrounded of course, so they just get used for fans and of course rope lights).
Still, with my extra outlets I still only have a total of 10 - not nearly enough as to get away with plugging stuff directly into the walls. All I can do is try and distribute the load using good power strips and limiting the total of end connections on each outlet. This results in some cables reaching in strange directions, but it keeps the dorm from burning down.
Related story: another non-CS friend is known for his 6 feet long steel industrial power strip. Ridiculous but necessary.