I had an internship at a little R&D firm that had some pretty cool products.. one of which was an X-Ray generator powered by a 9V battery. NASA picked up a couple of those for the research labs..
I did take a few design classes, and actually rather enjoyed my thermodynamics class. However, in the end, the need to always have the one correct answer is part of what drove me away. The designing is fun. And finding a creative way to solve a problem was sometimes possible. Too much of the learning process is based on memorization in my opinion though (or at least was when/where I was a student), and that is part of what made it frustrating. If I'm taking a dynamics class, I don't want to be tested on weather or not I can remember 2 pages of formulae. I want to be tested on weather or not I can pick the right formula out of those 2 pages and use it properly. And because all the rules are already defined and not flexible, improvisation to arrive at the correct solution was not usually an option.
I would have to disagree with you, as physics was one of my favorite classes. I used the rules of math and physics to my advantage in many of my "art" assignments, and was one of the few/only students to do so. The difference is, when dealing with an art project with no pre-determined solution, I was able to use whatever rules I wanted, to arrive at whatever answer I chose to be correct, even if other rules were broken/ignored in the process. The freedom to chose what rules to follow and what rules to ignore, and how to use them, is one of the things I most enjoyed after switching majors.
I'd agree with all the points, but in the end, most of them should be expected. After leaving engineering for art (or maybe while leaving.. since a had a couple year transition), I realized one of the things I hated so much about it was how "strict" engineering is. In the sense that, if you're given a problem to solve, there's only one correct answer, and only one (or maybe 2) correct ways to arrive at that answer. If you take an art class (or a writing class, as they use the example of writing papers), when you're given a problem to solve, there's a nearly infinite number of correct answers. You can do some of your own thinking. Even an answer that one person feels is completely wrong could actually be correct and get a good grade.. it's much more subjective. The freedom to break the rules and think outside the box is one of the reasons I left engineering. That, and I didn't want some little mistake in a calculation to cause a catastrophic structural failure of some sorts that led to the death of innocent civilians...
A friend of mine is finally on his way home after a tour in Afghanistan. He got a myspace account and started blogging almost immediately after he got there. He was usually able to make a post every few days or so, and often updated his profile with new pictures. This is a blog that ranged from collecting winter supplies and stuffed animals to hand out to children in the villages while they were on patrol (with pictures to show the conditions), to talking about how their convoy was hit by a roadside IED/RPG/etc. He more than once mentioned how much easier his blog made it to deal with PTSD, especially as word of mouth led to him getting literally thousands of readers, and also a 3-part interview with NPR. If it's something that makes the stress easier to deal with, making it overly restrictive, or nearly impossible to post will not help anyone.
you can change your age anytime you want. she had her real age up for a couple years before she changed the year to make her profile say she was 15...so she could change it again next year if she wanted to
That isn't going to stop girls from getting accounts. The way myspace is right now, nobody (excpet the people you add to your friends list) can see your profile unless you are over the age of 15. So what to the under 15 year olds do? they say they're 18, or 20, or whatever so that everyone can see their profile. (on the other side, my 23 year old friend said she was 15 just so that her profile woudl be private..)
Switching the Mac over now would be really weird: for years Apple struggled with the G4's performance - then I might have understood. Now they've got IBM as a partner - one of the world leaders in CPU architecture, silicon fabrication, etc. It would seem truly bizare to ditch out from PPC at this point, especially given IBM's huge commitment to PPC world domination (and their manifest triumphs over Intel in another volume market - games consoles).
Things aren't all that rosy between Apple and IBM right now. Consider that when the G5 was announced, Jobs said they'd be at 3 GHz by the following summer. It's now 2 summers later and they're still topping out at 2.7 GHz. Not only that, Apple's top-of-the-line laptop is still being forced to run on a processor that was abandoned 2 years ago in their professional desktop line..and no one has any sort of timetable for when IBM will be able to deliver a G5 cool enough to run in a laptop. I don't think Steve is very happy with the current situation.
The real evolution will come when your house is wired with DC. Think about all the appliances you have in your house, and how many of them have to use an AC/DC converter (internal or external). And many less expensive devices have really inefficient converters. But if you had a single high-effeciency AC/DC converter in your basement (or better yet got DC from the grid), you could eliminate all the crappy inneficient adapters in your house. And your LED lamps would run quite happily with minimal circuitry
OS X recognises any multi-button mouse out of the box with no drivers, however I believe all but the right button will be a left-click (scroll-wheel works normally). Microsoft has their own drivers for their mac mice that allow customization of every button, and if you install the drivers, the side buttons will navigate forwards and back without having to do any configuring.
No screen doesnt really make a lot of sense at first, but if anyone could do it, it's probably Apple. Think about how tighly the iPod integrates with iTunes..and I'm sure there's plenty of people that just hit play on their ipod and skip a track when its something they don't want to hear at the moment..none of which requires a screen. You could just have an iPod flash playlist in your iTunes to hold all the songs on it. There's got to be people out there that would put size/style/convenience over being able to choose a specific song at any one time.
When you go out for a jog, or to workout at the gym, you're not sharing your music with anyone. No need to be able to say "let me play you this song" and look it up on your ipod..you just want your own personal background music, and a tiny flash-based iPod would be perfect for that.
The smoke and tobacco-free NicStic consists of a heating element and a changeable filter that contains nicotine. It doesn't contain any tobacco but the company claims dragging on it releases a similar taste to cigarettes.
There's no tobacco in it to pass any carcinogens to the smoker..
I'm talking about inside the packages...all the little tiny microscopic wires inside those IC packages are often ultrasonically soldered to the substrate before they are sealed in epoxy.
Ultrasonics might not be the best bet for a computer..especially with all the IC's and what not on the baord. Since a lot of those components have been ultrasonically soldered during manufacturing, some people say that putting them in an ultrasonic cleaner runs the risk of breaking loose those joints...
granted, I've put IC's in an ultrasonic bath before with no problems..but for a short amount of time. the majority of the cleaning was done by heating isopropal up to 60 C or so and letting the boards sit in that for a while
The people complain about this movie being one-sided are probably the same people that get their news from one of the less than 10 giant media corporations. And you think when a right-wing republican owns one of these corporations he's going to like it when one of the places he owns has very left-wing views of current events? So what if this movie is one-sided..it's the side most americans never see.
Sorry to leave you here, but I also have to go and buy another shower curtain, preferably a disposable one.
Why is it that disposal seems to be the new cure-all in our society? What ever happened to cleaning and re-using? We'll end up causing a lot more problems than we solve..
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I had an internship at a little R&D firm that had some pretty cool products.. one of which was an X-Ray generator powered by a 9V battery. NASA picked up a couple of those for the research labs..
I did take a few design classes, and actually rather enjoyed my thermodynamics class. However, in the end, the need to always have the one correct answer is part of what drove me away. The designing is fun. And finding a creative way to solve a problem was sometimes possible. Too much of the learning process is based on memorization in my opinion though (or at least was when/where I was a student), and that is part of what made it frustrating. If I'm taking a dynamics class, I don't want to be tested on weather or not I can remember 2 pages of formulae. I want to be tested on weather or not I can pick the right formula out of those 2 pages and use it properly. And because all the rules are already defined and not flexible, improvisation to arrive at the correct solution was not usually an option.
I would have to disagree with you, as physics was one of my favorite classes. I used the rules of math and physics to my advantage in many of my "art" assignments, and was one of the few/only students to do so. The difference is, when dealing with an art project with no pre-determined solution, I was able to use whatever rules I wanted, to arrive at whatever answer I chose to be correct, even if other rules were broken/ignored in the process. The freedom to chose what rules to follow and what rules to ignore, and how to use them, is one of the things I most enjoyed after switching majors.
I'd agree with all the points, but in the end, most of them should be expected. After leaving engineering for art (or maybe while leaving.. since a had a couple year transition), I realized one of the things I hated so much about it was how "strict" engineering is. In the sense that, if you're given a problem to solve, there's only one correct answer, and only one (or maybe 2) correct ways to arrive at that answer. If you take an art class (or a writing class, as they use the example of writing papers), when you're given a problem to solve, there's a nearly infinite number of correct answers. You can do some of your own thinking. Even an answer that one person feels is completely wrong could actually be correct and get a good grade.. it's much more subjective. The freedom to break the rules and think outside the box is one of the reasons I left engineering. That, and I didn't want some little mistake in a calculation to cause a catastrophic structural failure of some sorts that led to the death of innocent civilians...
A friend of mine is finally on his way home after a tour in Afghanistan. He got a myspace account and started blogging almost immediately after he got there. He was usually able to make a post every few days or so, and often updated his profile with new pictures. This is a blog that ranged from collecting winter supplies and stuffed animals to hand out to children in the villages while they were on patrol (with pictures to show the conditions), to talking about how their convoy was hit by a roadside IED/RPG/etc. He more than once mentioned how much easier his blog made it to deal with PTSD, especially as word of mouth led to him getting literally thousands of readers, and also a 3-part interview with NPR. If it's something that makes the stress easier to deal with, making it overly restrictive, or nearly impossible to post will not help anyone.
you can change your age anytime you want. she had her real age up for a couple years before she changed the year to make her profile say she was 15...so she could change it again next year if she wanted to
That isn't going to stop girls from getting accounts. The way myspace is right now, nobody (excpet the people you add to your friends list) can see your profile unless you are over the age of 15. So what to the under 15 year olds do? they say they're 18, or 20, or whatever so that everyone can see their profile. (on the other side, my 23 year old friend said she was 15 just so that her profile woudl be private..)
Would the government stepping in for a case like this imply that AT&T is guilty?
or a whole keyboard full of them for that matter
Things aren't all that rosy between Apple and IBM right now. Consider that when the G5 was announced, Jobs said they'd be at 3 GHz by the following summer. It's now 2 summers later and they're still topping out at 2.7 GHz. Not only that, Apple's top-of-the-line laptop is still being forced to run on a processor that was abandoned 2 years ago in their professional desktop line..and no one has any sort of timetable for when IBM will be able to deliver a G5 cool enough to run in a laptop. I don't think Steve is very happy with the current situation.
The real evolution will come when your house is wired with DC. Think about all the appliances you have in your house, and how many of them have to use an AC/DC converter (internal or external). And many less expensive devices have really inefficient converters. But if you had a single high-effeciency AC/DC converter in your basement (or better yet got DC from the grid), you could eliminate all the crappy inneficient adapters in your house. And your LED lamps would run quite happily with minimal circuitry
yes, it's trivial
OS X recognises any multi-button mouse out of the box with no drivers, however I believe all but the right button will be a left-click (scroll-wheel works normally).
Microsoft has their own drivers for their mac mice that allow customization of every button, and if you install the drivers, the side buttons will navigate forwards and back without having to do any configuring.
that's the one thing I've always noticed looking at plasma's and LCD's on display together..the LCD's tend to have a quite noticeable effect
When you go out for a jog, or to workout at the gym, you're not sharing your music with anyone. No need to be able to say "let me play you this song" and look it up on your ipod..you just want your own personal background music, and a tiny flash-based iPod would be perfect for that.
There's no tobacco in it to pass any carcinogens to the smoker..
he probably just made a bunch of money off a bet with some friends
What's the bandwidth of their sattalite offering compared to steaming from the internet? and would their internet braodcast be higher quality than FM?
I'm talking about inside the packages...all the little tiny microscopic wires inside those IC packages are often ultrasonically soldered to the substrate before they are sealed in epoxy.
granted, I've put IC's in an ultrasonic bath before with no problems..but for a short amount of time. the majority of the cleaning was done by heating isopropal up to 60 C or so and letting the boards sit in that for a while
did anyone else notice the signal strength meter in the upper-left of the display?
A stylish and uniquely designed box is included and can be a temp or permanent home for your player.
is that unique as in looks just like apple's? my iPod box looks awfully similar..
Especially when iTMS songs are cheaper than those $1.99 ringtone downloads...
The people complain about this movie being one-sided are probably the same people that get their news from one of the less than 10 giant media corporations. And you think when a right-wing republican owns one of these corporations he's going to like it when one of the places he owns has very left-wing views of current events? So what if this movie is one-sided..it's the side most americans never see.
Yes, but Apple created their own Gecko-based browser..they didnt ask the opensource community to write their browser around OS X
Sorry to leave you here, but I also have to go and buy another shower curtain, preferably a disposable one. Why is it that disposal seems to be the new cure-all in our society? What ever happened to cleaning and re-using? We'll end up causing a lot more problems than we solve..