I guess we grew up in different worlds. Teachers at both engineering colleges I attended would intentionally assign Odd number questions because the answer was in the back of the book. ME Honor Fraternity (Pi Tau Sigma) would sell old tests for $.50 a piece. Members were encouraged to bring in tests that they had done well on and turn them in.
Some groups who had friends older than them would have binders full of old homework. Teachers knew this and still assigned the exact same homework problems year after year. Some didn't even hide it, in 2003 I got a homework assignment that still had a 1999 stamp on it and was just photocopied.
The ME study lab was full of groups in 5-10 there from 8 pm till 2 am often there was a teachers assistant (often a grad student) who was being paid to be there and help you with your homework.
Classes were all 20% HW, 40% Test, 40% Lab. You could copy every single homework assignment and still be fucked for the tests. On the other hand there were some of us that learned by 'copying'. Some subjects it didn't matter what the teacher said in class, I had to see the problems worked out. So I'd get old homework, buy solutions manuals on Half, etc. Work out a few problems and learn the material. And if the teacher was going to give me 20% of my grade based on doing certain problems, I was sure as hell going to be working on and 'cheating' on those problems.
I still graduated with a 3.5. I still got a good job, I still know what I'm doing at work (some days I do question it).
The only thing I can think of is that this is supposed to be a weed out class and the teacher is placing too much emphasis on homework. Make homework with 0%, nothing. Split the rest between quizzes, tests, lab, etc. I've had 'quizzes' that were direct copies of homework problems. If you did the homework and understood it you could get it done in 5 minutes and if there was a 6 minute time limit you were fine. It's the people who just copied without thinking that failed those.
Here's a dirty secret about most engineering tests: They're open book. Open note. You can program your calculator to do everything your heart desires. If you don't know your stuff you will not pass the test, period.
The mars rovers (as awesome as they are) move at.1 mph. Even in a space suit with full gear I bet the human could do 10 times that. And if they saw a rock or formation on their way to where they were going they could easily change course.
And while I agree with most of your post, there will come a time where robots just won't cut it anymore (unless AI makes some great breakthroughs)
And the context sensitive stuff I know Mail.app does right now.
Say I got an e-mail: "Hey, We're going to go to Tom's house tomorrow at 1 pm. The address is 123 Main Street, Anywhere USA". If I hover over "tomorrow at 1 pm" I get a popup "add to calendar" and if I hover over the address I get a "Map this address."
Crash recovery from firefox.
Who the hell has an excel document that is their 'favorite' and they'd want to launch from their "favorites bar"? I guess firefox does this already with file://.
Webslices look like the tool for Leopard where you can make a widget out of 'anything'.
To take this further: It's shifted to a 'free' market place for China (Any word on if they still are letting China sell for free). Sometimes I like it because if I need cheap LEDs eBay has 100 sellers selling them but the 'auction' format is completely no-ideal. Google needs to setup a free/cheap 'marketplace'. There's no reason 100 pc LEDs should cost $.50 with $5 shipping and paypal/ebay getting their cut. Just set up a damn website and sell it.
But I agree 100%. If I'm looking for a used, cheap iPod I'll get 500 hits for "ZUNE IPOD 360". Thankfully ebay lets me negate terms but it's still annoying when I'm searching for headphones that i have to do 'iPod headphones -zune -mp3'.
Google could come to the table with all of these changes in place and eBay would lose 50% of their population over night. Make it easy to sell lots of things repeatedly (without doing a dutch auction), make it easy to just sell things period (without having to list everything as an auction), and make it easy to search for obscure or rare things or just used things from 'some guy' not trying to make a living on this.
I did this for some hotlinkers. I posted a funny picture on a website and forgot about it... months later I find that it's been hotlinked on a few hundred profiles. People were putting it on each others 'wall', etc.
I was no longer using it. The link I set it up for had been changed, so I replaced it with hello.jpg.
Hotlinkers beware, I spend $$ on my bandwith, at the very least download the photo and upload it to imageshack or some other service.
Dude, don't loose your mind. I was just making a joke up they're. If you come off you're rocker that quickly I wonder what you have up their in your noggin. Sounds like a screw lose or something. I mean I didn't try to effect you in anyway, but now look how you've gone and disrupted the affect the original poster had. Here me out, there are a lot of people that are knew hear. You should calm down than come back later.
...However, as soon as the official iPhone SDK comes out next month, I plan on porting it over to that framework. I would love to get this thing on iTunes as early as possible...
He's going to wait until the SDK becomes available and then sell it via iTunes, which is how most people are thinking Apple is going to 'release' 3rd party apps.
I've rarely ever seen Just One pump. Usually they're in a pair. And usually stations won't install diesel tanks just for one pump.
And that '15' for gas, are you counting all 3 grades? Because I can't think of anytime I've seen a small town 15 pump station that has only 1 diesel pump. Heck that's on the scale of some interstate stations. Most of the local ones have maybe 10 pumps at most and even then 2 diesel pumps on a separate island.
And I'd say filling up only 5% of the time I've ever had to wait for someone to move on, about on par with when I drove gasoline.
Or it could be a '3rd shift' operation. Same factory, same 'workers' but what they do after the 1st and 2nd "authentic" shifts are finished is swap out all 'good' electronics for cheap replacements.
Say Cisco specified a 1 ohm SMT resistor that has a.09% failure rate and costs $1/per (yes, it's just an example). When the '3rd shift' comes on board, they swap those out for 1 ohm resistors with a 5% failure rate but that only cost $.50/per. So it may even be the same assembly line but the components are much cheaper and not to Cisco specification, which is why Cisco doesn't stamp them as 'authorized'. And also why they may fail down the line long after the seller has disappeared.
Where does this "oh no, no diesel" myth propagate?
If the place has 'stuff' the 'stuff' was brought by a truck using diesel. Sure every single gas station in town doesn't have one, but look around, sometimes it's on a separate island, sometimes it's just another handle on the gas pumps. It's not that hard to find.
I love my '98 TDI and I have NEVER had a problem finding diesel (although given that you have 600-800 miles per tank to do so...)
Biodiesel IS NOT ETHANOL. E85 is an ethanol blend. B% is a biodiesel blend. Most modern manufactures will warranty up to B5.
The problem with Biodiesel is that too much of it is out of spec. A recent survey done by I forget who found that 50% of "biodiesel" didn't meet the ASTM specification. Imagine if 50% of gasoline or diesel didn't meet the required spec, engines would be shitting out left and right.
Get the stock and specifications under control and then we'll talk.
I got in trouble for 'hacking' the C64 in my elementary school. Small Catholic school and that was our only computer (This was 1995) because it was donated. I found the manual and started doing 'cool' things like changing the background color and text color. Principal (nun) pulled me aside and told me I should have the computer back to how it was originally or I would be in trouble for hacking.
You mean something like TouchStream from Finger Works? This is just a sample of the input commands for text editing.
Apple bought them and incorporated their tech into the iPhone, iTouch, & MacBook Air. I suspect 2 finger scrolling and right click on the Intel laptops also came out of this.
You can find iGestures on eBay, but they're fetching a pretty penny last time I checked. They even have a macro editor and such so you can assign any finger gesture to almost anything.
OSX86 is a nice little hobby, but for someone that wants a full working computer it's annoying. Even people building from computers scratch using 'ideal' components can't always get things working perfectly (eg, Me). Laptops it's even harder to find drivers, etc. Oh sure it'll run, but sleep won't work. Sound is flaky and wireless won't work. Especially considering there might not even be OS X WiMax drivers.
No most of their adult fanbase lost interest when they got scrawny and anorexic. The same with numerous other (what I would consider attractive) young female stars. Olsen Twins, Lohan, Spears, I'm sure Duff and Cyrus will follow suit. They were all decently attractive women until around 18 then they decided that being 95 lbs was more attractive than 130 (I'm sure drugs had nothing to do with it either). Other than Spears, she just went batshit crazy and needs some good drugs.
(Note, 18 is only the age of consent in the USA, they would have been perfectly legal earlier in other countries)
Dear women of slashdot (ha) quit trying to be a size -1.
I disagree. I'm going to fork your comment. Therefore I'm in charge. And I'm going to devote minutes of my free time reinventing what you may have posted. But I'm going to do it MY way because I'm MY own boss. And if anyone disagrees with me, you're free to fork my comment and do it how you want. And at the end of the day we'll have X comments saying the same thing, in our own ways and we'll have gotten nothing done. And We can all make our own websites dedicated to our forked comment and we can all fight over the same market because we believe our method of the comment is right.
One extreme of this is Apple. Apple has One leader. From what we've heard it's a complete dictatorship. Features and designs live and die by what one person says. Consequently everything feels very well integrated and you can leverage numerous people to get more done and get it done better.
Mathematica and Matlab do two different things. Mathematica seems to be more geared towards... algebra. Matlab has a symbolic toolbox, but it's not what it primarily does.
Matlab lets you process lots of large matricies. Simulink for hardware in the loop and other development work is great./Disclaimer: I work with Matlab/Simulink daily.
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I guess we grew up in different worlds. Teachers at both engineering colleges I attended would intentionally assign Odd number questions because the answer was in the back of the book. ME Honor Fraternity (Pi Tau Sigma) would sell old tests for $.50 a piece. Members were encouraged to bring in tests that they had done well on and turn them in.
Some groups who had friends older than them would have binders full of old homework. Teachers knew this and still assigned the exact same homework problems year after year. Some didn't even hide it, in 2003 I got a homework assignment that still had a 1999 stamp on it and was just photocopied.
The ME study lab was full of groups in 5-10 there from 8 pm till 2 am often there was a teachers assistant (often a grad student) who was being paid to be there and help you with your homework.
Classes were all 20% HW, 40% Test, 40% Lab. You could copy every single homework assignment and still be fucked for the tests. On the other hand there were some of us that learned by 'copying'. Some subjects it didn't matter what the teacher said in class, I had to see the problems worked out. So I'd get old homework, buy solutions manuals on Half, etc. Work out a few problems and learn the material. And if the teacher was going to give me 20% of my grade based on doing certain problems, I was sure as hell going to be working on and 'cheating' on those problems.
I still graduated with a 3.5. I still got a good job, I still know what I'm doing at work (some days I do question it).
The only thing I can think of is that this is supposed to be a weed out class and the teacher is placing too much emphasis on homework. Make homework with 0%, nothing. Split the rest between quizzes, tests, lab, etc. I've had 'quizzes' that were direct copies of homework problems. If you did the homework and understood it you could get it done in 5 minutes and if there was a 6 minute time limit you were fine. It's the people who just copied without thinking that failed those.
Here's a dirty secret about most engineering tests: They're open book. Open note. You can program your calculator to do everything your heart desires. If you don't know your stuff you will not pass the test, period.
Lenovo isn't an American Company.
Makes me think Jericho is a future documentary. Not as much the bombs but how the city / country has been locked down.
I just wonder what we'll hit first: Jericho or Idiocracy.
The mars rovers (as awesome as they are) move at .1 mph. Even in a space suit with full gear I bet the human could do 10 times that. And if they saw a rock or formation on their way to where they were going they could easily change course.
And while I agree with most of your post, there will come a time where robots just won't cut it anymore (unless AI makes some great breakthroughs)
And the context sensitive stuff I know Mail.app does right now.
Say I got an e-mail: "Hey, We're going to go to Tom's house tomorrow at 1 pm. The address is 123 Main Street, Anywhere USA". If I hover over "tomorrow at 1 pm" I get a popup "add to calendar" and if I hover over the address I get a "Map this address."
Crash recovery from firefox.
Who the hell has an excel document that is their 'favorite' and they'd want to launch from their "favorites bar"? I guess firefox does this already with file://.
Webslices look like the tool for Leopard where you can make a widget out of 'anything'.
To take this further: It's shifted to a 'free' market place for China (Any word on if they still are letting China sell for free). Sometimes I like it because if I need cheap LEDs eBay has 100 sellers selling them but the 'auction' format is completely no-ideal. Google needs to setup a free/cheap 'marketplace'. There's no reason 100 pc LEDs should cost $.50 with $5 shipping and paypal/ebay getting their cut. Just set up a damn website and sell it.
But I agree 100%. If I'm looking for a used, cheap iPod I'll get 500 hits for "ZUNE IPOD 360". Thankfully ebay lets me negate terms but it's still annoying when I'm searching for headphones that i have to do 'iPod headphones -zune -mp3'.
Google could come to the table with all of these changes in place and eBay would lose 50% of their population over night. Make it easy to sell lots of things repeatedly (without doing a dutch auction), make it easy to just sell things period (without having to list everything as an auction), and make it easy to search for obscure or rare things or just used things from 'some guy' not trying to make a living on this.
I did this for some hotlinkers. I posted a funny picture on a website and forgot about it... months later I find that it's been hotlinked on a few hundred profiles. People were putting it on each others 'wall', etc.
I was no longer using it. The link I set it up for had been changed, so I replaced it with hello.jpg.
Hotlinkers beware, I spend $$ on my bandwith, at the very least download the photo and upload it to imageshack or some other service.
Corporations ARE people (legally), but corporations don't have morals.
I would suggest watching the documentary "The Corporation." It's a bit extremist, but interesting none the less.
Dude, don't loose your mind. I was just making a joke up they're. If you come off you're rocker that quickly I wonder what you have up their in your noggin. Sounds like a screw lose or something. I mean I didn't try to effect you in anyway, but now look how you've gone and disrupted the affect the original poster had. Here me out, there are a lot of people that are knew hear. You should calm down than come back later.
(stolen from myself)
...However, as soon as the official iPhone SDK comes out next month, I plan on porting it over to that framework. I would love to get this thing on iTunes as early as possible...
He's going to wait until the SDK becomes available and then sell it via iTunes, which is how most people are thinking Apple is going to 'release' 3rd party apps.
Family Matters was a spinoff of Perfect Strangers.
Wiki to the rescue...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_spin-offs
So Sabrina the Teenage Witch (With Melissa Joan Hart) is a remake of a spinoff of The Archie Hour.
Damnit that's the problem with wiki....
The Tick,
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.,
Sliders,
Fox definitely doesn't have their fingers on the pulse of the viewers.
I've rarely ever seen Just One pump. Usually they're in a pair. And usually stations won't install diesel tanks just for one pump.
And that '15' for gas, are you counting all 3 grades? Because I can't think of anytime I've seen a small town 15 pump station that has only 1 diesel pump. Heck that's on the scale of some interstate stations. Most of the local ones have maybe 10 pumps at most and even then 2 diesel pumps on a separate island.
And I'd say filling up only 5% of the time I've ever had to wait for someone to move on, about on par with when I drove gasoline.
Or it could be a '3rd shift' operation. Same factory, same 'workers' but what they do after the 1st and 2nd "authentic" shifts are finished is swap out all 'good' electronics for cheap replacements.
.09% failure rate and costs $1/per (yes, it's just an example). When the '3rd shift' comes on board, they swap those out for 1 ohm resistors with a 5% failure rate but that only cost $.50/per. So it may even be the same assembly line but the components are much cheaper and not to Cisco specification, which is why Cisco doesn't stamp them as 'authorized'. And also why they may fail down the line long after the seller has disappeared.
Say Cisco specified a 1 ohm SMT resistor that has a
Where does this "oh no, no diesel" myth propagate?
If the place has 'stuff' the 'stuff' was brought by a truck using diesel. Sure every single gas station in town doesn't have one, but look around, sometimes it's on a separate island, sometimes it's just another handle on the gas pumps. It's not that hard to find.
I love my '98 TDI and I have NEVER had a problem finding diesel (although given that you have 600-800 miles per tank to do so...)
Biodiesel IS NOT ETHANOL. E85 is an ethanol blend. B% is a biodiesel blend. Most modern manufactures will warranty up to B5.
The problem with Biodiesel is that too much of it is out of spec. A recent survey done by I forget who found that 50% of "biodiesel" didn't meet the ASTM specification. Imagine if 50% of gasoline or diesel didn't meet the required spec, engines would be shitting out left and right.
Get the stock and specifications under control and then we'll talk.
Good thing I got all my porn when I was younger from 'legitimate' sources.
Someone should tell these kids about Usenet.
I got in trouble for 'hacking' the C64 in my elementary school. Small Catholic school and that was our only computer (This was 1995) because it was donated. I found the manual and started doing 'cool' things like changing the background color and text color. Principal (nun) pulled me aside and told me I should have the computer back to how it was originally or I would be in trouble for hacking.
I power cycled the machine and wow, it works...
You mean something like TouchStream from Finger Works? This is just a sample of the input commands for text editing.
Apple bought them and incorporated their tech into the iPhone, iTouch, & MacBook Air. I suspect 2 finger scrolling and right click on the Intel laptops also came out of this.
You can find iGestures on eBay, but they're fetching a pretty penny last time I checked. They even have a macro editor and such so you can assign any finger gesture to almost anything.
OMG PONIES!?!
OSX86 is a nice little hobby, but for someone that wants a full working computer it's annoying. Even people building from computers scratch using 'ideal' components can't always get things working perfectly (eg, Me). Laptops it's even harder to find drivers, etc. Oh sure it'll run, but sleep won't work. Sound is flaky and wireless won't work. Especially considering there might not even be OS X WiMax drivers.
No most of their adult fanbase lost interest when they got scrawny and anorexic. The same with numerous other (what I would consider attractive) young female stars. Olsen Twins, Lohan, Spears, I'm sure Duff and Cyrus will follow suit. They were all decently attractive women until around 18 then they decided that being 95 lbs was more attractive than 130 (I'm sure drugs had nothing to do with it either). Other than Spears, she just went batshit crazy and needs some good drugs.
(Note, 18 is only the age of consent in the USA, they would have been perfectly legal earlier in other countries)
Dear women of slashdot (ha) quit trying to be a size -1.
I disagree. I'm going to fork your comment. Therefore I'm in charge. And I'm going to devote minutes of my free time reinventing what you may have posted. But I'm going to do it MY way because I'm MY own boss. And if anyone disagrees with me, you're free to fork my comment and do it how you want. And at the end of the day we'll have X comments saying the same thing, in our own ways and we'll have gotten nothing done. And We can all make our own websites dedicated to our forked comment and we can all fight over the same market because we believe our method of the comment is right.
One extreme of this is Apple. Apple has One leader. From what we've heard it's a complete dictatorship. Features and designs live and die by what one person says. Consequently everything feels very well integrated and you can leverage numerous people to get more done and get it done better.
Mathematica and Matlab do two different things. Mathematica seems to be more geared towards... algebra. Matlab has a symbolic toolbox, but it's not what it primarily does.
/Disclaimer: I work with Matlab/Simulink daily.
Matlab lets you process lots of large matricies. Simulink for hardware in the loop and other development work is great.
Africa, Asia, Rural USA?
Not everyone has access to dependable power.
Sad that his numbers are off by quite a bit.