Not only that, the GG required six AA batteries and these were damn expensive at the rate you went through them. You could use rechargeables but they lasted even less time than non-rechargeable batteries. I recall spending most of my time playing the GG plugged into AC power.
This!
Between the huge device itself, the AC (and/or car outlet) adaptor, and games, you pretty much needed to carry the thing around in its own bag instead of a pocket.
You only take this exam if:
- You are going into the field
Not necessarily. You might also take the exam if it's required for all majors and you want to get it out of the way ASAP, such as English for a CS major, or CS for an English major. (And yes, at some schools -- e.g., Georgia Tech -- CS is required for English majors!)
This might be a reason why the CS teacher at most high schools is a math/science teacher who knows how to use Windows and may have taken an intro to CS elective in college.
If you're lucky!
If you're not, then he might be one of those teachers that asks you to address him as "coach."
"A lot of the privacy people, perhaps, don't understand that we still occupy the role of the Great Satan. New bombs are being devised. New terrorists are emerging, new groups, actually, a new level of viciousness," Feinstein said. "We need to be prepared."
No, you evil totalitarian bitch, we understand perfectly well. We just don't care because we're not sniveling cowards and realize that civil liberties are worth being "less safe" for!
But in a country of 300 million people, no one is interested in your text messages, emails, etc. unless you're using them to actively plan something.
Or if your ex has a friend at the NSA and wants to get back at you. Or if you decide you want to run for office (or otherwise get "uppity") and you annoy the wrong well-connected politician. Or some NSA programmer messes up an algorithm and you get flagged by mistake. Or the government decides to go full-on totalitarian and start persecuting people for thought crime. Etc.
No, money has hardly anything to do with it. For example, just last night I went to a "state of the cluster" meeting at my area's newly-$$$-renovated, beautiful, well-equipped and sparkling new high school (which is even accredited to offer IB!)... and got told about how they're working on improving the ~50% graduation rate (among other appalling statistics).
Why is the school so bad? Because many of the students -- and their parents -- don't give a shit, because their culture glorifies ignorance, "thug life" and/or the victim mentality.
When I went to university many moons ago... I discovered that for most companies, they wanted someone to essentially apprentice for about 6 years before they would let you touch a circuit (they had senior engineers to do the "real" work)
Oh yes, times have indeed changed. Companies don't want apprentices anymore; due to PHBs run amok they now insist on hiring only "experienced" employees, then whine about H1Bs when they can't find any (while at the same time all the recent grads are sitting on their asses unemployed).
I have a friend that works at a construction engineering firm and they have trouble finding qualified and experienced electrical engineers to fill some positions.
No shit! That's because the PHBs refused to hire entry-level ones, so nobody has a chance to become "qualified and experienced" anymore!
You know what I've seen, as a "millennial" (or whatever they call us these days)? All my friends who majored in EE (actually CompE) couldn't get a job in their field. They ended up in IT instead.
The rest of the world isn't stupid. Other countries have the engineering capability to do these things and the economies to compete with ourselves.
And most importantly, the societal will to develop their workforce, infrastructure and manufacturing base, instead of tearing it down in pursuit of short-sighted profit!
The low end jobs which go to India are where engineers enter industry and learn their stuff so this does matter here and is a good trend (I am really hoping India manages to use this to take their country out of poverty).
The real thing that matters, though, is that manufacturing moved to China and now all the learning about how to actually make things is going direct to engineers in China who, if the trend doesn't reverse fast, will be better at all kinds of design that US engineers within a generation.
Wait, why is it okay for the Indians to learn at our expense, but not okay for Chinese to do the same?
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This!
Between the huge device itself, the AC (and/or car outlet) adaptor, and games, you pretty much needed to carry the thing around in its own bag instead of a pocket.
I dunno, Mars was pretty balmy compared to Chicago the other day...
Not necessarily. You might also take the exam if it's required for all majors and you want to get it out of the way ASAP, such as English for a CS major, or CS for an English major. (And yes, at some schools -- e.g., Georgia Tech -- CS is required for English majors!)
I'll bet you took AP Language and AP Calculus AB, which are worthless. You would have gotten credit if you'd taken AP Literature and AP Calculus BC.
I have no idea whether dogs actually taste good or not. I was throwing out hypotheses; hence the question mark at the end.
Because they don't taste as good, are more useful for other things, or are less efficient in terms of feed conversion ratio?
Not to say dolphins and pigs aren't intelligent, but I think there's a couple of other apes (e.g. bonobos) in there too...
If you're lucky!
If you're not, then he might be one of those teachers that asks you to address him as "coach."
At my university, the required statistics for CS majors was more rigorous than the statistics for engineering majors...
No, you evil totalitarian bitch, we understand perfectly well. We just don't care because we're not sniveling cowards and realize that civil liberties are worth being "less safe" for!
You're doing it wrong: wash your produce after you take it out of the bag.
Mini-ITX and smaller boards could just use SO-DIMMs.
The key word there is "nearly." We have a name for the exceptions: they're called "civil rights violations!"
Or if your ex has a friend at the NSA and wants to get back at you. Or if you decide you want to run for office (or otherwise get "uppity") and you annoy the wrong well-connected politician. Or some NSA programmer messes up an algorithm and you get flagged by mistake. Or the government decides to go full-on totalitarian and start persecuting people for thought crime. Etc.
Good point!
I would trust theirs more. I may be watched by both, but at least China doesn't have police power over me.
First, newer ones can have dual-stage (or even variable-speed) compressors.
Second, it wouldn't hurt to have monitoring/instrumentation so that you can monitor the efficiency of your system and tell when things are wrong.
No, money has hardly anything to do with it. For example, just last night I went to a "state of the cluster" meeting at my area's newly-$$$-renovated, beautiful, well-equipped and sparkling new high school (which is even accredited to offer IB!)... and got told about how they're working on improving the ~50% graduation rate (among other appalling statistics).
Why is the school so bad? Because many of the students -- and their parents -- don't give a shit, because their culture glorifies ignorance, "thug life" and/or the victim mentality.
...about the use of the words "could probably" instead of "should certainly."
Oh yes, times have indeed changed. Companies don't want apprentices anymore; due to PHBs run amok they now insist on hiring only "experienced" employees, then whine about H1Bs when they can't find any (while at the same time all the recent grads are sitting on their asses unemployed).
No shit! That's because the PHBs refused to hire entry-level ones, so nobody has a chance to become "qualified and experienced" anymore!
You know what I've seen, as a "millennial" (or whatever they call us these days)? All my friends who majored in EE (actually CompE) couldn't get a job in their field. They ended up in IT instead.
And most importantly, the societal will to develop their workforce, infrastructure and manufacturing base, instead of tearing it down in pursuit of short-sighted profit!
Wait, why is it okay for the Indians to learn at our expense, but not okay for Chinese to do the same?
Excuse me, but we're talking about the United States here. The people [are supposed to] define what is and isn't criminal in these parts!