How selective are they? Stories of students with a 4.0 GPA not being accepted into the school (transfering from Community College) abound. I knew students with a 3.4/3.5 GPA who were not accepted. Insane.
I think you need a GPA of about 3.49 to get in to the UW now for Grad School and of 15,000 applications to just be admitted to the UW (Bachelors) on 4,833 offers were made and 2,600 were enrolled last year. But the state increased the number of slots quite a bit, so you might want to reapply.
I've been in IT since part way thru my military years, and I've switched over to Bioinformatics and am now pursuing a PhD in Economics, since I already have a post-grad certificate in Data Resource Management and don't think IT has any real promise by itself.
Fortune agrees with me that what the US needs are PhDs, and probably not IT ones. You can either get on board a sinking ship, or you can start building a better boat.
And that CS degrees is just one of many fields in which the USA is underinvesting.
Not only that, but they think that China does get it, and is kicking sand in our faces.
Gates, of course, cares mostly about his area of expertise.
However, even though we as a society need way more higher education, I don't believe we need a Tablet [as Gates says all students do in the article] nor do I agree that the xBox or xBox 360 is sexy - my first degree was in Marketing/Sales and I'm a geek who owns an xBox and a GameCube.
so posting a link to a Dvorak column just helps promote his anti-Open Source anti-Creative Commons viewpoints.
However, I just noticed that some of my favorite science magazines are using the Creative Commons open source for their papers.
Look, originally copyright for scientific uses was more about making sure other people didn't publish your work and pretend they did it, and they didn't change it so that it said something you didn't say, except where noted as commentary. We are so far away from that necessity nowadays, it's getting in the way of the scientific community at large.
6502 perhaps... 68xx series were cooler. Specially the 6809 with it's fully featured indexing modes;-) oooh dat sexy.
I remember reading about the 68000 when it first came out, used to delve into the tech specs for what seemed like months... probably why I bought a Mac at that time (hacker version, dual floppy, external fast SCSI hard drive with twice the disk storage and faster than the internel HD).
172K of ram... in a system with a 16-bit bus? You want to rethink that? And what is "slot ram"? Ram only came in one form back then [in consumer quantities] and that was DIP.
Yup. I had 64K on the main and 172K total - which works out to two 64K memory slots, enough to cycle thru the window.
Why? because you run your programs in the lower RAM but run the RAM disk in the upper RAM.
Which is still 1000 times faster than disk access.
Which back then was floppy for the Apple II series.
Hand tuned a floppy drive with an oscilloscope?... how and what the fuck for?
Original floppy drives used to drift between, say 95 and 125 cycles, so you'd use the potentiometer to adjust the speed to hit the sweet spot your system used - it decreased the error rate, especially on the outside tracks.
Just because you're not old enough to have done that, doesn't mean we didn't.
I'll give you a hint - watch That 70's Show - that's EXACTLY how old I was during the year on the license plate of each episode.
We used slide rules, because TI calculators were too darned expensive.
and then the neighborhood script kiddie decides to sell your private information you had on the hard disk, who should you blame?
Well?
Me, I blame clueless newbs who shred their bill and paystubs but dump their PC with all their credit card info on it, as well as all those nice resume's.
first version was from Wall Street Journal [reported], which I read in the print edition I get delivered, now it's a rebroadcast on the New York Times, will you post the BBC News version too?
Seriously though - NEVER TOSS YOUR OLD PC IN THE DUMPSTER!!!!!
It has mercury in it, as well as other hazardous materials, and should be taken to a recycle center or returned to its manufacturer.
In the old days, a friend of mine near Sydney (in Oz) used to strip the gold from the memory boards from big computers and resell it to supplement his university salary. He used some to build giant arrays too.
But the cheapest thing is to switch browsers and turn off permissions.
Punch cards had been replaced by VDUs. Presumably magnetic drums were no longer used for storage by 1979, and would have been seen as outdated as a 5.25 inch floppy disk.
Wrong. We used punch cards at most medium sized colleges and universities for data entry until at least 1985. And 5.25 floppy disks were common until about that time - think the 3.5 floppy didn't gain ground until the military bought them in bulk for our laptops [which cost more than a house]. Those laptops were very very heavy.
The difference nowadays is the speed of the internet and the wireless connection. The rest is pretty meaningless.
Before had built S-100 bus computers, which we soldered the boards for ourselves, and we liked it.
I made a hacker's version of my Apple II+, taking the base 64K and expanding it to 172K with a slot RAM board, and dual floppies I hand-adjusted the speed on - using an oscilloscope, the only way to fly, after running thru the numbers on my slide rule. I had the cool triangle core slide rule.
Made a boot disk with the BASIC programs I wrote, and some assembler ones, which I loaded into my RAM disk so they would run 1000 times faster than if I loaded them from disk, and used the second drive for the read/write disk for file input/output.
My Apple screamed - made all the Commodore and Tandy's that came to the neighborhood look sick - even after I rewrote their programs to run faster and not have bugs.
And I commented my code back then, which was heresy, but really helped a lot. Everyone else relied on cryptic variable names, but I knew how they were stored, so I could get away with murder.
Ah, the bad old days. We cheered when 300 baud came out, cause everyone was using 110 baud [that's 0.3K modem speed, and I'm using Gigabit Internet here at the UW right now, and get 33Mbps with my laptop at home].
If the US was a nuclear based country. It's amazing to me to see how many 'environmentalists' are up in arms about this when in fact, the nuclear reactors are more safe than ever.
Is that why France is switching to wind turbines and fusion power (their lastest project)?
They're more than 80 percent nuclear fission for energy, as I recall, and they're moving away from it, so that doesn't say great things about it...
was on the comparison of fuel cells, and it showed that coal was not a good source of fuel cell storage, whereas nuclear electricity (hydrolysis) and fossil fuel (both natural gas and gasoline to create it directly) were pretty good, but that hydroelectric and wind used to split H2O by electricity were the highest energy storing mechanisms.
The problem with Science is that it depends on what your question is. They used corn, not cane sugar, to create ethanol, and they didn't use waste corn, but used virgin corn (which is really dense) - not a very smart use of biofuels - a better use would be hemp or soybean waste (only part of the plant is used).
The acting isn't terrible, and neither is the dialogue, though, I could do without hearing "frak" or whatever every other word.
Actually, one thing that puzzles is me, is - when is Starbuck going to just explode and go Frak Frak Frak double stuffed Frak and so on for half a minute?
Terrorists are everywhere--even in the future. You don't know when they'll strike and you can never see them coming. If you enjoy this sort of crap, then break out the plastic sheets and duct tape, sit back, and enjoy.
The terrorists are gonna getcha!
You're REALLY going to HATE the movie Stealth then.
Don't watch it. Close your windows. Don't think of the Gorilla in the room. Let him eat your cookies.
Or even better, be like the head monkey we employ and attack the baby Orangutan instead of the Gorilla.
PS: I think the Cylon meant Apollo. --- I think the Cylon meant either Zack (Apollo's brother) or Bill Adama's wife (Apollo's mother). I would expect that either would screw with a few heads.
I'm pretty sure it's Apollo's mother. They seem to like to replace women a lot. Probably something about space aliens taking our Women.
Of course, as one other poster mentioned, the mentally retarded H20 episode was beyond understanding. When will sci-fi TV writers understand that sci-fi is not "soap opera, but in space"?
That was one of my favorite episodes, in that it explained things from Boomer's point of view. But, hey, noone's forcing you to watch.
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How selective are they? Stories of students with a 4.0 GPA not being accepted into the school (transfering from Community College) abound. I knew students with a 3.4/3.5 GPA who were not accepted. Insane.
I think you need a GPA of about 3.49 to get in to the UW now for Grad School and of 15,000 applications to just be admitted to the UW (Bachelors) on 4,833 offers were made and 2,600 were enrolled last year. But the state increased the number of slots quite a bit, so you might want to reapply.
I've been in IT since part way thru my military years, and I've switched over to Bioinformatics and am now pursuing a PhD in Economics, since I already have a post-grad certificate in Data Resource Management and don't think IT has any real promise by itself.
Fortune agrees with me that what the US needs are PhDs, and probably not IT ones. You can either get on board a sinking ship, or you can start building a better boat.
And that CS degrees is just one of many fields in which the USA is underinvesting.
Not only that, but they think that China does get it, and is kicking sand in our faces.
Gates, of course, cares mostly about his area of expertise.
However, even though we as a society need way more higher education, I don't believe we need a Tablet [as Gates says all students do in the article] nor do I agree that the xBox or xBox 360 is sexy - my first degree was in Marketing/Sales and I'm a geek who owns an xBox and a GameCube.
enforced at the point of a gun - lawsuit - whatever, same end point.
Now that's why I don't want to use it, and downloaded Firefox and Opera for my home WinXP laptop.
Hey, anyone know which Linux distro works best with an AMD 3000 laptop with FireWire, USB, and 11g?
so posting a link to a Dvorak column just helps promote his anti-Open Source anti-Creative Commons viewpoints.
However, I just noticed that some of my favorite science magazines are using the Creative Commons open source for their papers.
Look, originally copyright for scientific uses was more about making sure other people didn't publish your work and pretend they did it, and they didn't change it so that it said something you didn't say, except where noted as commentary. We are so far away from that necessity nowadays, it's getting in the way of the scientific community at large.
6502 perhaps... 68xx series were cooler. Specially the 6809 with it's fully featured indexing modes ;-) oooh dat sexy.
... probably why I bought a Mac at that time (hacker version, dual floppy, external fast SCSI hard drive with twice the disk storage and faster than the internel HD).
I remember reading about the 68000 when it first came out, used to delve into the tech specs for what seemed like months
Actually the 6502 which ran the Apple II was a 8-bit processor with a 16-bit address bus
Still have it in my basement, after five moves, a marriage, and a kid who's now a 1337 46XX06 who Wikihacks when he's bored.
I remember when the 6502c chip came out. We were excited at the time. Then I learned 8088 and 8086 Assembler so i could do IBM PCs and their ilk.
We used paper tape (actually, mylar tape, same reader) to boot a DEC as recently as 1994.
I remember printing on the graph plotter, and playing Star Trek on an LED strip, from punch cards, and then later we got mylar tape.
Remember the toggles on the front of the machines? You actually would read some of the original light displays to see what it was doing.
172K of ram... in a system with a 16-bit bus? You want to rethink that? And what is "slot ram"? Ram only came in one form back then [in consumer quantities] and that was DIP.
... how and what the fuck for?
Yup. I had 64K on the main and 172K total - which works out to two 64K memory slots, enough to cycle thru the window.
Why? because you run your programs in the lower RAM but run the RAM disk in the upper RAM.
Which is still 1000 times faster than disk access.
Which back then was floppy for the Apple II series.
Hand tuned a floppy drive with an oscilloscope?
Original floppy drives used to drift between, say 95 and 125 cycles, so you'd use the potentiometer to adjust the speed to hit the sweet spot your system used - it decreased the error rate, especially on the outside tracks.
Just because you're not old enough to have done that, doesn't mean we didn't.
I'll give you a hint - watch That 70's Show - that's EXACTLY how old I was during the year on the license plate of each episode.
We used slide rules, because TI calculators were too darned expensive.
and then the neighborhood script kiddie decides to sell your private information you had on the hard disk, who should you blame?
Well?
Me, I blame clueless newbs who shred their bill and paystubs but dump their PC with all their credit card info on it, as well as all those nice resume's.
... of dupe articles...
running on recycled PCs that newbs left out for the trash, because a simple fuse or cord needed replacing.
first version was from Wall Street Journal [reported], which I read in the print edition I get delivered, now it's a rebroadcast on the New York Times, will you post the BBC News version too?
Seriously though - NEVER TOSS YOUR OLD PC IN THE DUMPSTER!!!!!
It has mercury in it, as well as other hazardous materials, and should be taken to a recycle center or returned to its manufacturer.
In the old days, a friend of mine near Sydney (in Oz) used to strip the gold from the memory boards from big computers and resell it to supplement his university salary. He used some to build giant arrays too.
But the cheapest thing is to switch browsers and turn off permissions.
Punch cards had been replaced by VDUs. Presumably magnetic drums were no longer used for storage by 1979, and would have been seen as outdated as a 5.25 inch floppy disk.
Wrong. We used punch cards at most medium sized colleges and universities for data entry until at least 1985. And 5.25 floppy disks were common until about that time - think the 3.5 floppy didn't gain ground until the military bought them in bulk for our laptops [which cost more than a house]. Those laptops were very very heavy.
The difference nowadays is the speed of the internet and the wireless connection. The rest is pretty meaningless.
think it was January 1980.
...
Had to get a loan to buy it from HFC
Before had built S-100 bus computers, which we soldered the boards for ourselves, and we liked it.
I made a hacker's version of my Apple II+, taking the base 64K and expanding it to 172K with a slot RAM board, and dual floppies I hand-adjusted the speed on - using an oscilloscope, the only way to fly, after running thru the numbers on my slide rule. I had the cool triangle core slide rule.
Made a boot disk with the BASIC programs I wrote, and some assembler ones, which I loaded into my RAM disk so they would run 1000 times faster than if I loaded them from disk, and used the second drive for the read/write disk for file input/output.
My Apple screamed - made all the Commodore and Tandy's that came to the neighborhood look sick - even after I rewrote their programs to run faster and not have bugs.
And I commented my code back then, which was heresy, but really helped a lot. Everyone else relied on cryptic variable names, but I knew how they were stored, so I could get away with murder.
Ah, the bad old days. We cheered when 300 baud came out, cause everyone was using 110 baud [that's 0.3K modem speed, and I'm using Gigabit Internet here at the UW right now, and get 33Mbps with my laptop at home].
If the US was a nuclear based country. It's amazing to me to see how many 'environmentalists' are up in arms about this when in fact, the nuclear reactors are more safe than ever.
...
Is that why France is switching to wind turbines and fusion power (their lastest project)?
They're more than 80 percent nuclear fission for energy, as I recall, and they're moving away from it, so that doesn't say great things about it
was on the comparison of fuel cells, and it showed that coal was not a good source of fuel cell storage, whereas nuclear electricity (hydrolysis) and fossil fuel (both natural gas and gasoline to create it directly) were pretty good, but that hydroelectric and wind used to split H2O by electricity were the highest energy storing mechanisms.
The problem with Science is that it depends on what your question is. They used corn, not cane sugar, to create ethanol, and they didn't use waste corn, but used virgin corn (which is really dense) - not a very smart use of biofuels - a better use would be hemp or soybean waste (only part of the plant is used).
the Secret Service in fact.
Forward the full email, with full headers etc to:
419.fcd@usss.treas.gov
That's what I do.
to sell ads.
Which is the point of TV.
Same thing. Different method.
Kind of like spam, but you can turn it off.
and then I started to realize that it was better to use the facilities in the bathroom instead.
I mean, my TV's way bigger than my laptop monitor.
...
Why would I ever want to watch TV on my laptop?
Next thing you know, you'll be wanting to put radios and tape players and DVDs and all that in cars
The acting isn't terrible, and neither is the dialogue, though, I could do without hearing "frak" or whatever every other word.
Actually, one thing that puzzles is me, is - when is Starbuck going to just explode and go Frak Frak Frak double stuffed Frak and so on for half a minute?
She's WAY too much in control. Way too much.
Terrorists are everywhere--even in the future. You don't know when they'll strike and you can never see them coming. If you enjoy this sort of crap, then break out the plastic sheets and duct tape, sit back, and enjoy.
The terrorists are gonna getcha!
You're REALLY going to HATE the movie Stealth then.
Don't watch it. Close your windows. Don't think of the Gorilla in the room. Let him eat your cookies.
Or even better, be like the head monkey we employ and attack the baby Orangutan instead of the Gorilla.
Much hotter.
...
totally. Boomer is sizzling.
mind you, wouldn't kick any of them out of my rack for eating crackers
(whispering): Adama is a Cylon! ...
PS: I think the Cylon meant Apollo.
---
I think the Cylon meant either Zack (Apollo's brother) or Bill Adama's wife (Apollo's mother). I would expect that either would screw with a few heads.
I'm pretty sure it's Apollo's mother. They seem to like to replace women a lot. Probably something about space aliens taking our Women.
Of course, as one other poster mentioned, the mentally retarded H20 episode was beyond understanding. When will sci-fi TV writers understand that sci-fi is not "soap opera, but in space"?
That was one of my favorite episodes, in that it explained things from Boomer's point of view. But, hey, noone's forcing you to watch.