How many people graduated with you? How many other schools graduated as many, or more people at the same time? How many programming jobs do you think exist? Granted, this number is growing, but still. As an electrical engineering major, I can tell that at least half the people that graduate aren't worth having in a company. They just don't retain knowledge and apply it well. Why should a company assume you're worth more money? You're going to have to prove yourself to them. For all they know, you're the guy like my lab partner, who did no design on a major project, built none of it, and wrote 4 of a final report when I asked him to write six. Of his four pages, I totally rewrote one, made him rewrite one, and had to correct all his others. One of the mechanical engineers that I work with has a resume that would impress people at NASA and JPL, but in reality, he knows very little. Considering the number of graduates who know very little these days, I think you should be happy for a job. Besides, you ought to take one based on what you'll be doing, not so much how much money you'll make. With a CS degree, those dreams of high salaries you had going into college faded while you were there. Work your way, and be happy with it.
It's going to vary a lot from school to school as other posters have shown. Certainly there is a certain cost associated with the initial kit, but parts are reusable to some degree. Certainly though, I don't think anyone expects schools alone to sponser the costs, and with all things, parents are expected to step in and help with the costs and such.
Regardless of who wins or loses, the entire thing is meant to be an educational program, and certainly those students who do not do any machine work, or any design work, learn very little. Still, this makes me a bigger fan of simpler contests such as BotBall (www.botball.org) where students are better able to design and code the whole project.
You might like some of the Botball Kits if you're interested in lego robotics.. Try kipr.org or botball.org. They provide a great set of legos for building your own robots, just add in a handyboard and you're all set.
My speakers have their own power plug now days.. Why can't my video card have one too? It'd be a lot cheaper to pay a little more for another power strip than to have to go buy a whole new PSU.
It's amazing how many people don't know that power *IS* transmitted using DC and AC lines now days. Transformer advances have made possible very efficient DC transformers, and super high voltage DC lines have been built. Im sure you could Google the concept and find out more.:)
I assure you that you're wrong:) I^2R is the power lost at heat. It's not the current that makes the power lines arc, it's the extreme voltage potentials.
Wouldn't it be great to have a place where you could store a gig of your most commonly listened to music. Just stream all of it straight out of your mailbox. This of course applies to other file types as well and the possibilites are really impressive. The only way I can see Google preventing this sort of behavior is either limiting incoming file sizes, or by not allowing files at all, either of which is sure to cause problems.
This is one of the most accurate statements I've ever heard on Slashdot. Go to any university in America and start talking to kids about research and what they do in their free time.. You'll find that those who build projects for fun and do research because they want to know more are nothing like those who just go to class. Since I've started doing research I've applied at most 10 class lectures to everything I've thus encountered (Let me clarify. That's over one year in a major robotics lab working on major NASA projects and other assorted things. I'm now doing my own research, and only in my 4th semester of college.) Take my lab partner as an example. I basically carry him through our lab studies, I design and build anything important or difficult. I have to constantly explain rather simple things to him, simply because he's never been self-motivated enough to really learn everything for himself. He's never had the driving factor to build something "cool" just because he can. It doesn't take long to realize that most engineering programs teach you the basics and that if you want to build something for fun or because you can, or even something to meet a certain purpose, then you have to go somewhere and do the research on how to build it yourself. Unless it's been explained with different resistor values most people can't replicate the design in any reasonable amount of time.
I have a Sony Digital-8 TRV-250 camcorder and I can do this with out any problem. I've used real time streaming over usb several times either for web chats via msn or the slightly less than real time Yahoo before. The big thing that sounds like what you need though is Sony's software that comes with the camera. PIXELA I believe has a mode that will let you record whatever the camera is seeing. It requires a fairly fast system to handle, but if it's possible over USB, then I'm sure that firewire won't be a problem for you.
A great idea in theory, but how would they track the amount of help that you did in a way that would be one hundred percent hack proof? I don't think you'd want to pay people to analyze every packet that you get back to make sure it's had whatever needed done, done to it.
Granted, it would be possible to elimnate most unwanted results with a couple of filters, but when money becomes an issue the community will do what they can to get the most of it.
Finally a computer able to run the super-ulta-mega high detail Duke Nukem forever! Yes, that's right, the game is finished and just waiting for the computer graphics and processing worlds to catch up to it.. err, right? I mean.. Doom 3! err.. wait..
bah.. Never mind that
Still, I would think that unless a company needed results very quickly a seti like application would be much cheaper. If the software guys can code one that can run on the company's network overnight or just at random downtime during the day, then the company ought to save a bunch of money. If they can make it pretty and flash like SETI, then other people might even use it. It just makes more sense to save money in a non-critical manor like that.
Good idea.. I actully work in a lab on campus as well, though I'm not paid for it. But it gives me a great chance to ask lots of questions to the guys that I work with, plus pop in ideas from time to time.
As long as you could find a good lab, or research project to become involved in, with people that spoke the same language as you, then you'd be in great shape to engage and mature. Only draw back might be that if you were pretty poor at judging what rubbed people the wrong way and such, you might annoy your peers beyond the point of aiding in your "social advancement."
Get him a job dealing with people, and offer some sort of deal for him to get new tech toys to play with as a result. I was once much the same way but after working with people, and being able to reap the rewards, I am now a lot more functional in public than my peers. I've come so far as to hold a fairly decent sales job for my age and location, where I deal face to face with people constantly. Just like getting over your fears of anything else, confrontation is the easiest way to solve the problem. Granted, your student isn't AFRAID of social situations exactly, but I think more interaction would have the desired results.
I can't imagine the text on something like a 50" or 61" Samsung DLP being too small, plus it'd doubble as a great TV for him to watch when he wasn't using the internet..
Most companies will allow you to take a product home and bring it back within 30 days no questions asked (Sears, I think Best Buy, others..). So I would try out a big monitor from Best Buy or other local store, explain your situation, and get someone to promise that you can return it no problem. If that didn't work, I'd look at using a large TV, with some wireless accessories to increase viewing distance.
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How many people graduated with you? How many other schools graduated as many, or more people at the same time? How many programming jobs do you think exist? Granted, this number is growing, but still. As an electrical engineering major, I can tell that at least half the people that graduate aren't worth having in a company. They just don't retain knowledge and apply it well. Why should a company assume you're worth more money? You're going to have to prove yourself to them. For all they know, you're the guy like my lab partner, who did no design on a major project, built none of it, and wrote 4 of a final report when I asked him to write six. Of his four pages, I totally rewrote one, made him rewrite one, and had to correct all his others. One of the mechanical engineers that I work with has a resume that would impress people at NASA and JPL, but in reality, he knows very little. Considering the number of graduates who know very little these days, I think you should be happy for a job. Besides, you ought to take one based on what you'll be doing, not so much how much money you'll make. With a CS degree, those dreams of high salaries you had going into college faded while you were there. Work your way, and be happy with it.
It's going to vary a lot from school to school as other posters have shown. Certainly there is a certain cost associated with the initial kit, but parts are reusable to some degree. Certainly though, I don't think anyone expects schools alone to sponser the costs, and with all things, parents are expected to step in and help with the costs and such. Regardless of who wins or loses, the entire thing is meant to be an educational program, and certainly those students who do not do any machine work, or any design work, learn very little. Still, this makes me a bigger fan of simpler contests such as BotBall (www.botball.org) where students are better able to design and code the whole project.
You might like some of the Botball Kits if you're interested in lego robotics.. Try kipr.org or botball.org. They provide a great set of legos for building your own robots, just add in a handyboard and you're all set.
Just be sure to lock the door to the servers and access points :)
My speakers have their own power plug now days.. Why can't my video card have one too? It'd be a lot cheaper to pay a little more for another power strip than to have to go buy a whole new PSU.
It's amazing how many people don't know that power *IS* transmitted using DC and AC lines now days. Transformer advances have made possible very efficient DC transformers, and super high voltage DC lines have been built. Im sure you could Google the concept and find out more. :)
I assure you that you're wrong :) I^2R is the power lost at heat. It's not the current that makes the power lines arc, it's the extreme voltage potentials.
Wouldn't it be great to have a place where you could store a gig of your most commonly listened to music. Just stream all of it straight out of your mailbox. This of course applies to other file types as well and the possibilites are really impressive. The only way I can see Google preventing this sort of behavior is either limiting incoming file sizes, or by not allowing files at all, either of which is sure to cause problems.
I've often heard it speculated about how many hits a site receives due to slashdot.. He's a hint "You are a visitior number 2266262. "
This is one of the most accurate statements I've ever heard on Slashdot. Go to any university in America and start talking to kids about research and what they do in their free time.. You'll find that those who build projects for fun and do research because they want to know more are nothing like those who just go to class. Since I've started doing research I've applied at most 10 class lectures to everything I've thus encountered (Let me clarify. That's over one year in a major robotics lab working on major NASA projects and other assorted things. I'm now doing my own research, and only in my 4th semester of college.) Take my lab partner as an example. I basically carry him through our lab studies, I design and build anything important or difficult. I have to constantly explain rather simple things to him, simply because he's never been self-motivated enough to really learn everything for himself. He's never had the driving factor to build something "cool" just because he can. It doesn't take long to realize that most engineering programs teach you the basics and that if you want to build something for fun or because you can, or even something to meet a certain purpose, then you have to go somewhere and do the research on how to build it yourself. Unless it's been explained with different resistor values most people can't replicate the design in any reasonable amount of time.
I have a Sony Digital-8 TRV-250 camcorder and I can do this with out any problem. I've used real time streaming over usb several times either for web chats via msn or the slightly less than real time Yahoo before. The big thing that sounds like what you need though is Sony's software that comes with the camera. PIXELA I believe has a mode that will let you record whatever the camera is seeing. It requires a fairly fast system to handle, but if it's possible over USB, then I'm sure that firewire won't be a problem for you.
Whats an Apple? Sadly, more and more it's going to look like the answer that we'll hear is "Oh, the iPOD thing?"
Oh yeah!? Well back in my day we didn't have Soviet Russia.. We only had.. err.. Never mind
Now maybe I can figure out how to use the thing.
A great idea in theory, but how would they track the amount of help that you did in a way that would be one hundred percent hack proof? I don't think you'd want to pay people to analyze every packet that you get back to make sure it's had whatever needed done, done to it. Granted, it would be possible to elimnate most unwanted results with a couple of filters, but when money becomes an issue the community will do what they can to get the most of it.
Finally a computer able to run the super-ulta-mega high detail Duke Nukem forever! Yes, that's right, the game is finished and just waiting for the computer graphics and processing worlds to catch up to it.. err, right? I mean.. Doom 3! err.. wait.. bah.. Never mind that Still, I would think that unless a company needed results very quickly a seti like application would be much cheaper. If the software guys can code one that can run on the company's network overnight or just at random downtime during the day, then the company ought to save a bunch of money. If they can make it pretty and flash like SETI, then other people might even use it. It just makes more sense to save money in a non-critical manor like that.
BT is hardly anony.. Trust me. I found out the hard way.. and ... One network card with a different MAC address later ...
I thought patents were only granted for new technology? Handheld emulation has been around for years. How can Nintendo suddenly own it?
Good idea.. I actully work in a lab on campus as well, though I'm not paid for it. But it gives me a great chance to ask lots of questions to the guys that I work with, plus pop in ideas from time to time. As long as you could find a good lab, or research project to become involved in, with people that spoke the same language as you, then you'd be in great shape to engage and mature. Only draw back might be that if you were pretty poor at judging what rubbed people the wrong way and such, you might annoy your peers beyond the point of aiding in your "social advancement."
Get him a job dealing with people, and offer some sort of deal for him to get new tech toys to play with as a result. I was once much the same way but after working with people, and being able to reap the rewards, I am now a lot more functional in public than my peers. I've come so far as to hold a fairly decent sales job for my age and location, where I deal face to face with people constantly. Just like getting over your fears of anything else, confrontation is the easiest way to solve the problem. Granted, your student isn't AFRAID of social situations exactly, but I think more interaction would have the desired results.
While that is more than likely true, the entire set was done very well, and as a whole, deserved these awards..
I can't imagine the text on something like a 50" or 61" Samsung DLP being too small, plus it'd doubble as a great TV for him to watch when he wasn't using the internet.. Most companies will allow you to take a product home and bring it back within 30 days no questions asked (Sears, I think Best Buy, others..). So I would try out a big monitor from Best Buy or other local store, explain your situation, and get someone to promise that you can return it no problem. If that didn't work, I'd look at using a large TV, with some wireless accessories to increase viewing distance.
60 meters of wire!? That's insane! It's gotta weigh a ton.. At least enough to assimilate someone if you hit them over the head with it.
Or at least something that matches the rest of my outfit. This foil stuff just clashes with my attire.
Now I can stop wearing all this aluminum foil!