WHen the oil prices jumped up a couple months ago that rough split was what every major talk show (radio) used as a break down. I belive 13% of that 25 is used for gasoline and other fuels. Which means only 12% of oil consumed yearly in the US is used to create electricity directly.
As to where it came from directly I can't tell you. My guess is the department on energy web site, but I don't have the time now to go find it.
Don't be so quick with the black helicopter theorys about oil companies lobbying against distributed solar power. Fact is less than 25% of all oil is consumed to fuel our cars and power our homes. The other 75% goes directly to manufacturing, and thus demand will not be significantly reduced by simply adding solar.
Second, the technological challanges are minimal. We have solar panels today nearing the theoretical maximum effeciecy of the substrate used to convert it. No they are not cheap and that is the only restriction to distributed power. No one can afford it up front, and it could take 20 or more years to pay for itself (not including maintaince or replacment costs). On top of that some areas (like oh I dunno where i live in MN) are not Optimal for solar power production. Up here it could take more than 50 years to make my money back on the initial investment...course the panels are only rated for 30 years use.
FUD is fun, and everyone likes to hear about how big bad corps are ruining the world and how its all the presidents fault because he has money invested in oil but the fact of the matter is right now oil is cheaper and easier. Until that changes, you will NOT see solar. Oh and one more thing..DO NOT RAISE MY DAMN TAXES TO SUBSIDIZE SOLAR FOR THE WORLD. Instead, give the money in grants to schools and companies to make the tech affordable/better.
Remove the computer, give the voter a felt tip pen and have them check the appropriate box (on a machine readable form) and you have the same system without the computer costs or failures.
In fact, I live in MN and thats how I've been voting for the last 7 years. The machines that read the ballot are even smart enough to detect common mistakes like two votes in the area and spit the ballot back out to be destoyed. The nice elderly person manageing the machine examines the old ballot, tells you what you did wrong, gives you a new ballot and sends you back to start again. The old ballot is shredded into another locked box.
This is not rocket science people, there is no need to use a computer to make a small mark on a piece of paper. What was Ockums Razor again? The simple solution tends to be correct.
One of my asshat salesmen took a trip to Japan without updating his anti-virus and brought nachi and a few other things back. The real viruses were found and destroyed almost immeadiatly...Nachi however was left to run rampent. Before all was said and done I had 5 infected machines that would take down my firewall at random times by opening more than 6000 connections to the internet. Sure it cleaned up easy but it made for some shitty days. White hat or not, leave my systems alone.
"the economic and military power of the area comes closer and closer to that of the US (the EU as a whole already surpasses the US in terms of GDP)"
Umm, not sure where your getting your stats, but I would love to see some links. The EU doesn't have a unified military and they certainly don't have the economic ability to maintain one as large as the US. The average age of a German solider is 40+ these days.
EU has more GDP than the US? Technically that may be, but GDP is not the only number important for judging economic well being. The economic output of several individual US states is larger than France, Germany, or Italy..in some cases combined (California is the third largest economy on the planet). Many EU countries are currently in the beginnings of economic failure due mostly to their outragous social welfare programs. Unemployment throughout the EU is through the roof. Hardly what I'd call an opponent.
50 years from now, after we bail them out, it might be called the USEU...not the other way around.
I'm not a Mac nerd but I'm fairly sure the RAID you can build on your G5 is a software RAID handled by OS X. Software RAIDs are sub-optimal in all situations. Windows NT 4.0 and up can Software Mirror disks out of the box by simply dragging one volume ontop of another in the drive managment GUI utility, they don't even have to be the same size.. It's literally two mouse clicks...however its less optimal and stable than any kind of Hardware (read third party or onboard controller).
I manage several Compaq ML370s with three different Raid cards, as well as have used two different types at home (one was an American Megatrends SCSI Raid adapter the other is an IDE based Raid chip) All of them are accessed by pressing a key before the OS boots. Once there it is gennerally just a matter of selecting the number of drives you wish to use and the type of RAID to implement. Reboot and the computer is ready for OS installation if the RAID is to be used for the boot drive.
There is nothing hard about it, and two of my Raid cards take less than 4 steps to setup a Raid...the user just has to know how to hit F8 before boot...but it says that on the screen.
Setting up software raids in linux I'm sure is nasty as can be, however I wouldn't exactly start shouting about the virtues of Mac raiding when it is in fact just as simple to setup a hardware RAID on a PC platform.
Not trying to zelot out on you or anything, just sharing my expierence.
Art, science...bleh, I watch AP simply for the knowledge transfer high. When I was a kid watching Sesame Street I would drool every time the clip which shows how crayons are made came on. I love knowing how things work. AB does so much prep work to explain exactly why things are the way they are that I really don't even care what he is making half the time. I want to know why adding corn syrup to melted sugar prevents it from binding. I love to hear the ancient history of teas, how/where they are grown, selected and refined. On top of all that, he presents the information in a humerous and easy to digest manor. (Nothing like a bunch of human sized molecules doing the cooking dance of love to teach you some basic chemistry.)
AB is about entertaining information, food and cooking just happen to be the subject. I would like to see more spinoffs with this style on discovery or TLC (Which should change its name to THRDC - The Home Repair and Decoration Chanel).
I also highly recommend "Unwrapped" for those like me with the crayon making fetish.
Amazingly enough I just checked my company spam box...In it are messages with the subject "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT" Some also have "-ADLT-" and some have "[Adult]" many more do not have any such lables. SO it would seem at least some spam companies are following these rules. I guess now it makes it easy to tell the "good" spammers from the "bad" spammers right?
Indeed I have made an ass out of myself. Funny though when I googled for this problem most of what I found was kids bitching about losing FPS in quake with unfounded claims...Nothing of substance. Granted I probably only looked for 10 minutes. Thanks for the site BTW.
For the record I have worked with far more than 250 processors. I built and maintainted PCs/Servers for a local reseller for 8 years through college, that spanned the 486/pentium60/66/90/II/III/4 and AMD/Cyrix versions as well. At the height of the company we were building and shipping more than 100 computers a month. The point I was making there was AMD Cooling apparati have always been larger and hotter through the years. I can count on two hands the number of failed Intel Procs in my lifetime. Unfortunatly the same cannot be said for AMD, more than 50 I can remember being bad out of the box, buring up (literally burning the surface of the chip), or having wierd lockup problems due to heat. Good bad or otherwise past expierence has made me skeptical of their reliability.
I've said before on/. that if AMD's chip is so superior, cooler and cheaper why haven't major server makers (IBM, HPAQ, DELL) adopted a line of them? The Opteron is only now starting to get looked at as a viable server CPU. Cheap and homebrew is great for the masses, but the IT world isn't yet sold.
Thanks for the back and forth, but I think you've shown me I'm done here.:)
Unfortunatly this mythical "problem" you both keep talking about is unfounded, and highly speculative. Look at the wording...Tend to overheat.. What does that mean? Does that mean some processors run hotter than others of the same speed? Does that mean some processors have different thermal properties and can't shed heat as fast as others?
What you call a solution to a "problem" is a design feature to prevent chip destruction in the unlikely event that you turn the system on without a sink/fan connected or the fan fails.
Googling for your "problem" returns nothing relevent to normal CPU operation under any load.
In conclusion your "problem" is made up because AMD fan boys can't come up with anything real to attack the Pentium chips with anymore.
In reality I wish people would STOP comparing them. The architectures of both chips are now significantly different and cannot be compared strait out. Buy what you want, run what you want, but don't spread FUD about somthing you know nothing about. I've touched, installed and run more procs than you will likly ever see in your lifetime...these have been AMD, X86, Pentium 1/2/3/4, Cyrix, RISC...everything. Morons talk out of their asses, I was just letting him know he needs to wipe.
Yea, the U has changed...for the worse I believe. I attended from 96/97-02 (took the slow path because I was working 30 hours a week in the field).
80% of the IT CS dept is of Asian or Indian descent, and english is the second spoken language in most classes. I don't mind diversity but when you can't actually speak the same language as your group memebers learning anything becomes a chore.
Group work is forced upon you even when not needed because the U was highly criticized for its graduates poor skills in that area...well they fixed it good.
I think you and I mostly agree. I realize learning the finer points of client control is somthing that can really only be taught in situation...but that goes the same for nearly everything in this world. Its easy enough to read a manual describing how to restore a server upon hardware failure...its a whole nother world when your sitting in front of it with $$ ticking away.
I didn't take the CS test as I wasn't programming in HS but I have taken the AP Calc, American History, World History and Macro Economics tests.
If the AP CS classes are taught anything like my other classes were taught everyone should do rather well. Teachers in my HS taught specifically for the test, that is, based on student interviews on past tests they covered in depth materials that were on previous tests and flew through the rest.
For Calc my teacher actually finished teaching us everything she expected to be on the test a month early...AP calc became movie/study hour.
We were all given a number and told to memorize that question/answers. When we got done we were to write it down and hand it into the teachers. Do this for 5+ years and you pretty much have every question on the AP tests.
It worked, I did very well on all my tests, but I have to wonder if I didn't miss a few things along the way. Obviously free response questions are generally designed to test complete understanding of material but hey, this is how it was done for me.
Being a Graduate, and having worked with non-degree holding IT personell I'll have to disagree with you.
GPA based pigeon-holeing went out with the 80s...Any company still using it for any real measure of a candidate needs to wake up and read a resume.
The very three topics you bring up (stats, requirements, and communication) are expressly taught from DAY ONE in the CS department. Take the UML Software Engineering course...if you aren't a babbling requirement fiend after that you'll never be one. As for communication...hell every single class on campus FORCES group work for nearly every assignment/project. If you can't communicate effectivly you will fail out of the school.
A 4 year CS degree program from most universities is so much broader than just teaching CS. Hitting a couple tech schools will give you the fast and easy tools to make a quick buck, but will leave you outside the big picture with little to grow on.
But yea...one probably doesn't need advanced Calc for most programming positions.
The University of Minnesota offers Computer Science degrees in its IT (Institute of Technology) department. All IT majors require a complete Calculas course (4 semesters), 2 semesters of Physics (basically more Calc) and Statistics (lots of fun math there, including more calc).
Math is more about learning how to think about problems and solutions than anything else. You'll use that skill every moment of your life.
" when the processor gets too hot for the cooling solution (a problem with Intel P4s)"
Ha ha...AMD Fan boy speak....
Its not a problem with the P4 it is a built in protection to keep the chip from cooking itself you moron. The current heatsink/fan on my P4 3Ghz is smaller than the one on my last PIII 866.
I have the Snap 2200 model running on my Windows network at work.
It is more or less a pair of IDE hard drives with a hardware RAID. You can run them mirrored for half the space (aka 240G becomes a mirrored 120G) or as a single drive for full space.
The SNAPs can interface directly to a windows domain controller for user login security. Very slick, took about 20 minutes to get it up and running from zero knowledge.
This is the second SNAP device we have had, the first was a 40gig model a few years back. THis is also the second SNAP i've had fail. The first lasted two years before the cooling fan on the CPU inside failed and caused the device to lock up under any kind of normal load. Since the unit was out of warranty and the fan was too small to find a "home brew" solution we opted to upgrade. I have since removed the drives from the old device and passed them down to desktop machines.
My current SNAP (the 2200) just this week lost the secondary mirror disk. The unit has only been in use for 5 months and has seen very little usage day to day. Thankfully I was running in mirror mode (and had tape backups) so no data was lost. The unit locked up when the drive failed but after a reboot discovered its error and reported the failed disk on the admin info screen. I simply FTPed the data off the remaining drive and called their tech support number.
Snap's warranty service seems well structured, after 10 minutes on the phone and sending the consultant a couple log files I was issued an RMA number and instructed to send the unit back, once received they would ship another. If I needed immeadiate replacement I could give them a CC# and they would ship that day.
The only bad part about this is that I had thrown the box away...Keep the box, they require 2 inches of solid foam, or 3 inches of bubble wrap else you void the warranty...no peanuts.
SO if you are planning on either the 1100 or larger keep the box, run in mirror mode, and keep the units well cooled.
I like snaps and will continue to use them, I feel as though I may have just found the 1 in 5000 bad drives.
Come on people...we are supposed to be nerds that know stuff. Mod the parent DOWN FOR FUD!
Look at the sources for crying out loud...
Heres an artice on Reason.com that gives you the real story about DU.
It ISN'T harmful, it isn't radioactive (conversly its used as radiation shielding on many medical devices), in fact 99% of it will pass through your body via urin in less than 48 hours.
Maybe radiation levels were raised because a bomb blew up a nuclear materials storage facility from a hospital, or illegal weapons cache...Fscking leftists and their nuclear FUD.
I thought re-distributing the music was the primary infringment. If some of the students just downloaded music how is that any different than listening to the radio?
FBI agents do not need to "RAID" schools. They can set up dates and times with administrators to go over records. One has to believe that someone is pushing this (MPAA, RIAA) with what they belive is evidence against the school system.
The US is supposed to be a government of the people for the people. It is clear now that we no longer elect people "like" any of us, and they certainly do not do much for us anymore. It is time we stood up and took back our lives.
The RIAA/FBI/GOVT has no fucking right to do the things they are doing. File charges, build evidence, take people to court. Fsking Nazi raids on school districts will get you pitch forks and torches in the streets.
Now we might see some slimy bomb makers rigging detonators with chemical detectors. As soon as the robot fumagates the package it detonates....no more robot.
I always wondered why bombers leave these things behind in rather conspicious places for long periods of time. Its almost as if they want the bombs to be found before they detonate...seems like a short fuse and a decent hiding place would serve them better.
Bull cookies. You don't need studios to record full length quality CD's anymore. I have several friends in the AV market who have "studio quality recording booths" in their basements and whore them out to anyone who can come up with 100 bucks and a guy to run the board.
I know several band members who have two or more 10+ track CDs which they sell at local shows. These are 25 year old kids, not professionals. No one reads the stupid booklets anyway, and cover art is usually buried under the car seat with the rest of the jewl cases. These guys make a couple hundred a show at major locations in Minneapolis and still have enough money for quality gear, CD's, shirts, food, clothing, housing...course they also have day jobs. Music can't be everyone's full time position.
"NEC Corp has developed a battery that can be recharged only in 30 seconds"
Note: It doesn't say it HAS to be recharged fully in 30 seconds. I would imaging that as the size and capacity of the battery is scaled up the recharge times get longer. I don't remember them stating the size and cap of the battery mentioned.
"The company expects the price of the new battery to be about the same as nickel-hydrogen cells when mass production starts, since it does not contain any expensive materials."
Am I the only one who reads this as...
"The new batteries only cost us a quarter to produce but since you are all used to paying through the a~~ for them we will rape you for the current price."
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WHen the oil prices jumped up a couple months ago that rough split was what every major talk show (radio) used as a break down. I belive 13% of that 25 is used for gasoline and other fuels. Which means only 12% of oil consumed yearly in the US is used to create electricity directly.
As to where it came from directly I can't tell you. My guess is the department on energy web site, but I don't have the time now to go find it.
Don't be so quick with the black helicopter theorys about oil companies lobbying against distributed solar power. Fact is less than 25% of all oil is consumed to fuel our cars and power our homes. The other 75% goes directly to manufacturing, and thus demand will not be significantly reduced by simply adding solar.
Second, the technological challanges are minimal. We have solar panels today nearing the theoretical maximum effeciecy of the substrate used to convert it. No they are not cheap and that is the only restriction to distributed power. No one can afford it up front, and it could take 20 or more years to pay for itself (not including maintaince or replacment costs). On top of that some areas (like oh I dunno where i live in MN) are not Optimal for solar power production. Up here it could take more than 50 years to make my money back on the initial investment...course the panels are only rated for 30 years use.
FUD is fun, and everyone likes to hear about how big bad corps are ruining the world and how its all the presidents fault because he has money invested in oil but the fact of the matter is right now oil is cheaper and easier. Until that changes, you will NOT see solar. Oh and one more thing..DO NOT RAISE MY DAMN TAXES TO SUBSIDIZE SOLAR FOR THE WORLD. Instead, give the money in grants to schools and companies to make the tech affordable/better.
Nuff
Remove the computer, give the voter a felt tip pen and have them check the appropriate box (on a machine readable form) and you have the same system without the computer costs or failures.
In fact, I live in MN and thats how I've been voting for the last 7 years. The machines that read the ballot are even smart enough to detect common mistakes like two votes in the area and spit the ballot back out to be destoyed. The nice elderly person manageing the machine examines the old ballot, tells you what you did wrong, gives you a new ballot and sends you back to start again. The old ballot is shredded into another locked box.
This is not rocket science people, there is no need to use a computer to make a small mark on a piece of paper. What was Ockums Razor again? The simple solution tends to be correct.
One of my asshat salesmen took a trip to Japan without updating his anti-virus and brought nachi and a few other things back. The real viruses were found and destroyed almost immeadiatly...Nachi however was left to run rampent. Before all was said and done I had 5 infected machines that would take down my firewall at random times by opening more than 6000 connections to the internet. Sure it cleaned up easy but it made for some shitty days. White hat or not, leave my systems alone.
I was under the impression copywright violation was a civil offense?
Will they be charging college students who plagiarize geology papers to get an A?
How abou you just give me a mailing address and I send you one of the two old HDD's I have collecting dust beside me?
I have a Seagate 1.4gig and A Fujitsu 1.6gig. Both work. Hell I'll send both in case one fails in a year.
Sorry it doesn't solve your battery problem but at least you won't have to be screwing around with boot floppies and killing flash drives.
Geeze, for 130 bucks on Ebay you could probably buy and entire laptop which contains a 2-4gig HDD and just throw the rest away.
Work smarter not harder.
"the economic and military power of the area comes closer and closer to that of the US (the EU as a whole already surpasses the US in terms of GDP)"
Umm, not sure where your getting your stats, but I would love to see some links. The EU doesn't have a unified military and they certainly don't have the economic ability to maintain one as large as the US. The average age of a German solider is 40+ these days.
EU has more GDP than the US? Technically that may be, but GDP is not the only number important for judging economic well being. The economic output of several individual US states is larger than France, Germany, or Italy..in some cases combined (California is the third largest economy on the planet). Many EU countries are currently in the beginnings of economic failure due mostly to their outragous social welfare programs. Unemployment throughout the EU is through the roof. Hardly what I'd call an opponent.
50 years from now, after we bail them out, it might be called the USEU...not the other way around.
I'm not a Mac nerd but I'm fairly sure the RAID you can build on your G5 is a software RAID handled by OS X. Software RAIDs are sub-optimal in all situations. Windows NT 4.0 and up can Software Mirror disks out of the box by simply dragging one volume ontop of another in the drive managment GUI utility, they don't even have to be the same size.. It's literally two mouse clicks...however its less optimal and stable than any kind of Hardware (read third party or onboard controller).
I manage several Compaq ML370s with three different Raid cards, as well as have used two different types at home (one was an American Megatrends SCSI Raid adapter the other is an IDE based Raid chip) All of them are accessed by pressing a key before the OS boots. Once there it is gennerally just a matter of selecting the number of drives you wish to use and the type of RAID to implement. Reboot and the computer is ready for OS installation if the RAID is to be used for the boot drive.
There is nothing hard about it, and two of my Raid cards take less than 4 steps to setup a Raid...the user just has to know how to hit F8 before boot...but it says that on the screen.
Setting up software raids in linux I'm sure is nasty as can be, however I wouldn't exactly start shouting about the virtues of Mac raiding when it is in fact just as simple to setup a hardware RAID on a PC platform.
Not trying to zelot out on you or anything, just sharing my expierence.
Art, science...bleh, I watch AP simply for the knowledge transfer high. When I was a kid watching Sesame Street I would drool every time the clip which shows how crayons are made came on. I love knowing how things work. AB does so much prep work to explain exactly why things are the way they are that I really don't even care what he is making half the time. I want to know why adding corn syrup to melted sugar prevents it from binding. I love to hear the ancient history of teas, how/where they are grown, selected and refined. On top of all that, he presents the information in a humerous and easy to digest manor. (Nothing like a bunch of human sized molecules doing the cooking dance of love to teach you some basic chemistry.)
AB is about entertaining information, food and cooking just happen to be the subject. I would like to see more spinoffs with this style on discovery or TLC (Which should change its name to THRDC - The Home Repair and Decoration Chanel).
I also highly recommend "Unwrapped" for those like me with the crayon making fetish.
You may think Bush is a crook and a cheat, but we KNOW that Clinton was.
My not so network smart roomate had to call our DSL provider in college because our line kept dropping out for hours on end.
The explanation he was given "It appears someone is IP Storming your DSL modem, you'll just have to wait it out."
When I got home and he explained the call to me I nearly fell off my chair, and then nearly canceled the service because I was so pissed.
Amazingly enough I just checked my company spam box...In it are messages with the subject "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT" Some also have "-ADLT-" and some have "[Adult]" many more do not have any such lables. SO it would seem at least some spam companies are following these rules. I guess now it makes it easy to tell the "good" spammers from the "bad" spammers right?
heh
Indeed I have made an ass out of myself. Funny though when I googled for this problem most of what I found was kids bitching about losing FPS in quake with unfounded claims...Nothing of substance. Granted I probably only looked for 10 minutes. Thanks for the site BTW.
/. that if AMD's chip is so superior, cooler and cheaper why haven't major server makers (IBM, HPAQ, DELL) adopted a line of them? The Opteron is only now starting to get looked at as a viable server CPU. Cheap and homebrew is great for the masses, but the IT world isn't yet sold.
:)
For the record I have worked with far more than 250 processors. I built and maintainted PCs/Servers for a local reseller for 8 years through college, that spanned the 486/pentium60/66/90/II/III/4 and AMD/Cyrix versions as well. At the height of the company we were building and shipping more than 100 computers a month. The point I was making there was AMD Cooling apparati have always been larger and hotter through the years. I can count on two hands the number of failed Intel Procs in my lifetime. Unfortunatly the same cannot be said for AMD, more than 50 I can remember being bad out of the box, buring up (literally burning the surface of the chip), or having wierd lockup problems due to heat. Good bad or otherwise past expierence has made me skeptical of their reliability.
I've said before on
Thanks for the back and forth, but I think you've shown me I'm done here.
Unfortunatly this mythical "problem" you both keep talking about is unfounded, and highly speculative. Look at the wording...Tend to overheat.. What does that mean? Does that mean some processors run hotter than others of the same speed? Does that mean some processors have different thermal properties and can't shed heat as fast as others?
What you call a solution to a "problem" is a design feature to prevent chip destruction in the unlikely event that you turn the system on without a sink/fan connected or the fan fails.
Googling for your "problem" returns nothing relevent to normal CPU operation under any load.
In conclusion your "problem" is made up because AMD fan boys can't come up with anything real to attack the Pentium chips with anymore.
In reality I wish people would STOP comparing them. The architectures of both chips are now significantly different and cannot be compared strait out. Buy what you want, run what you want, but don't spread FUD about somthing you know nothing about. I've touched, installed and run more procs than you will likly ever see in your lifetime...these have been AMD, X86, Pentium 1/2/3/4, Cyrix, RISC...everything. Morons talk out of their asses, I was just letting him know he needs to wipe.
Yea, the U has changed...for the worse I believe. I attended from 96/97-02 (took the slow path because I was working 30 hours a week in the field).
80% of the IT CS dept is of Asian or Indian descent, and english is the second spoken language in most classes. I don't mind diversity but when you can't actually speak the same language as your group memebers learning anything becomes a chore.
Group work is forced upon you even when not needed because the U was highly criticized for its graduates poor skills in that area...well they fixed it good.
I think you and I mostly agree. I realize learning the finer points of client control is somthing that can really only be taught in situation...but that goes the same for nearly everything in this world. Its easy enough to read a manual describing how to restore a server upon hardware failure...its a whole nother world when your sitting in front of it with $$ ticking away.
Good luck!
I didn't take the CS test as I wasn't programming in HS but I have taken the AP Calc, American History, World History and Macro Economics tests.
If the AP CS classes are taught anything like my other classes were taught everyone should do rather well. Teachers in my HS taught specifically for the test, that is, based on student interviews on past tests they covered in depth materials that were on previous tests and flew through the rest.
For Calc my teacher actually finished teaching us everything she expected to be on the test a month early...AP calc became movie/study hour.
We were all given a number and told to memorize that question/answers. When we got done we were to write it down and hand it into the teachers. Do this for 5+ years and you pretty much have every question on the AP tests.
It worked, I did very well on all my tests, but I have to wonder if I didn't miss a few things along the way. Obviously free response questions are generally designed to test complete understanding of material but hey, this is how it was done for me.
Being a Graduate, and having worked with non-degree holding IT personell I'll have to disagree with you.
GPA based pigeon-holeing went out with the 80s...Any company still using it for any real measure of a candidate needs to wake up and read a resume.
The very three topics you bring up (stats, requirements, and communication) are expressly taught from DAY ONE in the CS department. Take the UML Software Engineering course...if you aren't a babbling requirement fiend after that you'll never be one. As for communication...hell every single class on campus FORCES group work for nearly every assignment/project. If you can't communicate effectivly you will fail out of the school.
A 4 year CS degree program from most universities is so much broader than just teaching CS. Hitting a couple tech schools will give you the fast and easy tools to make a quick buck, but will leave you outside the big picture with little to grow on.
But yea...one probably doesn't need advanced Calc for most programming positions.
The University of Minnesota offers Computer Science degrees in its IT (Institute of Technology) department. All IT majors require a complete Calculas course (4 semesters), 2 semesters of Physics (basically more Calc) and Statistics (lots of fun math there, including more calc).
Math is more about learning how to think about problems and solutions than anything else. You'll use that skill every moment of your life.
" when the processor gets too hot for the cooling solution (a problem with Intel P4s)"
Ha ha...AMD Fan boy speak....
Its not a problem with the P4 it is a built in protection to keep the chip from cooking itself you moron. The current heatsink/fan on my P4 3Ghz is smaller than the one on my last PIII 866.
Bias is bias, yours is obvious.
I have the Snap 2200 model running on my Windows network at work.
It is more or less a pair of IDE hard drives with a hardware RAID. You can run them mirrored for half the space (aka 240G becomes a mirrored 120G) or as a single drive for full space.
The SNAPs can interface directly to a windows domain controller for user login security. Very slick, took about 20 minutes to get it up and running from zero knowledge.
This is the second SNAP device we have had, the first was a 40gig model a few years back. THis is also the second SNAP i've had fail. The first lasted two years before the cooling fan on the CPU inside failed and caused the device to lock up under any kind of normal load. Since the unit was out of warranty and the fan was too small to find a "home brew" solution we opted to upgrade. I have since removed the drives from the old device and passed them down to desktop machines.
My current SNAP (the 2200) just this week lost the secondary mirror disk. The unit has only been in use for 5 months and has seen very little usage day to day. Thankfully I was running in mirror mode (and had tape backups) so no data was lost. The unit locked up when the drive failed but after a reboot discovered its error and reported the failed disk on the admin info screen. I simply FTPed the data off the remaining drive and called their tech support number.
Snap's warranty service seems well structured, after 10 minutes on the phone and sending the consultant a couple log files I was issued an RMA number and instructed to send the unit back, once received they would ship another. If I needed immeadiate replacement I could give them a CC# and they would ship that day.
The only bad part about this is that I had thrown the box away...Keep the box, they require 2 inches of solid foam, or 3 inches of bubble wrap else you void the warranty...no peanuts.
SO if you are planning on either the 1100 or larger keep the box, run in mirror mode, and keep the units well cooled.
I like snaps and will continue to use them, I feel as though I may have just found the 1 in 5000 bad drives.
Come on people...we are supposed to be nerds that know stuff. Mod the parent DOWN FOR FUD!
Look at the sources for crying out loud...
Heres an artice on Reason.com that gives you the real story about DU.
It ISN'T harmful, it isn't radioactive (conversly its used as radiation shielding on many medical devices), in fact 99% of it will pass through your body via urin in less than 48 hours.
Maybe radiation levels were raised because a bomb blew up a nuclear materials storage facility from a hospital, or illegal weapons cache...Fscking leftists and their nuclear FUD.
I thought re-distributing the music was the primary infringment. If some of the students just downloaded music how is that any different than listening to the radio?
FBI agents do not need to "RAID" schools. They can set up dates and times with administrators to go over records. One has to believe that someone is pushing this (MPAA, RIAA) with what they belive is evidence against the school system.
The US is supposed to be a government of the people for the people. It is clear now that we no longer elect people "like" any of us, and they certainly do not do much for us anymore. It is time we stood up and took back our lives.
The RIAA/FBI/GOVT has no fucking right to do the things they are doing. File charges, build evidence, take people to court. Fsking Nazi raids on school districts will get you pitch forks and torches in the streets.
Now we might see some slimy bomb makers rigging detonators with chemical detectors. As soon as the robot fumagates the package it detonates....no more robot.
I always wondered why bombers leave these things behind in rather conspicious places for long periods of time. Its almost as if they want the bombs to be found before they detonate...seems like a short fuse and a decent hiding place would serve them better.
Bull cookies. You don't need studios to record full length quality CD's anymore. I have several friends in the AV market who have "studio quality recording booths" in their basements and whore them out to anyone who can come up with 100 bucks and a guy to run the board.
I know several band members who have two or more 10+ track CDs which they sell at local shows. These are 25 year old kids, not professionals. No one reads the stupid booklets anyway, and cover art is usually buried under the car seat with the rest of the jewl cases. These guys make a couple hundred a show at major locations in Minneapolis and still have enough money for quality gear, CD's, shirts, food, clothing, housing...course they also have day jobs. Music can't be everyone's full time position.
"NEC Corp has developed a battery that can be recharged only in 30 seconds"
Note: It doesn't say it HAS to be recharged fully in 30 seconds. I would imaging that as the size and capacity of the battery is scaled up the recharge times get longer. I don't remember them stating the size and cap of the battery mentioned.
"The company expects the price of the new battery to be about the same as nickel-hydrogen cells when mass production starts, since it does not contain any expensive materials."
Am I the only one who reads this as...
"The new batteries only cost us a quarter to produce but since you are all used to paying through the a~~ for them we will rape you for the current price."