CNN reports that "sleep inertia" leaves some people so groggy, after they wake up, they might as well be drunk, researchers said on Tuesday.
maybe it was because they were in as relaxed as one could get for 8 fucking hours, only to be waken by [BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP]
[throw alarm clock]
Getting my coop(now fulltime job) was the best thing I ever did in college. When i discovered how easy it was, i wanted to get my friends jobs, so i would go with them to speak to the person in charge there and make it so my friends were comfortable with her so they would go back on their own. and you know what? the people that went back to her on their own were the ones who got the internships, and the ones who didnt really bother with it too much didnt get it.
but if you are in a university, take advantage of the internship/coop program. especially in CS/CE because everyone knows the amount of experience you have can make or break you in future jobs. lots of people are afraid because they dont have experience in what jobs are available. to be honest, i knew NOTHING about this job when i first started (other than i knew how to program java well), but getting the job is about selling yourself. if you can get them to understand that you may not know the material now, but you can learn it, thats all they care about. they will teach you what you need to know.
fox does a horrible job at getting the word out to the correct people. family guy was an amazing show. and i was getting annoyed with going to my friends, asking if they saw last weeks episode and they reply with 'whats family guy?'. futurama was the same thing. no one felt like watching it or didnt know about it until it hit dvd/adult swim. i fear arrested development will fall into the same pit.
"The New Scientist says that software capable of recognising emotions just by looking at photographs could lead to PCs that adjust their response depending on the user's mood. "
hope you arent feeling horny at some random point of the day when people are around you.
i find it funny that a machine was programmed to basically say things like
for every degree the eyebrows are tilted inward, thats 1% of anger. for every degree that the outside of the lips are pointed upward, thats a %1 of happiness
has been used to decipher art. way to take the fun out of living.
the author considers all of the major factors to show just how much money a hybrid vehicle will or won't save you. In the end, it seems the only real winner after a hybrid purchase is the environment."
as opposed to getting an SUV and having the only real winner be the car manufacture?
how do you intended to get any hold in a market in which you
a) have already tried with the same game
and
b) has the mighty 800lbs gorilla known as WoW sitting in the corner? it will be tough to uproot a lot of those dedicated players.
serious sam II costs an average of $30, which is cheaper than most new games. $30 = 2 months of lots of entertainment in WoW. how long are you going to play a mindless shooter? yes i realize that there are people who enjoy playing the same thing over and over. but for $15/month, i get lots of enjoyment and new content constantly enough for me to enjoy it. i was buying 1-2 games a month. thats $50-$100. now i spend $15/month. so the monthly fees arent really that bad:P.
you guys still buy new games after WoW?
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I havent bought a game since April since I bought World of Warcraft.... is there really a point to playing other games? hehe.
Okay, now I'm not so pissed at my kids for spending time playing video games. My eldest is working on a high school class assignment programming a video game. If he can start at ~$60K as a college grad, then I guess his hours spent gaming will not have been a waste.
you would be amazed how many people who work on games like john madden football dont really play games at all. also i know plenty of people play video games better than anyone i know, but cant program to save their life. playing and programming dont go hand and hand at all. so perhaps you should go scold your son some more for not being manly and playing sports.
A person like you who is willing to bend over and take it from the incompetent profs is not necessarily a person who makes a good programmer
no, it shows that im able to hack it out unlike others. not cry and whine until i get my way. i will agree that it doesnt make me a better programmer. there are thousands of people who im sure are far better programmers than me. that wasnt my point. my point is i didnt piss and moan about my tough college professors to the point where i dropped out of it.
Hate to break it to you, but if your CS degree improves your chances at getting employed, it's because it indicates your ability, not to program, but to take it in the ass.
yes because when i go into an interview, i mention to them about all my hardships i went through with professors and not my programming ability. nice try.
Hope you enjoy a life of assraping by the very liberal arts students you despise.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH... THAT WILL HAPPEN. only liberal arts major i work with designs the manuals for the program we write here. Apparently there is an uprising of liberal arts majors in this country ready to take over.
This article made me sick. This person either a) got carried through joke classes in highschool or b) never cared enough to finish what he started.
Throughout college I had: 1. a professor that said on the first day "They dont call me the bitch of the department for nothing". Everytime there was a bad paper, she would say in front of everyone 'ANOTHER HORRIBLE PAPER [insert students name] 2. a professor who said 'last semester, i gave out 27 F's and 3 A's' 3. a professor who would laugh out loud for putting trick questions on his test even though they would fail people. 4. a professor who was so hard, that he is actually no longer allowed in my college to teacher physics for engineers 2. 5,6,7,8,9-20: ALL MY TA'S BUT 2 COULD NOT SPEAK ENGLISH! NOT TO MENTION HALF THE TEACHERS COULD BARELY SPEAK ENGLISH. 21. (just remembered) a professor who said when half the class failed a test "well the truth is i just dont care about you. if you need to pass, you will find a way" 22. Had to take a test which 83% of all first time takers fail in order to take upper level courses
But you know what? That motivated me even more to finish my CS degree. Im not going to let some guy who has an ego problem or someone who's first 3 languages was not english. I did what I had to do. Did I repeat courses? yes. with the same professor? sometimes. Did I have 20 hour study session? yep. Did I sepnd 3 weeks studying 8 hours a day for 1 stupid test just to take upper level courses? yep. Did I still drink and party? yep. All of it is still possible and still get a good degree that isnt the joke known as liberal arts. If you want the damn degree, you will get it. No one wants an engineer who is going to complain 'OH ITS TOO HARD! I CANT DO IT!' Its nice that you blame the professors because you are unable to stick it out.
There are also classes known as "weed out courses" and in my eyes, you walked right into it, face first, and now you were weeded out. And thank god. Because that makes me degree that much more better and respectful. With colleges pumping out engineers who slip through the cracks, it just makes me sick. Ive seen jackasses with a CS degree who couldnt program to save his life, nor do they understand the theory. But because of people like you, who whine and complain, professors end up passing them.
Hope you enjoy your lackluster job, liberal arts boy.
http://graphics.cs.ucf.edu/MAR-Sumant/index.php
mixed reality is something that allows people to actually interact with an environment in the real and virtual world. they use it for a lot of military simulators as well as a wide variety of other applications. plus it doesnt require the ball from American Gladiators.
Slashdot Mirror
or try for the first time..
http://moon.google.com/
doesnt that means we had to go there in the first place? dur
and his tears cure cancer.
"The first rule of SIGINT is you DO NOT TALK ABOUT SIGINT"
"The second rule of SIGINT is you DO NOT TALK ABOUT SIGINT"
CNN reports that "sleep inertia" leaves some people so groggy, after they wake up, they might as well be drunk, researchers said on Tuesday.
:(
maybe it was because they were in as relaxed as one could get for 8 fucking hours, only to be waken by [BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP]
[throw alarm clock]
i could have told you this and been on CNN.
a bear shits in the woods.
Getting my coop(now fulltime job) was the best thing I ever did in college. When i discovered how easy it was, i wanted to get my friends jobs, so i would go with them to speak to the person in charge there and make it so my friends were comfortable with her so they would go back on their own. and you know what? the people that went back to her on their own were the ones who got the internships, and the ones who didnt really bother with it too much didnt get it. but if you are in a university, take advantage of the internship/coop program. especially in CS/CE because everyone knows the amount of experience you have can make or break you in future jobs. lots of people are afraid because they dont have experience in what jobs are available. to be honest, i knew NOTHING about this job when i first started (other than i knew how to program java well), but getting the job is about selling yourself. if you can get them to understand that you may not know the material now, but you can learn it, thats all they care about. they will teach you what you need to know.
fox does a horrible job at getting the word out to the correct people. family guy was an amazing show. and i was getting annoyed with going to my friends, asking if they saw last weeks episode and they reply with 'whats family guy?'. futurama was the same thing. no one felt like watching it or didnt know about it until it hit dvd/adult swim. i fear arrested development will fall into the same pit.
"The New Scientist says that software capable of recognising emotions just by looking at photographs could lead to PCs that adjust their response depending on the user's mood. "
hope you arent feeling horny at some random point of the day when people are around you.
i find it funny that a machine was programmed to basically say things like
for every degree the eyebrows are tilted inward, thats 1% of anger.
for every degree that the outside of the lips are pointed upward, thats a %1 of happiness
has been used to decipher art. way to take the fun out of living.
but little guys who bother get their face sued off before they can blink?
is will /. be digged or will digg be ./'ed?
loading up digg, it took alittle bit of time :P
robot 1 : target acquired, beginning landing sequence...
robot 2 : roger that, beginning land... OH LOOK A STAR!
[all robots turn towards the star]
robot 3 : OOHHHHHHHHHHH PRETTY!!!!
the author considers all of the major factors to show just how much money a hybrid vehicle will or won't save you. In the end, it seems the only real winner after a hybrid purchase is the environment."
as opposed to getting an SUV and having the only real winner be the car manufacture?
im glad to see that this is what the researchers at MIT are doing...
how do you intended to get any hold in a market in which you a) have already tried with the same game and b) has the mighty 800lbs gorilla known as WoW sitting in the corner? it will be tough to uproot a lot of those dedicated players.
serious sam II costs an average of $30, which is cheaper than most new games. $30 = 2 months of lots of entertainment in WoW. how long are you going to play a mindless shooter? yes i realize that there are people who enjoy playing the same thing over and over. but for $15/month, i get lots of enjoyment and new content constantly enough for me to enjoy it. i was buying 1-2 games a month. thats $50-$100. now i spend $15/month. so the monthly fees arent really that bad :P.
I havent bought a game since April since I bought World of Warcraft.... is there really a point to playing other games? hehe.
Okay, now I'm not so pissed at my kids for spending time playing video games. My eldest is working on a high school class assignment programming a video game. If he can start at ~$60K as a college grad, then I guess his hours spent gaming will not have been a waste.
you would be amazed how many people who work on games like john madden football dont really play games at all. also i know plenty of people play video games better than anyone i know, but cant program to save their life. playing and programming dont go hand and hand at all. so perhaps you should go scold your son some more for not being manly and playing sports.
Dr Marshall proved that H. pylori caused gastic inflammation by deliberately infecting himself with the bacterium
just 1 step away from winning the darwinian award.
A person like you who is willing to bend over and take it from the incompetent profs is not necessarily a person who makes a good programmer
no, it shows that im able to hack it out unlike others. not cry and whine until i get my way. i will agree that it doesnt make me a better programmer. there are thousands of people who im sure are far better programmers than me. that wasnt my point. my point is i didnt piss and moan about my tough college professors to the point where i dropped out of it.
Hate to break it to you, but if your CS degree improves your chances at getting employed, it's because it indicates your ability, not to program, but to take it in the ass.
yes because when i go into an interview, i mention to them about all my hardships i went through with professors and not my programming ability. nice try.
Hope you enjoy a life of assraping by the very liberal arts students you despise.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH... THAT WILL HAPPEN. only liberal arts major i work with designs the manuals for the program we write here. Apparently there is an uprising of liberal arts majors in this country ready to take over.
This article made me sick. This person either a) got carried through joke classes in highschool or b) never cared enough to finish what he started.
Throughout college I had:
1. a professor that said on the first day "They dont call me the bitch of the department for nothing". Everytime there was a bad paper, she would say in front of everyone 'ANOTHER HORRIBLE PAPER [insert students name]
2. a professor who said 'last semester, i gave out 27 F's and 3 A's'
3. a professor who would laugh out loud for putting trick questions on his test even though they would fail people.
4. a professor who was so hard, that he is actually no longer allowed in my college to teacher physics for engineers 2.
5,6,7,8,9-20: ALL MY TA'S BUT 2 COULD NOT SPEAK ENGLISH! NOT TO MENTION HALF THE TEACHERS COULD BARELY SPEAK ENGLISH.
21. (just remembered) a professor who said when half the class failed a test "well the truth is i just dont care about you. if you need to pass, you will find a way"
22. Had to take a test which 83% of all first time takers fail in order to take upper level courses
But you know what? That motivated me even more to finish my CS degree. Im not going to let some guy who has an ego problem or someone who's first 3 languages was not english. I did what I had to do. Did I repeat courses? yes. with the same professor? sometimes. Did I have 20 hour study session? yep. Did I sepnd 3 weeks studying 8 hours a day for 1 stupid test just to take upper level courses? yep. Did I still drink and party? yep. All of it is still possible and still get a good degree that isnt the joke known as liberal arts. If you want the damn degree, you will get it. No one wants an engineer who is going to complain 'OH ITS TOO HARD! I CANT DO IT!' Its nice that you blame the professors because you are unable to stick it out.
There are also classes known as "weed out courses" and in my eyes, you walked right into it, face first, and now you were weeded out. And thank god. Because that makes me degree that much more better and respectful. With colleges pumping out engineers who slip through the cracks, it just makes me sick. Ive seen jackasses with a CS degree who couldnt program to save his life, nor do they understand the theory. But because of people like you, who whine and complain, professors end up passing them.
Hope you enjoy your lackluster job, liberal arts boy.
http://graphics.cs.ucf.edu/MAR-Sumant/index.php
mixed reality is something that allows people to actually interact with an environment in the real and virtual world. they use it for a lot of military simulators as well as a wide variety of other applications. plus it doesnt require the ball from American Gladiators.
well... googleBrowser Beta. Might as well.