They may need help, but I fail to see why I should be obligated to help them.
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I don't understand why people get all worked up by a rock formation that looks like a face when viewed from the right angle. We have those here on Earth too. Anyone who has seen the "Old Man of the Mountain" in New Hampshire (before it collapsed anyway) can attest to this. It really looked like a face too. (Lincoln's face in my opinion.)
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No, the ice caps have been known to be largely water ice for a while now. There was another story confirming it a few weeks ago. The real news here is liquid water.
He meant customers didn't want the ports. Not that they didn't want the clones.
Incidentally, the main reason for this was that most of the clones were direct copies of Apples' motherboard designs (liscensed of course). Part of the reason clones were undercutting Apple is that they weren't paying for the R&D. I guess the liscensing fees were supposed to cover it, but Apple aparrently decided that they didn't.
I'm 4 years through a five year program in Computer Engineering. I had no trouble getting a my required co-ops, which is what I'm doing right now. And I'm carrying better than a 3.5 in school.
That's not really true. Heat issues aside, any CPU architecture has a maximum operating frequency by design. This is determined by the time it takes a signal to propagate through the chip's longest critical path (In the core ALU this is often the time needed for an addition or other basic math operation.). This is part of the reason why designs usually speed up when moved to a new, smaller, faster process. In a smaller process, the delays through gates are shorter.
Now heat is also an issue since increased temperature will slow down a circuit. But even if you could keep your Intel chip cooled to -100 degrees (Celcius, Faranheit, whatever) it would still have a maximum operating speed not a whole lot faster than the top of the line Intel will cell. Probably well under 50% faster.
I'm glad to see someone standing up for the public education system around here. If you made your judgement by Slashdot comments alone, you'd think the public education system was a complete and utter failure. It's not.
While my public education was not flawless (I was bored to tears in some classes.), by the end I had a good understanding of history; basic physics, chemistry, and biology; math through Calc I; and writing. I consider that a success. I also consider it to be the result of some very good teachers that I had in high school. They're not all great, but there are a lot that are and try very hard.
It's blue because that is the only visible light it reflects/emits. That does not necessarily mean that it is the only wavelength reflected/emitted. It's just the only one your eye can see.
If you have enough hard disk space, you might consider making a disk image of the cd. I haven't tried it with Halo, but it works with every game I have tried including some recent stuff like Warcraft III.
CE is not the applied branch of CS, which was the point I was trying to make. It involves hardware and hardware/software integration, which a pure CS curriculum does not include (At least not the ones I have seen. It's possible that some may.) As a CE major you never even have to look at software if you don't want to, you can go the hardware design route.
As most of the other posts correctly pointed out Computer Engineering is a EE/CS hybrid. The emphasis is on system design. More or less and EE degree with the fields and higher level analog stuff replaced by computer architecture, assembly programming, control systems, and some higher level programming.
You have hit the nail on the head there. I've finally gotten my mother to believe that when she asks me how to do something in a program, I usually don't know the answer and just go looking through the menus until I find it. Now she does it herself and I have far fewer inane questions to answer. You want to change your homepage? Open the preferences and look for something called homepage.
It would take MORE fuel to launch from the moon because you have to get the fuel and other crap to the moon first. ANd since we can currently only make this stuff on earth, you have launch out of higher gravity with atmosperic friction and all the other goodies that go with every earth launch.
Wow, I didn't even realise that type of stuff was done. i have a Rhode Island liscence. No barcode, no magnetic strip, hell, most people can't even read the liscence number since the freakin picture of the state goes right through the last digit.
Yes, the endian issue is the one I was referring to. As the post abaove states, little-endian mode was removed. Thank you for posting that more clearly than I did.
The problem the G5 has with VPC is that unlike the G4 it cannot accept numbers in both big endian and little endian form. The G4 was able to do this and it saved enourmous amounts of work when emulating x86 and its ass-backwards numbers.
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They may need help, but I fail to see why I should be obligated to help them.
I don't understand why people get all worked up by a rock formation that looks like a face when viewed from the right angle. We have those here on Earth too. Anyone who has seen the "Old Man of the Mountain" in New Hampshire (before it collapsed anyway) can attest to this. It really looked like a face too. (Lincoln's face in my opinion.)
Thanks for adding the references.
No, the ice caps have been known to be largely water ice for a while now. There was another story confirming it a few weeks ago. The real news here is liquid water.
He meant customers didn't want the ports. Not that they didn't want the clones.
Incidentally, the main reason for this was that most of the clones were direct copies of Apples' motherboard designs (liscensed of course). Part of the reason clones were undercutting Apple is that they weren't paying for the R&D. I guess the liscensing fees were supposed to cover it, but Apple aparrently decided that they didn't.
Ahh, the irony. It's listed as a "Best of" album.
I'm 4 years through a five year program in Computer Engineering. I had no trouble getting a my required co-ops, which is what I'm doing right now. And I'm carrying better than a 3.5 in school.
Now, I have a layout to get back to.
Well, not without some very expensive equipment, anyway.
It is actually possible to make some changes to a chip after it has be fabbed.
My experience has been that they charge sales tax, but not shipping. It usually nets out around the same.
That's not really true. Heat issues aside, any CPU architecture has a maximum operating frequency by design. This is determined by the time it takes a signal to propagate through the chip's longest critical path (In the core ALU this is often the time needed for an addition or other basic math operation.). This is part of the reason why designs usually speed up when moved to a new, smaller, faster process. In a smaller process, the delays through gates are shorter.
Now heat is also an issue since increased temperature will slow down a circuit. But even if you could keep your Intel chip cooled to -100 degrees (Celcius, Faranheit, whatever) it would still have a maximum operating speed not a whole lot faster than the top of the line Intel will cell. Probably well under 50% faster.
I'm glad to see someone standing up for the public education system around here. If you made your judgement by Slashdot comments alone, you'd think the public education system was a complete and utter failure. It's not.
While my public education was not flawless (I was bored to tears in some classes.), by the end I had a good understanding of history; basic physics, chemistry, and biology; math through Calc I; and writing. I consider that a success. I also consider it to be the result of some very good teachers that I had in high school. They're not all great, but there are a lot that are and try very hard.
It's blue because that is the only visible light it reflects/emits. That does not necessarily mean that it is the only wavelength reflected/emitted. It's just the only one your eye can see.
If you have enough hard disk space, you might consider making a disk image of the cd. I haven't tried it with Halo, but it works with every game I have tried including some recent stuff like Warcraft III.
Yeah. Sigh, if only it was used for something useful. ITS claims that something ike 60-70% of traffic is just stupid P2P stuff.
I believe you've misinterpreted me.
CE is not the applied branch of CS, which was the point I was trying to make. It involves hardware and hardware/software integration, which a pure CS curriculum does not include (At least not the ones I have seen. It's possible that some may.) As a CE major you never even have to look at software if you don't want to, you can go the hardware design route.
The personal attacks are entirely unnecessary.
My apologies. Nothing personal.
I'm in computer engineering, and I'm just sick of people with CS or even much lower degrees/certificates calling themselves computer engineers.
This is completely wrong.
As most of the other posts correctly pointed out Computer Engineering is a EE/CS hybrid. The emphasis is on system design. More or less and EE degree with the fields and higher level analog stuff replaced by computer architecture, assembly programming, control systems, and some higher level programming.
Computer Science is not Computer Engineering. Stupid programmers.
You have hit the nail on the head there. I've finally gotten my mother to believe that when she asks me how to do something in a program, I usually don't know the answer and just go looking through the menus until I find it. Now she does it herself and I have far fewer inane questions to answer. You want to change your homepage? Open the preferences and look for something called homepage.
Just two T1s. Wow. RIT is right next door and has orders of magnitude more bandwidth than that. Granted it's also a much larger school.
It would take MORE fuel to launch from the moon because you have to get the fuel and other crap to the moon first. ANd since we can currently only make this stuff on earth, you have launch out of higher gravity with atmosperic friction and all the other goodies that go with every earth launch.
Wow, I didn't even realise that type of stuff was done. i have a Rhode Island liscence. No barcode, no magnetic strip, hell, most people can't even read the liscence number since the freakin picture of the state goes right through the last digit.
Have you considered Quake or UT?
Yes, the endian issue is the one I was referring to. As the post abaove states, little-endian mode was removed. Thank you for posting that more clearly than I did.
The problem the G5 has with VPC is that unlike the G4 it cannot accept numbers in both big endian and little endian form. The G4 was able to do this and it saved enourmous amounts of work when emulating x86 and its ass-backwards numbers.