As much fun as this might be, this is up there with 400 level college courses, students really need a good electronics backround to comprehend most of the stuff you should be teaching them. There is something to be said for giving students a well rounded education in high school (literature, math, composition, history) and leaving this sort of thing for college.
I'm involved in creating a project similar to one of these at our college of Business and Information Systems at the university. It will be a knowledgebase of all of the projects undergraduates/graduates have completed while at the university. Has anyone done this already? How did you implement this? What was included, what was not?
You should definitely look and see if this stuff will transfer to a CIS degree, because it seems to be a lot more of what you're learning. CIS is the practical application of computer science, where you learn configuration, setup and not the theory behind it all.
I was a college freshmen this year, and I made a lot of friends in the first few days. Everyone really fell in to two categories. There were those that skipped the orientation, and didn't get involved, my room-mate included. Most of these people are already gone. Get involved, it looks great for resumes and on campus jobs. Don't get in a habit of being lazy, you'll be kicked out before you know it.
I hate my mac. I set the thing up, power it on and it just works. I don't need to install all kinds of software, upgrade drivers and put on millions of security updates? I mean, without those, what's the point?
I hate to break it to you, but there's nothing secret about mcdonald's big mac sauce. It's nothing more than thousand island dressing with a small amount of ketchup
I think Newsmap, a quasi-graphical google-news site, will be a model for how news is "viewed" in the future. check it out here. It's quite easy to use.
What's even worse, is that the successor they're talking about is blackcomb (the successor to longhorn). Longhorn was supposed to be an intermediate release which was to be out in 2002.
so much for time tables.
$500 does seem like a cheap price, but due to price slashes from dell and other laptop manufacturers of new laptops down to prices as low as $599, you can get very good aftermarket laptops on online auction sites, ie, ebay, for less than $500 that will give you much more power for the same price. Know your options.
The Eden Chip is relatively slow compared to the latest Athlon and Pentium 4 flavors. The mini-itx market has filled it's niche of being lower powered, not high preformance demanding systems. It's done well there. Unfortunately, the eden chips will probably be too slow, even after working in unicen, to beat a high speed pentium 4 or athlon.
Yes. This has been done before. We've done this in our calclulus class. We've used a program to map the 'lifecycle' of a virus. First numerous vulnerable PCs, the way in which they spread to eachother, new vulnerable computers being connected to the internet, patching of the computers. It was all pretty cool stuff.
Very incredible text-to-error-message converter, not so incredible text to speech converter.
"Error
An error has occurred in the TTS service. Please go back and try your request again. If the problem persists, please contact help@naturalvoices.com
Invalid State (-2147221492)"
hmmph.
The only two magazines I read are Newsweek and Maximum PC, for the sole purposes of reading when I have some spare time at my nighttime job @ a gas station. Otherwise, I read everything else of interest online. There are websites with constantly updated news (ie, slashdot) as well as some blogs that I find to be better than any magazine with out of date content.
The Sites I regularly check:
http://www.fark.com
http://www.dailykos.com
http://www.mydd.org
http://www.slashdot.org
http://www.trektoday.com
http://www.neowin.net
So google's offering us one-gigabyte of storage, of course 99.5% of people will never fill up 1/10th of that, and google knows that too. Google probably has the correct train of thought that people are tired of being constrained to two megabytes of hotmail space/whatnot. They also realize that hard-drive space is a dime a dozen, so why not give everyone their gigabyte?
There were problems that existed with both networks. G4-TV's quality of programming was quite lack-luster. It's too gaming-centric. There's no way one could fill an entire day's programming with gaming. There's simply not enough out there to make it interesting. Tech-TV had -some- decent programming--the screen savers & call for help, although they were geared toward the lower end of the technologically minded were still half-way entertaining to watch. It's my belief that comcast is simply keeping the "highest rated" shows on Tech-TV and trashing the rest. This isn't going to be good. The Tech-TV shows will never be the same again without the same crew and management. They will go down hill to what G4-TV has become. Now as to what comcast should have done, is to take a couple of decent shows from G4-TV, thrown them on TechTv, and trashed the crap from TechTv. Who really wants to see Max headroom or that one show with those puppets?
I'll be attending Dakota State University next year (it's one of the top computer schools around), and I originally intended to major in Math Information Systems, but my advisor suggested I double major in CS as well since the degrees are only a few credits difference. Has anyone else done this? What benefits (knowledge or career) will this offer besides just a single degree?
This sort of reminds me of golem@home....that thing never ceases to entertain me....all those cute little blocks moving around! What a fun screensaver....oh yeah...plus it has some scientific purposes too.
We would have no need for this garbage if we lived in a communist world....too bad it doesn't work in practice...darn productivity and animal farm like behavior.
Yeah, high tech cameras, cell-phone detectors, visual monitoring, flash detection, that'll stop those digital shop lifters....but I guess putting plastic covers on magazines would have the same effect
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As much fun as this might be, this is up there with 400 level college courses, students really need a good electronics backround to comprehend most of the stuff you should be teaching them. There is something to be said for giving students a well rounded education in high school (literature, math, composition, history) and leaving this sort of thing for college.
I'm involved in creating a project similar to one of these at our college of Business and Information Systems at the university. It will be a knowledgebase of all of the projects undergraduates/graduates have completed while at the university. Has anyone done this already? How did you implement this? What was included, what was not?
I sure would like to see some of ThinkGeeks famed action shots for the iCopulate.
You should definitely look and see if this stuff will transfer to a CIS degree, because it seems to be a lot more of what you're learning. CIS is the practical application of computer science, where you learn configuration, setup and not the theory behind it all.
I was a college freshmen this year, and I made a lot of friends in the first few days. Everyone really fell in to two categories. There were those that skipped the orientation, and didn't get involved, my room-mate included. Most of these people are already gone. Get involved, it looks great for resumes and on campus jobs. Don't get in a habit of being lazy, you'll be kicked out before you know it.
I hate my mac. I set the thing up, power it on and it just works. I don't need to install all kinds of software, upgrade drivers and put on millions of security updates? I mean, without those, what's the point?
I hate to break it to you, but there's nothing secret about mcdonald's big mac sauce. It's nothing more than thousand island dressing with a small amount of ketchup
I think Newsmap, a quasi-graphical google-news site, will be a model for how news is "viewed" in the future. check it out here. It's quite easy to use.
What's even worse, is that the successor they're talking about is blackcomb (the successor to longhorn). Longhorn was supposed to be an intermediate release which was to be out in 2002. so much for time tables.
$500 does seem like a cheap price, but due to price slashes from dell and other laptop manufacturers of new laptops down to prices as low as $599, you can get very good aftermarket laptops on online auction sites, ie, ebay, for less than $500 that will give you much more power for the same price. Know your options.
The Eden Chip is relatively slow compared to the latest Athlon and Pentium 4 flavors. The mini-itx market has filled it's niche of being lower powered, not high preformance demanding systems. It's done well there. Unfortunately, the eden chips will probably be too slow, even after working in unicen, to beat a high speed pentium 4 or athlon.
Yes. This has been done before. We've done this in our calclulus class. We've used a program to map the 'lifecycle' of a virus. First numerous vulnerable PCs, the way in which they spread to eachother, new vulnerable computers being connected to the internet, patching of the computers. It was all pretty cool stuff.
Very incredible text-to-error-message converter, not so incredible text to speech converter. "Error An error has occurred in the TTS service. Please go back and try your request again. If the problem persists, please contact help@naturalvoices.com Invalid State (-2147221492)" hmmph.
The only two magazines I read are Newsweek and Maximum PC, for the sole purposes of reading when I have some spare time at my nighttime job @ a gas station. Otherwise, I read everything else of interest online. There are websites with constantly updated news (ie, slashdot) as well as some blogs that I find to be better than any magazine with out of date content. The Sites I regularly check: http://www.fark.com http://www.dailykos.com http://www.mydd.org http://www.slashdot.org http://www.trektoday.com http://www.neowin.net
Now you won't know if it's a pervert just trying to touch you, or a hacker trying to steal your data!
Sulfur...just what we need more of in the air/water/soil
So google's offering us one-gigabyte of storage, of course 99.5% of people will never fill up 1/10th of that, and google knows that too. Google probably has the correct train of thought that people are tired of being constrained to two megabytes of hotmail space/whatnot. They also realize that hard-drive space is a dime a dozen, so why not give everyone their gigabyte?
There were problems that existed with both networks. G4-TV's quality of programming was quite lack-luster. It's too gaming-centric. There's no way one could fill an entire day's programming with gaming. There's simply not enough out there to make it interesting. Tech-TV had -some- decent programming--the screen savers & call for help, although they were geared toward the lower end of the technologically minded were still half-way entertaining to watch. It's my belief that comcast is simply keeping the "highest rated" shows on Tech-TV and trashing the rest. This isn't going to be good. The Tech-TV shows will never be the same again without the same crew and management. They will go down hill to what G4-TV has become. Now as to what comcast should have done, is to take a couple of decent shows from G4-TV, thrown them on TechTv, and trashed the crap from TechTv. Who really wants to see Max headroom or that one show with those puppets?
I'll be attending Dakota State University next year (it's one of the top computer schools around), and I originally intended to major in Math Information Systems, but my advisor suggested I double major in CS as well since the degrees are only a few credits difference. Has anyone else done this? What benefits (knowledge or career) will this offer besides just a single degree?
This sort of reminds me of golem@home....that thing never ceases to entertain me....all those cute little blocks moving around! What a fun screensaver....oh yeah...plus it has some scientific purposes too.
We would have no need for this garbage if we lived in a communist world....too bad it doesn't work in practice...darn productivity and animal farm like behavior.
WHAT?!? Are you saying a corporation doesn't want it's flagship product to be used as a medium for exchanging copyrighted materials! How absurd!
First they get hosed when scientist were handing out animal names....now this!
Yeah, high tech cameras, cell-phone detectors, visual monitoring, flash detection, that'll stop those digital shop lifters....but I guess putting plastic covers on magazines would have the same effect
I wonder when we'll have to pay licensing fees for our microwaves, since you know, they do emit microwaves at some frequency