Actually the IEEE dates back to 1884. The IEEE was formed when the Institute of Radio Engineers merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. The American Institue of Electrical Engineers was founded in 1884. IEEE
Wherever you go to school...please, please don't just settle down there. You'll thank me later.
I'm somewhat amazed by the number of people who do settle down in their undergraduate college town, or at least have an infatuation with living in said town. My guess is that for many people, college is the first experience of freedom from parental authority. Combine that freedom with the relatively carefree lifestyle many live in college, and you have a (subconscious?) mental link between a great life style and your college town.
Bell Labs' Crazy Lack of Focus -- Is it Serous about Telephones?
From semiconductors, to photovoltaics, to computer operatings systems, Bell Labs has wanders aimlessly from topic to topic. How will these ever apply to the copper lines strung across the world to carry our telephone conversations?? Doesn't Bell Labs know that it should only invest in ideas and technology that can pay off within 3 years?
Yeah I'm amazed by the amount of Surface RT hate in this thread. I wonder how much of it is typed on an iPad:)
I think that a $200 tablet for web browsing, email, and remote desktop would be pretty useful despite the limited app store. Maybe it's time to send my Touchpad to ebay and try one of these out...
Instead, car companies intend to offer software upgradable vehicles through 4G connectivity and data storage and entertainment streaming through the cloud, which allows them to charge a monthly fee for streaming media services.
As someone who has worked with H1-B's, I have seen a company do the following...(it works especially well with people who are already working at the company on a short term student visa):
1. Identify a person who they want to hire
2. Tell this potential employee to write an overly technical job description that meets his/her skill set in an extremely specific way.
3. Interview *only* this specific person, and no one else.
4. Hire the person at a couple of levels below their actual rank within the corporation. (i.e. works as a team lead, hired as a non-lead developer)
This being said, I think that people who get graduate degrees from an accredited US university should be given an easier path to US citizenship. Perhaps this should only count for Ph.D's, though, since you can get an engineering / CS master's degree in 12 months at some schools...
Or you could get Windows 8 and path $5 for something like Start8 to add back the start menu. I don't think the average user would know the difference between that and Windows 7.
The Professional Engineering "license" is an archaic pile of junk that is only useful to electrical engineers who rubber stamp wiring diagrams on official blueprints.
I haven't looked at it in years, but I think it took until 2000 (or beyond) before they tested much digital electronics knowledge, but they did require all electrical engineers to answer questions in statics and thermodynamics. The PE exam made itself irrelevant for 95% of electrical engineers by maintaining a test for graduates of a 1980s engineering program rather than tracking how modern technology was changing the core requirements of the degree.
How much do you bet this data was copied onto someone's laptop, sitting on a desk, rather than a thief breaking into a datacenter and pulling an entire server?
...Simply put, the fucking UI design doesn't work on a desktop/laptop w/o a fucking touch screen and it should default back to the standard desktop. Otherwise as it is, you simply can't do any productive work using it as there is no way to have two windows open side by side...
Huh? I run Win8 on a desktop, and applications run on the Windows Desktop identically to a Win7 machine. I can put as many windows side by side as I want. The only apparent difference when I run Win8 is that the start menu is replaced by a full screen tiled program menu. Do you actually use Win8?
MS does include some tablet-centric apps for news, weather, and other stuff that I ignore in favor of web browser content. If I wasn't so lazy (or needed more room on the "start" screen, I'm sure I could remove the links to all these full screen tablet apps.
There are good cookbooks, and then there are cookbooks, like this one, that are published by a celebrity or celebrity chef. Other bad cookbooks include those with big glossy pictures intended for a coffee table and pop culture / fad cookbooks.
Normally I wouldn't comment on this stuff but a 4.5 second yellow? Are there no crosswalks at these lights? Am I the only person who hovers over the brake pedal once the crosswalks start blinking?
Let me guess, you live in a city. The OP says this is in New Hampshire, which is mostly suburban / rural. You might be surprised that lots of suburban and rural places don't have crosswalk signals, or even sidewalks!
Puerto Rico is not a country. It is a territory of the United States. It has some fringe elements who want to establish an independent country, perhaps like a few fringe elements in the American Southeast who want still want to secede in the Civil War fashion. Some people want Puerto Rico to become the 51st state, but this is also somewhat unlikely since it is an income tax haven for its wealthiest residents.
Does anyone explain why this was modded up? Because it is bashing the US? How is industrial and corporate espionage in any way, shape, or form acceptable? Reduced to its essential message, what I am hearing is "being a thief and d*ck is cool." Whatever.
No, you've got it wrong. The OP is saying that, "being a thief and d*ck to the US is cool." And yes, it was modded up because it is an anti-US rant.
Sorry for your computer problems, but if you're not interested in debugging problems, do not build your own computer! It looks like you were making some relatively basic mistakes, like not installing graphics drivers -- you probably should have purchased a Dell, or even better, spent the money at a boutique computer builder who would send you a working HTPC.
A 50" eInk screen for $100USD would be a nifty device. Even a 24" to 30" screen for that price would be tempting. Unfortunately, eInk screens use construction very similar to LCDs -- an array of wires and transistors laid out on a glass panel to address each pixel site individually. For this reason, I believe their cost is on the same scale as LCDs, so we won't be seeing any cheap 50 inch eInk screens until you see 50 inch LCD TVs below $200.
E-ink is only black white or grey. So there is very little need for large sized versions. As most things that big you want color for.
a 30" eink display could be built though. make it from panels of smaller units like they do jumbo tron's.
You are completely incorrect. Prototype color eInk screens have been around for years, and they are now commercially available. Of course, they are not used in a Kindle or Nook, so perhaps you are not familar with them. Google "color e-ink" or just look at this ECTACO jetBook Color with color E Ink screen for an example.
The trick with color e-ink is that, just like black and white e-ink, the screen looks more like newsprint rather than a bright plasma or LCD. If a billboard or advertisement used color e-ink, it would require some kind of bright lighting to make the screen look vibrant. Once you add a bright LED lamp to illuminate your e-ink board, will it save much energy vs. an LCD tv?
As I understand, the Arab world had some great thinkers and scientists during a period from about 800-1200 AD. The Mongols destroyed Baghdad in 1278, and the Arab world hasn't been a center of science since. Things were not quite as science friendly during this period as you might think, though:
From Wikipedia, emphasis mine.
The House of Wisdom flourished under al-Ma'mun's successors al-Mu'tasim (r. 833–842) and his son al-Wathiq (r. 842 – 847), but considerably declined under the reign of al-Mutawakkil (r. 847–861).[7] Although al Ma'mun, al Mu'tasim, and al Wathiq followed the sect of Mu'tazili, which supported mind-broadness and scientific inquiry, al-Mutawakkil endorsed a more literal interpretation of the Qur'an and Hadith.[7] The caliph was not interested in science and moved away from rationalism, seeing the spread of Greek philosophy as anti-Islamic.[7]
Unfortunately, we are almost 800 years past this period. What are the current views of Arab countries on scientific issues? How about the education of women? I know that some wealthy Persian Gulf countries are finally investing in their universities to develop education and research infrastructure, but this is something that has happened in the past decade rather than being an ongoing trend of Muslim countries.
Do you have a recommendation for a mini-itx motherboard that supports ECC? I'm starting to think about building something like this myself (several HDs, raidZ, small, quiet). I'm debating whether I want ECC memory and/or a PCI-e card with SATA ports.
A beautiful case is one that is small enough to escape notice, quiet enough so that is is effectively silent, or well engineered enough to allow easy construction or 10 hard drive bays in a small volume. How many people really want a bright orange monstrosity on or under their desk that screams, "LOVE CHILD OF A COMPUTER AND AN ERECTOR SET!!"?
I wonder if these nurses have no vaccines, or if they are just offended by the flu vaccine. For example, I though all nurses have been required to have a Hepatitis vaccine for many years.
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Actually the IEEE dates back to 1884. The IEEE was formed when the Institute of Radio Engineers merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. The American Institue of Electrical Engineers was founded in 1884. IEEE
Wherever you go to school...please, please don't just settle down there. You'll thank me later.
I'm somewhat amazed by the number of people who do settle down in their undergraduate college town, or at least have an infatuation with living in said town. My guess is that for many people, college is the first experience of freedom from parental authority. Combine that freedom with the relatively carefree lifestyle many live in college, and you have a (subconscious?) mental link between a great life style and your college town.
This article summary from a few decades ago:
Bell Labs' Crazy Lack of Focus -- Is it Serous about Telephones?
From semiconductors, to photovoltaics, to computer operatings systems, Bell Labs has wanders aimlessly from topic to topic. How will these ever apply to the copper lines strung across the world to carry our telephone conversations?? Doesn't Bell Labs know that it should only invest in ideas and technology that can pay off within 3 years?
Yeah I'm amazed by the amount of Surface RT hate in this thread. I wonder how much of it is typed on an iPad :)
I think that a $200 tablet for web browsing, email, and remote desktop would be pretty useful despite the limited app store. Maybe it's time to send my Touchpad to ebay and try one of these out...
Except that there's no Outlook. Try getting business done without that.
Actually, the latest version of Office RT (2013) does include Outlook.
In the 2009 reboot, the "pipes and stuff" vibe is not from a movie set. It's an Anheuser-Busch brewery. According to the following article, the latest edition of the reboot had scenes filmed in the National Ignition Facility. http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/star-trek-boldly-goes-unlikely-real-life-locations-153158175.html
Instead, car companies intend to offer software upgradable vehicles through 4G connectivity and data storage and entertainment streaming through the cloud, which allows them to charge a monthly fee for streaming media services.
As someone who has worked with H1-B's, I have seen a company do the following...(it works especially well with people who are already working at the company on a short term student visa):
1. Identify a person who they want to hire
2. Tell this potential employee to write an overly technical job description that meets his/her skill set in an extremely specific way.
3. Interview *only* this specific person, and no one else.
4. Hire the person at a couple of levels below their actual rank within the corporation. (i.e. works as a team lead, hired as a non-lead developer)
This being said, I think that people who get graduate degrees from an accredited US university should be given an easier path to US citizenship. Perhaps this should only count for Ph.D's, though, since you can get an engineering / CS master's degree in 12 months at some schools...
Or you could get Windows 8 and path $5 for something like Start8 to add back the start menu. I don't think the average user would know the difference between that and Windows 7.
The Professional Engineering "license" is an archaic pile of junk that is only useful to electrical engineers who rubber stamp wiring diagrams on official blueprints.
I haven't looked at it in years, but I think it took until 2000 (or beyond) before they tested much digital electronics knowledge, but they did require all electrical engineers to answer questions in statics and thermodynamics. The PE exam made itself irrelevant for 95% of electrical engineers by maintaining a test for graduates of a 1980s engineering program rather than tracking how modern technology was changing the core requirements of the degree.
How much do you bet this data was copied onto someone's laptop, sitting on a desk, rather than a thief breaking into a datacenter and pulling an entire server?
...Simply put, the fucking UI design doesn't work on a desktop/laptop w/o a fucking touch screen and it should default back to the standard desktop. Otherwise as it is, you simply can't do any productive work using it as there is no way to have two windows open side by side...
Huh? I run Win8 on a desktop, and applications run on the Windows Desktop identically to a Win7 machine. I can put as many windows side by side as I want. The only apparent difference when I run Win8 is that the start menu is replaced by a full screen tiled program menu. Do you actually use Win8? MS does include some tablet-centric apps for news, weather, and other stuff that I ignore in favor of web browser content. If I wasn't so lazy (or needed more room on the "start" screen, I'm sure I could remove the links to all these full screen tablet apps.
There are good cookbooks, and then there are cookbooks, like this one, that are published by a celebrity or celebrity chef. Other bad cookbooks include those with big glossy pictures intended for a coffee table and pop culture / fad cookbooks.
Normally I wouldn't comment on this stuff but a 4.5 second yellow? Are there no crosswalks at these lights? Am I the only person who hovers over the brake pedal once the crosswalks start blinking?
Let me guess, you live in a city. The OP says this is in New Hampshire, which is mostly suburban / rural. You might be surprised that lots of suburban and rural places don't have crosswalk signals, or even sidewalks!
Oh you optimist! Just like computers would mean we only would be working four hours a day four days a week by the year 2000.
Once you factor in the amount of time you waste on Slashdot, your 16 hour (4 hours x 4 days) work week is pretty accurate!
Puerto Rico is not a country. It is a territory of the United States. It has some fringe elements who want to establish an independent country, perhaps like a few fringe elements in the American Southeast who want still want to secede in the Civil War fashion. Some people want Puerto Rico to become the 51st state, but this is also somewhat unlikely since it is an income tax haven for its wealthiest residents.
What does any of that mean?
Does anyone explain why this was modded up? Because it is bashing the US? How is industrial and corporate espionage in any way, shape, or form acceptable? Reduced to its essential message, what I am hearing is "being a thief and d*ck is cool." Whatever.
No, you've got it wrong. The OP is saying that, "being a thief and d*ck to the US is cool." And yes, it was modded up because it is an anti-US rant.
Sorry for your computer problems, but if you're not interested in debugging problems, do not build your own computer! It looks like you were making some relatively basic mistakes, like not installing graphics drivers -- you probably should have purchased a Dell, or even better, spent the money at a boutique computer builder who would send you a working HTPC.
A 50" eInk screen for $100USD would be a nifty device. Even a 24" to 30" screen for that price would be tempting. Unfortunately, eInk screens use construction very similar to LCDs -- an array of wires and transistors laid out on a glass panel to address each pixel site individually. For this reason, I believe their cost is on the same scale as LCDs, so we won't be seeing any cheap 50 inch eInk screens until you see 50 inch LCD TVs below $200.
E-ink is only black white or grey. So there is very little need for large sized versions. As most things that big you want color for.
a 30" eink display could be built though. make it from panels of smaller units like they do jumbo tron's.
You are completely incorrect. Prototype color eInk screens have been around for years, and they are now commercially available. Of course, they are not used in a Kindle or Nook, so perhaps you are not familar with them. Google "color e-ink" or just look at this ECTACO jetBook Color with color E Ink screen for an example.
The trick with color e-ink is that, just like black and white e-ink, the screen looks more like newsprint rather than a bright plasma or LCD. If a billboard or advertisement used color e-ink, it would require some kind of bright lighting to make the screen look vibrant. Once you add a bright LED lamp to illuminate your e-ink board, will it save much energy vs. an LCD tv?
From Wikipedia, emphasis mine.
The House of Wisdom flourished under al-Ma'mun's successors al-Mu'tasim (r. 833–842) and his son al-Wathiq (r. 842 – 847), but considerably declined under the reign of al-Mutawakkil (r. 847–861).[7] Although al Ma'mun, al Mu'tasim, and al Wathiq followed the sect of Mu'tazili, which supported mind-broadness and scientific inquiry, al-Mutawakkil endorsed a more literal interpretation of the Qur'an and Hadith.[7] The caliph was not interested in science and moved away from rationalism, seeing the spread of Greek philosophy as anti-Islamic.[7]
Unfortunately, we are almost 800 years past this period. What are the current views of Arab countries on scientific issues? How about the education of women? I know that some wealthy Persian Gulf countries are finally investing in their universities to develop education and research infrastructure, but this is something that has happened in the past decade rather than being an ongoing trend of Muslim countries.
I wonder if there are any AMD options. Last time I checked newegg, I think there may have only been 1-2 itx boards total (with the latest socket).
Do you have a recommendation for a mini-itx motherboard that supports ECC? I'm starting to think about building something like this myself (several HDs, raidZ, small, quiet). I'm debating whether I want ECC memory and/or a PCI-e card with SATA ports.
A beautiful case is one that is small enough to escape notice, quiet enough so that is is effectively silent, or well engineered enough to allow easy construction or 10 hard drive bays in a small volume. How many people really want a bright orange monstrosity on or under their desk that screams, "LOVE CHILD OF A COMPUTER AND AN ERECTOR SET!!"?
I wonder if these nurses have no vaccines, or if they are just offended by the flu vaccine. For example, I though all nurses have been required to have a Hepatitis vaccine for many years.