Caught you. Splenda uses sucralose, which is in no way related to aspartame, and not associating with headaches, brain tumors, lesions etc... It's main criticism was the possible breakdown of the thymus from excessive use of the sugar substitute, which would weaken the immune system.
You my friend are most likely under the placebo effect, chemically inert or not.
Before I begin with my opinion on this particular subject matter, I'd like to make it known that I am an Electrical Engineering, and Professional and Technical Writing double major. Take that for whatever it's worth. It doesn't mean this post will be entirely grammatically correct, mostly because I happen to not be an anal engineer.
First of all, since this class is dominated by engineering students, I recomend that there be at least a couple of weeks worth of instruction on how to properly write a lab paper. This is the form of document most engineers will find themselves writing throughout their lives, and most students have no idea how to do it. The first thing that must be instilled upon an engineering student is to unlearn all those pretty grammatical strategies that serve to lengthen documents. Subject redundancies, multiple titles for the same object, and the preperatory phrases. (i.e. "First of all") In addition to the instruction on how to be concise a professor should instruct students on how to properly use passive voice. In a lab report, the use of I, me, we, etc... should be strictly forbidden, thus passive voice becomes the most useful way to convey action while keeping the focus on the subject, not on who is doing it. The main problem with passive voice is that it tends to become convoluted and confusing if misused. Thus instruction is necessary. Placement of graphs, and order of topics should also be covered.
Beyond the instruction of lab writing, students should learn how to write towards an audience. A lot of this topic will run counter to what I said about lab reports, so be sure to let students know that labs are an animal all their own and etiquette in lab reports should be largely ignored in most other documents. Writing to an audience is crucial to a budding engineer, especially those engineers who lack certain social graces. Is the reader going to be a boss? A consumer? The marketing department? Fellow engineers? An engineer needs to learn how to adress each of these people, and learn how to be best understood. Intruction should be given on how to properly set up a traditional letter, how to properly use grammar in an e-mail, and how to dumb down the technical jargon of instructions so that they can be disseminated to the masses. Have students practice writing several types of document. It is my belief that a writing course should be taught with a generous helping of in and out of class writing assignments, to galvanize the concepts taught in lectures.
Teach resume writing... Good god most people, angineers and otherwise, can't write a resume to save their life...
Motivation. Most engineers can't write. It's a fact, and given the intelligence and capabilities of most engineers, a rather sad fact. Now the easiest motivation to use is by intilling the fact that engineers that can write get paid more. The average boost in paycheck for an engineer with an english or tech writing minor is $5000 a year. Not so bad for an extra 4 or 5 courses. It will also help in job hunting after leaving college. Engineers who can write, and deal well with people are rarities that are gobbled up by companies in a hurry. It gives them a competitive edge, and minimizes the need for additional employees just to act as liason between the engineers and the marketing/administration department.
I have yet to find a way to make myself, nevermind anyone else, review and revise my work. Good luck with that.
I'd be a little more helpful in general but I'm writing this at 4:30AM and I think I want to sleep. If the OP or anyone else has any question on style or grammer in their technical writing feel free to shoot me an e-mail. Most of my work is in grant proposals and an upcoming instruction manual for engineering programs and professors on incorporating team building and tech writing into first and second year college engineering curriculum.(Written in conjuction with The Birch Group, LLC.)
A) Companies could go to Linux as a now viable optional, especially in the server space. Linux has everything from identity management, to basic server capabilities, and everything else in between.
B) Well, ok, viruses will always exist, but I have never in my life gotten one. Perhaps if companies took experience ofver certification, less of the ineptitude would exist, and therefore less viruses would establish themselves on corporate machines.
I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I think that Ultra 20 Workstation is one sleek and sexy looking machine. Even the 24inch Sun branded LCD they show it with looks nice.
If I could get a general purpose GPU, and a dual core processor in the thing I'd consider it. It'd sure beat the pants off a Dell, HP, or Gateway workstation...
Which would never be used by 95% of Linux users and require the company to open source their distro, and make Linux compatible drivers. As well as becomming a permanent drain on resources. I don't think they'll do that. They'd be better off buying an established company, to cut developement time and costs. IBM is more likely to do this, and that will never happen because IBM refuses to take on another OS attempt.
He would lose about 50M on his investment actually. Read the article. He bought the shares in January, since then the share value has dropped dramatically.
Maybe he just sees it as a nice stock to make him more money? It would take far more than 100M to even start thinking of a takeover. Though 100M will put them in 1st rank when it comes to Share %. At most I see him not liking the way the company is going, and thinks that pouring money in and getting a rather loud position among it's shareholders will allow him to better guide the company. He doesn't want them to fade into oblivion and get stuck with a SuSE/Novell vender lock.
As for the claim that they want to fight against their competition(I'm guessing the OP,meant to type this as competence makes little sense) in the server market? What? They use SuSE/Novell, what would the lessening of option get them?And how does RedHat have anything to do with their competition with IBM or Sun? Who happen to also use RedHat.
Did anyone think of that cliff anaolgy for limits of like curves, when they read that...
If one line is beneath another line, that has a limit >= 0, and the other line has the limit of 0, then both lines have a limit of zero.
Inversely, If the top line has a limit, the bottom cannot be divergent in the upwards direction, and vice versa.
As someone who has had a cell phone tower on their property, I think it's a pretty sweet deal. And they aren't really that intrusive anymore, some designs are actually rather low profile, of course those are only meant for rural town coverage, but it's still not so bad.
And the 28,000 we recieve a year is as much as the income of a low-income family.
I agree, Calc and Physics are exremely important to the hardware side of things, and to some lesser extent the software side.
That's why i reccomend everyone take some technical writing courses, if you can't hack it in the real science world of hardware design, but still love the feild, become the tech writer of the team. Trust me, everyone will love you. Mostly because most engineers can't write to save their lives.
I know for a fact that I won't be able to cut it on the hard core design stuff, but I'll still know it well enough to follow along, and I'm positioning myself to be a writer/administrator, before I even enter the field I'll be getting my masters in International Business, and taking Mandarin as my 4th language. (Corrently speak English and Spanish, learning german)
I lvoe the field, and I want to be able to give input and not have the people I lead know more than me, but I'll concede that I don't havr the best mind for the job, so I can let someone else do it, and I'll take care of the stuff they don't enjoy.
I'm a Computer Engineering major at the University of Hartford, this is the best major out there as I see it when it comes to the IT industry. I'm a second year student, currently in 2 circuit design labs, I've taken physics 1 and 2, I need a rather minimal amount of boring theory/math classes in comparison to the other Engineering majors. I only have to go up to Differential Equations. It's a pretty sweet deal. Though I'll likely tack on Linear Algebra, because it's generally a useful one to have.
In addition to the circuits classes I'll also have training in both Java and C++, and access to any upper level CS or ECE I care to take in order to focus my career path. The major is big on choice, the second half of my junior year and my entire senior year is all electives in the CS or ECE feilds. Personall I'm also getting a degree in Professional and Technical writing, through my university's dual degree program, as well as minoring in German.
I'm think my electives will go something along the lines of Operating Systems, Advanced Microprocessor design, Thermodynamics, and Advanced VLSI design, and courses along that vein. I'm going to be hardware focused primarily, but I like linux and would like to learn more about Operating system design, so i can add to the kernel someday.
I think this is the major that will get me the farthest, I may not be as focused into EE as an actual EE major, but my electives can more or less make up for it, and I'll probably still eb able to get a job in microprocesors.
Through digging, and similar comparison, a reader at Aces Hardware may have found the answer for the poor Athlon showing.
http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=115093869
Seems that the code being used was improperly optimized, thus accounting for the huige decrepencies.
Other factors include the fact that the 3500+ got a bogus PR rating, it's clockspeed is 200mhz slower than the 3400+ on the 754 platform. thus the poor showing in mathmatical calculations.
The article, unfortunately is riddled with numerous flaws.
I have been proved wrong on many counts, and I respect that. My main argument was just that the article was bogus, and needs an overhaul.
But as it goes, anyone who wants can go out and buy a Xeon system, spend an extra $600 on the Proc/mobo combo, and get a little boost on their synthetic benchmarks and use John the Ripper to run a few more encryption algorythms...
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Caught you. Splenda uses sucralose, which is in no way related to aspartame, and not associating with headaches, brain tumors, lesions etc... It's main criticism was the possible breakdown of the thymus from excessive use of the sugar substitute, which would weaken the immune system.
You my friend are most likely under the placebo effect, chemically inert or not.
You can't get one high enough... The earth has a gravitational pull of 1g. That is a constant acceleration, not a force.
Farscape.
Is it just me or was that article some the the worst writing ever seen? It was painful to read...
Before I begin with my opinion on this particular subject matter, I'd like to make it known that I am an Electrical Engineering, and Professional and Technical Writing double major. Take that for whatever it's worth. It doesn't mean this post will be entirely grammatically correct, mostly because I happen to not be an anal engineer.
First of all, since this class is dominated by engineering students, I recomend that there be at least a couple of weeks worth of instruction on how to properly write a lab paper. This is the form of document most engineers will find themselves writing throughout their lives, and most students have no idea how to do it. The first thing that must be instilled upon an engineering student is to unlearn all those pretty grammatical strategies that serve to lengthen documents. Subject redundancies, multiple titles for the same object, and the preperatory phrases. (i.e. "First of all") In addition to the instruction on how to be concise a professor should instruct students on how to properly use passive voice. In a lab report, the use of I, me, we, etc... should be strictly forbidden, thus passive voice becomes the most useful way to convey action while keeping the focus on the subject, not on who is doing it. The main problem with passive voice is that it tends to become convoluted and confusing if misused. Thus instruction is necessary. Placement of graphs, and order of topics should also be covered.
Beyond the instruction of lab writing, students should learn how to write towards an audience. A lot of this topic will run counter to what I said about lab reports, so be sure to let students know that labs are an animal all their own and etiquette in lab reports should be largely ignored in most other documents. Writing to an audience is crucial to a budding engineer, especially those engineers who lack certain social graces. Is the reader going to be a boss? A consumer? The marketing department? Fellow engineers? An engineer needs to learn how to adress each of these people, and learn how to be best understood. Intruction should be given on how to properly set up a traditional letter, how to properly use grammar in an e-mail, and how to dumb down the technical jargon of instructions so that they can be disseminated to the masses. Have students practice writing several types of document. It is my belief that a writing course should be taught with a generous helping of in and out of class writing assignments, to galvanize the concepts taught in lectures.
Teach resume writing... Good god most people, angineers and otherwise, can't write a resume to save their life...
Motivation. Most engineers can't write. It's a fact, and given the intelligence and capabilities of most engineers, a rather sad fact. Now the easiest motivation to use is by intilling the fact that engineers that can write get paid more. The average boost in paycheck for an engineer with an english or tech writing minor is $5000 a year. Not so bad for an extra 4 or 5 courses. It will also help in job hunting after leaving college. Engineers who can write, and deal well with people are rarities that are gobbled up by companies in a hurry. It gives them a competitive edge, and minimizes the need for additional employees just to act as liason between the engineers and the marketing/administration department.
I have yet to find a way to make myself, nevermind anyone else, review and revise my work. Good luck with that.
I'd be a little more helpful in general but I'm writing this at 4:30AM and I think I want to sleep. If the OP or anyone else has any question on style or grammer in their technical writing feel free to shoot me an e-mail. Most of my work is in grant proposals and an upcoming instruction manual for engineering programs and professors on incorporating team building and tech writing into first and second year college engineering curriculum.(Written in conjuction with The Birch Group, LLC.)
Would someone mod up the parent. It contains some pretty relevent information considering it's modded as a 0...
A) Companies could go to Linux as a now viable optional, especially in the server space. Linux has everything from identity management, to basic server capabilities, and everything else in between. B) Well, ok, viruses will always exist, but I have never in my life gotten one. Perhaps if companies took experience ofver certification, less of the ineptitude would exist, and therefore less viruses would establish themselves on corporate machines.
I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I think that Ultra 20 Workstation is one sleek and sexy looking machine. Even the 24inch Sun branded LCD they show it with looks nice. If I could get a general purpose GPU, and a dual core processor in the thing I'd consider it. It'd sure beat the pants off a Dell, HP, or Gateway workstation...
Goddamn you HTML.... http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2451
Though the scores are a bit odd...
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Which would never be used by 95% of Linux users and require the company to open source their distro, and make Linux compatible drivers. As well as becomming a permanent drain on resources. I don't think they'll do that. They'd be better off buying an established company, to cut developement time and costs. IBM is more likely to do this, and that will never happen because IBM refuses to take on another OS attempt.
He would lose about 50M on his investment actually. Read the article. He bought the shares in January, since then the share value has dropped dramatically.
Maybe he just sees it as a nice stock to make him more money? It would take far more than 100M to even start thinking of a takeover. Though 100M will put them in 1st rank when it comes to Share %. At most I see him not liking the way the company is going, and thinks that pouring money in and getting a rather loud position among it's shareholders will allow him to better guide the company. He doesn't want them to fade into oblivion and get stuck with a SuSE/Novell vender lock. As for the claim that they want to fight against their competition(I'm guessing the OP ,meant to type this as competence makes little sense) in the server market? What? They use SuSE/Novell, what would the lessening of option get them?And how does RedHat have anything to do with their competition with IBM or Sun? Who happen to also use RedHat.
Did anyone think of that cliff anaolgy for limits of like curves, when they read that... If one line is beneath another line, that has a limit >= 0, and the other line has the limit of 0, then both lines have a limit of zero. Inversely, If the top line has a limit, the bottom cannot be divergent in the upwards direction, and vice versa.
As someone who has had a cell phone tower on their property, I think it's a pretty sweet deal. And they aren't really that intrusive anymore, some designs are actually rather low profile, of course those are only meant for rural town coverage, but it's still not so bad.
And the 28,000 we recieve a year is as much as the income of a low-income family.
I agree, Calc and Physics are exremely important to the hardware side of things, and to some lesser extent the software side.
That's why i reccomend everyone take some technical writing courses, if you can't hack it in the real science world of hardware design, but still love the feild, become the tech writer of the team. Trust me, everyone will love you. Mostly because most engineers can't write to save their lives.
I know for a fact that I won't be able to cut it on the hard core design stuff, but I'll still know it well enough to follow along, and I'm positioning myself to be a writer/administrator, before I even enter the field I'll be getting my masters in International Business, and taking Mandarin as my 4th language. (Corrently speak English and Spanish, learning german)
I lvoe the field, and I want to be able to give input and not have the people I lead know more than me, but I'll concede that I don't havr the best mind for the job, so I can let someone else do it, and I'll take care of the stuff they don't enjoy.
I'm a Computer Engineering major at the University of Hartford, this is the best major out there as I see it when it comes to the IT industry. I'm a second year student, currently in 2 circuit design labs, I've taken physics 1 and 2, I need a rather minimal amount of boring theory/math classes in comparison to the other Engineering majors. I only have to go up to Differential Equations. It's a pretty sweet deal. Though I'll likely tack on Linear Algebra, because it's generally a useful one to have.
In addition to the circuits classes I'll also have training in both Java and C++, and access to any upper level CS or ECE I care to take in order to focus my career path. The major is big on choice, the second half of my junior year and my entire senior year is all electives in the CS or ECE feilds. Personall I'm also getting a degree in Professional and Technical writing, through my university's dual degree program, as well as minoring in German.
I'm think my electives will go something along the lines of Operating Systems, Advanced Microprocessor design, Thermodynamics, and Advanced VLSI design, and courses along that vein. I'm going to be hardware focused primarily, but I like linux and would like to learn more about Operating system design, so i can add to the kernel someday.
I think this is the major that will get me the farthest, I may not be as focused into EE as an actual EE major, but my electives can more or less make up for it, and I'll probably still eb able to get a job in microprocesors.
Someone please mod this a$$hat down...
Microsoft will never change their strategy.... It's always going to be keep the markets cornered, and allow as little interoperability as possible.
Spim, spim, spim, spim. Spim, spim, spim, spim. Nope, not quite the same effect...
http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=115093869 Sorry, forgot tags...
Other factors include the fact that the 3500+ got a bogus PR rating, it's clockspeed is 200mhz slower than the 3400+ on the 754 platform. thus the poor showing in mathmatical calculations.
The article, unfortunately is riddled with numerous flaws.
Socket 939 is dual channel, but dual channel doesn't carry the same benefits for AMD systems as it does for Intel ones.
But as it goes, anyone who wants can go out and buy a Xeon system, spend an extra $600 on the Proc/mobo combo, and get a little boost on their synthetic benchmarks and use John the Ripper to run a few more encryption algorythms...
*tips hat*
PLease excuse the formatting mistake.