I purchased a Dell SmartStep 200N about 4 yrs ago when Dell just released them. They were the first to put a desktop chip inside a laptop. Back then a 2.0 Ghz laptop was pretty much comparable to Desktop computers. My professors used to get pretty impressed when my laptop used to be able to compile code faster then their 1 or 2 yr old desktop computers.
They also provide the easiest setup at LAN gaming parties.
Ever since I purchased my laptop, i've pretty much been using it as my primary computer. My only complain is that I have a problem with it overheating easily; so now I put a fan next to it when I work.
My next laptop purchase will probarbly be in another 4 or 5 yrs, since my current one can do everything I need it to do (except play Doom III).
Anyone have any details on intels version of the macMini?
I have never really owned a console in my entire life. I just play PC games.
One of the main problems I have with console games is that I can't really control my player easily on the console with those controllers. I prefer my "W A S D" config with my mouse that I can program to do different things. Plus yeah, why should I buy an entirely new machine just to play games I can do pretty much the same thing on my computer.
If I wanna add extra stuff to my computer, I can find great prices easily. With consoles, everyone is trying to make a buck in royalties.. and u pay quite a bit in royalties.
Plus, I mostly play stragety games. And I usually game when I wanna just chill, do you think I wanna take the time and trouble of hooking up a bunch of cables and stuff when all I gotta do is just pop in a CD.
Consoles appeal to certain ppl, but not me. I'll be sticking with my PC for a really long time.:)
"Individuals with AS can exhibit a variety of characteristics and the disorder can range from mild to severe. Persons with AS show marked deficiencies in social skills, have difficulties with transitions or changes and prefer sameness. They often have obsessive routines and may be preoccupied with a particular subject of interest. They have a great deal of difficulty reading nonverbal cues (body language) and very often the individual with AS has difficulty determining proper body space. Often overly sensitive to sounds, tastes, smells, and sights, the person with AS may prefer soft clothing, certain foods, and be bothered by sounds or lights no one else seems to hear or see. It's important to remember that the person with AS perceives the world very differently. Therefore, many behaviors that seem odd or unusual are due to those neurological differences and not the result of intentional rudeness or bad behavior, and most certainly not the result of "improper parenting".
By definition, those with AS have a normal IQ and many individuals (although not all), exhibit exceptional skill or talent in a specific area. Because of their high degree of functionality and their naiveté, those with AS are often viewed as eccentric or odd and can easily become victims of teasing and bullying. While language development seems, on the surface, normal, individuals with AS often have deficits in pragmatics and prosody. Vocabularies may be extraordinarily rich and some children sound like "little professors." However, persons with AS can be extremely literal and have difficulty using language in a social context. "
This basically describes more than half of the slashDot crowd I think. Partially describes me and a bunch of my geek friends.
I just graduated last yr with a software engineering degree and one in computer and communication systems.
I found it quite depressing that sometimes a lot of instructors are more interested in their research work than on actually teaching you the material. They would just teach the top level stuff and expect us to understand the material. They just make u use packages like MATLAB to plot a few graphs and expect u to know how it works.
Like for example, when I learned about JPEG compression, I learned the theory behind the math/concepts, the math involved, the steps on how to compress and I was expected to understand how it worked without ever implementing it.
Or when I took the DSP course and I was learning all these crazy math concepts. Our labs were in Matlab where we had to plot all these graphs, and matlab did all the work. So I learned how to do the math, but I had no idea what I was doing.
I work as a programmer doing communications programming on the server and microcontrollers and I learn most of my stuff from an EE at work who is basically my mentor.
Not trying to be flame bait or a troll, but.. These stories are getting rather sad. Everytime someone says oh I'm going to switch from Windows to XY OS, it gets posted here. And then ppl start the MS bashing or XY OS comparision to Windows.
Is slashdot that desperate for material that topics that are basically duplicates of other content (with different ppl) get posted constantly.
This reminds me of the April Fool Days Overkill Stories..Not trying to be mean, but how about filtering out these duplicates?
Come on....
MP3 players have been out for quite a while. Ppl were downloading music b4 the iPOD. All of a sudden Apple markets an MP3 player and all MP3 players start to be compared to the iPOD and iTunes...
I graduated last summer with a BS in IT, in Software Engineering and Computer and Communication Systems.
In lay mans terms what I did was CS and telecomm engineering.
What I have found is that school doens't teach u jack diddly squat. It mostly teaches ur the basics, and advanced theory.
I did both program cause I wanted to increase my chances of getting a job. Currently at the Job I work in, I so software dev as well as hardware programming and I love it.
What I would say is do what you enjoy doing. If you like both streams, do a little bit of both like I did and u increase ur chances of landing a job. However, remember something, a lot of things that get thaught in CS class can also be learned elsewhere. The way I got thaught was oh read these chapters and u'll have a project to do or a test to do. U can just buy the book urself and then study the CS on ur own time while u focus on EE in school.
I think, in IT now a days, everyone need to know how to program.
If ur thinking of going into EE and leaving ur CS curiosity open
Lean to program in C/C++/Java Learn about Algorithms and Data Structures Learn about OS Architecture Learn about Microcontroller Architecture Learn about Software Engineering
These are the most important things that u need to know for CS. The rest of what u need to know should be thaught in an EE program.
I would also say, do projects on ur own time. Everyone gets a piece of paper, but what differenciates u from the rest.
Do projects with the skills u learned and keep track of them. Then when u finish and look for a job u can show ur potential employeers what you are capable of. Thats what I did.
For my current job, originally there was only supposed to be 1 opening. When they had to hire, they narrowed it down to me and this other person. She had a degree just like mine and had Coop exp. I had no Coop, but I had done lots of projects on my own time. In the end the couldn't decide so the boss just told them to hire both of us. So now she works on software projects and I work on some software and some hardware projects.
Ok, I've been looking for a phone like this for a long time now. But couldn't find what I needed so I ended up buying all the stuff seperately.
I think the $800 price tag is quite worthwhile, I'd buy it if it had a higher MP camera, with a higher optical zoom and a 6 or 8 gig HDD plus a USB connection, or had provisions for a USB adapter. And last but not least a windows OS:p, yeah yeah.. I know.. but I have the Dev environment to program MS mobile products so why not.
What I ended up buying was a 329: Neuros 30 Gb MP3 Player 289: 4 MP, 10x Fuji Camera 370: Dell Axim PDA 988: Total
so in the end the price is quite worthwhile for a start...unfortunately I still use my Nokia 5190 phone.. been using it ever since 1999 lol...
Ok, I'm not a physics geek so excuse my ignorance.
I was just thinking that this sort of fusion is not looked on as a great thing cause the input energy > than the output, but in countries where the temperatures are really high, can't this heat be used an another energy source to compensate for the loss of energy? Or say volcanic heat etc?
I duuno bout u dude.. but I've been using Shaw for a while now and I am very happy no complains at all.
I used to use Telus DSL but that was just horrible. At first I was getting a decent speed, about 600 Kb/s on a bandwidth test, after a while I kept on getting super slow speeds 200 Kb/s when I did a bandwidth test. I called their tech support like a number of times and they dispatched their ppl almost immideatedly and each one kept on giving me different answers.
1 Person would tell me that its cause I am far away from their main station. Another tells me cause my wiring is bad (my house was 5 yrs old at the time). And then they used to go down a lot too. Then I asked to speak to customer service and the guy was telling me its cause of 9/11. In my head I'm like yeah right, altough the server I'm trying to access is about 15 miles away from me, all the electrons decided to slow down cause of 9/11. I asked to speak to a manager, the guy said no.
So I switched to Shaw. Shaw has been excellet, almost negligeble downtime, super speeds, and they inform u if they do some servicing and their stuff is going to be down.
Ok, this might seems a bit ignorant but how exactly is this different from the mac mini? This thing is slightly smaller than a mac mini, and comes with Xp.. thats the only thing I can think of. The extra add ons can be added to a mac mini if someone were to build it.
"And so (we) go to an area, pop it open, and wow, we didn't intend to capture this icebreaker pushing this submarine"
and would this submarine by any chance be the sub that the UK sold Canada.
I dunno why all these companies like to play hard ball when things can be so much easier.
These ppl have to realize that a huge populance download media content on their computers. By agreeing to deliver content, they can tap into a potentially huge revenue source.
it seems that a number of arguments seem to be coming out that a computer is unable to come up with new concepts. A computer is only able to output the logic programmed into it, regardless if it has AI or not. I doubt we'll be seeing 'The Rise Of The Machines' any time soon.
To me it seems that this article is trying to point out the need for having a bunch of proofs before arriving to the conclusion of a problem. For example suppose we are trying to proove the equivalence of two trignometric fractions, we would end up with a bunch of proofs showing their equivalence. Are these proofs really needed anymore to arive at the solution when all a computer will need to do is plug in a test value and obtain the answer.
My main problem with Mathematicians is that when it comes to complex problems, they are able to solve it with relative ease, but usually have no idea what they are doing/solving... i.e. where this applies. Well there is obviously some need of proofs in certain areas if you want to figure out how things work, but when trying to use math to solve a bunch of problems, you don't need the proofs at all. For example when I wanna solve a problem and need to use math, I just program stuff into Matlab and let matLab use its math libs to do the processing for me...
I used to buy stuff from the states because its cheaper than Canada. When I go to the states, to pick up electronic gadgets (e.g. mp3 player) I get harassed by the US border customs every time I enter. They ask me the same questions over and over again, what is your reason for coming (normal question), where do you work, what is your occupation, when did you buy this car, do you own this car, how long have you owned this car, have you ever been denied entry into the US. Can you turn your car off, give me the keys and open your trunk. This might sound something routine, but my caucasian friends/co-workers don't get bothered at all. The serbian girl who works with me told me that she this has never happened to her, and she has a serbain accent and all. My other colored friends have all told me that they get harassed as well. Well guess what, now I don't buy stuff from the States anymore. A number of us avoid a stop over at the States while travelling by plane. This dumb attitude by the US, doesn't help their already crappy image in Canada.
I work in a small company where my bosses are geeks too..
My CEO is a mechanical engineer and a bio physicst My other boss has a Bachelors Physics Engineer with a Masters in Business Admin My other boss has a Bachelors in Comp Sci
So for now I don't have to deal with any PHB or Jocks telling me what to do.
Some of the projects that I've worked on were late cause: The specs we given to me all broken down into a requirements doc. I implemented the proj according to the specs and finished it b4 the deadline. But guess what happened, the specs were not quite what they wanted and it got changed a couple of times.
Even after my many suggestions to implement some sort of CMS for project tracking/communications it always gets thrown into the "later" category. If things are organized and communications is good in my exp a project gets finished so much faster. Sending multiple e-mails per project a day doesn't really help out..
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dude.. I had a long busy Sunday.. gimme a break...
I purchased a Dell SmartStep 200N about 4 yrs ago when Dell just released them. They were the first to put a desktop chip inside a laptop. Back then a 2.0 Ghz laptop was pretty much comparable to Desktop computers. My professors used to get pretty impressed when my laptop used to be able to compile code faster then their 1 or 2 yr old desktop computers.
They also provide the easiest setup at LAN gaming parties.
Ever since I purchased my laptop, i've pretty much been using it as my primary computer. My only complain is that I have a problem with it overheating easily; so now I put a fan next to it when I work.
My next laptop purchase will probarbly be in another 4 or 5 yrs, since my current one can do everything I need it to do (except play Doom III).
Anyone have any details on intels version of the macMini?
I have never really owned a console in my entire life. I just play PC games.
:)
One of the main problems I have with console games is that I can't really control my player easily on the console with those controllers. I prefer my "W A S D" config with my mouse that I can program to do different things. Plus yeah, why should I buy an entirely new machine just to play games I can do pretty much the same thing on my computer.
If I wanna add extra stuff to my computer, I can find great prices easily. With consoles, everyone is trying to make a buck in royalties.. and u pay quite a bit in royalties.
Plus, I mostly play stragety games. And I usually game when I wanna just chill, do you think I wanna take the time and trouble of hooking up a bunch of cables and stuff when all I gotta do is just pop in a CD.
Consoles appeal to certain ppl, but not me. I'll be sticking with my PC for a really long time.
Hi Chris, what are the restrictions as far as countries go. Can a Canadian student apply? *I wish I was a student right now*
"Individuals with AS can exhibit a variety of characteristics and the disorder can range from mild to severe. Persons with AS show marked deficiencies in social skills, have difficulties with transitions or changes and prefer sameness. They often have obsessive routines and may be preoccupied with a particular subject of interest. They have a great deal of difficulty reading nonverbal cues (body language) and very often the individual with AS has difficulty determining proper body space. Often overly sensitive to sounds, tastes, smells, and sights, the person with AS may prefer soft clothing, certain foods, and be bothered by sounds or lights no one else seems to hear or see. It's important to remember that the person with AS perceives the world very differently. Therefore, many behaviors that seem odd or unusual are due to those neurological differences and not the result of intentional rudeness or bad behavior, and most certainly not the result of "improper parenting".
By definition, those with AS have a normal IQ and many individuals (although not all), exhibit exceptional skill or talent in a specific area. Because of their high degree of functionality and their naiveté, those with AS are often viewed as eccentric or odd and can easily become victims of teasing and bullying. While language development seems, on the surface, normal, individuals with AS often have deficits in pragmatics and prosody. Vocabularies may be extraordinarily rich and some children sound like "little professors." However, persons with AS can be extremely literal and have difficulty using language in a social context. "
This basically describes more than half of the slashDot crowd I think. Partially describes me and a bunch of my geek friends.
I just graduated last yr with a software engineering degree and one in computer and communication systems.
I found it quite depressing that sometimes a lot of instructors are more interested in their research work than on actually teaching you the material. They would just teach the top level stuff and expect us to understand the material. They just make u use packages like MATLAB to plot a few graphs and expect u to know how it works.
Like for example, when I learned about JPEG compression, I learned the theory behind the math/concepts, the math involved, the steps on how to compress and I was expected to understand how it worked without ever implementing it.
Or when I took the DSP course and I was learning all these crazy math concepts. Our labs were in Matlab where we had to plot all these graphs, and matlab did all the work. So I learned how to do the math, but I had no idea what I was doing.
I work as a programmer doing communications programming on the server and microcontrollers and I learn most of my stuff from an EE at work who is basically my mentor.
or are u just happy to see me.. :p
Ok,
Not trying to be flame bait or a troll, but..
These stories are getting rather sad. Everytime someone says oh I'm going to switch from Windows to XY OS, it gets posted here. And then ppl start the MS bashing or XY OS comparision to Windows.
Is slashdot that desperate for material that topics that are basically duplicates of other content (with different ppl) get posted constantly.
This reminds me of the April Fool Days Overkill Stories..Not trying to be mean, but how about filtering out these duplicates?
Come on.... MP3 players have been out for quite a while. Ppl were downloading music b4 the iPOD. All of a sudden Apple markets an MP3 player and all MP3 players start to be compared to the iPOD and iTunes...
Hi,
:)
I graduated last summer with a BS in IT, in Software Engineering and Computer and Communication Systems.
In lay mans terms what I did was CS and telecomm engineering.
What I have found is that school doens't teach u jack diddly squat. It mostly teaches ur the basics, and advanced theory.
I did both program cause I wanted to increase my chances of getting a job.
Currently at the Job I work in, I so software dev as well as hardware programming and I love it.
What I would say is do what you enjoy doing. If you like both streams, do a little bit of both like I did and u increase ur chances of landing a job.
However, remember something, a lot of things that get thaught in CS class can also be learned elsewhere. The way I got thaught was oh read these chapters and u'll have a project to do or a test to do. U can just buy the book urself and then study the CS on ur own time while u focus on EE in school.
I think, in IT now a days, everyone need to know how to program.
If ur thinking of going into EE and leaving ur CS curiosity open
Lean to program in C/C++/Java
Learn about Algorithms and Data Structures
Learn about OS Architecture
Learn about Microcontroller Architecture
Learn about Software Engineering
These are the most important things that u need to know for CS. The rest of what u need to know should be thaught in an EE program.
I would also say, do projects on ur own time. Everyone gets a piece of paper, but what differenciates u from the rest.
Do projects with the skills u learned and keep track of them. Then when u finish and look for a job u can show ur potential employeers what you are capable of. Thats what I did.
For my current job, originally there was only supposed to be 1 opening.
When they had to hire, they narrowed it down to me and this other person. She had a degree just like mine and had Coop exp.
I had no Coop, but I had done lots of projects on my own time.
In the end the couldn't decide so the boss just told them to hire both of us.
So now she works on software projects and I work on some software and some hardware projects.
Hopefully that helps
Ok,
This is one of the most ridiculous lawsuits ever. A Tiger is an animal and nobody shoudl be able to trademark the name of an animal.
This is BS. Tomorrow someone is gonna say that I can't use the word Tiger on my book on Tigers cause it is trademarked WTH
Whats next? Kangaroo, Giraffe, Bear, Lion, Monkey, Panda.... this is utter nonsence.
I think the US patent office is quite messed up in issuing patents, trademarks and copyrights.
Ok, I've been looking for a phone like this for a long time now. But couldn't find what I needed so I ended up buying all the stuff seperately.
:p, yeah yeah.. I know.. but I have the Dev environment to program MS mobile products so why not.
I think the $800 price tag is quite worthwhile, I'd buy it if it had a higher MP camera, with a higher optical zoom and a 6 or 8 gig HDD plus a USB connection, or had provisions for a USB adapter. And last but not least a windows OS
What I ended up buying was a
329: Neuros 30 Gb MP3 Player
289: 4 MP, 10x Fuji Camera
370: Dell Axim PDA
988: Total
so in the end the price is quite worthwhile for a start...unfortunately I still use my Nokia 5190 phone.. been using it ever since 1999 lol...
Ok, I'm not a physics geek so excuse my ignorance.
I was just thinking that this sort of fusion is not looked on as a great thing cause the input energy > than the output, but in countries where the temperatures are really high, can't this heat be used an another energy source to compensate for the loss of energy?
Or say volcanic heat etc?
Just some random thoughts.
I duuno bout u dude.. but I've been using Shaw for a while now and I am very happy no complains at all.
I used to use Telus DSL but that was just horrible. At first I was getting a decent speed, about 600 Kb/s on a bandwidth test, after a while I kept on getting super slow speeds 200 Kb/s when I did a bandwidth test. I called their tech support like a number of times and they dispatched their ppl almost immideatedly and each one kept on giving me different answers.
1 Person would tell me that its cause I am far away from their main station. Another tells me cause my wiring is bad (my house was 5 yrs old at the time). And then they used to go down a lot too. Then I asked to speak to customer service and the guy was telling me its cause of 9/11. In my head I'm like yeah right, altough the server I'm trying to access is about 15 miles away from me, all the electrons decided to slow down cause of 9/11. I asked to speak to a manager, the guy said no.
So I switched to Shaw. Shaw has been excellet, almost negligeble downtime, super speeds, and they inform u if they do some servicing and their stuff is going to be down.
thanks.. I didn't catch the battery part... I guess I should have RTFA properly.. :p
Ok, this might seems a bit ignorant but how exactly is this different from the mac mini? This thing is slightly smaller than a mac mini, and comes with Xp.. thats the only thing I can think of. The extra add ons can be added to a mac mini if someone were to build it.
"And so (we) go to an area, pop it open, and wow, we didn't intend to capture this icebreaker pushing this submarine" and would this submarine by any chance be the sub that the UK sold Canada.
man.. if I had some mod points.. I would have given u +5 funny points.. :p
I dunno why all these companies like to play hard ball when things can be so much easier.
These ppl have to realize that a huge populance download media content on their computers. By agreeing to deliver content, they can tap into a potentially huge revenue source.
Hmm..
it seems that a number of arguments seem to be coming out that a computer is unable to come up with new concepts. A computer is only able to output the logic programmed into it, regardless if it has AI or not. I doubt we'll be seeing 'The Rise Of The Machines' any time soon.
To me it seems that this article is trying to point out the need for having a bunch of proofs before arriving to the conclusion of a problem.
For example suppose we are trying to proove the equivalence of two trignometric fractions, we would end up with a bunch of proofs showing their equivalence. Are these proofs really needed anymore to arive at the solution when all a computer will need to do is plug in a test value and obtain the answer.
My main problem with Mathematicians is that when it comes to complex problems, they are able to solve it with relative ease, but usually have no idea what they are doing/solving... i.e. where this applies.
Well there is obviously some need of proofs in certain areas if you want to figure out how things work, but when trying to use math to solve a bunch of problems, you don't need the proofs at all. For example when I wanna solve a problem and need to use math, I just program stuff into Matlab and let matLab use its math libs to do the processing for me...
You know something, you are so right.
I used to buy stuff from the states because its cheaper than Canada. When I go to the states, to pick up electronic gadgets (e.g. mp3 player) I get harassed by the US border customs every time I enter. They ask me the same questions over and over again, what is your reason for coming (normal question), where do you work, what is your occupation, when did you buy this car, do you own this car, how long have you owned this car, have you ever been denied entry into the US. Can you turn your car off, give me the keys and open your trunk. This might sound something routine, but my caucasian friends/co-workers don't get bothered at all. The serbian girl who works with me told me that she this has never happened to her, and she has a serbain accent and all. My other colored friends have all told me that they get harassed as well. Well guess what, now I don't buy stuff from the States anymore. A number of us avoid a stop over at the States while travelling by plane. This dumb attitude by the US, doesn't help their already crappy image in Canada.
This is an awesome April Fools Joke.. lol :)
I work in a small company where my bosses are geeks too..
My CEO is a mechanical engineer and a bio physicst
My other boss has a Bachelors Physics Engineer with a Masters in Business Admin
My other boss has a Bachelors in Comp Sci
So for now I don't have to deal with any PHB or Jocks telling me what to do.
Some of the projects that I've worked on were late cause:
The specs we given to me all broken down into a requirements doc. I implemented the proj according to the specs and finished it b4 the deadline. But guess what happened, the specs were not quite what they wanted and it got changed a couple of times.
Even after my many suggestions to implement some sort of CMS for project tracking/communications it always gets thrown into the "later" category. If things are organized and communications is good in my exp a project gets finished so much faster. Sending multiple e-mails per project a day doesn't really help out..
Or very little time is spent on process planning.
lol.. I guess I spent too much time reading SlashDot instead of Dilbert.. :p
ummm.. what is PHB???