Then you're in the wrong job. I love my engineering position. Some of it's a bit try (evaluating new sensors) but I get paid to build 'robots' and code them. (Ok, I do mechatronics controls, but it's just a robot).
I was going to post something along the lines of "Wait until you get your job and they're still looking for theirs." There is a demand for intelligent engineers. How many art history majors have you had help you at Walmart?
$60k after my first year wasn't too bad either. It's not high, and about average. Life isn't easy. How many people during the industrial revolution would have complained that 'it was hard'. Our society expects everything to be handed to them for little or no work.
Agreed, if I plan on doing any last minute traveling I'll ssh into my server from work "Now what movies do I want to bring with me" and rsync them over to my laptop, sudo shutdown -h now, then just grab my laptop and go.
Because. 1) Electricity currently doesn't have a 'road' tax. 2) There isn't much 'demand' for electricity in of this nature.
Take a few million people, toss them on an already strained electrical grid. Have state and federal funding for new roads get cut in half and then lets see if it's still $4 for 200 miles.
I originally had an (obvious) after that one. I was starting out with a "Yes this is a crash where alcohol was a contributing factor" then went into everything else it covered.
I do it at least once a month. Maybe not non-stop 3000 miles, but it extrapolates the problem.
My parents live 5 miles from me. Sometimes we go skiing when we meet up. So I hop in my car, drive 300 miles home. Tesla's now dead. So we wait X hours for it to charge, we're limited to skiing with in 150 miles (I doubt the skiing places will have a place for me to 'refil').
And no I don't drive non-stop. But when human 'refil and waste dumping' is on the same order of magnitude as a refilling. It takes me 10 minutes to fill, 10 minutes to 'dump', 10 minutes to 'refil' and that's a 30 minute stop. How far is 30 minutes of Tesla charging going to get me?
However if he's really coming up at 20 MPH faster and you have more than 1-2 car lengths before the car you're actually 'passing' you have more than enough time to get over and get back and still not disrupt your driving. OR you could at least tap the accelerator to pass and then let back off (and let cruise control take back over).
It's how it works in other countries plus you're not being a dick just because you can.
Tesla Roadster carry a portable charger to enable plugging into to any ordinary power socket. An infrastructure and charger in place to give the tesla 600-8000 mile range (What I get out of my TDI) in 10 minutes (5 if I use the larger Semi nozzles).
It should be run like 'cannon ball run'. You drive non stop first team wins. I bet the winners will be in CA before Tesla is done with their second charge.
I'm not trying to dispute that driving under the influence is dangerous, but MADD and other neo-prohibition groups have found ways to inflate those numbers.
"Alcohol Related" means any alcohol found in anyone remotely involved in the crash.
Crash your car into a tree: Alcohol related Drunk jumps out in front of your car while you're driving home: Alcohol related. Grandma backs her car into a farmers market full of drunk people: Alcohol Related. 0.001 BAC: Alcohol Related..4 BAC: Alcohol Related. Crash your car as a DD with a carload full of friends: Alcohol Related.
100% of people that drink alcohol will die. 100% of people that drive will die.
Ubuntu can NOT do it. I can think of a very specific example that affected me recently.
I have an IT8212 RAID card that I use as an additional IDE controller. When I upgraded to 2.6.24 I suddenly lost 1/2 my drives and the ones I did have were running at like 5 MB/s (instead of of 50).
I spent an entire day playing around with variations of enabling and disabling things in the kernel before I found the magic set of keywords that lead me to an Ubuntu thread. It had to do with the switch from 'old' style devices to libata. Apparently Ubuntu just rolled this into one of the last updates and didn't check with IT8212 users because they were all having the same problems.
The fix was easy but it took me about a day and I had slow/missing hard drives until then.
These products have seriously revolutionized how I watch TV, even more so than when I had Tivo.
If I want to watch something at the gym, I just grab the mp4ize'd version, toss it into iTunes. If I want to watch it at home I fire up XBMC and ccxserver serves it up to XBMC.
Everything is run on my server and my iPod videos are mounted as shares, iTunes has on problem with music on a shared drive either.
Only problem is I *have* to time shift by a day, but it doesn't bother me.
Sadly Sadly true and this isn't even on a 'useful' internal website. It's something about health services where it's full of JS calculators to help us calculate a BMI and junk. You think that was entertaining you should have heard the argument between me and the HR rep. "Firefox works fine you have this dumbass script". "No other browser but firefox will work" "No. IT WORKS."
I just gave up after that. I even used firefox to contact IT about a broken webserver, they had just upgraded webservers and firefox stopped redirecting. So I looked at the content and the webserver was sending it as mime/text instead of html. IE didn't care and still worked. I e-mailed them about the misconfiguration, never got a thank you but the next day it was fixed.//function to check the browser and if IE then displays home page//else displays an error message function checkBrowser(){
var browser = navigator.appName;
var browserVersion = navigator.appVersion;
version=0
if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1){
temp=browserVersion.split("MSIE")
version=parseFloat(temp[1])
}//changes done by........ - 4 Jan 2007 to solve IE 7.0 issue
if((browser == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") && (version == 6.0) && (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")==-1)){
Izarc (because the 'authorized' WinZip sucks) Firefox (One internal website went as far as to redirect you to 'this doesn't work with FF' even though changing the user agent made it work just fine). WinAmp because yes, I am more productive when I'm listening to music.
Sametime 7.5 (Company only 'authorizes' up to 6.5, but the difference is amazing), but I guess that's a 'chat' client. Foxit instead of Adobe DVAssist because I type on Dvorak and sometimes other people want to use my computer. Heck I even edited the registry (GHASP) so that Dvorak was the login keymap instead of QWERTY. Some stuff from Yokogawa so that I can remotely control a scope that I got off of their website WinDirStat because we kept getting e-mails about our shared drive filling up and I wanted to visually see wtf was going on. Launchy because I love launching all my programs from my keyboard (I'm a Mac user and used Spotlight/Quicksilver at home) 4T Tray Minimizer so I can move stuff off of my screen and still have it running like Matlab or Excel.... Oh and Angry IP scanner (which my virus software deleted until I downloaded the beta which has a different name) because I work with XPC boxes, Yokogawa scopes and other devices that I have to change my IP for and I want to see if the cable is working so I ping them. And sometimes they don't have the IP address written on the side of the box, so I have to ping the whole subnet.
He started with smoke detectors (americium), moved up to radium, the uranium.
"When David's Geiger counter began picking up radiation five doors from his mom's house, he decided that he had "too much radioactive stuff in one place" and began to disassemble the reactor. He hid some of the material in his mother's house, left some in the shed, and packed most of the rest into the trunk of his Pontiac."... "At the shed, radiological experts found an aluminum pie pan, a Pyrex cup, a milk crate and other materials strewn about, contaminated at up to 1000 times the normal levels of background radiation. Because some of this could be moved around by wind and rain, conditions at the site, according to an EPA memo, "present an imminent endangerment to public health."
After the moon-suited workers dismantled the shed, they loaded the remains into 39 sealed barrels that were trucked to the Great Salt Lake Desert. There, the remains of David's experiments were entombed with other radioactive debris."
And the difference between a mp3 player and a black box is an mp3 player will fit in my pocket. You can get away with redundancy that you never could have in the past. Even tape drives have shrunk.
You could have 2 mil spec 16 GB SD cards, 2 80 GB hard drives AND 2 tape decks in probably the same space as the old tape decks. As far as the environment, that's almost all casing. Same with lightning strikes, if they have it figured out now, why change away from it (other than advancements in technology). It's not like these guys are saying "hey lets stick an iPod in a plane and call it good."
leveled or levelled, leveling or levelling, levels 1. To make horizontal, flat, or even: leveled the driveway with a roller; leveled off the hedges with the clippers. 2. To tear down; raze. 3. To knock down with or as if with a blow: The challenger leveled the champion with a mighty uppercut. 4. To place on the same level; equalize. 5. To aim along a horizontal plane: leveled the gun at the target. 6. To direct emphatically or forcefully toward someone: leveled charges of dishonesty. 7. To measure the different elevations of (a tract of land) with a level.
levy 1. an imposing or collecting, as of a tax, by authority or force. 2. the amount owed or collected. 3. the conscription of troops. 4. the troops conscripted. 5. to impose (a tax): to levy a duty on imports. 6. to conscript (troops). 7. to start or wage (war). 8. to seize or attach property by judicial order.
You gotta ask ourselves one question: Is our children learning?
Other than the two of the worlds most popular sports: Soccer & Rugby. Seriously: boxing, gymnastics, paintball all these 'unconventional sports' but nothing about real sports. Probably has something major to do with no 'commercial breaks'. So record the match and play it back and just insert a commercials at throw ins but don't skip play.
I've never introduced Rugby to a friend who didn't enjoy watching it over American Football.
Expensive? We did this in lab in engineering. You pull on the bolt until it fails. If I was building something I'd test one out of every 100. Just grab a random one and test it. If it fails way early put the entire shipment into hold.
Purdue University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. What's the problem with unmodified tests from previous semesters being sold? The teachers change the problems for the real, current, "this semester" test. And there have been 2 tests in all of my undergrad where the teacher only changed numbers for one of the problems. Old tests are an excellent away to prepare for new tests.
1) They were designed to be hard questions 2) They were designed to be completed within a time limit.
I'd get an old test, set up a clock and see if I could 'finish the test' in the time I would have been given.
Like I said in another one of my posts teachers didn't care much about homework. Professors knew people had study guides. We had a student organization that SOLD previous years tests, teachers encouraged us to do it. Some teachers didn't even bother to change the test questions (or just modified them). If you bought the old test, studied off of it, worked the problem you most likely were studying anyway.
Cheating on all of your homework didn't gain you much if you didn't know the material. I even had a teacher stop me in the hallway and comment that I wrote 'very nice code' when I took his class last semester. He knew, I knew and the cheater knew but it was 'accepted'.
Cheating is the IP theft of the academic world. You can try what ever you want to stop it (DRM, etc) but it's going to happen. Your best way to deal with it is to make that information 'useless' and move on.
Sounds like your teacher is a grade A asshat and your 'policies' are borderline RIAA/MPAA stupid.
And unless the grading was based on 'originality' or 'uniqueness' I would often give my Matlab programs to friends. Given my unique coding style and understanding of how to actually use the language (for loop=bad) no one would have come up with code like mine. Professors figured it out after the second homework assignment and derivative works would always get 10% less.
And heck, in subsequent semesters I'd have "friends" (mostly loose acquaintances that would use anyone they had to pass) ask me to do their homework in exchange for stuff (money, food, alcohol). If I had time and it looked like fun I'd do it for my own merit to hone my skills. Plus since the only time these people gave me the time of day is when *they* needed something for *their* homework I would have a bit of schadenfreude about the whole situation. I'd do the first few homework assignments (when my real classes had no homework) but then by time the hard stuff came out I "lost interest" and they'd end up failing because they had no concept on how anything actually worked.
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Then you're in the wrong job. I love my engineering position. Some of it's a bit try (evaluating new sensors) but I get paid to build 'robots' and code them. (Ok, I do mechatronics controls, but it's just a robot).
I was going to post something along the lines of "Wait until you get your job and they're still looking for theirs." There is a demand for intelligent engineers. How many art history majors have you had help you at Walmart?
$60k after my first year wasn't too bad either. It's not high, and about average. Life isn't easy. How many people during the industrial revolution would have complained that 'it was hard'. Our society expects everything to be handed to them for little or no work.
Or use a real protocol like Firewire. I can't imagine how much CPU USB 3.0 is going to eat up.
Agreed, if I plan on doing any last minute traveling I'll ssh into my server from work "Now what movies do I want to bring with me" and rsync them over to my laptop, sudo shutdown -h now, then just grab my laptop and go.
I'm still holding out for Algae based or GTL based biodiesel.
Because.
1) Electricity currently doesn't have a 'road' tax.
2) There isn't much 'demand' for electricity in of this nature.
Take a few million people, toss them on an already strained electrical grid. Have state and federal funding for new roads get cut in half and then lets see if it's still $4 for 200 miles.
I originally had an (obvious) after that one. I was starting out with a "Yes this is a crash where alcohol was a contributing factor" then went into everything else it covered.
I do it at least once a month. Maybe not non-stop 3000 miles, but it extrapolates the problem.
My parents live 5 miles from me. Sometimes we go skiing when we meet up. So I hop in my car, drive 300 miles home. Tesla's now dead. So we wait X hours for it to charge, we're limited to skiing with in 150 miles (I doubt the skiing places will have a place for me to 'refil').
And no I don't drive non-stop. But when human 'refil and waste dumping' is on the same order of magnitude as a refilling. It takes me 10 minutes to fill, 10 minutes to 'dump', 10 minutes to 'refil' and that's a 30 minute stop. How far is 30 minutes of Tesla charging going to get me?
However if he's really coming up at 20 MPH faster and you have more than 1-2 car lengths before the car you're actually 'passing' you have more than enough time to get over and get back and still not disrupt your driving. OR you could at least tap the accelerator to pass and then let back off (and let cruise control take back over).
It's how it works in other countries plus you're not being a dick just because you can.
It should be run like 'cannon ball run'. You drive non stop first team wins. I bet the winners will be in CA before Tesla is done with their second charge.
I'm not trying to dispute that driving under the influence is dangerous, but MADD and other neo-prohibition groups have found ways to inflate those numbers.
.4 BAC: Alcohol Related.
"Alcohol Related" means any alcohol found in anyone remotely involved in the crash.
Crash your car into a tree: Alcohol related
Drunk jumps out in front of your car while you're driving home: Alcohol related.
Grandma backs her car into a farmers market full of drunk people: Alcohol Related.
0.001 BAC: Alcohol Related.
Crash your car as a DD with a carload full of friends: Alcohol Related.
100% of people that drink alcohol will die.
100% of people that drive will die.
Ubuntu can NOT do it. I can think of a very specific example that affected me recently.
I have an IT8212 RAID card that I use as an additional IDE controller. When I upgraded to 2.6.24 I suddenly lost 1/2 my drives and the ones I did have were running at like 5 MB/s (instead of of 50).
I spent an entire day playing around with variations of enabling and disabling things in the kernel before I found the magic set of keywords that lead me to an Ubuntu thread. It had to do with the switch from 'old' style devices to libata. Apparently Ubuntu just rolled this into one of the last updates and didn't check with IT8212 users because they were all having the same problems.
The fix was easy but it took me about a day and I had slow/missing hard drives until then.
I wrote it all out here on my "random debian notes" blog.
"Apple has destroyed the music business," NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker told an audience at Syracuse University.
Yes, apple destroyed the industry because they gave people what they wanted.
Apple rarely does anything first but they often do it right for the first time.
These products have seriously revolutionized how I watch TV, even more so than when I had Tivo.
If I want to watch something at the gym, I just grab the mp4ize'd version, toss it into iTunes. If I want to watch it at home I fire up XBMC and ccxserver serves it up to XBMC.
Everything is run on my server and my iPod videos are mounted as shares, iTunes has on problem with music on a shared drive either.
Only problem is I *have* to time shift by a day, but it doesn't bother me.
Sadly Sadly true and this isn't even on a 'useful' internal website. It's something about health services where it's full of JS calculators to help us calculate a BMI and junk. You think that was entertaining you should have heard the argument between me and the HR rep.
//function to check the browser and if IE then displays home page //else displays an error message //changes done by .... .... - 4 Jan 2007 to solve IE 7.0 issue
"Firefox works fine you have this dumbass script".
"No other browser but firefox will work"
"No. IT WORKS."
I just gave up after that. I even used firefox to contact IT about a broken webserver, they had just upgraded webservers and firefox stopped redirecting. So I looked at the content and the webserver was sending it as mime/text instead of html. IE didn't care and still worked. I e-mailed them about the misconfiguration, never got a thank you but the next day it was fixed.
function checkBrowser(){
var browser = navigator.appName;
var browserVersion = navigator.appVersion;
version=0
if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1){
temp=browserVersion.split("MSIE")
version=parseFloat(temp[1])
}
if((browser == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") && (version == 6.0) && (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")==-1)){
parent.location.href='...action=login';
}
else{
parent.location.href='...action=login&browserError=true';
}
}
Izarc (because the 'authorized' WinZip sucks)
...
Firefox (One internal website went as far as to redirect you to 'this doesn't work with FF' even though changing the user agent made it work just fine).
WinAmp because yes, I am more productive when I'm listening to music.
Sametime 7.5 (Company only 'authorizes' up to 6.5, but the difference is amazing), but I guess that's a 'chat' client.
Foxit instead of Adobe
DVAssist because I type on Dvorak and sometimes other people want to use my computer. Heck I even edited the registry (GHASP) so that Dvorak was the login keymap instead of QWERTY.
Some stuff from Yokogawa so that I can remotely control a scope that I got off of their website
WinDirStat because we kept getting e-mails about our shared drive filling up and I wanted to visually see wtf was going on.
Launchy because I love launching all my programs from my keyboard (I'm a Mac user and used Spotlight/Quicksilver at home)
4T Tray Minimizer so I can move stuff off of my screen and still have it running like Matlab or Excel.
Oh and Angry IP scanner (which my virus software deleted until I downloaded the beta which has a different name) because I work with XPC boxes, Yokogawa scopes and other devices that I have to change my IP for and I want to see if the cable is working so I ping them. And sometimes they don't have the IP address written on the side of the box, so I have to ping the whole subnet.
Das! Old buddy. I haven't been by the chat channels in ages. Coincidental I find you commenting on my post. :)
- darkscout
http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html
...
He started with smoke detectors (americium), moved up to radium, the uranium.
"When David's Geiger counter began picking up radiation five doors from his mom's house, he decided that he had "too much radioactive stuff in one place" and began to disassemble the reactor. He hid some of the material in his mother's house, left some in the shed, and packed most of the rest into the trunk of his Pontiac."
"At the shed, radiological experts found an aluminum pie pan, a Pyrex cup, a milk crate and other materials strewn about, contaminated at up to 1000 times the normal levels of background radiation. Because some of this could be moved around by wind and rain, conditions at the site, according to an EPA memo, "present an imminent endangerment to public health."
After the moon-suited workers dismantled the shed, they loaded the remains into 39 sealed barrels that were trucked to the Great Salt Lake Desert. There, the remains of David's experiments were entombed with other radioactive debris."
And the difference between a mp3 player and a black box is an mp3 player will fit in my pocket. You can get away with redundancy that you never could have in the past. Even tape drives have shrunk.
You could have 2 mil spec 16 GB SD cards, 2 80 GB hard drives AND 2 tape decks in probably the same space as the old tape decks. As far as the environment, that's almost all casing. Same with lightning strikes, if they have it figured out now, why change away from it (other than advancements in technology). It's not like these guys are saying "hey lets stick an iPod in a plane and call it good."
leveled or levelled, leveling or levelling, levels
1. To make horizontal, flat, or even: leveled the driveway with a roller; leveled off the hedges with the clippers.
2. To tear down; raze.
3. To knock down with or as if with a blow: The challenger leveled the champion with a mighty uppercut.
4. To place on the same level; equalize.
5. To aim along a horizontal plane: leveled the gun at the target.
6. To direct emphatically or forcefully toward someone: leveled charges of dishonesty.
7. To measure the different elevations of (a tract of land) with a level.
levy
1. an imposing or collecting, as of a tax, by authority or force.
2. the amount owed or collected.
3. the conscription of troops.
4. the troops conscripted.
5. to impose (a tax): to levy a duty on imports.
6. to conscript (troops).
7. to start or wage (war).
8. to seize or attach property by judicial order.
You gotta ask ourselves one question: Is our children learning?
Other than the two of the worlds most popular sports: Soccer & Rugby. Seriously: boxing, gymnastics, paintball all these 'unconventional sports' but nothing about real sports. Probably has something major to do with no 'commercial breaks'. So record the match and play it back and just insert a commercials at throw ins but don't skip play.
I've never introduced Rugby to a friend who didn't enjoy watching it over American Football.
So you bend them or twist them or pull them. Material properties of steel are pretty well known and they're all related by some fun math.
Expensive? We did this in lab in engineering. You pull on the bolt until it fails. If I was building something I'd test one out of every 100. Just grab a random one and test it. If it fails way early put the entire shipment into hold.
Purdue University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. What's the problem with unmodified tests from previous semesters being sold? The teachers change the problems for the real, current, "this semester" test. And there have been 2 tests in all of my undergrad where the teacher only changed numbers for one of the problems. Old tests are an excellent away to prepare for new tests.
1) They were designed to be hard questions
2) They were designed to be completed within a time limit.
I'd get an old test, set up a clock and see if I could 'finish the test' in the time I would have been given.
Like I said in another one of my posts teachers didn't care much about homework. Professors knew people had study guides. We had a student organization that SOLD previous years tests, teachers encouraged us to do it. Some teachers didn't even bother to change the test questions (or just modified them). If you bought the old test, studied off of it, worked the problem you most likely were studying anyway.
Cheating on all of your homework didn't gain you much if you didn't know the material. I even had a teacher stop me in the hallway and comment that I wrote 'very nice code' when I took his class last semester. He knew, I knew and the cheater knew but it was 'accepted'.
Cheating is the IP theft of the academic world. You can try what ever you want to stop it (DRM, etc) but it's going to happen. Your best way to deal with it is to make that information 'useless' and move on.
Sounds like your teacher is a grade A asshat and your 'policies' are borderline RIAA/MPAA stupid.
And unless the grading was based on 'originality' or 'uniqueness' I would often give my Matlab programs to friends. Given my unique coding style and understanding of how to actually use the language (for loop=bad) no one would have come up with code like mine. Professors figured it out after the second homework assignment and derivative works would always get 10% less.
And heck, in subsequent semesters I'd have "friends" (mostly loose acquaintances that would use anyone they had to pass) ask me to do their homework in exchange for stuff (money, food, alcohol). If I had time and it looked like fun I'd do it for my own merit to hone my skills. Plus since the only time these people gave me the time of day is when *they* needed something for *their* homework I would have a bit of schadenfreude about the whole situation. I'd do the first few homework assignments (when my real classes had no homework) but then by time the hard stuff came out I "lost interest" and they'd end up failing because they had no concept on how anything actually worked.