This is awesome. I went to the UW and I came from a very poor, under-taught school out in the sticks and from a family well below the poverty line. My intention was to be a computer science major, but I wasn't even fully prepared for pre-calc. As a result, I took a huge hit on math early on and it kind of sank my dreams. Luckily, I was able to get into another great major (Informatics) which wasn't quite as math heavy and still ended up in the profession I wanted doing quite well.
If I had this program available to me, I would have only graduated 1 quarter later than I did and I, likely, would have gotten into the major I wanted. I ended up taking the pre-calc course over again during my 2nd year and then doing very well (4.0, 3.8) in the following two calculus classes, but only after I had acclimated to the learning environment and because there wasn't any stress on me to do well in the calculus courses. So, I had it in me, I just wasn't prepared coming in. I'll say it again, this is a great idea.
Anyone doubting this tactic, I encourage you to realize that not all Universities are the same and the UW is a very difficult university to do well in. It's unlikely I would have had such a hard time at other less difficult schools (Washington State University, for example) where some of my friends went for a while to pad their grades to get into their major of choice at the UW.
A 2:30 seems like a terrible time to me. I did a 2:40.312 in an old Festiva with a busted engine and severely compromised rear suspension on janky old street tires.
This won't work. Almost all forms of autocross guarantee a driver 3 runs (each driver does one run, then each driver does a second set, etc.). Knowing what time you have to beat after each run is a huge part of autocross. The data has to be input in real time, or at least close so that results can be viewed after each run. This problem gets worse with ProSolo, where there are two courses and challenges require results for a class to figure "handicap times". Additionally, multiple cars are on course at one time (generally like 3), so it's very difficult for one person to do.
In my region, we have some open source custom software that a local member wrote that works pretty good and automatically inputs the times as they come in. I've modified the software to make entering our timing cards faster, but we're a bluetooth bar code reader and some business cars away from having a very streamlined process.
The other thing the author of the original question is missing out is how penalties for hitting cones or missing gates is entered. There has to be some human interaction there. If my region didn't have timing cards, we trusted the computer and the operator completely, we could have 1 person running timing, instead of 2 (I'm not counting the announcer or course control). National level SCCA autocross handles this problem by having someone with a bar code scanner standing near the start line that scans a bar code on your helmet as you drive up.
If you just want to watch the flight with all the blah-blah in the post, this blogs video has it without much lead-time garbage.
http://www.airlinereporter.com/?p=2491
You guys are focusing on the wrong part of automotive work. Traditional body work and Jiffy Lube type jobs aren't going to be fun for long. However, there are still problems unsolved in the racing and autosports world begging for people solve. The reason for this is that there are so many different platforms. For instance, I started a subwoofer box company because I saw a need an filled it. There are still tons of needs for my platform I just don't have the time or money to fill them. Problem solving is fun and mechanical engineering does not stray far from traditional computer science.
I love working on my car just as much as I love breaking into a fresh new programming project.
I hate to add to this nutiness, but back when I was a junior in high to about the time I was a junior in college, I used to have very vivid dreams. I don't so much anymore, but I used to. Anyway, these dreams would frequently come true -- to the point where I knew what people were going to say before their said it. I'm convinced that one time I was able to change the outcome of an impending family fight once by altering what I said in my dream.
I assume you're referring to the excerpt from Kerry's response to a debate question. If you had watched the debate and seen the quote in context you'd know that it was Kerry's way of saying "does it make sense" or "do the rest of my countrymen think this is right". He wasn't speaking literally about asking the world if it was ok. He was saying "does this make sense for our country" or on an issue that affects other entities besides the US, "does this make sense for the world".
Don't try to pin this on the left because you don't understand ONE democrat's poorly extracted quote. I know plenty of people "on the left" who haven't equated the UN with a functional goverment, but at least it's a good place to start.
One of the things my friends and I comment on most about the game is that it is fun. However, we almost always follow that up with a comment how poorly the game runs. Even on high-end video cards (my roommate's Radeon 9800 and my GeForce 6800) with better than average CPU and RAM the game runs so choppy and slow. It seems to be that if you don't turn your particle counts down to nothing, it's visually annoying. Also, visual sluggishness seems to be directly affected by ping and since all the servers we can choose from seem to be on the East Coast or something, we ping ~200ms (190 in good times).
It's kind of aggitating to me because I've played WoW in early beta and it felt like a finished game compared to CoH (at least game-engine wise).
I'm not trying to flame or anything, I'm being honest. Why aren't there servers on the west coast, and if there are, why aren't we shown server pings so we can pick which one we want?
Please stop calling things racist that aren't racist people. His comment didn't show any superiority over a race or anything that would make it count as a racist comment. It MAY be perceived that his comment shows malcontent for the outsourcing situation, but that's not racism. Nor did his comment "discriminate" in anyway. His simply made fun of the accent and the current tech support situation.
Actually, it wouldn't be too bad if you made the hydrogen from hydroelectic, solar, or wind-powered sources. I know, it probably won't happen, just a thought.
Why was this modded as Flamebait, comedic purposes?
This is actually a decent question. With the Bush administration seemingly making an attempt to blur the line between church and state, why not ask this question? Many Americans, including myself, find the lack of separation between church and state is becoming a major problem. This question also has its branches into topics like gay marriage.
Even if it was pay-for-use, part of your copyright fair-use rights allow you to use some of the content as part of a larger piece. If the excerpt was short (say, less than 5-10% of the article) and was part of a seperate work (e.g. the comments made about it), he has every right to quote like he did. It's like when you buy a book. You can quote sections out of it even though you don't own rights to the book; you just own the PHYSICAL book.
After reading more comments in the thread, I also though this might be interesting:
The department I work for (Atmospheric Sciences) there is a lab full of Compaq PCs running Debian Linux and almost all the servers run some form of Linux, Unix, or Solaris. It's very hard to find a Windows PC in a lab area in the building. This contrasts from the department in which I major in (Informatics), which pushes everything Microsoft with very few exceptions.
I guess I'm just trying to say it varies from program to program here, but the general access labs try to be just that, accessible to the general public. Also I apologize for the typos in my previous post and any in this post.
The University of Washington (when speaking of their general computing lab) has a considerable amount of Macs (G5 Towers) but 3 times as many PCs (Dell). This makes the most sense anyway; during 'rush hours', they PCs ALWAYS fill up first.
Thankfully, I don't generally care which I use (well, since Mac OS X came around).
I'm not sure of the technical implications of this, but as a consumer of domain name registrations (usually consuming for clients who are too dumb to register their domains) this is very helpful.
Glad to see Verisign can do something right for a change.
It seems to me a drive with this capacity would most likely be used for something like a PVR or a cheap file server, which would certainly benefit large writes. I don't think you need 400GB for your config files and UI tweaks. So what would you fill this 400GB HDD up with? probably large files.
It's not like saving these config files with a 16MB buffer is even going to be noticably slower.
Slashdot Mirror
My first year was 2000. I was not made aware of this program then, despite being considered a minority because I was so poor.
This is awesome. I went to the UW and I came from a very poor, under-taught school out in the sticks and from a family well below the poverty line. My intention was to be a computer science major, but I wasn't even fully prepared for pre-calc. As a result, I took a huge hit on math early on and it kind of sank my dreams. Luckily, I was able to get into another great major (Informatics) which wasn't quite as math heavy and still ended up in the profession I wanted doing quite well.
If I had this program available to me, I would have only graduated 1 quarter later than I did and I, likely, would have gotten into the major I wanted. I ended up taking the pre-calc course over again during my 2nd year and then doing very well (4.0, 3.8) in the following two calculus classes, but only after I had acclimated to the learning environment and because there wasn't any stress on me to do well in the calculus courses. So, I had it in me, I just wasn't prepared coming in. I'll say it again, this is a great idea.
Anyone doubting this tactic, I encourage you to realize that not all Universities are the same and the UW is a very difficult university to do well in. It's unlikely I would have had such a hard time at other less difficult schools (Washington State University, for example) where some of my friends went for a while to pad their grades to get into their major of choice at the UW.
A 2:30 seems like a terrible time to me. I did a 2:40.312 in an old Festiva with a busted engine and severely compromised rear suspension on janky old street tires.
Just like everyone can learn to dunk, everyone can learn to develop!
This won't work. Almost all forms of autocross guarantee a driver 3 runs (each driver does one run, then each driver does a second set, etc.). Knowing what time you have to beat after each run is a huge part of autocross. The data has to be input in real time, or at least close so that results can be viewed after each run. This problem gets worse with ProSolo, where there are two courses and challenges require results for a class to figure "handicap times". Additionally, multiple cars are on course at one time (generally like 3), so it's very difficult for one person to do.
In my region, we have some open source custom software that a local member wrote that works pretty good and automatically inputs the times as they come in. I've modified the software to make entering our timing cards faster, but we're a bluetooth bar code reader and some business cars away from having a very streamlined process.
The other thing the author of the original question is missing out is how penalties for hitting cones or missing gates is entered. There has to be some human interaction there. If my region didn't have timing cards, we trusted the computer and the operator completely, we could have 1 person running timing, instead of 2 (I'm not counting the announcer or course control). National level SCCA autocross handles this problem by having someone with a bar code scanner standing near the start line that scans a bar code on your helmet as you drive up.
If you just want to watch the flight with all the blah-blah in the post, this blogs video has it without much lead-time garbage. http://www.airlinereporter.com/?p=2491
You guys are focusing on the wrong part of automotive work. Traditional body work and Jiffy Lube type jobs aren't going to be fun for long. However, there are still problems unsolved in the racing and autosports world begging for people solve. The reason for this is that there are so many different platforms. For instance, I started a subwoofer box company because I saw a need an filled it. There are still tons of needs for my platform I just don't have the time or money to fill them. Problem solving is fun and mechanical engineering does not stray far from traditional computer science.
I love working on my car just as much as I love breaking into a fresh new programming project.
I hate to add to this nutiness, but back when I was a junior in high to about the time I was a junior in college, I used to have very vivid dreams. I don't so much anymore, but I used to. Anyway, these dreams would frequently come true -- to the point where I knew what people were going to say before their said it. I'm convinced that one time I was able to change the outcome of an impending family fight once by altering what I said in my dream.
Wow, I wish I had mod points. 10/10
Social engineering? Is that what you guys are calling living in your parents basement now days?
"global tests"?
I assume you're referring to the excerpt from Kerry's response to a debate question. If you had watched the debate and seen the quote in context you'd know that it was Kerry's way of saying "does it make sense" or "do the rest of my countrymen think this is right". He wasn't speaking literally about asking the world if it was ok. He was saying "does this make sense for our country" or on an issue that affects other entities besides the US, "does this make sense for the world".
Don't try to pin this on the left because you don't understand ONE democrat's poorly extracted quote. I know plenty of people "on the left" who haven't equated the UN with a functional goverment, but at least it's a good place to start.
One of the things my friends and I comment on most about the game is that it is fun. However, we almost always follow that up with a comment how poorly the game runs. Even on high-end video cards (my roommate's Radeon 9800 and my GeForce 6800) with better than average CPU and RAM the game runs so choppy and slow. It seems to be that if you don't turn your particle counts down to nothing, it's visually annoying. Also, visual sluggishness seems to be directly affected by ping and since all the servers we can choose from seem to be on the East Coast or something, we ping ~200ms (190 in good times).
It's kind of aggitating to me because I've played WoW in early beta and it felt like a finished game compared to CoH (at least game-engine wise).
I'm not trying to flame or anything, I'm being honest. Why aren't there servers on the west coast, and if there are, why aren't we shown server pings so we can pick which one we want?
I'll bite, troll.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=racist
Please stop calling things racist that aren't racist people. His comment didn't show any superiority over a race or anything that would make it count as a racist comment. It MAY be perceived that his comment shows malcontent for the outsourcing situation, but that's not racism. Nor did his comment "discriminate" in anyway. His simply made fun of the accent and the current tech support situation.
Actually, it wouldn't be too bad if you made the hydrogen from hydroelectic, solar, or wind-powered sources. I know, it probably won't happen, just a thought.
Why was this modded as Flamebait, comedic purposes?
This is actually a decent question. With the Bush administration seemingly making an attempt to blur the line between church and state, why not ask this question? Many Americans, including myself, find the lack of separation between church and state is becoming a major problem. This question also has its branches into topics like gay marriage.
To add a little geek to this, my friends and I have long discussed that isn't actually correct.
To be or not to be implies an exlcusive or (known to some as XOR). That regular expression matches both 2-b's or not 2 b's.
I know, we have to much time on our hands.
Even if it was pay-for-use, part of your copyright fair-use rights allow you to use some of the content as part of a larger piece. If the excerpt was short (say, less than 5-10% of the article) and was part of a seperate work (e.g. the comments made about it), he has every right to quote like he did. It's like when you buy a book. You can quote sections out of it even though you don't own rights to the book; you just own the PHYSICAL book.
See the monorail reminds me that it recently caught on fire.
After reading more comments in the thread, I also though this might be interesting:
The department I work for (Atmospheric Sciences) there is a lab full of Compaq PCs running Debian Linux and almost all the servers run some form of Linux, Unix, or Solaris. It's very hard to find a Windows PC in a lab area in the building. This contrasts from the department in which I major in (Informatics), which pushes everything Microsoft with very few exceptions.
I guess I'm just trying to say it varies from program to program here, but the general access labs try to be just that, accessible to the general public. Also I apologize for the typos in my previous post and any in this post.
The University of Washington (when speaking of their general computing lab) has a considerable amount of Macs (G5 Towers) but 3 times as many PCs (Dell). This makes the most sense anyway; during 'rush hours', they PCs ALWAYS fill up first.
t echinfo.shtml#general
Thankfully, I don't generally care which I use (well, since Mac OS X came around).
Here's a web site with the UW's tech specs for various labs: http://depts.washington.edu/sacg/facilities/labs/
I'm not sure of the technical implications of this, but as a consumer of domain name registrations (usually consuming for clients who are too dumb to register their domains) this is very helpful.
Glad to see Verisign can do something right for a change.
I develop radar software and I'm writing it in Java. This is done for cross-platorm compatibility though, not just because I want to run it on Linux.
Oh no, that is 1, see: Blizzard has a proof :P
It seems to me a drive with this capacity would most likely be used for something like a PVR or a cheap file server, which would certainly benefit large writes. I don't think you need 400GB for your config files and UI tweaks. So what would you fill this 400GB HDD up with? probably large files.
It's not like saving these config files with a 16MB buffer is even going to be noticably slower.
You mean it's not? Damn! I was totally looking forward to a delicious SPAM BURGER on my next trip to China.