Hi there prospective first-year. I go to Columbia University, School of Engineering in NYC. As many other people have pointed out, you don't need a top name school to succeed in industry engineering. Actually, it is probably more important that you do well in whatever school you go to and in whatever concentration that you pick. That said, where you go to school is very important. The top tier schools have strong alumni programs which give you industry and government contacts and better opportunities. However at the _top_ schools, you'll be in league with a large number of people who received >95% in their classes as well. You may find it much more difficult to get the good grades there than in high school. Due to all that hard work, you want to make sure that the majority of the students there are going to be doing after graduation what you think you want to do. For example, most of the engineers at Columbia end up working at investment banks making obscene amounts of money their first year in industry. The reason why many people in engineering industry don't see the benefits of a top school in engineering is because the people in top engineering schools are making gobs of money in other industries. You also want to make sure that you like the student life at these schools before you kill yourself trying to get into them. Just because you're a top student doesn't mean that you'll get along in their student culture. I'd suggest you participate in one of the sleep over programs at one of their upperclassmen dorms. Do not sleep in the freshman dorms, they are poor representatives of what you'll be doing the other three years of your stay at your school.
Finally, you want to know how to get into these schools that have wait-listed you. The best thing that I've heard to do is to stay in contact with the schools. If you give the admissions at schools a call and tell them what cool things you've been up to since your application and that you would like them added to the application it shows continued interest in that school. Furthermore, if you happen to get in a conversation on the phone with an admission representative, tell them why the school specifically is made for you. I've heard they like that as well.
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong.
1) Students in America are commonly told to work in groups to help each other solve for example math problems. What happens in the kids start screwing off and talking about anything but the work at hand.
2) One of the schools in my region tried making all the classes non-required attendance. The students never showed up, and the school dropped in the state standardized testing.
3) Sure, low pay, but also, the teachers don't get paid less or more due to their performance. They can do a cruddy job and continue to stay hired for years.
4) Again, teenage students start screwing off when left to their own devices.
5) There isn't a national curriculum in America, sure there's a very broad one, but it is by no means restrictive. The curriculum is mostly set by the states, and the state curriculum is not something that decides what every class needs to be. The state curriculum lays out certain things that need to be taught, but leaves it up to the school districts and schools to specify how the material is actually taught. If your class sucks, blame your teacher, or blame your peers.
6) Writting well EngRish, and being able to hold a continual argument for many pages is an important skill. Math is important so that you can do your taxes. Physics is important so that you know better than to believe in magic, and can figure out how simple machines may work. Fixing simple machines is important if you want to maintain them or fix them. Chemistry is important if anything so that you understand how everything is composed, and how to treat acids, and bases, and perhaps many pretty dangerous and harmful household chemicals.
Yes, high school can be a babysitting exercise, especially, in classes who are very interested in causing disruptions. However, it is very important practically.
Bussard does not exactly make it clear who this funding should go to. He sort of says that he'd only play an advising role on future research. Bussard also does not sell his research very well spending a lot of time kvetching about his funding getting cut, and the unlikeliness that he'd receive further funding. Yes $200 million is just a drop in the bucket for Google, and if it has a likely enough chance of defraying their ever rising electricity bill, they just might spring for the cost.
The lack of money to build such a prototype is his main complaint actually, a complaint that is not unreasonable. Maybe you should give him the $2 Million he says he needs in the video, so that he has the money to build a prototype. ($200 Million is only for the full project) His writings are not exactly senile. They are more along the lines of, "We started and skimmed money off this large government project so that we could do the research we really wanted. People who headed the project after us took the primary project seriously, the joke is on them." Furthermore, he claims to having been under a political gag order for 12 years. Not unrealistic. Finally, he is not claiming magic, he is claiming that he has reached a milestone in his physics research, and is essentially retiring. He would like his project to go on to change the world, but he's well aware of his age. Fine, sounds reasonable. Sure, someone independent needs to verify the results that Bussard publishes, but they'll need ~$2 million to do it.
Actually, they do not do ATM transactions Flawlessly. ATM machines can be hacked for thousands of dollars. Furthermore, the ATM systems are architecturally completely different than the voting machines. You have to know nothing about either technology to believe that they are not both different, and insecure.
>> But they end up on Mac
>>Only if they are tasteless faggots who enjoy being kept on their knees instead of taking full control, which Windows allows you.
Tasteless is pretty much defined as someone who uses crass language like faggot, you faggot. Linux and MacOSX have way more capabilities with which to control your machine. To objectify this statement, You don't have full control of your machine unless you can live a productive day on your machine only at the command line. Windows hardly has a command line to speak of. I've never heard of anyone manually inserting or removing kernel modules in windows, which is possible on Linux and Mac OSX. You need to install a linux layer (cygwin) on windows just to get anything like what is stock in Linux and MacOSX.
First IANAL, But: In the case of a non-paid university student, and high school students, the teachers/school have no distribution rights on their student's works. The school is violating their student's distribution rights by sending it to a 3rd party company that profits on the work. As far as schools requiring contracts being signed that allows the school to distribute their copyrighted works to 3rd party sources, the quick answer is that universities can, and that high schools probably can not. Universities, being non-compulsary, can require just about anything from you for your continued enrollment. For the High Schools however, students can probably take the school for court for coercing them to relinquish their distribution rights in a compulsary class. If this ever gets brought to court the students might have a case. The "baby-sitter" rights of the school may be exceeded by these actions. That said, Georgetown University, a University with a famous law school seems not to see any legal issues with high schools coercing distribution rights from their students. I'd like to believe that high schools could be sued into the poor house for treating their students like criminals, but Georgetown would be a more credible source than me.
Real is _still_ an evil company with bad products. It uses more Volatile (RAM) memory than either Windows Media Player or ITunes. By Default, each time you load the player you must wait and download the Real Player content homepage, and wait for it to load, wasting your time. Real still without asking you loads their system tray app to start with your computer. After you have disabled this in msconfig, Realplayer sets the system tray app up again next time you start Realplayer, which is thankfully, pragmatically never. It has also been mentioned elsewhere that it would take up till you at least reading this far into my post to buffer an obscenely small rm file. Firefox is profoundly more useful, less full of bloat than any of Real's products and it is a shame that Mozilla is partnering with them.
ATI drivers the best? How about almost zero, or slow 3D support. If you want to actually use any of your hardware capability you need to use ATI's own Linux drivers. ATI' Linux drivers lack any software suspend/suspend to disk functionality which is imperative on laptops. Which is unfortunate seeing that ATI almost has the complete laptop graphics market share. Another imperative function, hot-changeable dual monitors whose functionality on laptops is used to send a video signal to a projector, is missing from the ATI drivers. Not to mention the ATI drivers crash and tend to be tied to a single X.org version. ATI Linux drivers are crap. I hope their merger with AMD will mean better drivers for all systems, but especially for Linux.
Pragmatically, colinux hasn't needed any new updates. The only feature missing is native X support, and it has been taking a very long time to get that done. Colinux works fine for any non-gui purposes in it's current form.
This is from their website:
"A couple of news reports have suggested or implied (incorrectly) that a plugin has already been completed. This is not the case."
From: "OpenOpenOffice" - http://o3.phase-n.com/faq.html
I own System Shock 2, it wasn't that good. It had good audio, but the plot line was so boring. Furthermore, you can only have so many zombies and security systems freak out at you while you are trying to quickly switch necessary items in a lousy designed heads up display before you just get bored. I wouldn't be skeptical that reason it isn't readily available on ebay is that hardly anyone bought it to begin with.
I respectfully disagree. A stripped down 360 is a good machine that fulfills it's primary purpose, which is to play games. Sony is trying to put a bunch of secondary features into the PS3 that hardly anyone can use. No one can run Blu-Ray movies at full resolution. Consumers are going to want to know what they are getting for their extra money with the PS3. When the greasy haired sales man rattles off a bunch of features that have no practical value, consumers are going to buy the Xbox 360 instead. Blu-Ray is not going to make it into homes because the PS3 is over priced for it's primary purpose. Furthermore, Microsoft will probably be coming out with an Xbox 360 revision that has a HD-DVD. When it is applicable, Microsoft will have a competing HD-DVD product to Blu-Ray.
This would have had more of a shock value if it wasn't so obviously wrong. Monkies flinging poo with robotic hands? Plausible. Openoffice.org being bought? You can't force a purchase of a non-public non-profit organization...duh. The possiblity of openoffice.org being bought is ground _very_ well trodden on slash.
Except...picture China as Microsoft. Microsoft gets into the market with a shoddy product, compared to the competition, then Microsoft improves it to match their rivals. Then Microsoft cuts their prices, and takes over the market. Never ever laugh at your competitors, it's like laughing at a beggining dancer on the dance floor(A big politeness no no). One day that beginning dancer will be as good or better than you.
Yep...we've doubled the rate of the google articles on slashdot. Seems, that there's now one "google is awesomers!" post, and one "google is so popular it is making corrput governments worried post."
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Last tip would be to spell check all you work.
Hi there prospective first-year. I go to Columbia University, School of Engineering in NYC. As many other people have pointed out, you don't need a top name school to succeed in industry engineering. Actually, it is probably more important that you do well in whatever school you go to and in whatever concentration that you pick. That said, where you go to school is very important. The top tier schools have strong alumni programs which give you industry and government contacts and better opportunities. However at the _top_ schools, you'll be in league with a large number of people who received >95% in their classes as well. You may find it much more difficult to get the good grades there than in high school. Due to all that hard work, you want to make sure that the majority of the students there are going to be doing after graduation what you think you want to do. For example, most of the engineers at Columbia end up working at investment banks making obscene amounts of money their first year in industry. The reason why many people in engineering industry don't see the benefits of a top school in engineering is because the people in top engineering schools are making gobs of money in other industries. You also want to make sure that you like the student life at these schools before you kill yourself trying to get into them. Just because you're a top student doesn't mean that you'll get along in their student culture. I'd suggest you participate in one of the sleep over programs at one of their upperclassmen dorms. Do not sleep in the freshman dorms, they are poor representatives of what you'll be doing the other three years of your stay at your school.
Finally, you want to know how to get into these schools that have wait-listed you. The best thing that I've heard to do is to stay in contact with the schools. If you give the admissions at schools a call and tell them what cool things you've been up to since your application and that you would like them added to the application it shows continued interest in that school. Furthermore, if you happen to get in a conversation on the phone with an admission representative, tell them why the school specifically is made for you. I've heard they like that as well.
Japanese culture is morally against pornography, unless it is in cartoon form. That is the reason why.
uh...you can. You just need to know where that guy is... which is the problem.
Wait, You can use the add-on HD-DVD player as a HD-DVD player on a PC?
One thing is for sure. My reality is better than his "reality".
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. 1) Students in America are commonly told to work in groups to help each other solve for example math problems. What happens in the kids start screwing off and talking about anything but the work at hand. 2) One of the schools in my region tried making all the classes non-required attendance. The students never showed up, and the school dropped in the state standardized testing. 3) Sure, low pay, but also, the teachers don't get paid less or more due to their performance. They can do a cruddy job and continue to stay hired for years. 4) Again, teenage students start screwing off when left to their own devices. 5) There isn't a national curriculum in America, sure there's a very broad one, but it is by no means restrictive. The curriculum is mostly set by the states, and the state curriculum is not something that decides what every class needs to be. The state curriculum lays out certain things that need to be taught, but leaves it up to the school districts and schools to specify how the material is actually taught. If your class sucks, blame your teacher, or blame your peers. 6) Writting well EngRish, and being able to hold a continual argument for many pages is an important skill. Math is important so that you can do your taxes. Physics is important so that you know better than to believe in magic, and can figure out how simple machines may work. Fixing simple machines is important if you want to maintain them or fix them. Chemistry is important if anything so that you understand how everything is composed, and how to treat acids, and bases, and perhaps many pretty dangerous and harmful household chemicals. Yes, high school can be a babysitting exercise, especially, in classes who are very interested in causing disruptions. However, it is very important practically.
Bussard does not exactly make it clear who this funding should go to. He sort of says that he'd only play an advising role on future research. Bussard also does not sell his research very well spending a lot of time kvetching about his funding getting cut, and the unlikeliness that he'd receive further funding. Yes $200 million is just a drop in the bucket for Google, and if it has a likely enough chance of defraying their ever rising electricity bill, they just might spring for the cost.
The lack of money to build such a prototype is his main complaint actually, a complaint that is not unreasonable. Maybe you should give him the $2 Million he says he needs in the video, so that he has the money to build a prototype. ($200 Million is only for the full project) His writings are not exactly senile. They are more along the lines of, "We started and skimmed money off this large government project so that we could do the research we really wanted. People who headed the project after us took the primary project seriously, the joke is on them." Furthermore, he claims to having been under a political gag order for 12 years. Not unrealistic. Finally, he is not claiming magic, he is claiming that he has reached a milestone in his physics research, and is essentially retiring. He would like his project to go on to change the world, but he's well aware of his age. Fine, sounds reasonable. Sure, someone independent needs to verify the results that Bussard publishes, but they'll need ~$2 million to do it.
Actually, they do not do ATM transactions Flawlessly. ATM machines can be hacked for thousands of dollars. Furthermore, the ATM systems are architecturally completely different than the voting machines. You have to know nothing about either technology to believe that they are not both different, and insecure.
>> But they end up on Mac >>Only if they are tasteless faggots who enjoy being kept on their knees instead of taking full control, which Windows allows you. Tasteless is pretty much defined as someone who uses crass language like faggot, you faggot. Linux and MacOSX have way more capabilities with which to control your machine. To objectify this statement, You don't have full control of your machine unless you can live a productive day on your machine only at the command line. Windows hardly has a command line to speak of. I've never heard of anyone manually inserting or removing kernel modules in windows, which is possible on Linux and Mac OSX. You need to install a linux layer (cygwin) on windows just to get anything like what is stock in Linux and MacOSX.
You shouldn't be censored in the first place, much less have to get around any censorship technology.
First IANAL, But: In the case of a non-paid university student, and high school students, the teachers/school have no distribution rights on their student's works. The school is violating their student's distribution rights by sending it to a 3rd party company that profits on the work. As far as schools requiring contracts being signed that allows the school to distribute their copyrighted works to 3rd party sources, the quick answer is that universities can, and that high schools probably can not. Universities, being non-compulsary, can require just about anything from you for your continued enrollment. For the High Schools however, students can probably take the school for court for coercing them to relinquish their distribution rights in a compulsary class. If this ever gets brought to court the students might have a case. The "baby-sitter" rights of the school may be exceeded by these actions. That said, Georgetown University, a University with a famous law school seems not to see any legal issues with high schools coercing distribution rights from their students. I'd like to believe that high schools could be sued into the poor house for treating their students like criminals, but Georgetown would be a more credible source than me.
Real is _still_ an evil company with bad products. It uses more Volatile (RAM) memory than either Windows Media Player or ITunes. By Default, each time you load the player you must wait and download the Real Player content homepage, and wait for it to load, wasting your time. Real still without asking you loads their system tray app to start with your computer. After you have disabled this in msconfig, Realplayer sets the system tray app up again next time you start Realplayer, which is thankfully, pragmatically never. It has also been mentioned elsewhere that it would take up till you at least reading this far into my post to buffer an obscenely small rm file. Firefox is profoundly more useful, less full of bloat than any of Real's products and it is a shame that Mozilla is partnering with them.
ATI drivers the best? How about almost zero, or slow 3D support. If you want to actually use any of your hardware capability you need to use ATI's own Linux drivers. ATI' Linux drivers lack any software suspend/suspend to disk functionality which is imperative on laptops. Which is unfortunate seeing that ATI almost has the complete laptop graphics market share. Another imperative function, hot-changeable dual monitors whose functionality on laptops is used to send a video signal to a projector, is missing from the ATI drivers. Not to mention the ATI drivers crash and tend to be tied to a single X.org version. ATI Linux drivers are crap. I hope their merger with AMD will mean better drivers for all systems, but especially for Linux.
Pragmatically, colinux hasn't needed any new updates. The only feature missing is native X support, and it has been taking a very long time to get that done. Colinux works fine for any non-gui purposes in it's current form.
This is from their website: "A couple of news reports have suggested or implied (incorrectly) that a plugin has already been completed. This is not the case." From: "OpenOpenOffice" - http://o3.phase-n.com/faq.html
I own System Shock 2, it wasn't that good. It had good audio, but the plot line was so boring. Furthermore, you can only have so many zombies and security systems freak out at you while you are trying to quickly switch necessary items in a lousy designed heads up display before you just get bored. I wouldn't be skeptical that reason it isn't readily available on ebay is that hardly anyone bought it to begin with.
Fedora Core is as innovative as a cork screw.
hahaha! BOOB! hahaha!
I respectfully disagree. A stripped down 360 is a good machine that fulfills it's primary purpose, which is to play games. Sony is trying to put a bunch of secondary features into the PS3 that hardly anyone can use. No one can run Blu-Ray movies at full resolution. Consumers are going to want to know what they are getting for their extra money with the PS3. When the greasy haired sales man rattles off a bunch of features that have no practical value, consumers are going to buy the Xbox 360 instead. Blu-Ray is not going to make it into homes because the PS3 is over priced for it's primary purpose. Furthermore, Microsoft will probably be coming out with an Xbox 360 revision that has a HD-DVD. When it is applicable, Microsoft will have a competing HD-DVD product to Blu-Ray.
Why make other rootkits undetectable when there is already a good one built into Windows called "Microsoft DRM".
This would have had more of a shock value if it wasn't so obviously wrong. Monkies flinging poo with robotic hands? Plausible. Openoffice.org being bought? You can't force a purchase of a non-public non-profit organization...duh. The possiblity of openoffice.org being bought is ground _very_ well trodden on slash.
Except...picture China as Microsoft. Microsoft gets into the market with a shoddy product, compared to the competition, then Microsoft improves it to match their rivals. Then Microsoft cuts their prices, and takes over the market. Never ever laugh at your competitors, it's like laughing at a beggining dancer on the dance floor(A big politeness no no). One day that beginning dancer will be as good or better than you.
Yep...we've doubled the rate of the google articles on slashdot. Seems, that there's now one "google is awesomers!" post, and one "google is so popular it is making corrput governments worried post."