Great saying..
Second favorite saying...
de- clutter, de-clutter.
Finish a project? get rid of the leftover scraps...
Books and magazines always exceed the size and number of the bookcase...
If you want to work on a new project but have to get "organized" first you may be on our way to appearing on the next episode of "Hoarders"
A tough habit to break but worth it.
Read "getting things done" for good tips...
An excellent magazine but Compute! had a lot more small snippets of code that stood by themselves and could be loaded, tested and ripped apart in minutes. Copying programs from magazines certainly had its place but is not the way to go today. Interestingly enough a friend mentioned that his son, a college freshman with no programming experience showed an interest in "programming". If it were the 1980's I would have packed up a C64 and numerous issues of Compute!, Run transactor etc and let him have fun.
But it is June , 2010 so instead I pointed him to Harvard University CS50 website; http://cs50.tv/2009/fall/
This includes video lectures, problem sets, notes and a virtual machine to run Linux . Most importantly it starts off teaching you how to make a game!!
From the description ; Languages include C, PHP, and JavaScript plus SQL, CSS, and XHTML. Problem sets inspired by real-world domains of biology, cryptography, finance, forensics, and gaming.
Color; 4 channels
The scope trace color matches the colored channel button that matched the colored c clip on the scope probe.
As simple as this sounds it simplifies debug by asking which probe is attached to which channel.
USB port for saving images.
Ethernet port for connecting to the network.
Battery operation mode..
AS previously mentioned if you are buying more than 1 scope buy the exact same type. It simplifies user interface issues.
Buy 8 probes, the kind without legs.....
Convince your bosses to get an external current probe and amplifier.
It is cool to actually have data to prove Ohm's law.
That's real physics....
Senator Kerry issued an apology today for being technology averse but blamed it all on President Bush. . The honorable war hero Senator reminds us that he voted for creating internet (with Sen. Gore) before he voted against it.
One of the largest drains on IT school budgets is the cost of licenses. From the article it appears they are focused not on "wow we use Linux" but we can put laptops in the hand of the students for substantially reduced cost.
What needs to happen next is true integration of the laptop into the curriculum. I believe the algebra, geometry and calculus curriculum is ripe for improvement using laptops in the classroom to learn advanced concepts such as three dimensional coordinate systems , graphing, integration, integration etc. It is easier to understand if you can see it. The TI graphing calculators in use today are improvements on pen and pencil calculations but don't really represent a step change in the teaching methods. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on viewpoint) the TI calculators have cool games which get alot of use during monotonous lectures.
Has the teaching of advanced math changed at all in the last 50 years? Hopefully low cost laptops will inspire development of tools to bring about fundamental changes .
The ultimate goal is to have the laptop and its underlying software transparent to the user. Any discussion of distros in the classroom defeats the purpose.
There is no doubt that the Apollo design time got it right. What is in doubt is if NASA or any other quasi- technological developer has the technical smarts, the manufacturing capability or the intestinal fortitude, or political skill to do "big" science. The Apollo mission was the result of 10 years of research, development and deployment of countless successful missions. What has NASA done in the past 6 years that they can build on compared to the Apollo team building on the success of Gemini?
They have done well on the smaller projects. (smaller only in physical scale) The Mars rover is an excellent example of what they are capable of doing now.
As for going back to to the moon, I'll belive it when I see it.
This phenomena is similar to libraries that have "no late fees". Most have found that the books lay around the house for months where libraries with even the smallest fines (even $.05 per day) get returned promptly. Go figure...
>> I took a VLSI and chip design class back in college about 10 years ago, so I know how to design the circuit I want in CMOS. Now, I'm sure there must be fabs for older-generation designs (maybe in China/Taiwan)
Hate to break it to you.... 10 years is two generations ago....
China/ Taiwan have progressed a little bit in the last 10 years....
First; education is a big business, totaling up College and high school expenditures you are in the hundreds of Billions of dollars.
Second; There have always been, and always will be, organizations willing to take your money and give you a degree. 30 years ago it was correspondence schools by mail, Today it is some online Universities and other organizations that capitalize on their association with well known universities.
Third: Good degree granting Universities have dedicated faculty willing to use the latest technology to help their students. In the early 80's many classes were video taped so you could watch them again if you needed to. Today witness the common use of classroom WebPages with information posted online etc.. These are all tools to help the professor. However, they have a tendency to mask the inadequacies of poor professors so be careful. I have always believed that a good professor can get his point across with nothing more than a lecture, a book and a blackboard.
Fourth: Based on direct experience there is a distinct difference in the quality of a degree earned fulltime days vs. part time evening or weekends. Every technical manager that conducts interviews knows this and will find out the differences in the interview process.
fifth: You will learn more from a talented professor in the classroom than from a crappy online class.
Don't look for the easy way out. Rearrange you life to get the best professors from the best schools. They will use the web to augment their subject but never to replace the teacher - student interaction required for learning. Pay the price now. Over the life of your career it is a very small price to pay.
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Great saying.. Second favorite saying... de- clutter, de-clutter. Finish a project? get rid of the leftover scraps... Books and magazines always exceed the size and number of the bookcase... If you want to work on a new project but have to get "organized" first you may be on our way to appearing on the next episode of "Hoarders" A tough habit to break but worth it. Read "getting things done" for good tips...
An excellent magazine but Compute! had a lot more small snippets of code that stood by themselves and could be loaded, tested and ripped apart in minutes. Copying programs from magazines certainly had its place but is not the way to go today. Interestingly enough a friend mentioned that his son, a college freshman with no programming experience showed an interest in "programming". If it were the 1980's I would have packed up a C64 and numerous issues of Compute!, Run transactor etc and let him have fun. But it is June , 2010 so instead I pointed him to Harvard University CS50 website; http://cs50.tv/2009/fall/ This includes video lectures, problem sets, notes and a virtual machine to run Linux . Most importantly it starts off teaching you how to make a game!! From the description ; Languages include C, PHP, and JavaScript plus SQL, CSS, and XHTML. Problem sets inspired by real-world domains of biology, cryptography, finance, forensics, and gaming.
Color; 4 channels The scope trace color matches the colored channel button that matched the colored c clip on the scope probe. As simple as this sounds it simplifies debug by asking which probe is attached to which channel. USB port for saving images. Ethernet port for connecting to the network. Battery operation mode.. AS previously mentioned if you are buying more than 1 scope buy the exact same type. It simplifies user interface issues. Buy 8 probes, the kind without legs..... Convince your bosses to get an external current probe and amplifier. It is cool to actually have data to prove Ohm's law. That's real physics....
Senator Kerry issued an apology today for being technology averse but blamed it all on President Bush. . The honorable war hero Senator reminds us that he voted for creating internet (with Sen. Gore) before he voted against it.
One of the largest drains on IT school budgets is the cost of licenses. From the article it appears they are focused not on "wow we use Linux" but we can put laptops in the hand of the students for substantially reduced cost. What needs to happen next is true integration of the laptop into the curriculum. I believe the algebra, geometry and calculus curriculum is ripe for improvement using laptops in the classroom to learn advanced concepts such as three dimensional coordinate systems , graphing, integration, integration etc. It is easier to understand if you can see it. The TI graphing calculators in use today are improvements on pen and pencil calculations but don't really represent a step change in the teaching methods. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on viewpoint) the TI calculators have cool games which get alot of use during monotonous lectures. Has the teaching of advanced math changed at all in the last 50 years? Hopefully low cost laptops will inspire development of tools to bring about fundamental changes . The ultimate goal is to have the laptop and its underlying software transparent to the user. Any discussion of distros in the classroom defeats the purpose.
There is no doubt that the Apollo design time got it right. What is in doubt is if NASA or any other quasi- technological developer has the technical smarts, the manufacturing capability or the intestinal fortitude, or political skill to do "big" science. The Apollo mission was the result of 10 years of research, development and deployment of countless successful missions. What has NASA done in the past 6 years that they can build on compared to the Apollo team building on the success of Gemini? They have done well on the smaller projects. (smaller only in physical scale) The Mars rover is an excellent example of what they are capable of doing now. As for going back to to the moon, I'll belive it when I see it.
This phenomena is similar to libraries that have "no late fees". Most have found that the books lay around the house for months where libraries with even the smallest fines (even $.05 per day) get returned promptly. Go figure...
That i'll be no tribble atall.....
>> I took a VLSI and chip design class back in college about 10 years ago, so I know how to design the circuit I want in CMOS. Now, I'm sure there must be fabs for older-generation designs (maybe in China/Taiwan) Hate to break it to you.... 10 years is two generations ago.... China/ Taiwan have progressed a little bit in the last 10 years....
numchuck skills, bow-hunting skills
Slow news day.. Who cares.....
What is your favorite color?..........
Second; There have always been, and always will be, organizations willing to take your money and give you a degree. 30 years ago it was correspondence schools by mail, Today it is some online Universities and other organizations that capitalize on their association with well known universities.
Third: Good degree granting Universities have dedicated faculty willing to use the latest technology to help their students. In the early 80's many classes were video taped so you could watch them again if you needed to. Today witness the common use of classroom WebPages with information posted online etc..
These are all tools to help the professor. However, they have a tendency to mask the inadequacies of poor
professors so be careful. I have always believed that a good professor can get his point across with nothing more than a lecture, a book and a blackboard.
Fourth: Based on direct experience there is a distinct difference in the quality of a degree earned fulltime days vs. part time evening or weekends. Every technical manager that conducts interviews knows this and will find out the differences in the interview process.
fifth: You will learn more from a talented professor in the classroom than from a crappy online class.
Don't look for the easy way out. Rearrange you life to get the best professors from the best schools. They will use the web to augment their subject but never to replace the teacher - student interaction required for learning. Pay the price now. Over the life of your career it is a very small price to pay.
After they stop rotfl ....
Suck it up and get over it.
Have they tried it on a grassy knoll near a tall building?
18 rules
A classic.
It will never be outdone by any other book or by any means, electronic or otherwise.
Slashdot
Slashdot:= (Slashdot *(t-120 Hours))
It wasn't a violation of acceptable use ,it was the correction fluid on the computer display that did them in...
Check out the past....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mississippi_Flo od_of_1927/
Also see the book "Rising Tide" by John Barry
Witty name.....
"known authors"....
Stuff that matters
Nerdy readers who need a date
Lots of duplicate posts just days apart
and......,
copies of do it yourself case mods and hacks posted elsewhere.....
yes Ive got it...
PLease forward the check...
Cute ladies.
with no dupes and JonKatz....
Dems dose fellas wit da red hat....
Once a geek always a geek......
nunchuck skills
bowhunting skills
computer hacking skills