The Wallace and Gromit series are fantastic, and I've been looking forward to a full-length movie ever since seeing The Wrong Trousers. Chicken Run was quite funny, but it was chickens, not our slightly dashing duo! If you've never seen good claymation, you should defintiely go rent/buy all of the W&G videos, and get a copy of Chicken Run also.
W&G is such a nice break from the (albeit quite good) CG animation movies of the past few years. Claymation requires so much handwork and attention to detail, that there are very few people who can do it, let alone do it well. The folks at Pixar et al are great at what they do, and they put in a lot of detail... but the computer rendering is also responsible for a bunch of the look. Here you have straight-up, old-fashioned hard work, care, and love on the part of the animators.
Well, Apple's been doing it with their G5 PowerMacs... not removing the fans completely, but they sure are quiet. Madshrimps is being really sluggish right now.
Isn't Intel's new BTX form factor also supposed to help with cooling, but moving the hot components away from each other so that fewer fans need to be used? I'm not a fluid mechanics expert, but with good channeling, and a sturdy enough current of air around the case from the room's ventillation system, such a silent system doesn't seem that far-fetched.
Transmeta-based machines also have no cooling fans. Of course, the Transmeta processors are also a lot less demanding power consumers.
I've been asked by several people in my church recently what I think would be a good degree path for their son or daughter to pursue.
You have at least something of a career path framed in your mind, and experince (I presume) with the CS degree. What do you want to do, though, now that you have all that theoretical knowledge? You probably aren't lookign to be a code monkey somewhere, imlpementing what other CS majors have designed, complaining that they never took any of your advice, or even ask for input from you.
I'm mroe of the IT end of things, working on finishing up my bachelor's degree in CIS. However, I started my 'career' in programming working with a friend on fluid-flow analysis using finite element analysis software that we wrote from scratch. I didn't understand most of the math (I was only in 9th grade when we started), but I did learn a lot through that experience. I learned that I didn't want to just be a programmer. I wanted to be doing work at the systems analysis and design level, system/network administration. Both are high-level, complex job functions where your employer expects you to work at the macro level, but be able to jump down to the micro layers when needed.
If you liked all the math you did for your CS degree, I would reccommend going back for some form of engineering (I would personally choose mechanical, civil, or aerospace engineering). A few other posters suggested getting and MBA. They're great if you want to get into the business side of things. If you want to work for some place like AutoCAD, though, I'd say engineering will help a lot more than an MBA. If you want to get into running an IT department, then the MBA will give you the business savvy that higher-level management wants, but your CS background will keep you grounded in the technical details that your users will need.
I realize it's now dated, since it's mostly aimed at System 7 developers, but Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines (Apple Technical Library) is probably one of the best works ever done on interface design. Apple is a company that prides itself onmaking clean UI's. Whether you're a fan of their hardware and software, their interface design group is fantastic.
I have used it as a reference many times when working on Windows programs.
I don't know who thought New York State only makes $10b in tax revenue - we have a $100b+ state budget! I went to http://www.osc.state.ny.us/finance/finreports/2004 cafr.pdf and checked the report of the state comptroller. Page 148 (of the pdf) has the majo stats on state revenues. Personal Income tax: $24b; total tax revenues: $42.2b. NYW collected $10b in just sales tax.
Microsoft's $10b is a lot, but it's nowhere near New York.
I use them as diagnostic tools frequently. Especialy when I need to figure out what's wrong with a Win drive, or recover files off an install that won't boot (before just reformatting).
You can download it from my personal site: http://warrenmyers.com/firefox through Thursday evening. The English editions are available for Linux, Mac, Win32.
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W&G is such a nice break from the (albeit quite good) CG animation movies of the past few years. Claymation requires so much handwork and attention to detail, that there are very few people who can do it, let alone do it well. The folks at Pixar et al are great at what they do, and they put in a lot of detail... but the computer rendering is also responsible for a bunch of the look. Here you have straight-up, old-fashioned hard work, care, and love on the part of the animators.
Isn't Intel's new BTX form factor also supposed to help with cooling, but moving the hot components away from each other so that fewer fans need to be used? I'm not a fluid mechanics expert, but with good channeling, and a sturdy enough current of air around the case from the room's ventillation system, such a silent system doesn't seem that far-fetched.
Transmeta-based machines also have no cooling fans. Of course, the Transmeta processors are also a lot less demanding power consumers.
mass and weight aren't the same, but for objects that can't be weighed, it's often close enough for the common understanding
Wasn't there a Slashdot posting just yesterday about this exact thing... but using multi-session CD's?
You have at least something of a career path framed in your mind, and experince (I presume) with the CS degree. What do you want to do, though, now that you have all that theoretical knowledge? You probably aren't lookign to be a code monkey somewhere, imlpementing what other CS majors have designed, complaining that they never took any of your advice, or even ask for input from you.
I'm mroe of the IT end of things, working on finishing up my bachelor's degree in CIS. However, I started my 'career' in programming working with a friend on fluid-flow analysis using finite element analysis software that we wrote from scratch. I didn't understand most of the math (I was only in 9th grade when we started), but I did learn a lot through that experience. I learned that I didn't want to just be a programmer. I wanted to be doing work at the systems analysis and design level, system/network administration. Both are high-level, complex job functions where your employer expects you to work at the macro level, but be able to jump down to the micro layers when needed.
If you liked all the math you did for your CS degree, I would reccommend going back for some form of engineering (I would personally choose mechanical, civil, or aerospace engineering). A few other posters suggested getting and MBA. They're great if you want to get into the business side of things. If you want to work for some place like AutoCAD, though, I'd say engineering will help a lot more than an MBA. If you want to get into running an IT department, then the MBA will give you the business savvy that higher-level management wants, but your CS background will keep you grounded in the technical details that your users will need.
I have used it as a reference many times when working on Windows programs.
Can someboady please post a link that works, outside ot BitTorrent or dijjer? I'm at work and we're pretty clamped down :(
Microsoft's $10b is a lot, but it's nowhere near New York.
You might also look at flexible, sealed keyboards. CompUSA and Tiger both carry them, and they're mostly impervious to liquids and dust.
Try accessing the PDF they have available... http://www.mozilla.org/press/nytimes-firefox-final .pdf
I found my name with no problems.
I use them as diagnostic tools frequently. Especialy when I need to figure out what's wrong with a Win drive, or recover files off an install that won't boot (before just reformatting).
'ees pinin' for the fjords!
You can download it from my personal site: http://warrenmyers.com/firefox through Thursday evening. The English editions are available for Linux, Mac, Win32.
I have the English editions available on my personal website: http://warrenmyers.com/firefox. They will be available through Thursday evening.