Adding a second LCD of significant size would seriously impact the price. Wouldn't a standard 12" tablet PC work in your situation? Or just the tablet form factor to begin with?
I've been using the beta for a few months now, and its pretty slick. I think the intention is to charge for the service at some point. On the settings tab, they list what "plan" you have.
Right now there is no advertising on the website or inserted into your calls.
Although we met several technical challenges along the way
(specifically, Linux's lack of Token Ring support and the fact that we
were unable to defrag its ext2 file system), all in all the process
went smoothly. Everyone was very pleased with Linux, and we were
considering using it for a great deal of future internal projects.
Come on guys, this isn't a troll. This is just hilarious.
At Kettering, we do 3 months of school and then 3 months of work (paid), then repeat for 4 and a half years. Most of us have some money, or pretend we do. We're all Sallie Mae's bitches.
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Yeah, but then you can't see the eye candy on the side of the road. I know you know what I'm talking about.
They actually repaved the road between where the kid lives and the school. And I thought my car could make it for the rest of my time at Kettering without being destroyed by potholes.
No, seriously, the roads around Kettering suck and a vehicle like this is required to navigate them.
It's already kind of happening if you have a good internet connection, with some American channels.
ABC lets you watch shows (which they own the right to distribute online) from their website. You need Flash 9, which isn't on Linux yet. There are limited commercial interruptions (same number of advertising breaks, one commercial per break, you cannot skip the commercials).
Zulu has shows from FOX, NBC, and Universal (maybe a few more). Right now it's invite only beta, but they're partly on the right track. It uses a version of Flash that is supported on Linux. The only problem so far is that they don't have enough back catalogue, and they remove full episodes some time after air date. If the site had full seasons of the shows that are listed now, this site would be awesome. As a bonus, they have all the episodes of Firefly.
In terms of selection, the XBox 360 Marketplace is actually really cool. It costs money, but no commercials. TV shows don't expire (but as of right now, you can't move it to another device).
File uploads work for me to the my files section (not sure about submissions to courses) using FF 2.0.0.12 on Ubuntu. They might have fixed it in a later version of Blackboard.
All in all, I haven't been burned by blackboard yet. I've had one class where we were required to use the discussion forums on a weekly basis, submit final essays through blackboard (plagiarism check), and access grading information. While I appreciate being able to track my progress in a class, the interface sucks on the user side and must on the professor side because so few here use it.
In Wisconsin, you don't actually have to show your license to vote. You must state your full name and address, and that's it. To register is another story, as you must prove your residence.
There's been a real push to make showing your ID to vote mandatory, but the old people and govenor are all against it. Crazy bunch of hippies we are.
It's not all that unlikely. At my internship, we worked on the testing solution for the braking system. All of the documents we worked on were export controlled and fell under a NDA. There's a lot of scary language associated with mil/aero projects that make me not want to discuss specifics of any system I've worked on.
That being said, there's a lot of regulation in the aerospace industry. Planes don't just fall out of the sky on accident.
If the customer doesn't know what they want, why should you write a single line of code? Unless you're on a time and materials deal, this is the first sign that the project is going to be a black hole.
Never underestimate what a good requirements document and design can do.
Blockbuster could make a huge comeback. I really believe it.
I think their total access program is awesome. I have tried all the services (Netflix, Blockbuster, Walmart). Netflix just delivered the best service. I move every 3 months for my schooling and internship program (Kettering University, formerly GMI, which goes on a 3 month school/3 month internship schedule). The best service, as it comes to delivering movies is certainly Netflix.
I haven't been subscribed for a few terms, but decided that I'd go back to Netflix this term. So , they've delivered the #1 pick on my queue everytime. I guess if you have some weird stuff it might not come in a timely manor, but it hasn't affected me. Even the indie movies I watch come on time.
I don't really know why I chose Netflix over Blockbuster. Being able to pick up a movie in store is really a good feature, but the better interface and recomendation system won.
I made the choice while intoxicated, I am typing it intoxicated as well. Maybe that explains the lack of objective judgement.
Netflix's internet streaming would be 100% cooler if it wasn't tied to Windows. I am running Ubuntu on my laptop... if I could play it here..... Netflix would be god.
I always seem to meet more interesting people when taking public transit up here in the Twin Cities. If I'm waiting for a bus in a shady area (haha... shady areas in the Twin Cities), usually you meet someone interesting. Waiting for the light rail or on the train, always meet someone.
It's great that public transit is getting better up here. Light rail will be connecting Minneapolis and St Paul soon enough, commuter rail will be connecting St Cloud to all this as well. Prices are reasonable--usually $2 to get you anywhere (subtract 50 cents for off peak, add 50 cents if you take an express bus, and only 50 cents if you're only traveling within the downtown zone).
$6.95/mo accounts that claim they offer 1TB transfer a month are rubbish. When you start hammering the server with requests for that data, you're account is going to be suspended.
For the kind of service you'd need for a major item like the Radiohead cd, you're looking at a completely different service. With a service like Amazon S3, you're talking almost $17k to provide 1,200,000 downloads of a 100mb file.
I don't understand how you could pay so much for books. I usually get away with $50-100 per semester. . . borrow books from people who already took the class, share books with other people, buy online (Amazon and eBay).
If you're willing to go into gray areas, theres always international editions of many books available. I got my $150 PDE book this term for $25, although it wasn't hard cover and the cover was written in Chinese (but the inside matches page for page with the American hard cover edition).
I think part of being an American is being able to bitch at all the immigrants.
My grandpa (and grandma) on my mothers side was the first generation in his family born and raised in the US. His parents barely spoke English. Nevermind they were from Belgium, he bitches about all the Mexicans.
My dad was born in Holland. I guess that'd make me a relatively new American.
I'm an undergrad working on my CE degree. I really don't want to go for my masters or PhD. Why? I've got an internship, and I know the things that I need to know to be successful in the industry that I want to work in.
Part of my schools program (Kettering University, formerly General Motors Institute for Engineering and Management) requires us to have a co-op job, and work that 6 months out of the year. All the theory is great, but I'd rather be out doing something. Staying in school isn't going to get me my BMW.
That being said, finished finals today. It's time to get the fuck out of Flint, and back to the real world.
You could always use a graphical language like LabVIEW. Datatypes have different wire colors, and comments can be in any font, any size, with any color. Images can be comments. You can use screenshots of LabVIEW code as comments.
(Although, adding picture comments is generally discouraged. I think I spend more time with LabVIEW making sure my block diagram is readable and followable for the other engineers I work with, then I would with a text based language).
LabVIEW is a fun language--I'm a Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer working for a National Instruments Select Integrator. A lot of people in the LabVIEW community make the mistake of categorizing it as a general purpose language--which it is not.
LabVIEW is great for what its for: making systems for test and measurement. One of the systems I've recently worked on is a vision system which scans parts before going into other test systems (to maintain traceability). It uses a Cognex camera, Parker motion controllers (controlling a XY table robot), NI-CAN for communication with the carrier tray. To integrate all these components into a workable system with a nice GUI as fast as we did on this system in any other environment would be difficult.
Now the initial investment to work with LabVIEW is steep, but to some, it's worth it.
Here's another thought: people with LabVIEW experience are in constant demand. Search around Info-LabVIEW and LAVA.
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The Patriot Act wasn't passed unanimously. Russ Feingold (D-WI) voted against it.
Russ Feingold makes me proud to be from Wisconsin.
Adding a second LCD of significant size would seriously impact the price. Wouldn't a standard 12" tablet PC work in your situation? Or just the tablet form factor to begin with?
I've been using the beta for a few months now, and its pretty slick. I think the intention is to charge for the service at some point. On the settings tab, they list what "plan" you have.
Right now there is no advertising on the website or inserted into your calls.
Come on guys, this isn't a troll. This is just hilarious.
At Kettering, we do 3 months of school and then 3 months of work (paid), then repeat for 4 and a half years. Most of us have some money, or pretend we do. We're all Sallie Mae's bitches.
Yeah, but then you can't see the eye candy on the side of the road. I know you know what I'm talking about.
They actually repaved the road between where the kid lives and the school. And I thought my car could make it for the rest of my time at Kettering without being destroyed by potholes.
No, seriously, the roads around Kettering suck and a vehicle like this is required to navigate them.
It's already kind of happening if you have a good internet connection, with some American channels.
ABC lets you watch shows (which they own the right to distribute online) from their website. You need Flash 9, which isn't on Linux yet. There are limited commercial interruptions (same number of advertising breaks, one commercial per break, you cannot skip the commercials).
Zulu has shows from FOX, NBC, and Universal (maybe a few more). Right now it's invite only beta, but they're partly on the right track. It uses a version of Flash that is supported on Linux. The only problem so far is that they don't have enough back catalogue, and they remove full episodes some time after air date. If the site had full seasons of the shows that are listed now, this site would be awesome. As a bonus, they have all the episodes of Firefly.
In terms of selection, the XBox 360 Marketplace is actually really cool. It costs money, but no commercials. TV shows don't expire (but as of right now, you can't move it to another device).
They pushed back the release of the new theme to 8.10. People on the Ubuntu-Art list are pretty much against changing the orange/brown color scheme.
File uploads work for me to the my files section (not sure about submissions to courses) using FF 2.0.0.12 on Ubuntu. They might have fixed it in a later version of Blackboard.
All in all, I haven't been burned by blackboard yet. I've had one class where we were required to use the discussion forums on a weekly basis, submit final essays through blackboard (plagiarism check), and access grading information. While I appreciate being able to track my progress in a class, the interface sucks on the user side and must on the professor side because so few here use it.
In Wisconsin, you don't actually have to show your license to vote. You must state your full name and address, and that's it. To register is another story, as you must prove your residence.
There's been a real push to make showing your ID to vote mandatory, but the old people and govenor are all against it. Crazy bunch of hippies we are.
It's not all that unlikely. At my internship, we worked on the testing solution for the braking system. All of the documents we worked on were export controlled and fell under a NDA. There's a lot of scary language associated with mil/aero projects that make me not want to discuss specifics of any system I've worked on.
That being said, there's a lot of regulation in the aerospace industry. Planes don't just fall out of the sky on accident.
The customer, then, must understand that changing the original requirements will move the schedule out and affect the price of the project.
ECOs aren't cheap, so get your scope right before you commit a lot of resources to a project.
If the customer doesn't know what they want, why should you write a single line of code? Unless you're on a time and materials deal, this is the first sign that the project is going to be a black hole.
Never underestimate what a good requirements document and design can do.
Took a look at them, and I think they look pretty cool.
Blockbuster could make a huge comeback. I really believe it.
I think their total access program is awesome. I have tried all the services (Netflix, Blockbuster, Walmart). Netflix just delivered the best service. I move every 3 months for my schooling and internship program (Kettering University, formerly GMI, which goes on a 3 month school/3 month internship schedule). The best service, as it comes to delivering movies is certainly Netflix.
I haven't been subscribed for a few terms, but decided that I'd go back to Netflix this term. So , they've delivered the #1 pick on my queue everytime. I guess if you have some weird stuff it might not come in a timely manor, but it hasn't affected me. Even the indie movies I watch come on time.
I don't really know why I chose Netflix over Blockbuster. Being able to pick up a movie in store is really a good feature, but the better interface and recomendation system won.
I made the choice while intoxicated, I am typing it intoxicated as well. Maybe that explains the lack of objective judgement.
Netflix's internet streaming would be 100% cooler if it wasn't tied to Windows. I am running Ubuntu on my laptop... if I could play it here..... Netflix would be god.
I wish I had points. Have a sense of humor, kids.
I always seem to meet more interesting people when taking public transit up here in the Twin Cities. If I'm waiting for a bus in a shady area (haha... shady areas in the Twin Cities), usually you meet someone interesting. Waiting for the light rail or on the train, always meet someone.
It's great that public transit is getting better up here. Light rail will be connecting Minneapolis and St Paul soon enough, commuter rail will be connecting St Cloud to all this as well. Prices are reasonable--usually $2 to get you anywhere (subtract 50 cents for off peak, add 50 cents if you take an express bus, and only 50 cents if you're only traveling within the downtown zone).
$6.95/mo accounts that claim they offer 1TB transfer a month are rubbish. When you start hammering the server with requests for that data, you're account is going to be suspended.
For the kind of service you'd need for a major item like the Radiohead cd, you're looking at a completely different service. With a service like Amazon S3, you're talking almost $17k to provide 1,200,000 downloads of a 100mb file.
I don't understand how you could pay so much for books. I usually get away with $50-100 per semester. . . borrow books from people who already took the class, share books with other people, buy online (Amazon and eBay).
If you're willing to go into gray areas, theres always international editions of many books available. I got my $150 PDE book this term for $25, although it wasn't hard cover and the cover was written in Chinese (but the inside matches page for page with the American hard cover edition).
If you're going to argue the definition of steal, I'll argue the definition of "take."
If I take something from you, you no longer have it. If I download something from your computer, you still have it.
I think part of being an American is being able to bitch at all the immigrants.
My grandpa (and grandma) on my mothers side was the first generation in his family born and raised in the US. His parents barely spoke English. Nevermind they were from Belgium, he bitches about all the Mexicans.
My dad was born in Holland. I guess that'd make me a relatively new American.
Or maybe I'm just white so I don't count.
I'm an undergrad working on my CE degree. I really don't want to go for my masters or PhD. Why? I've got an internship, and I know the things that I need to know to be successful in the industry that I want to work in.
Part of my schools program (Kettering University, formerly General Motors Institute for Engineering and Management) requires us to have a co-op job, and work that 6 months out of the year. All the theory is great, but I'd rather be out doing something. Staying in school isn't going to get me my BMW.
That being said, finished finals today. It's time to get the fuck out of Flint, and back to the real world.
You could always use a graphical language like LabVIEW. Datatypes have different wire colors, and comments can be in any font, any size, with any color. Images can be comments. You can use screenshots of LabVIEW code as comments.
(Although, adding picture comments is generally discouraged. I think I spend more time with LabVIEW making sure my block diagram is readable and followable for the other engineers I work with, then I would with a text based language).
LabVIEW is a fun language--I'm a Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer working for a National Instruments Select Integrator. A lot of people in the LabVIEW community make the mistake of categorizing it as a general purpose language--which it is not.
LabVIEW is great for what its for: making systems for test and measurement. One of the systems I've recently worked on is a vision system which scans parts before going into other test systems (to maintain traceability). It uses a Cognex camera, Parker motion controllers (controlling a XY table robot), NI-CAN for communication with the carrier tray. To integrate all these components into a workable system with a nice GUI as fast as we did on this system in any other environment would be difficult.
Now the initial investment to work with LabVIEW is steep, but to some, it's worth it.
Here's another thought: people with LabVIEW experience are in constant demand. Search around Info-LabVIEW and LAVA.