Im not sure the wiz is going to be as successful as their previous attempts. They are getting very strong competition from a bunch of chinese manufacturers releasing units all based off of ingenic processors. They all have comparable speed and specs to a wiz, with a few less features, but they are all half the price and already come with fully functioning emulators. The big one out now is the A320 dingoo. Theres a growing dev group behind it that have almost completed porting linux to it, but the unit already comes with emulators so its already fully functional out of the box. All this for 80$, half the price of the wiz.
I would think that an engineering degree learned entirely online would be completely inferior to one that actually had in person training. The majority of an engineering degree is theory, and without the labs to go along with it and hammer home what you learned, most probably would not understand what they are trying to teach. Also just learning the concepts is not enough. Many of the projects worked on in a university are group projects, so you learn alot more than just the subject matter but also how to work in teams on techincal projects. Also with computer engineering I believe it would be very hard to do any sort of senior level design projects. It would be hard to somehow gather all of the necessary parts, code everything and solder everything, get your pcb's made, debug, and all the other minutia that come along with a larger scale design project. This is impossible without a team, or an entire year of work. I know if I was looking to hire an engineer and had the choice of one who only learned everything online and one who had actually done real world projects, there would be absolutely no contest.
This may work for some degrees, but not the majority of engineering degrees. You really need the hands on training to understand the theory you learn in most of your classes. Doing this on your own is very hard mainly because the average person would not have access to all the resources. I.E. for computer engineering having access to the multi-thousand dollar programs to do chip synthesis, vhdl design, and fpga testing. Having access to logic analyzers and all the previous knowledge of professors and grad students is something you cant get just by reading off of the internet.
I believe this would also apply to most other engineering such as chemical, mechanical, materials etc.
Consider this another vote for SILC. We have many teams of devs here and one of the larger ones implemented their own SILC server and we use it all the time whenever we have to discuss issues related to their area. Works nice in conjunction with pidgin since I think for now that is the only cross platform client for it.
To go along with the previous posts. I was shopping a year ago for a laptop, and got a Dell that had the exact same specs as the current top of the line MBP but the dell had better graphics and a larger hdd, all for half the price of the MBP. Apple never offers discounts while all the other manufacturers do. These comparisons are horrible because they assume the shopper is a retard and wont be willing to wait a few weeks for a 200-800$ off coupon to pop up.
The storage facility already exists, Yucca Mountain, but the NIMBY crowd has managed to keep them from placing any waste there and put it into use. Its been a while since I looked at the stats for it but its supposed to handle an insane amount of waste. Just an interesting read if your bored.
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Of course i realize what i just said was completely retarded, but it will project a variant of grey, since it obviously cant do black, but either way you can still get very good contrast out of projectors, you dont get white
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Thats completely wrong. A projector will project black, not nothing, you dont have white where black should be
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Sure they are useless in conditions with alot of light, if you have a very low light projector. I have the epson 800 and with 1600 lumens i can watch it with all the lights on in the room as long as they arent pointed directly at the screen.
As far as the picture being washed out, projectors these days have the same contrast as common lcd tv's. A good projector compared to a good tv almost always look the same, except of course for the picture being more than twice the size
we did this in my ECE courses, at least as an elective for 'Software Engineering'. Basically the course covered from the ground up. We started with a basic idea that 6 teams would have to produce this game. From there the students were free to do pretty much whatever they wanted. Any language they chose and layout etc. Documentation for the game was produced, QA was done, development cycles etc. It seemed a pretty good layout to me, the professor kept it very loosely defined as to what he wanted in terms of results, which angered some students were used to the rigorous structure of producing specific results for a grade, but I think it worked out for the best.
Yea, i have had it for a little over a month now and am still very happy with it. The tw-600 version, which is the japanese version of the 800, is actually the exact same except it includes a D4 connector, which can be converted to component, and its 2000 USD less than the 800, pretty much why i went with it. I have seen recently that epson finally wised up to their wierd international pricing schemes and have lowered the price on the 800 so now it is pretty much the same cost, it includes an extra bulb and a mount. Factoring those in it costs pretty much the same.
With this projector I run it pretty much in low lamp mode all the time as it is almost even bright enough then for day time viewing. That's supposed to give me 3000 hours, but those stated hours are half lifes, so you can actually take bulbs on all projectors a lot longer than those recommended hours. I have seen many people saying they have taken them to 5 or 6000 hours and it is still perfectly watchable.
I recently spent a great deal of time shopping around for a projector, ended up on the epson procinema 800/tw-600 (non usa model). For the non usa model it is definetly the best bang for the buck out there for picture quality and has hdmi and vga inputs. There are alot of others out there tho like the panasonic 900, due to be replaced real soon, and the sanyo z4, also being replaced soon. Id recommend just checking out projectorcentral.com and its related forums for info.
My projector didn't come with any video cables at all. So best to plan ahead, but really the cables are not ridiculously expensive as long as your buying online. From what i remember monoprice has a 25ft hdmi cable for around 40 bucks. Definetly best to avoid your local stores as a 25ft cable there would easily cost you 200.
If what your looking for is sound quality, go Creative. From all tests as well as straight specs no one can beat their sound quality. But of course their downside is not as pretty an interface as an Ipod.
This was the case at least with models from >1 year, I havent checked their specs recently. You can also try checking www.dapreviews.net they tend to have more technical oriented reviews than most places and cover sound quality better than most.
After attending a talk given by Niels Provos, creator of Honeyd, he showed this exact thing 3 months ago. He setup multiple honeyd nets all showing the same possible exploit holes to try and capture spyware and virii and then issue patches if these holes were found on the rest of the system and showed that with the right amount of machines it can be done effectively. These guys seem to just be copying his research verbatim
This is nothing new what so ever. It has already been fairly understood that neandertals and humans co-existed by the artifacts left behind. Neandertals never had any sort of jewelry or artwork in anything they owned, until the time period during which human's came around. During this time many artifacts found at neandertal sites show various pieces of jewelry but with a slight twist that was not seen amongst human jewelry. The neandertal version was also much more basic and not as intricate as the human's version. This leads many to believe that not only did they co-exist, they also exchanged various goods and possibly some ideas as well
So far Ive only done one real internship, an NSF funded project that didnt really involve too much in the actual computer engineering field. While it looks good on paper it was not very enriching. This summer however I worked with a professor on a research project studying standards of quality and commonalities across open source projects. While it was not a true internship i feel i learned alot more from doing this than most internships available out there. Besides getting paid to do research and getting a paper or two published in journals isnt too bad either.
Just always keep your eyes open for other opportunities that may not be labled as internships but can turn out just as well, if not better
A group of us is trying to spread the word on fairuse rights and set up a day to celebrate these rights on July 11th. More info at http://www.fairuseday.com/ .
We also maintain a chat on freenode at #fairuseday if you care to come and join us. The best way is just through word of mouth though. Contact local represenatives and such and celebrate in your own way.
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this thing seems like an overpriced piece of junk just trying to hawk its.NET and VS support. Most of the microcontrollers out there i have seen can in some way or another be programmed in C and its various forms. 200 dollars just for the cpu seems to be asking a lot when the only advantage i see is that is 4mb of flash, and other MC's can always be expanded to that anyway. Besides the fact that other MC's out there that are cheaper also contain a whole lot more peripherals and features than this one. But maybe thats just me
It should be evident that there is a high quality way to do this since the star wars ld's have already been ripped to dvd and released on the internet for some time. i would suggest checking out the usual dvd/vcd help sites such as dvdrhelp and doom9 for some tutorials
This is a sorta new thing introduced with winamp5. Streaming video with audio. I use it to run a dj tv station were we do live dj broadcasts a couple times a week, http://sastv.cubeness.com . Its fairly simple, just setup a shoutcast server, download the streaming tools and just select your tv tuner as input and stream, you can make the stream private and not broadcast the address. The only problem with this is that you will not be able to change stations so you better know what channel you wanna watch ahead of time, but it works great. People even used this to stream the super bowl mainly for the viewing of those overseas who could not recieve it on their local cable/sattelite company.
like the previous post I suggest the modded xbox route. Softmodding is still debatable since it still has a few issues, using an actual modchip to just play homemade software is probably a bit more legal than using an exploit within ms's code. Anyway, im not a legal expert and am completely wrong about it but in any case for the money you will not find a better standalone player than a modded xbox, thats pretty much the sole reason why i purchased mine. A home entertainment unit that can play pretty much any format in existence as well as constant updates all for the price of a midrange all in one standalone.
Just like the previous post, there is no system out there that for the price can match the performance of a modded xbox. Thats the main reason i bought one, not to play games, but for a home entertainment center. Thats my personal suggestion, you can also check out an article that tomshardware did comparing @5 different dvd players that 'played everything' along with a modded xbox, and according to them, if you can stomach the initial amount of setup, nothing beats it. But the check the article anyway for other players you may not have seen yet.
Yes, i know, and have downloaded it, but its hardware support really really sucks. Not really worth installing on a regular home x86 machine anyway. If it were open sourced, at least some drivers would probably be created.
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Im not sure the wiz is going to be as successful as their previous attempts. They are getting very strong competition from a bunch of chinese manufacturers releasing units all based off of ingenic processors. They all have comparable speed and specs to a wiz, with a few less features, but they are all half the price and already come with fully functioning emulators. The big one out now is the A320 dingoo. Theres a growing dev group behind it that have almost completed porting linux to it, but the unit already comes with emulators so its already fully functional out of the box. All this for 80$, half the price of the wiz.
I would think that an engineering degree learned entirely online would be completely inferior to one that actually had in person training. The majority of an engineering degree is theory, and without the labs to go along with it and hammer home what you learned, most probably would not understand what they are trying to teach. Also just learning the concepts is not enough. Many of the projects worked on in a university are group projects, so you learn alot more than just the subject matter but also how to work in teams on techincal projects. Also with computer engineering I believe it would be very hard to do any sort of senior level design projects. It would be hard to somehow gather all of the necessary parts, code everything and solder everything, get your pcb's made, debug, and all the other minutia that come along with a larger scale design project. This is impossible without a team, or an entire year of work. I know if I was looking to hire an engineer and had the choice of one who only learned everything online and one who had actually done real world projects, there would be absolutely no contest.
This may work for some degrees, but not the majority of engineering degrees. You really need the hands on training to understand the theory you learn in most of your classes. Doing this on your own is very hard mainly because the average person would not have access to all the resources. I.E. for computer engineering having access to the multi-thousand dollar programs to do chip synthesis, vhdl design, and fpga testing. Having access to logic analyzers and all the previous knowledge of professors and grad students is something you cant get just by reading off of the internet. I believe this would also apply to most other engineering such as chemical, mechanical, materials etc.
Consider this another vote for SILC. We have many teams of devs here and one of the larger ones implemented their own SILC server and we use it all the time whenever we have to discuss issues related to their area. Works nice in conjunction with pidgin since I think for now that is the only cross platform client for it.
To go along with the previous posts. I was shopping a year ago for a laptop, and got a Dell that had the exact same specs as the current top of the line MBP but the dell had better graphics and a larger hdd, all for half the price of the MBP. Apple never offers discounts while all the other manufacturers do. These comparisons are horrible because they assume the shopper is a retard and wont be willing to wait a few weeks for a 200-800$ off coupon to pop up.
The storage facility already exists, Yucca Mountain, but the NIMBY crowd has managed to keep them from placing any waste there and put it into use. Its been a while since I looked at the stats for it but its supposed to handle an insane amount of waste. Just an interesting read if your bored.
Of course i realize what i just said was completely retarded, but it will project a variant of grey, since it obviously cant do black, but either way you can still get very good contrast out of projectors, you dont get white
Thats completely wrong. A projector will project black, not nothing, you dont have white where black should be
Sure they are useless in conditions with alot of light, if you have a very low light projector. I have the epson 800 and with 1600 lumens i can watch it with all the lights on in the room as long as they arent pointed directly at the screen. As far as the picture being washed out, projectors these days have the same contrast as common lcd tv's. A good projector compared to a good tv almost always look the same, except of course for the picture being more than twice the size
we did this in my ECE courses, at least as an elective for 'Software Engineering'. Basically the course covered from the ground up. We started with a basic idea that 6 teams would have to produce this game. From there the students were free to do pretty much whatever they wanted. Any language they chose and layout etc. Documentation for the game was produced, QA was done, development cycles etc. It seemed a pretty good layout to me, the professor kept it very loosely defined as to what he wanted in terms of results, which angered some students were used to the rigorous structure of producing specific results for a grade, but I think it worked out for the best.
Yea, i have had it for a little over a month now and am still very happy with it. The tw-600 version, which is the japanese version of the 800, is actually the exact same except it includes a D4 connector, which can be converted to component, and its 2000 USD less than the 800, pretty much why i went with it. I have seen recently that epson finally wised up to their wierd international pricing schemes and have lowered the price on the 800 so now it is pretty much the same cost, it includes an extra bulb and a mount. Factoring those in it costs pretty much the same. With this projector I run it pretty much in low lamp mode all the time as it is almost even bright enough then for day time viewing. That's supposed to give me 3000 hours, but those stated hours are half lifes, so you can actually take bulbs on all projectors a lot longer than those recommended hours. I have seen many people saying they have taken them to 5 or 6000 hours and it is still perfectly watchable.
I recently spent a great deal of time shopping around for a projector, ended up on the epson procinema 800/tw-600 (non usa model). For the non usa model it is definetly the best bang for the buck out there for picture quality and has hdmi and vga inputs. There are alot of others out there tho like the panasonic 900, due to be replaced real soon, and the sanyo z4, also being replaced soon. Id recommend just checking out projectorcentral.com and its related forums for info.
My projector didn't come with any video cables at all. So best to plan ahead, but really the cables are not ridiculously expensive as long as your buying online. From what i remember monoprice has a 25ft hdmi cable for around 40 bucks. Definetly best to avoid your local stores as a 25ft cable there would easily cost you 200.
If what your looking for is sound quality, go Creative. From all tests as well as straight specs no one can beat their sound quality. But of course their downside is not as pretty an interface as an Ipod. This was the case at least with models from >1 year, I havent checked their specs recently. You can also try checking www.dapreviews.net they tend to have more technical oriented reviews than most places and cover sound quality better than most.
As a side note, here is his research into worms with honeyd : http://www.honeyd.org/worms.php published in 2004
After attending a talk given by Niels Provos, creator of Honeyd, he showed this exact thing 3 months ago. He setup multiple honeyd nets all showing the same possible exploit holes to try and capture spyware and virii and then issue patches if these holes were found on the rest of the system and showed that with the right amount of machines it can be done effectively. These guys seem to just be copying his research verbatim
This is nothing new what so ever. It has already been fairly understood that neandertals and humans co-existed by the artifacts left behind. Neandertals never had any sort of jewelry or artwork in anything they owned, until the time period during which human's came around. During this time many artifacts found at neandertal sites show various pieces of jewelry but with a slight twist that was not seen amongst human jewelry. The neandertal version was also much more basic and not as intricate as the human's version. This leads many to believe that not only did they co-exist, they also exchanged various goods and possibly some ideas as well
So far Ive only done one real internship, an NSF funded project that didnt really involve too much in the actual computer engineering field. While it looks good on paper it was not very enriching. This summer however I worked with a professor on a research project studying standards of quality and commonalities across open source projects. While it was not a true internship i feel i learned alot more from doing this than most internships available out there. Besides getting paid to do research and getting a paper or two published in journals isnt too bad either. Just always keep your eyes open for other opportunities that may not be labled as internships but can turn out just as well, if not better
A group of us is trying to spread the word on fairuse rights and set up a day to celebrate these rights on July 11th. More info at http://www.fairuseday.com/ . We also maintain a chat on freenode at #fairuseday if you care to come and join us. The best way is just through word of mouth though. Contact local represenatives and such and celebrate in your own way.
this thing seems like an overpriced piece of junk just trying to hawk its .NET and VS support. Most of the microcontrollers out there i have seen can in some way or another be programmed in C and its various forms. 200 dollars just for the cpu seems to be asking a lot when the only advantage i see is that is 4mb of flash, and other MC's can always be expanded to that anyway. Besides the fact that other MC's out there that are cheaper also contain a whole lot more peripherals and features than this one. But maybe thats just me
It should be evident that there is a high quality way to do this since the star wars ld's have already been ripped to dvd and released on the internet for some time. i would suggest checking out the usual dvd/vcd help sites such as dvdrhelp and doom9 for some tutorials
This is a sorta new thing introduced with winamp5. Streaming video with audio. I use it to run a dj tv station were we do live dj broadcasts a couple times a week, http://sastv.cubeness.com . Its fairly simple, just setup a shoutcast server, download the streaming tools and just select your tv tuner as input and stream, you can make the stream private and not broadcast the address. The only problem with this is that you will not be able to change stations so you better know what channel you wanna watch ahead of time, but it works great. People even used this to stream the super bowl mainly for the viewing of those overseas who could not recieve it on their local cable/sattelite company.
like the previous post I suggest the modded xbox route. Softmodding is still debatable since it still has a few issues, using an actual modchip to just play homemade software is probably a bit more legal than using an exploit within ms's code. Anyway, im not a legal expert and am completely wrong about it but in any case for the money you will not find a better standalone player than a modded xbox, thats pretty much the sole reason why i purchased mine. A home entertainment unit that can play pretty much any format in existence as well as constant updates all for the price of a midrange all in one standalone.
Just like the previous post, there is no system out there that for the price can match the performance of a modded xbox. Thats the main reason i bought one, not to play games, but for a home entertainment center. Thats my personal suggestion, you can also check out an article that tomshardware did comparing @5 different dvd players that 'played everything' along with a modded xbox, and according to them, if you can stomach the initial amount of setup, nothing beats it. But the check the article anyway for other players you may not have seen yet.
Yes, i know, and have downloaded it, but its hardware support really really sucks. Not really worth installing on a regular home x86 machine anyway. If it were open sourced, at least some drivers would probably be created.