I see that no one has mentioned LiveConnect, so I figured I'd chime in.
Forget that horid wait while 100K of HTML downloads when the application just wanted to update one field on the page.
Netscape developed LiveConnect over 7 years ago to do exactly that. Well, not exactly, but it enabled communication between Java applets and Javascript, which allows for dynamic updates without page refreshes.
Yes, this new standard may be met with much broader browser support, but it's not like the technology is revolutionary.
Today many US citizens are happy letting other first world countries like Japan and the EU (even Russia!!) lead the way and compare themselves underdeveloped 2nd world nations.
Sigh...1st, 2nd and 3rd world does not imply some sort of ranking of how developed a country is. It would be very hard for the US to compare itself to "underdeveloped 2nd world nations" since technically the 2nd world disappeared along with the Soviet Union. See http://open-dictionary.com/Third_World/.
I also voted in fairfax county VA and went through the same procedure. However, the line to get your blue card and the line to "cash" it in for your vote were contiguous, so I don't think it would have been allowed to skip ahead in the line just because you had a blue index card.
On a side note, there were two democratic "Poll Watchers" there, but Republicans.
Prof. Tom Hutchinson at the University of Virginia has been researching this subject for decades. His system lets you control the cursor with the movement of your eyes and can track & record your eyes as you look across the screen. It's been in use for years for a great deal of UI research in addition to it's potential for handicapped users.
Gotta love being an engineer in this economy
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The 3Com Saga
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From the article:
The joint venture with Huawei lets 3Com ride shotgun over product development while ridding its own payroll of expensive engineering talent and manufacturing plants.
"A Chinese engineer costs one-sixth of an American engineer..."
"A year ago 3Com had about 300 engineers on its payroll developing product. Today, we have closer to 900 engineers working on our behalf. Yet the cost of this is all off our books," Claflin says.
I'm graduating in May with a BS is CS from the University of Virginia, which doesn't have a particularly high ranked engineering school but is the #1 public school in the nation. None of my friends have been offered anything below $50k. At the interview for the job I took I asked for $50k and they gave $58k. Almost everyone is getting offers for around $55k for either IT consulting or defense work in the DC area.
That is a very recent development - when Dell refused to include Windows operating systems in all of their computers, it pissed MS off quite a bit. Almost every other major OEM doesn't do that though.
I am in my last year of college, and I have exactly the same problem as the original poster. If the deadline is a week or more, I have trouble even starting, but I am always feeling guilty about not doing it.
I especially agree with what you said about turning down other activities. My friends are always doin this or that, but I always say 'no thanks, i'm swamped.' But most of the time I just sit there watching tv or surfing the net. I don't even play time-intensive video games, though, despite the fact that I would love to. Instead, I just widdle the time away slowly. It's like my conscience allows it if the activity doesn't require a large committment, even if it means I waste even more time with it.
My only advice is to, at the very least, try not to turn down fun things to do when presented with opportunities. if you anticipate not doing the work anyway, you should at least enjoy yourself. that may be more realistic than just saying "don't procrastinate."
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Check out this guy's page for an example: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~dcrombie/java/Pend
Today many US citizens are happy letting other first world countries like Japan and the EU (even Russia!!) lead the way and compare themselves underdeveloped 2nd world nations.
Sigh...1st, 2nd and 3rd world does not imply some sort of ranking of how developed a country is. It would be very hard for the US to compare itself to "underdeveloped 2nd world nations" since technically the 2nd world disappeared along with the Soviet Union. See http://open-dictionary.com/Third_World/.
I also voted in fairfax county VA and went through the same procedure. However, the line to get your blue card and the line to "cash" it in for your vote were contiguous, so I don't think it would have been allowed to skip ahead in the line just because you had a blue index card.
On a side note, there were two democratic "Poll Watchers" there, but Republicans.
Prof. Tom Hutchinson at the University of Virginia has been researching this subject for decades. His system lets you control the cursor with the movement of your eyes and can track & record your eyes as you look across the screen. It's been in use for years for a great deal of UI research in addition to it's potential for handicapped users.
The joint venture with Huawei lets 3Com ride shotgun over product development while ridding its own payroll of expensive engineering talent and manufacturing plants.
"A Chinese engineer costs one-sixth of an American engineer..."
"A year ago 3Com had about 300 engineers on its payroll developing product. Today, we have closer to 900 engineers working on our behalf. Yet the cost of this is all off our books," Claflin says.
Nuf' said.
Funny, but unfortunately implausible since polar bears are strictly Arctic animals while penguins are Antarctic. Also, penguins don't speak English.
I'm graduating in May with a BS is CS from the University of Virginia, which doesn't have a particularly high ranked engineering school but is the #1 public school in the nation. None of my friends have been offered anything below $50k. At the interview for the job I took I asked for $50k and they gave $58k. Almost everyone is getting offers for around $55k for either IT consulting or defense work in the DC area.
What's more vacuous than putting Family Guy into the same category as Friends?
That is a very recent development - when Dell refused to include Windows operating systems in all of their computers, it pissed MS off quite a bit. Almost every other major OEM doesn't do that though.
I especially agree with what you said about turning down other activities. My friends are always doin this or that, but I always say 'no thanks, i'm swamped.' But most of the time I just sit there watching tv or surfing the net. I don't even play time-intensive video games, though, despite the fact that I would love to. Instead, I just widdle the time away slowly. It's like my conscience allows it if the activity doesn't require a large committment, even if it means I waste even more time with it.
My only advice is to, at the very least, try not to turn down fun things to do when presented with opportunities. if you anticipate not doing the work anyway, you should at least enjoy yourself. that may be more realistic than just saying "don't procrastinate."